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67 Spending of public monies makes public money primarily last year, $765,006 – or 64 the public money it re-
from the CEDIT tax rev- percent of the total spent ceived in 2015, including
Scrapbook:
Last Aug. 28:
nonprofit subject to audit and access laws enue, the growth coun- – was public money, ac- the $317,616 it received
cil’s board meetings were cording the organization’s in CEDIT revenue and
High: 82 BY TYLER JURANOVICH Long held behind closed conducted in private down annual report filed to the $407,215 in economic
Low: 57 tjuranovich@chronicle-tribune.com doors, the board meetings through the years because Indiana Department of development revenue
Record since 1903: The public should be of the Grant County Eco- it reportedly spent more Local Government and bonds the Growth Coun-
High: 96, 1948
able be able to get a better nomic Growth Council private money than it did Finance, essentially mak- cil received in connection
Low: 43, 1986
sense of how their tax dol- will, for the time being, be public money annually. ing the Growth Council a bringing Cafe Valley to
Inside: lars are being spent now open to the public. But that changed last public agency. The now Marion.
More weather, Page A2 that the county economic Despite the nonprofit re- year. public nonpofit reported Other public funds
growth council is subject ceiving hundreds of thou- Of the $1,191,765 the to the State Board of Ac-
to public access laws. sands of dollars a year of Growth Council disbursed counts that it spent all of See GROWTH / Page A3

Taylor president welcomes class of 2020 THE WEEK

AHEAD

Spotlight outages
scheduled
The following locations
for traffic signals will be
affected by a six hour
outage today, beginning
at 5:30 a.m.:
■ 1400 W. Factory Av-
enue, Marion
■ Intersection of
Spencer and N. Baldwin
avenues.  be approaching the Coun-
■ W. Second Street,
Marion (2nd and Western)
 The following loca-
tions of stoplights will
be affected by two brief
outages of five minutes
today, beginning at 5 a.m.
and the second outage
beginning at 1 p.m.  Photos by  NAVAR WATSON / NWatson@chronicle-tribune.com
■ Wabash and Jeffras
■ Wabash and Quarry
■ Wabash and Kem
■ Baldwin and Wabash
■ Baldwin and Johnson
■ Baldwin and Factory
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MEET & GREET: Taylor University’s new president, Paul Lowell Haines, interacts with parents and students Saturday
during the 2016 Welcome Weekend.
Haynes to make
student interaction
a priority
BY NAVAR WATSON
NWatson@chronicle-tribune.com
After a busy summer of
moving, traveling and work-
ing on a doctoral program,
Taylor University’s new
president, longtime India-
napolis lawyer Paul Lowell
Haines, left his cell phone
at home and spent the day
fully interacting with new
students and their families.
“Taylor’s about people.
It is a relationship driven
place, much more than most
that I’ve seen out there,”
Haines said. “So what I’ve
wanted to do is just sit down
and talk with as many people
as I could (this weekend).”
Haines assumed his role as
president June 1 after at 25-
year career as a lawyer. Prior
to that, he served in various
roles at the university, such
as Vice President for Stu-
dent Development and Dean
of Students. He, his wife, STUDENT CENTER: A worker at The Jumping Bean, Taylor
See TAYLOR / Page A6
County to
hold budget
hearings
this week
BY STAFF REPORTS
Grant County depart-
ments of government will
ty Council this week as
department heads present
their proposed budgets for
2017.
Departments will be
addressing the council
Wednesday and Thursday
at 6 p.m. in the council
chambers at the county
building, located at 401
S. Adams St. The council
will just be preliminarily
approving the budgets and
not addressing personnel
matters or raises.
“It’s really nothing too
formal or final right now.
We’re just kind of go-
ing through the process,”
Council President Jim
McWhirt said. “At the end
we’ll see where we are
financially, and we’ll go
from there.”
The following events are
also happening this week:
Today
University’s coffee shop, completes an order during Wel- The Deer Creek Regula-
come Weekend Saturday. tors: a Single Action Shoot-
ing Society (SASS) affiliated
club will be sponsoring a

Matter Park hosts two-day car show

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BY NAVAR WATSON
NWatson@chronicle-tribune.com
More than 120 vehicles
of all models, makes and
eras showed up at the Ed
Big Daddy Roth Memorial
Inside Car Show Aug. 27 in Mat-
Classified, D4 Viewpoints, A7 ter Park.
Crossword, B5 Weather, A2 A 1930 Marion-made
Live, C1 People, A5 fire truck even made an ap-
Local, A3 Bottom Line, pearance as it readies for
Obituaries, A4 D1 the bicentennial celebra-
Sports, B1 tion in September.
The fire truck has been
in storage for more than
two decades after the City
of Marion reacquired it in
1993. The truck’s owners
in Berrien Springs, Michi-
gan, reached out to local
residents, wanting to re-
turn the truck to its birth-
place.
Marion Fire Department
Chief Geoff Williams said
one of Grant County’s
torchbearers for the In-
diana bicentennial torch
relay, Amos Randle, will
ride in the truck carrying
the torch between 12:30
p.m. and 3:30 p.m. Sept.
28.
“It has no power steering
it, and driving it just kills
your forearms,” Williams
said. “You’ve got to stop
really early. There’s some
weird issues to it that you
just take for granted with
regular brakes and power
steering.”
The pump and some of
the mechanics, however,
were basically the same in
1930 as they are today, he
said. Williams said he is
unsure what will happen
to the fire truck after the
bicentennial celebration in
September.
Across the lawn at the car
show was another bright
red automobile decked
PHOTO BY NAVAR WATSON / NWatson@chronicle-tribune.com
JUDGE: Car show judge Jim Elliott inspects a vehicle Sat-
urday at the Ed Big Daddy Roth Memorial Car Show, which
continues today.
out in American flags and
signs reading “God Bless
America.” The vehicle was
a 1959 USAF ambulance,
owned by 40-year U.S. Air
Force member Paul J. Ken-
nedy.
“This car I bought right
after I got out of the re-
serve,” Kennedy said.
“I’ve been driving it every-
where.”
See SHOW / Page A3
Cowboy Action Shoot at
10 a.m. at the Deer Creek
Conservation Club, 6293
S. 375 E., in Jonesboro.
The cost is $15 per match.
Public is invited. Eye and
Hearing protection is re-
quired of everyone while on
the range. Contact Randy
Sneed, Jr. at 765-506-0344
or Devon Bates at 260-414-
1098 for further informa-
tion.
Tuesday
The Grant County Drain-
age Board: is holding
a meeting at the Grant
County Building at 11 a.m.
These meetings are open to
the public.
