The Mail-Journal, Volume 23, Number 11, Milford, Kosciusko County, 12 March 1986 — Page 5

Under the . .. Courthouse fffy Dome Ml By Ron Sharp WHERE YOUR LOCAL INCOME TAX MONEY WILL GO IN 1986 — Forty-six cents out of every dollar distributed on the local income tax paid by Kosciusko County persons will go to taxing units in Wayne Township. J The county will receive 36 cents out of every dollar collected. A total of $756,945 will be distributed to the county taxing units from the local income tax. Receiving the funds will be: Wayne units $344,493 (Warsaw $256,243, Winona Lake $21,883, township $42,586, library $23,781.) County general fund $273,876. Turkey Creek units $54,151 (Syracuse $42,543, township $7,705, library $3,903). Other taxing units: Van Buren $18,879 (Milford $13,972, township $1,876, library $3,031). Tippecanoe $15,787 (North Webster $11,218, township $4,569). Harrison $12,784 (Mentone $5,566, township $2,438, library $4,780). Washington $12,833 (Pierceton $5,143, township $6,310, library $1,380). . • Plains4,7l3 (Leesburgsl,72o, townships 2,993). Etna $4,630 (Etna Green $1,892, township $2,738). Clay $3,043 (Claypool $1,310, township $1,733). Lake $3,005 (Silver Lake $2,554, township $451). Jackson $1,895 (Sidney $374, township $1,521). Seward $1,837 (Burket $456, township $1,381). Franklin $1,577 (all township). Prairie $1,398 (all township). Jefferson $875 (all township). Scott $591 (all township). Monroe $574 (all township). Distribution of funds does not have any relationship as to amount paid by those in each township. The state’s distribution formula is based on amount of real and personal property taxes paid. (If this sounds like a stupid formula, it is). All taxpayers in the county pay the local income tax as well as state and federal tax. The Kosciusko County Council of Norman DeGood, Larry Teghtmeyer, George Klinger, Carl Latta, Katherine Teel, Dennis Polk, and Tom Anglin passed the tax last January. Wage earners and others with incomes started paying the tax July 1,1985. Many will pay their share of the tax in 1986, when they file their state and federal final tax returns for 1985. The tax was supported by Warsaw officials and County Auditor J. D. Geiger. KUDOS TO GOP County Chairman Jean Northerner. She pulled the coup of the year by securing U.S. Senator Richard Lugar for the party’s February Lincoln Day Dinner. The senator was a “hot number” due to his heading the committee observing the Philippine election. More than 300 attended the Lincoln Day dinner — one of the bestattended in the county’s history. MAY GAIN TOP SPOT — If Warsaw Community School board members go ahead with a $29,000,000 building program and finance it with bond issues, the District will owe the largest debt of any school system in Indiana. According to 1983 figures released by the State Department of Public Instruction, the next highest would be a district in southern Indiana with a $27,000,000 debt. „ Warsaw’s district would owe more than $32,000,000 (including bond issues that have occurred since 1983). figures available —1983-84 — reveal that the debt of all county schools totals $10,875,921. Wawasee leads the county school districts with a debt of Tippecanoe second with $2,775,000; Whitko $1,130,000, and Warsaw with $750,000. x * School districts of Tippecanoe Valley, Wawasee, and Whitkcrhave either floated bond issues since these figures were released or plan to do so in the near future. If the Warsaw School board goes ahead with its planned $29,000,000 expenditure, it is conceivable that all county school districts could owe as much as $40,000,000 to $50,000,000 dollars within the next few years. JAIL BOOKINGS HIGHEST IN HISTORY- Sheriff Al wenstine reported that 2,134 persons were booked into the county during 1985. J a ’ Bookings of previous years are shown below: i Year Number , 1975 1,419 1976 1,322 > 1977 1,491 " ,■ , 1978 1,635 1979 1,532 1980 1,847 1981 1,502 1982 1,625 1983 ’ 1,619 ; . ' ' A 1984 1,734 1985 2,134 The month of October had the most number of bookings with 220 persons registered. The fewest were in February with 114. All indications are that the cool weather is a deterrent to crime. During the past 10 years January has had the fewest bookings, five times, February three times. (Some have referred to the plush accommodations at the local bastille as the county’s answer to the Hotel Hilton.)

