The Mail-Journal, Volume 20, Number 1, Milford, Kosciusko County, 19 January 1983 — Page 5

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Break-ins being investigated

During the past week end three Syracuse businesses were broken into. Syracuse police are still investigating. The office of Centery 21 Beaty Realtor, SR 13S, Syracuse, was entered some time before 8:13 am., Saturday, Jan. 15. Items ' stolen belonged to Attorney James Howard, who has offices

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there. Taken were a 35 mm camera and assessories, a Norelco transcriber, a Colt .45 revolver and a duffel bag. Total value of those items was set at over $2,325. Sometime between 5:30 p.m. Friday and 8 a.m. Saturday, someone broke a large plate glass window at the front of

Curtis Electorates, Pickwick Road, Syracuse. Four television sets were taken from the store. The televisions were valued at $1,500. Police received a report Friday morning that thieves had broken into Love Furniture, Huntington St., Syracuse, Thursday evening or early Friday, Jan. 13 or 14. The break-in was noticed on Friday morning. Nothing was reported missing.

Numerous complaints investigated Syracuse police have investigated several complaints recently. At 4:47 a.m. on January 14 Rick Barefoot called Syracuse police to report that sometime between la.m. and 4:47 a.m. his lunch had been taken from his car, parked at Classic Formed Products, Brooklyn Street, Syracuse. Value of the lunch was set at $3. On January 14, at 3:16 p.m., Kay McCulloch, owner of the Next-to-New Shoppe, Wawasee Village, Syracuse, called to report two walkie-talkies missing from her store. Police questioned customers of the store and the incident is still under investigation. Value of the stolen property was set at S2O. Gary Shively, Rustic Manor, apartment number one, Syracuse, called Syracuse police at 12:18 p.m. on January 15 to report the theft of a tape deck, booster and one speaker from his truck, parked outside his apartment. The theft apparently occurred sometime between 4 a.m. and 12:18 p.m. on January 15. The stolen items were valued at S4BO.

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M-J PulSe Call6s&4TTLExt. 17 Today’s question: Both the Milford Town Board and the Milford Area Development Council have expressed the fact they would like to see a park at the old Milford Junior High School site. What is your opinion? Results of last week’s question: What do you think of video games? Not too impressed ... Enjoy them ... Kids have fun with them .. Haven’t seen them enough to know ... Getting to be too many ... Big waste of money... You can get booked on them ... Terrible waste of brain power... Never thought of them ... Never play them ... Too much of anything is bad... They brainwash children... I likethem.

Report from your State Representative THAMES MAUZY *

State Representative Thames Mauzy (R-Warsaw) has introduced a bill which would require a person under 16 years old charged with drunk driving to be tried in an adult court. “A drunk driving decision in juvenile court is not considered a ‘conviction’ and is not recorded in a permanent file.” Mauzy explained. As a result, he added, juveniles with a history of drunk driving are tried as first-time offenders when arrested as adults for drunk driving. “This bill would apply to young drivers who cause a death while driving under the influence of alcohol.” He added, “However, juveniles who cause a death, but are not intoxicated, would still be tried in juvenile court. ” A representative of the Indiana Board of Motor Vehicles spoke in support of the bill. He noted that juveniles charged with most moving traffic violations, including reckless driving, are tried in adult court. Mauzy explained that this measure would act as a “deterrent” to the problem of young people driving while drunk. This bill was heard in the Judiciary Committee on January 11 and a vote was expected on January 13. After the bill is voted out of the Judiciary Committee, it will then reach the House floor for further debate. Many people may have forgotten their “how-a-bill-becomes-law” high school civics lessons, and may not realize that the metamorphosis of an idea into reality is a long and tortuous process. After a bill is introducedrtn the House, it is assigned to an appropriated committee where it is thoroughly examined, tested and amended if found deficient. If it receives committee approval, it is sent to the House floor for action. There, the bill must receive the stamp of approval of a minimum of 51 representatives, a simple majority in the 100member House, on two different occasions, at least one day a part. If it survives this far, the bill starts on the same long and winding road in the Senate. The Senate, however, could have a different interpretation of the bill

than the House, and could amend it accordingly. If this happens, the Senate will have given its approval to a different version of the bill than the House, and the House needs to reconsider the bill. At this point. House members may concur with their Senate colleagues, and ratify the changed bill. It then goes to the governor’s office’, where his signature will turn it into a fullfledged law. When no concurrence can be reached, the bill is handed over to the care of a conference committee, composed of two senators and two representatives. Those four legislators will then try to iron out the differences, and produce a compromise measure compatible to a majority of both the House and the Senate. Success at this stage means that the bill will be sent to the governor for his consideration; failure means that the bill is dead for the legislative session. During the long session, which lasts 60 session days and occurs during odd-numbered years, it is not unusual for over 1,100 pieces of legislation to undergo this process. Those bills, if they are passed into law, could greatly affect the quality of life in both urban and rural parts of our state. It is therefore vitally important for your voice to be heard in the state capitol. The House of Representatives provides centralized telephone numbers for individuals with messages for their state representatives. The number is 1-800-382-9841. Telephone center operators will refer messages to me from 8:30 a.m. until 30 minutes after adjournment each day. Calters should keep their messages short because the line is in constant use by people all over the state. Also, the cost of each call, based on the length and distance, must be absorbed by the state. I can also be reached by writing to me in care of: Indiana House of Representatives, 401-2 State House, Indianapolis, Ind., 46204. Fruit stains Pour boiling water from a height of several feet through fruit stains for easy removal.