Jonesboro City Council:
is holding a special meeting
at 6:30 p.m. in preparation
of the 2017 budget.
Sunnycrest Baptist
Church: is holding a se-
niors breakfast at 9 a.m. at
the church, located at 2172
W. Chapel Pike, in Marion.
All seniors welcome.
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IWU BEGINS NEW STUDENT ORIENTATION GROWTH
Continued from A1
received and disbursed in-
clude:
n $19,950 given to the
Growth Council by the
Gas City Redevelopment
Commission.
n $20,225 given to the
Growth council by the
U.S. Department of Rural
Development through a
federal grant program.
The Growth Council’s
next meeting is Sept. 20
at 7:30 a.m. in the Ivy
Tech Conference Cen-
ter. The board meets the
third Tuesday of every
month. Talks about spe-
cific prospective busi-
PHOTOS BY NAVAR WATSON / NWatson@chronicle-tribune.com nesses deals will still
CONCERT:  Indiana Wesleyan University’s New Student Orientation week kicks off be conducted in private
with a worship service in the chapel auditorium Saturday shortly after freshmen and executive meetings, but
transfer students moved into their dorms. financial and policy mat-
ters of the board are to be
discussed and voted on
in public. The public can
also request files but only
files pertaining to the year
2015, according to Indi-
ana Public Access Coun-
selor Luke Britt.
Those facts alone make
the newly gained trans-
parency worth it, accord-
ing to Steve Key, execu-
tive director and general
counsel for the Hoosier
State Press Association.
The public, Key said,
will not only be able to
see and monitor how and
where their tax money is
being spent but more eas-
ily hold accountable the
Growth Council and its
spending of taxpayer dol-
lars.
“I think it’s very benefi-
cial,” Key said. “There’s a
new level of accountabil-
ity, and that’s good for the
public.”
This change, Key add-
ed, is a very “rare” and
“unusual” occurrence be-
cause economic corpora-
tions were made to not
be open to the public the
same way county and city
redevelopment commis-
sions are.
In 2012, the Chronicle-
Tribune editorial board
made an informal com-
plaint to the Indiana Pub-
lic Access Counselor ar-
guing the Growth Council
should be subject to the
Indiana Open Door Law
and Access to Public Re-
cords Act due to the pub-
lic’s right to know how its
tax dollars are being spent.
In a non-binding opinion,
the former counselor Joe
Hoage ruled the Growth
Council is not subject to
those laws as long as the
State Board of Accounts
waives its public audits.
Now, with the Growth
Council subject to pub-
lic access laws, it’s also
subject to an audit by the
State Board of Accounts.
When a state audit will
happen is not known.
The Growth Council’s
public status is in effect
until a filed annual re-
port shows the entity has
reverted back to having
less than 50 percent of its
expenditures come from
public money.
When asked if the
Growth Council will con-
tinue as a public agency
next year or for years to
come, Tim Eckerle, ex-
ecutive director of the
Economic Growth Coun-
cil, declined to speculate.
Eckerle added that the
Chronicle-Tribune will
receive a copy of its 2015
audit letter completed by
accountants Dulin, Ward
& DeWald.
“We’ve always said we
would comply with law,
and we plan on following
the law,” Eckerle said.

SHOW going to bring the black

Continued from A1
Since the early 1980s,
WORSHIP: A worship leader kicks off New Student Orientation week at Indiana Wes- Kennedy has also driven
leyan University Saturday. an old hearse to various
events. The vehicle is
decorated in bats, snakes
and other dark creatures
with coffins linked behind
it. Dressed as a vampire
named Kount Kennedy, he
stands on the roof of the
vehicle as it shoots flames
stretching 10 feet out from
the hearse.
Kennedy said he was
hearse Saturday but didn’t
have the time.
Car show judge Jim El-
liott scoped the place
Saturday afternoon, scru-
tinizing the interiors and
exteriors of every car pres-
ent. Several trophies are
awarded at the event for
categories such as Best In-
terior and Best of Show.
Elliott looked closely
for cracks in the car’s
shell, blotchy paint spots
and dents, all of which
docked off points for the
car’s overall performance.
Some vehicles had far
more work done than oth-
ers.
“It’s a lot of time, work
and money,” Elliott said.
“There are some that are
just getting started, and
there are some that are re-
ally serious about it. There
are some really good (cars)
out there.”
The Ed Big Daddy Roth
Memorial Car Show con-
tinues today as well, fea-
turing classic cars, trucks,
motorcycles, door prizes,
vendors, charity auctions
and various games.

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YOUR STATE
O ur take Clinton’s and support their agenda. But, Donald
Trump’s bully rhetoric in speeches and his mock-

Growth Council now belongs to us

ery of individuals is not at all presidential, yet he
LAWMAKERS: continues with this line of presentation. But when
Rep. Kevin Mahan you listen closely to the liberal media, they often
District 31 spew negative mistruths about Donald Trump in an
Phone: (317) 232-9509 Sept. 20 this year will be Indiana Open Records Act and are now a rarity, in that our attempt to support Hillary’s campaign.
E-mail: h31@in.gov an important day for Grant the Indiana Open Meetings county’s economic develop- Now there is no doubt Donald has been identified
County taxpayers. That eve- Law. ment group is legally respon- as a highly functional narcissistic individual. But
Rep. Anthony Cook ning the board of directors for That means that, at least un- sive to the public. Citizens what I strongly believe is that Donald Trump would
District 32 the Grant County Economic til the financial report for 2016 should take advantage of this select only the “best of the best” in individuals that
Growth Council meets in pub- is filed, we get to see how moment. have the utmost expertise in their area and advisory
Phone: (800) 382-9841
lic. Eckerle and his directors do When these groups were abilities. He would never select those that would
E-mail: h32@in.gov As opposed to past years, the the public’s business with tax formed it was with the idea ever make him look bad. You have heard that term,
Growth Council reported this money in the effort to bring that private money and some “Your fired!” well I can guarantee you we would be
Sen. Jim Banks year that in 2015 it dispersed prosperity to Grant County. public money provided at the hearing that quickly if that were the case. Here are
District 17 more public money than pri- The Growth Council, discretion of local govern- some of those media double-standards:
Phone: (800) 382-9467 vate money, thereby becoming which has operated as a pri- ment, would embark on lur- 1. The media criticizing Trump for meeting with
E-mail: s17@in.gov legally subject to greater pub- vate nonprofit, receives the ing jobs to communities and Mr. Putin, President of Russia, which sponsors ter-
lic scrutiny. CEDIT money as a direct pass coordinating their arrival with rorism and supports Assad of Syria, etc. The truth
Amen. through, not requiring action local government. They would of the matter, Trump has never met with or spoke to
Sen. Travis Holdman The Growth Council, led the by the county council or any remain private to conduct Mr. Putin, but feels like it would be good to meet
District 19 past 32 years by Executive Di- other elected official. We think quiet negotiations that would with him to work out disagreements with the U.S.
