Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 53, Decatur, Adams County, 4 March 1963 — Page 4

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Taxes Chief Concern Os State Assembly

While the Indiana legislature stood poised for a possible compromise tax program following Gov. Welsh’s endorsement of the net income tax, future events cast large shadows over the closing days of the session. With Republicans holding a ra-zor-thin 25-24 margin in the Senate and proposing around S3OO million in new spending for the biennium while Democrats set their sights cm S4OO million, additional tax revenue was inevitable. The only question left was — would it come mostly from the Republicans sponsored 3% sales tax or a graduated income tax as proposed by Gov. Welsh and Senate minority leader, Marshall Kizer (D-Ptymouth), a little of both, or none from either. The “little of both” school argued the present gross income tax could be changed into an "adjusted” tax with greater exemptions and deductions before arriving at the taxable base and possibly some graduated rates ranging from 2% to 10% proposed by the Democrats. Included would be a small sales tax or a sales tax limited to certain areas such as hotels, motels and restaurants. The “none from either” school argued their was little time left to write a tax program and tired legislators in the waning last days of the session would fall back on the gross income tax and raise it to whatever extent was necessary to meet the revenue requirements. This could mean an increase between 50% and 75% of our present rates, at a minimum. As Gov. Welsh met again with leaders of both parties over the week-end the chances for a compromise appeared brighter. “These meetings have been very worth while, and I have a feeling, but only a feeling, that there will be a bi-partisan sponsorship of a tax program,” Rep. John Coppes (RNappanee), powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, said. He added he had 20 such possible compromises in his pocket but would not divulge their contests in this unprecedented action. Increasingly clear was the fact that taxes were not the answer to Indiana's problem — but the tax base was. “New knowledge is new wealth” is a favorite expression of Dr. Herman B. Wells, Chairman of the Governor's Economic Task Force Committee. It should also be on every road sign and in every of-

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**va*V' * TAXES m taxes" TAXES by WHlaas L. Fortune Mr. Fmlmm raports J* a iamw State LMteteteC SM TlMiwwMWmtWledfne. fice in Indiana. It means that Indiana should re-think, re-evaluate itself — in short, pull itself up into the space age. It means that we have to understand that 30% of the Federal Government’s immense defense contracts are not for hardware but for “paper work” research, designing and planning,” according to Howard Ward, Treasurer of Ball Bros., Muncie, and a member of the committee. And Indiana’s share in these contracts has been cut in half in toe past 10 years. It means that we must realize that we are living in a fast-changing world, so fast that “a Purdue graduate of today will have half his knowledge out-dated in 7 years”, Prof. Robert J. McNeill, another member, says. It means we must think anew in the new age that is upon us — that we should immediately set in motion some of the recommendations of the Task Force Committee such as establishing an office in Washington, as some of our sister states, Illinois and Michigan, have had toe foresight to do. It means that we can no longer afford the luxury of ignoring our universities’ requests for pure research funds, as the legislature has done each year for 25 years. Nor can we afford the traditional rift between the intellectual and industrial community that has prevailed for years. “It wasn’t until recently that we could get them (Purdue) to advertise its McClure Industrial Park,” Lt. Gov. Ristine declared, indicating an underlying fear that state-supported institutions will compete with private enterprise. Yet “states which want businesses must provide first-class research facilities,” Gov. Welsh maip tains. Tntere have been small begin-

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nings like toe Aero Research Cam ter at Indiana University established with funds from toe National Aeronautical and Space Administration to assemble and make available to private industry all the massive new knowledge coming from space research. There is the new 1,000 acre McClure Park developed by the Purdue Research Foundation at Lafayette tor research laboratories and plant sites — which even has an apart-ment-type laboratory building where industry can lease whatever space it needs from one room to many. Shelbyville has a 48 acre industrial park with the shell of a building already erected that can be converted for almost any industrial use. But what is needed is a gigantic state-wide “boots-strap” operation similar to the organized in 1953 in South Bend by toe Committee of 100 led by Publisher Franklin D. Schurz of the South Bend Tribune. In 9 years the work of this committee has resulted in adding 5,000 people and SIOO million to the payrolls of what city and received national recognition. What was a dying city in 1953 is very much alive today with Notre Dame University building a 13 story library, radiation laboratory and computer center to add to its luster. Clfford MacMiliian, President ot the South Bend Chamber of Commerce and vice-president of Studebaker, recognizes that Indiana has not kept up with the rest of the country. “Certainty, it’s discouraging,” he said, "but we’re not discouraged and we’re to do something about it” Dr. Wells maintains we can too, particularly if we take advantage of the 1,121 miles of interstate highways being constructed in the state, probably one of the largest concentrations of mileage in the 41,000-mile nation-wide system. With wide dispersal of plants we have today and the necessity of meeting exact time schedules for the delivery of materials from one plant to another. Dr. Wells says we have a great seling point and advantage over other states, “if we take advantage of it,” he warns, and don’t lose it like we did the automotive industry in the early 1900’s.

