Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 60, Number 278, Decatur, Adams County, 26 November 1962 — Page 8

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Mayors Os Indiana Urge Tax Changes

Mayor Donald F. Gage today annocunced a part of the legislature program to be sponsored by the mayors of the cities and towns of Indiana. This program, he pointed out, has been developed and will be sponsored in the 1963 session of the Indiana general assembly by the Indiana municipal league. The objectives of the proposed legislation are to furnish relief to the tax on property, the source of about 85% of the cost for all local government, by shifting it to four other areas. Proposed are: increases from 3 cents to 7 cents in cigarette tax; authorization for cities, towns, and counties to level other than property tax; change in distribution of gas tax; exempt the cities and town from paying gross income taxes on its parks, swimming pools, golf courses, etc. A full explanation of these four points follows. Cigarette Tax I—lncrease the tax on cigarettes from three to seven cents a package with 50% of the tax being retained by the state and the remaining 50% being distributed to the cities, towns and counties on a per capita basis. At present 6 states have a tax of 8 cents per package, 7 states 7 cents, 11 states 6 cents, 9 states 5 cents, 7 states 4 cents and 1 state 3% cents. The average cigarette tax is .054 per package. This proposed increase would provide cities, towns and counties With about $20,000,000 a year or $4.30 per capita according to ’the estimate of the Indiana municipal

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league. It woul also increase the state’s income from this source by $3,000,000 a year. Other Taxes 2—Authorize cities, towns and counties to levy taxes on sources other than property, provided the proposed tax levy is first approved by referendum vote by the qualified voters of the city, town or county seating to impose the tax upon its residents. This is permissive legislation and it would seem that if the legislature should refuse its enactment, the legislature is telling the local people in cities, towns and counties that they are not qualified to determine how to finance their local government. Gas Tax 3 — Amend the motor vehicle highway account act to change the formula for distribution of motor fuel and vehicle tax revenue to allocate to cities and town an additional 3% of the funds. This 3% would be taken from the state’s share of the funds which, under present law, is 53% with cities getting 15% and the counties 32%. The cities and towns have 13,827 miles of streets to maintain 11,540 miles of which are paved. By comparison, the state highway system totals 10,908 miles and in addition to getting 53% of the motor fuel and vehicle taxes revenues the state receives from 50 to 90% of the cost of construction and reconstruction from the federal government. The inequity of the present formula for distribution of these funds is obvious. This proposed change would

provide the cities and towns with I an additional $1.40 per capita according to the amounts distributed fqr the 1962 fiscal year. Gross Income Tax 4—Amend the gross income tax law to exempt cities and towns from paying tax on income derived from the operation of parks, swimming pools, golf courses and other similar functions, which are seldom self-supporting. Income from municipally-owned utilities would not be exempt. These municipal receipts are public monies to be used for public purposes and should not be subject to any tax. Also Share The municipal league also believes that the cities and towns should receive a share of any increase in state taxes or any new taxes imposed by the legislature. Mayor Gage stated that the cities and towns are creatures of the legislature and it was its duty to provide them with the funds or the means to obtain the funds in a fair and equitable manner for the payment of the services demanded of the cities and towns. He said that the ever increasing population and the migration of people from rural to urban areas together with the rising cost of labor, equipment and materials has increased the cost of operating the cities and towns without a corresponding increase in taxable property. Consequently, the property tax has had to be raised to a point where it is almost confiscatory. This situation is not only unfair to the property owners, but also discourages the ownership and improvement of home and other real property. If allowed to continue, it can only result in a depression of the value of real property making it necessary to further increase the tax rates and eventually making the ownership of property prohibitive. To alleviate the property tax situation, cities, towns and counties should be authorized to broaden the tax base by authorizing them to tax sources other than property. This will cause the citizen who does not own property to contribute to his local government and increase las interest in its problems. The cities and towns should also get a larger share of the statecollected taxes to help relieve the overburdened property taxpayer and to pay for many of the services and additional costs forced upon local government by the general assembly. Case Continued In City Court Today Only one case came before city I court judge John B. Stults ip city I court this morning, that of two charges against Arthur Funk, route 6, Decatur. The case was continued for 30 days by Judge Stults, while Funk is attempting to make restitution for damages to a car owned by Mary Jo Hoffman, 323 Winchester street. Funk was charged with driving while under the influence and reckless driving, following an accident at 1:33 a. m. Sunday, November 4, when his vehicle rammed into the parked Hoffman car on Winchester street. D. Burdette Custer is the attorney representing Funk.

