The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 218, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 9, 1959 Page: 4 of 16
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r*VTO*Ul PAGE THf CHANGE LEADER WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1959
Moment of Meditation
Call unto mo, and I will answer the*, and shew
thee great and might? things, which thou knowest
not. Jeremiah Sl:£
Across th* Editor’s Desk ...
. _ ■■ !. ^ ■ • ; i
Last ‘Poor Boy' Budget
Of County Government
By J. CULLEN BROWNING
WHAT AN OVERTURE
Next Monday *t r10 a m. Conn,
missioners Court will hold » pub-
lic ^hearing on what probably is
foin* to be the county govern-
ment's last "poor boy" budget.
1 consider that dg|crtptidn of
the spending estimatesTor tKe I960
calendar year justified because
1. The total amount set up for
all expenditures for countv serv-
ices is about $(55,000 less than the
payroll figure atone in the new
budget for the Orange citv gov-
ernment,
2 There is nothing in the county
budget for drainage work except
the little the commissioners.will he
compelled to do out of their road
and bridge funds.
5 No money is budgeted for ad-
ditions to or major repairs on
county' buildings.
4 There are no provisions for
improvements to the countv road
svstem except a small amount of
paving that will be paid for out
of the road and bridge funds.
■V No progress iS reflected in the
budget toward elimination of the
svstem of deficit financing in road
and ‘bridge work.
Only one portion of the spending
estimates which Commissioners
Court will approve after the pub-
lic hearing next Monday presents
a bright picture. This is the debt
management aspect. And even it
is open to criticism because al-
most a fourth of the net debt of
the countv government after the
end of this vear represents road
and bridge bonds''and time war-
rants issued for' deficit financing.
About $46,000 of the approximate-
ly $304,000 in budgeted revenue
for road and bridge work next
year will have to be set aside for
payments on the bonds and time
warrants issued against those
funds.
After the new tax money is in,
the county will have a net debt
for the 1936 courthouse bonds and
warrants, 195.3 hospital bonds and
1044 road bonds of about $1,210,0501
This represents the total amount
owed less money that will have
been saved up toward Ihe pay-
ments.
The approximate breakdown of
th s figure IS; courthouse bonds
and warrants, $145,000; hospital
bonds. $970,000; road bonds,
$55,000. ,
That )a,st figure is of. special in-
terest, Delinquent tax collections
from 1960 through 1968 plus the
difference between interest earned
by investing road bond fund^monev
and interest will he nsirf nn th*
and interest will be paid on the
bonds will raise that much monev.
This means that one of two
things is going to happen about B. C.
the 40-cent road bond tax rate that 1-
has been levied since 1948; (a) a
new road bond program will be
approved by the necessary t wo- ■y*"-
thirds majority of the * taxpaying
voter* balloting on the issue in an
election, or (bj it will be dropped
after this year. ■ ...
'At present and prospective tax-
able valuations, this same 40-cent
tax rate will finance a countv* road
program in the amount-of up to
about 714 million dollars to be car-
ried out over a period of; five to
seven years.
And such a bond issue would go
a long, long wav,toward providing
a solution for the financial prob-
lems that are presently threaten, *
ing us with an increase next year orc-ri
in the percentage of actual values ptc 11
on which county" taxes are as-
sessed.
This‘would be accomplished pri-
marily by reducing the heavy
drain on the r-egular road and
bridge funds for maintenance of
the county road system. It also
would provide a vehicle for the
eventual elimination of deficit fi-
nancing in road and bridge opera-
tions.
Tnese two things, plus voter ap-
proval of a drainage maintenance
tax rate and a drainage bond is-
sue. should make it possible to
avoid anv ppneral increase in tax-
able valuations. By the same tok-
en, I do not see how such an in-
crease is going to be avoided un- »,«* »
less the other things are provided ___L
-In this case, therefore, the bur-
den rests on the taxpaying voters
And because of the wav they have
voted in several elections they are
going to have to take the initiative
If they fail or refuse to do so the-.-
may expect a bigger courltv tax
bill for current operations starting
next year by virtue of a Commis-
sioners Court order for a general
increase in taxable valuations |
There are some things the .Court
can do to help work themselves
out of the financial hole*-primartlv
improvements in operating proce-
dures and fiscal practices And
I believe that if the taxpayers
show a real interest in their re-
sponsibilities in this connection
members of the Court will do like- BLONDIE
wise. ■ ^ ‘ i-
IHPIA Ye*
~ dorpeR ^
"IHCWNJlf
v/Eve eox
BUT '//MAT
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HIT ini THE
HEAP?
