Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 23, Decatur, Adams County, 28 January 1963 — Page 8

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Taxes Chief Concern Os State Assembly

: TAXES TAXEsW TAXES by Wiliam L. Fortuna Mr. Fortuna report* weekly for this ' paper on tax matter* in the General Axxembly. He I* a tax contultant, and a former State Legiilator and Treaaurer of State for Indiana. Never was SI.OO so important as in this session of the Indiana Legislature. While discussion revolved this week around millions of dollars proposed for various programs (and Democratic leaders revealed the sweeping plan to replace the gross income tax and household property tax with a net income tax, as predicted exclusively by this column last week), the lowly dollar occupied the center of attention for the present. The Indiana Commission on Tax and Financing policy saws that if its comprehensive program of a 2% state-wide sales tax and % increase in the gross income tax rate is adopted, the state can pick up the tab for all the increased costs for the next biennium and reduce the local property tax levy SI.OO. School Costs The Indiana State Teachers Association maintains that $1 00 will be added to the levy if legislators CHICK PAINS OF ARTHRITIS RHEUMATISM Dcep-<iou>n relief ... fast. when pain attack* of minor Arthritis, Rheumatism, Backache or Muscular Aches occur. That’* what you want. And that's what ybu get when you take PRUVO Tablets. Proven fast, safe and effective over 15 years of use. OUR GUARANTEE: ,use the 75 tablet size as directed for 10 days. Given this fair trial, PRUVO may help you. You must get the wonderful relief millions have or your money back. At druggists everywhere. SMITH DRUG CO.

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appropriate only SSO million more in state aid for local schools. By all odds the most costly, baffling, frustrating problem before this session of the legislature centers around our school costs (fully 40% of the state’s General Fund expenditures) and how much the state should send back to the local schools. Gov. Welsh recommends almost doubling the present distribution to $422 million; his committee on Public School Financing says $507 million is necessary; and the State Superintendent of Public Instruction takes the middle ground of recommending $293 million (up about SSO million.) Rep. Eldon F. Lundquist (R-Elk-hart), Chairman of the House Education Committee, predicts the lawmakers will settle on the SSO million. Under the present formula wherein the state makes up the difference between what the local school units will raise in taxes from a 50c tax levy and the average recognized salary of school teachers ($4,800 based on 1957 averages), an increase of SSO million would just about hold the line on the share of school costs borne by the state. At present, this is about 25% of all school costs. The Indiana State Teachers Association claims these overall costs are rising at the rate of 11% per year,, and therefore, total costs will be up $228 million in the next two years. If this is true, the local school levy will have to go up about SI.OO per SIOO of assessed valuation to cover the 75% left for the local communities to pay. For the average householder with a SIO,OOO home, this would amount to a $34 increase in his property tax bill each year (based on the present average state-wide rate of $6.69.) Property Taxes Harassed legislators, whipsawed between a tax increase on the state level or the local level, appear to be more fearful of the taxpayer’s ire from the local impost. "Every session we talk, talk, talk about local property tax relief and do nothing,” veteran Sen. Charles Kellum (R-Mooresville), chairman of the Senate Education Committee, exclaimed. Efforts to place a ceiling on local property taxes in the past two sessions have proven unworkable, but the State Tax Policy Commission believes it can be done. It is preparing a unique bill for presentation to the legislature this

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week which, in effect, would freeze the amount of money to be raised by property taxes on a par pupil basis for the operating expenses of our schools. The state would appropriate a certain sum to be sent back to the local schools on a per pupil basis for property tax relief. Then, if this amount plus the local levy proved insufficient to support the school costs, the people would have the right through a referendum to choose between raising the tax rate or adopting a % of 1% county-wide sales tax or a tax on wages, salaries, and personal income not to exceed ¥« of the gross income tax. Schoo] Costs Rising But the problem remains and will as long as school costs keep rising at the rate of 11% a year and assessed valuations at only 2%%. "Trouble is today we are paying for the school building casts of two generations,” according to Dr. James Kessler, director of the state tax policy commission. "Nothing was done either during the depression or war years; so it didn’t really get started until 8 years ago and won't level off for another 10 years,” he said. Meanwhile, the state is paying less and less of its share of the costs. Some say this is as it should be; otherwise school boards would be less responsible to the local communities since they tend to regard the state’s money as “free.” Others like Sen. Melville Watson (D-Greenfield) think the state should bear at least half of all the costs, including new school buildings, and assume the same responsibility it did years ago in doing away with the hodgepodge of county road bonds with the collection of the gasoline tax and distribution of it back to the counties. But that’s a story for next week’s column.

