Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 192, Decatur, Adams County, 14 August 1952 — Page 10

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REAL-ESTATE AUCTION 1 MODERN 3 BEDROOM ONE STORY HOME 821 South Jersey St., Bluffton, Ind. We are moving to Fort Wayne and will sell our modern 3 bedroom home at South Jersey St., at Public Auction on Tuesday Evening, August 19, 1952 Sale to Begin at 6:30 P. M., D.S.T. \ 'I , i / This is a modern well constructed one story home, large living room with wall to wall carpeting, Youngstown I kitchen with double tink, inlaid linoleum; utility room with automatic gas furnace and 30 Ml. gas water heater; 3 bedrooms wiih plenty of wardrobe apace and tomplete batty. The Wall to wall carpeting in the living room and the Venetian blinds will goLwitty the property to the new buyer. This home U completely insulated, has double siding, new cement walks and new porch, with aluminum awning. It is in an extra good state of repair .both inside and out and ready to move into without any additional expense. Lot size 42 x 133, TERMS— <1,000 down on day of sale, balance upon delivery of deed And merchantable abstract of title. At the present time there" is a v P.H.A. and-VX-' loan in the amount of about $5,700. that can either be assumed or paid off. if this loan is assumed by ttye new buyer the s « monthly payments including taxes, insurance, principle and interest would be >52.25 per ityonth. POSSESSION WITHIN 30 DAYS, blot responsible for, accidents. Mr. and Mrs. HUBERT HANKINS Owners <5 \ ’ I ' J D. S. Blair, Auctioneer, Petroleum. Ind. Phone 2251. • Gerald Stickler, Auctioneer and C. W. Kent. Sales Mgr. , Operating '"under Indiana Real Estate Brokers License No. 3423. * 1 (CLIP THIS AD) | 14

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WE OFFER A WAGE INCREASE

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. TT Te have proposed a new wa&e increase for next SeptemI W ber 15. It is in two parts,Just as it was last year. The first part calls for a 2.5% increase—with a 3% cent per hour minimum —on the same basis as the similar increase x granted last September. The second part calls for an additional wage increase to correspond to the rise in the cost of living. For those union and non-organised employees who are now receiving the cost-of-living adjustment offered last March, the new proposal will correspond to the increase in the cost of living since then, using the same base of March 15,1951, as before. For employees whose unions did not accept the cost-of-living increase of last March, the new proposal will correspond to the increase in- the cost of living since September 15, 1951 —the date of their last increase—using the same March 15, 1951 base. Both parts of the wage increase will become effective as of September 15 for the above employees except any whose unions may withhold acceptance beyond that date—in which case it would become effective as of the date of acceptance. , For those employees whose unions did jOOt accept the cost-of-living increase of last March, we have offered the alternative x of making the cost-of-living part of\the proposed new increase ; effective as of August 15—which would correspond to the cost-of-living rise to then from the date of their last increase—again using the same of March 15, 1951 as before. Our best advice from outside at the moment —and we in no sense offer it aS a ,prediction—is that the August 15 and September 15 indices Will be almost exactly the same. This on the cost-of-living adjustment is available,

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Michigan's Cities Fight On Rural Grip Vote In November To Weaken Grip On Legislature\\ LANSING, Mich. UP —- .Michigan voters will ballot in November J on two constitutional amendment ' proposals to reapportion legislative - - ■' 1

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seats. The election will culminate years of rivalry between urban and rural sections for control of legislative machinery. areas, chiefly Republican. now dominate a majority of seats in both house ahd senate. Heavily populated metropolitan districts such as Detroit, where Democrats normally rule, have assailed rural dominance in the legislature bitterly. • .Michigan's 1908 constitution provides that the legislature shall reapportion seats every decade starting in 1913; Failure to carry opt that mandate has plunged he issue into politick. . The last shuffling of senate seats occurred In 1925 and a modified reapportioninent of house