THAT HANPftALL X
IS VERY -AR? YOU
KEEP A ©lOv E TO
PROTECT YOUR HAND
AN EXTRA
BAlL*’.
Why?
f OH. MY \
l.jc a\ tc aic? f
MR. ABERNATHY TOOK
CARE OFTHAT HIMSELF.
LETfe SEE, I PUT OUT
THE SILVERWARE
v AND THE NAPKINS...
THAT'S OX.
donY
' WORRY
ABOUT IT...
HEAVENS f
T F0R6CT
THE PLACE
, CARPS!
MR- ABERNATWYS
GUESTS ARE r—C
HERE. IS fV_
EVERYTHING / r~~
k READY? J \(
Disturbing Trend in Ownership
A startling and rapidly increasing share of the na-
tion's wealth is controlled by public agencies and quasi-
public, labor and charitable organizations.
We haven’t the vaguest idea as to the total amount
in cash and investments held by such agencies and or-
ganizations, but some figures that arc available to us
suggest a staggering figure.
The state government of Texas has at present around
700 million dollars in it* permanent school and perma-
nent university funds It also has 380 million dollars
in a teacher retirement fund and about 230 million more
which stays tied up in its multiplicity of special funds.
The National Foundation, which is representing it-
eelf as "broke" and is letting bills go unpaid, owned 74
million dollars in government securities Jast Dec. 31.
according to its financial statement.
And despite the financial finagling of its president,
Jimmy Hoffa, and others of its officials, the Interna-
tional Brotherhood of Teamsters is nowhere close to
being broke. A financial statement published in the
September issue of its magazine lists total assets of just
over 39 million dollars. This includes almost 32*4 mil-
lion dollars of investments.
The Texas Division of the American Cancer Society
Is carrying forward from year to year a cash balance
that now amounts to almost a miliion dollars
Our views regarding the huge surplus of the state
government are well known. We believe it is hoarding
far too much money and that some of its excess cash
Should be used to give its overburdened taxpayers a
little relief.
Our views concerning big surpluses of agencies such
as the National Foundation and the American Cancer
Society are also well known. We believe they should
use most of the money they are hoarding for the pur-
poses for which it was contributed.
As to the huge holdings of labor organizations—and
the teamsters are not exceptional in that respect—we
believe most of the surplus should be either used for
worthwhile purposes in the advancement of the labor
movement or returned to the members.
We further believe that membership fees of the
unions should be reduced so as to prevent the accumu-
lation of huge surpluses—by law if not by voluntary
action of the labor organizations.
Our American system of private enterprise presumes
that all of the nation's wealth except that temporarily
in the hands of agencies and organizations such as those
mentioned will remain in private ownership.
The figures cited above provide ample evidence that
we have strayed far from this concept of private enter-
prise and are getting further away all the time There
cannot possibly be anything good in this trend toward
greater and greater concentration of wealth in other
than private hands.
Ike's Great Offensive for Peace
Dwight David Eisenhower stands to go down in his-
tory as the man who led both the greatest military of-
fensive and the greatest peace offensive of all time. - •
That seems jo be his principal goal at this time and
may God grant tfi’it -he will be as successful is his mission
for peace as he was in his.combat mission.
The beachheads in Europe required for victory in the
battle for peace have been won ind secured. Now, with
Khrushchev’s visit to this country an^ Eisenhower’s
visit to Russia, the big push will take place.
And we must remember that if the President emerges
victorious in his peace offensive it will no more mean
that all of the swords can be beaten into plowshares
than did his victory in World War II.
Comthunism may run up the white flag of truce in
its campaign to impose its way of life upon the rest of
the world through military conquest. But it is not going
to abandon its plans for dominating the earth and if
the free world should relax its guard the threat of a
major war would be back, bigger and more menacing
than everX/
So. while praying that Eisenhower will accomplish
his mission for peace, we als^ must be prepared to go
on living indefinitely with a hu^e and costly military
organization and paying the price for it.
