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Newspaper
Winters Enterprise
Location
Winters, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1963
Page
4
Governor Connally urges taxing clothing under ten dollars farm implements and all restaurant food while raising auto taxes to fund a two year state budget totaling about 3.1 billion dollars. The House Appropriations Committee mirrors the plan. Rural lawmakers oppose the farm implements levy as a step toward fiscal reform.
Rep Don Garrison proposes to raise the Available School Fund by 3 million dollars yearly by amending the state motor fuel tax exemption. A Texas farmers and ranchers spokesman protests the plan as the bill would cut the highway refund from 98 1/2 percent to 73 1/2 percent, reducing fuel tax refunds.
Texas Farm Bureau says about 1.5 million dollars of the new school fund would come from farmers and ranchers. Farmers receive motor fuel refunds totaling roughly 5.7 million annually, about 49 percent, largely from farm machinery taxes. Airlines and private plane owners would be the next largest group benefiting under the plan. A subcommittee on the bill includes George Cook, Ben Barnes, William Davis, James L. Slider, and F. Lee Duggan Jr. The House vacancy in Corpus Christi prompts studies of election procedures as Governor Connally may call a special election before the May session.
Proposals to tax mineral estates severed from land have been filed by Representatives Emmett Lack of Kountze and Clyde Haynes of Victor. The package aims to aid small tract landowners and independent oil and gas producers.
A constitutional amendment would raise the Railroad Commission from three to five members. Another bill would let the Legislature set the duration of undeveloped mineral estates. The Texas Landowners and Independent Oil & Gas Operators Association argues major firms hold undeveloped interests too long. Additional measures push development with 10 year sunset, a county tax of at least $5 per acre, and a 25 cent minimum tax by Rep. Bob Bass.
Rep. Jack Crain of Nocona introduced a bill to provide 2 840 837 dollars as Texas matching share of a 12 000 000 dollar federal state private screwworm eradication program. Governor Connally supports it, but the House Appropriations Committee did not include the item in the 300 page appropriations bill.
Last November Texas voters approved enabling legislation allowing the Legislature to authorize hospital districts. Since then many bills have been filed to create districts. Rep. H. G. Wells of Tulsa proposes a bill granting each county the right to establish a hospital district within its boundaries.
Winters women attended a program called Scene Changers on home fashions at the First Methodist Church Parlor. Mrs. J. C. Jarrell welcomed guests as Mrs. E. E. Thormeyer led the event with others assisting. Color slides from Celanese Corp. of America showcased 200 National Design Center room settings.
Senator Criss Cole of Houston proposes increasing annual motor vehicle registration by one dollar with the revenue earmarked for state parks. If approved by the Legislature, the measure would go to voters in the November 1964 general election.
Sen. Franklin Spears of San Antonio introduces a bill to create a new class of motor carriers named Restricted Motor Express Common Carriers to expedite freight shipments within Texas. The measure aims to streamline regulatory processes and speed transit across the state.
The Texas cotton crop stands as the most valuable single commodity, underpinning material industries from draperies to ready-made bedspreads. Its robust production supports commercial textile sectors and regional trade.
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