Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 247, Decatur, Adams County, 19 October 1963 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO., INC. Ottered at the Decatur, Ind., Post Office as Second Class M*~ Dick D. Heller, Jr. President John G. Heller Vice President Chas. E. Holthouse Secretary-Treasurer . ’ Subscription Rates By Mail, in Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, <lO 00; Six months, $5.50; 3 months, $3.00. By Mail, beyond Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, $11.25; 6 months, $6.00; 3 months, $3.25. By Carrier, 35 cents per week. Single copies, 7 cents The Sales Tax Starting next Wednesday, the insidious, regressive sales tax will be collected on every retail purchase over 25c. There is still a possiblity of a one-day or twoday respite, if the Indiana Supreme Court doesn’t have time to finish its transcript to notify the lower court; but this isn’t too likely . Every person or organization, including chaitable organizations, will have to collect the sales tax from their customers. But to collect the tax, you must have your store certificate, the aplication for which you received last May or early June. These applications must be mailed in to the department of state revenue. And even if you are exempt from collecting or paying the tax on what you buy, you must have one! You, the buyer, must give your license number when you write a certificate of exemption, which must also include, your official signature, sind reason for exemption. ’ For example, suppose you are a manufacturer, Ordinarily, under the law, you must pay a sales tax on utilities, such as gas, electricity, water, etc. But if 51' < of the use is for manufacturing, you need not pay, IF YOU certify this fact, with your license number, to the utility! I % All indications are that the state will be reasonable if errors are made in collecting or certifying as the collection gets started. The bill was not discussed with the department of revenue, nor written by it, so the department is freqently in the dark on legislative intent. This newspaper heartily opposes the idea and principal of the sales tax. We favor its repeal w at the next session of the state legislature. In fact, we favor complete revision of the state taxing system, as follows: abolition of the present property tax, sales tax, gross income tax, adjusted gross income tax, and corporation tax; a new property tax, with a SIO,OOO blanket exemption, to pay for police, fire protection, and other ‘‘properly”---*—-interests: a new graduated net income tax based on a percentage of the Federal net tax, with return of a portion of this for schools and other local purposes. Editorial written by Dick Heller

SocialSecurityQuiz

Q. I. will be 62 in December, 1963. My neighbor says I must have a birth certificate to prove my age. Is this true? A. No, generally speaking, it is not true. You must submit evidence of your age and a birth certificate issued at the time of your birth is of course the most reliable proof of age. But about 45 per cent of the births in this country between 1895 and 1920 were not registered. You may be among this group. If so, you may be able to prove your age with some other document, such as a baptismal certificate, family Bible, 1 a marriage record, confirmation records, school record, military or immigration record. Q. flow soon should I make application for my social security retirement benefits? I plan to re4ire as soon as I reach 62. * A. It’S a good idea to call, at the social security Office three months before you reach age 62. If you decide to file a claim, we will have sufficient time to process your claim so that your first check will be paid promptly to you. Q. Should I retire and apply for my social security benefits next year \yhcn I am age 62 or would it be best to wait until I am 65? A..1 would suggest that .you get in touch with the local social security district office. The people there will not advise you when you should retire, but they will ■explain the advantages and disadvantages of applying at 62 in terms of your particular, situation. You '"can also get an estimate of your benefit amount at age 62, or

at 65. You will then be in a position to make an intelligent decision as to whether to take the reduced benefits payable at age 62, or to wait until 65 and collect your full retirement benefits. Q. I am 66 years old and have earned wages of S2OOO per year for many years. My earnings are over SIOO every month of the year. Is there any chance that I could collect social security benefits even though I am continuing to work? A. There certainly is. You may be . eligible to receive over $350 a year in social security benefits even if you continue to work at your present rate. Stop by your iocal social security office for full details. Q. I am not working and wfint to apply for my social security when I am 62, four months from now. Can I apply now so that everything will be ready then? A. No, the earlier that you can apply is three months before the month you are 62. However, ft is not too soon to begin getting together the few items you will need when you do apply. Visit or write your local social security office to learn whatyou will need. It is advisable to apply a couple of months before you are 62 to be sure that your firSV check will arrive on time. Q. My wife has worked under social security and is fully insured. When we retire will she draw benefits based on her own work or on mine? A. If her benefits based on her work would be higher than onehalf of your benefit she would draw on her own account.

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Mantle's Operation Termed Successful NEW YORK (UPI) — Mickey Mantle’s knee operation was “a complete success” and the New York Yankees are hoping to see him in tip-top shape again when he reports to spring training in February. Dr. Sidney Gaynor, the Yankees’ team physician who performed surgery for the removal of cartilage in Mantle’s left knee at Lenox Hill Hospital Friday, said “everything went according to plants.” Mantle, given a general anesthetic for the operation, was resting comfortably in his hospital room today although he

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was receiving no calls. “There’s no reason why he shouldn’t be able to report to spring training on time,” Gaynor said. “And by the start of the season he should be completely recovered and ready to Play” The Yankees’ physician pointed out the operation was less serious than one which Mantle had performed for torn cartilage in his right knee during November of 1953, after which he reported to spring training on time and was able to open the 1954 season. The SIOO,OOO-a-year slugger will return to his home in Dallas, in about a week and should be able to start jogging or playing golf by January,- Gaynor said.

