Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 11 May 1934 — Page 2

FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1934.

THE POST-DEMOCRAT A Democratic weekly newspaper represertlng the Democrat* of Muncie, Delaware County and the lOtt Congressional District The only Democratic Newspaper in Delaware County. Entered as second class matter January 15, 1921, at the Postofflce at Muncie, lidiana, under Act of March 3, 1879. PRICE 5 CENTS—$1.00 A YEAR. 223 North Elm Street—Telephone 2540 Geo. R. Dale, Editor

Muncie, Indiana, Friday, May 11, 1934.

Sweet Sop Rather Late Now that the popularity contest is over and two former mayors have been named as the choice for the people this coming fall election each of which had uncreditable administrations, perhaps some of the populace of the City of Muncie will become mindful of the accomplishments and real benefits of the present administration and wonder why they do like they do, do, do. Thursday evening in a local newspaper an editorial column mentioned some of the credence due the Dale administration but all during past years while these accomplishments were being chalked up in favor of Mayor Dale, this same newspaper chose to ridicule rather than commend. The editorial cited the real economy and tax reduction policy which meant savings of thousands of dollars to the taxpayers. Never before in Muncie had such economy been practiced instead of just talked about and yet a public fails to appreciate these benefits. The park system under the present administration was given great praise since all parks have been beautified and transformed into recreational oasises for the entertainment and enjoyment of all citizens. The street department has always received commendation for its service to the community as well as both the police and fire departments. It must be admitted that the various departments in the Dale administration have performed their duties well and at' the same time relieved the taxpayers of a burden of expense < 4* The credits due The administration will no doubt be better realized in years to come when property owners are heavily assessed for public improvements at extortionate . prices, tax rates will be raised in order to provide for the !? jj costs of government, and the service of departments will be hampered by political prestige. Florists remain in business , mostly from the sale of flowers for funerals while the purchases of tokens of appreciation to the living are slight. The public will recognize the honest efforts of the present . administration long after its officers have passed on and a start towards this very sense was began when the local newspaper admitted the numerous good qualities in public affairs under Mayor Dale.

missioners in the Court House of said County for the following pur-

poses:

1. To hear complaints ‘of any owner of personal property, except such property as is originally assessed by the State Board of

Tax Commissioners.

2. To hear complaints concerning the assessment of real estate specially assessed in 1934, and assessments on additional improve-

ments.

3. To equalize the valuation ami assessment of property and taxables made by the assessing officer subsequent to March 1, 1934. 4. To equalize the valuation made by the assessors either by adding to or deducting therefrom such sums as may be necessary to

ffnliTe of property.

5. To review all assessments and to inquire as to the valuation of the various classes of property or parts thereof in the several townships and divisions of the

county.

6. To make such changes in assessments, whether by way of increase oi- decrease in the valuation of the various classes of property as may be necessary to equalize the same in or between

Civil Service, Eh? Just leave it to a woman. I had one today who came to me to offer a suggestion concerning a draft of a civil service examination law to present to the next legislature. She was very serious and expresses the belief that it will pass both houses by a unanimous vote. Her idea is that there is too much red tape, and too many questions to answer while the depression is depressing. She thinks further that applicants who have been living on snow balls throughout the winter and dandelion greens in warm weather are so weakened mentally that a full stomach changes their viewpoint as the wrinkles in their tummies begin to disappear. It is her firm belief that the examination should be wholly mechanical and no questions asked, and it would only require a few moments of time. Any tailor versed in the art measuring a client for a pair of pants would do for an examining board and all he would need is an ordinary tapeline. “Measure him at the equator,” said she, “and then put him to work, but keep a careful record of the waistline and when it noticeably increases measure him again and if it has increased two inches, fire him at once and put in his place somebody who is in the lean and hungry class.” She was particularly insistent on the two-inch limit and will never consent to an amendment to her bill that will add even a quarter of an inch to the two-inch deadline. “The papers here and many of the candidates have been loud in their demand for civil service and now I am giving them something practical to think about,” she concluded. Come to think about it, there may be more truth than poetry in the suggestion of this woman.

