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Vol. 67 No. 98 Monday, Aug. 24, 2015 8 Pages • 75¢ Home of Annette Mulkey Hermleigh trustees to hold hearing on budget, tax rate The Hermleigh ISD board of fund, which pays off school debt. trustees will hold a public hear- The remaining $1.04 will be for ing on the 2015-16 budget and maintenance and operations. tax rate at 7 p.m. Tuesday. Certified valuations show Following the hearing, the mineral values in Scurry Coun- board will vote to adopt the bud- ty are down while the value of get and tax rate, as well as bud- most residential and commer- get amendments for the 2014-15 cial properties increased. That Jesse E. Hall budget year. means most non-mineral prop- U.S. Army Earlier this month, the board erty owners would pay more 1917-18 adopted a proposed tax rate of for their existing property at the $1.29 per $100 valuation. The current rate. Today’s Veteran sponsored by tax rate will fund a $2.8 million The public hearing and meet- Nix’s Auto & Tire Service budget. ing will be held in the school dis- 1510 25th Street 573-3567 SDN Photo/Glen Brockenbush Of the rate, 25 cents is dedi- trict boardroom, and are open to Snyder police officers Robert Clark (left) and Dennis Young scrape broken glass from the window of a cated to the interest and sinking the public. police unit after a foot pursuit on Coliseum Drive at 1 p.m. Saturday. WEATHER Open house to provide update Suspect damages Snyder police unit A 28-year-old man was arrested following a taken into custody on the Andy’s RV parking on Snyder’s comprehensive plan foot pursuit Saturday afternoon on Coliseum lot. Drive. While being detained, Owen swung his head The City of Snyder will update the public on the comprehensive Keith Owen, 28, was arrested following the into the window of a Snyder Police Department plan at The Coliseum beginning at 5 p.m. Tuesday.. pursuit, which began when Snyder police at- unit and broke the window. He was transported According to a press release from Information Technology Di- tempted to make contact with him concerning a to Cogdell Memorial Hospital for treatment. rector David Nicholson, the event will give “Snyder residents the 132nd District Court warrant. Owen was arrested on the District Court war- chance to be better-informed and to help be involved in the compre- According to police, Owen ran down Colise- rant as well as criminal mischief and evading/ hensive plan for the future of the city.” um Drive toward the Best Western Inn and was resisting arrest. The open house will end at 8 p.m. Chad Browning Saturday’s high: 98 degrees Saturday’s low: 74 degrees Sunday’s high: 94 degrees Dixie Swim Club to be staged at Ritz Sunday’s low: 65 degrees Welcome back to school A Jones Hope Wooten com- The story focuses on five 7 a.m. reading today: 66 de- edy is coming to the Ritz Com- Southern women, whose friend- grees munity Theatre. ships began many years ago on Precipitation: 0.09 of an inch Dixie Swim Club, under the their college swim team. They 2015 precipitation: 24.13 direction of Jim Drake, opens set aside a long weekend every inches next week featuring a cast of August to recharge those rela- six women — Emily Kincaid, tionships. Free from husband, INANCES Becky Polston, Dava Botts, Rob- kids and jobs, they meet at the F bi Tindol and Mary Ann Wright. same beach cottage on North WT-Int. Crude $40.45 The comedy will be staged Carolina’s Outer Banks to catch WTIC Posted $37.00 over two weekends. The show up, laugh and meddle in each Natural Gas $2.68 will be staged at 7 p.m. Thurs- other’s lives. Patterson-UTI $13.90 day, Saturday, Sept. 3 and Sept. The play focuses on four of Oxy-Permian $65.93 5. those weekends and spans a pe- Kinder Morgan $30.45 Two matinee performances riod of 33 years. are planned — 2 p.m. Sunday Other Jones Hope Wooten TODAY’S QUOTE and Sept. 6. comedies performed at the Ritz Tickets are $10 each and may were Christmas Belles and Every blessing ignored be- be reserved by calling 207-2597. Dearly Beloved. comes a curse. - Paulo Coelho LOTTERY Dove season opens Sept. 1 Dove season will officially Texas harvests more mourn- Saturday’s Results open Sept. 1 in Scurry County ing and white-winged doves Powerball and the surrounding areas. than any other state in the coun- 4-12-14-21-55 PB: 7 Power Play: 4 SDN Photo/Glen Brockenbush The season will continue try. Snyder Junior High School sixth grade students Elvis Grove, Travis Thompson and Ethan Wardwell com- through Oct. 25 and based on From 2003 through 2013, Lotto Texas