Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 65, Decatur, Adams County, 18 March 1959 — Page 4

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More About The Tax Rate Several good friends of ours, including Bob Gage, Hersel Nash< and a local electrical engineer who prefers to remain anonymous, have pointed out a number of errors in previous letters and editorials concerning the tax benefits resulting from the sale of the electric utility. Let’s re-examine the entire problem in more detail. First of all, what would the assessment against Indiana-Michigan be? If the one-third figure of $700,000 given by Mr. Gage is accepted, and we see no reason why it should not be, we must qualify it as being the assessment at the time of purchase. But, Indiana-Michigan has promised an immediate net expenditure of $1,322,500; of this, at least $386,000 would be in the city of Decatur, and the rest in rural areas, if we assume that the $350,000 sub-station would be in a rural area. This would add another SIOO,OOO to the $700,000 figure given by Mr. Gage, making about SBOO,OOO. This would raise, from the present tax rate, the sum of $11,440. Now this would be from Indiana-Michigan, and had that company owned the city utility, assessed at the valuation this past year, the net taxable property in Decatur would have been $12,101,610 instead of sll,801,610. Instead of a $1.43 rate, we would have had a $1.34 rate. There would have been a similar reduction in the Decatur school city rate, the library rate, the county rate, Washington township, and even some in Root township. « So, our total rate would actually be considerably lower, since the added valuation would lower many different taxes for Decatur residents, and even lower some taxes for county and township residents. Also, the school and library city of Decatur would receive from Indiana-Michigan $26,160 —this would certainly more than compensate for Worthman field, and still permit a lower school tax rate to make up for any “paper” increase needed to pay for street lighting. Also, do not forget the cash sale price, to be received by the city, after the bonds are paid off—this would be $1,428,000. In addition, the city light company now has $300,000 in reserves; an estimated $60,000 in unbilled revenue, and an inventory estimated at $50,000, for an additional $410,000. If this entire amount of $1,838,300 were invested at 4% in government bonds the city of Decatur would receive $73,520 a year, in addition to having the entire amount necessary to pay off the sewage treatment bonds, permitting a substantial reduction in the sewage disposal rate on bill. So, if you vote to sell the utility, with the understanding that the city administration will invest the sale money, reserves, unbilled revenue and inventory amounting to approximately $1,838,300, you can expect the city to receive $73,520 each year. In addition the civil city would receive about $11,440 a year from In-diana-Michigan ; and the first year it would not have to pay for the street lighting. The school city and library, under the present tax rate, would receive $26,160; lower township and county rates would also benefit the city dwellers. Also, the added assessment of SBOO,OOO to the city, and considerably more to the township and county, would actually lower the rates for us all, So, we would have a lower rate from the added assessed value, increased tax revenue not only to the* civil city, but to the-school cify and other govern-’ mental units, plus $73,520 a year to use to lower taxes, or make improvements. And we would still have the money ready to pay off the sewage treatment bonds when they mature, so the sewage treatment charge on the city utility bill could be reduced. If we keep the plant, even using Mr. Gage’s figures, we must rebond the city at a higher rate for the $672,000 presenfl|[ outstanding, and at least $200,000 to $300,000 more, immediately, with future'bond issues possible, and no tax relief or rate relief in sight./