Ambassador Kohler Enroute To Stales MOSCOW (UPI) — U.S. Ambassador Foy D. Kohler flew off for Washington today to report to President Kennedy on his first four months in America’s most sensitive diplomatic post. There was speculation he was carrying a message from Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev on the nuclear test ban question and other cold war issues. Kohler met for a half-hour Sunday with Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. There was no information on the substance of their talk but Kohler previously had told Gromyko he would ddeliver any message the Kremlin might want to send directly to Washington. Kohler’s first four months in Moscow have been hectic. The Cuban crisis broke shortly after he arrived and the U.S. Embassy obviously served as a key transmission point for the exchange of letters between Kennedy and Khrushchev. Three of his embassy aides have been expelled from Russia on spy charges and the Soviet press has linked four others to espionage. The embassy has gone through a mass protest demonstration over Cuba, and became involved in an effort by Siberian peasants to seek asylum from what they said was religious persecution. Through it all the 54-year-old diplomat maintained a calm and businesslike approach to problems. VIOLENT (Continued from Page One) of 4 below zero was set at Nashville, Tenn., where the cold has closed schools since last Wednes day. Cloud cover averted another hard freeze in the hard-hit Texas Rio Grande Valley. Temperatures were forecast to drop to 22 degrees but the clouds raised the estimate to the mid 30s. At least 276 persons have died from weather - related mishaps since the bitter cold snap began. Indiana counted 48 deaths and Illinois 27. There were 29 deaths in New England and 22 in Ohio, while Michigan had 19 and Texas 16. Minnesota counted 15, New York and Wisconsin 10 each, Pennsylvania and Georgia 9 each, Oklahoma 8, Kentucky 7, Missouri and lowa 6 each, Alabama and New Jersey 4. ■' ' — - - — If you have something to sell or trade — use the Democrat Want ads — they get BIG results.

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Negro Student To Register At Clemson Today CLEMSON, S.C. (UPI) — South Carolina becomes the last state of the Union to lower public school racial barriers with the admission today of Negro Harvey Gantt to Clemson College. More than 100 armed law enforcement officers were on hand of this sleepy college town, which does not even have a jail, and assure that the court-ordered admission of Gantt is not met with violence. Entrance of the 20-year-old high school honor student will mark an end to South Carolina’s distinction as the only state which has never allowed a Negro student in a white school. State officials, determined to maintain order without help from federal officers, have been closemouthed about security regulations. Patrol Entrances But no-nonsense highway patrolmen took up posts at all entrances to the campus early today and gave close scrutiny to all persons entering or leaving. They were reinforced by plainclothesmen from South Carolina’s crack State Law Enforcement Division (SLED), who patrolled the almost-deserted campus in unmarked cars. A light airplane was poised at the airport of this town of 1,500, ready to whisk Gantt away in the event of rioting. Gantt was scheduled to arrive at mid-afternoon from Columbia, where he spent the night with his attorney, Negro Matthew J. Perry.

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He planned to make the 130mile automobile trip to this campus in the foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains with Perry and his father, Charleston shipyard mechanic Christopher Gantt. Ends Resistance State officials, who have presented a united front in urging that South Carolina accept the “distasteful” transition with grace were joined Sunday by one of the state’s most outspoken segregationists. State Rep. F. Mitchell Ott, author of a unsuccessful last-ditch legislative measure to block Gantt’s entrance, issued a statement urging all South Carolinians to "go about their business as usual and have no violence whatsoever.” There will be few students on the campus until midweek. Today is registration day for transfers entering Clemson for the second semester. Students who were here the first semester register Wednesday. Theft Os Three Horses Reported The Adams county sheriffs department is investigating a case of horse stealing that was reported to the repartment Sunday. Dan J. Schwartz and Chris Neuenschwander, residents of near Geneva, reported the theft of three horses, two of them owned by Neuenschwander and the other owned by Schwartz. The horses were noticed missing from a field at the intersection of county roads 23 and 31%, on the Neuenschwander property, Thursday, but the two Adams county, men waited until Sunday to make a report, thinking that possibly the horses had strayed away and would return. They checked with their neighbors in the area, but none had seen the missing horses.

Eight On Missing Plane Are Saved HALIFAX. NS. (UPI) — Eight persons, including three children, aboard a plane missing for two weeks near the Artic Circle have been found safe, officials reported Sunday night. The single-engine, ski-equipped Norseman plane last was heard from Jan. 13 when it left on a routine 140-mile flight from Payne Bav in northern Quebec to Ft. Chimo. The plane, piloted by Paul Garon, 25, Quebec City, was feared to have crashed somewhere near the Arctic Circle and little hope was held for survival of its occupants. They included A. F. Flucke of the federal Department of Northern Affairs, three Eskimo women and three Eskimo children, aged 10 to 16. A search was made by planes of the Royal Canadian Air Force, the U.S. Air Force and civilian aircraft. Garon and the 16-year-old Eskimo boy walked from the wilderness to Ft. Chimo for help, an oficial at search headquarters here reported. The plane and the other survivors were located Sunday by another Norseman plane about 60 miles southwest of the plane’s destination, just south of the Artic Circle. Another ski-equipped Norseman was scheduled to take off at first light to pick up the six remaining passengers. How the eight people managed to survive in the sub-zero cold of the wilderness was not determined immediately. But a spokesman said the plane carried emergency supplies including a stove, blankets and a tent. Trade in a good town — Decatur

FlßED—Muguette Fabrb, 22, a mathematics teacher in Paris, was fired by her school’s director after she became Miss France. The director disapproved of her hair style and clothes.

MONDAY, JANUARY 2s, 1963

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