Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 22 August 1941 — Page 4

POST DEMOCRAT FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1941.

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THE POST-DEMOCRAT 4 Democratic weekly newspaper representing the Democrat* Of Sdunele, Delaware County and the 10th Congressional District, The only Democratic Newspaper In Delaware County.

Entered as second classc matter January 15, 1921, at tha Postoffice %t Muncie, Indiana, under Act of March 3, 1879. PRICE 5 CENTS—$1.50 A YEAR MRS. GEO. Ft. DALE, Publisher * 916 West Main street. Muncie, Indiana, Friday, August 22, 1941.

GROUND MEN TO BE USED IN NAVY

Aviation Mechanics Will Be Attached To Naval Seiwice

An announcement was made in Washington, D. C., this week that the U. S. Navy will need more men who desire basic training for aviation ground work. To supply this need, schools have been established at four separate Naval air stations to give instructions in the work of aviation metalsmith, aviation machinist’s mate, aviation ordnanceman and aviation radioman. Loca-

tions of these schools are Jacksonville, Florida; Norfolk, Virginia; Pensacola, Florida; and San Diego, California. Information from the Indianapolis Navy recruiting station points out that these schools are open to recruits who have the apitutde and qualify for this schooling on the completion of their recruit training period and before their assignment to sea duty. These aviation ground work schools are called Class “A” Schools, Group I, because they give basic instruction and are the 4th group of trade schools open to recruits, the others being Group I, electrical and ordnance; Group II, communication and clerical; and Group III, machinists metalworkers or aviation brdnancemen. The aviation metalsmith course gives special instruction in the properties of metals, heat-treat-

ment of metals, cutting, forging,! and in those phases of welding and brazing essential to aviation. Aviation machinist’s mate training covers bench, vice and floor work necessary to the machinist and instruction in the use of power tools. Seamen who are interested in this work will also obtain practical experience in the operation, care and repair of aviation engines used in the Navy and will learn to assemble such engines as well as learn to install them in planes and check all phases of operation such as carburetion, timing and lubrication. Aviation ordnancemen training consists of instruction in the use and maintenance of machineguns and other weapons used in Naval aircraft. This course includes a study of boresighting guns, synchronizing gun fire with i propellers in motion, mounting and effective use of guns. The recruit entering this course of instruction also will learn the use of gun cameras, and the rigging and release of high-speed targets for practice. Aviation radiomen receive general radio training in addition to those phases of radio peculiar to aircraft. In addition to the technical job training outlined above, Indianapolis Navy recruiting station informant stated that there are near 1 ly fifty trade jobs and vocations for which a patriotic young man can receive training if he joins Uncle Sam’s new “Two-Ocean” Navy.

DISPELLING THE FOG MONGIE

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Legal Notice

NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS OF TAX LEVIES

Before the Conanoa

In the matter of determining the tax rates for certain purposes by Civil City Of Muncie. Indiana.

Oeunctl.

Noticet^* hereby given the taxpayers of the City of Muncie, Delaware, County, Indiana, that the-proper legal officers of si

Municipality, at their regular mee

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Mayor’s Office. Personal Service Contractual Service

Supplies

Controller’s Office. Personal Service. Contractual Service

Supplies

Current Charges City Clerk’s Office, Personal Service

ipayers of the City of Muncie. Delaware County, Indiana, tnat tne-proper

ting place, at 7:30 p. m. on the 25th day of August, 1941. will consider the following budget:

BUDGET CLASSIFICATION FOR CITIES.

General Fund.

Perse Cont:

Supp!

ractual

dies

Service

Current Charges City Judge’s Office. Personal Service $ Contractual Service

Supplies

Current Charges City’s Attorney’s Office. Personal Service $ Contractual Service

Supplies

Current Charges City Engineer’s Office. ■ Personal Service $ Contractual Service

Supplies

Building Commissioner’s Office.

$ 3.842,00

80.00

525.00

12.50

3.400.00

125.00 165.00

6.400.00

750.00 650.00

2.660.00 3.200.00

150.00

20.00

4,000.00

95.00 140.00 30.00

3.800.00

340.00 125.00 12.50

7.640.00

350.00

305.00

Personal Servii

arges

Common Council.

rs(

Contractual Service

Supplies

Current Chi

•son

Contractual Service

Current Charge Debt Payment

»ayment

Board of Works and Safety.