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Syracuse Man Heads New Luther League Mike Storms of R. R. 1, Syracuse, was elected president of the newly organized Luther League of the Indiana-Kentucky synod of the Lutheran church in America. This organizing convention, attended by nearly 200 delegates and official visitors from over 100 Lutheran congregations in Indiana and Kentucky, adopted its new constitution and budget in addition to holding its first elections since the merger of the Lutheran Church in America in Detroit last July. Other elected officers included Richard Palm of 309 West Johnson Road in LaPorte, and Charles Voit, Jr., 1411 Tuckers Station Road, Jeffersontown, Ky. Newly elected as members-at-large to the executive committee of the League were Kathy DeVore, 450 Arcadia Court, Fort Wayne; Barbara Ferderick, 4530 Arlington, Fort Wayne; Norah Johnson, 106 Spring Street, Middlebury; Gept-’ge Lamfalusi, 4109 North 10th Street, Gary; Patsy Brevak, 990 Longfellow, Portage; Ted Tatman, 735 Woodlawn Avenue, Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio; Charmian Thomas, Box 21, Harlan; Ann Trentadue, Monroeville; Larry Benjamin, Box 55, Monroeville, and Lynda Hager, 319 Ripple Creek Road, Cold Spring, Kentucky. The officers were installed at the closing service Saturday afternoon by Dr. Walter M. Wick of Indianapolis, president of the In-diana-Kentucky synod. The opening service of holy communion in the host church, St. Andrew’s Lutheran church, 5700 Crawfordsville Road, Speedway, was led by the host minister, Rev. Phillip D. Bigelow, with Rev. John Johnson of Calvary Lutheran church, Ga£7, preaching. Attending the convention from St. Mark’s church of Monroeville were Arnie Ball. Owen and JoAn Row, Larry Benjamin and Ferris Bower. 20 Men Arrested In Gambling Raid YORKTOWN, Ind. (UPD—Police raided the home of Dallas Sheward, Jr., 48, Yorktown, Sunday night and arrested him and 19 othsr men they said were playing poker in the basement. Officers confiscated SSOO, card tables and other gambling equipment. They charged Sherwood with keeping a gaming house and the others with visiting a gaming house. Sheward was fined $26 and the others s2l each in a peace court at nearby Cowan. Trade In a good town — Decatu:

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Don Carter Takes Bowling Tourney CHICAGO (UPI) — Don Carter held his fourth consecutive World’s Invitational Bowling Championship today and first place prize money of $7,500. Carter, who led the field of 16 for all but four of the final 16 rounds, sewed up the crown by out-bowling a fellow kegler from St. Louis, 820 to 804 in the windup match Sunday night. Marion Ladewig, an attractive grandmother from Grand Rapids, Mich., coasted to her third world’s title in the women’s division, worth $4,000. Carter, who took the championship in 1957 as well as in 1959, 1960 and 1961, finished with a record of 39 wins, 25 losses, 14,096 pins and 320.46 Petersen points. Bluth, who collected $3,750 for the second-best showing, finished with 13,917 pins and 320.17 points, just 29 off the pace. Dick Weber, also of St. Louis, took third-place money of $2,000. Detroit's Bob Strampe earned $1,500 with a fourth-place finish, followed by Joe Joseph, Lansing, Mich., who won $1,500. Mrs. Ladewig won despite the loss of the final match to Judy Audsley, 18, Kansas City, Mo., who ran second throughout the tournament and got $2,000. Miss Audsley’s total was 9,445 pins and 218.20 Petersen points to 9,742 and 225.42 for Mrs. Ladewig. In third place was Shirley Garms of Chicago, who won SI,OOO.