pare schedules during the first day of school today. population census data, there Texas hunters bagged one out 1-7-13-32-46-51 should be plenty for local hunt- of every four mourning doves ers to find, officials with the taken nationwide and more than Cash Five Texas Parks and Wildlife De- 80 percent of all white-winged 5-10-15-31-36 partment (TPWD) said. doves. White winged and mourning This season, the daily bag Pick 3 Morning doves are Texas’ most abundant limit for dove is 15 and the pos- 5-4-1 Sum It Up: 10 game bird, officials said. session limit is 45. Pick 3 Day According to TPWD biolo- Hunting licenses may be 1-6-2 Sum It Up: 9 gists, both mourning and white- purchased at most local sport- Pick 3 Evening winged dove populations are ing goods retailers, TPWD law 2-9-9 Sum It Up: 20 seeing an increase over last year. enforcement offices, online Pick 3 Night In any given year, Texans shoot through the TPWD website 9-6-6 Sum It Up: 21 between 4 and 5 million mourn- (www.tpwd.state.tx.us/buy) or ing doves. by phone at (800) 895-4248. Daily 4 Morning 4-8-9-9 Sum It Up: 30 SDN Photo/Shirley A. Gorman Daily 4 Day Bailey Roberson, a ninth grade Lighting up the sky 9-5-9-4 Sum It Up: 27 SDN Photo/Glen Brockenbush student at Ira ISD, walks into Daily 4 Evening Hermleigh High School senior Rissa Holloway (left) goes over her class the new building during the 2-8-9-3 Sum It Up: 22 schedule with counselor Janell Martin. first day of school. Daily 4 Night 7-2-4-0 Sum It Up: 13 ASK US Tardy tax filers risk loss of health care subsidies WASHINGTON (AP) — Sign-up season for the “You don’t want to get to December and realize Q. — Will Snyder ISD sell federal health care law doesn’t start for another that your subsidy amount isn’t there,” said Clare advance tickets for Friday’s couple of months, but the next few days are cru- Krusing, a spokeswoman for the industry group football game at Littlefield? cial for hundreds of thousands of customers who America’s Health Insurance Plans. A. — Yes. Tickets should be risk losing financial aid when they renew cover- Sign-up season starts Nov. 1, and insurers typi- available Tuesday at the Sny- age for 2016. cally send bills for January in mid-December. der ISD athletic office. An estimated 1.8 million households that got The last thing insurers want is consumers blam- subsidies for their premiums last year failed to file ing them. They’re particularly concerned that sat- NDEX a 2014 tax return as required by the law, or left out isfied customers just waiting for their coverage to I key IRS paperwork. automatically renew might get a nasty surprise. Classifieds.........................6-7 Because of coordination issues between the Hoping to stave off problems that could get am- Comics/Puzzles....................4 IRS and marketplaces like HealthCare.gov, con- plified in an election year, the IRS started notify- Community Calendar............3 sumers who keep procrastinating into the fall are ing tardy filers in mid-July. Dear Abby..............................8 taking chances with their financial aid, according The form letters spell out in bold type that fil- Obituaries..............................2 to insurers and the tax agency. That means, for ex- ing an electronic tax return within 30 days “will SDN Column..........................8 ample, that someone who’s been paying a monthly greatly reduce the risk of an interruption” in Sports....................................5 premium of $90 could suddenly get hit with a bill health care subsidies. Weather................................8 for $360. The health care law created tax credits to help Government officials say they have a backstop people afford private insurance. Nationally that planned that should help many procrastinators. aid averages $272 a month, covering roughly SDN Photos/Glen Brockenbush Nonetheless, insurers and advocacy groups say three-fourths of the premium. Fire performer Chad “The Torch” Land breathed fire for guests at they’ve been told the best way returning custom- Although 2015 is the second year of the pro- Bikefest Saturday. The Snyder Chamber of Commerce will announce ers can avoid hassles is to file their taxes correctly gram’s coverage expansion, it is the first year for attendance figures later this week. by Aug. 31. tax implications. Page 2 Snyder Daily News Monday, Aug. 24, 2015 Community Calendar Police Blotter Open house • Arrests ported at 9:44 a.m. Sunday. call and assisted in putting out 2200 block of Gilmore Ave., Hermleigh ISD will host an open house from 5:30-7 p.m.