Beckley Post-Herald The Raleigh Register from Beckley, West Virginia • Page 16

SIXTEEN REGISTER AND POST-HERALD, BECKLEY, W. SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 22, 1969 Within Next Few If ears Revenue Shortages Predicted For Many State Municipalities KATHRYN WILLIAMS KARIN ALBERT DOUGLAS HARVEY MARY JEAN BRADY RALPH B. DORSEY 'Most Valuable Students' Elks 9 Scholarship Winners Announced Many West i i i a municipalities will encounter I serious revenue a within the next few years, according to a new study by two West Virginia University professors. Entitled "The i i a Revenue Problem in West this report was written by Dr. James H.

Thompson and Dr. Woo Sik Kee, members of the economics faculty at WVU. Statistical projections by Thompson and Kee indicate that by 1975 the total general fund expenditures of the state's 226 municipalities will exceed the total receipts from the present municipal revenue system (at First place titles in the Elks' Judged this week by a corn- Foundation "Mostjmittee at the Beckley National Valuable Student" Scholarship Award this year goes to Douglas Lewis Harvey of 108 Hume Court, Beckley, in the boys division, and Mary Jean Brady of Oak Hill, in the girls division, William E. Sutphin of Elks Lodge, first place winners will receive a $100 savings bond and will move on to the district contests to be held in Martinsburg. Second place winners will receive $25 savings bonds.

TO REACH their decisions, Judges took into consideration Elks Lodge 1452 of Beckley, announced Friday. Ralph Benjamin Dorsey, of I and accomplishments, further 606 North Mountain Mount objectives, character Hope, placed second in the boys personality, division and Kathryn a Douglas, son of Mrs. George Williams of Flat Top and Karin Howey, is a senior at the applicants' school activities a Sue Albert of Stanaford tied for second place in the girls division. Frank Wells Dies; Rites Set Frank L. Wells, 78, St.

Petersburg, Fla. formerly of Beckley, died Thursday in a St. Petersburg hospital following a short illness. Funeral services will be held Monday at 2 p.m. at the Graham Funeral Home Chapel, Bluefield, Va.

with Rev. William Slagle in charge. Burial will be in Maple Hill Cemetery in Bluefield, Va. Survivors include his wife, Bertha Wells, St. Petersburg, four sons, Ray and Carl Wells, Tampa, Robert of Detroit, Michl, and Sam of Bluefield, four daughters, Mrs.

Robert Lindsey, Pineville, Mrs. Glen Hale, TazeweU, Mrs. Joe Sargent, Bluefield, Mrs. John Bullick, St Petersburg, i grandchildren and six great- grandchildren. Friends may call at Graham Funeral Home after 4 p.m.

RunHoTr Woodrow Wilson High School, and ranks first in his class of 650 students. He has earned the Geometry Award (first place), English 10 (third place), Biology (third place), English 11 (first), Algebra II (second). Chemistry I (second), and high honor awards in his sophomore and junior years. He also earned two subject awards and the Scholarship Trophy during his freshman year. Douglas is a semifinalist in S.

Goodwin, 49, Dies; Rites Pending Samuel Lorenzo Goodwin, 49, of 202 South Fayette died in a local hospital at 9:15 a.m. Friday following a long illness. Born Nov. 24, 1919 in Raleigh County a son of the late Delbert Goodwin and Virginia Boggus Goodwin of Beaver. He was employed by the Vaden Companv and a veteran of World War II.

Additional survivors include two sisters, Mrs. Evelyn Evans and Mrs. Joe (Elizabeth) Mooney, both of Beaver. The body is at the Rose and Quesenbeny Funeral Home pending completion of arrange- montc the National Merit Scholarship contest, served as West Virginia Junior Science and Humanities Symposium at West Virginia University and was selected to represent West Virginia for the (National Society of Professional Engineers Scholarship. HE SERVED as secretary of the Kiwanis Key Club, was a member of the Senate of the Student Council, National Honor Society, Science Club and the Junior Historians.

