Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 6 January 1939 — Page 3

THE POST-DEMOCRAT : FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1939.

In. America the annual income is still a little bigger than the governmeiit debt. In both France and England the debt is considerably larger. Sytriptoms of illness from tularemia (rabbit fever) usually appear in four or five days after the infection although they may develop in from one to twenty-one days.

One of the most scholarly young men in the country is twenty-year-old Archibald Roosevelt, Jr., grandson of the famous Teddy. He speaks thirteen languages and is graduating from Harvard in three years. More than 100,0t)0 applications for jobs are on file in the employment bureau at the 1939 California World’s Fair.

In Irvin, New Jersey, a truck hit a $5.98 express Wagon belonging to a sik-year-old boy. The wagon was completely demolished and the driver of the truck was promptly sued for $50.

12,000 miles of new roads will bfe built in the United States during 1939, according to present estimates.

In the general election in Russia every hitizen must vote. However, there is only one natne printed on the ballot and it is against the law for anyone to “write in” another

name.

The area of Greater Germany is still a little smaller than the state of Texas.

Lloyd L. Gaine applied for admission to the University of Missouri Law School. He was a resident of Missouri and otherwise qualified to enter the University of Missouri except that he Was a Negro. He was refused admission on these grounds. Gaines sued for his constitutional rights. The Missouri courts decided against him. He carried his case to the United States Supreme Court which recently decided in Gaines’ favor on the grounds of “equal rights.”

Shirley Temple is again the best box office attraction in the movies, according to the 1938 reports. Either Sonja Henie or Clark Gable will prove to be the second best.

At a Detroit hospital Mrs. Marjorie Wyne gave birth to a son. When her husband missed three days straight in his calling at the hospital, nervous Mrs. Wyne grew frantic. Police went to the Wyne home where they found that Mr. Wyne had dropped dead, probably from a heart attack, while addressihg announcements of the birth of the son.

Department of Agriculture entomologists report a scarcity of grasshopper eggs at this time and predict that the 1939 grasshopper damage will probably be much less than during the past few years. “Growl, and the way looks dreary; Laugh, and the path is bright; For a welcome smile Brings sunshine, while A frown shuts out the light.”

One kilowatt hour of electrical energy costs the average user about five cents. One kilowatt hour or five cents will light a 40-watt bulb for 25 hours blit will openly run a flatirbh for about two hours. It will do a big 70-pound family washing or cook a meal on an electric range.

Bowlers Keep 200 Average In 91-Game String Newburgh, N. Y. — Two sturdy Newburgh youths claim a new world’s bowling record after completion of a 15-hour, 91-game marathon match with better than 200 averages. Weary, and favoring blistered fingers and feet, Henry Smith, 27, and Foster Scott, 23, were forced to quit the alleys as they neared their goal of 100 successive games. Scott, who won 47 games to Smiths’ 44, averaged nearlv 21fi for the long haul, while Smith averaged 204, marks rarely achieved in any league for that number of games throughout atl entire season. It was this consistently high average of 207 for 182 games which Smith and Scott believe set a new world’s record. In all, the keglers knocked dowq 37,647 pinS—19,078 for Scott and 18,569 for Smith. Scott had 46 games of more than 200, narrowly missing a perfect score when he hhd 11 sufccessive strikes but ran into trouble in the last frame and ended up with 276 for the high

Statehouse News Bureau

Indianapolis, Jan. 6.—For the second consecutive year, Governor M. Clifford Townsend granted the motorists of Indiana an extension of time for the purchase of auto license plates. At the same time, the Governor expressed the hope that the 1939 session of the General Assembly will change the date of license sales to some time between March 1 and July 1. The Governor’s statement read: “I have made arrangements with the Bureau of Motor Vehicles to extend the time for the purchase of motor vehicle licenses, and have asked law enforcement officers to cooperate in permitting motorists to operate with their 1938 plates until March 1, 1939. “I believe it unjust to require a motorist to pay his license fees at a time of the year when his obligations are the heaviest. In the past many motorists have been unable to drive their cars for several weeks, because they were financially unable to pay their license fees at the first of the year. “An automobile is no longer considered a luxury, and for many persons the loss of their automobile is a real tragedy. “Last year we extended the t ne required for the purchase of new licenses, and I do so again with the hope that the coming sess'on of the Legislature will enact snMf laws as may be necessary to change the date of license sales tc some time between March 1 and July 1 in future years. “This extension of time does not apply to the driver’s license. These must be se,cured by January 1. M. Clifford Townsend.”

h of 25&. .■euis Wells,— pin setter, estabied a local record bv,working gle-kanded in 165 of the games.

