The Mail-Journal, Volume 8, Number 38, Milford, Kosciusko County, 20 October 1971 — Page 7

Financing Os New Hospital Explained

By DONALD E. FRANTZ Area Extension Agent The hospital question in Kosciusko county is our most persistent public policy problem. Differences of opinion have existed for a long time. I am not involved in any board or study group but I sure get a lot of questions from people who want information. This is intended to answer some general questions. The main question is simply, what about taxes? This is a logical one because it is difficult to sort out what was a proposal five years ago and what is being proposed right now. There is no general obligation bond nor any tax levy in the"* present plans for a community hospital. There was in 1968 and a bond issue was approved in 1969 by the County Commissioners and Council. This was repealed in 1971 and the action is recorded as follows in the minutes of the Kosciusko County Commissioners at their September 1 and 7 meetings in 1971. - “In the matter of two million dollar bond issue — Action recinding the two-million-dollar Hospital Bond issue was taken by the Commissioners. The move was made following a recent public announcement by Lawrence Castaldi, President of K.C.H., in which he stated that the K.C.H. was releasing the County from the $2,000,000 bond issue committment. Fred Gilliam, Chairman of the commissioners referred to the announcement by Castaldi on August 18. Mr. Gilliam said in light of the statement he felt the Commissioners should withdraw - the bond resolution. In light of this. Mr Dorsey said that since present plans are to pursue the construction of the hospital with

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revenue bonds he would make a motion that the bond issue resolution be withdrawn. The motion was seconded by Glenn Lowman and passed unanimously.” The current financing plans call for three sources of revenue. One is federal funds under the Hill-Burton Law. It is my understanding that $300,000 in HillBurton funds are firmly committed for use in Kosciusko county. Funds well in excess of this amount are considered for this county due to the fact that Kosciusko has the top priority in the state for such funds. Money is allocated only to counties which are capable of action. The State Board of Health makes the determination as to which county is eligible and decides which group within the county receives the funds. They ruled the Kosciusko Community Hospital as' the legal organization to receive such funds. This ruling has now survived three legal appeals. These funds must be used within a period of three years following their allocation. The second source of funding is intended to be from private donations. A fund drive is nowbeing studied by a professional fund raising organization. They are in process of their preliminary study by interviewing a significant number of people throughout the county. This is their method of measuring support.- I have not seen this report but advance information indicates a favorable demate* They appear to be impressed by the attitude and support of the younger people of our community. The fund drive has already started to the extent that eight local physicians have purchased a 25.6 acre tract The title is in process of transfer to the Community Hospital with one restrictive covenant. It can only be used for a hospital. The third source of funds is intended to be through the sale of revenue bonds. The legal authority to do this was approved by the Kosciusko County Hospital Authority. This is a legal body, appointed by the Circuit Court Judge, in compliance with a lawpassed by the 1971 Indiana General Assembly. The Authority designated the Community Hospital as the “hospital-of-record,’’ the Hospital Authority will sell the revenue

bonds. The financial advisors for the bonding procedure and sales is Bache and Co. Revenue bonds do not obligate the county and are not amortized by tax levies. They are paid by revenue of the corporation, in thiscase the hospital, from operating revenue. This may be the source of the questions, the first bonding proposal called for a tax levy, the present proposed procedure does not. The eventual title to the property will be held by the Kosciusko County Hospital Authority. The efforts to build a new hospital for this county have been long and complicated. Decisions on policies of this kind do take time and the results of those decisions are far reaching. The answers to this policy question will affect several generations Hoosier Take Trip To Washington Seventy Hoosier high school boys, former delegates to the Kiwanis International — Indiana State Police law enforcement career camp, left Purdue University Airport early Friday for a day-long field trip to Washington, D.C. State police sergeant Earnest H. Alder, public information officer in the department’s Connersville district and director of the annual career camp project, accompanied the group on their tour of the White House. Department of Justice; the Air and Space Museum. Arlington Cemetery and Mount Vernon. This year marked the second annual career camp outing for sponsoring Kiwanis and state police officials. Four, one-week sessions, were held in July and August -at the 4-H Leadership Center at Lafayette. A total of 174 high school boys attended this year’s camp to learn about career opportunities that will one day be available to them in all branches of law enforcement and other areas of the criminal justice system. Career camp graduate Dana Berghorn, r 3 Syracuse, was among the group that journeyed to the nation’s capital. Cars Collide At New Paris Cars driven by Mrs. Carol A. Westerman, 20, Nappanee, and Ronald Scheck, 47, Downers Grove, 111., collided at 10:15 a.m. Friday at the intersection of CR 23 and U.S. 6, south of New Paris. Mrs. Westerman and her passenger. Pearl Avalos, 41, Milford, were on their way to visit a patient at Goshen hospital when Mrs. Westerman, who was slightly injured, drove into the path of the Scheck auto. Damage was estimated at S3OO to each car by state trooper Michael Swallow. LAKELAND LOCALS Mrs. Blanch Hay has returned to spend the winter with Mrs. Melville Smith in Syracuse. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Felkner and family and Mr. and Mrs. Richard Smith were recent Sunday evening visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Felkner. Mrs. Ruth Jones of Golden, Colo., called on Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Felkner Wednesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. David Strieby of Bloomington spent the week end at the home of his mother, Mrs. Cleo Strieby in Syracuse, and joining them for Sunday dinner were Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Hubartt and sons of Syracuse. David is a senior at Indiana university and will graduate in December.