Phone: (317) 232-9807 rector Tim Eckerle, disbursed that is wrong on principle and result in bringing in more em- Other presidents have done this also.
E-mail: s19@in.gov or spent about $1.2 million agree with Marion Mayor Jess ployment to communities. We 2. The media supported President Obama trav-
in 2015, according to a report Alumbaugh who earlier this can’t say it has worked out eling to Cuba to meet with the Castro brothers to
Sen. Jim Buck filed with the State Board of year ended city contributions well in Grant County. open up trade and flights to and fro the U.S. For
District 21 Accounts. Of the $1.2 million, to nonprofits, saying it just We think there are almost travel. The Castro brothers or other dignities didn’t
Phone: (317) 232-9466 the report shows $765,000 wasn’t right for local govern- always problems with the even great our President upon landing and Cuba has
E-mail: s21@in.gov was public money – includ- ment to hand over funds to combination of confidential- thousands in political prisoners. In fact, Mr. Cas-
ing $407,215 in economic private groups, even if those ity and other people’s money, tro remarked that the “little man from U.S. Could
Rep. David Wolkins development revenue bonds groups are well intentioned. which is how formal economic go on back where he came from, as he didn’t need
District 18 payments the Growth Council Exactly how the Growth Coun- development has evolved in to speak with him as he wasn’t changing one thing
(317) 234-2993 received and disbursed in con- cil will behave as a public en- Indiana. Decisions regard- from his visit”.
nection with bringing the Cafe tity will be interesting to see. We ing public assistance to busi- 3. The real joke from the Clintons, Democrats and
h18@in.gov
Valley bakery on South Adams urge as many people to watch nesses like TriEnda, Echelon media are their concerns of handing over security
Street to Marion. Another dis- as possible. The public will not and Earth Bound – and we can intelligence and nuclear codes or having Trump’s
Rep. Mike Karick- brusement was the $317,616 be privy to the identities of eco- name more – have been costly. finger on the “red button” which could start World
hoff the Growth Council automati- nomic development prospects Accountability needs to be War III. Now anyone with an ounce of sense or who
District 30 cally received in 2015 from seeking anonymity. We think part of the equation. has watched the History Channel knows how com-
(317)234-9380 the county economic develop- that is fine and proper. However, That is why we think the plicated this process is and how numerous people
h30@iga.in.gov ment income tax last year. we think information on how General Assembly should have different codes, in addition to Congress having
State law says that when and where and with whom the open up the operations of eco- to approve this action. Get real folks!
To e-mail any Indiana government money makes up group spends its public money nomic development groups 4. Listening to Bill Clinton and President Obama,
lawmaker, go to this more than half of what a non- needs to be explored, discussed in every county based on the both disbarred Constitutional attorneys  attempting
website: profit entity spends it becomes and even debated with members amount of public money they to explain Hillary’s e-mail scandals is laughable to
www.in.gov/cgi-bin/ subject to an audit by the State of the public involved. take in rather than what they say the least!
legislative/contact/ Board of Accounts. When that That is why this newspaper report as being disbursed. 5. The push to have Donald Trump turn over tax
contact.pl happens, the Indiana Public has set about trying to open In the meantime, enjoy the statements. Well, to my knowledge there is no rule,
Access Counselor has ruled, up Growth Council meetings sunshine we now have in no law, no bill anywhere stating that candidates
the entity also falls under the and records since 2012. We Grant County. must turn over any itemized tax statements – ever.
And, anyone that can disprove this statement, please
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WASHINGTON — One of cupations represent about half
the economy’s bright spots is of all jobs – teachers, factory
the job market – and it may workers, truck drivers, con-
be even brighter than it seems. struction workers – they ac-
Not only are counted for only 22 percent
there more jobs of new jobs between 2010
(1.3 million so
Robert and 2013. Lower-wage oc-
middle-wage job growth in
that sector.
With the recovery now in
its eighth year, confidence
and hiring have strength-
ened, he said. Between 2013
and 2015, blue-collar jobs
By The Associated Press
Today is Sunday, Aug. 28, the 241st day of 2016.
There are 125 days left in the year.
Highlight in History:
On Aug. 28, 1963, as more than 200,000 people
listened, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered
his “I Have a Dream” speech in front of the Lincoln
Memorial in Washington, D.C.

What you said
Saturday:
Do you think the Colts
will win their division?
Yes (62%)
No (38%)
86 votes total
(as of 6 p.m. Saturday)
NOTE: The C-T’s informal Web polls
should not be considered statisti-
cally or scientifically reliable.
far in 2016), Samuelson
but they may be
better-paying,
according to a
new analysis
by economists
at the Federal
Reserve Bank
of New York.
The Fed economists report
that middle-wage workers –
earning roughly $30,000 to
$60,000 – represent the fastest
growing segment of the labor
market. By contrast, earlier in
the recovery, low-wage and
high-wage jobs dominated
cupations – earning $30,000
or less as fast-food workers,
sales clerks, janitors – ac-
counted for 40 percent of new
jobs, well above their 30 per-
cent share of existing employ-
ment. And high-paying occu-
pations – with median wages
of $60,000 or more, earned by
doctors, lawyers, managers
and engineers – represented
38 percent of new jobs, de-
spite being only 20 percent of
existing jobs.
Between 2013 and 2015,
this pattern reversed, say the
New York Fed economists. In
rose sharply. Employment in-
creased 400,000 in construc-
tion, 300,000 in manufactur-
ing, 500,000 in transportation
(mainly truck drivers) and
250,000 in installation and re-
pair (of, say, air conditioning
systems).
It’s unclear whether these
gains are temporary or wheth-
er they signal a decisive turn
in job creation. If permanent,
said The New York Times, “it
may soon be time to retire a fa-
miliar criticism of the long but
lackluster economic rebound
... [that it has promoted] the
On this date:
In 1609, English sea explorer Henry Hudson
and his ship, the Half Moon, reached present-day
Delaware Bay.
In 1862, the Second Battle of Bull Run (also
known as Second Manassas) began in Prince
William County, Virginia, during the Civil War; the
result was a Confederate victory.
In 1916, Italy declared war on Germany during
World War I.
In 1922, the first-ever radio commercial aired
on station WEAF in New York City; the 10-minute
advertisement was for the Queensboro Realty Co.,
which had paid a fee of $100.