Personal Service $ 35

Contractual Service

Supplies Materials

Current Charges

Properties

Police Department. Personal Service $116,088.00 Contractual Service 2,350.00 Supplies 9,050.00 Current Charges 300.00 Properties 3.800.00 Police Pension Fund.

3.000.00

12.09

oo,306.00

142.172.00

6.515.00 2.650.00 7.025.00 10.500.00

Co:

Supp

Service

Personal Service

•ntractual Se

rgi

ceipts

Amount to be Levied

ractual

lies

irrent Charges

Estimated Receipts

Perso Contr

Supplies Propertii

Fire Department,

nal Service ctual Service

$ 300.00 125.00 31.66 15,884.00 5.286.56 11,054.10 $126,024.00 4.700.00 4.350.00 3.075.00

Perso: Contr Supp

Firemen’s Pension Fund. nal Service $

ractual Service

lies

rrent Charges

Estimated Receipts

220.00 25.00 45.00

24,523.60

2.250.00 Estimated Receipts 3,647.48 1.150.00 Amount to be Levied 23,578.62

Complete detail of budget estimate may be seen in the Office of City Clerk or Controller.

ESTIMATE OF CIVIL CITY FUNDS TO BE RAISED.

Corp. Sinking Park

Fund Fund

Animal Shelter* Personal Service Contractual Service

Supplies

Board of Health. Personal Service Contractual Service

Supplies

Current Charges

Properties

City Treasure*. Personal Service

Supplies

Current Charges

Auditor’s

Personal Service PARK FUND: Park Department. Services Personal Contractual Service

Supplies

Current Charges Properties

Debts

SINKING FUND:

Office.

1.375.00 475.00 425.00 2.100.00 200.00 900.00 1,200.00 500.00 720.00 75.00 187.60 200.00

$ 29,854.00 9.121.00 3.600.00 3,000.00 7.800.00 2.500.00

Sinking Fund Commission.

Services Personal

Current Charges Debt Payment

Improvement District

GASOLINE TAX!:

$ 100.00

12.50

81.484.74 Bond Fund 11,575.00

Services Personal

Supplies Properties

VX:

Gasoline

Corp. Fund

. $525,131.59

FUNDS REQUIRED FOB EXPENSES TO DECEMBER 31 OP INCOMING YEAR:

; 1. Total Budget Estimate for incoming year 2. Necessary Expenditures to be made from appropriations

i __ unexpended July 31st of present year 211,829.93

Additional appropriations necessary to be made August 1st

Dis. Fund Fund Bond Pension Pension $ 81,597.24 $55,875.06 $11,575.60 $11,054.10 $23,578.62

5,410.60

Poll

ion

t 40,000.00 5.000.00 62,000.00

Fire

led July 1 31st

il appropriations ne

to December 31st of present year Outstanding temporary loans to be paid before December 31st of present year

50,000.00

13,220.46

None

29,225.00

26,661.63

None None

5,787.50

None None

7,500.92

None None

5. Total funds required (add lines 1, 2, 3. and 4)... FUNDS ON HAND AND TO BE RECEIVED FROM

)SED TAX " “

present yea t year (Dec

.$786,961.52. $124,042.70 $82,536.63 $17,362.50 $16,464.10 $31,079.54

23,350.43

None

9,056.47

13.66

None

e.SGLSU

180,839.70

38,365.55

14,934.41

0,195.09

4.857.30

None

56.500.00

105,905.22

None

2,500.00

None

SOURCES OTHER THAN PROPOSED TAX LEVY:

fl. Actual Balance. July 3lst of present

7. Taxes to be collected.

8. Miscellaneous Reve

year to December 3ist oi Office of City Controller)

a. Special Taxes . b. Fees and all otl

9. Total Funds (add lines 6, 7, 8a and 8b) $366,595.35 $ 38,365.55 $26,490.88 $ 5,208.75 $ 4,857.30 $ 6,321.^9 10. NET AMOUNT TO BE RAISED FOR EXPENSES TO DECEMBER 31ST OF INCOMING YEAR (deduct line 9 from line 5).. 420,366.17 85,677.15 56,045.75 12,153.75 11.606.80 24.757.M 11. Operating balance 60,000.00 12. Amount to be Raised by Tax Levy 480,366.17 85,677.15 56,045.75 12,153.75 11,606.80 24,757.88

PROPOSED LEVIES.

