The Mail-Journal, Volume 15, Number 30, Milford, Kosciusko County, 16 August 1978 — Page 13

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VOLUME 15

Kosciusko County budget published

A legal appears this week giving totals of the Kosciusko County general and township budget and appropriations requested for the ensuing year, which are up over $643,000 over 1978 appropriations. The salary of the auditor is up SBOO, salaries of deputies (four) up SSOO each, and most other operating expenses up over last year. * The salary of the clerk of the circuit court will remain the same as 1978, with SSOO increases ask for each deputy (eight) and $6,610 requested for an additional deputy, a fourth deputy of court two (fifth deputy of one.) Also requested was an additional amount for extra help, and if no deputy granted, a hew amount requested. Telephone and telegraph requests are down S4OO from last year, with a new request this year for dues for the clerk’s association. Monies requested for precinct board members for the county elections (inspectors, judges, sheriffs, clerks and assistant clerks) are up from S6O to S6OO, while a number of other areas are down in monies including

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telephone and telegraph down $275 from last. Manatron is a new request in the county election board budget in the amount of $4,000, and S3OO requested for voting machine repairs. Deleted is the SI,BOO in the budget for 1978 for program, masks punched, etc., and $2,000 from last year for ballots, demonstration ballots, computer program and rent for same. The amount of $450 was requested for polling places as compared to $1,400 in 1978. All salaries in the agriculture area are up slightly, some as much as S7OO, except the salary for extension agent-youth for county 4-H girls leader which is down SI,OOO. A hefty jump is requested of $1,400 in the equipment and repair area of the ag department and nearly $1,200 in office machines. Salaries requested in the offices of the county assessor are up from 1978, with the total requested for overall in the department to be up $4,000 over last year. Only $29 additional is being requested in the office of the

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county service officer overall, a portion of that being for office machines. A boost is being requested of nearly $13,000 in the office of the county drainage board, SI,OOO being in the deputies and plat book co-ordinator area, and $7,310 for an assessment clerk, where none was allotted for 1978 in the latter request. Expense requests are up slightly for the Wayne township assessors office of a little over $2,000, nearly $2,500 in the prosecuting attorney’s office, much of this being for the deputy prosecutor, office supplies and rent. Requests in the county recorder’s office are up nearly $2,000; the circuit court, up over $4,000; superior court, up over $7,500; and county court, up nearly $3,000. Requests for the county court house are up over $7,000, much being in repairs of the building. Salaries requested in the office of the county surveyor are up in ranges of $356 to over SBOO. A little over $3,000 is requested additional this year for the office of the Turkey Creek Township Assessor. The over $22,000 request in the office of the county treasurer included SIO,OOO under other equipment, cash registers, raises in salaries, and establishing of a salary of $7,310 for a third deputy. County civil defense requests remained the same as 1978. An increase of over SIO,OOO is requested in the area planning office, much being in salaries. Though the salary of the county sheriff is to stay the same as 1978, slightly over $29,000 more is asked in his department, much for an increase in salaries of other department members

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including patrolmen and radiomen and $13,040 for clerical assistance. The substantial jump in the county jail request includes salaries plus another jailer salary. Requests remained about the same for the county coroner, however, showed a huge jump in the offices of the county commissioners. This request includes $2,500 for maintenance addressograph, $190,000 in land and improvements, SIO,OOO for Lakeland Humane, and $30,000 more for the Cardinal Center. Approvals Clay Township received approval for nearly S4OO over the 1978 budget, Etna, nearly $400; Franklin, $200; Harrison, over $800; Jackson, over $150; Jefferson, $200; Lake, $200; Monroe, $100; Plain, over $1,200; Prairie, SSOO. Also, Scott, $150; Seward, $300; Tippecanoe, $1,500; Van Buren,

"Breath of Life" chairmen named

Raymond N. Armstrong of Silver Lake and Mrs. Jack (Becky) Rhoades, North Webster, have been named chairmen of the 1978 Breath of Life campaign by Lawrence D. Frutkin, president of the Indiana State Chapter, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. The Breath of Life campaign will be conducted during September, cystic fibrosis month. , Both chairmen will lead local volunteers in raising funds which

