Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 10 January 1947 — Page 3

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LEGAL NOTICE

NOTICE TO BIDDERS Notice is hereby given that the City of Muncie, Indiana, by and through its Board of Public Works and Safety will at the Office of the {Hoard of Public Works and Safety of said City of Muncie, in the City Building of said City on January 22, 1947, at 10:30 o’clock a.rr)., will receive bids for the purchase by and the sale and delivery to, said City of Muncie for its intended use the following item: 1 — 6 foot rotary mixer powered with gasoline motor rated 57 H. P. at 1200 R.P.M. mounted on pneumatic tires. Bid forms, as required by law, upon which * all bids must be made, may be obtained at the office of the Clerk of Board of Public Works and Safety in the City Building. The Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. WILLARD BROCK Clerk of Board of Public Works and Safety of the City of Muncie, Indiana. Jan. 10 BRITAINHAS (Continued from page one) would bring the near 400 millions Indians into the British Commonwealth, but the rivalry between the Hindus and the Moslems may make it impossible tor her' to do that. The Indians are likely to declare their independence of England and throw her out before she is ready to leave. Should that take place, India would most likely sever all her connections with the British Empire and become a wholly independent nation, in so far as the British Commonwealth is concern-

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As a climax the British people have just been handed an official report which informs them that their intelligence is on the toboggan. The Royal (British Government) Commission has made an extensive survey of the British population, and concludes that the average intelligence of the British people is declining at a disquieting rate. In a period of fifty odd years the number of pupils of “scholarship” ability will be only half of what it is at present, and the number of feeble minded will be double the present number. CLOSED SHOP IS (Continued from page one) effort tp abolish the closed shop agreement between labor and industry; and revision in the NorrisLaGuardia Anti-In junction Act, and any change in the dues’ check off system. It approved of the Russian proposal for universal disarmament, and called upon the Methodist educational agencies to obtain authentic unbiased information concerning Russia for distribution in the denomination’s 3.000 churches. The delegation also passed a resolution to abolish racial discrimination in all Methodist institutions, churches, schools and hospitals. All persons are to be accepted on equal terms despite their color or racial background. The delegates praised the C.I.O.; The Federal Council of Churches, the Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A. and several other organizations for their efforts to break down segregation and discrimination. KUHMRSMUST (Continued from page one) to be disposed by the municipal system. An extension of sixty to ninety

Jdays was granted by the city in ■ order that such improvements | might be completed by Kuhner’s I tp fulfill the request by the city. « O Architects Plan One-Day Meeting Indianapolis, Jan. 10.—'With the opening of the state Legislature this week, members of the Indiana Society of Architects will hold a one-day meeting here Saturday, Jan. 11, to consider legislation affecting the construction industry. The agenda for the meting includes a proposed revision of the Indiana school house law, repeal of the state housing or tenement law, outstate inspections under the Administrative Building Council, revision of the gross income tax law and state public agreement between architects and owners. The outmoded 1913 state housing law is pictured by the Hoosier architects as burdensome and needs modern flexible provisions. A proposed bill would place enforcement as to housing under the Administrative Building Council in which the State Board of Health and State Fire Marshal actively participate by statutory requirement. Merritt Harrison of Indianapolis is president of the state society which is a chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Charles E. Hamilton of Muncie is a member of the chapter’s board of directors. Other officers are Gerald C. Brubaker of Elkhart, first vice president; Theodore L. Steele of Indianapolis, second vice president; Donald E. Compton of Indianapolis, secretary; J. Lloyd Allen of Indianapolis, treasurer, and Thomas G. Medland, Logansport; James M- Turner, Hammond, and Warren D. Miller, Terre Haute, directors. NEWmrSEVE (Continued from page one) tures shown in Muncie theaters. The ministers also suggested that inquiry be made into the accusation that “junior and senior high school youth are permitted to have dancing parties at the cabins in our parks, where drinking of intoxicants is indulged in and where they are not always chaperoned.” The Ministerial Association commended Jack Hiner, reporter, and the Star” for the article of January 1st, calling attention of ihe public to what • had taken place at the Wysor Theater the previous night.” The resolution requested the management “of our newspapers to refuse to take advertisements and to print pictures that are obscene, suggestive and that tend to lower the standards of decency and morality.” The complete text of resolutions and recommendations adopted unanimously by the social service committee of the association fol-

lows:

“1. That the policy and program of our association for 1947, in the realm of morals and civic affairs, be that of alertness in finding out and determining the forces and

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causes that contribute toward degenerating the morals of our youth and citizens, and that through prayer and aggressive cooperation we shall oppose such forces as are detrimental to public morals and that we shall be ready to propose and to work for reforms that will lift the morale and better the morals of the citi-r zenship of our county. “2. That, deploring the existing conditions of immorality, gambling, violations of the liquor laws, in our city and county, we petition and encourage our officials to enforce the laws, and that we cooperate with all groups that crusade for law enforcement and better government. “3. That we extend to the new judge of the Circuit Court and the new prosecuting attorney of our county our best wishes and pledge them our co-operation and moral support in the enforcement of all

laws.

“4. That whereas an indecent, obscene and lewd picture was shown at the Wysor Theater on the night of December 31, we deplore and protest such pictures being shown in our county and that we petition our county prosecuting attorney to seek a grand jury investigation. Furthermore, we petition our officials to make investigation of the pictures being shown at all the theaters in Muncie. That we co-operate in the reorganization of the Muncie Motion Picture Council. “5. That we commend Reporter Jack Hiner and The Muncie Star for the article of January 1, calling attention of the public to what had taken place at the Wysor Theater the previous night. That we request the management of our newspapers to refuse to take advertisements and to print pictures in the newspapers that are obscene, suggestive and that tend to lower the standards of decency and morality. “6, That since it has come to our attention that junior and senior high school age youth are permitted to have dancing parties at the cabins in our.parks where drinking of intoxicants, are indulged in and where they are not always chaperoned, we petition the park commissioners to see that no youth group be permitted to have cabin accommodations Unless properly chaperoned and that possession of and use of intoxicants by minors and all others be strictly prohibited. “7. That we petition oyr state legislators. State Senator Mark Sunderland, and state representatives, Oren Cromer and John H. Haymond, to support and vote for legislation that will bring about immediate separation of liquor and politics, the adoption of local option and direct primary by the 1947 Indiana Legislature.” o Small Business Policies Law Urged Washington, D ( - C, — Senator Homer E. Capehart, R., Ind., said today the new Congress should review government small business policies with a view to pass-

NEW YORK — (Soundphoto) - Alvin Paris, identified as the person who approached Merle Hapes, star fullback of the New York football Giants, with an offer'of a substantial sum of money to “lay down” in the Championship game between the Giants and the Chicago Bears, is pictured during hia questioning at the 54th St. police station. Paris has been arraigned and held in $25,000 bail for a further hearing. He is being held or two charges: (a) attempting tc bridge participants in a profession* al game, and (b) bookmaking. .

REPORT OF CONDITION OF MUNCIE BANKING CO. of Muncie, in the State of Indiana, at the close of business on December 31, 1946. ASSETS Cash, balances with other banks, including reserve balance, and cash items' in process of collection $2,634,447.81 United States Government obligations, direct and guaran teed 1,422,875.68 Obligations of States and political subdivisions 279,622.66 Other bonds, notes, and debentures — 81,000.00 Corporate stocks (including stock of Federal Reserve Bank None Loans and discounts (including overdrafts) 698,054.45 Bank premises owned none, furniture and fixtures $3,077.40- 3,077.40 (Bank premises owned are subject to $ liens not assumed by bank). Real estate owned other than bank premises None Investments and other assets representing banw premises or other real estate None Customers’ liability to this bank on acceptances outstanding None Other assets^,-^ None TOTAL ASSETS — $5,119,078.00 LIABILITIES Demand deposits of individuals, partnerships, and corporations —— - 1-, $4,058,034.12 Time deposits of individuals, partnerships and corporations 688,601.77 Deposits ol United States Government (including portal savings) ; — None Deposits of States and political subdivisions 204,640.87 Deposits of banks -i, ; None Other deposits (certified and officers’ checks, etc.) 36,502.12 TOTAL DEPOSITS —— Bills payable, rediscounts, and other liabilities for borrowed money None Mortgages or other liens on bank premises and on other real estate None Acceptances executed by or for account of this bank and outstanding /None Other liabilities 5,000.00 TOTAL LIABILITIES (not including subordinated obligations shown below) $4,992,778.88 CAPITAL ACCOUNTS Capital* $ 20,000.00 Surplus 80,000.00 Undivided profits 24,299.12 Reserves (and retirement account for preferred capital) 2,000.00 TOTAL CAPITAL ACCOUNTS $ 126,299.12 TOTAL LLIABILITIES AND CAPITAL ACCOUNTS_-$5,119,078.00 ^Includes proceeds of none of debentures sold to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, none of debentures sold to local interests which debentures are subordinated to the rights of creditors and depositors, and none shares of common stock, par non per share. MEMORANDA Assets ^pledged or assigned to secure liabilities and for other purposes None Obligations subordinated to claims of depositors and other creditors, not included in liabilities None (a) Included in Loans and Discounts are LOANS TO AFFILIATED COMPANIES . None (b) Included in Other Bonds, Notes, Debentures and Corporate Stock are OBLIGATIONS OF AFFILIATED COMPANIES None (c) First lien trust funds None I, O. W. Storer, president of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear or affirm that the above statement is true, and that it fully and correctly represents the true state of the several matters herein contained and set forth, to the best of my knowledge and belief. O. W. STORER. State of Indiana, County of Delaware, ss: Sworn to and subscribed before me this 7th day of January, 1947, and I hereby certify that I am not an officer or director ol this bank. RAY L. BURT, Notary Public*. (SEAL) My commission expires February 23, 1947.