In 1941, Japan’s ambassador to the U.S., Kich-
isaburo Nomura, presented a note to President
Franklin D. Roosevelt from the Japanese prime
minister, Prince Fumimaro Konoye, expressing a

EF - employment increases.
The labor market was sup-
GH posedly becoming economi-
cally “polarized,” just as soci-
editorial ety was becoming politically
polarized. Now, the new anal-
board ysis suggests that the labor-
Linda KELSAY / market polarization “may have
president and publisher
peaked, and middle-wage jobs
could be ready for a renais-
lkelsay@chronicle-tribune.com
sance,” as my Washington
David PENTICUFF / Post colleague Ylan Q. Mui
editor wrote in a nice blog post on
dpenticuff@chronicle-tribune.com the New York Fed study.
Assuming that the trend
Tyler JURANOVICH / lasts through Election Day,
managing editor it’s probably a plus for Hillary
tjuranovich@chronicle-tribune. Clinton. It doesn’t eliminate
com jobs as an issue, but it blunts
Caleb CRANDALL / discontent. Here’s what the
New York Fed study reported.
citizen board member
Although middle-wage oc-
these years, middle-wage jobs
accounted for 43 percent of
expanded employment, lower-
wage occupations for 30 per-
cent, and high-wage occupa-
tions for 28 percent.
Just what caused the shift
is unclear. Economist Harry
Holzer of Georgetown Uni-
versity attributes much of the
change to the business cycle.
“In the early years, there was
a lot of uncertainty. Business
leaders didn’t know whether
the recovery would continue.
Many resisted assuming the
added costs of more expensive
employees,” he says. (Presum-
ably, the highest-paid workers
had skills more in demand.)
Construction also recovered
slowly, he said, frustrating
hollowing out of the American
middle class.”
What’s happening, Holzer
said, is that middle-wage jobs
have become split. There’s
what he calls “the old middle”
of factory workers, construc-
tion workers and the rest.
These jobs are declining over
time. But there’s also a “new
middle” of jobs – health care
technicians, high-tech mainte-
nance workers, paralegals, and
store managers – that’s grow-
ing rapidly. These jobs require
more formal education than
“old middle” jobs. The ques-
tion, Holzer said, is whether
the country can remake its ed-
ucation system to provide the
skills that the economy now
demands.
desire for improved relations; Roosevelt responded
that he considered the note a step forward.
In 1945, the Allies began occupying Japan at the
end of World War II.
In 1955, Emmett Till, a black teen-ager from
Chicago, was abducted from his uncle’s home in
Money, Mississippi, by two white men after he had
supposedly whistled at a white woman; he was
found brutally slain three days later.
In 1968, police and anti-war demonstrators
clashed in the streets of Chicago as the Demo-
cratic National Convention nominated Hubert H.
Humphrey for president.
In 1972, Mark Spitz of the United States won
the first two of his seven gold medals at the
Munich Olympics, finishing first in the 200-meter
butterfly and anchoring the 400-meter freestyle
relay. The Soviet women gymnasts won the team
all-around.
In 1988, 70 people were killed when three Italian
stunt planes collided during an air show at the U.S.
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set all-time highs last month
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million people and total
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ers at 3.23 million. It says
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increased by about 78,750
people this year and nearly
200,000 since January 2013.
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partially offset by losses
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Cuts most felt
in police, fire
departments
BY TYLER JURANOVICH
tjuranovich@chronicle-tribune.com
The City of Marion is
planning to have a balanced
budget for 2017, but it will
come at a cost.  the department employs.
Marion City Controller
Julie Flores presented the
city’s 2017 budget to the
city council Tuesday night,
beginning the budget hear-
ings and eventual approval.
The General Fund, which
makes up the largest por-
tion of the city’s budget, is
roughly $2 million less than
Growth Council begins ‘Small Business Initiative’ Police fight
MEETING: Executive Director Tim Eckerle makes a point during the Grant County Economic Growth Council meeting
Tuesday morning at the Marion Ivy Tech Conference Center.
Nonprofit aims to be more accessible, helpful to small business owners
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Grant County Economic for small business owners.  the future because of this
Growth Council members meet at the Marion Ivy Tech Con-
ference Center on Tuesday morning.  is putting together “pocket
Earthwise Plastics public hearing set for Oct. 4
Work already
being done to old
Echelon building
BY NAVAR WATSON
NWatson@chronicle-tribune.com
The Gas City Council
plans to reopen a public
hearing for Earthwise Plas-
tics’ proposed 10 year tax
abatement.
The new date for the pub-
Marion’s
ONLY
5 STAR
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Serving Grant County since 1867. $1.00
the General Fund of 2016,
with cuts most noticeably
2016 budget, was proposed
and passed, the previous
to both Flores and Mayor
Jess Alumbaugh. 
new health insurance pro-
vider. 
in the the fire and police de- administration did not ac- “Obviously, we’ve cuts The Budget and Finance
partments. There will be no count for circuit breaker many places, but because Committee will begin dis-
across the board pay raises losses, leading to the 2016 last year’s budget was a cussions with the various
for city employees.  expenditures to exceed rev- five percent raise, this bud- department heads over
The city’s 2016  General enue.  get (2016 budget) was not each department’s pro-
Fund budgeted for 64 fire- Circuit breaker losses fundable,” Flores said, add- posed budgets for 2017,
fighters. Next year’s budget this year are expected to be ing that the council will starting at 6 p.m. Monday,
reduces that to 58 firefight- about $2.4 million for the have to pass a resolution to Sept. 26. Those discussions
ers, currently the number General Fund, so while the make more cuts in 2016 for will continue at 6 p.m. on
city is asking for about $20 the 2017 budget to work. both Tuesday, Sept. 27 and
The police department had million for 2017, it knows it “We’ve been working late Wednesday, Sept. 28. The
68 police officers budgeted will only receive about $18 into the evenings quite ex- public hearing for the bud-
for in 2016. That is reduced million. The city’s General tensively to have a balanced get is currently scheduled
to 62 officers in the 2017 Fund in 2016 was approved budget, but you do have a for Oct. 18, with adoption
budget.  at $19.7 million with five balanced budget for 2017.”  scheduled for Nov. 1. 
Flores said cutting the percent raises to most city Flores added that the city In other news, the city
budget, particularly the po- employees. is currently in union nego- council denied a fast
lice and fire, was hard to do That five percent raise has tiations with the fire de- track passage of the
but necessary because, ac- been hurting the city finan- partment and are currently
cording to Flores, when the cially this year, according in the process of seeking a See BUDGET / Page A3
counterfeit
bills
BY NAVAR WATSON
NWatson@chronicle-tribune.com
Counterfeit $100 bills have
made their way into Grant
County, and Marion Police
Department is warning local
businesses and money takers
to take caution.
