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W Locks in Protested Township Factors S o n s '^ook Bindery Inc. l q o q u m pport, Michigan U 9 2 8 U w <ui;u»»itiioi:tl| p im itd e a le i: SINGLE COPY30* CHATSWORTH, ILLINOIS (60921), THURSDAY, AUG. 9. 1984 One Hundred Tenth Year c«pyAe««t i M4. c«mb«M ar«M. me. Number 46 •-V.. M . ■ EVERYTHING FROM empty cans to rocks and more, interest, and some went away with a lot more than they A NEWLY FORMED GROUP, the Senior Citizens of entertainment. This group is shown meeting at the Legion too, as can be seen in the picture, hit the auction block really wanted when whole table lots went for one bid Chatsworth, seem to enjoy getting together the fourth hall. How many of them can you identify? Saturday when contents from the Grand were auctioned. price. Thursday of each month for a noon luncheon and some Collectors found any number of items to spark their Vacation Bible school August Michael Walker Runyons honored on Jim H e fn e rs attend k icko ff graduates from ElU 50th anniversary Approximately 150 relatives and friends at­ 13-17 at Calvary Baptist tended the SOth wedding anniver^ry open fo r N oble B roth ers seed d ealers Michael D. Walker of Chatsworth will be house honoring Grace and Gifford Runyon Vacation Bible School will begin at Calvary- film, ' Treasures of the Snow," will be shown among those receiving degrees at the summer held in the city park on Saturday afternoon. Baptist church, 12 North 7th st., in as a serial Tuesday through Friday. commencement at Eastern Illinois university- All ten of the couple’s children were able to Nearly 260 Illinois seed dealers attended Awards were presented at the meeting for Chatsworth, Monday, August 12. and run Other activities will include missionary in Charleston on Aug. 12 at 6 p.m. attend, and it was the first time in 24 years the anntud dealer kickoff meeting hosted by Top Com Sales and Top Soybean Sales. J. A. through Friday, August 17, from 9-10:30 each stones, puppets and songs. Prizes will be that they had all been together. Only one of Noble Brothers, Inc. Wednesday at Bull & Sons of Morrison, earned first place in day. given and refreshments served each day. About 500 are expected to participate in the them lives out of state. Tom, who was former­ Champaign's Ramada Inn. Com Sales with Babb & Hedrick, of Penfield ceremony, with degrees conferred pending ly employed by Forney Chevrolet, has just and Charles Leonard, of Rossville, placing The Gibson Gty-based seed company hosts This year's program will feature thrilling 1 he teachers include Mr. and Mrs. Tom completion of all requirements for graduation. completed moving from Rothsay, Minn , to second and third respectively. the annual meeting to prepare their dealers Bible stories on ‘Our Wonderful Ixird" for Johnston, Dawn Metz, Sherri Mcister, Mr. and Mesa. Ariz. ^ for the upooming selling season. New Evans Feed Store of Ellsworth placed first junior and junior-high ages, and "Children of, Mrs. f,«c Maplethorpe and Pastor and Mrs. The cereniony will be held in the Ubrary- Also attending were Cliff s brother. Bill, customer incentive and sales motivation in Soybean Sales with Greg Po<4, Melvin and the Bible" for beginners and primanes.'- A Meister. Union Quadrangle, with president Stanley- G. from Pontiac, and hu> sister. Mrs. Robe.*t techniques were discussed and two new seed Bryce Ag., Milford, placing second and third Rives awarding the diplomas. Jacob, of Chenoa varieties were introduced. A soybean variety respectively. NB 2610 will be available for the 1965 planting The meeting revolved around the 1964-85 season. Also a new seed com variety, sales calendar highlighting various activities S ta te ce rtifie s 1.0000 m u ltip lie r. experimental 8562 will be numbered and that are planned. Dealer Eklucation days will available in the spring of 1985. be held in mid-August. The first Plant and Power Show, a mini-farm progress show, will Kevin Wheeler, manager of this year’s be in Wenona, Aug. 22 with WGN Farm Farm Progress ^ o w , discussed the show Director Orion Samuelson broadcasting his which will be September 25 through 27 in noon show from the site. Four other Plant and Locks in protested township factors Fisher. Noble Brothers, Inc. will have an power shows are scheduled in August and exhibit at this year's show along with com and September with “Farmer Meetings" soybean plots. scheduled the first week of December. by Rick Jones "That sound.s great on paper," Boyer went out the state. assessment of a home when compared to the Illinois Department of -Revenue officials on. "But they can only go to that based on "Chicago, St. lx)uis, all the