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Coleman
Land of the Lakes
Volume 102 ,
s 14 Pages-2 Sections
Coleman, Texas, July 27,1982
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WINNER of the 1982 Men's Coleman County
Softball Association title was the Roadrunners,
pictured above. Members of the squad include:
front row, left to right: Darrell Wilkins, Joe
Villegas, Robert Villegas, Charlie Villegas and
Sammy Dela Rosa; back row: Wally Gonzales,
Freddy Gamer, Steven Hale, Mike Brooker and
David Hale. Not present at picture time were
Vince Slayton and Monty Coleman. The
Roadrunners posted a 15-3 season chart. Vince
Slayton led the league in homers with 26. (Staff
Photo)
County Grants lOPet^
Homestead Exemption
In special session yesterday
morning members of the Coleman
County Commissioners Court took
action to grant a 10 percent residen-
tial homestead exemption on county
taxes, as allowed by Constitutional
Amendment No. 6, approved by
Texas voters.
The action will allow a minimum
of $5,000 exemption on homesteads.
The law allows, on local option,
exemption up to 40 percent on
residential homesteads. County
Commissioners here took action to
LESLIE BARR
Leslie Barr Enters
Miss Texas Contest
Leslie Barr of Coleman, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. James Barr, will be
one of the 106 contestants for the
8th annual Miss Texas USA
Pageant to be held in San Antonio
with a live telecast to be aired
statewide on Monday evening,
August 23rd, beginning at 8:00 p.m.
Miss Barr, a senior at Texas A&M
University, was named Miss Cole-
man County in 1978, was first
runner-up in the Miss Spirit of
Christmas Contest here, and was
first runner-up in the Miss Maid of
Cotton pageant at Texas A&M in
the spring of this year.
The Miss Texas USA Pageant is
directly affiliated with the Miss
USA and Miss Universe Pageant
Corporation. The Texas pageant
was initiated in 1976.
The pageant will be staged in the
Theater for Performing Arts and
will have a circus theme and motif.
More than 200 persons will be in the
opening production number. Six
television cameras will be strategi-
cally placed in the auditorium to
capture marching bands, enter-
taining circus characters and gypsy-
costumed contestants.
The two-hour special telecast will
appear on 18 major television stat-
ions.
Contestants for the state title will
arrive in San Antonio Saturday,
August 14, for a full and active
10-day schedule of events. Follow-
ing preliminary competition on Au-
gust 21, the 15 finalists will be
selected. The number of finalists
will then be reduced to five, one of
whom will receive approximately
$70,000 in prizes, gifts and scholar-
ships. An additional $9,000 in cash
scholarship will be awarded to the
runners-up and semi-finalists.
Current titleholder is LeAnn
Caughey of, Abilene. She was select-
ed first runner-up in the recently
nationally televised Miss USA
Pageant.
Tax Appraisal Notices
Go In Mail Next Week
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Review Board Session Ahead
approve a 10 percent exemption. All
taxing entities can approve the
residential homestead exemption,
not to exceed the minimum or maxi-
mum. It is a local deeision by each
. entity.
REA Annual
Membership
Meeting Friday
Coleman County Electric Coop-
erative, Inc. will have the annual
membership meeting on Friday,
July 30, starting at 7 p.m. at the
rodeo grounds.
Concessions will be. open, and
visitors are welcome. All members
are urged to be present.
A more complete story with the
meeting’s program will appear in
Thursday’s Chronicle.
Club Tourney
August 14-15
For Members
The annual club tournament for
Coleman Country Club members
has been scheduled Saturday and
Sunday, August 14-15, with both
men and women participating.
The men's bracket will be flighted
following play Saturday, with num-
ber of flights depending on the
scores. Plans are to have no more
i than a four stroke spread in any
flight, with perhaps the exception of
the last flight.
The women’s division will be in
two flights, the championship flight
and the first flight. The participants
will declare in which flight they
want to play in. There will be no
handicapping. The championship
flight will play 18 holes Saturday
and 18 holes Sunday. The first flight
will play nine holes each day.
Trophies will be awarded to the
first three places in each flight.
Plans are to serve a meal Saturday
evening. Also, mulligans will be
sold, one for each day, at total cost
of $5.00. Entry fee for the tourna-
ment will be $5.00.
CTO Receives
Funds For
New Program
Central Texas Opportunities, Inc.
has received funds through the
Department of Human Resources
for a Weatherizatioh Program
which will include a seven county
area. These counties are Coleman,
Brown, McCulloch, Runnels, East-
land a,nd Callahan. This program is
designed to weatherize low income
houses with priority given to the
elderly and handicapped.
Persons interested in making
application and who fall under the
income eligibility guidelines may
contact Mrs. Patti Hendricks at
625-4167 for an appointment.
-Special to Democrat-Voice—
Tax Appraisal Notices are now
being prepared by the Coleman
County Appraisal District, as it has
completed the reappraisal of pro-
perties within the District, as
mandated by Senate Bill 621, and to
become fully operational in 1982.
Reappraisal^otices will be mailed
to all property owners in the
, District whose property value has
l been increased over $1,000. The
notices will contain the following
information:
1. Appraisers estimate of value.
2. Exemptions the owner has
qualified for.
3. Estimate of the tax rate and
amount of taxes for each taxing
entity..
If the property owner believes
the estimated market value exceeds
the true market value, or if the
owner is not shown to be receiving
exemptions to which he is entitled,
or if the notices contain incorrect
information, the property owner
should contact the Appraisal Office
as soon as possible. Every effort has
been made to eliminate any errors,
but it is virtually impossible to
recompile the records from nine
different taxing entities without
having £ few errors made.
