The Daily Journal from Franklin, Indiana • Page 1

Wother: Partly cloudy and warm Indiana's Award Winning Newspaper and Johnson County's Largest Daily Vol. 7, No. 14 Franklin Greenwood, Indiana, Wednesday, August 6, 1969 10 Budget shows $4.60 levy property in Franklin if ion department workers are prU- By DAN LOGSDON FRANKLIN The city of Franklin will advertise a $4.60 tax levy on property in their budget for next year. This represents an increase of $1.27 in the current rate. The overall budget for Franklin shows mnrp mary reasons for that budget going up.

Also Increased this year the Park and Recreation depart, ment budget, But funds for the Province Park expansion, for 4 ,000 will-be-Taised---- lof budget, while the fire department budget dipped slightly," the mayor said. "New additions (of homes) make It necessary to Install and maintain street llehtlne and fire hydrants," Drake said. hike accounted for another large part of the overall Jump in the city's budget. Operation of a sanitary landfill west of Franklin, and the pur. chase of new equipment, specifically a crane, for the landfill, along with pay raises for street The $4.60 levy compares to a pay raises, are basic factors on the budget, Mayor Drake ex street department workers, the city attorney, and others.

Mayor Drake explained, "most people plained. proposed $3.85 rate last year (the State Board of Tax Com. mlssloners trimmed that rate to $3.33 In their review). According to Mayor Robert E. are making five times what they Budgets submitted to the County auditor, will be re made in 1940, but not here (Frank viewed by the county tax adjust.

lin). It's simple. cost of living has Increased more rapid (continued on page 3, col. 3) ly than salaries. And besides, to Drake, the $4.60 levy will pro.

bably be cut, and the mayor said he "doubts If the new rate will be over $4. In fact." he said. get good help, we must pay them," the mayor declared. it could very well be under that figure." "Annual salary of some of our employes on city payroll Is still toward the bottom of the scale as far as a fourth class city The mayor said, however. Whiteland budget is up; but town tax levy down Guard trains at Atterbury "there will be an increase, Just like In nearly every other city rating Is concerned," he con tlnued.

and town In Indiana." WHrTELAND Town board of. "Much depends upon whether Infantry take part in squad maneuvers. From left, they are Staff Sergeant Eugene Goedek-er and Private Martin Schmidt, both of New Albany, Ind. No, it isntt Vietnam, but the field exercises are geared for that country as 2,000 members of the Indiana National Guard go through two weeks of annual training at Camp Atterbury. Here, two soldiers of the 151st ficlals here have approved a pro Figures In the new budget for Franklin show a big hike In the general fund, which includes we get new assessed valuation figures.

posed 1970 budget calling for $1,728 more than this year, but and county and state action, budgets of the mayor, clerk treasurer; common council, at and funds 'on hand' all will expect to lower the town tax levy 31 cents. go toward determining the final levy." torney, Board of Works, city hall, police and fire departments, Town Clerk Treasurer Lenore Davis said there is no secret The state's action in lowering Nudist camp publicity and plan commission. A $405,070.80 total In the gen. the tax levy last year to $3.33 was based on $15,975,880 In net to raise $12,009.75, Mrs. Davis said.

Last year's tax levy of $1.20 raised $16,192.92. A breakdown of the 1970 budg. et listed salary of town trustees at $900, salary of clerk-treasurer at $750, salary of marshal and deputy marshals at $3,000 and compensation of town attorney, $300. Services contractual were set at $10,084, supplies were listed at $350, current charges at $5-587 and properties, $190. The total street fund was set at $18,650 and cumulative capital Improvement fund for new eon.

formula for having ahigherbudg-et and lower tax rate, but the action resulted from a carryover eral fund is being advertised; taxable property. It Is noted that about $80,000 more than a year from the 106 9 budget. unless new assessed valuation ago. "There is a considerable In. Brings series of protests figures are In on time, the new budget could be determined on The proposed Whlteland tax crease in the police department levy of 69 cents was computed last year's net value.

to see if the camps are "In con The city's budget to be ad. using 1968 assessed valuation figures and town officials say fllct with state laws." Last weekend a "Miss Nude America" was chosen at Naked the rate may be lower then ex. pected when 1969 figures are in vertlsed August 7 calls for a total of $738,809.22 to be raised, compared to $572,541.34 a year ago. Area Deaths structlon totaled $5,000. from a special county.wlde re Mrs.

Davis said the hike from City, a nudist camp near Rose lawn, and this weekend a na Mae Hadley, assessment. Accounting for most of the While the general fund budget last year's budget was "scat-tered" throughout the total budget and no area was raised any great Mrs. Garna 49, Trafalgar. Mrs. Dorothy Greenwood.

tlonal convention of nudists Is planned at a camp near for next year was set at $21. increase in departmental budgets Is a hike In salaries for city employes, including policemen, A. Long, 67, By HORTENSE MYERS INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) Re-cfent publicity over two nudist camps In Indiana has brought a series of protests to Governor Whltcomb, who said Tuesday he has ordered an investigation to determine If the camps can be closed. Whltcomb, who had called a news conference to Introduce his news secretary, said he has received numerous letters of grotest, many beginning with What kind of a governor are you?" Ha said he was checking be hauled from Lafayette to LaPorte. National Homes Is a prefabricated home builder.

