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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1968
Page
4
The Pecos Enterprise urges residents to approve the school bond issue without raising local taxes. A valuating firm found oil and gas property tax increases could fund the bond, countering critics who warn of tax hikes and claiming progress supports Pecos youth and future prosperity.
We the citizens urge support for a $2 million bond to improve the school. We oppose current scenes of children eating lunches in alleys and behind buildings and call for voting for the school bond. East Side Citizens for the School Bond signatories claim to back the measure.
Concerned citizens present facts to voters for the April 27, 1968 election. The note asserts property taxes will not rise and lists bond allocations for East Pecos Junior High School North Pecos Elementary Pecos Elementary and West Pecos and Pecos High School with totals around two million eighty nine thousand dollars.
Senator Yarbrough warns that federal aid to schools in Texas impacted by military installations faces cuts from $486 million to $395 million, an 18.8 percent reduction. He backs restoring the $91 million via a new conference, citing Texas districts like Fort Hood Fort Sam Houston Lackland Randolph El Paso and others, and says the loss would force local tax raises or underfunded education. He cites letters from Texas superintendents and vows to continue pressuring for full funding to support education for military families.
Senator John G. Tower urges rapid federal spending cuts and a temporary ten percent surtax to reduce a looming 1968 deficit and stabilize the dollar. He warns debt rising to 351 billion with 13.5 billion annual interest, urging essential cuts and accelerated corporate tax payments to restore fiscal responsibility.
Congressman Richard C. White outlines flood and drought impacts in Sanderson Dell City and Presidio County. He cites Public Law 89-763 and proposed Senate figures for a cooperative state federal disaster program with grants up to 75 percent and loans expanded by SBA and FmHA. He notes stalled flood insurance talks and urges broader action in 1968.
The notice lists important dates for a political cycle: period for filing campaign expenses from April 24 to 26, last day for absentee voting by personal appearance on April 30, first primary on May 4, canvass of returns on May 7, and county convention on May 11. It references local election deadlines and procedures.
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