however, ohly if the unions eligible accept our wage and economic proposals by August 31, and only if full agreement is reached on all remaining items by September !s.> The wage proposal offered is expected—but npt guaranteed-»-to result in a total increase in 1952 ranging from about 7J4 to 13 cents an hour, when the Bureau of Labor Statistics “Consumers Price Index” (Cost-of-Living) figures are published. In addition to wages, the offer includes substantial additions in employee insurance benefits—over and above the present GE benefits program which cost the Company $150,000,000 in 1951. Among the new benefits being offered are a 50% increase in maternity benefits, larger payments for special hospital services, a new provision for payment toward expense of physicians* hospital visits and higher weekly benefit pay* ments for sickness and accidents*. ' : I The entire offer, of course, is subject to whatever approval is necessary from the Wage and Salary Stabilizatjpn Boards. As shown in the chart above, the latest proposaKwould mean that GE pay and benefits will have risen about woe the outbreak of the Korean War. GE wages alone Woulvbe up about 23%—although the cost-of-living will have risen only about 13%. x X '■» We have made this i offer to keep GE employees well in the forefront in pay and benefits as a part of our policy of trying to do right voluntarily. s We think it is a fair offer. We want our employees to have it. It will become effective for all nonorganized employees as of September 15. We hope we can complete negotiations and reach agreement with the unions involved without undue delay, so we can make these higher wagps and increased benefits available to our unionized employees as well. 1- . . 9 | ■*" i I

membership was voted in 1946, but metropolitan areas claim even those efforts fell far short of the constitutional mandate for division of legislative seats on the basis of population. As a result of population gains and shifts since 1908/days, representation has become widely unbalanced, proponents of the new charge contend. At present, for one upstate senator represents a district composed of only 30,000 persons while a seat-mate is elected from a Detroit district composed 6f nearly 250,000 residents. /One ballot proposal upon which vtyters must decide is sponsored by the CIO and? AFL unions, to-,, gether with other metropolitan groups. It proposes division of the

state into 33 districts of an approximately equal number of inhabiants. Each district would elect one senator and three representatives. . \ . The second proposal, backed by farm groups and the strongly-Re-publican Michigan Manufacturers Association, represents an attempted compromise. It would add two seats to the existing 32-member senate.* creating new districts in the growing metropolitan fringe area around Detroit. It also would provide reapportionment of house seats on a population basis' but under that would not strip outstate areas of existing representation in the 100-member house. Both amendment proposal a would contain a mandatory feature to provide automatic ment of the legislature every 10 years, either by the secretary of the state or the state board of election canvassers. The advantage is that such officials are subject to mandamus by court action whereas the legislature is not. In general, the union plan would divide representation in both house and senate on a straight population basis while the farmermanufacurer proposal would keep he senate on a geographical basis and allot house seats on a modified base. Juniors Working To Make People Vote Jqycees In Detroit In All-Out Effort DETROIT, UP —Like the weather, everyone talks about politics but almost no one does anything about it. No one, that is, but the Detroit Junior Board of Commerce; The young members of this civic organization have leveled their sights on Mr. Joe Citizen, in an all-out effort to persuade him'to do more than vote. they want Joe to take an active interest in politics. They don’t care which party he takes an Interest in, as long as he works actively in some political organization. Already, the group has encouraged more than 2,000 Detroiters to volunteer for work in party organizations. Before too long, the board figures most of the new' volunteers Will be busy as precinct workers, block captains, challengers at the polls and the hundreds" of other routine but important party jobs. The board is hitting at Detroit voters with the slogan: “Politicking—and lots of it by lots of people—is a sign of good health Jn a democracy.” Although almost 980,000 Detroiters, a new record, registered for the August primary election, the group points out that registering to vote does not in itself insure an active interest in self-gov-APPOINTMBIVT OF EXKCTTOR Estate No. 4XOO Notice i« hereby wives, That the undersigned has been appointed Executor of the estate of Charles Oj McKeaaklate of Adams County, deceased. \The estate is probably solvent. * CALVIN. J. McKEAN, Executor -G. REMY BIERLY, Attorney August 6, 1952.. •- AUGUST 7-14-121 NOTICE TO TH K CITY the Adams circuit court IN v i& A 1,52 STATE OF INDIANA: SS COUNTY OF ADAMS EDGAR G. MUTSCHLER MILTON SWEARIGEN V 8 THE CITY OF DECATUR, INDIANA A MUNICIPAL To the City tyf Decatur, Indiana, and the citisens thereof: Notice is hereby given that the undersigned hkve filed a petition in the' Adams Circuß Court! in said county, and the saine is bow pending therein, asking sos the vacation of the following alley. That part running East and West between 12th and 13th or Mann Streets, and located between In-lots 105, 10®, 107, 103, and 63. 64, «5, and 66 in Hannas Addition to the City of Decatur, Indiana. That said petition sets out, in substance, that said alley is not a public utility; that the same is not used for. public travel; that said alley is not necessary for the growth of , the City of Decatur; that «he vacation of the same will not leave any owner of real estate in the City of Decatur without ingress or egress by means of public way, and will not cut off public access to any chprch, school or other publip building or ground, and that no person, firm or corporation will be injured or damaged in any way by the vacation of said alley; That said petition will be presented to the Adams Circuit Court on the 2nd day of September 1952, and said petition and the matters at issue therein will be heard and determined by the Court on said date. EDGAR G. MUTSCHLER MILTON SWEARINGEN ED A. BOSSE. Attorney AUGUST 7—14—31