An office employee will review
the property file with the owner. If
the owner does not agree with the
Appraisers value, or cannot agree
with the appraiser on adjustments,
he will be given the opportunity to
schedule a hearing with the Apprai-
Montgom’ry Ward
Has Change
Of Ownership
The Montgomery Ward Sales
Agency at 406 Commercial Avenue
in Coleman has recently experien-
ced a change of ownership as Bill
and Bettye-Glee Dyer have replaced
Rob O'Hair, Jr. and his wife Jean as
1 owners of the business.
The Dyers are graduates of
Eastern New Mexico University.
Bill has a degree in instrumental
music and his wife Bettye-Glee has a
degree in special education. They
taught in Gallup, Artesia and Eun-
ice, New Mexico school systems for
13 years. Mrs. Dyer will begin
teaching at Mozelle this fall in their
resource room.
The Dyers spent the past two
years in Kermit, Texas as Bill was
involved in the retail furniture
business there.
The Dyers have three children: a
daughter Yesha, 18, is currently
working with her father at the
store; and two sons, Tobyn, age 6,
who will attend first grade this fall
and Ryan, 15 months.
Mr. and Mrs. Dyer are residing at
809 N. Pecos and have been opera-
ting thp local Montgomery Ward
store since June 27th.
sal Review Board. Hopefully any
difference can be worked out in the
office, but in the event agreement
cannot be reached, protest forms
will be available and the office staff
will assist in filling out the forms.
The Appraisal Review Board will
meet beginning August 5, 1982 on
minerals and related property, and
later in the month dates will be
shown on the reappraisal notices, to
hear all protests. Once the hearings
are completed and all corrections
are made, the Board will certify the-
records, each taxing entity will be
furnished their values, and an effec-
tive tax rate published, which is a
rate that cannot be increased over
three percent of the amount of
revenue generated in the prior year.
Once the effective tax rate is
published, the governing body of
each taxing entity will start pro-
ceedings to adopt the 1982 tax rate.
The adopted tax rates will then be
Blood Drive
Thursday At
Teen Center
The community of Coleman is
being asked to join in Thursday,
July 29th, to help their fellow man
by donating a pint of blood. To, be
eligible to donate, you must be
between the ages of 17 and 70 and in
good health. All 17 year olds must
have signed minor donor permit
cards, which may be picked up at
the Countywide Insurance Office.
The Blood Drive will be held at
the Teen Center between 1:00 p.m.
and 7:00 p.m.
Blood is a vital medicine - a life
giving substance which can only
come from healthy human beings.
Patients in area hospitals depend
on people, such as area donors to
help them back to better health or
possibly save their lives.
Help save a life on this special day
and if you're lucky - maybe you
won’t be the next patient whose life
will depend on someone else caring
enough to donate - the pint of life.
Rodeo Assn. To
Ride In
B’wood Parade
The Coleman Rodeo Association
will ride in the Brown County Rodeo
Parade on Thursday, July 29, at
5:00 p.m. Rodeo Queen is Sharon
Sneed.
100 Degrees...
Temperature was at 100 degrees
here Sunday afternoon, the hottest
recording for the summer. The
reading was 97 degrees for the high
Saturday. Other nearby areas also
reported 100 degrees Sunday.
gijfh to the Coleman County Tax
Appraisal District. The District will
apply these individual rates to the
values to produce a tax roll and tax
statements.
The District will mail statements
and collect for all taxing units
except the Coleman Independent
School District and City of Novice,
beginning with the 1982 tax year,
which began on July 1st of this year.
Taxpayers will receive one consoli-
dated tax statement and a total of
all taxes owed to all Wits - County,
City and School will be shown on the
one statement.
It is realized that there will be
some confusion, and some misunder-
standings, etc. As the practice in the
past has been to value property at a
fraction of its market value, and
sometimes as many as three values
placed on a parcel of property, but
from this year forward the one
value shown on the appraisal notice
will be the one value for all entities.
Remember: The Appraisal Dist-
rict has no taxing authority, and
only questions concerning the value
of your property can be answered
by the Appraisal Office and any
questions concerning tax rates and
dollar amount of taxes should be
directed to the local elected officials.
Notices will be in the mail
probably next week.
FEW SQUALLS
It takes a real storm to make a
man realize how much worrying he’s
wasted over a few squalls.
County Youth
Win At
State Show
Coleman County 4-H youth parti-
cipated in the State 4-H Horse Show
in Waco July 19-24 in the Regular
Show and in the Invitational
Events. Results of the show are
listed below:
INVITATIONAL EVENTS
Jody Barr - Western Pleasure
Futurity, 1st go - 6th; 2nd go • 12th;
3rd go - 5th; and All Around - 2nd.
Melissa Hargett - Hunters Under
Saddle, 6th, and Cutting, 5th.
Rosanne Rhone - Hunter Horse-
manship, 9th.
Other participants in the Invita-
tional Events were Ben Taylor, C. J.
Bolinger, Shauna Bell and Alissa
Flynn.
REGULAR SHOW
Melissa Hargett - Showmanship
at Halter, 2nd; Western Pleasure,
7th; and Western Horsemanship,
2nd.
Jennifer Jamison - Halter Geld-
ings, 3rd.
Todd Rabon - Halter Geldings,
5th.
Other participants in the Regular
Show were Alissa Flynn, Rosanne
Rhone and Melinda Adams.
THE COLEMAN LITTLE LEAGUE ALL-STAR baseball
team had high hopes last Friday afternoon as
they prepared for their trip to Weatherford to
meet the host team in the District 28 finals. But
their dreams were dashed that evening as
Weatherford prevailed 5-0 to eliminate the local
stars from further competition during the 1982
season. The locals had beaten Baird last
Wednesday 15-9 to advance to the final round.
(Staff Photo)
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