Two Youths Fined In Decatur Court One youth paid a fine and another elected to lay his out in jail on charges of illegal possession of alcoholic beverages, m city court this morning. Herman Lynn Dellinger, 19,‘ and Dennis tee Scott, 19, both of Decatur were each fined $lO and costs, a total of $27, by city court Judge John B. Stutts today. Scott paid his fine while Dellinger was remanded to jail when unable to pay. The two were arrested Saturday between noon and 12:30 p.m. in front of the Adams Central gymnasium where the sectional tourney was being played. They were stopped by the sheriff’s department in front of the gym, and questioned on a reckless driving investigation. When the alcoholic beverages were discovered, they were arrested for having illegal possession of them. Two juvenile Decatur girls, aged 15 and 16, were in the car driven by Scott at the time. The matter concerning the girls was turned over to the juvenile authorities. Only other case in city court today was the charge of reckless driving against Charles H. Magley, 19, which was continued until next Monday. 20 Years Ago Today March 4, 1943 — The city council has authorized the board of public works and safety to purchase air raid sirens for Decatur. There were 50,546 excess cans, bottles, jars ot . canned and processed foods declared during the registration for rationing books in AoainS county. Fred Bender, of Pleasant Mills, a subscriber to the Daily Democrat since it became a daily in 1903, and prior to that for many years a reader of the weekly paper, called at this office today to renew his subscription. George Rentz, local florist, has been appointed as a member of the Decatur volunteer fire department. Ten Japanese warships and 12 transports arc destroyed by Allied bomber attacks.

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Tax Probfems * the Hosier legislature is in a atew. Because it meets only 41 days every two years, it must pass a budget, and bills to raise money to meet the budget, during its session. All money bills must originate In the House of Representatives. bills were introduced, but only one Hrant to final reading. At that time, all of the Democrats voted against the bill because they felt A did hU provide realistic amounts for public education and for our four state colleges. (The constitution of the state of Indiana provides that the state SHALL provide for education, and this includes public Colleges — otherwise, no colleges could have been established by the state.) In addition, a dozen Republicans voted against the budget bill because they thought it was too high! This defeated it. It cannot be called up again. It is too late to start another bill. And worse, the House has already held it out of order, by a straight party vote, to amend a bill by tearing out everything but the enacting clause, and substituting a new bill. This happened 100 years ago, in 1863 — the legislature was opposed to the Civil War, and refused to appropriate money for “Bloody Flag” Morton to arm and supply new regiments. Morgan went to a banker from Madison, Ind., then head of a large New York bank, and borrowed the money on his own credit, more than $1 million. But today’s biennial budget is over $1 billion, 1,000 times the war budget of 1863. It would be hard to borrow on an IOU! The governor could run the state by decree, borrowing the money on the credit of the state. But this is, of course, actually illegal and unconstitutional. Happily, a new legislature Would probably be elected long before the case was settled. But that is a poor way to do business. A reasonable state budget, providing the services we need, should be enacted, and taxes raised to pay for the budget. Paying for any budget is a problem. We sincerely feel that those who earn the most should pay proportionately more. The following chart shows the present structure compared with three proposed plans and their impact in taxes of the 3 different plans now before the General Assembly on a married couple with two children in various income groups: Income Present Tax Under Tax Under Tax Under Tax Demo. Plan Rep. Plan Comm. Plan (net income (3% Sales (2% .Sales & Tax) Tax) 1/3 increase - in Gross in- , come Tax) $ 2000 sls 0 $ 32 | 50 4000 45 38 98 117 6000 75 104 164 184 8000 105 190 225 247 10,000 135 296 277 403 15,000 210 648 449 453 30,000 435 2,120 863 779 The Democratic plan would eliminate the Gross Income Tax and still raise about S4OO million more in the next two years than currently collected. The Republican plan would net the state $284 million in additional income and the Commission on State Tax Policy plan would bring in $372 million more.

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Many Plan Changes Slow Moon Project

By ALVIN B. WEBB Jr. United Press International CAPE CANAVERAL (UPI) — There’s some suspicion that the United States might land its first men on the moon a lot sooner if the program’s designers would take a coffee break—like for a year or so. Future chronicles of the initial manned lunar landings doubtless will level some criticism at the U.S. effort. But it is not likely to be accused of a lack of planning. Along with money (one enterprising young scientist here estimated that, in $1 bills Ibid end to end, the program’s funds would stretch to the moon and back 14 times), plans and designs have been most abundant in America’s man-trf-the-moon Project Apollo. In slightly more than a year, the master plan for accomplishing this feat has been changed three times. " Nava Is First U.S. master plan No. 1 was that a single rocket, informally named “Nova,” would be built to launch men, supplies and return rocket ship to the moon. Starting from then, it was figured, it could be done by 1967. The ink wasn’t dry on that one before rocket scientists Wernher Von Braun, in late 1961 and early 1962, hinted of master plan No. 2—discarding the one-rocket “direct approach” in favor of a technique by which two separate rockets would be fired into orbit around earth and connected. This was called the “earth orbit rendezvous” plan. It lasted long enough for copious books, maga-

zine articles and speeches by numerous scientists to come out on the subject. In fact, D. Brainard Holmes, chief of the manned moonshot project, had just gone to some great detail to explain master plan No. 2 to the House Space Committee in 1962 when master plan No. 3 came pouring out of the computers. This one still holds. It is called “lunar orbit rendezvous.” It envisions using a single advanced Saturn rocket to shoot the threeman Apollo spaceship from earth into orbit around the moon. At that point, a smaller “lunar bug” carrying two astronauts would detach and land on the moon itself. AU “Time-Savers” One of the points hammered at in official discussions of the changes was that each would “save time”—months and RerhMß that could mean the difference between landing on the moon first or going through Russian customs in some lunar crater. But plan No. 1 (Nova) had a target date of 1967. Plan No. 2 (earth orbit rendezvous) was hailed by Von Braun as away to save “a year-or more”—and make toe landing date 1966 or 1967. Plan No. 3 lunar orbit rendezvous; was described by Von Braun again as a means to save a year or more in the race. His new target date: 1966 or 1967. As it turns out, the first U.S. manned flight to the moon is now scheduled for early 1968.

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