erament. Putting >ord» into action, the group hag gone to work to kfedle political thinking by more people. They are working with all parties lining up candidates for party jobs, which they term “basic to a strong democracy.” Actual assignments come from party organizations, with the young businessmen getting the party and volunteers together. f The campaign has the eager backing of both major parties in

Preecribad by State Board of Accounts City Budget Form No. 3 NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS OF TAX LEVIES purw “ * Notice Is hereby given the taxpayers of Decatur, Adame County, InAlane, that the proper legal officers of said municipality, at their regular ° n the Mth will consider the follbw-. Budget Classification For Cities GEhIMIAL FUWD MAYOR'S OFFICE Cu?ren“ » \ • O omC9 ~’ 9 l ’” s 00 4 6 0. W f 460.00 Contractual Service liroo Supplies Ko© oo Current Charges 274v0 Properties — i 35 0.00 , c , I DEFARTMEST OF LAW ’ 4,734.00 Personal Service SaUry. City Attorney ,4 $ 1,200.00 Salary, Other Compensation ... 1000 Contractual Service L...... .4. . „ : 20 00 mi!g-aKg»—■-= ‘llls „ . „ . roue® dktabtmbxt ’ M Personal Service Salary, Chief of Police _l.. s 3,504.00 Salary, Regular Police - 24,960.00 Salary, Temporary Police ; 1,200.00 Contractual Service L 395.00 Supplies : : 2,500.00 FIRE DEPARTMENT Personal Service y Salary, Chief ■ $ SOO.M Salary, Regular Firemen 15,60(00 Salary, Volunteer Firemen 1,809.00 Salary, Temporary Firemen „..x 300.00 Contractual Service 1,260.00 Material A Supplies 1,790.00 i ! Current Chargee ... 480.00 l Properties 6,600.00 I ■ ' 1 ' $28,150.00 STREET A SEWER DEPARTMENT Personal Service Salary, Street Commissioner ......; ' $ 3,300.00 Salary, Regular Labor 25,000.00 Salary, Temporary Labor 2,500.00 Contractual Service' 1,880.00 Supplies u. 4,060.00 Material — - 20,000.90 Current Charges : 5.00 Properties 2,209.00 • $58,945.00 ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT Personal Service Salary, City Engineer L. — $ 1,800.00 Salary, Building Inspector ..44....... 4 3,000.0 Q Salary, Elec-Lnical & Plumbipg Jnapector 480.V0 I, Salary, Temporary Labor 200.00 Other Compensation 500.00 Contractual Service 335.00 Supplies - 550.00 Properties 1,300.00 $ 8,155.00 CITY HALL Personal Service « Salary, Custodian ........ _i $ 2,160.00 Contractual Service 1 2,966.00 Material & Supplies 1,850.00 | 0,478.00 ' , a , DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH Personal Service Salary, Health Officers ..— $ 450.09 Salary, Milk Inspector — 480.00 Contractual Service ; 177 00 , Supplies — 125.00 $4,232.00 D , COMMON COUNCIL Personal Service Salary, Gouncilmen $ 1,250.00 $ 1,250.00 ■4 MISCELLANEOUB Printing & Advertising $ 800.0 Q insurance — 2,500.00 Municipal League-Due* 109.99 American Legion—Decoration Pay 50.00, City School Bands 390.00 i Dog Pound i...... 150.00 County Auditor 109.00 Examination of Official Records .' 