Indianapolis, Jan. 6.—A careful investigation of liquor control in Indiana has been started by the Liquor Study Commission appointed by Governor M. Clifford Townsend. At the first meeting of the tommission last week. Governor Townsetid instructed the body not to “pull your punches because I am the Governor of the majority party that has charge of the administration of the liquor law.” The Governor pointed out that there had been considerable criticism of the alcoholic beverages law, and stated, “In a democracy we cannot ignore what the public is thinking. We must go into this subject and determine what changes are desirable.” Members of the Commission are: William H. Settle, Petroleum, former president of the Indiana Farm Bureau, chairman, representing the public. Pressley S. Sikqs, director of the Bureau of Governmental Research hnd co-ordinator of the Indiana Tax Study Commission, secretary, representing the tax problem. Jesse Murden, Peru, business man and former member of the State Highway Commission under Governor Harry G. Leslie, representing the public. Rabbi Elias Charry, Indianapolis, •representing the public. - William H. Treadway, Spencer, secretary of the Indiana Commission on Interstate Cooperation and former member of the House of Representatives, representing the interstate problem. The Governor suggested a searching inquiry into the licensing, enforcement and handling of liquor in Indiana, and asked that liquor control administration costs be held to a minimum and that the liquor interests be prevented from controlling the traffic. The Commission will -not’ be asked to determine changes in basic policy, but will base its study bn the assumption that the legalized sale of liquor must be controlled in the public interests.

YEAR END STATEMENT BY GOV. TOWNSEN0 We close tfie year 1938 with the happy knowledge that the economic tides are sweeping once more toward prosperity in Indihnit. When the year began, state government faced a critical unemployment piroblem. Thousands of workers in our large industries had been let out, and they looked to their government for help. Agriculture faced the prospects of a huge surplus. Business was sick for lack of purchasing power. But, as the year ends, the business curve is traveling upward. Employment and payrolls are increasing. Retail sales are booming. New construction is proceeding on every hand. Tlie income of Indiana farmers, in spitfe of large surpluses, will be at least one hundred million dollars greater than it was in 1932 and probably will reach the 1936 level. The efforts of governihent to halt the widening spread of the recession and t& put men and women back to work will long be remembered as the significant development of 1938, in my opinion. The first check to an unemployed worker under our state unemployment compensation system was presented on April 25, artd from that time until today — through months of economic slump and seasonal lay-offs—more than 200,000 Indiaha. wage-earners have received benefit, payments totaling about $17,MO,b00. By the time the Legislature met Idst sumniek it was apparent that piany persons were being denied benefits because of the so-called “$10 clause.” This clause was remrived by the special session, permitting 47'bOO Unenipibyed workers to receive about $3/500,000. ^ During the time when they reVeivecf behefit“‘checks, these " un-

employed men and women, instead of being dumped back oh the township trustee of the WPA, were drawing . from their insurance funds. The U. S. Congress met early last year and enacted a recovery program, putting men and dollars back to work. Recognizing that the state government has an equal responsibility for the welfare of its people, I called a special session of the General Assembly last summer and recommended that it pass an Indiana recovery program. Fortunately, the state government had a balance of $24,000,000 in the treasury; and I believed that the people should be given the benefit of their thriftine'ss at a time when they most headed help'. The special sessibn appropriated funds for a needed building program, taking advantage of the revived PWA grants of 45 per cent of the cost of construction. This building program will provide an estimated 15,656,284 man hours 6f work, when completed. The building program, too, will enable the state to take better care of its sick, its delihqujeiit and its insane. The ' special session further equalized the tax spread by returning to taxpayers in local units of government approximately $2,000,000 annually ih the fotm of welfare tax relief. The special session, as I have said, enabled 47,000 unemployed workers to receive unemployment cohipensation by removing the socalled $10 clause. With the exception of the special session, this administration last year proceeded quietly to perfect and utilize the machinery of government to serve better tbe people. The Safety Division completed its traffic safety program, the Labor Division began an apprentice training program, and the Board of Health continued to extend public health services, as examples. I look forward to 1939 as a year of economic stabilization when government will be able td adjust itself to its- problems on a permanent, and not an emergency, basis. I sincerely hope that ih state government we will be able to consolidate the progress made within the last several years and learn to use with full effectiveness tbe, new machinery of government. STRENGTHENING OUR FOREIGN TRADE