Doug has been named "Teen of the Week" and is a member of the Presbyterian Church. He plans to attend Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Mary Jean, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. senior at John Brady, Mount Hope is a High School where she is a member of the band.

She is also a member of the County Band, Area Band, All-State Band, chorus, accompanist for the County Chorus, a member of the co-editor of the annual staff, advertising staff of the school newspaper, Future Business Leaders of America, Pep and Latin clubs and Alpha Omega, the Girls Athletic Association and the National Honor Society. She has earned Scholarship Letter, Algebra II, and Trigonometry a a bookkeeping and shorthand. She was the school's nominee for "Outstanding Teenager America," and the National Council of English Teachers. MARY JEAN has participated in the State Solo and Ensemble Festival. She plays the piano and clarinet and has served as graduation organist for two years.

She was a member of Rainbow of Girls for five years, received the Grand Cross of Colors and was a Girl Scout for eight years. Her essay on banking won first place in a local contest and was published in the state bankers' magazine. In 1965, her essay on National Roads won the Daughters of the American Revolution State, regional and national contests. SHE IS a member of the Mount Hope Baptist Church, the Baptist Youth Fellowship and serves as vice president of the Gay Foster Guild. She is a member of Teens for Cancer, served as a volunteer for Head Start and was a junior counselor of Brownie Day Cainp.

She also served as a delegate to Mountain Heritage Weekend at Hawks Nest Lodge. Mary Jean has applied for the National Merit Scholarship to West Virginia University and the Angler B. Duke Scholarship at Duke University. Ralph is a senior at Mount Hope High School where he is a member of the National Honor Society and ranks second in his class. He is on the student council, newspaper staff, Key and Latin clubs, the class and track squads.

has earned the Scholarship, Bausch and Lomb Science, Latin II and Math awards. He was a delegate to West Virginia Constitutional Convention. He is secretary of the Key Club and serves as business manager of the yearbook. He is a member of the Mount Hope Presbyterian Church and active in its youth department. Ralph has been accepted at West Virginia Wesleyan College.

Kathryn, daughter of Mrs. Sarah Williams, is a senior at Shady Spring High School where she is a majorette and has participated in various band actvities and festivals. She has received three honor letters for scholarship achievements, was voted "Most Likely Medical Society, Bar Hold Joint Meeting A joint meeting of the Raleigh County Medical So- ciety and the Raleigh County Bar Association was held i Thursday at the Knight Country Club. Problems concerning both organizations were discussed at the meet- ing. Shown in the top photo (from left) Paul R.

Hutchinson secretary- treasurer of the County Bar Association: David T. Kennedy, president of the Bar Association: Walter Klin.a'ensmith. M. president-elect of the Raloieh County Medical Society; and Dr. Forrest Corn well, presi- dent of the local Medical Society.

Also present at the meeting were several of the older citizens of the Beckley area. They are (from left) Floyd M. Sayre, member of the' County Bar Association since 1922: Stansbury, Bar Association member since 1910; R. G. Broaddus, M.

Medical Society member since 1926; David Ashworth, Bar Association member since 1915; and Ross P. Daniels, M. D. member of the Medical Society since 1924. (Post-Herald Photos) to Succeed," and "Best Looking" by the senior class.

SHE WAS FIRST attendant to Miss Tiger and a candidate for May Queen, co-editor of the yearbook, and is a member of the Student Council, National Honor Society and a secretary of her freshman class. She is a member of Baptist Church and is active in its Youth Department and various community projects. Kathryn has been accepted for admission to West Virginia University and will major in foreign language and library science. daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

-Robert E. Albert, is a senior, at Woodrow Wilson High School, is a. mem'ber of the Student Council and serves as class president, a mem'ber of the executive committee. Junior Historians, Latin Club, National Honor Society, Bible Club, annual staff and the Girls Volleyball Team. She is a member of Little Valley Baptist Church and is active in its Youth Department and the Beckley Christian Youth Center.

