The Mail-Journal, Volume 23, Number 53, Milford, Kosciusko County, 31 December 1986 — Page 5

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IT S NOT GOING TO BE A HAPPY NEW YEAR FOR KOSCIUSKO COUNTY PROPERTY TAXPAYERS. It has not been published yet, but the bad news in 1987 is that the county’s property taxpayers are going to get belted. ftf figures submitted for final approval by the State Tax Board are granted. Warsaw property taxpayers will have their first $9.00 rate since 1973. when it was $9.35 per SIOO of taxable property. Tippecanoe Valley school taxpayers will see their rates go up considerably due to a 29% increase in school budget requirements. In comparison to 1985 rates (last yea without a local option tax) tax rates have increased from one to 26% per SIOO of taxable property in 1987: Syracuse taxpayers will see their rates go up only 1%, while Seward Township has the highest increase (26%). The two main causes for the increases are due to a 20% increase by the county government and 29% by Tippecanoe Valley School Corp. Shown below are estimated rates per SIOO of taxable property and percentage of increase from 1985 to 1987: 1985 1987 % Inc. COUNTY $ .87 $1.04 20% TOWNSHIPS Clay $5.55 $5.20 14% Etna 5.54 5.85 6% Franklin 4.97 6.28 26% Harrison 5.25 6.54 24% Jackson 4.98 5.97 4 20% Jefferson East 4.92 5.37 9% Jefferson West 5.20 5.75 11% Lake 4.31 5.01 16% Monroe 4 81 5.74 19% Plain 4 36 5.07 16% Prairie 4.39 5.07 15% Scott sklli<5 k lli< 5.74 11% Seward 4 88V 6.17 27% Tippecanoe 4 96 5.52 11% Turkey Creek 5.01 5.45 9% Van Buren 5 06 5.58 10% Washington 5.47 6.00 10% Wayne 499 ' 5.56 11% Burket 5.69 7 04 24% Claypool 6 51 7.48 15% Etna Green 6 97 7.33 5% Leesburg 5 45 6.13 22% Mentone Frank 7 04 8 59 22% Mentone Harr 7 04 8.59 22% Milford 6 82 7 49 10% North Webster 7.70 8.25 7% Pierceton 7 61 8 30 9% Sidney 6 41 7.57 18% Silver Lake: 6.55 7.29 11% Syracuse 7.47 7.57 i% Winona 807 i 8.66 7% Warsaw 824 ' 909 10% Warsaw Plain 8 03 8.89 11% SCHOOL DISTRICTS (Included in rates above* Warsaw 3 36 3 88 15% Wawasee 3 89 4 20 8% Whitko 3 77 4.56 21% Tippecanoe Va 3 84 4.96 29% Triton 4 08 4.33 6% WaNee 4 18 4 58 10% —o— POOR REPORT The State Board of Accounts has issued its reports on the various count) offices. All received excellent reports However, one office- that of County Treasurer Vickie Shoemaker — received a lull page of what was wrong with her office and how to improve her management of it. Complaints were that: 1 Monthly bank reconcilements were not prepared on a current basis. 2 The Daily Balance of cash and depository record was not being kept on a daily basis. 3 The monthly financial report was not always prepared timely Outstanding checks and deposits in transit (those on the report> were not always correctly stated. Examiners from the State Board of Accounts concluded their review, stating that they had discussed the report with Mrs Shoemaker and County Commissioners Frederick Gilliam and Charles Lynch and the officials did not wish to make an official response Some taxpayers have been complaining that they have had trouble with the office. Other country offices have been held up in completing their previous county balances due to the treasurer's office not having its records up to date.

Kokomo mayor will not seek third term

In a surprise announcement, Kokomo Mayor Stephen J. Daily said on December 19 that he will not election to a third con secutive term as mayor of the North Central Indiana city in 1987. Daily stated that he would have a January announcement concerning his future political plans, but left little doubt that the announcement would focus on anything but a state-wide race in 1988. Daily said that he had grown increasingly alarmed and concerned over the years with what he described as "the failure of successive Republican administrations to address the needs of Indiana and Indiana's cities. To be successful, any Democratic statewide campaign must begin now,” Daily said. The 39-year-old Kokomo Democrat has held municipal office since January 1976, after having been elected to the common council in November of 1975. He won his first term as mayor in 1979 and won re-election in 1983. In his 1983 re-election bid, he won

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with winning margins in all city precincts. Daily currently serves on several committees of the United States Conference of Mayors, including membership on the advisory board for the Center for Entrepreneurship in Cities; the Community Development, Housing and Economic Development Committee; and the Arts and Recreation Committee, Daily also serves as a member of the Small Cities Advisory Council and the Finance, Administration and Intergovernmental Relations Policy Committee for the National League of Cities. Daily, who holds a master of science degree in education from Indiana University, is a Viet Nam veteran. He and his wife, Carol, have two children. Japan's deficit Japanese National Railways had a 1985 deficit of SBS billion — greater than the national debt of Mexico, says Rational Geographic.