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CONCEIVED IN LIBERTY Crockett, Van Buren Win Elections In 1821

Revolution and Evolution The Bicentennial Years Oct. 31 Through Nov. 6 Editor’s Note: This is one of a series of weekly columns recalling events in the history of the nation, and of the world, 280, 150, and JOO years ago. 1771 — New- York Hospital, one of the earliest in the colonies, is chartered, although not to be opened until 1791. Sponsored by Dr. Samuel Bard, Philadelphia-born in 1742, and educated at King’s College (later Columbia) in New York, and at Edinburgh. Bard had been practicing medicine in New York since 1765. There he was instrumental in establishing a medical school at King’s College in 1768, where he became dean of the faculty in 1792. The school was reorganized in 1811 as a separate College of Physicians and Surgeons, with Bard as president until his death in 1821, at 79. He also was founder of the New York Dispensary and author of standard textbooks on medical practice. ... In Moscow, an epidemic of the “plague" resulted in public hysteria and tumult, with 8,000 troops employed to restore order. Cruel and barbarous methods used resulted in a great slaughter. 1821 — In national elections, David (Davy) Crockett, of Tennessee, was elected to the legislature of that state; and Martin Van Buren, bf New York, was elected to the U.S. Senate. Crockett, born near Limestone, Tenn., in 1786, son of a Revolutionary War soldier of Irish descent, had been a scout in the Creek Indian war, under Andrew Jackson; a colonel in the state militia, and a justice of the peace since 1815 in Giles (now Gibson) County, where he also was a farmer. He was to be .reelected to the state

’ STAMPS Tonga Honors Apollo By PAUL J. WEIS Copley News Service The kingdom of Tonga, in the mid-Pacific on the international date line “where time begins," has issued the first postage stamps in philatelic history to be watch shaped. Each of the four new stamps shows a full-size, gold-cased Bulova Accutron tuning fork watch in full color. Issued by the general post office in Tonga, the series commemorates the anniversary of man’s first landing on the moon July 20, 1969. U S Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, the first men on the moon, emplaced scientific instruments incorporating a Bulova Accutron tuning fork watch movement on the moon’s Sea of Tranquillity. The king, of Tonga, who is 53, has a strong interest in America and has developed Tonga’s stamp revenue to the point where they now reportedly account for some 5 per cent of the kingdom's annual revenue. The new issue is unusual also because all four stamps are of the “no lick” self-adhesive

legislature in 1826, then served two terms in the U.S. Congress from 1827 to 1831, and another term in 18331835. Defeated for reelection, he went to Texas, where he was killed at the Alamo March 6,1836, at 50. Crockett, Texas, now the fifth oldest town in that state, incorporated in 1837, was named in his honor. Van Buren, in law practice in New York state, already had been a member of the state Senate and attorney general. He was to serve in the U.S. Senate from 1821 to 1827, was elected governor of New York in 1828, but resigned in 1829 to become secretary of state in the Cabinet of President Andrew Jackson from 1829 to 1833. He was then vice president during Jackson’s second term, in 1833-1837; and became the eighth President of the United States from 1837 to 1841. Bom in 1782, as the Revolutionary War ended, he was the first president never to have been, technically, a former British subject. 1871 — Stephen Crane, bora in Newark, N.J., later to become author of “The Red Badge of Courage” in 1895, and other writings that brought him an international reputation. He died in 1900, aged 29.... Cordell Hull born in Overton (now Pickett) County, Tennessee. He was to be a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for 22 years (1907-1921 and 19231931) and of the Senate in 1931-1933. He resigned to become secretary of state in the Cabinet of President Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1933 to 1944, when he resigned because of ill health. Known as the “father of the United Nations,” he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945 for his part in organizing the United Nations. He died in 1955, aged 84. —Robert Desmond