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a PH fL ML ® >J i 1 H ajtl I a J J ■' •BHXWB . (■ EBI • I 1 H| 1 wßb E3 •• MmMHB REFORM BILL SIGNED — Governor Bob Orr signs a license branch reform bill March 5, putting to an end Indiana’s 50-year-old system of politically controlled license branches. Seated above are, from left, Rep. William Cochran (D-New Albany), Reb. Richard Dellinger (R- * Noblesville), Gov. Orr, Sen. William McCarty (D-Anderson), and Rep. Dan Stephan (R-Huntington). Standing are Rep. Earline Rogers (D-Gary), Sen. Patricia Miller (R-Indianapolis), Sen. Michael Gery (D-West Lafayette), Sen. William Soards (R-Indianapolis). and Rep. Jeffrey Espich (RUniondale).

Gov. Orr signs license reform bill

Flanked by legislators of both political parties, Governor Robert Orr signed into law a bill to end Indiana’s 50-year old system of politically controlled license branches, last Wednesday, March 5. “This is truly an historic occasion for the State of Indiana,” Orr said as he signed the license branch reform bill (House Enrolled Act 1400) mandating a state takeover of the system by July 1,1988. “Thfe public demanded a change. They demanded a system in which they could have confidence. The legislative and executive branches of our state government have heard the message from the people, and we have responded,” Orr said. Orr made license branch reform his top priority for the 1986 legislative session. He proposed the bill last year, and with his strong backing, it was passed Feb. 28 by the Indiana General Assembly. The House of Representatives approved the governor’s plan by a vote of 83-17 and the Senate by a 37-12 margin. The bill has five major features: — Establishes a five-member bipartisan Bureau of Motor Vehicles Commission to manage the state’s license branches. The commission becomes effective July 1,1986. — Calls for a pilot program beginning after Jan. 1, 1987, to project costs for the total state takeover. Ten license branches will participate in the pilot program. — Deposits all fees and service charges collected by the pilot branches and the new state system into a State License Branch Fund to be used for the operations of the new system, including the pilot branches. — Subjects all license branch records, after the state takeover, to the Indiana open records law and mandates annual audits of license branch operations by the State Board of Accounts. — Prohibits political candidates from accepting contributions from license branch bank accounts after Jan. 1, 1987 (this prohibition applies to the current license branch system). The bill also requires that there be at least one license branch in each county, permits the commission to establish a

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separate personnel system (including a separate pay scale and benefit package) for license branch employees, and permits the commission to increase or decrease existing license branch service charges and to establish new service charges by rule after Jan. 141989. The bill prohibits the use of license branch facilities and equipment for political purposes. The commission also is required to study alternative forms of branch operations, such as franchises and competitive bidding, and report its findings to the 1988 General Assembly. The current system operates on a franchise-like basis, with license branch operations in each county controlled by members of the political party of the gover-

20 area youths are arrested in beer bust

Twenty youths and adults, ranging in ages from 12 (one) to 20, were arrested Friday night. Feb. 28, on alcohol-related charges, after Syracuse Police raided a southside apartment house with the help of Kosciusko County, North Webster and Indiana State Police. Syracuse Police Officers Ron Moser and Calvin Kline were investigating a complaint of loud noises in the vicinity of Lynwood Drive, near the old town hall, at 10:30 pm. Friday, when they called for assistance after discovering illegal activities. Two kegs of beer and a small amount of marijuana were confiscated from an apartment rented by Sarah Appenzeller and 20 individuals were arrested and booked at the Kosciusko County Jail on various charges stemming from the incident. Several other charges are still pending the outcome of questioning by Syracuse Police. All of those arrested were released to the custody of their parents or on their own recognizance. Those adults arrested, and charged with illegal possession of alcohol, pending other charges, include: Michael Allen Cavender, 19, r 1, Kimmell; Toni Gail Condor. 19, r 1, Syracuse; Tammi Jean Grawcock, 18, r 2, Syracuse;. Suzzanne Janele

nor. That system has been in place since the 1930 s — when it was established by Democrat Gov. Paul V. McNutt. “The license branch issue resolved, we can now refocus our attention to the most critical issues — education and continued economic growth — as we rush toward the end of this century,” Orr said. Warning MOSCOW — The Soviet Union tempered condolences about the Challenger explosion with claims that the disaster was a warning against research on space weapons and references to alleged reports that secret explosives” were aboard.

Hauntz, 18, r 1, North Webster; Sam William Markly, 18, Rustic Manor Apartments, Syracuse; Sandra Marie Price, 20, Ligonier, and Thomas Jefferson Prickett, 18, r 3, Syracuse. Also charged with illegal possession, as well as illegal consumption of alcohol, is Deborah Ann Kern, 19, r 5, Syracuse. One of the juveniles arrested listed a Milford address, while those remaining were from Syracuse.

