Mans home sold
for tax mistake
THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1979
Page 5
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They judge horses, dont they?
.F. Yates, a Bryan 4-H leader, runs his horse
for a group of about 40 judges from the Texas
&M Collegiate Horseman’s Association. The
orseman’s Association sponsored the judging
event Sunday in the Animal Science Pavillion.
Horses were supplied by the Brazos County
Equestrian 4-H Club.
Battalion photo by Larry Parker
United Press International
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Melvin
Tolliver says he hopes he’s “never
that big a fool again.”
Kent Gates says he’s no longer in
the market for a house.
And Jackson County officials just
hope the whole thing never comes
up again.
Last week, Tolliver and his wife
Gertrude discovered their house
had been sold on the steps of the
county courthouse to Gates for back
taxes.
The first they knew of it was Jan.
10, when an attorney for Gates came
to their door.
The plight of the Tollivers, who
had not received a tax bill since 1972
and never were notified of the im
pending sale, brought an outcry of
alarm and sympathy from other tax
payers. The problem, Jackson
County officials said, was a clerical
error — a misplaced digit — that
resulted in the couple’s tax bills
being sent to a rural address.
“You’re never going to eliminate
something like this 100 percent,”
said Dale Baumgardner, Jackson
County executive, “but once our tax
rolls are revised, it should eliminate
a lot of problems.”
Baumgardner said that for the fu
ture, he will recommend that prop
erties sold for back taxes be visited
by a county worker who will either
contact the residents, or will leave a
notice attached to the house or
property.
Because it is a taxpayer’s respon
sibility to see that all taxes are paid,
the Tollivers, who owed $1,955.43,
had no legal recourse in the the loss
of their home.
However, a settlement was
reached during the weekend be
tween Gates, the county and the
Tollivers.
And on Monday, Gates returned
the property to the couple.
Gates will not lose any money
through the settlement and the Tol
livers will pay their back taxes to the
county.
.S., China meet
0 years later
United Press International
I45HJNCTON — President
,er and Chinese Vice Premier
e Hsiao-ping reminisced
Bay about how they might have
■n less friendly circumstances,
li ter recalled that he was in the
H in 1949 when his submarine
■red near Tsingtoa, China. At
lementaliB me ’ was commander
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"So we almost met,” Carter re-
uked to Teng with a wide smile.
1 fnr l en ^ remem bered the episode
■ well. “That was in April,” he
■ “when our forces crossed the
■tze.”
National Security Affairs adviser
^^^^jjenk'w Brzezinski then injected,
^^^^rall might have worked out differ-
| £• tly and you would have been his
guest — under different circum
stances.
Brzezinski referred to the fact
that at the time, the United States
supported the National Chinese,
who were the enemies of Teng and
the Chinese Communists.
The two leaders communicated
through a Chinese interpreter.
The conversation took place in
the Oval Office after the welcoming
ceremony and after Carter and Teng
stood in a receiving line to greet of
ficial guests.
They posed for pictures together
under a cowboy painting by Fre
deric Remington and when the di
minutive, paunchy Teng, dressed in
an oxford gray Mao suit, saw the
photographers, he grinned/ and
stuck out his hand to shake hands
with Carter.
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