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Seek Big Business Aid For Tax Bill HOT SPRINGS, Va. (UPI) — The administration set in motion today a high-powered drive to convince the business community that it should use its influence and prestige to help pass President Kennedy’s sll billion tax cut bill as soon as possible. The drums- were beaten for tax reduction at an unusual gathering of the elite of the corporate community convening at this fashionable resort for a two-day meeting of the business council Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon told the top Jrass of business that the tax cut could have a profound effect on the nation’s economic future. Based on Bill “The decision on the tax bill will determine whether, in the years ahead, our economy will be surging upward or limping along, or dipping downward,” he said in a prepared speech. He was picking up the same theme that earlier had been sounded by Undersecretary of Commerce Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., and Sen. George A. Smathers, D-Fla. The administration had argued that passage of the tax cut will stimulate the economy to a record-breaking growth rate that will help ward off future recessions. Cites Business Measures Smathers in a speech Friday night cites recent administra-. tion measures intended to help business and told the industrialists in effect: “You never had it so good.” He said the Kennedy administration had done more for business than any other administration in 16 years but that the business community failed to appreciate it. The Florida Democrat mentioned recent changes in tax depreciation laws which he said helped industry channel additional cash into new plants and equipment. David Swickard Is Qualified For Credit David Swickard, 528 Limberlost, Decatur, is among 81 Indiana University freshmen who qualified for credit in college courses by satisfactorily passing special entrance examinations. Sixty-one of the students qualified through Indiana University examinations and 20 through college board entrance exams. Swickard earned credit in biology and European history on the I. U. examination. Clarifies Prices At School Cafeteria Hugh J. Andrews, Decatur high school principal, reported today that there has been some misunderstanding on prices charged students for meals served at the high school cafeteria, which serves all public school pupils in the city. > The prices are 25 cents for the first four grades, on a weekly basis, and 30 cents for all students above the fourth grade, this price also on a weekly basis. 500 Newsmen To Cover 'Operation Biglift' WASHINGTON (UPI) — More than 500 newsmen plan to cover the Defense Department’s “Operation Biglift,” which begins at one minute past midnight (CST) next Tuesday at Bergstrom A i r Force Base, Tex. The Pentagon said Friday that the exercise would be “one of the most covered peacetime U. S. military exercises ... in history.” It will involve 14,500 men of the 2nd Armored Division plus 1,500 men from Air Force jet fighter support units in Maine and Massachusetts.

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14 Astronauts • * I Introduced To Public Friday HOUSTON (UPD—America’s I 14 new astronauts dream of 1 walking in the pock-marked ’ craters and through the dusty j “seas” of the moon. Some will make it, others may fail along the way. I But all asked for, and have been granted, the chance—and for that, and that alone, time and circumstances will exact a price. A steep price, for the title of “astronaut” does not come cheap. — The 14 of them were jittery and not a little shaken Friday when they sat behind a long table on a stage' in their first public appearance as spacemenelect. But that was the easy part listening as their names were read into history books: Air Force Maj. Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., 33, El Lago (Near Houston), Tex.; Air Force Capt. William A. Anders, 30, Albu-' querque, N.M.; Air Force Capt. Chalres A. Bassett 11, 31, Edwards, Calif.; Navy Lt. Alan L. Bean, 31, Jacksonville, Fla.; Navy Lt. Eugene A. Cernan, 29, Monterey, Calif.; Navy Lt. Roger Chaffee, 28, Fairborn, Ohio; Air Force Capt. Michael Collins, 33, Edward, Calif.; and R. Walter Cunningham, 31, civilian, Van Nuys, Calif.; Air Force Capt. Donn F. Eisele, 33, Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M.; Air Force Capt. Theodore C. Freeman, 33, Edwards, Calif.; Navy Lt. Cmdr. Richard F. Gordon Jr., 34, Monterey, Calif.; Russell L. Schweickart, 28. Lexington, Mass.; Air Force Capt. David R. Scott, 31, Edwards, Calif, and Marine Capt. Clifton C. Williams Jr., 31, Quantico, Va. Fame was theirs for simply having been picked as the cream of hundreds who went after the space jobs that came open last summer. With the original seven Mercury and nine Gemini pilots, they raised the number of U.S. astronauts to 30 —still an exclusive club. Fortune? It came automatically. Mercury astronaut Donald K (Deke) Slayton, whom they will come to know as almost a father, told them they will share in the more than sl--a private publications firm is paying for private stories of the astronauts. ' And the dreams of challenge and adventure reflected from their youthful faces, dripped from their spirited words. “Ever since I can remember, I’ve looked at the moon and wanted to go there.” That from Russ Schweickart, who was still in grade school when fellow astronaut John Glenn was flying fighter missions in the Pacific theater during Worls War 11. Former Decatur Man Serving Six Months A former Decatur resident, Phillip Brunton, 27, is presently serving a six months sentence at the state penal farm. Brunton was fined $5 and costs, amounting to $25, and received the six months sentence in Noble county court and began serving his sentence July 1. He was charged with first de- ■ gree burglary, but the charge was later reduced to a misdemeanor offense. Brunton, who had been residing in Avilla where he was a pharmacist, had broken into a home near Albion and stolen a gun. He was arrested by authorities at the Pokagon state park near Angola, where he was living in a hotel under an alias. .

