The Mail-Journal, Volume 27, Number 21, Milford, Kosciusko County, 6 July 1988 — Page 5

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"l STATE GOVERNMENT COSTS UP —ls your pocketbook was a good deal lighter after paying your April state taxes, you shouldn’t be - surprised. According to figures released by the state auditor, the cost to operate the state government during 1987 was more than 14 BILLION DOLLARS. In 1981 state officials spent eight billion dollars to operate stdtc services. In 1981 — the first year of Gov. Bob Orr’s administration — the state spent an average of $1,491 per person.. , In 1987 this had increased to $2,655 per person. This represented an C 80 percent increase in a seven-year period. The state’s fiscal year starts July 1 2nd ends June 30th of the following year. So it can be assumed that the cost — with all of the in- * creases added on by the state legislature during the 1987 session — will result in an expenditure of $3,000 per person for 1987-88. A comparison of expenditures 1981 and 1987 is given below: Category / 1981 1987 Personal 551,913,224 $837,581,118 Other Services 41,041,587 54,868,040 Contracts T 122,196,650 203,516,824 Supplies 86,373,116 112,382,532 Equipment 17,276,955 53,883,829 Land Struct. . ■ 428,187,073 866,112,354 Grants 6,812,815,806 12,480,993,379 j Travel . • 11,035,777 18,200,273 Total 8,070,840,188 14,627,538,349 The 1987 total adds up to $14,627,538,349. However, I have used the state auditor’s total and not the total from addrng up the accounts. A comparison of the various accounts are shown below: It is very apparent that employees have been added in the Personnel Account. Wages in 1981 were listed as $44,7,324,015 as compared to $644,748,158 in 1987 — ? almost two hundred million dollars more. In the Contractual Account: Advertising increased from $882,768 to more than four million dollars. Rental of computers from four million to ten million. Agreements from 10 million to 29 million. Software for computers from a little over three hundred thousand to three million. There has been a flap over consultants’ charges. This account has gone from almost three million to almost six million. Mental health from 40 million to 55 million. Supplies — stationery, etc., from five to nine million. Auto license plates from one and three-quarter million to six million. —o—- — ASPHALT FOR ROADS from almost three million to two anda half million. —o— ALSO REDUCED BITUMINOUS MIXTURES FOR ROADS from * almost two million to one and a half million. Equipment Account — Office, from four hundred thousand to two million. Office Furniture from two hundred thousand to a million and a half. A gut where we really show BIG INCREASES was the computer account (in addition to the above contracts) in which SEVEN MILLION in 1987 as compared to ONE AND A HALF MILLION in 1981. Also, in the Vehicle Equipment Acfcount — Type 1981 1987 Station Wagon $860,000 " $2,700,000 Autos 4,000,000 8,750,000 Pickup Truck 800JKM) 2,000,000 The above figures have been rounded oftjMin some cases to the nearest $100,000). \ Materials Account — Probably the biggest shocker was paint. Roadway and paint supplies. In 1981, $32,689 was spent. In 1987, by some miracle, state officials spent THREE MILLION. There are other tidbits in the state expense accounts. Would you like to read the report? It’s more than 450 pages long (small print). Do you actually believe that state expenses had to be increased almost 80 percent in seven years? —o— HATS OFF TO HIGHWAY — County Highway Superintendent K. Taylor has two programs that are going full tilt — mowing the berms of the county highways and painting yellow lines on - the roads indicating curves and hills. —o— PROGRESSING S: Maenhout and his volunteer crew are progressing on the new numbering system for the county. They selected Turkey Creek and Wayne Townships as first targets. —o— SALES DOWN — According to local rumors real estate sales are down in the lake area. Speculation is that some potential buyers are waiting to see to what extent the new real-estate assessments will affect purchasing a home in our county. ' ' ( • NEW TAX LAW PUTS BITE ON SOME According to some accountants, some have been “had” by the new federal tax law. They point out how some people had invested in real estate and sold on contract. They discovered that several old deductions allowed under the sale are no longer permitted.

