Vidette-Messenger, The (Newspaper) - October 5, 1974, Valparaiso, Indiana Vol 79 20 Pages Valparaiso Indiana 46383 Saturday October Phone Fifteen Cents Oven A Crop Damage In Hundreds Of Million Dollars CHAMBER OF COMMERCE office has been averaging two calls per day recently as to when the Parke County Covered Bridge Festival at Rockville takes place Barbara Cast reports The festival runs from Oct 11 to 20 Hours are from 9 to 6 p.m Admission is free Featured are driving tours through the covered bridge country and the fall foliage should be at its best then a mers market and bazaar on the thouse lawn and special programs and displays in Montezuma Mecca Bridgeton and Rosedale Billie Creek Village the restored town in ville also highlights special booths and programs IT'S THAT TIME of year when ners are digging up flower bulbs such as tulip hyacinth So City Councilman Fred Meyer suggests that citizens not throw the bulbs away but put them to good use by donating them to the city They'll be used to fy several spots in need of some color Drop them off at the city garage on Axe Avenue Meyer asks IT TOOK ALMOST no time at all lo fill the applicant total needed for census enumeration work which will begin soon Of the 70 applicants 40 will be selected by a Bureau of Census official who will come here to conduct the special census for the city A COFFEE STAFFER had a telephone call several days ago from a former Valpa oilman Floyd Biggs who is now employed in the same business in LaPorte Floyd said he thought friends of and Faye formerly of would like to know that they are now living with their son at Rt 3 Box Brazil Ind and that they might like to drop in and see them sometime when they're in that area or write to them there The decided to make the move because of their advanced years and for health reasons used to be Porter county surveyor and city engineer and Faye was active in various women's clubs here COFFEE LAST MONTH reported on U.S and Indiana hospital costs since which time the Indiana Hospital tion noted it supplied incorrect figures on the U.S costs The right figures the IHA says average patient cost per day for Indiana and for U.S average patient case cost for Indiana and for U.S 1 WHAT'S DELAYED ABOUT the traffic lights at the intersections of South ington Street and East with U.S Although signs attached to the overhead light cables denote the signals as such to drivers on U.S 30 an observer noted that at no time are all lanes of traffic stopped nor is there any overlapping of red lights common to such delayed signaling The intersection with South Washington has been a trouble spot in the past with high-speed truck traffic on the dual way SALARIES ON THE county level con- with law enforcement total almost million Total of budgets of the county court office county police coroner prosecuting attorney's office jail Circuit Court Superior Court and bation Office is for 1975 Highest individual salaries are the paid lo the county's judges and The judges factually receive more than this because hey get payments from other counties for cases here i ALTHOUGH HIS TERM as Indiana's attorney general until Jan two years from Theodore L Sendak has told Coffee that he will be spending weekends and evenings through- out October campaigning for Republican congressional state and local candidates The Crown Point resident and University Law School graduate however took a day of vacation Friday to travel with Mayor Richard Lugar his party's nominee for U.S senator on the campaign rain from Indianapolis lo thern Indiana with whistle stops at Frankfort Lafayette Delphi Logansport Rochester and Plymouth In the 1972 general election Atty Gen victory margin of votes set an all-time record for stale officials of either party Also at that lime he was first ond only GOP state date to carry Lake County since 1928 and his plurality of also set an all-time record for slate and local candidates in Marlon County By DAVE GOLDBERG Associated Press Writer A September cold wave has caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage to crops across Die and Easl officials reported Friday They said soybeans and corn were hit Iho hardest with damage also to tomatoes Kentucky's tobacco crop and New York Stale grapes The cold weather brought frost to stales like South Dakota as early as Sept H and here was freezing reported in late tember in most of the northern Midwest The result officials say was the destruction of crops like corn and soybeans that are normally planted late and which in some areas were planted later than usual this year because of heavy spring rains The only good news was a prediction of short range benefits to beef consumers and a positive effect on the eastern apple crop Officials in Indiana estimate he frost cost farmers there about million in Wisconsin officials said total crop damage 11 Students From VHS Joining Tour Eleven Valparaiso High School students are accompanying Republican Senate candidate Richard G Lugar on his whistle stop train tour of northern Indiana Calling themselves the Pep Band the students joined