Letter to the editor

An easy way

Dear Editor, Exporting American jobs and industry — It’s wrong: Foreigners have found it’s easier and cheaper to buy us than to bomb us. Our elected leaders are selling our children’s birthright, and it should make you as hopping mad as it does me. What’s worse is that they’re proud erf doing it; they think it’s what we want. Exporting American jobs and industry, resulting in rising unemployment and dismantling of U. S. production facilities, is mandated by the General Agreement on Trade and tariff’s (GATT) formulated at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) 1947. In his 1961 Report to the Congress on U. S. participation in the United Nations, Pres. John F Kennedy said, in effect, that under United Nations mandate the United States is obligated to rebuild the world, to pour all U . S. wealth into the hands of international cartelists for redistribution to the ’’have-nots ”, and to emigrate the U. S. population as their skills and energies are needed in the underdeveloped nations. In the second-phase announcement to the Congress 1964 Report on the U. S. Participation in the United Nations, Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson revealed that emerging nations are to be industrialized under UNCTAD. Small and medium size business owners destroyed by such relocation of production and labor skills, will he said, be compensated for such losses by loans from the United Nations International Monetary Fund, which theoretically will enable ruined American businessmen to enter new fields of endeavor — leaving the market open to tariff free imports from UNCTAD — industrialized nations We also know by news reports of the General Motors strike at Kokomo. In. over the 2000 jobs to be exported to Mexico as iow paying jobs Now let’s look at the whole question of foreign interests that have found it’s easier and cheaper to buy us than to bomb us. And our elected officials and we the people are helping them do it. We re sending our elected officials overseas to encourage them. 1 hesitate to call it treason; I'm still looking for another word to describe the process of peddling our nation's wealth door-to-door and the peddling our Lugar names legislative director Senator Richard Lugar (RInd.) announced recently that he has named Mark W. Weller to be legislative director in his Washington office A native Hoosier. Weller was born in Indianapolis and raised in Richmond. He is a graduate of Indiana University, holding a bachelor of arts degree in economics and political science Weller also received his law degree from Indiana University School of Law in Bloomington in 1983. After graduation, he served as an attorney and research analyst for the National Republican Senatorial Committee in Washington. DC. Since March 1984; Weller has served as Lugar's legislative assistant, specializing in tax and banking issues. ’Mark has excellent legislative judgement and has been an able and outstanding assistant. He is thorough and diligent and will serve the people of Indiana well as my legislative director,” Lugar said.

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children’s birthright. Some elected officials will point to with pride to all those foreign owned factories here and tell us that without outside investment, all those jobs will go away. BALONEY!! The only thing that would change would be that the ownership would be American. The market for those products wouldn’t disappear and neither would the jobs. 1 think our elected officials are reading the American people wrong. But they don’t see that, because we the people have not indicated that we feel differently. If we do, we should make our thoughts know to Gov. Robert Orr, Lt. Gov. Mutz and our Indiana State Legislators. When these subjects are addressed and debated, grassroots Indianians and Americans will stand up and yell. I think the people of every state will be incensed when they discover that we re turning this country over to people. who can’t even get a work permit to wash dishes in a hotel. This all can be changed if we citizens of Indiana and America are loud enough for long enough. I don’t know just what mental gymnastics or public hypnosis our elected official are trying to pull over the people. In this respect, thought, it means that by virtue of this widespread public ignorance that the Constitution of the United States had been defiled. I have four children and nine grandchildren. I don’t want public policy formed by people who do not even speak our language and I don’t want my children's and grandchildren's future mortgaged to people who salute a different flag. Think about it. On December 7. 1941 Pearl Harbor was bombed. On December 7, 1986 our elected officials gave them SB6 million incentives to come to Indiana. Thank you very much. Sincerely, for America to stay America. Paul F Double R. R. 1. Box 23 Ossian. In 46777 Phone (219)622-4159 Two-vehide collision Monday evening Rebecca Hepler. 52, r 1 box 89. Syracuse, was taken to Goshen Hospital and later released after she was involved in a two-vehicle accident Monday evening, Dec. 29. at 8:12 p.m Mrs. Hepler was driving a 1984 Olds Delta 88 south on SR 13, onefourth mile north of the county line in Elkhart County, when she lost control on the slick blacktop and crossed the centerline striking a 1978 Chew pickup driven by Melvin Eash. 52, 13859 CR 36. Goshen. He was not hurt. Mrs. Hepler received injuries to her neck. knee, and a bump to her head. State Police Trooper Richard Coil estimated that both vehicles received $2,500 in damages. Door damaged at Water World An employee at Water World, SR 13. discovered a section from a door to the business had been removed upon returning to work Sunday morning. Dec. 21. Syracuse Police believe there may have been an attempt at theft but upon investigation nothing was reported missing at the Syracuse business. A bottom section on the left hand side of an overhead door was torn, although no damage estimate was given.