Karin was a contestant in the Junior Miss Pageant, served as a delegate to "Know Your State Government Day," and is active in community projects. She plans to attend Piedmont Bible College. Thus if expenditure trends continue as in the recent past, this amount of additional revenue will have to be obtained by 1975--either by a increases or through the adoption of new revenue measures! The two economists note that their estimate is a conservative one. For example, no provision Services Sunday For S. S.

Mathis Final rites for Steven Shirley Mathis, 61, of Daniels will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday in the Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home Peace Chapel D. Smith in in with Rev. S. charge.

Burial will follow Sunset Memorial Park. Pallbearers will be Wetzel Miller, Creed Cook, Roy McNeil, Louie Adamos, Gene Matherly, Paul Pettry, Mack Lewis and Garnard Dillon. Mathis died Thursday at his home following a long illness. Born Feb. 10, 1908, at Murphysville, he was a son of the late Calvin H.

and Molly McPhearson Mathis. He was a member of the Shady Spring i Church. A retired miner, he was a member of the UMWA Local No. 7086. Survivors include his wife, Mrs.

Edith Basham Mathis; three daughters, Mrs. Jack (Shirley) Harris of Madisonville, Mrs. Dennis (Donna) Harrington and Mrs. John (Sandra) Pack, both of Daniels; two brothers, George of Louisville, and John of Boulder, and three grandchildren. Friends may call at the funeral home after 1 p.

m. today. Nixon Action Angers Bayh WASHINGTON (AP) The leader of the Senate fight for direct popular presidential elections accused President Nixon Friday of a "retreat to expediency in rejecting the plan. Sen. Birch Bayh, predicted neither alternative suggested by Nixon has a chance of enactment.

Bayh, chairman of the Senate constitutional amendments subcommittee, told reporters Nixon sent Congress "proposals of distinctly less merit but which might appear on first glance to have greater political acceptability." Firemen Answer Call OCEANA (iRNS) Oceana Fire Chief Oscar Morgan and 10 firemen answered a call at 4:15 p.m. Friday when a wooded section above the Toneda Baptist Church caught fire. The department was called when the fire endangered several dwellings in the area. Johnny Aliff, assistant fire chief, and other members remained on stand by at the station. A spokesman said four members have been to the department who will be used mainly in fighting forest fires.

They are Steve Daniels, Rodney Topping. iMarty Estep and Holly Toler all students at High School. additional revenue could be gleaned from this source. On tht- other hand, the revenue potential of this tax could be greatly increased if the Tax Limitation Amendment were repealed or if legislation were passed requiring that all pro- value. The former alternative is viewed as politically impractical because it would require a change in the State Constitution.

The latter method, which is already being used in Kentucky and Florida, doen't have this disadvantage. Although not giving it their unqualified endorsement, the authors feel that it has some attractive aspect. 1969 rates) by nearly $6 million. Perhaps the most important of these is that, by substantially increasing property tax revenue, it would aid school districts and counties as well as municipalities. IF THE municipalities don't receive help from the state in the form of new fiscal legislation, Thompson and Kee believe that the municipalities are is made for bringing the quality likely to of municipal services in West increased Virginia up to national stan- charges to provide the addit- dards, although they think thisiional revenue needed, would be a desirable objective.

They view this possibility with To do so, they estimate would alarm-, pointing out that nue is restricted to specific purposes. And such charges bear heavily on low-income taxpayers; for example, a sewer service charge based on water usage is probably more regressive than any tax. Thompson and Kee feel that new legislation is needed to help the municipalities of the state meet their increasing revenue needs. They suggest three possible forms which this assistance might take. Perhaps the best approach would be to develop an adequate system of grants-in-aid to municipalities, grants should Ideally such be unrestricted as to purpose and financed by means of an increase in the state personal income tax.