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The Hoosier Condition By HARRISON J. ULLMANN Here’s what we lose and how we lose it when we shift Indiana’s economic foundations from the manufacturing industries to the service industries. The old Western Electric plant on Shadeland Avenue in Indianapolis used to be a place of work for 3,800 highly skilled and highly paid men and women. The plant had an annual payroll of $119,676,000 — that was an average of more than $31,000 a year in wages and benefits for each of those 3,800 jobs. The jobs are gone, but not the men and women who used to work in them. Some were close enough to retirement that they took their pensions and left the labor force when the plant finally closed this year. A few — those too young for Western Electric pensions but too old for the pension programs at other corporations — are likely to work in the city’s underground economy, working for cash as odd job craftsmen and home repairmen. The rest have found new jobs, mostly in the service industries that are growing in Indianapolis — the service industries that some say are the way of the future in the Hoosier economy. But the jobs they might have found at Blue Cross-Blue Shield were worth an average of only SIB,OOO a year in pay and benefits. The jobs at Indiana National Bank were worth only $17,500 a year. And the jobs at St. Vincent’s Hospital were worth only $14,500 a year. Those are good employers, stable and reputable, and they offer some good jobs at good salaries — jobs for marketing managers at Blue Cross-Blue Shield, for securities analysts at INB, for medical records librarians at St. Vincent’s. But the average value of all the jobs at these leading service industries is far below the average value for all these jobs we lost at Western Electric. The losses were even greater for those who went to work elsewhere in the service economy. Jobs at L.S. Ayres were worth only SIO,OOO a year and jobs at Marsh Supermarkets were worth less than $2,700 a year. The payrolls at Ayres and Marsh include a lot'of part-time jobs, but part-time work is a feature of the service economy. Nothing awful seems to have happened in the Indianapolis economy when Western Electric finally closed. There was no addition of 3,800 names to the unemployment lists, nor were 3,800 mortgages foreclosed and 3,800 cars repossessed. But something happened when those 3,800 manufacturing jobs were swapped for 3,800 service jobs in Indianapolis. Even if all those 3,800 Western Electric workers were immediately hired for new jobs in the best of the service industries, the result was still a $50,000,000 annual loss in wages and fringe benefits. That’s $50,000,000 a year less than retail and wholesale trade, for banks and insurance companies, for dentists and hairdressers. And that's $50,000,000 a year less for the Hoosier tax base. State taxes are levied mostly against work, not wealth, in Indiana and when 3,800 men and women began working for $50,000,000 a year less in Indianapolis, then Indiana began collecting $2,500,000 a year less in income tax and sales tax revenues. There is a footnote to this story: Western Electric closed its plant in Indianapolis top consolidate production of its consumer products in Shreveport, La., where the costs of labor are lower. Now Western Electric is closing the Shreveport plant and transferring operations to Singapore, where wages are even lower than they are in Louisiana.

Dan Brown chairman for 1986 alumni

Plans are well underway for the 62nd Milford High School Alumni to be held Saturday evening, June 7, at the Milford Junior High School cafeteria. Dan Brown of the class of 1986 is heading up the committee consisting of Robert Auer, Arch Baumgartner, Mr. and Mrs.

Wed., March 12,1986—THE MAIL-JOURNAL

James Brooks, Allen Brunjes, Randall Dewart, Berniece H. Dwyer, and Ted Speicher. ‘Time To Remember* As the final activity of the week-long sesquicentennial, the theme will be, “A Time For Remembering.’’ Principals, teachers, and other personnel,

f Jh TO SPEAK AT DINNER - Evan Bayh will be speaker at the Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner to be held March 22 at the Shrine Building, Kosciusko Fairgrounds. Social hour will be at 6 p.m. with dinner at 7 p.m. Bayh was born and lived the first years of his life on his family’s farm in Shirkieville. A graduate of Indiana University, Evan received a bachelor of science degree with honors in business economics in 1978. He received his law degree in 1981 and, after graduating, served as law clerk to Judge James E. Noland, chief judge for the US District Court for the southern district of Indiana. He currently practices law with former Governor Matthew Welsh’s law firm of Bingham, Summers, Welsh and Spilman in Indianapolis. Having been involved in Democratic campaigns throughout his life, Evan is no newcomer to Indiana politics. He served as chairman of the Birch Bayh for Senate Committee in 1980 and made personal appearances on behalf of the senator in almost all of Indiana’s 92 counties. Most recently, he traveled extensively during the 1984 campaign working on behalf of the Democratic state ticket. Evan is 29 years old. He and his wife, Susan, were married on April 13, 1985. They plan to live and raise their family in Indianapolis and hope to carry on the family tradition of service to the Democratic party and to the people of Indiana.

who served many years at Milford High School, will be recognized. A social hour at 5 p.m. will precede the dinner and a dance will follow the program with music of the 30s to the 60s featured. Alumni will be receiving their invitations in early May.

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