The Uiiited States government— unless there is unlooked-for opposition in the forthcoming C6'b : gfess—has started to fight the dictator nations with their own weapons of governmeht-sttbsidizeci trade and financial credits to needy friendly nations. That, in the view of political. ex : perts, is the only deduction that can be made froth two feitiarkable events which ocfcurred durifig the week ending December 17. First, in a cautiously worded announcement, Secretary Mor^enthku said that the Treasury was studying a plan to use Federal funds to help finance trade with South America. Coming on the heels of the Lirrta cdnferehfce, in which the American delegates succeeded in cetnenting Pan-Americah relations, the meaning of this is apparent. We have been steadily losing ground in South America. fJermany,' with her blocked-mark bartet system, has been steadily gaining, as has Italy to a lesser degree. With foreign trade in its present State private capital is hdt in any pqstition to fight a trade war in which the ‘enemy” has behind it the resources of a powerful government. Therefore, it is argued, this government must help Amerihan business in a way very similar to the way the Fascist and Nazi governments help their businesses. Second, there Was announced an extremely complicated plan which Will give the hard-pressed Chinese national government a sizable U. S. Treasury credit. As Washington correspondents Alsop ahd Kihtiier write, “the highly involved form of the Chinese credit all but Obscures the vital fact that it will bring desnerately needed supplies to the tattered armies of Chiartg Kai-Shek. Biit, however complex the method, supplying the Chinese patriots is an assatilt oh the irtvdding Japanese.” There is a moral issue in all this —our government definitely dislikes the dictators, and various Surveys have shown the Atheficah people to be almost solidly behind the Administration ih its attack oh totalitarian statOs ahd fhethodS. At the same time, there is also a very parctical, dollar-and-fcents issue involved ih our giving support to China, as well as in our trying to regain lost South American business. At the beginning of the undeclared Siho-JapaneSe war, the representatives of the aggressive little Easterh empire were extremely vocal ih assuring interested foreign pbwers that, whatever came td pass, the traditional “open door” theory df China trkde would be maintained. Since then, mhch has happened—notably the creation of the Rome-Berlin-Tokko axis, which makes Japan an ally of Germany and Italy, both in commerce and in potential wdr. A.h<4 Japan has gradually changed her tune in talking to us, the French and the British. In Japanese-seized China ports and commercial centers, U. S, French and English businessmen dre being politely bdt ruthlessly squeezed out. And a few months ago came ah official Nipponese a n n o u n c e m e h ( t which, though it was framed in the careful diplomatic lahgUdge in which the Japanese stapesrhen excel, made it perfectly clear that the “open door” policy was-to be much modified—even to the extent that 4

the Chinese trade of other powers would be stopped, dr subjected to ruinous economic burdens, if the ent df the Son of Heaven

Thus a Japanese victory in China would mean, in all probability, the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in tra,de to American industry —and, at the same time, would immensely increase the economic resources of an empire Which our military leaders view as a potential enemy In a Pacific war. The Chinese armies have been steadily losing, dtid in large part to lack 6f ihoney and supplied, arid it deems inevitable that bn rittifhdte Japanese victory is a certainty unless Chiahg Kai-Shek is given what be ridfeds,.The Treasury credit is apparently designed io help him sdjve that vital prqbldhi. The new international technique is to fight wars with the weapon df trade, before resorting td tile weapons of physical violence. And it seems that the reldritless press of events has at least forded us to adopt that course of action, if dniy td a liiriited extent, as yet. Legal Notice Delaware County EorinnissionersCircuit & Superior Court allowances subsequent to publication December 16, 1938.

