The Mail-Journal, Volume 8, Number 26, Milford, Kosciusko County, 28 July 1971 — Page 8

THE MAIL-JOURNAL —Wed., July 28, 1971

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Red Cross Blood Program Saves County Residents $ 7,050

The American Red Cross Fort Wayne regional bloodmobile unit' will visit Kosciusko county for the first visit of the American Red Cross fiscal year on Thursday. July 29. It will be stationed at the Wawasee* high school from 12 o’clock noon until 6 p.m. according to Steve Devenney, Kosciusko county Red Cross blood program chairman. During the past year 75 families living in the northern part of Kosciusko county have benefitted from the blood program sponsored by the Kosciusko county Red Cross chapter, a United Fund partner.

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Christian Science Lecture 'The Continuity Os Good’ BY Nathaniel R. White C. S. < RUMSON, NEW JERSEY Member of The Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts Wawasee High School Syracuse, Indiana 8:00 p.m. Thursday —August 5, 1971 ; / Nersery / Parking / Air Conditioned / Comfortable Seats Given For The Lakeland Commnnity BY FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST GOSHEN

Records in the Red Cross office show that 282 pints of blood were administered in cases of serious illness occurring in these families. There were 34 patients residing in the Syracuse area who were administered 129 pints of blood donated by Kosciusko county residents; 16 patients in the Milford area received 82 pints of blood; 11 patients in the North Webster community received 33 pints and 14 patients in the Leesburg community were given 38 pints. At $25 per pint, the lowest price available for whole Mood, this means a saving of

$7,050 to these families. These figures point out what this program means to local residents in dollars and cents, besides the incalculable value of the lives saved. In the past fiscal year, which ended June 30, a total of 1,284 pints were supplied to Kosciusko county. Os this amount 506 pints were used locally; 475 pints were received by Kosciusko county people who were patients in other hospitals in the Fort Wayne regional blood center area; 266 pints were received by county residents who were patients in hospitals outside the Fort Wayne regional area, such as the Mayo Clinic. Rochester, Minn., the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, etc., and 35 pints to patients in Veterans Administration hospitals. Donors in our county gave 1,190 pints toward their 1970-1971 quota Devenney stated. Directed donations made by local people for relatives and friends in hospitals outside the Fort Wayne regional center increased the chapter’s over-all quota to 1,450 pints, creating a deficit of 260 pints for the year. Hie cost of the program to the •» local chapter is approximately $4,054 a year or one-tenth the estimated $40,000 saved Kosciusko county blood recipients. Os this amount $1,853 is paid to the Fort Wayne regional center as the pro rata share of the center expenses. The balance is used for expenses incurred at the bloodmobile visits to Kosciukso county during the year and includes a portion of the salaries of the office staff. $ Better utilization of whole blood and blood derivatives have reduced the 1971-1972 quota to 1,310 pints of blood. In the coming year nine blood mobile visits have been scheduled for Kosciusko county: The dates and places are: July 29. at the Wawasee high school building, with a quota of 125 pints; on August 25 it will be in the Etna Green, Atwood area, quota 125 pints; September 30. Grace College and Seminary, Winona Lake, quota 200 pints; December 28, at Warsaw, quota

125 pints; February 29,1972, Warsaw, 145 pints; March 23, 1972, Mentone, Burket, Claypool and Silver Lake area, 125 pints; April 27,1972, Grace College and Seminary, Winona Lake, 200 pints; May 23, 1972, Pierceton. Sidney, North Webster area, 120, and June 26,1972, Warsaw, quota, 150 pints. Returns From Hawaiian Trip Mr. and Mrs. Clarence W. Gunter of Road 30 west, Warsaw have returned home from a 2week tour of the Hawaiian Islands, spending a week at Waikiki Beach in Honolulu and visiting the islands of Hawaii, Oahu, Maui, and Kauai. They flew on the big Continental 747 from Chicago to Honolulu and flew on the small “Aloha” jets from island to island. The delightful climate, wonderful sandy beaches, beautiful sunsets over the Pacific, tropical flowers make it almost a land of paradise, said the Gunters. Some of the highpoints they enjoyed were Diamond Head, Pearl Harbor Cruise, National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in the Punchbowl Crater at Honolulu, the lolani Palace which is the only royal palace on U. S. soil, a tour of volcano area. Sea Life Park, the Dole Pineapple Cannery, International Market Place, Polynesian Cultural Center which includes people and their customs from other islands in the Pacific. Also enjoyed was a traditional Luau at the Hilton Hawaiian Village, the “Don Ho” and “Ray Anthony” shows. Tourism, sugar cane, pineapples, tropical fruits and flowers are the livelihoods of the Hawaiian people added the Gunters. * Mrs. Gunter is one of the fourth grade teachers at the North Webster school and Mr. Gunter is a long time employee of Zimmer Mfg. Co. of Warsaw. Mrs. Joseph Beer, East Peoria. DI., Mr. and Mrs. Harry Bauer and Mr. and Mrs. Urban Bauer, Cissna Park, 111., attended the Beer reunion at Pla-Mor park in Nappanee Saturday. Mrs. Urban Bauer remained to spend several days with her mother, Mrs. Andrew Beer of Milford.