i the spines of those who contemplate voting for his candidate j you heard on the ev« of the primary was mine. ! for mayor. j If my administration of the affairs of Muncie has pleasEven the ‘benediction of a minister of the gospel cannot j ed you, register your approbation at the polls tomorrow. I I take the taste out of the mouths of the voters who are ask-! am not pleading with you or corntnandihg. Just talking to j ed to take a chance on the reinstatement of these contracts. | you. I am running on my record and it’s up to you to decide Then, also the Cranor candidate has publicly endorsed i and I await your decision \vith serene confidence that all

j the councilman who tried, and would have succeeded if it had i is well.

j not been for me, to pay off a little matter of $60,000 that! ! came to light in the closing hours of the preceding adminis- H0TiCE OF meeting of deltration. ! AW aRe county board of This tritle was in the form of so-called certificates of j review. ! indebtedness issued to the paving trust by Cliff Cranor and | Notice is hereby given that the his associates on the board of works in payment for the pav-1 county Beard of Review of Deiaing of street intersections in excess of a $30,000 appropria-! WAre 'County, state of Indiana, Hon for the year 1929. ^ m d ee ^' , A - M :. MomI t £ ; y > It will be recalled that when the tax levy and budget! Monday’an junt^ot thts^yeac ordinance was passed in 1930 an attempt was made to add ! at the room of the County Corn-

ten cents to the levy to pay the $60,000. The original tax levy ordinance was taken from the files of the city clerk, the staple* with which it was bound were removed and the entire page re-typed, a paragraph being added to provide for

the additional ten-cent levy.

Just before the council met to pass the ordinance, I heard of the attempted grab, broke into the council caucus

room and put a stop to it.

The councilman who made the unauthorized change later admitted in a hearing before the state tax board that he was the one who made the change and I opening charged in my newspaper that the act constituted the crime of alter-

ing a public document.

This fraudulent act made it necessary for City Attorney Taughinbaug’h to purchase a new typewriter for his office with letters of such odd shape that they could not be duplicated. The councilman who did it has been openly endorsed

by my opponent, so the paving trust must have hopes_Qf|fix assessments at the true cash

electing a mayor that will be reasonable.

I was going to extend my remarks this evening on the paving trust but Curtis Rector, a ’Republican candidate for mayor saved me the trouble. He spoke this evening from this station of the paving tried of the previous administration using the phrase “paving trust,” which I coined in my

campaign five years ago.

1 don’t mind anybody, Democrat or Republican, running on my platform, but why kick a dead mule around ? The paving trust was killed deader than Caesar’s ghost

by my administration, but I am still wondering what is really I the townships or any taxing unit, up the sleeve of my opponent, who sent a preacher to the 7. To determine the rate per mike to paint lovely word pictures, orate about the blue sky, ^ be i ;ukled or deducted in the birds and the flowers. Even the canary bird here in the equalization { in' 1 tht s^vera?” townstudio, quit singing when the preacher began to warble. | ships and taxing units so as to I once saw a fellow in a crowd .pointing upward in an conform throughout the county to excited manner and while the crowd gawked heavenward a| a just.^nd equitable standard

lively pickpocket took ’em like Grant took Richmond. Well my dear friends I must come to a close and whether you vote for me or not, please remember that the last voice

8. To add omitted property ip

all necessary cases.

9. To increase the valuation of

omitted property, when necessary 1 Moy 11-18.

as made by rbe assessors. 10. To correct errors in the

names of persons and in the description of property and in the valuation and assessment of prop-

erty upon the assessment list. 11. To correct any list of valuation as may be deemed proper. 12. To correct the assessment'

and valuation of any property in such manner as will in the judgment of the Board of Review make the valuation thereof just

and equal.

13. To add to the assessment list the names of persons, the value of piersonal property and the description and value of real estate liable to assessment hut omitted from the lists. 14. To consider and act upon recommendations made by the

County Assesscr.

