Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 48, Number 206, Decatur, Adams County, 1 September 1950 — Page 6

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Assessment Appeal Hearings Sept. 11 Th. stale board of tax commissioners hds notified Albert Harlow. county assessor. that appeals from the county board of review on the reassessment of real estate will be heard here Sept 11. Only 1i pentone from Adame county filed appeals, and these persona have been notified of the exact time when they Are to ap pear A member of the etate tax board will conduct the hearings i Which will last from 8 a. tn until ’♦pm Local hoard mem Iters. In- | eluding chairman Albert Harlow. ! the assessor, county treasurer j Richard Lewton. county auditor Thurman Drew. Sam Butler and Mrs Nathan Nelson, will, be asked to listen to the appeals. Two Slightly Hurt In Auto Accident Herman Frau. Jr., and Lloyd Bird, both of route three, were slightly injured when their cars collided at a county road Intersection one mile north of the t'nion Chapel church. ~ The accident occurred at 3:15 p m Thursday. The Frans car was totally destroyed, deputy sheriff Robert Shraluka reported, and the Bird car suffered 8400 damage.

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Four Generations of Worthmans •. i J IpJI I BTI I Above is a photograph of Lewis Warthman. Sr.. SO. one of Adams county’s oldest residents. Mr. Worthman resides In Kirkland township with his daughter. Mrs. Ella Sherry, and is still active In farm work. Seated also Is Dr. E. L Worthman. of Wisconsin, who has been pastor of the same Evangelical Reformed church of 850 members In Wisconsin for 30 years. Each Sunday. Dr. Worthman delivers two sermons, one in German and one in English. Bunding between the two older men Is Dr. Worthman's son. Edmund Worthman. a sociology and arts teacher In Milwaukee. Wis . and In front Is Billy Worthman. aged two. son of .Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Worthman. Dr. Worthman and his son and grandson visited Lewis Worthman. Sr.. here recently.

State School Head i Cites Development Os Schools

I Editor’s note: Following is the two articles on the ideal school system setup, designed for better education for students, and lowered costs to taxpayers). When Indiana became a state i.i IRIS, section 16 of each, township was set aside and sold. This money was put in a state fend, and loaned out by the county auditor for running the common schools. These funds dated back to the ordinance of 1787, which first gave land to schools. These were later copied—lnto our territorial act, and then our first constitution. In 1336 Adams connty was orcanUed as a county It had been Root township in Allen county. When our county was organised, a school commissioner yga'appointed, and he had charge of school Until and sch‘«ol. funds received [ from the auditor. In each township there were; ihree school truMees. known as the township school hoard, who licensed, examined and employed their own teachers. In IRS! the; number of trustees was reduced toi one as It now stands. From 1850 to 1873 there were several officials called deputy state superintendents and school; rxaminers, whose jobs were simllarl it, the county superintendent of I schools now In 1375 there w-ere SO schools In Adams county.- all trf them but one was one rooin and all Inrt two .were _Lpg,j>r_frante, There were more s< Ineds at that lime than today, but they were all very small oneroom affairf. with poor lighting no sanitation big stoves for heating The childten had to be rotated in winter to keep the ones near the stove from roasting Transportation wag the big pfiib lent then Mud fftads and the hurts ..nd buggy made larger schoohr impossible Then came the automobile and better roads Many of th" .small schools were abandoned Yes. the roads, transportation and even the schools thanged. but their administration, or school, unit has not been changed As a result we allll have the old unit, the township, established in 1861.; v.-hen the civil war started’ Our school bus routes are based on these same school units. I Thus students from Washington! township who live east of Decatur are brought through Decatur toj i ttend school in Kirkland township.; Pupils nn-the outskirts of Berne travel'to Monroe or Kirkland. Others in French township near the Kirkland wchodk have to go all the : way to Berne to school’ 1 Obviously this system Is costing the tax payer a lot of money As was pointed out. the Adsin.i’en tral Consolidation will save those three townships JS.Ouu a year Just by doing aw-gy with overlapping bus routes Would other new* school ; iinlf* made up of existing units, -f tave ns/more money* i Hath year our schools get part of their funds from state taxes Because of the work of the Indiana state teachers association the law was changed for this year The amount we get from the state is based upon tea, hers units Each school unit Is allowed a teachers unit for each 30 pupils The old law allowed a tea hers vnit for each 25 grade gCliool and 35 high school pupils This unit change will Increase the amount of state aid we receive . If enrollment remains about the rams as last year For example j Decatur will gain two teachers, units. Adams Central, one Berne Fretuh. two; Wabash, one; Hoot*