Monday morning, a manag-
er at Marion Utilities reported
a woman attempted to pay her
bill with a fake $100 bill. Later
that morning, the same wom-
an tried to buy gas and lottery
tickets with another $100 bill.
Dorsey said the lady who
attempted to pay with coun-
terfeit $100 bills Monday had
received the two bills at a club
in Indianapolis. She did not
know that the bills were coun-
terfeit.
Jason Ford, manager of the
Afena Federal Credit Union
Photos by Jeff Morehead / jmorehead@chronicle-tribune.com  on North Bradner Avenue,
said there are various ways to
determine if a bill is counter-
feit.
“When you work with mon-
ey, the first thing you typically
notice is the feel of the bill.
BY TYLER JURANOVICH guides” and distributing A lot of times the feel is just
tjuranovich@chronicle-tribune.com them to local employees in wrong,” Ford said. “That was
The Grant County Eco- the areas of law, account- always my first clue.”
nomic Growth Council is ing and insurance at a lun- Ford said the number of
rethinking and redevelop- cheon scheduled for Oct. 12 denomination on newer bills
ing its approach in helping at The Mill in Marion. The changes color when the bill is
small businesses in Grant hope is those employees in tilted back and forth. Bills also
County.  the aforementioned fields have water marks that appear
At its regular board will hand local business near the portrait when held up
meeting Tuesday morn- owners the “pocket guides” to the light. When held to the
ing, Growth Council board when applicable.  light, a person can also notice
members discussed the Tim Eckerle, executive a security thread running from
nonprofit’s “Small Business director of the Growth the top to the bottom of the
Initiative,” aimed at bet- Council, said he hopes the bill.
ter advertising the Growth Growth Council will help The counterfeit bills in
Council and what it can do more small businesses in Grant County Monday said
“for motion picture use only”
To do this, the nonprofit
See COUNCIL / Page A3 See BILLS / Page A3
lic hearing is now sched-
uled for Oct. 4. It was
rather than the five year
abatement and incentive
it’s going to be a great in-
vestment in the city,” Gas
Drive, Gas City.
During Tuesday’s regu-
originally scheduled for
Tuesday, but since the city
package of up to $300,000
of TIF money originally
City Mayor Larry Leach
said. “As time goes on, (the
lar council meeting, how-
ever, Leach announced
did not notify the public in
time for a public hearing
offered by the city.
Members of the Gas City
company)’s going to grow
and grow.”
the immediate renaming
of Munire Drive to Earth-
on the issue, it had be to Council approved to move The company plans to wise Way. Leach presented
pushed back.  the tax abatement request occupy the old Echelon Dyson with a sign bearing
The Marion-based plas- to a public hearing at a pre- building in Gas City since the name Earthwise Way
tic fabrication company vious council meeting and its 45-50 employees have Tuesday and said he would
is planning to expand its welcomed Earthwise Plas- packed out the Marion lo- notify the post office of the
operations into Gas City tics owner Roger Dyson to cation at 2703 W. Ninth St. change Wednesday.
and is requesting a 10 year Gas City Sept. 20. The old Echelon building
graduated tax abatement “I think in the long run is located at 100 Munire See PLASTICS / Page A3
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Ducktail Run, River Rally set for this weekend
Two annual festivals
provide entertainment
for Grant County
residents
BY ANAMARIA DICKERSON
ADickerson@chronicle-tribune.com
Preparations for two ma-
jor festivals in Grant Coun-
ty this weekend have nearly
finished up.
Gas City is hosting its
22nd annual weekend-long
Ducktail Run, which kicks
off Thursday at 5 p.m. at
Mississinewa High School
with an early duck cruise-
in. Thursday also marks
the beginning of the  11th
annual  River Rally in
Jonesboro  with a cook-off
starting  at 6 p.m. on Main
Street.
Both events are expected
to draw in crowds by the
thousands, which also
coincides with the James
Dean Festival in Fair-
mount.
“The weather is going to
be very good. We expect a
very high attendance,” said
Pat Mitchell, owner of Ride
N’ Leather and organizer
of the River Rally.
The River Ralley event
will include live entertain-
ment throughout the week-
end, a stunt show,  a bike
show on Saturday, as well
BILLS
Continued from A1
on the front of the bill.
Deputy Chief Stephen
Dorsey of the Marion Po-
lice Department said the two
counterfeit bills from Mon-
day were the first cases of
counterfeit money reported
to MPD in a while. He said if
business owners believe they
have a counterfeit bill, they
should contact the police.
“If they believe they have a
counterfeit bill, they can defi-
nitely call the Marion Police
Department and an officer
can come out there and check
COUNCIL
Continued from A1
initiative.  spective businesses deals will
“Each one has their own
unique issues,” Eckerle
said. “Our job is to help
them with that.”
The Growth Council’s
board meetings are public
for the time being.  Despite
the nonprofit receiving hun-
dreds of thousands of dol-
lars a year of public money
primarily from the CEDIT
tax revenue, the growth
council’s board meetings
were conducted in private
down through the years
because it reportedly spent
more private money than it
did public money annually.
Of the $1,191,765 the
Growth Council disbursed
last year, $765,006 – or 64
percent of the total spent
– was public money, ac-
cording the organization’s
annual report filed to the
Indiana Department of Lo-
cal Government and Fi-
nance, essentially making
the Growth Council a pub-
lic agency. The now public
nonprofit reported to the
State Board of Accounts
that it spent all of the public
money it received in 2015,
including the $317,616 it
received in CEDIT revenue
and $407,215 in economic
development revenue bonds
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CARS: Classic car enthusiasts take in the scene during the 2015 Ducktail Run in Gas City’s Eugene “Beaner” Linn Memo-
rial Park.
as  a light show and au-
dio  contest, both of which
are new to the line-up of
events this year.
“We are also having a
it out,” Dorsey said.
After taking custody of the
bill, MPD photographs it and
forwards it to the FBI.
Dorsey said business own-
ers may see more counter-
feit bills sneaking in around
Christmas time. During
busy holiday seasons, ca-
shiers are checking out as
many people as they can as
quickly as possible, some-
times overlooking the de-
tails of the bills.
Almost always, the people
who try to pay with counterfeit
bills are doing it unknowingly,
according to Ford.
“Every case I’ve had – and
I’ve been doing this for 23
the Growth Council re-
ceived in connection bring-
ing Cafe Valley to Marion.