Planning Indiana's state budget

The process of planning Indiana’s state budget for the next two years got underway recently and, according to State Representative Paul Reese (RMishawaka), "This process is one of the most powerful tools the legislature has for shaping state policy” The State Budget Committee is responsible for the first stage of the budget process, preparing a recommended budget for submission to the governor. The committee is a bi-partisan, five-member group consisting of

Mishler named to two committees

Citing State Representative Greg Mishler’s (R-Bremen) experience and commitment to serving the people of House District 22, the Speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives announced on December 22 that he has named the lawmaker to two House committees. Representative Mishler will be a member of the Ways and Means Committee and will also serve as ranking member of the Public Health Committee. House committees are the first step in the legislative process for proposed new laws originating in the House, and the committees serve an important role in determining which proposals will receive the consideration of the full House The responsibilities of Mishler's committee assignments are: Ways and Means Committee: To consider legislation dealing with local school finance, higher education finance, pensions and the budget Public Health Committee: To consider legislation dealing with the regulating and licensing of health professions as well as issues addressing an individual's rights in the health care system and public well being. In response to Mannweiler's announcement. Mishler said. “I am pleased to learn of these com mittee assignments. In particular, I will be able to insure that the voices of the people of House District 22 will be heard. ” Mannweiler noted that he is looking forward to working closely with Representative Mishler during the upcoming session of the General Assembly. “In order to cope with the difficult problems facing our state, we need leaders in the House like Representative Mishler who have the ability and knowledge to

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develop workable solutions,’’ said Mannweiler. '‘Representative Mishler has clearly demonstrated the courage and wisdom necessary to deal with tough issues, and I am personally grateful that he will be serving on these important committees. ” The first session of the 105th Indiana General Assembly will reconvene at the Statehouse on January 6. Committee hearings will be scheduled at that time. Vandalism and theft reported One incident of vandalism and one theft were reported to Syracuse Police last week, interrupting an otherwise quiet holiday season. Mullin’s Auto Sales, r 3. Syracuse, reported the theft of four chrome trim rings and four center chrome caps sometime between 6 p.m., Tuesday. Dec. 23. and 3 p.m., Wednesday. Dec. 24. No suspects have been found and the value of the loss was unknown at press time In an unrelated incident, David J. Milbourn, Syracuse, reported that someone broke off an antenna from his Toyota truck as it was parked at Lake Street Thursday, Dec 25. No value was given. nowpufmk;. .. The Color Os Moauy » I othleen Turner In I Peagy Sue Got Married Or Will She 7 111 UM IIIHMT H. '49 Sun Si? Mon Thyrs 7 Only Village Video VHS Tape Rental In Our Cabby Na Membership Fee

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Since mid-September, the budget committee has met two or three days a week to prepare the budget report. All state agencies submit requests to the committee and hearings are held. During the hearings, each agency has the opportunity to explain its current programs and offer proposals for new ones. While the budget committee prepares a state expenditure report for the next biennium, a group of the state’s leading economists will be meeting to project major economic variables. From these projections, the state can then estimate the amount of revenue that will be raised from the state’s three major taxes: sales tax, individual income tax and corgross income tax. Revenue estimates will also be made for the other miscellaneous taxes such as the cigarette, insurance and alcoholic beverage taxes. When all funding requests have been presented, revenue projections are compared to the budget requests and a final report of appropriations is hammered out by the committee If funding requests exceed revenues, the Budget Committee’s task is to sift through the requests and determine which are most important to fund and at what level. By constitution, Indiana must have a balanced budget. “We cannot spend more than we have.” cautioned Reese. “When spending requests exceed revenues, the government has the option to either spend less or increase taxes. ”

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Education, economic development, roads and highways, mental health, and social services programs are just a few of the areas where funding will be sought to maintain or add programs. In the current budget, education is the primary recipient of state tax revenue. “Over 33 cents of every tax dollar is dedicated to supporting Indiana’s public schools,” said Reese. Another 13.5 percent of the budget is devoted to funding higher education. Over n percent of the state funds is spent for highways, and property tax relief accounts for an additional 10 percent. “This leaves less than one-third of our state funds for programs in areas such as corrections, natural resources, and mental health,' Reese explained. An additional problem that the budget committee must consider this year is the possibility of federal budget cuts. If the Gramm-Rudman-llollings budget reduction mechanism is triggered this year, nearly $1 billion of federal funds will be subject to across-the-board cuts. A reduction of 7.5 percent for example would result in a $75 million cut to the affected state agencies. The legislature must then decide which of these state agencies, if any, should receive additional state funds “It's still early in the budget process,” explained Reese. “But now is the time for the public to tell their state legislators how they want their tax dollars spent. ”

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