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over S3OO , and Washington, S3OO. The County Health Department requested some $6,000 over 1978. The County Welfare Department asks nearly $40,000 more in funding, adding a rehabilitative family services area to the budget. Over SIOO,OOO more is being requested in the county highway area, including $14,000 new funds for weed spraying, nearly double in the amounts for bituminous, and SI,OOO in utilities where none was funded last year in the budget. Approximately $32,000 was budgeted in the County Cumulative Budget Fund last year with $230,000 being requested this year. In revenue sharing, SIOO,OOO is requested in reassessment for 1979, $25,000 in humane commission building program, $250,000 in general drain improvement, and $150,000 for highway.

will support the research and care for children affected by cystic fibrosis, severe asthma, chronic bronchitis, bronchiectasis and other lungdamaging diseases. Both Armstrong and Mrs Rhoades commented, ‘‘Most people do not realize there are millions of children affected by lung-damaging diseases and through this campaign you can help these children who can’t take breathing for granted.”

Two Leesburg people injured Lorna L. Clutter, 21, and Mark J. Hamman, 23, both of r 1 Leesburg, were treated and " Released from the Kosciusko Community Hospital following a two-car accident on Wednesday, Aug. 9. Hamman’s auto was hit by a car driven by Mary E. Neu, 20 of Plymouth. The accident occurred two miles east of Leesburg, at 11:42 a.m., at the intersection of Armstrong Road and CR 200E. The Hamman vehicle was heading west on Armstrong when the Neu vehicle pulled in front of his vehicle, according to County Patrolman Thomas Brindle, who investigated the accident. The Plymouth woman was cited for failure to yield right-of-way. Victims had already been removed from their auto by the time the Warsaw firemen arrived with a mini-pumper and the “JAWS” unit. The emergency medical technicians were assisted by the firemen in loading the injured persons in the ambulance. Hamman received a head cut and Miss Clutter received a cut to the mouth and pains in the neck, upper right side and right knee. Damage was respectively set at S4OO and SBOO to the Neu and Hamman cars.

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BEST OF ENTRIES — A picture of a little boy and girl enjoying one of Indiana's many creeks was judged “best” among entries in the spring portion of the “In Search of Indiana — the REAL America" photography contest, with the winning black and white photo taken at Chapel Glen in westcentral Indiana by Barbara Doering of West Lafayette, a labor arbitrator. The seasonal photography contest is sponsored by the tourism development division of the Indiana Department of Commerce. Three other winning photographs were also selected for the spring portion of the contest, and the four winners were presented awards in late July by Lieutenant Governor Robert D. Orr, director of the Indiana Department of Commerce, in a ceremony at the state house building. Announcement of contest winners marked the end of the spring photo contest, with competition continuing throughout the year of deadlines September 15 for summer pictures and December 15 for fall photos. Winners receive free overnight accommodations at one of Indiana's state park inns, and winning photos will be used in advertising and promotion campaigns of the tourism division.

Senior Citizens to highlight activities

The crowning of the 1978 Indiana Senior Queen, the annual cookie bake-off and the Senior Citizens art exhibit will highlight activities at the Senior Citizens building at the state fair August 17-27. Crowning ceremonies are scheduled for the second day of the fair, August 18, at 3 p.m. for the Senior Queen of Indiana, and the annual cookie bake-off is held daily at 10 a.m. except on August 18. Baking will begin at 12 noon on Sunday, Aug. 20, with the grand champion to be named August 27. Four categories of art work will

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be displayed, amateur, professional, copy work and sculpture. Judge for the event is William G. Ashby of Brownsburg, a graduate of John Herron School of Art who is best known for his seascapes and portraits. Each of 16 area agencies on aging has been designated as host for the entertainment during a specific day. There will be belly dancers, senior citizen choirs, square dancing and kitchen

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bands, among other things. Both Sundays, Aug. 20 and 27, will start with a special worship service. Elsie Saberton of Evansville will be guest speaker for the August 20 service with D R. Isaac Beckes, president of Vincennes University in charge on August 27. Organizations concerned with senior events and their interests will have displays set up in the building.

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