Talks about specific pro-
still be conducted in private
executive meetings, but fi-
nancial and policy matters of
the board are to be discussed
and voted on in public. The
public can also request files
but only files pertaining to
the year 2015, according to
Indiana Public Access Coun-
selor Luke Britt.
The Growth Council ‘s
public status is in effect
until a filed annual report
shows the entity has revert-
ed back to having less than
50 percent of its expen-
ditures come from public
money.
The Growth Council, ac-
cording to their indepen-
dent 2015 audit, is still
heavily reliant on public
money, particularly the
CEDIT money, to operate.
The audit, completed by
Dulin, Ward and DeWald
states: “The Council re-
ceives a substantial portion
of its support from econom-
ic development income tax.
A significant reduction in
the level of this support, if it
were to occur, may have an
effect on the Council’s pro-
gram’s and activities .” 
Changes to the amount
the Growth Council re-
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Ford suggested people
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for some reason … just pay
more attention and double
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browse  during their visit.
People attending the Duck-
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Leach said employees
traveling to the Gas City
building on a daily ba-
sis will make good rev-
enue for the city. The
189,000-square-foot
building is located on
30 acres of land, giving
plenty of opportunity for
growth, Leach said. This,
in turn, could increase the
assessed valuation of the
property and boost income
from local tax dollars.
Gas City Water Depart-
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ver spoke in favor of the
10 year tax abatement dur-
ing the start of the public
hearing Sept. 20.
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proposed change to the
but did vote 7-1 to pass
it to a third and final
reading. Council Vice
President Brad Luzadder
was the lone “no” vote.
Council Member Alan
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“We’ll have around 1,000
participants and it’s an
open cruise in, meaning any
year car or truck can come
in,” said  Jerry Caudill, co-
organizer of the Ducktail
Run. “It’s a fundraiser for
the high school.  The kids
sell food and things to raise
money. All the entry mon-
ey goes to the high school
kids.”
There will also be
a  1972 and older only
auto show, which will
allow vehicles of that
year and older to partici-
pate. Caudill said he an-
ticipates 2,500 to 3,000
people to show off their
prized possession in the
show. Other activities for
the Gas City event a  in-
clude a swap meet and
craft fair, live music, and
various  vendors. Vendors
will be selling vintage
auto parts, homemade
craft furniture, toys, jew-
elry and more.
“It’s like going back into
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“I think (the old Echelon
building) is a very good
he sees with the owners of
Earthwise Plastics.
place to start that business, “I feel like this is a very
and the 10 year tax abate- substantial business,” he
ment will be good for the said. “I love what I see in
city,” he said. “They seem the company.”
like a very reputable com- Dyson is already do-
pany.” ing work on the build-
The building Earthwise ing, Leach said. He is
Plastics closed a deal on in the process of re-
last week has been vacant placing the roof on
since September 2014 the south side of the
when Echelon Furniture building. The company
closed and its sister com- has also repainted the
pany filed for bankruptcy parking lot stripes.
protection, leaving nearly Gas City officials and
100 people out of jobs. For- Dyson have not publicly
mer Echelon CFO Norman disclosed how many new
D’Souza pleaded guilty to jobs the company might
purposely and falsely in- bring to Gas City. Leach
flating sales to receive a said he does not know ap-
$1 million loan from Gas proximately when Dyson
City in July 2012. will have employees mov-
Leach said he likes what ing in.
formerly known as the
Street Department, plans
costs. 
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ordinance that would do their opinion on the
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leaves on the curbside most expressing their
and instead ask residents support. A motion start-
to bag up their leaves and ed by Council Member
place them by the curb David Homer to forgo
for pickup. The change is a third reading and of-
expected to save the city ficially pass the new
roughly $40,000 a year ordinance Tuesday did
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP)
— Indiana lawmakers
plan to file a plan in Janu-
ary aimed at reducing the
number of children, teens
and young adults who kill
themselves.
The effort comes as sta-
tistics from the Indiana De-
partment of Public Health
show that suicide is the sec-
ond-leading cause of death
for those between the ages
of 15 and 23, The (North-
west Indiana) Times re-
ported . The leading cause
is accidents.
Statistics show 119 Indi-
ana teenagers and young
adults and nine children
between the ages of five
and 14 killed themselves in
2014, the most recent year
with complete data avail-
able. A federal survey of In-
diana high school students
done last year shows one
in six teens considered sui-
cide and one in eight made
a plan for how to do it.
“Compared to other states
we’re right in the middle,
basically, in terms of our
current deaths – which
means that we could be
doing better,” said Mindi
Goodpaster, public policy
director at the Marion
County Commission on
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BY TYLER JURANOVICH
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Emails between the City
of Marion, Umbaugh and
the Grant County Economic
Growth Council about the
Five Points Mall tax incre-
ment finance (TIF) district
reveal worries that taxes
drawn from the district
haven’t been properly dis-
tributed and that the city’s
Christmas at the cabin
CHRISTMAS CABIN: Visitors of the Jones Cabin could enter a raffle to win a real decorated Christmas tree at the Old
Fashioned Christmas in the Cabin open house Saturday in Jonesboro.
Jonesboro Historical Society brings
back Jones Cabin holiday open house
BY ANDREA YEATER
ayeater@chronicle-tribune.com
JONESBORO — People
packed into the Jones Cabin
Saturday for a holiday open
house.
Members of the Jones-
boro Historical Society in-
vited the public to browse
the artifacts in the cabin and
enjoy hot mulled cider, hot
chocolate and cookies.
Wilbur Web, a historical
society member, said that it
has been about seven or eight
years since they opened the
cabin for a Christmas event.
Lilly scholarships awarded
Heidi Davis, Micah Hoeksema
won’t have to pay college tuition
BY ANDREA YEATER
ayeater@chronicle-tribune.com
Two Grant County high
school seniors received the
2017 Lilly Endowment Com-
munity Scholarship, which
pays full tuition to any Indi-
ana college for four years.
Heidi Davis from Missis-
sinewa High School and Mi-
cah Hoeksema from Marion
High School were chosen by
the Community Foundation
of Grant County out of a
Marion’s
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other TIF districts may have
problems as well.
The emails were obtained
by the Chronicle-Tribune
through a public records
request and the contents,
while brief, reveal changes
made in the value of prop-
erty involved in the TIF dis-
trict were not expected. A $0
based assess valuation was
used when calculating the
He said they brought it back
as a way to give back to the
community.
“We consider the cabin a
real jewel for the communi-
ty,” he said. “It’s well worth
it to open it up.”