Deliquent ; property taxes high Delinquent property taxes in Kosciusko County were at the highest peak since the great depression, according to county officials. In tallying up the figures Kosciusko County Auditor Jean Northenor learned there was a 36 per cent average increase jin property tax delinquencies from 1981 to 1982 for all 33 taxing units in the county. Overall there was an approximate 20 per cent increase in delinquencies. In the local area delinquency increases are: Jefferson East, 22 per cent; Plain Township, 26 per cent; Tippecanoe Township, 28 per cent; Turkey Creek Township, 29 per cent; Van Buren Township, 17 per cent; Leesburg, 12 per cent; Milford, 10 per cent; North Webster, 38 per cent; and Syracuse, 34 per cent. Mrs. Northenor is concerned that if this trend continues into another year there would be problems. If more delinquencies occur and less property tan dollars collected, towns, townships, schools and libraries will have fewer operating funds. The 1 result would be elected public officials and school administrators cutting budgets and providing fewer services. Schools receive 60 per cent of the tax dollars collected in Kosciusko County and could be the hardest hit when funds are distributed in June and December. At the end of 1982, added assessments and mobile home taxes amounted to $227,783. With an increase in delinquencies by $151,800 that was reduced to $75,000 at the end of 1982. Hall completes course at MSU James L. Hall, employee at the. Syracuse Wastewater Treatment Plant, has successfully completed a correspondence course in supervisory management sponsored by Michigan State University. In addition, Hall has been awarded six continuing education credits which will remain in his records at the university. The course involved learning basic management techniques by using examples related to utility operation. The course is a selfstudy, seven-lesson course and requires 100 to 150 hours of study to complete the program.

Car hits house, damages could run to $8,500 Damages could run as high as $8,500 as the result of a onevehicle accident Friday, Jan. 14. The vehicle, belonging to a Syracuse woman, struck a highway department guardrail, a fence and a house. At approximately 1:28 a.m. Jean D. Gotshall, 67, r 2 Syracuse, was traveling on Old Road 13A when her vehicle veered off a curve about six miles northeast of North Webster, striking the guardrail, fence and house owned by Dr. Morris Smith of Tipton. Police estimated $2,501 to $5,000 damage to the automobile; between $l,OOl and $2,500 damage to the fence and house and S2OO to SI,OOO damage to the guardrail.

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Open Door Weekly Report From Senator John B Augsburger

State Senator John B. Augsburger (R-Syracuse) has coauthored legislation this session that would eliminate the annual sessions of the Indiana General Assembly. Augsburger’s proposal, S.B. 370, would restrict legislative sessions to the 61-day, oddnumbered “long sessions,” the system that was in effect prior to 1972. In 1970, Indiana voters ratified a constitutional amendment allowing the legislature to determine the length and frequency of its sessions. In response to that amendment, the 1971 legislature enacted a law specifying annual sessions instead of one biennial session. Augsburger added that the intent of such a change back in 1971 was to provide a “short” session to handle emergency appropriations to the state’s biennium budget. “The state has now experienced a decade of annual sessions,” Augsburger said. “It is my belief that the citizens of Indiana have not received any additional benefits from this change and, in fact, would be better served by a return to the old format .” Augsburger estimated that approximately $2.5 million in tax dollars are spent for every “short” session in expenses and staff and legislators’ salaries. Augsburger’s bill would also cut legislators’ salaries during the “odd” year that the legislature does not meet from $9,600 to $3,200. “This $2.5 million does not include an even greater amount of tax dollars that are spent in printing and other miscellaneous costs, plus the cost of enforcement of the many laws the legislature enacts in those sessions,” Augsburger stated. In addition to the cost savings to the taxpayers, Augsburger feels that this measure would allow legislators more time to spend in their district. In further support of the change, Augsburger stated that states with lengthy and frequent sessions have noticed more growth in "government without any visible increase in essential government services. Additionally, the high volume of legislation tends to favor a growth in special interest groups which organize and promote their own interests — not the general public’s. “Having the legislature meet only once every two years would have a positive effect on the legislative process,” Augsburger added. “I believe a return to the old format would be in everyone’s best interest by saving the taxpayers millions of dollars and

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allowing us to spend more time in our home district addressing the problems that face our con stituents,” Augsburger concluded. Two bills of interest to Indiana sportsmen and hunters cleared their first legislative hurdle this week when the Senate Natural Resources Committee gave the bills “do pass” recommendations. The bills are authored by State Senator John B. Augsburger (R-Syracuse). Senate bill 47 would require a $6 annual resident license and $37 non-resident license to hunt raccoon. “The purpose of the license is to set up a special fund for the acquisition of wetlands by the state,” Augsburger said. “Under the bill, $2 of each resident license and $lO of every non-resident license would be used to acquire wetland areas to fund other habitat development projects to increase furbearer populations,” he said. “It has been estimated that the first year alone will bring in approximately $125,000.” » Augsburger’s second measure. Senate bill 48, creates a lifetime license for hunting, fishing or combination hunting-fishing. Under the bill, hunters or fishermen would pay twenty times the annual fee and obtain a lifetime license. “Thus it would cost $l2O for a lifetime hunting or fishing license or SIBO for a combination hunting-fishing license,” Augsburger stated. Proceeds from the licenses would go into a trust fund, the earnings of which would: be transferred to the fish and wildlife fund for various programs administered by the Department of Natural, Resources. L According to Augsburger, three states have already established lifetime hunting and fishing license systems, and the early results have proven this to be a popular and workable program. Both measures will now go to the full Senate for consideration there. Avoids animal, hits 5 mailboxes, tree Timothy P. Clever, 16, r 5 Syracuse, was taken to Goshen Hospital and treated for minor cuts to his head following a onevehicle accident on Friday evening, Jan. 14, at 5:35 p.m. The mishap occurred on CR 1000 N, east ofCR3OOE. According to police Clever tried to avoid hitting an animal in the road and lost control of his auto, striking five mailboxes and a tree. Daiqage was estimated up to $5,000.

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