the private Lugar campaign train this morning at South Bend where they were driven by Vernon Dinse and Dorisann Welmore Lugar's Buck Stopper Special left Indianapolis Friday to begin the three-day train campaign tour Members of the Pep Band managed by student Doug Kashner include Chris Karney twins Scott and Steve Gibson Rob Bixler Jeff Roscoe Hick Baker Pat Hanrahan Maria Tiebert Matt Johnson and Sally Bailsman Keith Wetmore regional Youth for Lugar arranged for the local students to join the candidate on his tour Wetmore is also touring with The Valparaiso students will spend tonight in private homes in Fort Wayne rejoining the train Sunday morning to continue on the lour making slops along the route to Indianapolis They will arrive at p.m Sunday in capital city where a group of parents will meet them to drive them home for the year is million much of it from the frost some of it from heavy spring rains in Ohio total damage was set at million for the year from drought torrential rain and early frost In other stales estimates were not yet available but officials predicted the cost would lie high Walter Goeppinger chairman of the Board of the National Corn Growers Association in Boone Iowa said Friday thai American farmers will harvest less than 4.8 billion bushels of corn this year The Agriculture Department last spring a harvest of billion bushels Goeppinger who toured frostbitten areas of Illinois Wisconsin and Iowa this week predicted a benefit to consumers He snid much of the damaged corn crop would be used for silage and fed to beef causing a increase in the beef supply Goeppinger also predicted possible reduction of the 1875 corn crop if the frost prevents late fall field work Corn soybeans and tomatoes were because arc planted the latest In Kentucky where harvesting was late because of earlier rains there were ween and acres of tobacco still standing when the cold hit We're talking about million to million worth of tobacco still in the field that was subject to said Dr Smiley a tobacco specialist at the University of Kentucky Trenholm D Johnson a specialist hired by four western New York counties reported that leaves on grape vines froze diminishing the sugar content in the grapes He said he could not the financial loss to growers who sell the crop for wine and grape juice We'll get some improvement in the crop wilh better weather but we will not get the highquality crop we expected a few weeks Johnson said C William Swan executive vice president of the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation said about a third of he tomato crop and between and 15 per cent of the soybean crop in northeastern Ohio was wiped out Swan said he corn crop hurt by dry weather summer was reduced another 5 per cent by the frost The Michigan Crop Reporting Service said some farmers in the southeast corner of the stale may ask for disaster aid because of damage to soybean crop Damage estimates for stale are not available yel but are expected to be high the service said Queen At Look Ahead Delores Dean president of Porter County American Revolution Bicentennial Committee displays Indiana Bicentennial bumper wilh Karen Campion treasurer of Porter County League of Women Voters and John Schnurlein of Bicentennial committee League will be selling bumper plates proceeds from which will go to to help plan local for nation's celebration Staff Photo Football VHS 24 MC Rogers 12 CHS 13 Kankakee Valley 12 Twin Lakes 6 wears smile and crown being named homecoming queen Friday night during festivities at Trumble Field where Portage Gary New queen Is cheerleader and member of National Honor Society and Student Council Staff Photo Porter County Weather Partly cloudy windy and warm today with highs in upper 70s Mostly cloudy with 30 per cent chance of rain tonight and day turning cooler Sunday with lows in mid 50s and highs from Reassess Delay For Year Asked INDIANAPOLIS one-year of the scheduled 1976 properly and a method for cities Ic local option income inside their own limits were recommended Friday The Recommendations for the General Assembly were made in a joint meeting of the Commission on Slate Tax and Financing Policy and the legislature's own local option lax study committee The joint meeting also recommended changing the system of distributing local option lax revenue 11 now is distributed in lo a governmental unit's fraction of the total county lax levy If the change becomes law half nf n county's local option tax revenue will be distributed on he levy formula and half on a per capita basis II was charged here are inequities because present formula does nol take school expenses into con- sideration The voted Democratic members who wanted to recommend lhal the local option income tax be extended to corporations as well as individuals Sen Wayne City said A large number of Democrats favor outright repeal of the county portion of the package and a return of its fiscal to local government My position is more Townsend contended business has from the tax restructuring program and was disputed by Eugene F Bailiff of the