Net Taxable Property $47,670,380.00. Number of Taxable Polls 9,230. y

Gene: Sinkl:

NAME OF FUND ral Fund

j Sinking Fund

Park Fund

Levy on Polls $ .50

District Bond Fund . Police Pension Fund Fire Pension Fund

$4,615.<)& COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF TAXES COLLECTED AND TO BE COLLECTED.

Levy on Property $1.00 .18 .12 .05

11 a 75

$1.40

NAME OF FUND

Collected

1938

i General Fund $535,766.50 Fund 69.135.84

69.561.68

Firemen’s Pension Fund 8.198.36 Policemen's Pension Fund 9,039.66

i General . i Sinking 1 Park Fur

ind

,’s P

Policemen’s Pension District Bond Fund

Collected 1939 $461,333.49 24,933.49 40,638.17

Collected 1940 $380,592.29 44,663.37 47.813.01

Amount to be Raised $480,366.17

85,677. If 5 8.045 r 12,153.71 11.606.80 24,757.58

$870,506.4#

To B#

Collected

1941

$897,681.00 79,467.11 38,509.45

4,853.75 9,258.72

3,170.44 11,379.61

Total $691,702.04

appeal to the State Board of Tax Commissioners for further and final hearing thereon, by filing of petit bm later than October 15, and the State Board will fix a date for hearing in this county.

Dated August 14. 1941

. .1^.. : ' . , I J. CLYDE DU*

11.414.70 13.117.2!

$541,017.62 $487,618.72 $540,189.90 „ esented to th*

Adjust* es, ma* ‘ ~ tol

with the County Audit

J. CLYDE DUNNINOTON. Otfcy Clerk.

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conduct business negotiations with a foreign power except on pain of death.’ , The author points out that if, on the other hand, we make barter arrangements governmental, that would mean the end of free enterprise in business in the United States. Two-thirds of our foreign trade is with the British Empire. Another great segment of our commerce is with Japan. If Hitler wins, we lose all that business, and probably most of the South American trade as well. Quite apart from the political implications, and even if these markets were left partially open to us, our merchants and our factories could not compete with the products of the slave labor that Hitler would command. Hitler’s course, as far as it has already gone, shows the reality of this slavery. For example, to provide the new German landlords with Polish estates the greater part of the Poles and Jews have been hustled out to supply this labor. Thousands of the conquered Poles, as well as Czechs, Belgians, Danes, Norwegians, and Dutch have been taken from their homes and brought to Germany and put to work in the German industrial and transportation enterprises. They must work or starve. A Nazi Motto All this sounds like the atrocity stories we heard in the last war. It merely happens that this time they are perfectly true. The Nazis have no inhibitions based on the Beatitudes. Professor Spengler, for example, in his book, “The Decline of the West” announced, “the Democratic nations must disappear, because they put their trust in illusions, more particularly the illusions of truth and justice. There is only one reality in the world—force.” And from Hitler’s own newspaper, the Voelkischer BoeDachter (Popular Observer), Mr. Miller quotes: “Justice and good nature should be limited to one’s own people.”

number of increases and decreases in tax rates for next year. Six of the trustees have raised their levies from the present rates excluding amounts for reimbursing county revenue and poor bonds. Six of them have shown decreases over the present levies in their townships. The total increases in the six townships amount to 34 cents while the total decreases in the other six townships amount to

56 cents.

Niles township which has maintained a very low tax levy for several years under the guidance of Trustee Charles Weaver will have a twenty-two cent increase for next year if the proposed budget and rate is finally adopted. The other increases range from a one cent advance asked fon Mt. Pleasant townsihp, two cents for Salem township, to three cents each in Center, Harrison, ana Delaware

townships.