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Stale Constitution Over 100 Years Old By EUGENE J. CADOU United Press Internationa) INDIANAPOLIS HJPDThere never will be a logical legislature until Indiana has a new state constitution. Hoosiers now are operating under an archaic constitution adopted in 1851, more than a century ago. At that time there were no electric lights, no movies, no radio, no television, no automonary comforts of life. - It was before Abraham Lincoln went to the White House, before the Civil and Spanish-American wars, ahead of World Wars I and II and the Korean War, and antedating votes for women. At that time Indiana' was a backwoods state with little manufacturing and work concentrated on primitive agriculture. Fighting a duel was legal under that document. ' Rep. Jean LaGrange <D-La-Portel, co-author of a resolution to hold a constitutional convention adopted by the 1959 House but buried in the Senate, said: “Our present Jndaina Constitution is so outworn that it resembles a tramp’s suit of clothes because it* has been amended so much that you can’t detect the original fabric.” One of its grave weaknesses is that it made the General Assembly a glorified city council in that more than half of a legisla tive sessionis consumed in dealing with picayune bills regulating purely local affairs, from the wandering of cows to the salaries of the various local lord mayors. The early constitution drafters apparently neve heard of home ule. The forefathers had little vision of the shifting of population from the farms and small towns to the cities, which has developed the legislative reapportionment issue. There was no thought that bigger cities have found the city manager form of government economical and practical. Merit and civil service systems were unheard of. In 1929, the Legislature adopted a resolution to submit adoption of a new constitution to the voters at. the next general election. But the voers then would have no part of it. . Later the League of Indiana Women Voters entered the fray, but that energetic organization has failed to obtain legislative action at a number of session. That ancient constitution has been flouted in one respect in connection with a provision requiring an enumeration of voters every six years to determine the basis for legislative reapportionment. The last enumeration was in 1921. Cities have grown so hugely since that time that metropolitan dwellers, like the American colonists, suffer taxation without representation. The rural communities are over-represented, under the same situation. This situation seems to be destined to continue for many years because of the opposition, of rural lawmakers to reapportionment despite the dramatizing of that issue this year by Sen. Nelibn Grills <D-Indianapolisi, who delayed legislative procedure by forcing the reading of all measures in full prior to their final consideration

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PUBLIC SALE Due to the death of my husband I am quitting farming and will sell atrPublic Auction the following Late Model Farm Implements— Located 10 miles east of New Haven, Indiana on U. S. Highway No. 30, then Vi mile north on the Morgan Road; or 3 miles north of Monroeville on Road No. 101, then 2 miles east on U. S. Highway No. 30, then Vi mile north on the Morgan Road, on - FRIDAY, MARCH 20 - — SALE STARTING AT 12:30 P.M. — — TRACTOR - COMBINE — 1955. Oliver Super 88 tractor, wide front end, .fully equipped, live power take-off and hydrolectric hydraulic, hour meter, good rubber. This tractor is in extra good condition. Extra wheels and tires for 88 tractor. Wheel weights for 88 tractor; hydraulic cylinder; Oliver 4row cultivators .... .-v. , _ 1956 Massey Harris Model 30 Clipper 7 ft. combine, good condition. — FARM IMPLEMENTS — 1955 McCormick Deering No. 16 3-bottom 14” tractor plow; Keewanee 12 blade wheel disc, cuts 14’5”, like new; 1953 Dunnam cultimulcher 11 ft.; John Deere 4-row corn planter, in extra good condition; John Deere 4-section rotary hoe, like new; McCormick Deering 25-V power mower, 7 ft. cut; International 3-section spring tooth harrow; 2 3 and 4-section spike tooth harrows; lime spreader; Brillion stalk shredder good condition; two-wheel trailer with metal bed; 12-hole Jamesway hog feeder; 2 hog fountains: 2 -Jamesway brooders; steel fence postscedar posts; steel electric fence posts; several rolls fence; steel hog troughs; several rolls picket cribbing; 10x12 brooder house; several Lantz coulters; many other items not mentioned. This farm equip, ment is all in extra good condition. STRAW— IIO bales wheat straw. 4 TERMS—CASH. Not responsible for accidents. MRS. RAYMOND WILSON, Owner Ellenberger Bros., Auctioneers Hoagland State Bank, Clerk Fort Wayne phone K-5512. c -