Form Payment Limitations: Bayh WASHINGTON, D.C. - The question of farm payment limitations is once again before the Congress. I have said this before and I will say it again on the Senate floor: the present farm subsidy program is tiquated, ridiculously expensive, and fails to achieve the purpose for which it was originally devised. Farm subsidies were begun in the 1930’s as an effort to protect the very large number of smal’ farmers who were especially vulnerable to an unstable market. The disturbing question today, therefore, is why are we making payents to huge corporate farms and even to non farming groups. For instance, in 1969, seven companies wen paid more than $1 million each. Fourteen other companies received sums between one-half and one million dollars each. And 54 companies or individuals were paid between $250,000 and $500,000 each. I simply cannot support r. program which required in 1970 a staggering $4 billion of taxpayers’ money —up from $3.5 billion in 1969 — when most of that money does not go to maintaining the family farmers for whom it was intended. In 1969 the situation was so perverse that six banks were paid between $27,000 and $224,000 not to plant on their land! In addition, two state penUjentiaries and a large non-farm corporation were paid a total of $361,842 to limit their crop production. In 1969 simply prohibiting payments of $1 million or more would have saved the Department of Agriculture sl6 million, more than enough to allow that same Department of Agriculture to continue without hesitation the summer lunch program this summer and thereby feed 24 million young children. Certainly it is clear that either the farm payment system is in dire need of reform — or we have lost all sense of national priorities. Therefore, I have introduced an amendment with several other senators, both Republican and Democratic, to limit farm subsidies to $20,000 per crop. Just last week, unfortunately, this amendment was voted down by the Senate, for reasons indicative of the general lack of understanding of our farm program. I will introduce this proposal again next year, but in the meantime I believe it important that my constitutents have a chance to review it. According to all recent indications, the Administration’s limit of $55,000 per crop, per year — which was incorporated in the Agriculture Act of 1970 — has not been affective at all. On March 9, the Wall Street Journal reported that evjui Agriculture Department xtaff members now admit thaf “the limit will save the UnitedJStates no more than a fevq million dollars — if anything a( all.’’ Not only have subsidies of less than $55,000 increased so that the new benefits have eaten up any savings which were anticipated in 1970, but since the . 1970 limitation provision was loosely drafted, evasion of the subsidy payments ceiling has been encouraged through the practices of subdividing legal titles and selling or leasing cotton allotments. The limitation I proposed is designed to limit subsidies to large corporate farmers — not deny them to family farmers. As a farmer myself — and knowing that 85 per cent of my fellow farmers agree with me — I believe such a reform is greatly needed. 1 The farm payment program is now obsolete. Since the ‘3o’s payments have been distributee according to production, and since production of goods is concentrated in a few corporate farms today, a small number of farmers receive huge payments. When farm programs were introduced in 1933, there were 7 million farms in the United States and production was spread fairly evenly among them — and, as a result, so were payments. Now there are only three million farms and of that number, fewer than 1 million top farmers provide more than $25,000 worth of marketable produce per year. Small family farming has been forced to give way to big business farming, aind a system of payments based simply on amounts of production funnels federal money into the hands of the big producers. Then those farmers turn around and use the money to buy more land, to further consolidate and to then use the additional acreage to qualify for more diversion payments. In the process, more small farms are forced out of business. Seen from this perspective, my proposal is actually only the beginning of needed reforms. And, actually, a $20,000 limit would affect only 11,000 out of about 2.5 million recipients.