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ing remedial legislation. He said there apparently is need for an entirely new lew, pr revision of present sfMwtes, to "force government agencies tp loan mpney tp small business as intelligently and freely as ftYQ loans to big business.” Capehart said he will insist on continuing the Senate Small Business Committee. “It is the only group in Washington specifically looking after small business,” Capehart said. “Small businessmen need help badly — and they’re entitled to it as much as big corporations.”

COMPLAINT AGAINST SANTA.

Peoria, 111., Dec. 31,*—Santa Claus was named in a complaint on file at police headquarters today. “Hello, police,” a child’s voice queried Acting Desk Sgt. Petty Combs when he picked up the telephone. “Yes,” said Combs, a trifle uncertainly. “Santa didn’t leave me the train I ordered, so I want to report him,” the voice said. The child identified herself as Vicki Johnson, 3 daughter of a railroad employe. Combs entered the complaint in the official police log. “We’ll see what we can do,” he promised.

‘Ivy League’ Schools Hit By Professor Chicago, 111. — A midwestern college professor said today | that some of the “so-called eminent“ Ivy League Universities are old fashioned and might lose their reputations to “progressive” mid-western schools within the next 10 or 15 years. Dr. W. Norwood Brigance, professor of speech at Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Ind., and president of the Speech Asociation of America, said “some of the old, eminent, endowed institutions are putting out a type of education that is tying their students to the past.” “They have a resentment for living in the present,” he said. “I think they must be afraid of it.” Brigance, in Chicago attending a Speech Association convention, said that some of the eastern schools are “antagonistic” to radio and motion pictures. They regard them as “unfortunate,” he said. “How can they say these things are unfortunate?” Brigance asked. “They are two of the most potent forces in education today.” While the “Ivy League” schools are basking in Greek culi ture, he said, the midv/estern uni-

versities are forging ahead, academically. He said Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio State and Michigan had decided it was better to educate students to be useful, as well as educated, citizens than to fill them full of knowledge they neither want nor need. “Some of the eastern schools want to teach the past as the past and not as it applies to the present,” Brigance said. “Their concept of education is to teach knowledge only. That is not enough. We are educated only to the degree we can apply our knowledge to evei’yday life. “The Greeks said ‘know thyself.’ In the east they say ‘know the Greeks.’ In the midwest we say ‘know ourselves through all knowledge, including the Greeks.’ ” Brigance said midwestern schools had established research programs to analyze students and teach them what they need to know. They have abandoned the practice of teaching only what professors think students should study, he said. “We are fitting education to the needs of the 20th century,” he said. “The others haven’t changed since 1890, except to go back, ward.” o Go To Church

CHICAGO, ILL.—So small you hardly know it’s there, this little model in front of the radiator (not the one on the left), displaces larger units and provides heat for 2Vs rooms. Its many types of installation make it the most versatile in today’s home-heating field. Stewart-Wamer’s new midget furnace is a self-contained, gas burning- unit, installed by one man in three hours. It requires only a gas and an electric connection, and an air duct to the outside. Weighing about 70 pounds, it can be recessed in a room wall, ceiling or floor, | or between two rooms giving ample warm air to both. It features 1 automatic modulation to a pre-set temperature, warmed air propelled by blower, and a sealed flame. It is an adaptation of heating prin-,* cip’es used in aircraft during the war.