variety. Tonga, the only remaining Polynesian kingdom and the only country in the world where the Wesleyan Methodist Church is the state church, stretches as a 200-mile-long 15island chain along the west side of the international date line. Total population of the 36 inhabited islands is some 80,000. The 18th Century British sailor-explorer James Cook landed on Tonga in 1773, marveling at the friendliness, hospitality and graciousness of the Tongans. Ip his official report to the British Admiralty, Cook called Tonga “The Friendly Isles” —a name the Tongans proudly retain. Mrs. Ruth Jones of Golden, Colo., a former Milford resident, was in the Lakeland area last week visiting friends. Mrs. Bennett Wheelock of Reading, Pa., has been visiting ter sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. William Motts of Milford for the past week. Over the week end, Mrs. Wheelock’s husband joined her. He is employed in Ohio. They will return home Friday, leaving from Ohio.

Shearer Facts ... ByCARLSHEARER It’s a fact . . . that what Christ did for us at Calvary 2000 years ago should lead us to live for Him eternally. Walking down the street one day a lady noticed a little girl leaving the church building by herself. When the child passed her, the lady inquired where she had been. “In there,” replied the little girl, pointing to the church building. “And what were you doing in there?" the woman asked. “Praying," was the very quick reply. Thinking the child was probably bothered with some kind of problem the lady' inquired, “What were you praying for, (tear?** “Nothing,” the child replied. “I was just loving Jesus. We invite you to the Milford Christian church where you can love Jesus.

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facts about ‘OUR TOWN’ Milford, Ind. By JERI SEELY Here’s an old picture that was taken around the turn of the century on what we would guess to be one of the now famous Milford Days. Who knows who the man in the center of the photo is? Is he the Montana Joe mentioned on the sign attached to the drug store? Said sign states “Joe” started September 2, 1901 to walk 8,600 miles in 389 days for a tobacco company. Another thing we couldn’t help but notice is the lack of women in the photo. Two women are standing on the balcony over looking the street while a few others are shown close to the store buildings on the east side of the street, however, no women are to be found in the gathering of men in the center of the street. Does anyone remember anything about this day? I think I’ll eat at school next week. They are having Witches’ stew, ghostly orange quiver.

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goblin sandwich, devil’s bar and spook juice. That sounds like a much better menu than one I could have at home. Speaking of Halloween, Milford town board members have set Friday and Saturday. Oct. 29 and 30, for trick-or-treat nights. They are also allowing the annual UNICEF drive to be held on Thursday, Oct. 28. Want to see a beautiful fall scene. Take a drive down North West street. The trees are starting to turn and there is a pair at the comer of West and Fifth that belong in a painting. One is about as bright a red as you’ll find while the other is a beautiful shade of yellow. By the way, one of our little birds told us this week that the

New Indiana Laws Show Great Concern For Road Safety

A group of state laws which recently became effective have tightened things up for Indiana drivers. The new laws will: —Make it easier to flunk driver tests by reducing 15 per cent to 10 percent the level of alcohol in the blood, considered prima facie evidence that an accused driver is under the influence of alcohol. — Tighten the implied consent law by providing that anyone operating a motor vehicle on a highway shall be deemed to have given his implied consent to submit to a drunk test if asked, with a provision to permit lifting of driver licenses and court

property on which the trees are located was recently purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Richardson. Construction work continues at the bank and work has started on the new building at the Christian church. The community has been saddened by the death of one of our most respected senior citizens. Miss Grace Noss of West Catherine street. Miss Noss had many friends throughout the community and will be missed by all who knew her. The annual Halloween festival will be held in Our Town on Saturday. An adult category is being considered for this year.

tearings for those who refuse. — Require drivers to signal 200 feet before making a right or left turn in speed zones less than 50 m.p.h. and 300 feet in zones of 50 m.p.h. or more (old law required 100 feet). — Require headlights to be on from sunset to sunrise (old law was from 30 minutes after sunset to 30 minutes before sunrise) — Provide that anyone who, in good faith, freely renders emergency care at the scene of an accident shall not be liable for civil damages for personal injuries, or will not be liable for acts of omission in rendering such care.

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