Comparison Os Budgets Amount of Increase or 1971 1972 Decrease Administration 67,700 67,700 —O, — Instruction (Salaries, 1,777,660 1,812,591 3U»931 Materials and " . Supplies) Attendance Service 5,200 1,000 -U»200 Health Servicea i 11.U92 4,700 >1,792 Transportation 126,650 136,075 9,U25 Operation of Plant 216,650 238,600 21,950 Maintenance U 5,286 US,IOO 2,81 b Fixed Charges (Social Security Insurance, etc.) U 8,225 60,305 12,080 Community Services (Summer bands, baseball, awinmlng & U-H) 21,050 21,050 — 0 -- . Capital Outlay (Mew equipment Improvements to buildings and grounds) 26,000 35,600 9,800 Debt Service (interest on temporary loans) 5,000 5,000 ~ 0 — Transfer Account (joint services with other schools) 1,500 5,500 U.OOO Total General Fund Debt Service 301,353 390,221 < Cumulative Building Fund 161,680 (?) COMPARISOM OF TAX RATE Asa. Vai. of Asa. Vai. of Asa. Vol. of Aaa. Vali of •U 0,335,220 >36,300,000 >38,300,000 >U0,335,220 1971 (10% loaa) (5< loss) (no loaa) Amt. to bo raiaed for General Fund 1,891,659 1,578,U05 1,622,U05» 1,667,685# General fund rate U. 68 U. 36 U. 25 U.IU Amt. to be raiaed for Debt Service Fund 105,612 35U.932 35U.932 35U.932 Debt Service Fund Rate .26 .98 .93 ,88 Cumulative Bldg. Fund Rate >UO -UO .140 .U 0 Total Rate 5.3 U 5.7 U 5.58** 5-U3** • State Aid deoreaaes approximately >22,000 per million of increase in assessed valustion. ** For each million dollars of increased assessed valuation the tax rate should reduce approximately NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS OF TAX LEVIES Di THE MATTER OF DETERMINING THE TAX RATES FOR CERTAIN PURPOSES BT LAKE TOWNSHIP, KOSCIUSKO COUNTY. INDIANA. BEFORE THE TOWNSHIP ADVISORY BOARD. Notice is hereby given the taxpayers of Lake Township. Kosciusko County. Indiana, that the proper officeA of said township, at their regular meeting place, on the 24th day of August. 1971, will consider the.following budget: TOWNSHIP BUDGET CLASSIFICATION TOWNSHIP FUND Total Township Fundß3.o9o.tX) Burial 51,000.00 Pay of Trustee. Rent. Clerical FIRE FIGHTING FUND 3 - Direct Relief * Travel Expense —81,900.00 Protection SI 800 00 (Total Bl & B 2) 1,000.00 Books. Stationery, Printing Sc B rr ß r.Tinv a, inrrnni c o th ” Relief , Advertising 650 00 , ™ 1. Food and household 250 00 Care of Cemeteries — 400 00 Total Rec. & 4-H Fund S 700.00 2 . Dlst. of commodities 250.00 Memorial Day Expense 60.00 TOWNSHIP POOR RELIEF FUND Exam, of Records -- 80.00 B. Direct Relief Total Township Poor ' ESTIMATE OF FUNDS TO BE RAISED 0 Fire Sumnder FUNDS REQUIRED FOR EXPENSES TO DECEMBER 31st OF INCOMING Township Fighting Rec. Sc/4-H YEAR Fund Fund Fund 1. Total Budget Estimate for Incoming year, Jan. 1 to Dec 31. 1972. In- „„ elusive - 54.100.00 81.800.00 $ 700.00 2. Necessary Expenditures, July 1 to Dec. 31 of present year, to be made from appropriations unexpended.■. — 3,300.00 1,200.00 600.00 3. Additional Appropriations necessary to be made July 1 to Dee. 31 of present year ;: 4. Outstanding Temporary Loans to be paid before December 31. of present year—not included in lines 2or 3 -— "- "■ ' ' ' — 5. Total Funds Required (Add Lines 1.2, 3 and 41 7.400 00 3.000.00 1.300.00 FUNDS ON HAND AND TO BE RECEIVED FROM SOURCES OTHER THAN PROPOSED TAX LEVY 6. Actual Balance. June 30th of present year 2.210.96 1,616.47 779.88 7. Taxes to be collected, present year (June & Dec. Settlement) — 3.150.56 959.53 315.06 8. Miscellaneous Revenue to be received. July 1 of present year to Dec 31 of Incoming year (Schedule on file) ——' a. Special Taxes - Excise and Intangible Tax 598.00 152.00 53.00 b. All Other Revenue 9. Total Funds (Add Lines 6. 7. 8a and 8b) 5,959.52 2,728 J» 1,147.94 10. Net amount required to be raised for expenses to Dec. 31st of Incoming J year,(Deduct line 9 from line 5). 