The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 17 August 1968 — Page 4

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The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Saturday, August 17, 1968

Study committee asks Hoosiers to up tax

By HORTENSE MYERS INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — A legislative study committee proposed today that each Indiana motorist pay an extra $25 a year in added taxes and fees to finance an additional $80 million annual highway and street construction program. Members of the Highway Needs Study Committee told a news conference the committee will recommend to the 1969 LeLimiting raids is effective WASHINGTON (UPI) - Limiting air raids to North Vietnam’s panhandle without slackening the intensity of the bombing has increased destruction of trucks, boats, supplies and men headed for South Vietnam, Defense Secretary Clark Clifford contends. Clifford said at a news conference Thursday that from the standpoint of “attrition” to enemy supplies and troops moving south, limiting the bombing to the panhandle region above the demilitarized zone was more effective than less concentrated bombing of the entire North. Other officials have speculated about this. Former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara once said a case could be argued that geographically limiting the bombing would be just as effective, but Clifford said it more positively than most. He said he did not think curtailment of the bombing since March 31 has been the cause of the recent high rate of enemy infiltration. Move Supplies '* . . . We have learned before in the courese of the last three years that they will move the men and material that they choose to,” he said. “If their losses go up in the process of moving, then apparently they just move more men and more supplieg.” He did not believe curtailing the bombing south of the 20th Parallel in policy and south of the 19th in practice has jeopardized the lives of U.S. or allied troops in South Vietnam. Did these points, the secretary was asked, add up to Clifford building a case for further limiting bombing? Clifford said this was not at all what he meant. Prevents Supplies He said the present bombing is accomplishing “attrition.” Other officials have estimated 10 to 30 per cent of enemy supply trucks are prevented from crossing the DMZ by present U.S bombing. Clifford said President Johnson “feels strongly” this bomb, ing should be carried on until we get “some kind of arrangements from the North Vietnamese.” This, he said, would be one in which North Vietnam would agree not to put the lives of American servicemen in South Vietnam in “greater jeopardy.” He said so far no such “signal” has come from the North Vietnamese.

gislature an additional $80 million a year for street and road improvements. Of this $52 million would be dedicated to alleviation of so-called “killer” highways, those chronically having the highest number of traffic fatalities, and the rest to reUeve urban traffic hazards. The plan would be financed by a package including: — A 2-cent increase in the present state gasoline tax of 6 cents per gallon and increasing the diesel fuel tax—used primarily by trucks— 3 cents from the present 6 cents. Tag Fees Up — An increase in the annual license plate fee for passenger cars from $12.50 to $16.50, and an increase in the motorcycle license charge. — An increase in the truck registration fees. The smallest truck fee which now is $9 would be $16 under this plan and other increases would be about the same except there could be some reductions through reclassifications. — An increase in the cost of a driver’s license, now $1.50 every other year, to $2.50, and the chauffeur’s license, now $1.50 annually, to $2.50, and the beginner’s permit now $1, to $1.50. — A requirement that trucks using Indiana highways but purchasing fuel in another state to pay a compensatory fuel tax. No Formula Change The committee also proposed that the present formula for distributing highway user taxes be left intact, except that tht share of state police costs paic from the fund would be cui from 75 per cent to 50 per cent thereby channeling an extra $2 to $3 million a year into road construction. However, the committee recommended that a new formula be created for distributing the new revenue to be gained by the added taxes and fees and that this be 50 per cent for the State Highway Department, 30 per cent for counties and 20 per cent for cities and towns, using population as the criteria for the counties and municipalities. The present formula is 53 for the state, 32 for counties and 15 for cities and towns. In addition, the proposed legislation would include establishment of an Arterial Road and Street Fund, into which the urban area funds would go from the added money and which would have to be matched on a 50-50 basis. Eye Bond Authority A board of local officials would supervise the distributions from this fund. All roads and streets would need to be classified by use and the money would go for arterial routes. The committee also suggested that the Constitution be amended so that future legislatures could turn to bonding as a way of highway financing if this were needed. The committee figured that the annual impact on the average individual motorist would be $20 more for gasoline, $4 more on his license plates and 75 cents on his operator’s license.