Grand Champ Steer To Be Named Today CHICAGO (UPI) — An Angus summer yearling called “Top of Iowa” and a Shorthorn calf named “This L Do” were among the favorites to take the grand champion steer award today at the International Live Stock Exposition. Shown by Lyle Miller, Osceola, lowa, the handsome yearling won its class by judging out the junior grand champion, “Master Eileenmeer,” exhibited by Karen Ann Spitzer, 13, Pleasant Plains, 111. Kaye Pollock, 17, Mount Auburn, lowa, who showed the 1960 grand champion steer, won first in the senior calf division of the Shorthorn breed with “This L | Do” in other competition Saturday.’ More than 10,000 head of stock, valued at over $5 million, were entered in the 63rd exposition, which ends Saturday. Another lowa girl, Peola Kay Rizzo, 17, Cedar Falls, also got in the running for the grand championship with a first place in the Hereford senior calf division. Don Geppert, Kimball, S.D., won first in the Hereford summer yearling division and the right to compete for the grand championship, as did Terry Adams, 13, Dickens, lowa, with the top Angus senior calf. The champion carlots of Angus and Hereford cattle were shown by Karl and Jack Hoffman, Ida Grove, lowa. The best carlot of Shorthorns was exhibited by Cyrus S. Eaton’s Acadian Farms, Northfield, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Miller, Columbus, Wis., took honor after honor in the Red Poll division—including the grand champion bull and female. lin other divisions, Oren A. Wright & Son, Greenwood, Ind., showed the champion Cheviot wether sheep; Harry & Tom Gowland, Valparaiso, Ind., the champion Corriedale wether; Oklahoma State University, the champion Dorset wether and Hampshire wether; William Duncan, Lake Villa, 111., the champion Oxford wether. 26 Persons Killed In Brazilian Crash SAO PAULO, Brazil (UPI) — A Brazilian VASP Airlines transport with 23 persons abroad crashed about 65 miles east of here today after apparently colliding in flight with a privately owned Cessna aircraft carrying three persons. All 26 persons involved were killed instantly, the Brazilian air , force’s search and rescue service reported.

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Thanksgiving Road Toll 21 In State By United Press International Traffic accidents in Indiana killed at least 21 persons during the Thanksgiving holiday period, sharply raising the state’s 1962 toll to 1,094 compared with 945 this date last year. Six persons were killed in misharts Sunday and a seventh died the same day of injuries received in an accident Friday. Two persons lost their lives in a two-car crash three miles south of Wabash Sunday. Mrs. Pearl Jackson, 69, Anderson, died at the scene, and her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Mary M. Jackson, 44, Anderson, was injured fatally. William C. Pinnick, 38, R.R. 6, Muncie, was killed Sunday when a switch engine struck his car at a railroad crossing in Muncie. Mrs. Lillian Byard, 48, St. Paul, died in Robert Long Hospital in Indianapolis of injuries received in a train-car crash near Greensburg Friday. She was the mother-in-law of Mrs. Betty Byard, 22, St. Paul, who was killed outright in the crash.

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Arthur Sass. 19, Michigan City, was killed when struck by a car while attempting to jack up his auto which had lost a front tire Sunday on U.S. 6 two miles east of Portage. A state trooper who had stopped to help him was injured. Eugene Cooper, 32, Dunkirk, was killed Sunday when his car crashed into an embankment as he attempted to pass an auto on a curve near Dunkirk. Thomas Cross, 18, Oxford, was killed when his car was rammed by an auto traveling the wrong way on a four-lane highway near Klondike. Charles Dayton, 55, Indianapolis, died Sunday in Indianapolis from head injuries suffered Sept. 28 in a traffic accident in the capital. Ink Eradicator You can produce your own ink eradicator by whipping up a solution of one pant of chlorinated laundry bleach and 10 parts of water. Keep this in an old iodine or mercurochrome bottle with a rubber stopper to withstand the destructive effects of the bleach, and with a glass rod as an applicator. Use along with a blotter like a commercial eradicator, but don’t expect it to work on typewriter ink — because it won’t.