County Auditors Association of Texas convention

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20031477

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County Auditors Association of Texas. convention. Officers, left to right, E. S. Foreman of Beaumont, J. W. Crudgington of Amarillo, and T. B. Walters, Tyler.Three men in business suits in the corner of a hotel meeting room. Draperies are on the far left and Windows or slim doors with lace curtains over windows are on the right. Foreman, on the left, is wearing a pin-striped single-breasted three-piece suit over a light shirt and dark tie with a diagonal check pattern. He has a folded handkerchief in his pocket, is wearing a name tag with the event ribbon, eyeglasses, a wedding ring, and holding a let cigarette. Crudgington is wearing a lightly patterned gray-toned single-breasted suit over a light shirt and a dark patterned tie. He has a folded handkerchief in his pocket and is wearing eyeglasses and a name tag with the event ribbon. Walters is wearing a dark striped single-breasted three-piece suit over a light-striped shirt and a dark patterned tie. He is wearing a name tag, a small pin in his lapel button hole, and a watch chain from his vest. Clipping:"Auditors Name State OfficersCounty auditors can follow a good rule my 'being doubting Thomases and demanding to be shown the chapter and verse of the law authorizing an expenditure,' Jesse M. Brown, Tarrant County legal advisor, told the annual convention of the County Auditors Association of Texas Thursday.Tarrant County's financial condition has been improving, he said, because 'it has an auditor and commissioners court able to work together harmoniously.'Brown urged the auditors to work for adoption next year of a state constitutional amendment which would permit the transfer of money from one county fund to another, saying Tarrant County, as an example, would save large sums in interest it pays on overdrafts in some funds while it has other funds in separate accounts which are earning nothing.He also called attention to the fact that Tarrant, like other counties, has road bonds it can redeem if the State will supply the matching funds or refund the state portion.This subject also was discussed at the afternoon session by Joe Nelson of Austin, chief accountant of the board of county and district road bond indebtedness. He said the State was prepared to 'call' approximately $3,000,000 such road bonds for refunding.F. S. Foreman of Beaumont, Jefferson County auditor, was elected president of the association; J. W. Crudgington of Amarillo, Potter County auditor, vice president, and T. B. Walters, Tyler, Smith County auditor, secretary, at the afternoon session.Speakers at the annual banquet Thursday evening at Hotel Texas included District Judge Bruce Young of Fort Worth and Prof. R. E. Jackson of the Texas State College for Women, Denton.The session will end Friday noon after committee reports have been heard, officers installed and committees appointed.C. H. Cavness of Austin, state auditor, told the group that 'the State's business is now the largest in Texas' and that the state treasurer is responsible for more than $350,000,000 in funds. Various state department have invested $79,000,000 of that sum in government bonds since Pearl Harbor, he said.State Comptroller Sheppard told the auditors at the morning session that wartime revenues from some taxes have offset declines in others."Stamped: Star-Telegram Morn. Nov. 5, 1943

Archival Date

1943-11-04

Collection Name

Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection

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AR406-6-294

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Hotel Texas (Fort Worth, Tex.); Conventions; Foreman, E.S.; Curdgington, J.W.; Walters, T.B.; County Aduitors; County governments; State governments; State auditor; Wartime economy; Auditors