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Residents booked at jail The following persons were recently booked in the Kosciusko County Jail: Anthony Ray Snodgrass, 35, r 1 box 123E, Milford, was charged with assault and battery. Bond will be set by the court. Adelina Garza, 40, r 2 box 48C, Milford, was charged with three s counts of non-sufficient funds in checks and released on $4,500 bond. Kellie Diane Pettigrew, 34, r 2 box 266, Syracuse, was charged with check deception and released. Dwight Thomas Traxler, 29, P.O. Box 194, Milford, was sentenced to one year in the county jail on a charge of operating a vehicle while intoxicated. Michael Allen Shirey, 41, r 2 box 42, North Webster, was sentenced to the county jail for one year on a charge of operating a vehicle while intoxicated. Derrick Joseph Avery, 18, Forest Glen, Leesburg, was charged with conversion and released on $250 bond. s Michael Dean Knowles, 22, 302 East Elm St., Milford, was booked on a charge of contempt of court and released on $250 bond. Anthony Curtis Germanprez, 18, P.O. Box 276, North Webster, was charged with resisting law enforcement and released on $3,000 bond. Curtis Bradley, 42, r 1 box 158 J ,! Milford, was charged with criminal recklessness and released on $250 bond. J Michael Alan Ppee;~-49r1>00 South Front St., Syracuse, was charged wit/h criminal recklessness and released on $250 bond. Phillip Edwin Johnson, 29, r 1 Big Barbee, Warsaw, was charged with public intoxication and released on $175 bond. Vicki Sue Lemberg, 31, r 2 box 23, Leesburg, was charged with driving under the influence, assault and battery/simple assault, resisting an officer and driving while suspended. She was released on $450 bond. Jose (“Taeq”) Martinez Bivar, 37, P.O. Box 41, Cromwell, was charged with public intoxication and released on $175 bond.

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Quayle speaks out on dangerous misconceptions on nuclear weapons

Are there more nuclear weapons in America today? Is this country, in fact, building up its nuclear arsenal as part of a never-ending “arms race”? Well, no. We aren’t engaged in an ever-increasing competition to build more and more nuclear weapons. In the past 20 years, the number of nuclear weapons has gone down, not up. In fact, since 1967, as America’s nuclear arsenal has become less vulnerable to attack, it has also become much, much smaller. We now have about 8,000 fewer nuclear weapons today than we did 20 years ago. In addition, efforts to make weapons less indiscriminate have brought dramatic reductions during the same two decades in the amount of firepower packed by our nuclear arsenal. Since 1967, the total yield of the U.S. nuclear stockpile, as measured in megatonnage, has fallen about 75 percent.

Ward backs bill

• Thomas W. Ward, Democratic nominee for Congress from Indiana’s third district, recently called upon his opponent to support the bill on advance notification of plant closings. Ward made his remarks in front of the State Employment Services Office on 203 South William in South Bend. “It’s plant closing time again in Congress. The bill is before the House for the third time this session,” Ward said. “The first time around, I told John Hiler he should vote for it because it was the decent way to treat people, and he didn’t buy that. “The second time, I told him that it was the right thing to do, and that didn’t sway him,” he added. “Now, I’m here to speak in the only language he seems to understand — dollars and cents. Passing this bill will save the taxpayers money.” “Maybe John Hiler doesn’t want to cushion the blow for working families or give communities the right to know what’s going on, but he does claim to want to save your money,” Ward said. The House of Representatives was expected to vote June 30 on S. 2527, the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act. This bill consists of the advance notification measure previously contained in H R. ,3, the Omnibus Trade Act, which passed the House on April 21. The rest of the trade bill, minul the plant closing provision and restrictions on the export of Alaskan oil, will be taken up soon afterward. “John Hiler has been telling people that he understands their concerns and sympathizes with the aims of this bill, but he just can’t vote for it,” "Ward said. “Well, you can’t have it both ways. Today, he’s going to have to put up or shut up, or else on election day the people of the third district are going to say

Yet as basic as these two facts are — that the nuclear weapons has fallen and That our arsenal’s firepower had fallen even more — no one in America seems to know about them. According to a rather startling poll released recently bs> the Committee on the Present Danger, there is an incredible amount of misinformation concerning nuclear weapons has increased over the past 20 years, according to the poll. Again, the truth is that we have about 8,000 fewer nuclear weapons today than we did in 1967. Contrary to the facts, some 62 percent of Americans believe the number of nuclear weapons has increased during the Reagan administration. About 70 percent of Americans believe the explosive power of our nuclear arsenal has increased since 1967, when the truth is that it has actually fallen quite dramatically.

they understand his concerns and sympathize with his aims, but they just can’t vote for “him.” . The notification legislation only applies to firms with more than 100 employees, so 90 percent of American businesses are exempt from its provisions. The bill also employers who are victims of economic conditions which they could not reasonably have foreseen, faltering companies which are making good faith efforts to keep the facility open, or firms whose employees knew that their work would be temporary. Ward believes that passage of plant closing legislation will be good for business and the national economy, because it will help dislocated workers get retraining and job search assistance sooner. When unemployed workers are off the payroll and in shock from a job loss, it has a negative impact on America’s ability to be competitive. He says that those who oppose this legislation are special interests who wish to preserve corporate privilege.