How They're Doing In Lightest Mexico

MEXICO CITY — The Wild West is getting a solid foothold in Mexico and you can scarcely turn on the TV set or walk into a movie without looking into . the barrel of the marshal’s cannon. And on the outskirts of town they put on a show every Sunday for kids (more adults are present, though) at a new subdivisio* with signs that say “Out where the west begins.” Open air living. They have stage coaches and Sunday Indians all painted up ’ ready to chase the coach and there are western dressed gentlemen who ride shotgun with the driver and keep the Comanohes at a safe distance. I got to talking about this creasing trend with Dr. Speedy Gonzalez, who is a soda pop engineer and part time cat psychiatrist and he says it is very easy to upderstand. Sometime back the moving picture people began bringing in these frightening epic where people have complexes and scream so much that the audience would go home looking behind them every few steps. And Dr. Gonzalez says probably a lot of them had nightmares and dreamed they were falling into snake pits or being attacked by mad monsters. Maybe got to thinking about it too much and began blaming their fear of being run over by a train on some childhood trauma brought on by their mothers. Anyhow, Dr. Gonzales says the reason the Wild West is hitting here with such an impact is because it is uncomplicated. Cowboys and Indians get riled at one another but they don’t suffer from deep set camplexes or curse tpe south and blackeyed peas. They are content to settle differences with the six pistol instead of fooling around on a couch trying to see why some people dislike spiders and tax collectors. Even at this western show where they sell houses, nobody gets confused. The stage coach rattles down a shaded lane and the Sunday Indains come tearing out of the underbrush on horses, yelping and shooting arrows at the coach. The ladies inside scream loudly, the driver yells "Git!” to the horses and his assistant turns and fires on the Indians. Sometimes the Indians ride close and one or two almost scramble aboard for a free ride but the shotgun man boot-heels them in the teeth and the problem is solved. Then the Indians and lawmen go out for a short beer together until time for the next attack. Sales on TV sets around town are going up, up, up and everybody sits around watching Paladin or Marshal Dillon or the Cartwrights speaking dubbed-in Spanish. Like Dr. Gonzalez says, they had their problems in these days but the problems were light. A cowhand would come to town and collect his two dollars and get stiff in the local pub. Start shoot-

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ing out lanterns and maybe hit a fellow or two, all in the spirit of fun. Then the marshal would bash him with a chair and let him sleep it off in jail. Next day the cowpoke would wake up and rub his head and say, “Gee marshal, didja hafta bust that chair over my head like that?” And the marshal would answer, “Reckon I shouldn’t of. Now I got to give ’em one from my office;” 1 The cowpoke would say, “I’m sorry about the chair but no hard feelings.” And the marshal would say, “Nope.” And let him out with a suggestion to be a little more polite when he gets potted next rime. , Nothing complicated and no papers to sign. And it relaxes city people to feel they are in the midst of a nice quiet shootin’ scrftpe instead of the everyday problems that are never more than a foot or two away. Mme. Nhu Continues Criticisms Os U. S. WASHINGTON (UPD—Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu, the beautiful but controversial First Lady of South Viet Nam, today continued her non-stop criticism of U.S. policies. She was scheduled to speak at 3 p.m. EDT at Georgetown University, and probably would seek to answer critics of the South Vietnamese government and its actions towards Buddhist monks and U.S. newsmen. Her major appearance Friday was before the National Press Club where she charged that some U.S. State Department officials were guilty of "treason” because some economic aid to South Viet Nam has been frozen. The action, she said, was ft “childish gesture.” ’the United States recently ordered a hold-up of funds to finance Viet Nam’s commercial imports. “I don’t know precisely who is guilty of treason,” she said, “but whoever hampers economic aid, I think they are guilty.’’ During an evening appearance before 1,500 persons at Howard University, Mme. Nhu repeated points made in earlier speeches. She said there was no religious intolerance in Viet Nam; press reports from Saigon were distorted and some persons in th'e State Department were trying to sabotage the war effort. Mme. Nhu, sister-in-law of President Ngo Dinh Diem, told the Press Club her critical statements about poor relations between the United States and her nation proved she was “proAmerican” because she was only attempting to denounce the; wrongs as she sees them. “If I am nqt pro-American,” sfle said, “I should take my camera and record the treason against you.”