The event was not a fund-
raiser, but was intended as a
way to increase interest and
pride in the historical site.
Elementary students
helped decorate the cabin
and the Christmas trees FAMILY: Gladys Rhodes, in the red coat, brought her chil-
earlier in the week, and dren, Phaedra Rhodes, Matthew Rhodes and Persephone
See CABIN / Page A2
DAVIS HOEKSEMA
group of seven finalists. Stu-
dents are selected based on
class rank, SAT/ACT scores,
community service, leader-
ship, extra-curricular activi-
Serving Grant County since 1867.
amount of taxes that would
flow into TIF funds.
Based assessed value in a
TIF is the amount of taxes
produced by property before
a TIF project is in place. It is
the amount that goes to fund
government services, includ-
ing schools, and typically
remain stable and continue
being paid to other entities
while increases in assessed
value go into the TIF district
to finance improvements.
A June 14 email written
by Tim Eckerle, executive
Photos by Andrea Yeater / ayeater@chronicle-tribune.com
Rhodes, to the Jones Cabin in Jonesboro Saturday for the
Old Fashioned Christmas open house.
ties, communication skills
and an interview with a panel
from the foundation.
Other finalists were Truman
Bennet, Marion High School,
Anne Marie Conrad, Marion
High School, Courtney Hiles,
Marion HIgh School, Samuel
Morehead, Eastbrook High
School, and Nicholas Spitzer,
Marion High School. These
students are still eligible to
win other scholarships from
the Community Foundation.
Both Davis and Hoeksema
said that they were among
good company in this com-
petition.
“All seven of the other fi-
2 YEARS
director of the Grant County
Economic Growth Council,
to Roger Bainbridge, county
auditor, shows Eckerle took
issue with a $0 base assessed
value delivered for Five
Points Mall TIF starting in
2012, given the property’s
value was assessed higher
before 2012.
“Am I reading this cor-
rect?” Eckerle writes.
Bainbridge responds the
following day that, while
he doesn’t agree with
the change, the base as-
nalists were extremely quali-
fied,” Davis said. “I know that
it could have easily gone to
any of the others.”
Dawn Brown, executive
director of the Community
Foundation, said this is the
first time the scholarship was
awarded during the fall se-
mester.
Brown said that the sub-
committee from the foun-
dation that is in charge of
scoring, interviewing and rec-
ommending the final two can-
didates look for well-round-
ed, high caliber students.
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sessed value of the TIF was
changed to zero and that his
office had no choice but to
accept the change. He ad-
vises Eckerle to contact Bob
Swintz of London Witte, the
accountant that dealt with
some of Marion’s TIF dis-
tricts during the Wayne Sey-
bold administration, includ-
ing the Five Points Mall TIF,
and who filled out the mall’s
TIF Neutralization Form,
a document that lists a TIF
See MALL / Page A2
THE WEEK
AHEAD
Polar
Vortex
brings
subzero
temps
BY STAFF REPORTS
The polar vortex returns
this week, and it’s bringing
subzero temperatures with it. 
Temperatures in Grant
County aren’t expected to be
higher than the mid-20s be-
ginning this Tuesday as arc-
tic air travels to the Midwest.
Temperatures will be as low
as 5 degrees on Wednesday
with winds around 10 mph.
With the wind chill, tem-
peratures may dive as low as
-11 degrees. 
The frigid cold will come
right after a light snowfall is
expected throughout today.
Temperatures aren’t expect-
ed to rise more than 30 de-
grees until Saturday. 
Things to do this week in-
clude: 
Today
AmVets Post 5 Ladies
Auxiliary: is having a Kids
Christmas Party from 2 to 5
p.m. at the Post, located at
705 W. 37th St., Marion. The
Post is looking for donations,
such as food. Santa will be
there for pictures.
Main Street Marion: is put-
ting on the Indiana Statehood
Celebration from 4 p.m. to 6
p.m. at 322 S. Washington
St., in downtown Marion.
There will be light refresh-
ments, music, displays from
the Grant County Museum
and a silent art auction.
Dec. 12
Madison Grant School
Board Meeting: 7 p.m. in the
administration office, 11580
S. East 00 West, Fairmount.
The Grant County Tea
Party: will have a meeting at
the Sirloin Stockade on Mon-
day December 12 at 6 p.m.
Dec. 13
The Mississinewa Val-
ley Band: will present their
“Yuletide Spectacular at the
Phillippe”at 7:30 p.m. in the
Phillippe 
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“We want a candidate who
will represent Grant County
really well no matter where
they attend college,” she said.
“That’s what we got with Hei-
di and Micah.”
The first step in this process
is to have the students submit
two essays. The subcommittee
then grades the papers with-
out knowing the names of the
individuals. Once the essays
are graded, they invite the top
scores in for an interview.
Brown said that the inter-
view process is very similar
to a job interview in that it can
CABIN
Continued from A1
members of the historical
society baked and prepared
all the food and drinks for
the event. Web said that they
had been planning the open
house for a month and was
glad to see so many people
come out.  visits to the cabin make
During the event, visitors
were able to enter a raffle to
win one of two Christmas
trees. The winners were an-
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district’s base assessed value
and its increment revenue,
among other things. That
form is then signed by the
auditor and then an employ-
ee at the Indiana Department
of Local Government and
Finance.
Eckerle forwarded the
email exchange to Loren
Matthes, the employee at
Umbaugh that has been
working with the city in
studying its finances since
the firm was hired by the
Jess Alumbaugh administra-
tion in early 2016.
“HELP what do we do to
correct this new mess,” Eck-
erle writes to Matthes.
In a nine-paragraph re-
sponse, Matthes ponders
whether the change could’ve
been intentional, a human
error or a software mistake
that went unnoticed.
However, Matthes writes
Umbaugh is “fairly certain”
the problem is one with the
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be intimidating, but they try to
make it as easygoing as pos-
sible.
“We try to think, ‘what
would I have been like at 17 in
this situation?’” she said.
Hoeksema and Davis said
that they were both nervous
before going in for the inter-
view.
“It was nerve-racking at
first, but it got easier as it went
on,” he said.
During the 30-minute in-
terview process, each candi-
date discusses their academic
achievements, community in-
volvement and writes a timed
essay.
After the interviews each
candidate is scored again on
nounced at the end of the
day.
Ruth and Wayne Overmy-
er live across the street from
the park and the cabin, and
have come to several histori-
cal society events.
“We enjoy the beauty of
the park and the cabin from
our kitchen window,” said
Ruth Overmyer, adding that
them appreciate how people
used to live, as well thankful
for modern technology.
