Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 225, Decatur, Adams County, 24 September 1959 — Page 6

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday By THE DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT CO., INC. Entered at the Decatur, Ind., Post Office as Second Class Matter Dick D. Heller, Jr. President John G. Heller Vice-President Chas. Holthouse Secretary-Treasurer Subscription Rates By Mail in Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, $8 00; Six months, $4.25: 3 months, $2.25. By Mail, beyond Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, $9 00: 6 months, $4.75; 3 months. $2 50. By Carirer. 30 cents per week. Single copies, 6 cents. October Coming Up The month of October is just a week away, and the autumn season officially started Wednesday afternoon about 2:16 p.m. Decatur is heralding the fall opening with a celebration of their own—the merchants are giving the customers a break, and Friday and Saturday have been set aside for a Fall opening sale. As you’re walking along looking for bargains this weekend, take a look at the numerous improvements. Ferris Bower tells us that his whole north end of town has been painted up for the occasion—this may be an exaggeration, but just count the stores who have made improvements since last spring. The new bank building is almost completed, and it will revolutionize the corner of Second and Monroe with its modern, clean look. * • • • Local Revenue Problems When Indiana approved its second constitution in 1851, property was the principal sign of wealth. Barter was still a common means of exchange, and no one had faith in paper money, or in banks, or the like. But everyone thought a lot of property. Therefore, since incomes were ridiculously low—even as late as 1890 workers averaged S4OO a year, school teachers even less—it was necessary to tax property. But the last 20 years have seen a great change. The wealth of the country is represented in large investments, investments that pay off in cash. Wages are high; property ownership is no longer the main sign of income. A man who lives in an apartment may earn $5,000 to SIO,OOO a year, and his wife and older children another $3,000 to $5,000 each in addition. Or manufacturers and businessmen may make large earnings in a community, and live outside of town. There is no implication that this is wrong—it isn’t—it is just different from the way things w«re done when the tax system was set up here. Today, an income tax makes much better sense than a property tax, for most groups. It is 4 far more equitable than a sales tax; it holds up better during depressed times. It does not work a hardship on those who do not earn money as the property tax often has. As to whether a gross income surtax would be better than a net income surtax, it will take some study to work this out. A net income can sometimes be manipulated better than a gross income to avoid taxes; at the same time, some groups can get exemptions from the gross income tax that would tend to favor their tax structures. The mayors of the state have attacked the problem w’ith vigor, and it can be certain that the next state legislature will have a good deal to say on it.

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Intense Hunt On Today For Girl's Slayer MARION, Ind. <UPI>— An intensive manhunt was on today for the step-uncle and suspected slayer of a dark-haired nine year old girl who authorities said was raped, strangled and tossed into the muddy Mississinewa river. A far-slung alarm for the apprehension of Henry Sprong, 42, was issued after the FBI filed a com-1 plaint in Federal District Court in Fort Wayne Wednesday night charging unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. A few hours earlier. Grant County authorities filed preliminary first-degree murder charges j against Sprong. who fled after the bizarre slaying of Belynda Eltz-1 roth. Sprong. who once served time j on an embezzlement charge, van-' ished before the child’s body, clad only in a blood-covered T-shirt, was found in the river, about 2ti miles from her home. He told the dead girl's stepbrother. Michael Sprong, 14, that he was going to St. Louis. The. FBI said the search for; Sprong was concentrated primarily “in the Midwest.’’ Coroner Henry Alderfer said evidence showed the girl was raped on the wooded river bank, strangled and dumped in the river. Her body was found early Wednesday, several hours after her parents returned home and reported her missing. The child apparently was waylaid while returning from a grocery store near her home. She was riding a' bicycle, which was recevored later from the river, near the spot where her body was . found by two city detectives. The shorts the little girl was ■ wearing ’were found hidden in a truck which Sprong had borrowed from Henry Sprong, Elwood, another of the girl’s step-uncles. Also found in the truck were two bags of potato chips Belynda had bought at the store. Belynda’s teacher, Mrs. Thelma Retz, said the youngster was “a happly little girl’’ and did “exceptionally well" in her fourth grade schoolwork. “She always had something to

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talk to you about and she was so friendly," Mrs. Retz said. Sprong, described as 6 feet tall and weighing 168 pounds, had been living at the girl’s home for about six wek helping her stepfather, Ernest Sprong, in his trucking business. He sometimes used the alias, “Bcb Canady. He had been married five times and had two oaughters at Kokomo. He was arrested last June 26 for non-support of his Kokomo family. Police said Sprong served a sixmonth term at the State Farm in 1943 for embezzlement. He had no previous record of sex offenses, officers said. The suspect had light brown hair, a crew haircut and was graying at the temples. His right forearm was tattooed with the word, “Bud,” and there was another tattoo on his upper left arm. a Harold M. Sommer To Study In Germany TIFFIN, O. — Harold M. Sommer, 440 Gage Avenue, Decatur, Ind., is one of six Wabash College junior students who will participate in the junior year at Old Heidelberg program, sponsored by Heidelberg College, Tiffin. Exceptional students, interested in German, are permitted through the pregram to spend their entire junior year in Germany, studying at Heidelberg University. Sommer will leave Montreal October 4 along with 14 other students, representing five colleges in all, for sightseeing activities prior to the opening of the first semester- November 1. Siamese Twins To Chicago Hospital CHICAGO (UPD — The face-to-face Shultze Siamese twins were transferred to Children's Hospital here where doctors will decide if it is possible to save them through surgery. The infants, born Sunday’ in Valparaiso, Ind. were taken to Chicago in incubators. Their condition was reported as good. O 1 -" 1 0 20 Years Ago Today O —— 0 Sept. 24. 1939 was Sunday and no paper was published.

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