Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 58, Number 174, Decatur, Adams County, 25 July 1960 — Page 4

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Assessment Adams county, especially Decatur and Berne, can be quite proud of the assessment job recently completed by the township, city and county assessors, and by the board of appeals. While many of the other counties in the area have decreased greatly in assessed valuation, Adams county managed to increase its valuation. Two large factors worked against this. First, the assessment percent of real value on personal property was lowered to 40% this year, and will be lowered to 33 1/3% next year, the same as real estate. > Second, in the townships there has been a general decrease in personal property. This is because farmers, having second jobs in the city nowadays, - are getting rid of their small dairy herd*- In several townships this has led to an astonishing drop in the total number of dairy animals assessed. Jay county’s assessed valuation dropped so much that it affected the salaries of county officials there, dropping them from a seventh class to an eighth class county for pay purposes. Adams county is a seventhclass county. Most county officers will be cut SSOO a year, the judge dropping S4OO, and the surveyor and prosecuting attorney dropping S2OO each; the county council members will get $l2O instead of $l4O. Jay dropped to $39,356,725, down, just $20,800 for the year. Whitley county, with Columbia City as the county seat, report a drop of $859,410 from last year, to s4l - 312,250. The higher the assessed valuation, the lower the tax needs be to raise the same amount of money; the lower the assessed valuation, the higher the tax rate must be. Some comparisons of near-by cities show the following: 1960 1959 CKy Assessed Valuation Assessed Valuation Decatur $12,211,540 $11,865,600 Columbia City 6,637,520 6,610,150 Winchester — (not given, except as $1,073,520, the valuation). p «rtU«i 8,235,475 $7,979,800 In Winchester the trouble was caused by a new W state law that affected the assessment of Anchor Hocking Glass, reducing it from $2,426,970 to $945,740, raising the Winchester tax rate an estimated 50 cents. County auditor Edward F. Jaberg went to India- . napolis late last week to check over several of the Adams |L county figures, which are subject to administrative corrections^

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O"". -— o Lauds Contestant Dear Sir: I thought that you and the citizens of Decatur would be happy to know that the contestant hailing from there and competing in the fourteenth Annual All-Woman Transcontinental Air Race, is a most excellent representative. This girl. I’m sure, must be a staff member of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce as she does nothing but expound the many apparent features of your community. The oply complaint I might offer is that she makes it quite difficult for our Chamber officials to ptopcrly “Sell” this All-Ameri-can City of Torrance, California. The girl who is a contestant in this year’s “Powder Puff Derby” from Decatur is Mrs. Josephine Richardson. Once again, my congratulations on possessing such a charming and talented young lady and hoping that she might some day return to this community that has adopted her, I am Sincerely yours, Dick Fitzgerald Manager, Torrance, Calif., Chamber of Commerce.

Hot, Humid Weather Continues In State United Press International Hot, humid weather in Indiana’s first prolonged warm spell of the season kept a firm grip on Hoosiers today. At least slight relief was expected Tuesday night or Wednesday. The mercury hit 91 at Cincinnati, 90 at Lafayette and Evansville, 88 at Indianapolis, South Bend and Louisville and 86 at Fort Wayne Sunday, equal to or within 1 or 2 degrees of the top readings Saturday. Forecasts called for more warm and humid weather today, tonight and Tuesday, turning cooler by Tuesday night in the northern third and west central portion and “slightly cooler” all around the state Wednesday. The five-day outlook indicated temperatures will average near normal highs of 83 to 91 and normal lows of 60 to 71. After the cooler trend in midweek, it will warm up again by Saturday, the outlook said. Indianapolis recorded .66 of an inch of rain Sunday, but some areas of the city got little or none. Little or no precipitation was recorded elsewhere around Indiana. Precipitiation will average onehalf to one inch during the week, including scattered showers and thundershowers tonight or Tuesday and in the south Wednesday and possibly Thursday. Warm night-time temperatures helped make the warm weather more unbearable. Lows Saturday night ranged from 66 to 71 and Sunday night from 63 at Fort Wayne to 70 at Evansville.