CO TO CHURCH SUNDAY READ THE ADtS

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irst Request for an

Increase in Telephone Rates Since 1926

Wages and All Material Costs Hava Gona Ho

planning to spend $50,000,000 during the next three years.

Rising costs the important reason. Telephone rates have remained low for years, while almost everything else has gone up in price.

T * JBLhb Indiana Hell Telephone Company has filed an application for an increase in telephone rates. This is an important step for us and we would like our customers to know the reasons for it. We’d like you to look at it as if you were running the telephone business. , Suppose You Were Running the Telephone Business You’d try to conduct it honestly, render good service, pay good wages and make a reasonable profit. That’s the way you’d try to do it but there would be one thing you’d have to ask of your customers. You’d have to get a fair price for what you sold. That might change a little from time to time. If most costs went up, your price would have to go up too. When earnings are more than requirements, the excess ought to be spent for enlargement or improvement of the service—or the price reduced. That’s the way we look at it in the Indiana Bell Telephone Company. We’ve made 12 reductions in Long Distance rates in the last twenty years and made the telephone more useful and of greater value to more people. This is one of the very few times when we have come to you and asked for an upward adjustment in rates. The last time there was an increase in local telephone rates in Indiana was twenty years ago.

The cost of almost everything that goes to make good telephone service has gone way up in cost. Since 1941 the payroll expense of this company, which makes up Q4% of our total costs, has increased 196%. Material costs in general are way up. Here are a few examples of how prices have jumped. The cost of poles has doubled since before the war. Lead also costs twice as much. The price of copper is up over 60%. And installers’ trucks cost almost 60% more. Many other items could be listed. One of the biggest increases has been about 75% to 100% in the cost of new buildings and in additions to present buildings. If you have bought a house or tried to have one built recently you know just how high building costs have gone. When we go out to buy anything we have the same problems you have. Cost of Doing Business Has Gone Up Faster Than Our Interne Company earnings right now are inadequate because our cost of doing business has gone up faster than our income. To illustrate what we mean, let’s go back before the war to 1941 and compare our income, costs and earnings of that year with the present. Based on actual figures for five months, beginning in July of this year, company income is up 71% over 1941, while costs are up 95%. Company earnings are down 38 %. Earnings arc now at a lower rate than in the worst years of the depression, back in the Thirties. What makes these low earnings all the more significant is that they have come at a time when the volume of telephone business has been breaking all records. There seems to be no way of getting away from the hard fact that it is costing more money to give you good service, and that we must increase our revenues. We do not ask that earnings be high—only that they be enough to enable us to do tl^e job. A $50,000,000 Program Further to Extend and Improve Telephone Service The Indiana Bell Telephone Company has every faith in the future of this state and it is

The people of Indiana are constantly needing more and better telephone service. Even though we have added 60,000 telephones this year, about 30,000 people in Indiana Bell territory are waiting for telephones. That’s because building and expansion were held up during the war and have been slowed up since by shortages. Many improvements are at hand that will make your own service far better than it has ever been before—as soon as equipment can be made and installed. In order to carry out this big program, your telephone company must be able to earn enough to make thousands of men and women of average means want to invest their savings in the business.

Reasonable Telephone Earnings Important to Everybody It’s good to remember that the supply of money is not inexhaustible and no business has a monopoly on it. It flows to the companies that offer continuing safety and a reasonable return. It is important, therefor#, to everybody who uses the telephone—to every one who works for it—and to everybody who invests in it—that earnings be on a fair basis and in line with the service rendered and the job to be done. We want you to know that we ask for this rate increase reluctantly and only after increasing costs have made it necessary. The fact that we have been able to absorb these higher costs without an increase in rates for so many years is in itself a remarkable achievement. It shows how the policy of the "best possible telephone service at the lowest cost consistent with financial safety” has been carried out in practice. The people of this city have always been fair to the telephone company and we believe you will understand the reasons for this request for increased rates. If you were running the telephone business, we believe you would say that it is a reasonable request at this time.

PRESIDENT

INDIANA BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY

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