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by the Senate. 1 The only result was the adoo- • tion by the Legislature of a puny resolution creating a committee to 1 report a constitutional amendment 1 back to the 1961 General Assem- ’ bly. ' 1 Undaunted, leaders of the • league, urban lawmakers,, newspaper editors and radio and television managers have vowed to 1 wage the reapportionment fight : again. • They may win one of these days. 1 Library Board To Study Appropriation 1 The Decautr library board will consider an emergency appropriation of $15,955.19 at 7 p.m. April 8 to pay for the new boiler and necessary plumbing which resulted when the old furnace failed during February The money will be appropriated from that already collected in the library improvement reserve fund, o— — * 20 Years Ago | Today 1 March 18, 1939—Commencement dates for the seven rural high schools of Adams county were announced by C. E. Striker, county superintendent. Dates are: Hartford, April 21; Monroe. April 22; Monmouth, April 24; Kirkland, April 25. Jefferson, April 26; Geneva, April 27; Pleasant Mills, April 28. , A4 jury in the Adams circuit court, after 17 hours of deliberation,acquitted a Isadore and Roy Kalver, local theater owners, on charges of operating a lottery in connection with “bank night” drawings. The Central Sugar Co. of Decatur has received $19,897 in benefit for participating in production and marketing controls under the sugar act of 1937, the U.S. department of agriculture has announced. The local firm was one of 52 producers of beet- sugar in seven states to receive the payments. COURT NEWS Marriage Application Beverly Joan Halberstadt, 20, route five, Decatur, and Billy Dean Tombleson, 19, Ohio City, Ohio. Divorce Cases Beverly R. Reynolds was granted an absolute decree of divorce from Roger W. Reynolds. The plaintiff was awarded case and custody of the two minor children, with the defendant granted visitation rights. The defendant was ordered to pay weekly support to the plaintiff and to pay directly to George C. Davis, attorney, the sum of S2OO within 60 days for the benefit of the plaintiff’s attorney fees. In the case of D. Evangeline Gephart vs Victor Gephart, the defendant failed to appear, there by defaulting. Estate Cases The inheritance tax appraisers report was filed in the estate of J. Frank Harkless. A notice was ordered issued, returnable April 9. A petition for authority to sell persona property at private sale was filed in the Ernest W. Busche estate.

Bandit Kills Self With Police Pistol PEORIA, 111. (UPD—Eugene D. Long, 32, shot and killed himself with a stolen police pistol Tuesday night while fleeing from police. Long, according to authorities, came here three weeks ago from Indianapolis, Ind., where he had been released on bond on a charge of shooting and stabbing a man last August. Long fired a pistol bullet into his head as police entered the first floor of his apartment building where he had fled after slugging a service station attendant and overpowering a policeman. Long’s two little daughters, Vicki, 6, and Anita, 5, saw their father kill himself. They appeared sobbing at the head of the stairs of the apartment building, and police entered the Long apartment and found Long dead. They also found a note Long had scribbled

PUBLIC SALE Since my barn has been destroyed by fire, llforced to sdl mv dairy herd, located mile east of Hoagland, the first farm aero, s fromi Hoagland high schXl, known as the Carl Melcher farm, on SATURDAY, MARCH 21,1959 1:00 P. M. 16 CATTLE T. B. and Bangs Tested Bobbie, Holstein cow. 5 years old, on good flow; Marty, Holstein cow, 5 years old. on good flow; Slim. Holstein cow, 5 years old, on good flow; Shorty, Holstein cow, 5 years old, on good flow; Buelah. Holstein cow, 5 years old. on good flow; Donna, Holstein cow. 5 years old, on good flow; Ann, Holstein cow, 6 years old, on good flow; Karen, Holstein cow. 2 years old, just fresh; *~;i. Barbe-Ann, registered Guernsey, 7 years old. to freshen in April, Lillian Jo, registered Guernsey, 7 years old, just fresh, Evelyn, registered Guernsey, 6 years old, to freshen in April, Short, Guernsey cow, 3 years old, to freshen in April; Lucy, Guernsey, 5 years old, on good flow; Sally. Guernsey, 5 years old, on good flow; Susy, Guernsey, 5 years old, on good flow; Ginger. Guernsey, 3 years old, on good flow; Bred Holstein Heifer. . NOTE—Production records and breeding dates will be given on sale date. If anyone is interested in fall freshing cows, be sure so attend this sale. ’ DAIRY EQUIPMENT & MACHINERY 8 Can milk cooler, 3 years old; 16 10-gal. milk cans; 20 gal. hot water heater; 2 Rite-Way milker pails; 1956 Papec 32 A Forage Harvester, direct cut and pick-up attachments in A-l shape; Papec blower like new, onlv used 4 hours: Case cultivators for model S. C. Tractor. TERMS—CASH. Not responsible in case of accidents. WALTER AUGUSTYNISK, Owner R. R. 1, Decatur, Indiana Walter Wiegmann, Auctioneer Preble Phone 18 on 19.