Whltcomb explained that a communications gap developed between himself and the public because he had no news secretary for about three months, Edward Kane had resigned In May from the job, and Waggoner began his new duties Tuesday. "It has come to us that a great many things we do are not put out to the general public," he said, and predicted that 161, the tax rate will only have extent. Granger, north of South Bend. Whltcomb announced the se an hour-long meeting with three Indianapolis lawmakers concerned about Whitcomb's deteriorat-lng relationship with the black community as dramatized by a "poor peoples" meeting Friday. The governor blamed a lack of communications for several of the demonstrations against him and the three legislators agreed this had been a factor.

"I may have made a miscalculation in underestimating the need for a press secretary," Whltcomb said. E. Henry Lamkin, Choice, Edwards and David Allison, all Republican representa lection of David L. Waggoner, 25, state government reporter At Whiteland-New Whiteland Indianapolis television sta tion WLW-I, as his assistant In charge of public Information "111', TJbeQvernpr lso reported on Petit! Otis Loiokona i coming on me about "the true facts. will feel they are getting their tives from Indianapolis, met with Whltcomb at their request money's worth." prior to the news conference.

Waggoner previously had served on the news staffs of answered by the two town boards, but by the people. Chamber officials said yesterday that this is what they aim to do through their petitions. The petitions will be presented to both town boards. If the necessary number nf signatures Is obtained, the We discussed progress this office has made in carrying out radio stations WXLW and Schauer is named United Telephone district manager housing and day care for child ren," the governor said. Whit WIRE in Indianapolis before joining WLW-I.

He began his (continued on page 3, col. 3) comb said this progress mainly has come about through cooperation of his administration with federal agencies such as Hous lng and Urban Development. Weather: He said Dr. James Kessler, one of his administrative assis tants, spends much of his time in finding what federal programs are available and pro By STEVE WILSON GREENWOOD Petitions concerning the possible consolidation of Whlteland and New Whlteland are expected to begin circulating by mid-August as the result of a meet-lng here Tuesday afternoon. The petitions, asking greater Whlteland voters wheth-er or not they favor a merger, may be used to mandate the two town boards to hold a referendum election on the Issue later this year.

Officials with the Greater Whlteland Chamber of Commerce pledged they would go "all the way" with their ef-forts to bring about a referendum election on the merger question. The decision was made at a special meeting of the group at Steffey's Restaurant in Greenwood. A spokesman for the group said the chamber Is setting its goal for a special referendum election on the Issue in November "if all goes well." The spokesman said the petitions will remain In circulation for about two weeks. During the circulation period, chamber officials said they hope to poll 100 per cent of the eligible voters in both towns. The petitions are to be circulated by both officials with the chamber and area residents.

Chamber board members, who predict the Whlteland area to be one of the fastest growing areas In the state during the 1970s, say they want to bring about the merger "for the future development and growth of the community." The town board of New Whlteland and two of the three members on the Whlteland Town Board stated earlier this summer that the issue of a merger Is not a question to be cedures for qualifying under boards are required by law to conduct a referendum election. While no recent official polls on the issue have been taken in Whlteland and New Whlteland, chamber officials are optimistic as to the outcome of the Issue. One chamber official said he felt the time Is right now. An attempt to merge the two towns several years ago failed before an election could be held, but chamber officials say they will ride the Issue this time to a decision one way or another. With a recent change In board members at Whlteland, the reception the petitions may get is unknown, but two of the town board members told The Journal earlier they would go along with the majority of the people.

The third member of the board, Merrill Brunnemer, said he was "100 per cent against it." Brunnemer Is the only remaining member of the three-man board elected by, voters. Board President Hershell Sandlln and Billy Burchett were appointed after two board members resigned over a dispute. Until their resignation, the possibility of a merger of the two towns had been discussed. Sandlln said earlier, "The people should get what they want." Apparently, In the next few weeks "the people" will get their chance to express their want of a merger. them, and that a handbook is being prepared for mayors lng such information.

The governor said the greatest By United Press International Partly sunny today. Fair to-night. Partly cloudy Thursday. Warmer with Increasing humidity. Chance of showers or thundershowers Thursday afternoon or evening.

High today (n id and upper 80s. Low tonight 63 to 68. High Thurs. day 86 to 92. Precipitation probability percentages 5 today, 10 tonight, 20 to 30Thurs-day.

Outlook for Indiana: Chance of showers or thundershowers Thursday night and in cen. tral portion Friday. housing need in Indiana is In the northwest segment at pre L. J. Booher, Vice President 'operations for United Telephone Company of Indiana, announced the promotion of Robert W.

