Olney Enterprise (Newspaper) - November 2, 1972, Olney, Texas ate and is a statewide elective r and the Speaker of the I Fx ever the House of Representatives and is elected by the membership b l ri li A of the House of lives have the The blanket sized ballot which Texas voters will face Tuesday during the general election contains not only the candidates for most major na tional and state but 14 amendments to the State Con These 14 ments were submitted during the regular session of the 62nd legislature and passed on to the voters for their approval or A short summation of the 14 amendments is presented be low in the hopes that the voters of this area will be better in formed when they go to the polls to AMENDMENT 1 Amending Article Sec tion of the Texas Con to provide annual salaries of for mem bers of the Senate and House of This proposal increases the annual salary of members of the Texas Legislature from to No changes are made In the mileage or per diem Up until 1960 members of the Legis lature were compensated on the basis of a per diem for the number of days they were actually in This var ied from a per diem of in the original Constitution of then raised to for the first 120 days of the session and for each day in 1954 the per diem was raised to to be paid only tor the first 120 days of the session with no per diem being paid there The most recent amend ment to the Constitution was adopted in 1960 writing in a annual with a limitation of per diem for expenses while actually in AMENDMENT 2 Amending Article Sec tion 6 of the Texas Constitu tion to abolish Lamar County Hospital This proposal is local in na ture and abolishes the Lamar County Hospital District and authorizes the ers Court of that county to provide for the transfer or disposition of assets of the The Lamar County Hospital District was created in 1960 under authority of constitutional amendment and operated for a time several years ago it ceased operation and privately owned facilities are now being used for hospital care in Lamar AMENDMENT 3 Amending Article Sec tion 61 of the Texas Consti to require the Com missioners Courts In all counties of the state to com pensate all justices of the peace on a salary basis be ginning January This proposal would require all justices of the peace to be compensated on an annual sal ary basis rather than on a fee The Constitution now requires all justices of the peace in counties of population or more to be com on a salary basis and this proposal would put all jus tices of the peace on the same AMENDMENT 4 verted in 1974 for the se of drafting a new constitution or revising the current constitution for sub mission to the The commission would be allowed to sit through May 1974 and could extend its life for 60 days beyond that The only restriction as to subject matter would be that the exist ing of Rights must be re in The present constitution au only one method of ment and that is a sub mission to the voters of pro posed amendments by a con twothirds vote of the In the 95 years of its existence the Texas Constitution has been ended over 200 times by this Attempts were made as a result of action of the 55th Legislature to present a comprehensive section Reports of this commission have been submitted as joint resolutions in the Legislature but never enacted with the exception of one resolution which the peo ple did adopt deleting a num ber of obsolete provisions from the 5 Amending Article Sec tion 2 relating to a tax ex emption on certain property by disabled veterans to provide that exemptions which would range from to to be made on a grad scale based on the per centage of veterans Tax exemptions of any sort must of necessity be by con amendment in that Article Section 2 of the constitution requires that taxes be equal and uni AMENDMENT 6 Amending Article Sec tion Ib of the Texas Constitu tion to provide that various political subdivisions of the state may exempt not less than of the value of residents homestead of all persons 65 years of age or older from ad valorem taxes under Presently the constitutional homestead exemption from ad valorem taxes stands at and is applicable to both state and county This propos al would extend the homestead exemption by allowing a school dis or other political sub division of the state to make a like AMENDMENT 7 Amending Article I of the Texas Constitution by adding a new Section 3a to provide that equality under the law shall not be denied or ed because of a persons creed or national The present constitution does not specifically prohibit discrimination but the Granting authority to the Legislature to establish a con revision commis sion which would report its recommendations no later Attorney General than November 1973 and troller of equal protection clause of the four amendment to the Unit ed States Constitution pro hibits a state from legislating different treatment to persons placed by a statute Into dif ferent classes on the basis of a criteria wholly unrelated to the objective of the AMENDMENT 8 Amending Article Sec tions and 23 of the Texas Constitution to provide fouryear terms for the of fices of Gover providing that members of the 63rd Legislature would then be convened in in a constitutional convention to serve 60 days for the pur pose of drafting a new consti for submission to the voters of The proposed amendment would add an authorization for the 63rd Legislature to es a constitutional revi sion The com mission would report to the Legislature not later than No 1973 and the Leg would then be con Public Commissioner of the General Land Sec of State and certain statutory state There have been fouryear terms for certain constitu tional offices of the state of