may lose one or two; St. Mary’s will stay about the same; Jefferson. Hartford and Blue Creek will eat-h gain one; and I’nion and Preble will each remain the same. The new law also helps pay for principals superintendents. o r their secretaries. For example every school unit will get one teachers’ unit for administration n» the unit's sixe increases. It gets teachers units to help pay the added administrative coat Larger school units, while actually taking fewer administrators gut - more state aid. dec-reusing the amount necessary for local taxes. The hook, printed by the Indiana tyhool study commission mention<d hundreds of ways to save school money. These books are in the bands of our -three school superintendents. out these lue,. aloe” cannot make the changes. The changes may be made <mlv through the . public through. persona *h? huuw that they can provide better ' schools for their children at less I coat by- simple changes In school units and by making sure that only trained personnel are hired by the units. I The schools In Adams county are i not bad schoohc or even poor ones under present standards Rut they tan be made better, and with less cost, authorities say. As was pointed out earlier In this story ignorance of tax laws and school problems are largely to Be blamed- for school problems and high costs Before a recent school unit elec,ton the story circulated. that since a *700.000 school would i>e built, and there are-TOf) families in the proposed unit, each family would be taxed it.ooo. Actually township taxes are based upon propertv -not the numler of families Much of the assessrd value In townships doesn't belong to residents, but to the corporations, such as telephone companies. and railroads After the <oet of a new building is eatlmat «d. this cost Is divided into the total property value in hundreds ,of dollars, and the tax rate for eaclt hundred dollars of property ,b obtained. school units would also build their new schools cheaper than small units. This Is because , they build bigger schools, get better rates, etc For example, instead of building several small, costly I schools with small overlapping 'costly bus routes, the large unit builds one nr two larger, better iconstructed units. These have no ; overlapping of bus routes, are built to last longer, get better teachers, etc. About the only thing, then, that can be said for the smaller unit is '’That's the way we did it way back when-when the one-room schools roasted their pupils near the.Atoxe. offered no Indoor plumh'ng but uncovered typhoid fever from Its well, and a strict, uneducated school master to help the ; children repeat their simple lea- ■ sons' out loud. - .- Yew. times have changed' and the schools have changed some, too Instead of readin' rltln'. spellin’. and 'rlthmetlc, the children now get Vocational training in agriculture. shop, cooking and sewing, typing, business mathematics, etc. Children now come to schools on modern buses over gravel, roads, enjoy modern buildings with running water and Indoor plumbing--but. still have the same old school iunit that was established In 1361' Cabbafo NaMMean Cabbage adds te the day 1 * xupply cf eateium, minerals and Gm B vitamine—thiamine, riboflavin and niacin. The greener leaves even fur- * Msh some vitamin A as we*

East German Reds Purging Officials Gerhord Eisler Moy Be Next In Purge Berlin, Sept. I—(UP)— The east German communist party announced today the expulsion of six ranking official* and reliable sources said propaganda chief Gerhard Eisler might be the next purge victim ; A party announcement said the; officials had plotted with American; spies. They included Eister's press chief, the general manager of thej east German railways, and the news, chief of the Soviet controlled radio. I The six presumably were under ■ arrest. The announcement, printed In the Neues Ileutschland, official coni munist newspaper, said lhe purge was the beginning of from the party of the remnants of hostile agents. Source* cloae to development* In the communist-controlled east German state said Eisler was being investigated. Eisler long has been reported In disrepute with German communist leaders. He fled from the United States on the Polish liner Batory and became head of the east German propaganda office Western allied official* dismissed the statement that the ousted officials were In contact with Amerl can espionage agents. They said the accusations were probably a cloak for other charges, perhaps those of Titoism It was the first purge in the party’s upper' echelons since Rs central committee was reformed on the Bolshevik pattern in July at a party congress here Nene* Deutschland said the purge was revealed in a party communique regarding an Investigation Into the "activities of former German political refuge** with the American spy of American Imperialism. Noel H Field.’’ Field, a former U S state depart meat offb-lal. disappeared In the summer of 1»4» while visiting Prague. His brother. Herman;., a Cleveland architect, vanished a few weeks later after tabling his wife In Britain that he was flying from Warsaw to Prague to see Noel The ousted officials were: Bruno Goldhammer. F. Isler's pres* chief. Paul Mercker. a close t. i.i.J -it Eisler’* and former mem her of the east German polilhureau; Lise Bauer, news editor of radio Berlin: Willy Krelkemryer, railway chief. Leo Elide, a former editor of the Neues Deutschland, and Maria Weiterer. Baakrt fee Brlc-a-Braa A miniature wash basket, such as comes with a child’s toy laundry set. makes an excellent carry-all for bric-a-brac when you take it into the kitchen for Its periodic washing.

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53 Wedding Licenses Issued Lost Month A young Ohio couple who applied for their marriage license last night at 8:30 o'clock brought the August total of licenses issued here to 53. county clerk Ed Jaberg said today This established another monthly record, a

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