Word: payments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bill he gets today for the natural gas to run his irrigation-well motors. At the same time, Yokum's property taxes are soaring; in the past year, they jumped 40% after a reassessment. Yokum has exhausted his credit. He is behind in a $10,000 payment to the federal land bank, and he is supposed to make another such payment this spring. Says Yokum: "They have been very good about it so far, but it's coming to a point where it is just not realistic in their judgment to keep deferring the payments...
When Crystal City refused to pay the higher rates, Lo-Vaca terminated its contract and filed suit for payment. During the 30 months that the case was being decided, the town continued to get gas without paying for it. Last June the court ordered it to pay up. Insisted Lo-Vaca Attorney Joseph Jaworski (son of Leon, of Watergate and now Koreagate fame): "It's time to stop this legal circus. Other customers of Lo-Vaca want to know why they should have to pay full price for gas and Crystal City doesn...
...point Mayor Benavides got the federal Community Services Administration to promise financial assistance, but the agency reneged after other hard-pressed Texas towns flooded it with similar requests for funds. Lo-Vaca has offered to consider turning the gas back on if Crystal City would make a 20% down payment on what it owes. But city officials claim they do not have that much in the treasury. Meanwhile, Crystal City does not burn...
...Pepper, the bill must vividly recall another piece of legislation for the aging that came earlier in his career. When he ran for his first full Senate term in 1938, Pepper urged the passage of the "Townsend Plan," which called for a $200-a-month payment to everyone over 60 who agreed to retire, regardless of need. Though the plan was defeated, political pressure for it was in part responsible for the passage in 1935 of the public assistance and old-age insurance provisions of the Social Security...
Harvard already gives Cambridge an annual in-lieu-of-tax payment, and pays for its use of the city sewer system, but Sullivan said he believes the University owes the city more than it now pays...