15. To do or cause to be done whatever may be necessary to do to make all returns of assessment lists and all valuations in compliance with the provisions of the taxing laws and especially of an act concerning taxation approved March 11, 1919, and the acts amendatory thereof and supple-

mental thereto.

All to be done to equalize the Valuation and assessment of property and taxables for the year 1934 payable in 1935, and of which ail property owners and taxpayers •are required to take due notice. The Oountv Board of Review is also subject to he reconvened In special session to meet on Tues-1 day, August 7 1 984, to consider the certified report and information regarding the inequality or lack of uniformity of assessments in this 'County as may he presented to said Board by the State 'Board of Tax Commissioners. Witness the hand of the Auditor and the seal of the County Commissioners of said County, this

11th xlay of Mav, 1934. W. MAX SHAFER,

Auditor Delaware County, Ind.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON AMENDMENT OF ZONING ORDINANCE. Notice is hereby given to the citizens of Muncie, Indiana, that public hearing on an amendment to the Zoning Ordiance, which is now pending before the Common Council of the City of Muncie, Indiana, will be hekl in the city council chamber in the City Hall at 7:'30 p. m., on the 10th day of June, 1934, at wjhich time and place any objections to such amendment or change will be ■heard. The proposed amendment or ■change to be made is as follows: To amend, supplement and change the present Zoning Ordinance of said City of Muncie, Indiana, so as to transfer to the business district, to the six hundred (600) square foot area district a'ml to the eighty (80) foot height district the following described territory in said City of Muncie, Indiana, to-wit: Lots numbered six (6) and seven (7) in block numbered twenty-seven (27) in the Whitely Land Company’s First Addition to the City of Muncie, Indiana, except the East thirty-six (36) feet of said lots. Said proposed ordinance for such amendment or change of said present Zoning Ordinance has been referred to the City Plan Commission of said City of Muncie, and has been considered, and said 'City Plan Commission has Cie, and hasbeen-c ft side red and said made its report approving the same; Information eoncertaing such proposed amendment or change is now on fide in the office of said City Plan Commission, for public examination. Said hearing will be continued from time to time as may be found necessary. 1 In witness whereof T have here-1 unto set my hand and affixed tire ; seal of the .City of Muncie, Iwli- I

ana.

Seal Linton Ridgeway. ! City Clerk, and Clerk df the Common Council of the City of | Muncie, this 4th day of June, 1934. j

of the worst type of shacks, and makes possible the erection of some moderately decent, inexpensive houses to rent at a cheap rate, will have •contributed much towards the eventual curtailment of vice and crime. The outskirts of towns the size of Muncie can show worse slum conditions than anything New York or Chicago has to offer, and a large percentage of our filling station bandits and police court characters spring from such environments.

New deal or old, the same bid Fifth Avenue families get the aces.

Here, There (Continued From Page 1) Any person of wealth who arranges for the elimination of some

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NOTICE TO BIDDERS Notice is hereby given that sealed proposals will lie received at the office of the Auditor of Delaware County Indiana, at the Court House in Muncie, Indiana, np to the hour of 10 o’clock a. m. on Saturday, May 26, 1934, for the following equipment: For the furnishing and selling to said County of two (2) heavy duty motor trucks, gross currying capacity of 15.000 pounds, each with two (2) yard water level steel dump bed, with underbody j hydraulic hoist (beds to be Wood C 12 or equal and hoists to be : Wood F 1 C or equal) with all | weather steel cab; with screen over rear glass, tow hooks front and rear and draw’ bar, dual rear i tires and front tires not less than 750x20. Bids will be received at the ! same time for the purchase from said County of two (2) G M C j 1 Model 1928, Dump Trucks, bidders on said new trucks to state the amount of their hid for said old j trucks either iir their proposal for such new trucks or by separate ! bid. Any other person desiring to j bid for said old trucks may do so. j All bids shall be accompanied by non-collusion affidavit and bond. ; or certified check in the amount i of $500.90, guaranteeing performance of such hid. Board reserves tire right to re- j ject any and all bids. Done this 12th dav of Mav. 1934. W. MAX SHAFER Auditor Delaware, County, ind. May 11-18.

