The Bastrop Advertiser and County News (Bastrop, Tex.), No. 32, Ed. 1 Monday, June 20, 1983 Page: 4 of 10
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I
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to
scrapbook of a pretty
brown-eyed girl.
Reverberations of that
moment still ripple
through the Texas
Democratic Party, as the
little girl, Mary Elizabeth,
daughter of Mark and now
County Treasurer Doris
Oldfield, became
fascinated with politics.
The fascination lingers,
but instead of a wide-eyed
little girl looking up to the
politicians, now Mary
Elizabeth Jackson, deals
with them as equals.
She has held positions
where she has run cam-
paigns for candidates and
al one time was virtually in
charge of the day-to-day
operations of the Texas
Democratic Party.
Mrs. Jackson still has
the wide shining eyes that
looked up at John Con-
nally and a quick charming
smile. With sharp mind
and a knack for details and
organization, she has the
tools to work with the
politicalsystem. : /
State Appointment
Her most recent political
act was to jwin Gov. Mark
White appointment to the
State Board of Nursing
Examiners that determines
the standards that
Registered Nurses in Texas
must meet and outlines
their training programs.
Bastrop
hospital
may aid
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lease with Memorial
Systems was expected as
long ago as last July, but
problems in obtaining ap-
proval of the United States
Department of Housing
and Urban Development,
which holds the bonds
which financed the
hospital construction,
delayed its implementa-
tion.
In a meeting of the cor-
poration directors after the
Hospital Authority Board
meeting, Cecil Long was
elected chairman of the
new corporation and
James Kershaiw vice chair-
man. President of the new
corporation is Snead, with
Warren as vice president
and Shaw as secretary. Bill
Dyer, an official of
Memorial Systems will be
treasurer.
Part of the lease agree-
ment is that Bastrop
Hospital Authority sign a
promissory note for
$226,000, representing
equipment purchases, cash
advances and management
services already provided
to it by Memorial Systems.
The note would become
due and payable at any
}ime that the Authority
should terminate its lease
agreement.
Vir-' . ■■)£$$,
Mary QgdffcM Jackson,
Bastrop native recently
Last year she ran the
state-wide Attorney
General campaign for
John-Hannah, a relative
political novice who made
it into a runoff despite
being opposed by political
heavies that included two
state senators and a
congressman.
She also runs the Tyler
office of State Rep. David
Hutson, and is active in a
strong Democratic Party
organization in a county
where Republicans can
carry elections.
'But this is not' the
culmination of Mrs.
appointed to state
by Gov. Mark White.
Jackson's political career;
it is the reduced activity
level that she has taken up
because of her overriding
committment to her
family, husband Alan
Jackson, a Tyler attorney,
son, Austin Reeve, four,
and daughter Ashley, two.
Mary Elizabeth was ac-
tive in the University of
Texas Young Democrats
when she attended the
University early in the
1970s, earning a degree in
textile science and home
economics. /
But she yearned for
greater involvement. "I
a job at the state
>e™°Cr*"Cduri^to
year jp college in
When she^aduated,
she wanted to use her
degree and so she taught
fashion design ami worked
in a department store in
Austin for five months.
Still she yearned for a
Ijob.
Calvin Guest, then
lairman of the state
locratic Party, talked
her into coming back to the
party headquarters. Less
than amonth late he asked
her to be his administrative
assistant, a job that gave
her almost total charge of
the dav-to-dav operations
of the Democratic Party in
Texas, since Guest, as most
Democratic Party Chair-
men, continued Ids career
in banking in Bryan.
"As head of the party
office, you take care of
everything," said Mrs.
Jackson, who took over
the job at the tender age of
22. Amcmg her duties was
to deal with all 254 county
chairmen in the state and
organize Democratic cam-
paigns and conventions.
Mrs. Jackson attributed
her success at getting such
an important job to factors
other than a glowing per-
sonalty. "Part of it is just
♦'Once you get there It
takes lots of hard work and
long hours," she said, ad-
ding "it is not a nine to fiye
or a- five day per week
job," she explained.
She noted that when she
was Guest's administrative
aide, she was put under
tremendous pressure to
help various political can-
didates who were of
competing against each
other. She said she dealt
with the pressure by being
as fair, as she could with
each candidate. "When
you're fair to everyone it
will minimise the anxiety
coming home," she said.
One of the highlights of
As a result, Mrs.