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in a looseleaf notebook confeastag Long’s brother-in-law, Cordel W. Smith, 20, admitted he was with Long during a robbery of a downtown filling station earlier in the night, police said. The two men escaped with an undetermined amount of cash after slugging the attendant and were accosted within a few minutes by motorcycle Patrolman James Wilson. Wilson said one of the men, later -identified as Long, jerked Wilson’s pistol from his holster as Wilson was sending a radio message to police headquarters. • Long fired three shots, Wilson said, none of which hit the policeman. Then the two bandits fled on foot to-“an apartment Where Long’s wife Phyllis, 22, and her daughters, had been living with her mother. Smith, captured later, denied taking part in the slugging of the service station attendant. His previous police record included a charge of assault with intent to rob, and contributing to a minor’s delinquency.

State Police Boost Coal Field Patrols HAZARD, Ky. (UPD—State police boosted their patrols in the strikebound southeastern Kentucky coal field as a precaution against further incidents such as were reported in the past two days. . . M>j. Charles Crutchfield of the state police said patrols were increased in Perry and Letcher counteis, where mine operators are holding out against new contracts with the United Mine Workers of America. Crutchfield said three workers were “roughed up” and thrown from a coal ramp at the Jim Elkhorn Coal Co. at Colson, about 10 miles south of Whitesburg in Letcher County. Rowland Price, the truck mine o(vner said one of the workers was hospitalized with a fractured neck. Carson Hibbits, president of

PUBLIC SALE Due to the death of my husband I se “ following personal 1 mile or * TUESDAY, MARCH 24 SALE STARTING AT 1:00 P.M., D.S.T. FORD TRACTOR & EQUIPMENT 1951 Ford tractor in good condition; 1952 Ford cultivators. 1951 Foid 14” tractor plow; 1952 Ford Tiller; 1954 Ford 7 ft. power mower, belt pulley. CORN PICKER— I9S7 Bell City 1 row corn picker. FARM IMPLEMENTS Black Hawk fertilizer corn planter; double cultipacker, John Deere Kilfer off-set disc; John Deere spike tooth harrow, rubber tired farm wagon with 16 ft. rack; Cub 20 ft. gram elevator; Field sprayer, complete with hand boom & tank, to mount on tractor.rubber tired manure spreader; Clinton 24” chain saw; power takeoff tire pump; fuel oil’chick brooder: stock water tank: hog crate; 2-section Roderick Lean rotary hoet lawn HMywer : 50 gal. -fountauiy 20 ft. extension ladders; hog feeder; pump jackj 50 ft endless belt; cement mixer- buzz saw to mount on Ford tractor: belt pulley for Massey . -j. Harris tractor, milk cart; 2 milk strainers; log chains; single trees; grease gun; forks, shovels. TRUCK—I94S Ford % ton pick-up truck. HOUSEHOLD GOODS— Living room suite: dining room suite; round table; coffee table; 2 stands, etc. ........... HAY— 2OO bales clover hay; 40 bales alfalfa hay. MANY MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES NOT MENTIONED. TERMS—CASH. Not responsible for accidents. Please clip this ad for future reference. MRS. JAMES M. WILSON, Owner Ellenberger Bros., Auctioneers Edgar Krueckeberg, Clerk Fort Wayne phone K-5512 — Bluffton phone 543..

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UMW District 30, said “several incidents of operators drawing guns on pickets have occurred but I don’.t expect any shooting or serious trouble.” Hibbits said pickets have been instructed to refrain from violence. He said 46 truck mine operators signed contracts Tuesday. In Pike County, where truck mines have defied pickets since Monday, a truck drove through a picket line near Marrowbone Tuesday and the driver said three pickets tried to assault him. Paul Thy lor, a Perry County mine operator, said about 50 men surrounded his jeep and threatened to throw him and his partner Joe Johnson, into the river: Taylor estimated up to 3,000 men were roaming mines in the Hazard field. Operators in the economically depressed area claim that the $2 per day basic wage increase demanded by the union would force them out of business. Trade in a good town — Decatur.