Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 65, Decatur, Adams County, 18 March 1963 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Publtehed Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO., INC. Entered at tip Decatur. Ind., Peet Office a» Second Class Matter Di<* D. Halter. Jr —- en Jnjtn G. Melter Vice President Chas. E. Holttoouse Secretary-Treasurer Satieeriptian Rates By Mail, in Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, 610.00, Six months, $5.50; 3 months, 3300. By Mail, beyond Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, 311J5; * months, M OO; 3 months. $3.25. By Carrier, tt cents per week. Single copies, 1 cents. Um the Building The community of Pleasant Mills must face up to the problem of replacing the school as a meeting place next year, since it will no longer be maintained by the school board. No doubt the Adams Central school board would be very happy for any solution which would take the buildings and grounds off their hands. Naturally, if some industry of business were seriously interested in the location, the local people would probably favor that solution. But the solidity of the community depends on a local meeting place, and the school building has always provided the spot. A possible solution is that the township trustee, after consultation with his lawyer, see if the property could be taken over as a township park and recreation center. This would be greatly appreciated by the people of the area, and would provide a nice recreation area. The building could be rented out for meetings if an economical way of heating it could be feund. The Lions club can be expected to give sound leadership and advice that will be acceptable to the majority, if the problem is accepted by the township trustee and advisory board. If not, a community group will probably take action themselves. We understand that the vote to close the school was unanimous, by the school board, and that the representatives from St. Marys and Blue Creek townships were leaders in securing the advantage* of Adams better plant for all tip students in the Adams Central area, not just tfUHHoiwho formerly attended there. And we know several people who are really glad that an improved educational opportunity will be offered to their childrM. ' But no one should believe; for one mjnute, that consolidation, or change, that the ultimate has one minute, that consolidation, or garage, means that the ultimate has been reached in education. Better education will be possible, so that young men and women will be adequately prepared for life and good jobs, only when parents strive constantly for it, and beat ack the "economists” who want lower tax rates at the expense of educational opportunities. You can watch funds without demanding cheap schools; if you hire cheap help, that’s just what you get. Our boys and girls are potentially too fine for that. They deserve, and we can afford, the best.

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SOCIAL SECURITY QUIZ 1. Q. I hope to retire early next year when I am 65. Is there anything I should do before then to be sure I receive my correct benefit? A. Get in touch with your nearest social scurity office about 3 months before you retire and discuss your case with them. They will tell you what papers you will need to get together and will discuss the amount of your benefit as well as the best time for you to apply. 2. Q. I am 63, my job has become more difficult for me during the last few years because I don’t see as well as I once did. Can I retire before I am 65? A. Men, as well as women, can now retire as early as age 62; however, the amount of the benefit is reduced depending upon the number of months before age 65 for which benefits are paid. At age 62, for example, you would be eligible for 80% of the amount payable to you at 65. If you waited until you were 63, you would get 86% percent of the benefit payable at 65. Visit your nearest social security office. You may wish to apply for your benefits now. 3. Q. My husband has been a barber all of his life. He has been having trouble with his feet and legs for the last few years. Can he retire even though he will not be 65 until next year? A. He can retire any time after 62. His benefit will be reduced according to the number of months before 65 for which he will receive benefits. He may decide to retire before he is 65 after talking it over with his local social security office. They will not tell him what to do — but they will explain how the law works and he can decided for himself what is best for him, 4. Q. I retired from civil service in February, 1962, after completing 30 years of service. I have never worked under social security — in fact, I have never had a social security card. Is it possible for me to take a job covered by social security and earn benefits under social security even through I am receiving over $3,000 a year from civil service retirement? I was 59 years old in June. A. Yes. If you work in a job covered by social security for 4 years and 3 months, you will earn 17 quarters of social security coverave — the number of quarters a person your age need to become eligible for social security benefits at retirement age. 5. Q. Because of poor health, I worked only about three day a week from early 1958 until late 1961. at which time my doctor ordered me to retire completely. When I first became ill back in 1958, I was informed by the social security office here that I would have to be incapacitated to the point where I could not “engage in any substantial gainful activity" before I could get social security benefits. I am now 60 eyars old and would like to know if I can now get benefits under social security. I am receiving a small disability pension from my employer and find it difficult to live on this income. A. Since your condition has become considerably worse since you last inquired about getting social security disability insurance benefits, you may now be eligible. Get in touch with your social security office as soon as possible. 6. Q. I am 40 year old and have a wife, age 37, and 6 children ranging in ages from 3 years to 14 years. My work is covered under social security and I have been steadily employed at the same job for the past 12 years. What would social security do for me and my family if I were to meet with an accident tomorrow and become unable to do any work in the future? A. We sincerely hope that no such accident will happen. But if it should, you with your wife and children could receive disability benefits beginning with the seventh month after the accident. Call, write, or visit your local social security office and ask for a copy of “If You Become Disabled,” which will tell you in more detail in dollars and cents what social security disability insurance benefits might mean to you and your family.