Schauer to the position of District Manager of Unlted's Franklin District. This advancement will place Schauer In charge of the Ad-vance, Bargersville, Fortville, Franklin, Jamestown, Lapel, Marietta, Nineveh, North Salem, Providence, Trafalgar, and Whlteland exchanges, which serve a total of nearly 19,000 telephones. The promotion of Schauer fills the vacancy created when James R. Cooper, former Franklin District Manager, was named to head Unlted's newly-created Southern Division. Headquarters for both Cooper and Schauer will be at Franklin.

Schauer, born in. Montrose, Colorado, graduated from high sent. He mentioned expansions by Bethlehem Steel, U.S. Steel and Budd companies in northwestern Indlaha. Whltcomb praised a housing development begun by U.S.

Steel and the Urban League in Gary, and work that National Homes, Lafayette, Is doing in hous ing at LaPorte. Whltcomb. said he had been able to cut red PFC William-Karas victim tape for. the, LaPorte project so Power failure Schauer Ro that a 14-foot wide load could Serviceman killed in war school In Montlcello, Indiana In 1951. A year later, he began his employment with United as a lineman in Montlcello.

A series of promotions moved EVANSVILLE, Ind. (UPI)-A major power failure blacked out much of a two-county area today, Including most of Evans. vllle, the fourth largest city In Schauer to construction foreman, combination-man, and test board Southport limits may extend south frameman, all at Montlcello. In 1966 he was named Assistant Indiana. The loss of power, blamed on "feedback" In a line leading 'District Manager for Unlted's then newly acquired properties In Southern Indiana.

He had held this position, residing In Law- SOUTHPORT Follow. to a generating station of the Southern Indiana Gas It Elec a. uj, trie affected half of Van. renceburg, until his recent pro lng action taken by the city council here Tuesday night, the cities of Greenwood and Southport may In the future be separated only derburgh County and most of Posey County. Power was restored before would Increase the city's present population of slightly more that 2,000 to more than 10,000 and add an estimated tax valuation of about $15.2 million.

The proposed annexation area extends from the present muni, cipal boundaries north to Bant a Road, excluding the incorporated town of Homecroft; east to Arlington Avenue and west to by a county line. noon, however, with some ex In the first meeting of the ceptions; newly. elected city council, eight The new Evansvllle civic annexation ordinances were 4 motion. Schauer is married to the former Tywllah Nevitt andthevhave three children; Trlna. Jo, 11; Rob Wynn, and a new-born son, Richard Wayne.

The Schauers are members of the Ludlow Hill Baptist Church In Lawrenceburg and they have recently relocated at Franklin route five. center, housing government passed which would extend South. 5. offices and the jail, was without port's city limits south to the GREENWOOD A Greenwood man was named as one of 19 casualties of the Vietnam conflict, In a list released by the Defense Department. At the home of Army PFC William J.

Karas, they are finding it hard to believe. "Billy was so nice to everyone, he never had an enemy," a young cousin said today as she cared for his two younger brothers. Tiny three, month. old Jennifer Karas will never know her daddy. A member of the 8th Infantry, he left for Vietnam five months ago.

She'll have only a picture and the memories her mother passes on. The 22. year-old infantryman raised the number of Indiana servicemen killed In Vietnam to 1,097. He was killed by artillery fire Thursday. His wife, Nancy Denlen Karas and young Jennifer reside atSouthwood Mobile Home court on Greenwood ft route 7.

Born in Beech Grove, Nov. 31, 1946, Karas was the son of Mr. andMrs.HaroldG.Karas of Greenwood route 5. He had resided In the Greenwood area 13 years and was a 1964 graduate of Center Grove High SchooL Before entering the Army last September, was a sheet metal worker for Sink and Edwards, Inc. in Indianapolis.

He was a member of the Christ United Methodlsf Church. Others surviving Include four brothers, Jack E. Michael and Frank all at home, and Steven R. Karas, who is home on military leave with the Navy; the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.

Herbert Smith and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Longshire, all of Indianapolis. Line IShelby Street In addition to the Johnson-Marlon County proposed southern Road. for the council ordinances A In all, the eight spokesman the action said power late this morning and it appeared that a secondary failure might be Involved.

A spokesman for the utility said a "feedback" In which the electrical current reverses Itself occurred In a line leading to the Ohio River generating sta. tlon. causing the station to fall. jto give people a chance to choose I what type of government they want Southport or yv "We're giving people In the. Inside today: area a chance to choose where they want their tax dollars to This reduced by one-fourth the utility's generating capacity.

It was the second power xau. ure to hit the utility In six weeks. A power failure attrlb. Reipome to Black manifesto divides council of churches page 2. --After Nixon' Rumanian visit, the country can't attract top communists to their annual party congress page 6.

Scientists feel they are relegated to second doss role in space program page 1 2. uted to a severe storm occurred June 28-29. go," the spokesman continued. "If they want to become rest, dents of Southport, their tax money will be spent locally and will not go somewhere else in tne county." City officials said Homecroft was excluded from the proposed annexation since It Is an Incorporated town, but If Homecroft continued on page 3, col. 5) Traffic became badly snarled during the morning rush to work and several industries Senate votes today on ABM system page 13, found themselves facing new Funeral services are pending at Little and Sons In Beech Grove.

difficulties. PFC William J. Karas Il J-.