In the nation as a whole, municipalities now obtain fully one-sixth of their total general revenue from state aid, but in West Virginia all such aid is prohibited by Constitutional restriction. A SECOND desirable method of aiding municipalities would be to authorize the use by local widen the projected revenue- expenditure gap for 1975 from $6 million to $13 million. HOW CAN the municipalities of this state obtain the $6 to $13 million a year in additional revenue that will be needed by 1975 to keep municipal budgets balanced? Thompson and Kee suggest several possibilities. simplest approach would be for municipal governments to try! to obtain the entire amount needed from existing sources. But after examining these sources, they conclude that, although not impossible, this would be difficult and could produce some undesirable fiscal effects.

Looking at the property tax they find that given the present rate limitations and assessment ratios very little depend largely on governments of locally imposed, service fees andjbut state-collected supplements to the state personal income tax. Preferably these supplements should be levied on a county-wide scale and shared with other local governments on some appropriate basis. The third possible approach would be to add materially to the revenue-producing power of the property tax. Probably the best way to accomplish this would be to pass legislation requiring that all property be assessed at full market value. The WVU study is the first of a new series of legislative fiscal studies which are being made for the Legislature's Joint Committee on Government and Finance by the West Virginia University Bureau of Business Research.

Participating in this initial study was another WVU research organization, Bureau Research. Single copies may be obtained upon request from either bureau. West Virginia municipalities already rely more heavily on such charges than cities of comparable size in any other state. An accelerated movemnt in this direction, they warn, would be fiscally unsound. The authors give several reasons why the excessive use of service fees should be avoided.

Charges of this type can be fully justified only if the service is of a contractual nature, and only if its benefits go predominantly to the persons paying the fees and can be at least roughly a Service-charge financing of a function such as fire protection would be very difficult to defend on these grounds. WIDESPREAD application of this type of financing also handicaps fiscal management because the use of all such reve- Tuberculin Testing Continued In Raleigh Dr. Walter J. Peet (left) of the State Department of Health is shown in the above photo administering a tuberculin test to Kenneth Rakes at Beckley Junior High School. The testing, which began Monday in schools in the immediate Beckley area, was sponsored jointly by the State and County Health Funeral Set Today Final rites for H.

A. (Andy) Privett, 71, of Leesburg, formerly of Shady Spring, will be held at 11 a.m. today in the Keyser-Bryant Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. L. A.

Lilly in charge. Burial will be in Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens. Grandsons will serve ts pallbearers. Privett died Wednesday in a Wayne, hospital after a long illness. A MTTLE StOW NEW DELHI (AP) Instrument landing equipment imported six years ago for use at the Madras International Airport still has not been installed, the i Public Accounts Committee in! formed Parliament.

It said a dispute over transfer tend from one government (agency to another was 'son for the deity. You can be driving one of those thrilling, amazing new 1969 quick as a wink, when you us for an Auto Loan. $100 f9t 14 $43 $31.91 91 $1,000 1,500 2.000 BECKLEY NATIONAL BANK MM MfVfUl STMtt Departments, the Raleigh County Tuberculosis and Health Association, and the Southern West i i i a Regional Health Council. Mrs. Lucy Hays, executive director of the local TB association said testing has been completed and the results recorded at Woodrow Wilson High School and Stratton Junior High School.

There was 100 per cent participation at Stratton according to Mrs. Hays. "It is of utmost importance for us to have complete participation for the HARD OF HEARING It's here! From Quilrtont. New ntturaMike front bearing. You won't believe your ears.

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Bftckley 253-6352 Acran from frftrtt of good b-girts and good service is ovoilobte testing program to achieve its goal." added Mrs. Hays. "Testing should be completed in the other schools in Beckley by the first of next week," she said. The remaining schools in the county will be tested in the coming weeks. (Post-Herald Photo) Read it February 23 in Family Weekly ISO's "Pistol Pete" Maravich--The Price He Pays for Stardom A story that reveals how athlete's self-discipline and sacrifice have made him bat- ketball'i superstar, and who, despite his skills, pursues strange superstition.

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