Gladys Rhodes, of Gas
used by Grant and dozens
of other counties in Indiana,
according to the company’s
website, though Matthes
says she can’t be 100 percent
certain without seeing base
assessed values before 2012.
“LOWW software has
been incorrectly adjust-
ing base values for years,
and, we constantly moni-
tor and re-correct their base
values; and have made the
DLGF aware of this prob-
lem (though it has fallen on
deaf ears). In fact, in Grant
County, we had to correct
all the TIF base values for
Gas City’s and Van Buren’s
TIF areas when the County
changed from Manatron tax
software to LOWW software
on January 1, 2012.
“...Unfortunately, since
we are fairly certain that
there has been a systematic
LOWW tax software prob-
lem, this could mean that all
the Marion TIF distributions
since 2012 may have been
incorrect,” Matthes writes.
Michael Hicks, director of
the Center for Business and
State University, is a little
wary that the change in the
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White supremacists? Not exactly,
KKK and other groups claim
IN AMERICA BY WOMEN
BY JAY REEVES
Associated Press
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PELHAM, N.C. — White
their performance, and the
subcommittee makes a rec-
supremacy is a label that’s
too hot to handle even for
ommendation to the Inde- groups like the Ku Klux
pendent Colleges of Indiana, Klan.
a nonprofit corporation, who Standing on a muddy dirt
can either accept or reject the road in the dead of night
recommendations. near the North Carolina-
Brown said that they have Virginia border, masked
been lucky that the ICI has Ku Klux Klan members
usually accepted the subcom- claimed Donald Trump’s
mittee’s recommendations. election as president proves
Davis said that she has not whites are taking back
decided on a college or major America from blacks, im-
yet, but will likely attend ei- migrants, Jews and other
ther Notre Dame University, groups they describe as
Taylor University or the Uni- criminals and freeloaders.
versity of Evansville. America was founded by
Hoeksema will be attend- and for whites, they say, and
ing Taylor University in the only whites can run a peace-
fall and will double major in ful, productive society.
Spanish and biology pre-med. But still, the KKK mem-
bers insisted in an interview
with The Associated Press,
City, brought her three chil-
dren, Phaedra, Matthew and
they’re not white suprema-
cists, a label that is gaining
Persephone with her to the traction in the country since
cabin for the first time. Trump won with the public
“We all like looking at the backing of the Klan, neo-
old stuff they have in here,” Nazis and other white rac-
Rhodes said. ists.
Web said that the histori- “We’re not white su-
cal society is always looking premacists. We believe in
for new members and hopes our race,” said a man with
events like this will get peo- a Midwestern accent and
ple interested in local his- glasses just hours before a
tory. This is the last event for pro-Trump Klan parade in a
the year, but the group will nearby town. He, like three
begin hosting events again in Klan compatriots, wore a
March. robe and pointed hood and
wouldn’t give his full name,
in accordance with Klan
mall’s base assessed value to
$0 is 100 percent a software
rules.
Claiming the Klan isn’t
problem. white supremacist flies in
If the change to the Five the face of its very nature.
Points Mall TIF was a mis- The Klan’s official rule-
take, though, Hicks said he book, the Kloran – pub-
believes the government lished in 1915 and still
agencies, such as the city, followed by many groups –
school corporation, have says the organization “shall
a good case that they are ever be true in the faithful
owed some money back they maintenance of White Su-
would have received if the premacy,” even capitaliz-
assessed value was accurate. ing the term for emphasis.
“It’s something that should Watchdog groups also con-
be looked at by the DLGF or sider the Klan a white su-
the State Board of the Ac- premacist organization, and
counts,” Hicks said. experts say the groups’ de-
What other information nials are probably linked to
Umbaugh has found since efforts to make their racism
June isn’t being revealed. more palatable.
Marion Mayor Jess Alum- Still, KKK groups today
baugh has repeatedly de- typically renounce the term.
clined to comment on the The same goes for extrem-
issue until Umbaugh has ists including members of
completed its study of the the self-proclaimed “alt-
city’s finances, which has right,” an extreme branch
been going on for nine of conservatism mixing rac-
months now. ism, white nationalism and
“Don’t get me wrong, there populism.
could be a software glitch, “We are white separatists,
but it’s people that must fill just as Yahweh in the Bible
out that form,” Hicks said. told us to be. Separate your-
“At some point someone has self from other nations. Do
to ask themselves ‘Is that not intermix and mongrelize
land really valued at $0? your seed,” said one of the
That can’t be right.’” Klansmen who spoke along
the muddy lane.
The Associated Press in-
terviewed the men, who
claimed membership in the
Loyal White Knights of the
KKK, in a nighttime session
set up with help of Chris
Barker, a KKK leader who
confirmed details of the
group’s “Trump victory cel-
ebration” in advance of the
event. As many as 30 cars
paraded through the town
of Roxboro, North Carolina,
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some bearing Confederate ist incidents since the elec-
and KKK flags. tion, often use the “white
Barker didn’t participate, supremacist” label when
though: He and a Klan
leader from California were
describing groups like the
Klan; white nationalism and
arrested hours earlier on white separatism are parts
charges linked to the stab- of the ideology. But what
bing of a third KKK mem- exactly is involved?
ber during a fight, sheriff’s The ADL issued a report
officials said. Both men last year describing white
were jailed; the injured man supremacists as “ideologi-
was recovering. cally motivated by a series
Like the KKK members, of racist beliefs, including
Don Black said he doesn’t the notion that whites should
care to be called a white be dominant over people
supremacist, either. Black of other backgrounds, that
– who operates stormfront. whites should live by them-
org, a white extremist favor- selves in a whites-only so-
ite website, from his Florida ciety, and that white people
home – he prefers “white have their own culture and
nationalist.” are genetically superior to
“White supremacy is a other cultures.”
legitimate term, though not That sounds a lot like some
usually applicable as used of the ideas espoused by
by the media. I think it’s today’s white radicals, yet
popular as a term of deri- they reject the label. That’s
sion because of the implied
unfairness, and, like ‘rac-
likely because they learned
the lessons of one-time Klan
ism,’ it’s got that ‘hiss’ leader David Duke, who un-
(and, like ‘hate’ and ‘rac- successfully ran for the U.S.
ism,’ frequently ‘spewed’ in Senate in Louisiana this
headlines),” Black said in an year, said Penn State Uni-
email interview. versity associate professor
The Southern Poverty Josh Inwood.
Law Center and the Anti- “(There was) this peddling
Defamation League, which of kinder, softer white su-
monitor white extremist or- premacy. He tried to pioneer
ganizations and are tracking a more respectable vision of
an increase in reports of rac- the Klan,” Inwood said.
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