PATIENT SEES HEART TRANSPLANT PHOTO Canada's second heart transplant patient, (iaetan Paris (left), 49. and surgeon Pietre Grondin look at a large photo of the operate n at the Medical Theater at the Man an 1 His World exposition in Montreal, Que. In the photo. Dr. Grondin, the chief surgeon, is left center with his head tilted.

Smoking will get you

By MIKE FEINSILBER WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Surgeon General's Task Force for Smoking and Health today accused the tobacco industry of “encouraging death and disease” through an expensive public relations campaign to discredit “evidence that smoking is a health hazard.” The Tobacco Institute called the task force’s report “a shockingly intemperate defamation of an industry which has led the way in medical research to seek answers in the cigarette controversy. The 10-member task force made the charge in a report recommending new steps to encourage people to quit smoking and to discourage youngsters from taking up the habit. It reported that the antismoking campaigns were beginning to take effect. One Million Quit It said one million smokers are quitting every year and onefourth of all American men and one-fifth of all women who have ever smoked have now quit. But it said the tobacco industry has mounted a campaign to counter those trends. “The task force believes that one of the reasons why cigarette consumption has remained high, why cignarette brands with high tar and nicotine levels remain large

sellers and why death and morbidity rates associated with smoking continue to increase is the inability or unwillingness of the cigarette industry to face up to the health hazards, or even to admit they exist,” the task force said. The Tobacco Institute, which represents the tobacco industry, said the report “overlooks completely the fact that the industry pioneered organized and scientific study of the question when it established the Council for Tobacco Research. USA in 1954, long before any

RETIRING A. Philip Randolph. 79, first and only president of the Sleeping Car Porters’ Union, plans to retire because of ill health, according to a labor magazine in New York. He has held his post 43 years.

other public or private agency even attempted to provide anything but statistics and speculation.” Doctors to Set Examples Among the task force recommendations: — Doctors and other “health professionals,” to set an exampie, should never smoke in the presence of patients or young, sters and should “remove ashtrays, post “no smoking' signs and display appropriate health literature in their offices.” — Wives should form groups to discuss ways to help husbands quit smoking. — Vendors of cigarettes on government property should push sales of low tar and nicotine brands. — The Department of Health, Education an Welfare should encourage the insurance industry to charge nonsmokers lower rates for life insurance. — The administration should throw its weight behind proposals in Congress to require tar and nicotine listings on cigarette packages and advertising. — The Public Health Service should find out if the broadcasting industry is complying with a recent Federal Communications Commission ruling that antismoking messages must be accepted by stations which carry cigarette commercials.

NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS OF TAX LEVIES

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Notlee Is hereby given the taxpayers of Jackson Township, Putnam County. Indiana, that «>e proper officers of said township, at their regular meeting place, on the 27th day

of August, 1968, will consider the following budget:

TOWNSHIP BUDGET CLASSIFICATION

TOWNSHIP FUND

Pay of Trustee, Rent, Clerical & Travel Exp. Books, Stationery, Printing A Advertising

Care of Cemeteries

Other Civil Township Expenses

Total Township Fund FIRE FIGHTING FUND

1.760.00 300.00 200.00 490.00 2.750.00

Fire Protection 1,000.00 TOWNSHIP POOR RELIEF FUND

B. Direct Relief

1. Medical, Hospital and Burial 1,000.00 2. Other Direct Relief 500.00 3. Total Direct Relief 1,500.-00 Total Township Poor Relief Fund 1,500.00

PARENTS GREET FREED ROW Maj. Fred N. Thompson of the U.S. Air Force, released from a North Vietnam prisoner of war camp, is welcomed home by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Julius E. Thompson, friends and civic officials in Greenville. S.C.. following a flight from Washington.

