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WPA PROJECTS A Boneh I decisionGET QUICK ACTIONJohn O’Hern And Henry Jackson Lead Drives For Local WorkFinal approval has been given two Webb county project applications by the Works Progress Administration at Washington, according to advices received in Laredo.These are the applications for sluice gates and excavations for fill-in of a lake 150 by 250, six feet deep, in addition to the lake 140 feet wide already on the site at the Country club. The project application for a sewing room to employ 159 women to make clothes for the poor of Webb county, was the other project approved.Work on both these projects is expected to begin as soon as allocations of funds are made, it was announced, and this is expected to be done within the next few days.The proposed project at the Casa Blanca Country Club is located on the Arroyo- Chacon, one-half mile east of the country club building on the country club grounds, which' arc now the property of the city of Laredo. Credit for the putting over of this project, which will cost for labor alone $5,125 and employ 25 laborers, in addition to one time clerk, one foreman, two tractor drivers, two truck drivers and one fresno operator, is due John J. .O’Hern, who puts in most of his time making improvements at the country club at his own expense as a mere matter of civic pride.The project for the sewing room, which will be located in the building formerly occupied by the Milier Mfg. Co. cn Iturbide street, and which will keep 159 women busy several months a* a cost of approximately $;!1,000, was sponsored and put over by XL L. Jackson, assisted by other members of the planning board of Webb county.F. D. AppointsSpecial BoardThe Indepndent Club, or Old Party, has thrown itself wide open to deserved criticism by its action in deciding to not support the amendment to be voted upon tomorrow which if passed would do away with the abominable fee system for county, district and. precinct officials.If the Old Party had ben holding confernces for weeks and decided to do the one thing which would bring upon it the most disrepute, it could not have succeeded better.It decides to support six of the proposed amendments. Nobody has any quarrel with that. It is the fact, in this instance, that the Old Party goes on record to continue and perpetuate the fee system for officers, which shows a degree of short-sightedness which its leaders certainly did not anticipate.It would appear the leaders put the seven amendment proposals in a hat, reached in blindly and dragged out the one which they decided to not support. Surely it wasn’t logic or even practical politics to make an asinine decision to keep verdant a continued source of criticism that of fee officers.An officer who has tG make his living on a percentage basis becomes virtually a public enemy. He can not, no matter how conscientious, be a sane, deliberate, fair and conscientious official when he sees a fee dollar mark swimming before his eyes on every transaction.Our officers • should be paid salaries. These salaries should be good salaries too. They should be such that men and women of integrity will aspire to them. Under the fee system it is a constant warfare of catch-as-catch-can between officers and the citizen who has been caught in the clutches of the fee system.Give the peace officers and precinct officers particularly more salary and they becdme better officers. Let this salary be a fixed, definite sum but don’t make it necessary for these to have to get fees to make a living.We find no good defense for the fee system. The legislature unearthed some startling disclosures a few years ago when it decided to put some bounds on the amount a public official can earn.The Old Party has made a grave error. It has given its political, adversaries plenty of dynamite with which to continually blast away, by electing to perpetuate and vote for the fee system.We hope the rest of Texas does not agree with the local organization and rectifies the majority which will doubtless be delivered against this worthy amendment here.LESS THAN 50NEW BANK SIGNED BYROOSEVELTBILL HOUSETONEUTRALITYRill THROUGHPER GENT ISIndependent Club to Support All But Doing Away With Fee SystemLess than 50 per cent of Webb County’s 3066 qualified voters were expected to bestir themselves enough tomorrow to get to the 12 polling places and vote on the. seven proposed amendments to the state constitution.Desuite the fact that the repeal of prohibition, the abolishment of the fee system for public officials, the question of free textbooks for private schools and an old age pension are among the proposals, a lackadaisical attitude is being shown locally.Political leaders today placed estimates of the total vote from 1200 to 1500. None expected the vote to run much higher.The Independent Club announced it would support, all of the amendments except the one which would abolish the fee system for officials.Election supplies are being placed in the various precincts of the county today and the polls will be opened promptly at 8 o’clock Saturday morning to remain open until 7 p. m. for the reception of voters. Bolling places in Laredo and Webb County will be as follows:..Prcct. No. 1, Place No. 1, at No. 20 Iturbide street.Prect. No. I, Place No. 2. at Height* school.Prect. No. 1, Place No. 3, at Salinas Garage, 210 Guadatupe street. ■■...Plect. No. 2, at Central Fire Station cn Mutamo.'os street.Prect. No. 3. at Garcia home, 1114 Lincoln street.at Urbahn schoolNorth Laredo, atPrcct. No. 4, building.Prect. No. 5,Simon's store.Prect. No. 0, at Dolores.Prect No. 8, at Vidales ranch.Prect. No. 9, at La Becerra ranch.Prect. No. 10, Place 1, at Mlrando City.Jrect. No. 10, Place 2, at Brunl schoolhoii.se.Prcct. No. 11, at Agullares.Prect. No, 12, South Laredo, at Johnson Farm.
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Laredo Times
Laredo, Texas, US
Fri, Aug 23, 1935
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