Anderson Daily Bulletin (Newspaper) - August 12, 1983, Anderson, California 98, Number 123 August 12,1983 rates stopped deterioration of some in Indiana but couldn't mend the damage the heat has done to to 2 Inches of rain fell preventing additional damage to com The heaviest rainfall amounts were in central but scattered showers also brought some relief to other areas of the was but where tt hit it win stop the deterioration for a few said Earl agricultural statistician at Purdue it wouldn't revise anything The damage to corn has already been said rain needs to cover the entire state to be significant to farm in places that got rain will be they're still Most all the beans are at the pod filling stage and the rain will help pod he said Thursday's storms dropped or of an inch in the Lafayette which received only of an inch through most of July until rain arrived in the last few days of the County extension agent Rolls Parsons said soybeans are blooming and should produce more pods because of the continued there will be very little reduction in said Hancock County agent Gene rain was too late to increase the already pollinated corn but it might produce larger kernels on the agents County had only enough rain settle the Wednesday said Merrill county said soybean growers still have time to get some rain and have a fair He expects the county soybean output to be 90 bushels an The county usually averages 38 County agent Jim Baird said to of an inch of rain fell and water is Johnson County Emergency Board met Wednesday to inspect corn fields and make a report for the state Agricultural Stabilisation and Conservation Board members estimated the county wide corn yield will be 38 percent less than County agent Joe Milner said every county makes reports and sends them to The board determines which counties are making them eligible for low-interest loans for the next growing abatement petitions COOKIE WALTER CLEMENTS Bulletin Staff Anderson City Council members were convinced Thursday to approve two tax abatement downtown locations of Rax Roast Beef and the Anderson Board of Realtors Inc. were declared economic revitalization making them eligible for tax abatement on improvements to real 11th and Main will be relieved of paying about in taxes over the next 10 The 11th and will get a tax break of businesses will be paying taxes on the but for the first year will not pay any taxes on the Taxes on the improvements will be phased in over 10 beginning with 5 percent the second improvement cost about and created 45 permanent The Realtors spent about for new No jobs were created or but its petition states there is possible creation of additional employment Robert argued that these firms could afford to build without getting a tax break The assets and profit of a company doing the building should be considered as well as the number of jobs to be he Community Development said the program is used as an inducement to get a company lo build in a specific Creating and retaining jobs is he but in the downtown area the emphasis is to expand the tax base and revitalize the former owners of the Rax location paid only See Page 2, Column 1 vows U.S. won't enter President frustrated that France won't intervene in says the U.S. won't get directly involved in stopping rebel is not our primary sphere of it is that of the president told reporters remain in constant consultation with But I don't see any situation that would call for military intervention by the United States fall of the key oasis town of to the rebels on Wednesday was a bitter pill for the administration to swallow because it had repeatedly warned Libya not to press the attack and had urged France to send jet aircraft to battle Libyan planes if it had been mounting frustration in Washington all week over France's reluctance to move swiftly to help embattled government forces at because it viewed the battle as a key one for control of officials have warned did again that unless is stopped in he will seek to destabilize all of North symbol of the U.S frustration is the two sophisticated AW ACS aerial surveillance aircraft that sat idle in neighboring Sudan because the French didn't send the fighters that the AW ACS were supposed to The AWACS were sent from Tinker last Saturday in the expectation French aircraft would soon the the administration put on both publicly and through diplomatic for the French to send It kept insisting the French were although the French planes were never after the fall of was Reagan himself voiced the administration's believed at first that there was going to be some aerial activity referring to the don't know whether they are negotiating at the same time with Libya or sharing uncertainty stymies local photo hanging small screech owl sits calmly in a tree as if he hasn't a care in the The rarely seen in visited the yard of Becky 2824 Brentwood Thursday While it for the Wallace said it flew from place to place and put on a show for Wallace said a neighbor finally caught the bird and took it into the country to be JACK TINKLE Bulletin Starf will local governmental units get in federal revenue sharing in 1984, and when will they know revenue sharing is expected to but funding levels are not assured as the U.S. Senate has not taken up the spokesman of the Office