Circuit Court

Leonidas A. Guthrie, sal __$ 66.74 Vincent W- Jones, sariie __ i2.<fo Chester P. Spears, same __ 159.37 Edward D. Errizier, same __ 115.00 ft. C. Peterson, same 41.74 Mary Voyles Olden, same _ 126.00

Superior fcouft

Margaret Harrison, sal Hrirry D. Dowlirigj sririie __ Inher. Tax Apprs. Feds Wilbur G. VanArddol, feds Arthur J. Beckher, sal Gus August Meyers, same _. fester E. Hblloway, shine RobC Neiswariger, dame __ ffred W. Puckdtt, sariie Alfred Ellison, srifrid Uee O. Baird, same ______ Wilbur G. VanArsdol, sariie Cgrroli.M. N§M, srime ___ Clarence G. Higi, sariie ___ Ttide. A. Cannon, sariie ___

Cf.fcrfe

Ondavere Milholliri, sal Edna Bowerd. darild __:___ Stella Stewart, dariid Burnice Sifribris, darhd ___

Audited

id a Williaips, .dariid Mitjam S. Reed, sariie Vivian Bookorit, sariie ____ Edna Alexander, dririle ____ . Treasurer Carl Hedgdlarid, sariid ___ Marian Huffer. same Elora Teverbaugh, sariie __ Eecdrddr Mildred Herfon, dririid Betty Pittenger; sariie

Sheriff

J. Morris F. Leech, same _ Chester A. Coats, same __ Marie M. Puckett, sante __ Co. Agr. Agt. M. E. Cromer, sarrid Supt. Schools La Vaughn S. Duke, dame _.

CorOrier

Olivet M. Deardorff, samd Dbris D. Elliott, dame

Co. AsSf.

Rhea K. VanArsdol, same Co. Health Conih C. J. Stover, same

Court House ier Mays, same

164.09 128.52 200.00 345.#) 353.37 296.65 186.74 326.96 250.00 275.00 176.69 250.00 322.70 200.00 j'h.do 80.00 80.00 75. (to ilh.Oo 95.00 75.00 56.25 iiO'.oo 90.00 80.00 90.00 90.00 150.00 150.00 150.00 60.(10 75.00 52.50 10.00 70.00 54.50 me

fjoirit

Ralph Wright, shriie 43.26 Rosa M. Barries, sariie 40.00

jail

lion Webster, sariid 5(1.00 Co. Atty. Corbett Mcplellari, same j 66.74 Attd. Officer Jopn S. Moofe, exp 96.00 John S. Moore, shine :_ 22.00 W. & M. jnsp. Carl V- Stein, exp 125.00 Carl V. Stein, srime 12.36 Poof Atty. Alden J. Sriiilli, sariie lod.OO Cllrilfe Chris. L. Botkin, M. D., same 45.07 Registration Arthur J. Beckiief. salary _ 75.00 Chrirline L. Hoffer, sariie _ 80.00 Frrink Becknef, drihie ____ 75.0o jjjtiiftred Harriilsoh, sariie - 75.Oo Alice Smith, sariid 18.'(5 D. P. W. E. S. Janriey, sal & exp __ 231.05 jjiicille DeVbe, sante _ — _ 138.75 Lola Wells Kiger, srinie __ 136.40 Jane R. Chadd, dritne 04.12 Irma K. Mitchell, dame __ 117.65 Elizabeth O. Moore, saine 06.(13 Julia Tierney, sariie —— 123.32 dlivia t. BlaMahrin, sariid _ 87.33 Betty Bakaia, same 120.'14 Lois JJii'ons, sariie 90.1)0 Lola Mae Martin, sariie 75.00 Lena M, VanFleet, sariie 7(1.Oo Edith M. Wise, sariie 65.00 R. F. G. R. btis Norton. RifbR 48.0o George M. Hiatt; sariie ___ 85.68 Kitselman Bros, sapid ____ 7.00 Allied Trricit Equip. Co. »vkiui*n»ss"r.': briio Oil Co., satrid 32.i3 Witness my liriiid arid Official seal thjs 6th day of January; 1939. gus August mEVErs. Aiiditbr Delaware bounty, Indiana. NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS

Notice is herdby given by the

Advisory f^oai'd, of Saietn ’i’owhship. DdiAwafd CouHty, Indiana, to i&ikb apprbpriation of an additional amount of money for expenditure for sriid Towodbip during the current year df 1939, 4s follows'. tcewit:; V* , , Fitrid No. 11, Pdf chase of Groiind ^;$ 500.00 Arid that A riidetiiig of trid Tbwtthip Advisory Board of said Towtj-

7:30 O'dlocb P. M. of said day, at v^hlch time said appropriation wifi be considered. RAYMOND SHIREY Trustee of Salem Township. Jan. 6 & 13

Legal Notice Annual Report of Clerk-Treasur-er Selma, Indiana, for -the year ending December 31, 1938. Receipts Bal. Jan. 1, 1938 $ 391.36 Gasolihe tax 1-4-39 ____— 102.23 Gasoline tax 4-2-38 81.91 Gasoline tax 7-2-38 _81.91 Gasoline tax 10-2-38 81.91 C. C. q. $ St. L. R. R. Crossing light refund 40.00 Fee froip Card Tables- 15.00 Corporation r f'ax 7-6-38 725.12 Corporation Tax 12-30-38 — 677.86 Total :_ 2197.30

Disbursements Indiana Gdri. Serv. Co., st lights Arthur McKinley, legal serv 1937 ___________ J. D. MilteUbdrger & Son, labor sewers — Charles Stiffler, lab streets The Muricie Evening Press, legal notice ;_ The Pbst : J)'ertiocrat, same _ Edward Burket, lab street Chris. Stiffler, same C. C. Jones, st expense — Roscbe Martin, lab street _ W. S. Ddrley Co., st signs _ B. A. Givey, express on signs Rex Skinner, park labor __ pred flyers, cartage pred Myers, sign posts — Roscoe Martin, st labor — C. C. JOnes, st expense ___ Rex Skinner, park labor — Rex Skinner, same Roscoe Martin, same C. C. Jones, st repairs fed Burket, labor st T _ Rex Skinner, park labor — Bribes & Brookttian, st rhp A. E. Boyce, budget sup __ The Muncie Everting Press, legal notice 4 Tim 1’mst-Democrat, same _ John Watson, survey fees _ Arthur McKihley, legal ridv ice & exoerise B. A. Givey, express oh , signs fedWaid Burket, riiarshall salary _ — W. S. Dailey Co., st signs Rpricoe Mriftin, lah on signs Selma L O. (). F. Lodge No. 169, fbht Chester Clark, sril Trust B. W. Skinner, same Merritt Reed, sariie Frank Black, srime William Ferguson, sarrie Homer Lang, sal Clk-Treas & expense C. C. Jones,., rent (firetrk) C. C. Jories; st'expferise Q*, C. Jones, fire t-rk exons J. D. Milteiihei-gei- & Son, SfeWer expensfc

596.41 15.00 56.49 3.00 6.63 6.03 6.13 2.00 10.79 14.98 6.00 .88 3.00 16.00 1.50 13.63 10.79 2.50 1.50 2.80 3.50 .70 1.00 300.00 3.60 44.98 44.98 10.00 36.80 .98 15.00 4.92 6.20 12.00 i2.do 42.00 12.00 9.00 6.00 77.35 36.00 10.00 15.60 85.00

Thriri) ------i- 1537.68 Total feeceipts 2197.30 Total Disbufsfeiherits _ 1537.68 , . Bal. Jan. 1. 1939 __ 659.62 Indebtedness—Notie feated thik '3ist day of Defcember, 1938. Bbirier Luiig, Cirifk-'tfeasurer. Jriri. 6

expense of the City. No conditional bids, or bids for less than the par valrie of the warrants bid on will he considered. The right is reserve to reject any and all bids. In the event satisfactory bids are not received on the date herein fixed, the sale will be continued from day to day thereafter. Dated this 5th day of January, 1939. John D. Lewis, City Controller. Jain. 6 & 13 o TELEPHONES ARE BEING REPLACED IN MUNCIE

Telephone men have begun their work of replacing the 9,600 telephones in Muncie with new instruments which are arranged for dial

office equipment is nearing cofnpletion. The masonry was finished before Christmas, and it is expected that the interior will be finished by February 1. Mr. Dyke said that his company has prepared careful plans for every stage in the work of changing the Muncie service from manual to dial operation, and that every effort is being mad© by all departments of the company to accomplish this change with a minimum of inconvenience to subscribers. 0 *- NOTICE OF BIDS FOR TEMPORARY SCHOOL LOAN

