The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 17 October 1967 — Page 4

Th« Dally Banner, Oreeneastla, Indiana

Indiana highway funds may be cut

aid highway pro-: tion program. Now the Administration has

It was just a year ago, Nov- ; decided to use the trust fund ember 23, 1966, that the Presi- | once again as a secret weapon dent decided to withhold distri-1 in its tax-spending battle with bution of these same funds as' members of Congress. The only a cure for what was described! ones who will lose are the milas an “overheated" economy. Hons of Hoosiers who deserve

Transportation Secretary Al- As a result of that cutback In- the modern, safe highways

The squeeze is on again! The lion federal

Administration has once again gram threatened to tamper with the federal highway trust fund by ordering a cutback in spending for interstate and other federally aided road building pro-

grams.

warned of the adverse efforts, of another cutback in funds. Because the money is distributed on a complicated formula. Indiana stands to suffer a greater loss than most states because it pays its bills as it goes without going into debt. The sad fact of life is that the Administration threat is just another political power

Tuesday, October 17, 1967

the budget in any way. As a form of budget cutting a highway aid cutback would be nonsense. Highway aid funds are not part of the administrative budget. They come out of a trust fund accumulative from gasoline and other special taxes paid by highway users. Highway aid comes from a

move in its efforts to convince separete self-financed fund.

Congress and the public of the need for increasing taxes by 10 ■ percent. The cutback is being

ficials last week that it may lettings from January through Martin L. Hayes, executive promoted as a reduction in the become necessary to cut in half April causing serious delays in director of the Indiana High- federal budget, when in fact, Indiana’s share of the $4.4 bil- j the already lagging constnac- way Commission, has already i highway spending is not tied to

an S. Boyd notified Indiana of- diana had to cancel contract these funds provide.

Therefore, cutting its spending would have no impact on the expected $29-30 billion general fund deficit or the need for a tax increase. The Administration continu-

es to ask everyone to hold the line on expenditures W’hile insisting on increased spending for many non-essential federal

programs.

The Administration still has not made a case for any increase in taxes and such tampering with dedicated highway funds is certainly not going to persuade anyone of the need for such action. I joined with several of my colleagues last Spring in supporting a resolution expressing the sense of Congress that hoghway funds should not be withheld. We simply cannot

treat these funds as a yo-yo to ordinated long-range highway

be handed out and taken back

planning which is what the

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dy flow 7 of funds to permit co-; e< * to do '

READING MATTER

ST. WERBURGH, England UPI—Choirboys at St. Werburgh's Church have been told by the vicar. The Rev. Desh- ! mond Treanor, that if they are ! bored by his sermons they can ! take along a book to read—

! “providing it is suitable.”

azine being launched by St. Mary’s Church here is "Hymna and Hers.”

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SWANAGE, England UPI— , The title of the new choir mag-

STARTLIXG STARLING LANCING. ENGLAND UPI —Police surrounded a house here Sunday night after receiving an emergency call that an intruder was inside. They | closed in and found the culprit —a starling trapped in a bedroom.

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