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Newspaper
Winters Enterprise
Location
Winters, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1959
Page
9
Texas lawmakers hear from agencies demanding funds while critics warn of new taxes. Budget pressures push proposals to cut services and raise revenue as Senate and House leaders extend probes and consider stronger oversight. Speed limit reform seeks stiffer penalties and license suspensions.
Industry spokesmen decry Gov Price Daniel's plan to raise corporation franchise taxes predicting increases from 50 to 250 percent. They warn the levy would apply regardless of profit, since it targets capital rather than income. Rep J E Winfree of Houston defends the bill, framing it as the only option.
Exes and officials warn UT may sink to mediocrity without a larger appropriation. The university sought about 34 million for two years, while the Budget Board recommended 27.9 million. UT argued for funding to upgrade current medical branches before adding a third, and urged broad-based highway tax support.
Supt. O B Ellis warns Texas prison system runs at about half the national inmate cost and faces severe crowding. Board members warn of danger from overcrowding and need new buildings. A proposed budget cut threatens operations with a missing $500000 cash infusion to finish the year after last year’s crop losses on prison farms.
Rep. Tom James of Dallas sponsors a measure to bar reversal of criminal convictions for harmless errors. Only substantive errors would require overturning a trial court decision. Critics have condemned Court of Criminal Appeals rulings that nullify convictions for misspellings and typographical mistakes. The bill was endorsed by the Texas Law Enforcement Commission.
Brownie Troop 1 met at the Scout Hut Friday for their weekly session.Mrs. Walker Tatum led games while Glenda Cooper and Sandra Crockett served nibbles. A Valentine and candy cup was sent to hospital patient Cynthia Pinkerton. Brownies present included Jean Mostad, Kathy Weeks, Kay Lynn Rives, Babs Tatum, Sandra Reed, Glenna Cooper, Sandra Crockett, Mary Lou Wilkerson, Eileen Faubion and Carolyn Blake. Also attending were Mrs. J. C. Wilkerson, Jim and Joe, Mrs. N. L. Faubion, Rodney and leader Mrs. Walker Tatum.
Miss Marie Hill a Wichita Falls school system faculty member spent the past week end in the home of her mother Mrs George C Hill and with other relatives in the city.
Mrs Theo Kirkpatrick of Santa Anna and Mrs Charles Matthews with Carol and Michele of Plainview visited Sunday in the Wes Hays home.
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