Notice is hereby given that at 12:80 o’clock P. M. on Thursday,

operation. According to George | the 26th day of January, 1939, at

fownsiri ffrisMe At hi* bfflce in the said Township of Salem. , oh the 16Uj day of January, 1939, at

NOTICE GE SALE Munoifc femporarv Loan Warrants Bids will he received by the City Contrdller Of the City of Muncie, Indiana, at his office in the City Krill ih skid Cify on thfe 23rd day of Januarv, 1939. up to the hour of ten o’clork A. M. oh the following issues of feiriporary loan warrants of said City: Temporary Loan Warrants, in the arriourit Of tioftMoMb, evidencing a fWtnporarv loan for the GeHhrrii FiiH/l; Gated rie of the date Of delivery theieof; PayabfO On June 80, 1939; Interest (rite riot to exceed 4 hei’ cent riel- atiniirri (to fee deterriilnOtl by bidding), payable at riiattriitV 0t Warrants: Denominations as requested by the purchaser: Delivery to lie made ris follows: ifrithediately upon award to pprcHaser. Temporary Loan Warrants, in the amount of $7,000.00, evidencing a temporary loan for tlie Sinking Fund; Dated as of the date of delivery thereof; Payable on June 30. 1939; interest rate not to exceed 4 ner ceht ner titirimn (to be determined by biddihg), payable at maturity of warradts; Denominations as i'edttefeted by tfeh prirfchaset - : Delivery to he rriade as follows: iriithediritely upon award td purchaser. Teriipbfaiy Loan Warrants, in the amount of $10,000.00. evideneim; a (feiripfehii’v loan for the Park’ fetind: Dated as of tHe date dt delivery (hereof; Payable o'n June 30. 1939; Interest rate riot to exceed 4 per cerit per a mi uni (to be deter- . mined by bidding), payable at maturity of warrants: Denom inations as requested by the purchaser; Delivery to be made as follows: immediately urioH award to Purchaser. Said warrants are nayable out of taxes heretofore levied and now in course of collection for each of said funds, a sufficient amount of which t^xes hds been appropriated dud pledged to the payment of.said warrants and the interest thereon. Said temporary loaris are being mride for the purpose df securing funds to meet current operating expenses which are payable out of said three Binds reshectively prior to the collection of taxes ih • the year 1939. Thb -approtirig oriinihri of Matson, Ross, MeQvrW Hitforri bbfid counsel cf Indianapolis, win be fijrnighed to the purchaser at the

W. Dyke, local manager of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company, this marks the next step in the program to install the city’s new telephone system. All subscribers’ instruments are being replaced by a special crew of ten men assisted by a testman and an assignment clerk. It is expected that this phase of company’s program will be completed in August. The new instruments are being installed by districts, the men moving from house to house removing

the office of the superintendent of City Schools in the Central High School Building in the City of Muncie, Indiana, the board of school trustees of the School City of Muncie, Indiana, will receive sealed bids and proposals for a temporary school loan in. the aggregate sum of One Hundred Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($115,000.00) to raise funds to meet the current operating expenses of said school city for the fiscal school year in anticipation and to be paid out of taxes actually levied and

the old equipment, placing new J wiring if it is found necessary. | Xol yeTr which siw oan wVl be and malting certain that the new warrant" of the

said School City of Muncie, Indiana, executed in its name and on its behalf by the president, secretary and treasurer of the Board of School Trustees of said school city. All of said time warrants Will be due and payable on July 20, 1939, and will bear interest at the lowest rate obtainable, not exceeding six per cent (6%) per annum, the interest to maturity to be added to and included in the face of said •warrants. Said time warrants evidencing the said temporary loan will be dated and issued on the following respective dates, for the following respective amounts, plus interest to maturity, and for the use of the following respective

school funds, to-wit:

January 27, 1939, Special School

Fund $30,000.00.

February 24, 1939, Sfeecial School

Fund $25,000.00.

March 10, 1939, Tuition Fund

$10,000.00.

March 24, 1939, Tuition Fund

$25,000.00.