I /Ores*]
DON'T VVCW^SfOR
• V\!= WONT HCtO
THOSE
A6AINST you '
SAY THAT
MY MENTA
t-FHOM MY
FATHER
--S ARTICLE SAYS
THAT HEREP ~Y .S
MORS IMPORTANT
THAN ENV’RCNMSN
IN- A CHILD'S
DEVELOPMENT >
STILL, WHAT DOES IT MATTER WITHOUT
CLARA LOU... QUICK, PLEASE, GET ME
___ A PENCIL AMD PARER/ T—I
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(SUlP.'j
SO IT'S COME
at last;
Y'JIST MISSED AH OLD 1
FREND, YORE HIGHNESS, j
HE SAID T TELLVA THAT ^
the HOUR mu STRIKE
SOON WHEN THE REP
. ROSE • looms; ,
THE OFFBEAT NEWSBEAT . . .
Lyricist Finds Job Gets
Tougher Over the Years
\ .* • ' 4." -
By HAL BOYLE
HERE COMES PRINCE RUDOLPH NOW /
TCH TCH... HE' LOOKS AWFUL SAD ABOUT
SUMP N. MEB8E THAT MESSAGE FROM
HIS FRIEND WILL CHEER HIM UP./ r*
"Real showmen are like garr- JKF j
biers," he said. “They fide with1 ■A Ts
the good and Had " - - ) ^
"Success in the theater is gained
bv departing from the beaten pdth,
and this is achieved chieflv bv the JOE PALOOKA
so-called commercial managers,
writers and actors,"—he said.
Unchanged by success. Ham-
merstein likes chess, baseball,
tennis, a swim every morning,
and the pleasures of family life
He and nis wife have 11 grand-
children.
His friendliness and tolerant op-
tun sm have made him one of the
best-liked men in show business.
"1 recognize the imperfections
of life." he said "The most im-
portant thing in living is to rgcog-
at them, no matter how skilled
vou become. X _____.
It is that wav with G^car Ham-
merstein II, playwright, producer
and lyricist.
After 50 musical plays and a
thousand songs in 40 years, be
finds that song No. 1,001 as elusive
to pin dim n as when he began
back in 1919
He can be seen striding back
and forth on the second-floor
porch of his 200-vear-old Bucks
County, Pa . farmhouse
"I'm a pacer when f work."
said Hammerstein. who is writing
the last of 14 lyrics for his latest
opus with composer Richard Rod-
gers, the life story of Maria von
Trapp of the famous Austr,an
singing family.
"It's hard work I walk miles
and miles sometimes before I get
a phrase
"I don’t know of any art form
that requires simplicity more than
a song does But you have to wade
through a lot of nonessential de-
tours to get on the right road."
Hammerstein, who started out
as a lawyer, tots down words and
ideas on a pad of long, lined yel-
low paper at an antique stand-up
desk.
To turn out a single song re-
cently he used up 100 sheets of pa-
per while working every dav for
more than four weeks.
At 64— he looks a rugged, well- ^
preserved 50—he has turned out
enough hits to win immortality.
But he says he wants to go on
writing as long as he can find
new themes.
f vJUroyou do to the
1 FENDERS - -<
> PLir'EM
fXLPlN \ /r. IS
CURLECSJ p i
1 PQACriCALLV ]
R*2>'J -TTH'S.
MC-D3. - SAVE IT
A NEW PA:\TJOB'
TH'S HETAO ytAS
HAD ir.'TMlNfC ILL
SWAP IT IN / .
LE~'S STOP V
IN TH E CAQ J
LOT AND r
n LCO<-' /—
nive the imperfection of human
beings.
"Our assumption that we are
more civilized than we really are
makes us too disappointed in our-
selves We fight too much to prove
that what we don’t know is so.”
ETTA KETT
OHH? WHAT WAS SHE WAS A *
WRONG WITH HER? J TYPICAL FEMALE
ALWAYS TELLING ME
TO GET MY FffiT OFF
T THE COUCH/ j—
X DID HAVE, DULY
BUT I CHANGED
. again
Grocer Burns $500
Hidden in Trash
PARIS. Kv. (AP)—Grocer Ray
mond Yazell doesn't have money
to bum, but he did it.
He opened his store and went!
about his usual morning chore of'
burning the trash, Then his wife
returned from a Labor Day trip i
I hear you have a
NEW PSYCHIATRIST,
WHlT-A WOMAN '
she had hidden $400 in
$100 in checks before
MOW JAMES
MflCASSON
IT'S ME. DILLY!
UktEfsmtfs True Life Adventures |
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Browning, J. Cullen. The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 218, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 9, 1959, newspaper, September 9, 1959; Orange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth558374/m1/4/?q=food+rule+for+unt+students: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar State College – Orange.