The decreases in township levies from the present rates are marked with a 30 cent reduction in Washington township, 15 cents in Hamilton township, two cents in each of Union and Perry townships, four cents in Monroe township, and three cents on each $100 of assessed valuation in Liberty township. Total townhip rqtes are apt to be increased in nearly all townships if the proposed county levies are unchanged with a 19 cent advance over the present rate. The taxpayers association headed by Lester Bush, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, are endeavoring to awaken the interest

! of ail taxpayers in the effort to reduce ail proposed rates with the purpose of lowering the total, city levy from the present $3.32 on each $100 of assessed valuation. The new proposed tax rate for Muncie would raise over $400,000 more than the present levy or nearly 25 per cent in excess of the present

local tax revenue.

The Tax Research Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce have already recommended reductions to the ciVil city which would provide for a $1.00 tax levy. This amoun f would out the preposed rate for next year by 40 cents and reduce the levy from the present figure by 19 1-2 cents. Other recommen dations by this bureau are expected to ask for material reductions in all other taxing units which would either maintain the present total tax rate in Muncie or bring about a further reduction for 1942.

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CITY STREET (Continued From Page One) fired if they failed to return to work immediately would not Jikel> prove to be a happy solution to the case. It will not be solved as easily as that. Many serious complications might be expected to follow, in event that were attempted. There is a rumor that garbage and trash collections may be turned over to private individuals by contract for the remainder of the year. If this course were pursued by the city, the administration would likely find itself in more hot water. An act of this kind could probably be construed as strike breaking.

CLARENCE (Continued From Page One) originally started by several Republican American Legion members there who had the foresight to see what, was likely to happen to this country in the event Hitler could be successfully stopped by European countries in his mad ambition to rule the world. Mafly months ago this group of citizens foresaw conditions exactly as they have developed up to now, and is now urging all people, irrespective of political affiliations, to join its ranks for all out aid to England, Russia, China or any other country that might need .assistance to stop the Hitler menace now. The Delaware Co. Chaper of the Indiana Committee for National Defense will hold a meeting at the city hall next Wednesday evening at 7:30 and the public is cordially invited to be present. o A WEAKENED GERMANY

An emperor of ancient times, after winning a great battle, said this: ‘One more such victory, and I am ruined. His losses of men and material had been so great that victory left his people weary, exhausted and low in morale. Some think that may be Hitler’s fate even if he finally subdues Russia. At a conservative estimate he has lost, in killed and wounded 1,000,000 men, and they are the cream of the Richswehr. In the meantime, his main opponent, the English, are suffering aljnost no casualties and are growing stronger fast.

WAHT THRILLS?

CATAPULTING A PLANE INTO SPACE takes nerves of steel and split-second accuracy. These Navy men work together like a cham-

THE U. S. NAVY HAS PLENTY FOR YOU!

Do things seem dull around town for you? Do you feel tied down by your job? Here’s your chance to lead the most thrilling life in the world ... and get paid for it! A chance to serve your country too. For Uncle Sam’s new Two-Ocean Navy has ships and planes which are unequalled by those of any other nation in the world.

For those who enlist in the Navy 'there is a wide variety of fascinating work, including everything from aviation to engineering. Pictured here are a few of the thrills that are everyday occurrences in the life of a Navy man. They’re open to you right now if you’ve reached your 17th birthday.

MOSQUITOES THAT TRAVEL AT 45 MILES PER HOUR! It takes a cool head and keen eyes to operate this new biilletshaped PT Torpedo Boat. You’ve seen them in the newsreel throwing up great waves of spray on either side. But how would you like to handle one? Your Navy needs men with the stamina to tackle this job! Have you got it?

ON SHORE LEAVE IN A STRANGE PORT: At the tiller of a Navy launch, the coxswain steers bluejackets ashore. If you want to travel. . . Waikiki, South America, South Seas . . . the Navy’s where you belong!

MANNING AN ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN is real sport —if you know how to handle one. Each man has his station—and a job to do. If he does it correctly, the gun-crew functions as a single man— with deadly accuracy and superhuman speed. LOADING A 2000-LB. TORPEDO into a tube aboard a crack destroyer calls for dramatic action. The Navy can train you to become a torpedoman.

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