of Revenue Sharing in Washington said Thursday the billion figure remains the same in the the Senate will but the House already has acted to increase the sharing has been around since it was created in 1976, but the annual allocation of billion has been Local government officials have complained about this because inflation has caused expenses to is currently in recess and won't be back in session until Sept. 12. delay in acting on federal revenue sharing puts Indiana townships and other local units in a quandary as budgets are now being completed to meet state there were indications federal revenue sharing was going to be some officials are not including anticipated amounts in their budgets for 1984, although most are putting in the same amount they received this being received in Madison County this year range from the approximate for Anderson to relatively few dollars for the smallest Because of the financial pinch due to inflation and Indiana's property tax freeze which limits revenue from that the federal dollars are the uncertainties attendant on not knowing for certain what they receive have given local budget makers troublesome avoid using revenue sharing funds for continuing programs or expenses such as In event the program was reduced or getting money to meet such expenses would mean squeezing already tight the federal funds are used to meet unexpected It's a matter of in the revenue sharing has been employed in a variety of ways such as purchasing police cars or fire or other one-time purchases of remodeling municipal or buying of the several expenses Anderson met this year was group insurance premiums for city Some townships have used it to help with poor and some towns have let it accrue for a special such as street amounts to be disbursed could be changed under a shift in formulas as to how the money is The Washington official said there are formula changes in the current passage by the House a clause was dropped which distributed the money only to the There was no requirement for distribution to other government units such as towns and a spokesman from the Office of Revenue Sharing Page 2, Column 3 $1 million over the city budget gets initial COOKIE WALTER CLEMENTS Bulletin Staff votes the minimum allowed gave initial approval to the 1984 budget for the city of six of nine City Council members attended the Thursday Don cast his vote in opposition to the monetary Mayor Thomas recommendation for the 1984 budget is It is more than is allowed under the state's frozen tax rate and it must bo 5 p.m. Aug. 26 meeting has been scheduled for the council to conduct its final vote on the It will then be filed with the Madison County cuts or proposals for cuts were made city said there will be time before the hearing with the State Board of Tax Commissioners to make those meeting may be anytime between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31, and Steele has said he expects it to be scheduled toward the end of that too early to fine tune according to budget proposal does not include the anticipated in general revenue he There also is the possibility of cutting to from the 1983 which is equivalent to reducing the 1984 he the tax rate is expected to be per of assessed property which is about one-third the It will be 4.6 percent higher 1983 rate of of tax rate raises in tax Steele said he voted against the budget because he is opposed to the salaries included for the newly created department of Community Services and Economic Charles 4th was the sole Democrat to vote for the Andrew did not attend the four Republican council members who attended the meeting also voted in favor of the administration's They are Robert Robert Robert Scharnowske and Greg Republicans Jack Van Dyke and Joan Wile did not calls mediator to settle wage federal mediator has been requested to resolve a wage dispute between the city and one of its American Federation of County and Municipal Employees Local 1913 has declared a deadlock in contract negotiations and requested a mediator to resolve the About 90 employees in the sign departments are Local 1913 impasse now exists due to the refusal of the city officials to negotiate in good the union president stated in a letter to the Federal Mediation Service in Local 1913 Page 2, Column 1 Pages What's and and cool tonight with a low around 80. Sunny and pleasant Saturday with a high in the low and mid 80s. Yesterday's 78. Overnight 82. M on Page 2) photo by Norm slams into car careened from an intersection and plowed into had a seizure and grabbed the sending the a garage as a house owner watched Thursday after- vehicle out of See story Page 12. Police said a passenger in the car may son requests Reagan's A Soviet diplomat's son has asked President Reagan for help in staying in the United State Department says it wants to talk to the boy who told a hate my country and its rules and I love your State Department press said the Soviet Embassy has been asked to keep the teen-ager here so he can be interviewed by U.S. officials who will his State Department announced Thursday night that Reagan had received a letter from the but officials would not identify him by name or provide the name or position of his today's editions of The New York Times identified the boy See Page 2, Column 1