MAYOR’S CORNER

(After Lester Holloway, City Controller had finished his broadcast, Mayor Dale took the “mike” and broadcasted. By Mr. Durante is meant Lester Holloway, a nickname which the mayor has applied to the popular controller, on account of his versatility. The radio speech, made last Monday, by Mayor Dale follows:) Thank you Mister Durante for them kind words and now as we have a few minutes left I will conclude the evening’s broadside with a few brief remarks. First I wish to remind you that I will be mayor of Muncie about eight months longer, no matter how the primary turns out tomorrow and the result will in no way affect my attitude on public affairs. Of course I am'expecting to be nominated easily, for in my impression that the sensible thinking Democrats of Muncie will hardly care to trust the complexities of local government to the doctor and his two inseparables, Cliff Cranor and Billy Finan. While a few people are shedding crocodile tears about a firemen’s suit, which I discussed in a noonday broadcast today, they should think of more important things. Before I had been in office two weeks I caused to be cancelled contracts for the improvement of seventeen streets, mostly on the Southside, let to the infamous paving trust at prices nearly double what they should have been. Cliff Cranor was a member of the Hampton board of works and the moving spirit of that body. Cliff is a Democrat but got his job through political services rendered to Hampton, and with the assistance of Bunch and other disloyal Democrats encompassed the defeat of the Democratic candidate for mayor, Milt Rutherford. Cliff and his associates on the Hampton board of works let these contracts, amounting to nearly $300,000. It is significant now that Mr. Cranor has attached himself to my opponent’s cavalcade, deserting the Hampton brigade. , Eddie Thomas delivered a beautiful talk this evening in behalf of the doctor. It almost made me shed tears at the beautiful ♦figures of speech but what of the connection of Mr. Cranor, and the candidates he lauded so copiously? Those contracts are still in court. Mr, Cranor ties up with no candidate for mayor who does not agree,to scratch his back. His candid admission on the Federal witness stand that he came to me in the 1929 campaign and wanted me to agree that his gambling house should not be disturbed in exchange for political support, should send a shudder down

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RURAL NEWS

DALEVILLE, INDIANA. Funeral services for Richartl VVesley Dunn, 76. who died at his; home here, Tuesday night, will he conducted at 2 o’clock Friday aft ernoon at the ■Polhemus mortuary, with Rev. W. H Polhemus in I charge. Burial will lie made in the ! Beech Grove Cemetery, Muncie. He is survived by the widow, Martha. I a step-daughter, Mrs. Dudley Sadler, of Anderson, and two brothers, William Dunn, of Indianapolis, amt George Dunn, of Youngstown, O. : Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Mingle and family, spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Smith. Mrs. Garfield Grove spent Wednesday in Muncie. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Moreland and son, Earl, visited Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. John VanMatre. : east of Cross Roads. Mrs. Arnold Tucker entertained at a bridge party Tuesday evening. Prizes were awarded to Mrs. Clark Dresbach. Mrs. Charles Bronnenberg and Mrs. Oscar Davis. Refreshments were served to Mrs. Warner Anderson, Mrs. Charles Rrmrnenberg, Mrs. Clark Dresbach, Mrs. Ralph Stewart, Mrs. D. C. Sintes. Mrs. William Edge'll. Mrs. Jerry Bronnenherg. Mrs. Aliev Thornburg, Mrs. Harry Thornburg, Mrs. Kirby Shoemaker, Mrs. Roscoe | Shroyer, Mrs. John Hurley, Mrs. Wilburn Davis, Mi's. Gladys Cromer, M rs. C leat is Nelson, M rs. Ezra LeMond, Mrs. Frank Brakdull ,Mrs. Oscar Davis and Miss Jeanne Tucker. A special program is being prepared at the ‘Christian Church for Mother’s Day. Mrs. laird Mrs. Charles Modi in entertained at dinner, Sunday, Arthur Shirey. of Anderson; Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Shirey and sons, Warren and Wayne, and Charles Modlin, Jr.

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