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Not a single person in the poll conducted by Penn and Schoen Associates knew that the firepower had declined by more than half. The director of the Committee on the Present Danger, Charles Tyroler 11, said the poll’s results should disturb us. I agree. They should. “It is a matter of serious concern that while so few Americans are aware of the reductions in the size and power of the U.S. nuclear arsenal brought about the strategic modernization, they are being told that the only way to

Ward — Keeping environment top priority

Thomas W. Ward, Democratic nominee for Congress from Indiana’s Third Congressional District, emphasized recently his commitment to protecting the en- , vironment in a news conference at /the North Main Street -Well Field in Elkhart, a well-known Superfund site. “This week, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed 215 sites be added to Superfund’s National Priority List,” Ward said. “Eight of those sites are in the state of Indiana, and five of them are right here in the Third District.” “Cleafly, this area has a special concern about environmental contamination, ” Ward added. “And this means that ensuring adequate funding for Superfund cleanups is not just a national issue, but an important local issue.” Ward was joined at his news conference by Representative , Mike Synar (D-OK), a five-term \ congressman known, for,- his leadership in environmental affairs. Synar chairs the Subcommittee on Environment, Energy and Natural Resources of the House Government Operations Committee — which oversees the EPA — and also sits on the powerful Energy and Commerce Committee.

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achieve reductions is through 4 negotiated accords,” Tyroler said. Tyroler said he’s also troubled that Americans are being told that “huge decreases in our defense budget can be achieved in the nuclear area, which actually represents only 15 percent of the fotal. “Americans are laboring under some striking misperceptions, and very little effort has been made by either political party to educate the public on the facts of the matter,” he said. Maybe it’s time to set the record straight.

According to Ward, keeping the environment clean should be a top priority for the congressman from the Third District. He said that he favors making sure funding is available to clean up the contamination that has been uncovered and to protect against future problems. Ward also said he that the polluters' 1 should bear the burden of cleaning up toxic waste, not the average citizen who is exposed to the contamination. “We already have a number of sites here in the district, as well as some others such as the contaminant plume in Granger which bear investigation,” Ward said. “The job of the congressman must be to get these sites on the Superfund list and to make sure that cleanups take place without delay.” The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed that the following five sites be added to the National Priority List: Whiteford Sales and Service--1 Nationalease, Inc., South Bend; .Lakeland Disposal Service, Inc., Claypool; Galen Myers Dump and Drum Salvage, Osceola; Himco, Inc. Dump, Elkhart; and Conrail Robert Young Yard, Elkhart. If made a part of the list, these sitte will be eligible for 90 percent federal financing for cleanup.

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Smoll business forms committee for John Hiler Congressman John Hiler received the endorsement on July 1 of the National Federation of Independent Business and met with a core group of small business people who are forming a Small Business for Hiler committee. Hiler was joined by John Motley, director of the National Federation of Business, and William Shannon 111, chairman of the new Hiler committee. «~ Motley was ih South Bend to announce his organization’s endorsement for Hiler and to attend the Hiler committee meeting. Motley noted that 1,500 small businesses here in the third district are members of the NFIB. * Shannon, a member of the National Advisory Council for small Business, is chairman of the Hacienda Mexican Restaurants and associate professor of business administration at St. Mary’s College. Shannon said, “Hiler/ understands the problems facing small business and has always confronted those problems and taken action. He has played a prominent role in helping third district communities nurture small business and create jobs throughout his time in office. ’ ’ Following the breakfast, Hiler outlined the importance of small business as the engine which drives the local, state and national economies. “Almost 90 percent of the businesses in Indiana are small businesses. Nationally, between c 1980 and 1986, small business was responsible for creating 63 percent of the 10.5 million new jobs in that period,” Hiler said. “The best thing the federal government can do with regard to economic policy, is to nurture the further, growth and competitiveness of small businesses. They are clearly the most innovative, productive and jobcreating types of\ businesses in the American economy.” The NFIB has recognized Hiler for his work on smaH business issues by honoring him with the Guardian of Small Business Award.