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7 THE VICTORIA ADVOCATE, Friday, December 19, 1980-5A Second Tax Office Error Concerns Commissioners More than ISimLllioinn agri FEDERAL JUDGES AND THE LAW i A Plumbers Pipefitters Local 790 Pad For Br Funds Separate fcie Apart From Mtmbcrdiip Duw. cultural land values failed to appear on the Victoria County tax roll certified by Tax Assessor Collector Bessie Lassmann in October. Members of the Victoria County Commissioners want to know why and whether the error will mean a loss of revenue due to tax office error for the second straight year. Last year her office inadvertently double billed Du Pont which cost the county $680,000 in lost revenue. Mrs.

Lassmann contends the reporting error is due to an oversight of the State Property Tax Board for failing to provide a line item to reflect the amount property was it done bef ore" or-after ag values were applied?" he wonders. Martin said that he recalls no reference to agriculture use value exemptions included in Mrs. Lassmann's October presentation to Commissioners Court, and said, "If she was aware of the amount then she should have so advised the court." In other matters, the court will consider appointment ot five people to serve as members of the Community Action Agency of Victoria's board of directors and is expected to also authorize the mayor of Victoria and Victoria Independent School District board of trusty ees' chairman to each appoint one member each to that board. Amwendments to the 1980 budget will be considered based on a request by the County Probation Department to transfer funds within its budget in order to buy some additional office furniture and equipment. of agricultural use exemption values allowed and will in no way affect the value of property on which county government levies taxes.

"There's no money lost by the county," assured the tax assessor-collector, who will submit a supplemental tax roll when the Commissioners Court meets at 9:30 a.m. Friday. She said the revised report will show adjusted countywide actual values totaling $1,727,565,326 when computed at the county's 30 percent ratio of assessment. In October, her certified tax roll showed actual values of $1,674,196,406 $502,258,922 when computed at the 30 percent ratio. While the report submitted to the court in October did not reflect the amount of agriculture value exemptions, an October computer printout recapping real estate values showed $16,011,276 30 percent of $53,370,920) as total amount of agriculture exemptions.

"We just didn't have a place informationhe-said-Tlrars-day afternoon in an interview. "When we added up all the figures which were called for on the report, we arrived at the $502 million figure." This will not change in any way the amount of money the county expects to collect from taxes this year. She said the county will still be collecting its taxes on $490,430,755. Precinct 2 Commission Gene Martin, however, said Thursday he won't settle for a pat answer from the tax assessor-collector, and said he expects Mrs. Lassmann to be able to prove the accuracy of this supplemental report.

"What I'm concerned about is the total Value of the tax roll," Martin said. "It is my understanding that the values were not there and this is a correction of omission by the tax office." His concern is whether the report in October properly established the taxable base on which the county draws its revenue. "If a value, was established for the county agricultural Advocate Staff Photo FOR BUILDING FUND The Rev. Bernard Mlapha, associate pastor at Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church, accepts a $3,304 donation from Mrs. Rosemary Zarate, representing Victoria Latin Bowlers Club, for the Sisters' Convent Building Fund.

The club raised the money with a drawing for a 1980 automobile, won by Josephine DeLeon of Pasadena, Texas. on the report form to include the License for TV Station Asked by Third Group Give a Telephone REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTS have consistantiy appointed federal judges who look upon organized labor with disfavor and interpret labor laws with the same attitude. THE REAGAN APPOINTMENTS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE ANY DIFFERENT. ALREADY there is talk the new president will appoint judges who will "water down" civil rights, affirmative action and job safety legislation. THE MINIMUM WAGE is also under heavy attack.

FEDERAL JUDGES can "water down" existing laws because all legislation requires some interpretation when applied to specific, individual cases. A recent example of what can be done surfaced in Houston recently. A city ordinance severly restricted pickets by striking workers. When the striking Flight Attendants Union felt the ordinance violated their constitutional rights, the federal judge ruled in their favor. Such success has not always been possible.

Before the 1920's, labor disputes were settled on the basis of the old common law, which greatly favored the property owners right to do whatever seemed appropriate with the property and the people working on it. Later, corporate law was used to rule against labor organization. Strikes were broken by judges applying restraint of trade rulings, and when a union seemed to be gaining strength, judges ruled that they constituted a monopoly and weakened them by applying anti-trust regulations. The New Deal of Franklin Roosevelt began the modern era of labor Legislation. Federal judges, whose interpretation of the intent of new legislation coming out of Congress reinforced the New Deal philosophies, were a crucial link in the chain of social change.

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN OUR HISTORY, THE" ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES OF THE PEOPLE MADE THE NEEDS OF THE INDUSTRIAL WORKER A PRIMARY CONCERN AND REALIZED THAT ORGANIZED LABOR WAS THE ONLY FORCE THAT COULD BALANCE THE POWER OF ORGANIZED CAPITAL. AND THE COURTS AGREED. BUT we can no longer rely on those trusted laws that served us so well in the past. Their meaning and intent can be "watered down" and be all but useless to us. WE MUST NOW RELY AGAIN ON SENATORS TO APPROVE PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTMENTS TO SIGNIFICANT COURTS WHO WILL BE TRUE TO THE INTENT OF PAST LEGISLATORS.

DO NOT WAIT UNTIL IT IS TOO LATE. CONTACT FRIENDLY LEGISLATORS NOW AND WARN THEM TO LOOK CAREFULLY AT THE RECORDS OF ALL JUDGES APPOINTED. REASSURE OUR FRIENDS IN CONGRESS THAT THEY HAVE OUR SUPPORT, REMIND THEM OF THEIR ORIGINAL IDEALS AND SUPPORT THEM OPENLY WHEN THEY COME UNDER ATTACK FOR NOT APPROVING JUDICIAL APPOINTEES WHO ARE KNOWN TO BE ANTI-LABOR. For Christmas FROM YOUR ELECTRONIC CENTER 33 REG. $39.95 NOW Broadcasting Council in Corpus Christi and Community Television of Victoria for authority to broadcast over Channel 25.

FCC officials have said a public hearing will eventually be held if there is competition over broadcast authority. Community Broadcasting plans to erect a antenna with radiated visual power of 2,140 kilowatts, considerably more than the proposed power of the other two stations. The antenna and transmitter would be located on Farm-to-Market Road 1639, three miles south of Lolita. The station's main studio would be located in Victoria at an undetermined site, a legal notice on the application states. Constant said Community Broadcasting will seek additional shareholders should it be granted broadcast authority.

CHOOSE FROM m. m. te MANY DECORATOR XV 2 I AAA COLORS ZWA .1 MM DO A third group, Community Broadcasting of Coastal Bend has -filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission for authority to operate a television station over Channel 25 in Victoria. Dr. George A.

Constant, who is a major stockholder in the company with Ruth L. Constant, Anthony Constant and Ron Sheldon of Lolita, said the detailed application contains technical data' and community-access guarantees required by the FCC but no information on the type programming that will be carried by the station. A copy of the application, which was filed with the FCC Dec. 8, is on public display at 2710 Hospital Drive in Victoria, Suite 106. More information about programming will become available once the application is approved, Constant stated.

He hopes to receive the FCC's decision by April. The commission has already received applications from the South Texas Educational State Paying Part of Deficit See us'for a complete line. of telephone answerers and accessories. ELECTRONIC CENTER VDCA. Council Monday approved a city payment of $10,376.84 toward the deficit, contingent on the state paying the remainder of more than $9,000.

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