ESTIMATE OF FUNDS TO BE RAISED FUNDS REQUIRED FOR EXPENSES TO DECEMBER 31st OF INCOMING YEAR Township Fire Fund Fighting Fund 1. Total Budget Esumate for Incoming year, Jan 1 to Dec 31, 1969, inclusive 2,750.00 1,000.00 2. Necessary expenditures, July 1 to Dec. ai, present year, to be made from appropriations unexpended 1,765.00 5. Total Funds Required 4,515.00 1,000.00 FUNDS ON HAND AND TO BE RECEIVED FROM SOURCES OTHER THAN PROPOSED TAX LEVY

6. Actual Balance, June 30th of present year 449.00 7. Taxes to be collected, present year (December Settlement) 1,280.00 9. Total Funds 1,729.00 10. NET AMOUNT REQUIRED TO BE RAISED FOR EXPENSES TO DEC. 31st OF INCOMING YEAR 2,786.00 11. Operating Balance 1,000.00 12. AMOUNT TO BE RACED BY TAX LEVY 3,786.00

1,000.00

Net Taxable Property

FUNDS Township Fire Fighting Total

PROPOSED LEVIES 2,368,860.00 Levy on Property $ .16 .05 $ .21

Amount to Be Raised 3.786.00 1,000.00 4.786.00

COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF TAXES COLLECTED AND TO BE COLLECTED

FUNDS Township

Total

Taxpayers appearing shall

Collected Collected

1965 1966

3,354.00 3,065.00 3,354.00 3,065.00

Collected To Be Collected

1967 1968

3,013.00 2,972.00 3,013.00 2,972.00

have a right to be beard thereon. After the tax levies have

been determined and presented to the county auditor not later than two days prior to the second Monday In September, and the levy fixed by the county tax adjustment board, or on their failure so to do, by the county auditor, ten or more taxpayers feeling themselves aggrieved by such levies, may appeal to the state board of tax commissioners for further and final hearing thereon by filing a petition with the county auditor on or before the fourth Monday of September or on or before the tenth day after publication by the county auditor of tax rates charged, whichever date Is later, and the state board of tax commissioners

will fix a date for hearing In this county.

Juanita Crosby, Trustee Dated July 23, 1968 'Aug. 10-17-2T Jackson Township

NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS OF TAX LEVIES In the matter of determining the tax rates for certain purposes by Floyd Township, Putnam County, Indiana; before the Township Advisory Board. Notice Is hereby given the taxpayers of Floyd Township, Putnam County, Indiana, that the proper officers of said township, at their regular meeting place, on the 27th day of August 1968, will consider the following budget:

TOWNSHIP BUDGET CLASSIFICATION TOWNSHIP FUND Pay of Trustee, rent, clerical and travel expenses 1,442.50 Books, stationery, printing and advertising 240.00 Care of Cemeteries 100.00 Fire Protection 450.00 Other Civil Township Expenses 390.00 TOTAL Township Fund 2,602.50 TOWNSHIP POOR RELIEF FUND B. Direct Relief 1. Medical, hospital and burial 500.00 2. Other Direct relief 300.00 3. Total Direct Relief 800.00 FUNDS REQUIRED FOR EXPENSES TODECEMBER 31st OF COMING YEAR Township Fund 1. Total Budget Estimate for incoming year, Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 1969, inclusive 2,603 2. Necessary Expenditures, July 1 to December 31, of present year 1,697 5. TOTAL Funds Required 4,300

FUNDS ON HAND AND TO BE RECEIVED FROM SOURCES OTHER THAN PROPOSED TAX LEVY 6. Actual Balance, June 30th of present year 1,547 7. Taxes to be collected, present year (December Settlement) 1,059 9. Total Funds 2,606 10. NET AMOUNT REQUIRED TO BE RAISED FOR EXPENSES TO DEC 31st OF INCOMING YEAR 1,694 11. Operating Balance 999 12. AMOUNT TO BE RAISED BY TAX LEVY 2,693

PROPOSED LEVIED Net Estimate. Property 1,683,000 FUNDS LEVY on Property Amt. to be Raised 2,693 .16 2,693

COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF TAXES COLLECTED AND TO COLLECTED FUNDS CoUected 1965 Collected 1966 CoUected 1967 CoUected 1968 Township 2321 2460 2482 2693

Taxpayers appearing shall have a right to be heard thereon. After the tax levies have been determined and presented a to the county auditor not later than two days prior to the second Monday in September, and the levy fixed by the county tax adjustment board, or on their failure so to do, by the county auditor, ten or more taxpayers feeling themselves aggrieved by such levies, may ai>peal to the state board of tax commissioners for further and and final hearing thereon by filing a [>etltlon with the county auditor on or Iwfore the fourth Monday of September or on or before the tenth day after publication by the county auditor of tax rates charged, whichever date is later, and the state board of tax commissioners will fix a date for hearing In this county. Marvin Steele, Trustee Dated August 3,. 1968. Aug. 10-17-2T Floyd Township

NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS OF TAX LEVIES

Notice is hereby given that the taxpayers of Cloverdale Community Schools, Putnam A Owen County, Indiana, that the proper legal officers of said school corporation at their regular meeting place on the 29 day of August, 1968 will consider the following budget, levies and tax rates;

GENERAL FUND

Account 100, Administration f 23,400 Account 200, Instruction 304,000 Account 300, Attendance Services 1,100 Account 400, Health Services 2,700 Account 500, Pupil Transportation 55,500 Account 600, Operation of Plant 39,600 Account 700, Maintenance 8,600 Account 800, Fixed Charges 6,200 Account 1100, Community Services 3,400 Account 1200, Capital Outlay 10,000 Account 1400, Transfer Accounts 5,300 Total General Fund 459,800 DEBT SERVICE FUND Account 1300, Debt Service 49,000 Total Debt Service Fund 49,000

ESTIMATE OF FUNDS TO BE RAISED FUNDS REQUIRED FOR EXPENSES TO DECEMBER 31 OF INCOMING YEAR 1. Total Budget Estimate for ensuing year, Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 1969 Inclusive 2. Necessary expenditures July 1 to Dec. 31 of present year to be made from appropriations unexpended... 3. Additional appropriations necessary to be male July 1 to Dec. 31 of present year 4. Outstanding Temporary Loans to be paid before Dec. 31 of present year—Not Included in line 2 or 3 5. Total Estimated Expenditures (Add lines 1, 2, 3, and 4) FUNDS ON HAND AND TO BE RECEIVED FROM SOURCES OTHER THAN PROPOSED TAX LEVY 6. Actual Cash Balance, June 30 of present year 7. Taxes to be collected present year (Dec. Settlement)... 8. Miscellaneous revenue to be received July 1 of present year to Dec. 31 of incoming year (Schedule on file) a. Special Taxes b. All Other Revenue 9. Total Funds (Add lines 6, 7, 8a and 8b) 10. NET AMOUNT REQUIRED TO BE RAISED FOR EXPENSES TO DEC. 31 OF ENSUING YEAR (Decuct line 9 from line 5) 11. Operating balance (not in excess of expenses from Jan. 1 to June 30, less miscellaneous revenue for the same period) 12. AMOUNT TO BE RAISED BY TAX LEVY (Add lines 10 and 11)

General Fund

Debt Service Fund

459,800

49,000

189,000

24,500

2,500

651,300

v 73,500

70,836

20,881

80,981

1,828

3,900

302,446

33,200

458,163

' 55,909

193,137

17,591

33,000

226,137

17,591

Net Taxable Property 4,917,010

FUNDS General Debt Service Cumulative Building Total

Levy on Property Amount to be Raised

4.60

226.182

.36

17.701

.75

33.877

5.71

280.760

COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF TAXES COLLECTED

¥D TO BE COLLECTED

Collected

To Be Collected

FUNDS

1965

1966

1967

1968

General

111,404

139,406

160,133

214,879

Debt Service

23,234

19,161

4,850

Cumulative Building Totals

111,404

162,640

179,294

36,379 256,108

Taxpayers appearing shall have a right to be heard thereon. After the tax levies have been

determined and presented to the county auditor not later than two days prior to the second Monday in September, and the levy fixed by the county tax adjustment board, or in their failure to do so, by the county auditor, ten or more taxpayers feeling themselves aggrieved by such levies, may appeal to the state board of tax commlssU for further and final hearing thereon by filing a petition with the county auditor on or before the fourth Monday of September or on or

before the tenth day after publication by the county auditor of tax rates charged, whichever date is later, and the state board of tax commissioner will fix a date for hearing In this county.

Dated this 25th day of July, 1968

Aug. 10-17-2T

Jerry Orman Zerelda John Wendell Neese Waune Branneman, Pres. Russell Sendmeyer, Vice Pres. Lillian Whitaker, Secretary Harley Sutherlln ’Board of School Trustees