1,440.48 272 0Q 152.06 11. Operating Balance (Not in excess of expenses from Jan. 1 to June 30. \ less Miscellaneous Revenue for same Period) 1.400.00 1.000.00 ’ 450.00 12. Amount to be raised by Tax Levy (Add lines 10 and 11) '• 82.840.48 81,272.00 / 8 602.06 PROPOSED LEVIES " Net Taxahtf'Property 83,153,640 Tjfp only 82,424.610 X / Levy on Levy'em Amount to T’eNDS — Poll* Property Be Raised Township 8 .09 82.840.48 Fire Fighting ... .05 1,272.00 Recreation & Pour-H .02 602.06 Total : 81.06 84.715.14 COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF TAXES COLLECTED AND TO BE COLLECTED . To Be Collected Collected ‘ Collected Collected FUNDS — 1968 1969 1970 1971 Township 83.490.00 83.243.00 83.046 00 83.150 56 Plre Fighting 1,528.00 1,245.00 1.219.00 959 53 Recreation 286 00 530.00 ' 678.00 315.06 Total 85.304.00 85,018.00 84.943.00 84.425.15Taxpayers 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 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. AUSTIN NEHER Trustee, Lake Township Dated July 26. J. 28 * A. 4 NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS OF TAX LEVIES Notice 1* hereby given the taxpayers of WARSAW COMMUNITY SCHOOLS. Kosciusko County. Indiana, that the proper legal officers of said school corporation will meet at the Office of Superintendent on the 26th day of August. 1971, at 7:30 p.m. to consider the following budget, levies and tax rates: GENERAL FUND Account 800. Fixed Charges 171.120 00 Account 900, Food Services — 10.000 00 Account 100. Administration 8 114.183.00 Account 1100, Community Services 6.900.00 Account 200. Instruction 3,112.557 00 Account 1200, Capital Outlay TMM# Account 300, Attendance Service* 6.900.00 Account 1300, Debt Service* ' 2,000 00 Account 400. Health Services i. 8.460.00 Account 1400. Transfer Account* 13.500 00 Account 500. Pupil Transportation 216.085 00 Account 600. Operation of Plant ' 418.177 00 Total General Fund 84.311.339.00 Account 780. Maintenance 152.007.00 DEBT SERVICE FUND — 872.580.00 ESTIMATE OF FUNDS TO BE RAISED FUNDS REQUIRED FOR EXPENSES TO DECEMBER 31st OP INCOMING „ YEAR General Service 1. Total Budget Estimate for ensuing year. Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 1972, In- ~ elusive — 84,311.339.00 8 72,580.00 >. Necessary Expenditures, July 1 to Dec. 31 of present year, to be made from appropriations unexpended 2,34-508.00 3. Total Estimated Expenditures (Add lines 1 and 2) — 86.653.847.00 8 72,580.00 FUNDS ON HAND AND TO BE RECEIVED FROM SOURCES OTHER THAN PROPOSED TAX LEVY e 4. Actual Cash Balance June 30th of present year -35,586 00 6.00 5. Taxes to be collected, present year (December Settlement) ; 2,151,204.00 57,450.00 6. Miscellaneous revenue to be received July 1 of present yesr to Dec. 31 ' of incoming year (Schedule on filer a Bowrlal Taxes 45.732.00 1.380.00 b. AU Other Revenue 2,512.562.00 13,744.00 7. Total Funds (Add lines 4. 5. 6a and 6b) 84,673.912.00 8 72,580.00 8. Net amount required to be raised for expenses to December 31*t of ensuing year (Deduct line 7 from line 3) - — - - 1,979,935.00 9. Operating Balance (Not tn excess of expenses from Jan. 1 to June 30, les* miscellaneous revenue for same period) 300.000.00 51.704 00 10. Amount to be raised by tax levy?(Add lines 8 and 9) 82,279,935.00 8 51,704.00 PROPOSED LEVIES Net Taxable Property 857.449,979.00 PVND6 — Levy on Property Amount to be Raised General 83 97 82,280.761 00 Debt Service j .09 ' 51.704.00 Cumulative Building , 1.25 • 718,123.00 TOTAL — 85.31 83,050,588.00 COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF TAXES COLLECTED AND TO BE COLLECTED To Be FUNDS — Collected Collected Collected Collected 1968 1969 1970 1971 Genera! 83.155.271 82.328.163 82,566.323 82.471.812 Debt Service 28.509 70,190 65,803 57.932 Cumulative Building * ■ 199.562 204.720 526.425 514,961 TOTAL 83.383,342 82,603,073 83.171,711. 83.044.706 r 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 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 rate* charged, whichever date is later, and the state board of tax commissioners will fix a date for hearing in this county. PHILIP J. HUUIB w. james mccleary RUSSELL HETDB W. A. CLINKER EVERETT ROOKSTOOL — MERLE MOCK WINNIFRED 8. CLUEN Board of School Trustees J. 28 & A. 4