Jackson, who by then was
engaged to her husband-
to-be went to Carter's
inauguration, at which she
said she had a wonderful
time. I fl
Soon after the
inauguration Mary
Elizabeth wed Alan
Jackson, a law-school
graduate who joined the
Air Force. "We saw the
world." Mrs, Jackson
joked, "We went to
Alt us, Okla." From there
she did some consulting
work for the Texas
•".the
Party
"I've grown some from
the little girl who wanted
John Connally's
signature," she said, ad-
ding that, she still has the
autograph, which she
points out was written long
before Connally jumped to
the Republican Party.
Since Alan had courted
Mary Elizabeth while she
was working on the
vigorous Democratic cam-
paigns during 1976, he had
no illusions that he was
marrying a wife with plans
to stay at home. Mrs.
Jackson terms him as
"strongly supportive" of
her political work. She ad-
she can unaerttawt some
of the cynicism directed
toward politicians, but she
insists that tooM-of them
are in the business because
they are genuinely concer-
ned about . the public
welfare.
"There are those who
. are public service oriented
and there are those who are
fiUln&p another square to
get them someplace," she
said, adding that if a voter
looks closely at the record
of a' candidate he can
determine the difference.
She added that the
power of politicians can
hardly be dem'ed, since
they determine how the
billions of tax dollars taken
in this country are spent.
Benefits in summer
hiring of youths told
Do you need summer labor fw.iv provi
n your busies hi can't afford ^^ot have previously S3.4C
Do you need simmer labor
m your DUsnes cut cam anora
it? Hiring a qualified youth
ootid hdp you tax wis; and
could abo Mp the youth earn
' Calendar-year taxpayers may
daim a tax credit on their 1983
federal income tax return for 85
percent of the first $3,000 in
wags paid to qualifying youth
employees for any 9&day
period between May land Sept
15, saysDr, Ashley LovdL
He opportunity for helping
youth and helping your business
is die "Qualified Summer
Youth Employee" provision of
the Tax Equity and Respon-
sibility Act of 1982, says Lovdl,
an economist with die Teas
AgriaJtural Extension Service,
Toris A&M University System
To qualify for the tax credit,
the youth employee must:
-Perform services during the
period noted above.
-Beagel6or 17.
-Be a member of an
economically disadvantaged
have previously
wnrtad for the employer. ' i-.
A dcagnafed local agency,
die Texas Employment Com-
mkOTi (TEQ, is responsible
for certification of die youth's
age and family economic status,
notes LovdL This information
must be certified before the
youth begins work. The em-
ployer will keep the approved
certificate on file as a basis for
completing IRS Form 5884, the
jobs credit form.
Tobedassedasamemberof
an "economically disadvan-
taged family," the TEC will
determine whether the youth's
family annual inf * HikpH nri
the six months before the month
of the hiring date, is 70 percent
cr less of the Bureau of Labor
Statistics lower living standard.
Assuming an hourly wage of
$4 and wih the first $3,000 of
wages qualifying for tax credit,
die business could obtain 750
hours of labor fromaquafifying
youth, says LovdL From the
employer's tax benefit stan-
dpoint, the $4 hourly wage
provides an income tax craft of
X3.40, with the remaining wage
of 60 cents deductible as a labor
expense on Schedule C or
Schedule F. The business can-
not daim the entire $4 as labor
expense but only the difference
between the $4 and the X3.40 tax
credit.
If a business cannot use aD of
the jobs credit in 1983, the excess
can be carried back three years
and forward 15 years, up to the
tax fiabQity limit for each year.
For more information on the
Summer Youth Employee
program and the accompanying
tax craft, or advioe on how to
list your job openings and ob-
tain referrals of qualified
voudiered youth, cal your local
Employment Commission of-
fice, suggests LovdL Refer to
IRS Form5884 or contact your^
tax advsor for additional dkaDs
regarding the jobs credit
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Loveless upon his retirement
from medical practice.
Sunday June 26th
3:00-5:00
Bastrop Opera House
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Dae to the fact that I am retiring,
June 24 will be the last day I will be in
my office at the Bastrop Clinic. I want
to assure my patients that their
medical records will be left at the
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to be sent to another doctor, a written
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Williams, Eric. The Bastrop Advertiser and County News (Bastrop, Tex.), No. 32, Ed. 1 Monday, June 20, 1983, newspaper, June 20, 1983; Bastrop, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth602115/m1/4/?q=Lamar+University: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bastrop Public Library.