Roof And Side Wall , Os Church Collapse NEW YORK 'IflPI) — The roof and a side wall of a frame church collapsed Sunday only a few minutes after the end of the morning services. About 45 had attended the services, but all but about 12 had left when the collapse occurred. None of the 12 was injured. Two Drivers Fined On Speeding Charges Marvin W. Tague, 17, route 3, Decatur, and Ronald G. Morton, 22, Decatur, appeared in city court today and paid their fines. Tague and Morton were both arrested July 11, for speeding at 44 miles an hour in a posted 30 mile ah hour zone. Tague paid a fine of (5 and costs, amounting to $23.75, and Morton t>aid a total fine of $19.75. Tague’s arrest was his second in a year.

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CHICAGO (UPD—The Republicans finally got a star for their political show today in Vice President Richard M. Nixon and their convention began to look like a convention instead of a football pep rally. With Nixon entering the convention scene at miday, his supporters turned out in a variety of costumes and sound trucks extolling the vice president. They turned tiny Balbo Street between the two big convention hotels, the Blackstone and the Hilton, into a canyon of carnival sound. The supporters of Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller, who had the Chicago field pretty much to themselves until the weekend, were swamped in an avalanche of Nixon girls, pro-Nixon Lithuanian dancers in native costume, a Nix-, on choir and a corps of 50 student models in demure black dresses and girlish white straw skimmers with trailing ribbons, i Nixon supporters from Evanston, 111., erected a seven-foot replica of a shining copper penny on a revolving turntable in the lower lobby of the Hilton. Abraham Lincoln’s profile was on one side of the coin and, you guessed it, Nixon on the other. A bystander observed, “They’re smart to put a Midwesterner on the ticket with Dick this year.” Despite the requests of Republican leaders for a convention with more, decorum than the Democrats displayed in their recent Los Angeles fiesta, the GOP delegates swarmed the lake front along Michigan Avenue and through* the hotel lobbies in colorful costume. Some of the men were wearing red, white and blue pullover vests covered with tiny elephants. A real elephant, an 8-year-old pachyderm named Koa, visited in the lobby of the Blackstone Sunday during the height of “Young Republican Day. - ’ The trainer, a Junoesque platinum blonde in silvery tights, screamed at the Republican ladies to keep their flowered hats and baskets of Nixon buttons clear of Koa’s friendly trunk. There were marching bagpipers and Dixieland jazz combos maneuvering around the hotels. The lower lobby of the Hilton was

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Jammed with display booths of manufacturers of buttons, badges, dyed feathers and junk jewelry for volume sale of state campaign organizations. White the “Draft Rockefeller” people, operating from an old rented theater across the street, worked diligently so presidential nomination of the New York governor, the button and jewelry makers accepted Nixon’s selection by the convention as fact. They offered countless Nixon souvenirs for sale, —nothing relating to Rockefeller. 'V ..Jypy O -■ 11 -O---20 Years Ago Today o — o July 25. 1940 — Thermometers hit a sizzling 104 degree mark in Decatur. The county clerk’s office has opened an intensive drive to register all eligible voters in the county. The Decatur Casting Co. plant will close Friday for one week’s vacation for all employes. The 100th anniversary of the settling 1 of the Bleeke family in Union township will be commemorated Aug. 4. Ed Lose, young Decatur barber caught two bass on one plug at the Krick-Tyndall pond. One measured 11 inches, the other 10 inches.

St. Joe Jills The last meeting of the St. Joe Jills of Washington township was held in the St. Joseph school July 21. The pledges were led by Jayne Beal and Mary Raker, and Teresa Heimann led the group singing. The roll call was answered with the title of a favorite song. Demonstrations were given by Sharon Sutton, Sue Walters, Vicke Braun and Marilyn Grove. Reporter: Charlotte Laurent

Gary Han Arrested In Shooting Death GARY, Ind. (UPI) — Edward , Shackleford, Gary, was held today as a suspect in the shooting death of a man in a crowded cocktail lounge. Albert Castro, 32, Gary, was shot and killed Saturday in the F&J Lounge about a half hour after legal closing time for dispensing alcoholic * beverages, police said. Officers said about 60 persons were in the tavern when Castro was shot but all said they did not see the shooting. Castro was- shot twice in -the stomach. Shackleford was identified by the bar manager as a man » who had been arguing with Castro shortly before the shooting. Ironing Hint The ironing of freshly washed shirts and blouses is made easier if the button band is laid face down over a terycloth towel. The ’ buttons will sink in, and the iron will slide over easily.

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