big areas will be assessment of another like home. have assigned a 1.000 tax multiplier to asses.sment figures using the township factors. against it. But I would think we could find some ■ The state w-ill not hear a protest if the only- Livingston county and locked in the township Fairbury. for example, is still sitting there downstate legislator who would fight for this. reason you are protesting is because you do factors developed by Supervisor of Assess­ with a 24 percent increase. "A few year5,jgo, we passed a farmland not like the manner in which the county is ments Duane Kiesewetter. "Belle Prairie has no homestead sales. But bill which said that farmland would no longer operating The only thing they are going to they stick this town.ship factor on just to make be assessed based on selling price. We need That news was given July 31 to Dwight listen to is if there is something wrong with the the county formula come out to 1.0000." legislation to say now that all residential as.sessment." township assessor "Hub” Boyer and Fairbury Boyer had gone to Springfield - at the property will no longer be assessed according The second drawback is the length of time realtor Willard Bess in Springfield. The two invitation of tax officials - with hopes that his to a few .sales," ending the guilt by association to get your appeal heard. The state anticipates men. outspoken critics of Kiesewetter s arguments again.st the township factors would concept. 12,000 ca.ses to be filed this year, not including designation of high township multipliers to the persuade the Department of Revenue to take Boyer al.so advocates a stronger effort on any from Livingston county. There is only a Dwight and Fairbury-Belle Prairie areas, had action to strike them from the books for this the part of county officials, beginning with the five-person staff to hear these protests been called to the capital to meet with year. county board, to assure that all township You might be talking several years before Barbara Moore, head of the Department of assessors are doing their work, and doing it vour case is heard." Boyer stated. Revenue Tax Board. That IS not going to happen. "The state based on the same guidelines. doesn’t have the authority to override the Moore told Boyer that Livingston county Boyers final suggestion might draw county board of review, and they're not going Along those lines, he is calling for a much support from the 100-plus taxing bodies in the officials would receive formal notification of to try to," Boyer said. the multiplier later this week. more thorough training for county assessors county, most of which are now being forced to "The state doesn't care what formula the and constant monitoring by the supervisor of borrow money to continue operations while The Dwight assessor admitted he was county uses to get its property sales ratio to assessment’s office to make sure that it is disappointed he was unable to make any awaiting the tax bills which probably won’t be 1.0000," Boyer said getting the kinds of information needed to headway toward having the township mailed until mid-September now. “Kiesewetter has won," Boyer added guarantee fair assessments. The Dwight assessor would like to see the multipliers eliminated. “I am disappointed disconsolately. there is very little we can do at this point to Boyer is also proposing that forms be made county board mandate that a tax bill would be While conceding the battle is lost for 1984. readily available to permit landowners to pay affect the tax bilb that wiU be coming out. mailed in May of each year, even if the county Boyer is developing a series of steps he feels their taxes under protest. More than that, he is forced to base that first mailing on one-half GLORIA AND JIM FLESSNER attended the annual Dealer Kickoff Meeting will reverse the trend in the future. would like to see 100 or so disgruntled property- of the previous year’s bill. hosted by Noble Brothers, Inc., a Gibson City-based seed company. “Our state multiplier will be 1.0000," Boyer "First, we must find somewhere a legis- owners take their cases directly to Springfield "We can do that under the current law. It The meeting is held every year to Introduce new customer incentive and told The Blade. "That has not been given b to r to sponsor a bill to reverse the sales-ratio There are a couple drawbacks to the would get some money going through the sales motivation techniques and also to present several new seed varieties. officially to the county, but it will be later this system as the basis to determine the protest procedure First, the state will system.
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