April 7, 1939, Tuition Fund $25,000,00. > The amount of the principal of said warrants with interest to the maturity thereof has been appro-

equipment will operate properly when the entire system is ready for conversion from manual to dial next fall. A cardboard guard is placed over the dial on each of the new instruments to remind subscribers to continue to call the operator until the new system is

put in service.

The telephone company is sending a letter to residence subscribers a few days before the present telephone is replaced notifying them of the change. As it will he necessary to change all telephone numbers, a directory containing the new numbers will be distributed shortly before the new sys-

tem goes into operation.

A similar letter to business subscribers carries the suggestion that the use of present telephone numbers on letterheads or printed material for use after September 1 should he avoided: Representatives of the company are calling upon all PBX subscribers to arrange their service under dial op-

eration.

Construction work on the new building at the southwest corner of Elm and Jackson streets which will house the automatic central

priated out of current revenues of the respective funds' for which said amounts are borrowed and said revenues have been pledged to the payment of the principal and interest of said time warrants. Said loan will be made with the bidder submitting the lowest rate of interest therefor and only one bid will be accepted from each bidder. All bids shall be submitted on forms furnished and approved by the board and each bid shall be accompanied by an affidavit of the bidder that no collusion exists between himself and any other bidder for such loan. The board of school trustees reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Dated at Mu/icie, Indiana, this 5th day of January, 1939. School City of Muncie, Indiana. By E. ARTHUR BALL, President VERNON G. DAVIS, Secretary JOSEPH E. DAVIS, Treasurer Board of School Trustees Bracken, Gray and DeFur, Attorneys. Jan. 6-13.

FOLSOM FELONS BUSY INVENTORS

Folsom Prison, Cal.—Convicts in Folsom prison do more than break rocks ahd sleep in their cells. Many inmates improve their time with writing and inventing. When one invented a gadget to measure the speed of a typewriter, he received general attention. It was such a simple invention arid yet so handy, particularly in business schools. One of the most peculiar inventions was a double barreled fountain pen for bookkeepers, that changes from red to black ink at the flip of a lever. Another man brought out an improved shock absorber which is now standard equipment on a well-known truck. Newspapers, magazines arid trade publications have fecognized the ability pent up within prison walls and buy many ideas for contests, promotional campaigns a(ld Celling featurfes. One of the men worked out a parlor game which sooh will be paying him royalties. Many free lahee writers are busy behind prison bars. Musicians compose songs which find a ready sale. A book of yacht navigation was written by one of the inmates.

fTI HE New Year brought a substantial reduc- | tion ih feour electric rates. The rfediictioh which became effective with bills rendered on and after January 1, 1939, resulted in a cut in cost to six cents a kilowatt-hour for the first block of 30 kilowatt-hours. In addition to this immediate reduction, there will be two additional reductions at six months’ intervals. Ort July 1, 1939, the first block will again be reduced to five arid one-naif cents a kilowatthour, and by January 1, 1940, when another reduction will be made, tile residential cilsfoiriers of this company will have the benefits of a rate which starts at five cents a kilowatt-hour and breaks rapidly to extremely low levels. When the new rate is fully effective, the savings to custoiriers below the present rate will amount to $176,000 a year. / Remember, with this new rate, after you have used 60 kilowatt hours, the rate fdr e^ch kilowatthour drops to 2 x /i cents for the rieXt 240 kiloYvritthours, and above 300 kilowatt-liours a month, you may buy all you need at the “wholesale” or bargain price of \ x /i cents a kilowatt-hour. By putting electrical appliances to work you make living conditions better. Af (He sariie time, by making fuller use of electric servants, you stepi down the cost of each unit oi electricity. STEP UP your use of Electricity STEP DOWN the cost.

INDIANA GENERAL SERVICE COMPANY

THE PROGRESSIVE RATE REDUCTION The new reduced domestic rate is: First 30 Kw-hrs.6 cents per K'^-flr. Next 30 Kw-hrs. . 4V2 cents per Kw-hr. Next 240 Kw-hrs. . 2V2 cents per Kw-hr, Over 300 Kw-hrs. . V/ztenii per Kw-hr On July I, the first block of. 39 Kw-hrs. drops to B 1 /? cents a Kwhr., and, finally, after December 31, (939, will be reduced to § cents,'

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