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Taxes Chief Concern Os State Assembly

The 93rd regular session of the Indiana General Assembly was now history. It began January 10 with high hopes and promises by party lead ers of bi-partisen efforts to solve the crushing tax and budgetary problems before it. It sputtered out 'in failure, bickering and mutual acrimony 61 days later — without a budget, without even sufficient revenueraising. measures to support the state's current obligations beyond July 1 this year. Immedately, Governor Welsh called the assemblymen back into special session. The final hours were the most unrealistic, quiozotic of all and perhaps typified the ‘head-in-the-sand” approach of the entire session. Senate Republicans had caucused in the afternoon when the ultra-conservatives under Senator C. Weneell Martin (R-Indianapolis) revolted against the Ristine-Bontra-ger-Conrad leadership. At 5 p.m. they entered the Senate chambers. Slowly the galleries filled up, House members came over to look on, and Senators stopped packing to go home, as if in anticipation of some great event. What followed was an anticlimax — precluding any final action on the tax-budget problem or insurance that this was the last day of the session. In effect, the rebels revived the 1961-63 budget and tried to pass it knowing full well that even if it got through the second reading (it did), it would fail on final passage for lack of enough votes to suspend the rules (34), which it did. “We’ve come to the end of a very dark day”, veteran Senator Von A. Eichorn (D-Uniondale) told his fellow legislators. After a long dinner recess until 10 p.m., the Senate reconvened and immediately went into caucas again to consider a proposal from Governor Welsh that if they would stay in session through Thursday NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION Estate No. 5814 In the Adams Circuit Court of Adams County, Indiana. Notice Is hereby given that ROBERT E. ALLEN was on the Bth day of March, 1»63, appointed: Administrator of the estate of WILSON M. ALLEN, deceased. All persons having claims against said estate, whether or not now due, must file the same in said court within six months from the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Dated at Decatur, Indiana, this Bth day of March, 1963. Richard D. Lewton Clerk of the Adams Circuit Cobrt for Adams County. Indiana. Custer and Smith, -Attorneys and Counsel for Personal Representative. 3/11, 18, 25.

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MW*'*' ! TAXES taxes” TAXES by Wiliam L. Fortuna . Mr. Fortune report* weekly for thia paper on tax matters in the General 1 Assembly. Ho la a tax consultant, | and a former State Legislator and i Treaaurar of State for Indiana. j and try and pass a tax-budget program and still failed, he would then accept the "balanced budget” and no increase in taxes despite the state’s needs. The Repub licans rejected the proposal, and then at 2 a.m. Governor Welsh announced to the press he was calling a special session of the legislature to begin 12 hours later. “A good night’s sleep is all they need,” he said. What happened, where did this legislature go wrong? Was it doomed to fail when 1. At the start both sides needlessly stalled the introduction of the budget in the House and assumed an attitude of “politics-as-usual.” After all, this would be like any other session and most of the problems could be settled the last minute in conference committees. But the session and the problems were far from normal. Tax proposals never even reached the floor of the Senate, let alone final conference committees between the House and Senate. 2. The Republicans lost control over their working majority in the House an d the Republican-spon-sored budget bill went down to defeat —for the first time in 100 years. 3. Both the House Ways and Means and Senate committees agreed- substantially on -what the state needed in added revenue but failed completely to agree on a tax program to support it. The House wanted a sales tax and passed it with the aid of 5 Democrats who voted for it” just to get it moving.’’ But the Senate never got beyond the state of a Finance committee recommendation for an “adjusted gross income tax” at 3% with allowances for business deductions. “There are not 10 votes in the entire' Senate for a sales tax”. Senator Kenneth Brown (R-Muncie) declared. Meanwhile, House leaders were complaining that the Senate Repub-

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licans would not even discuss their sales tax bill. “We told them not to even come to us until they had some concrete proposals”, a House Republican leader said. 4. The House delayed until one week before the end of the session to pass its tax package and the Senate finance committee frantically got their tax program together only three days before adjournment so hastily drawn that emendmente were penciled in the margins of the bills. 5. Real bitterness between the two houses developed when the House refused to accept the Senate strategy of passing what was in substance the 1961-63 budget. “We caine here to meet our responsibilities”, they said. “I’m sick of these prima donnas in the Senate who’ve got to have their brownie pointe,” declared the ranking mmeber of the House Ways and Means committee, William Hardwick (R-Mar-tinsville) and former State Budget Director; The Senate’s side was summed up by Senator John Shawley *RMichigan City). "The real trouble commenced when the House failed to get the budget to us soon enough for us to get started on it in time to take up the tax proposals. Martin and the coflservatites took over when there was no alternative — the size of the budget was determined and no one could work out a'tax program

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to support it.” Was there any reason to believe the 40-day special session would be any more successful? “You were not elected to your high office for the purpose of destroying the government of your state,” the Governor told the special session. “Yet your failure to agree on a budget, if permitted to stand, would in fact destroy state government,” he said. "Inflammatory”, replied Lt. Governor Richard Ristine, adding “this is an example of how not to win friends.” And Senator D. Russell Bontrager of Elkhart, die Senate Republican leader, charged that the Governor had not negotiated in good faith throughout the legislature. “We will do our negotiating without the men downstairs,” he said. Yet as the week wore on and party leaders remained in the capital city to work on a tox-budget program while the rest of the as-sembly-recessed jd. hime it was apparent some progress was being made despite the heated words. It was reported that they had at least agreed on the size of the budget, $1.4 billion, for the next two years. Several major obstacles remained — how to sell the troops on the % of a billion dollars taxes to pay for it and how to rei concile the basic differences on a method of taxation between Senate i and House Republicans, on the hand, and Senate Democrats, Wi*

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insist on a form of “adjusted gross” or net income tax, on the other. “They have had to absorb what amounts to a college-level course in public finance in 61 days,” Lt. Governor Ristine said. Was it enough? “One of the principal difficulties has been there has been no legislative concensus and no public concensus on the problem,” Dr. James Kessler, head of the State Tax Policy commission, declared. “If nothing else has been accomplished, at least the public is better educated as a result of it,” he concluded.

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