Texas in the past however the constitution of 1876 fixed the terms at two years for all constitutional AMENDMENT 9 Amending Article Sec tions 33 and of the Texas Constitution to exempt tors of soil and water con servation districts from pro a are MEETING Odd Fellows Lodge Highway 199 West COME JO For m sT v T office compen against dual holding and dual sat Presently any public official is prohibited by the state con from holdine more than one office in local or federal AMENDMENT 10 Amending Article Section 1 of the Texas Con to revise provisions on the time of proposing a to the state con and the time and method of publishing notice of the proposed amendment The proposals involve two basic the constitution can only be a mended by a resolution sub mitted in the regular biennial The amendment would permit constitutional to be considered by any session of the legis The second phase of the amendment deals with the manner of publication of pro posed Present the full text must be four times in one paper in each The new re would require only a summary statement In ex planation of the amendment to be published twice in every newspaper that qualified for publication of official The rates would be set at no higher than the newspapers published national rate for ad per column AMENDMENT 11 Amending Article Sec tion 17 of the Texas Consti in adding a new Sec tion 24a to Article HI to pro vide a salary of for the Governor and the Speaker of the House of Rep the Lt Gover nor who presides over the Sen on tne same oasis as members of the House of Rep and This means that each presently draws an annual salary of per yean AMENDMENT 12 Amending Article Sec tions 33 and 40 of the Texas Constitution to allow state other employees and persons to serve on the gov erning bodies of school dis without forfeiting their state and otherwise to revise generally the re strictions on dual office hold ing and dual The proposal broadens the exemption from the prohibi tion of dual office holding and compensation for non elected AMENDMENT 13 Increasing the maximum in terest rate which may be borne tain bonds A number of provisions of the Texis Constitution place a maximum limit or the a prescribed by certain public agencies for bonds they issu Most of these limits are set at less than 5 perc the present prevailing rate of interest which can be sold Is higher than maximum rates set by the constitution the proposal would such bonds to be sold ui maximum interest rates not to exceed a weighted annual in terest rate of 6 percent AMENDMENT 14 Amending Article VII of the Texas Constitution by a new Section 6b to permit the commissioners court of a county to reduce the county permanent school find and provide for per scholastic dis and use of the money obtained from this The proposal would allow the commissioners court of PAGE mor she is a r of the Pep Squad and th High Schodl is reporter of Junior She was elected Girt of the CARD OF THANKS To the ladies of the church and we say a special thank you for the for the memorials and To the many who came to our home With words of comfort and con solation and for the many other esses shown we are deeply The family of Mrs Guimarin Is FHA by cet constitutional adding a new Article s issued under authority by Section 65 to a county to distribute a por tion of the county permanent school fund to school districts in the county on a scholastic illation basis for the pur pose of reducing bonded in or making per manent Kathy Schultz was chosen FHA Girl of the for by members of the Daughter of and BUI Kathy is report er for the Junior a member of Coun and third vice president of A member of the National American agriculture has advanced more in the past two than in all prior years of our Made Home Queen GENERA NOTE ote for the candidate of your choke in each race by placing an X in the square betide the NOVEMBER 1972 You may vote a straight ticket that vote for all the candidates of a certain and for no that party column y placing an X in the square beside the name of the party of your choice at the head of the party If you this method of not mark squares beside tte individual 4 f P RESIDE VT and VICE PRESIDENT ART ARTY ARTY RTY RTF George 1 Sarge and Richard and Spiro nda and Pulley Andre UNFIT STATES SE h Floras Ama om Leonard h 7th Congressional GOVERNO Bri Hank Ramsey NT GOVERNO Hobb Alma anal GENERAL dim Hill homis PUBLIC ACCO Robe Anne Springe PI Mauri STATE Ruben Soli OF NERAL LAND Bob Armstrong Howar Whi I 1 RAILROAD MISSIONE Bron Tunne CHIEF JUSTI SUPREME CC ASSOCIAT SUPREME JUSTICE Dan ASSOCIAT SUPREME S URT APPEALS cnde Odo MINA DISTRICT REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT 53 inne STATE BOARD James Billion COURT 0 IVIL DISTRICT JUDG 90THJUDK HST IAL DISTRICT 90T TORNEY And SHERIFF ASSESSOR AND alke OF Jack shop PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS Instruction Place w X fa you wish vote 1 constitutional amendment to provide annual members of the Senate and House of Representatives AGAINST FOR AGAINST The constitutional Hospital B T County office for Comptroller of General Land statutory State FOR 3 The con court in the peac amendment to require the C all counties of the state to compensate all Jus i on a salary Md water or twine tor mo tractors of toil 1 I v FP l lr ll FOR 4 The revision members in voters a providing for which precedes the of of the 63rd Legislature u a for purpose of to ttw new constitution or of i j tf L I I C No The for the i salary v and to YI 5 AGAINST Tho c to disabled tiK of i if h FOR Q AGAINST No i I h i i i moi to one civil NST Hi vn AINST Wl to f M 7 The to shall be denied or it i win FOR AINST LH PUBLISHED AS PUBLIC SERVICE OF THE OLNEY