commission and Rep Franklin of committee I am suggesting the one thing ladding business lhal will keep local option income lax on the Townsend said It's in rouble gentlemen Sen Robert D Garlon Columbus said local lax Iw alone because it's an added lax lo make the program work The recommendation lhat cities and towns bo empowered lo adopt local tax for themselves after their county councils reject il for the county dirt nol go inlo specifics The recommended of properly reassessment first scheduled since 1967 was based on Iwo need lo be brought up to dale in some counties and the reassessment will penalize counties lhat have adopted the local option lax and frozen levies II is expected the will increase the taxable property base as much as -in or per cent Or Launch DA VIE Fla II rises 100 feel above the farmlands and pastures of Florida city looking like the spring of an Egyptian pyramid and a space launching pad It is in facl a liltle of both Don Copeland says his company is using methods developed during space age to build a The pyramid was one of the original ways of says Copeland 42 sales manager of American Marketing and Management Co Our building was designed from pyramids of the East since those were really nothing but mausoleums Scheduled for completion in February the building will stand on an existing cemetery about 10 miles west of Fort Lauderdale It will contain crypts a chapel and elevators The mausoleum contains eight levels of crypts on each floor wilh chambers closest to ground-level most expensive Prices range from lo per crypt including use of the chapel The crypts are priced depending on the level says Copeland The higher you go the lower the price Il's son of the opposite of a condominium Each is finished with an exterior granite surface and marble interior Copeland says technological advances allow belter preservation of each body which will be kepi in a ventilated chamber instead of the sealed compartment usually found in mausoleums He says the million building called The Shrine of because its rooftop dome will be illuminated at night was buill to meet a specific demand There are many families lhat want convenience of indoor Copeland says We've already sold between 30 and 35 per cent of spaces It's the ultimate in what's available for Chilly In France PARIS IAP An early cold wave and a 20 per cenl governmental cutback in household healing fuel combined lo chill French homes week ond heat up in- terest in ahead The French only about that headlined newspaper Soir Friday in an adaptation of lille ofa humorous the subject of sex Problem was the banner Traditionally healing in French menls and public buildings starts Oct 15 and ends April 15 Another factor in holding off heating is the French government's aim this year to cut the nation's oil import by 10 per cenl and impose rationing of home heating oil But an early cold snap in September and so far this month sent down to the 40s and there have been widespread protests by tenants school teachers and and government employes about the lack of heating in their chilly rooms A few concierges have started heating apartments houses during past Iwo weeks and in some schools the have defied recommendations and turned on furnaces The cold wave brought a rush on household electric heaters Some stores report quadrupled sales and electric radiators hard 8 Civic Instant Reporters Eight community leaders will be con- verted lo instant reporters and editors this Tuesday when they will shadow regular news staffers as the latler go about their assigned duties of gathering and processing the regular edition of the Oct 8 The occasion is annual Community Leaders Edition which heretofore has been labeled The Edition Change in name was considered expedient inasmuch as in addition to business people invitees are also selected from the industrial education professional and service communities This year's Selected Eight will bring to 92 different men and women community leaders who have served on these special days which always are a feature of The observance of National Newspaper Week Members of the 1974 All Star casl and their individual staff sponsors James D Norman president of Indiana General D Henrichs city editor Don E Drinkhahn Valparaiso University athletic Zulich sports editor Larry Shomber assistant superintendent of Porter county Ken Dowdell feature reporter and Sgt Larry Dembinski Indiana State Police public relations Humbert police reporter Others are Barbara Cast Chamber of Commerce special Ann McWhorler courthouse reporter Bruce Swann Valparaiso Park Rechlin feature reporter Mrs Pauline Ahlgrim League of Women Cheryl Buckner women's reporter and Cliffords Sam Fortney La area service manager for Indiana General Telephone Co of photographer After compiling their writing editing or photography stints Tuesday morning the neophyte newsmen will be luncheon guests of the staff at the Orange Bowl They then will return lo The office for a plant tour and a round table session presided over by The general manager Vincent V Anderson and the managing editor Herb
