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42nd YearNo. 28Dimmitt, Texas, Thursday, April 24, 196*’/aboutdimmittandcastrocountyCastro County, by a narrow margin, voted for progress last Saturday in the passage of a $250,000 bond issue to Ik’ used in the remodeling and enlarging of the county courthouse. 'Dus is a needed improvement, and there is no reason why this prosperous and productive area should not inert its responsibilities in supplying the necessary facilities and services for a growing and developing community. Despite the fact that the election Saturday carried by only a very small majority, with only a small percent of the voters in the county participating, undci our system the governing body of the county was given as strong a mandate to provide the needed improvements as they would have had if a hundred p ret nt of the voters had participated in the election. Everyone had the same opportunity to register and vote.Headline bloopers, in new spa pers. attract more attention than run-of-the-mill errors further down in the news story In large type (See ABOIT DIMMITT. Page'll)Funeral held for Mrs. CunninghamBond12 P«9»«issue winsMrs, W innie Cunningham, 73, a resident of Dimmitt and Earth for more than half a century, died at 6 a m last Thursday in Plains Memorial Hospital athr two wests’ confinement.WE NEED YOU,' SAY CLEAN-UP LEADERS. . . Mrs. George Bradford, Mrs. Cecil Dennis,Mrs. Goodwin MillerCity-wideCleanup slatedfTNERAL service* were eon Dimmitt s Ga:den C!ub lades ha/anls. creation of iieautiful ducted Friday at 3 pm in thei'vant t '-lean up and Ivautify the highway entrances to the utv First United Methodist C'hurc h rlI and they'u* ielt;-ni:ting nearly and the genvial cleni-un aiiriby 7A quarter-million dollar bond issue hinged on seven ballots Saturday as the county's property owning voters approved the en largement and remodeling of the Castro County Courthouse, 282-275, in a light turnout.WEST DIMMITT, Bethel, Summerfield and West Sunnyside car-ried the bond election, while the county's 11 other precincts voted against it.The election sfHl must he canvassed by the county commissioners' court Monday, so the seven-vote edge could swing either way before the count is official. As part of the canvass, County Tax Assessor Kent Birdwel) mus* check voters' affidavits against the county tax rolls to make sun all votcn-s were property tax pay ers.Saturday's 557-vote turnout rep resented only 18 percent of the county s 3,000-plus registered voters Birdwel! said every registered voter who isn't listed on the tax rolls could have made himself eligible for the bond election by rendering personal property (i*f\ furniture or equipment — for taxationTHE BOND issue built up a 90vote advantage in Dimmitt, but outlying precincts chipped it away. Sunnyside's two precincts split noticeably, with West Sunny side 061 favoring the issue by 11-5 and Hast Sunnyside 001 opposing it bv 112. Bethel favored the issue by 9-5.It could bc said by statisticians that the rest of the county tiodl and that Summei field decided the 5250.000 issue with its 7-0 vote in iavor.HERE ARE the unofficial returns, by precinct:Pet. 1. Southeast Dimmitt — 7tor, 9 against.Pet. 2, Southwest 98 for, 35 against.Pet. 3, Northwest Dimmitt —-168 for, 49 against.| Pet, 5, South Nazareth — 8 for. 110 against.Pet. 6, Hart — 21 for, 58 against Pet. 7, Bethel — 9 for, 5 against. Pet. 8, Jumbo — 5 for. 6 against. Pet 9, Summcrfield — 7 for, 0 against.Pet. 10. East Sunnyside — 2 for, 14 against.Pet, 11. Flat against.j Pet. 12. North (for. 36 against, j Pet 13, Amey -Pet. 14. Frio —g — 8 fer. Nazareth —15- 2 for, S against 2 for, 3 against.Pet. 15, Easter — 1 for, 2 against.Pet. 16, West Sunnyside — 11 for, 5 against,IF THE VOTE stands afterMonday's official canvass, the county will have to wait the required 60 days to allow 'inv for petitions to contest the outcome, then will enter nto negotiations '*h architects to draw up plans for enlarging and rernod'tmg the courthouse.Hazel Nhas pusher ty’s aware and civic r Citizen of SHE WAS nor of thi annual ha County (1 Friday nif Sc hool gyn her- ey es. « plaque froi president »: 1 think (former sti sc rnething told the he I hope 1 r.Miss Mr man to tie Year sine'Spring forward'for DST Saturdaystarted in been Bob Mrs Hole Nf Ison arx MISS M be list. lt;t wDentforwardDAY!go into robbing to give in tto Time w the lastfo get to set your clocks one hour Saturday night KiHT Savings Time willeffect at 2 a m. Sunday, an hour from the dawn an extra hour of daylight evening. Daylight Saving ill remain n effe, ‘ until Surday in October. ners on a that will office. The name plati i night.In his in Blown sair the three m a pers envirnnmei Citizc n ofnil tkrlt; , ”
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Dimmitt Castro County News
Dimmitt, Texas, US
Thu, Apr 24, 1969
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