150.00 Transportation & Expense 150.00 Hydrant Rental „.l 10,200.00 Old Age A Survivors insurance .1 735.00 * i $16,335.00 „ t DDirr PAYMENT Bonds | 7,000.00 ' Interest 1,762.48 I $ 8,762.48 TOTAL $172,520.98 PARK FUND „ , o DepARTMENT OF FARM* Personal Service \ Salary, Regular Labor $ 3,500.00 Salary, Temporary Labor 1,000.00 Contractual Service 2,740.00 Material A Supplies ; 1,850.00 Current Charges 2.00 Properties — : 220.00 $ 9,312.00 TOTAL $ 9,312.00 POLICEMEN'S PENSION FUND Contractual Service $ 6.00 Current Charges 2,872.00 . - , $ 2,878-00 TOTAL I 2,878.00 ESTIMATE QF CIVIL CITY FUNDS TOiBE RAISED Police v Cbrporatlon Park Pension I Fund Fund Fund Funds Required For ExpeMes To December Stet es laeemlag Yeari 1. Total Budget Estimates for incoming year ..$172,520.98 $ 9,312.00 $2,878 00 2. Necessary expenditure* <0 be made ig from appropriations unexpended July 31st of present year .4— 80,235.87 5,047.89 846-00 5. Total Funds Required (Add lines 1,. 2, 8 and 4) 262,756.85 14,359.69 3J24.00 Funds Om Hund And To Be Receiped From Sources Other Thnn Proposed Tax Levyt 6. Actual Balance, July 31st of present year ....; , 67,067.07 6,124 72 1,668.38 7. Taxes to be collected, present year (December settlement) £ ..... 40,429.(3 3,553.09 888-27 8. Miscellaneous Revenue to be received Aug. ls( of present year to Dec. 31st of incoming year (Schedule on file in office of City Controller): ' ’ _ ' a. Special Taxes (see. Schedule) ... 49,859.33 342.75 66.00 b. Fees and all other revenue ' b. (see Schedule) 12,289.00 1,002.96 9. Total Funds (Add lines 6,7, 8a and Bb)' ). 169,644.83 10,020.56 3,626.61 10. Nef Aipppat tp he RaUed F»»r E*PFSaes <0 December 31st of Incoming ■ Year (deduct line 9 from line 5) ..: 83,112 02 4,339.13 97439 11. Operating Balance (not in excess of ex- : pense Jan. Ist to June 39, less Mi sc. revenue for same period) 61,121.96 3,855.57 1,951.28 12. Amount To Be Rained By Tax Levy \ (Add lines 10 and 11) 144,2339$ 8,194.70. 2,048.67 PROPOSED LEVIES t Net Taxable Prpperty ..; ~i $10,243,374) 00 Number of Taxable Polls 1,222 Nanjb Levy Levy on A.moaiitp of Fund ' Polls Property l>e Raised General 1 -4 1 00 1.42 144,238.98 Park .08 8.194 70 Police Pension .02 2,045.67 TOTAL 1.00 1.52 154,477.35 Comparative Statement of Taxes Collected and To Be Collected ; ’ ; To Be Natne 1 Collected Collected Collected Collected of Fund 1949 1950 1951 1952 General .t... X 594,876.49 $82,218 48 $91,348.96 $87,824 63 Park i. 9,676.0$ 9,091.01 7,696.85 Police Pension 1,924.21 TOTAL i 94,876.49 91,894.56 100,439 97 97,445.69 Taxpayers appearing shall have a right to be heard thereon. After the tax levies have been determined, and presented to the county auditor not later than two days prior to the second Monday in September, and the levy fixed by the county, tax adjustment board, or on their failure so to do, by the county auditor, ten or more taxpayers feeling themselves, aggrieved by such levies, may appeal to the state board of tax commisaion* ers for further gnd"' final hearing filing of petition with the auditor on Or (before the fourth Monday of September op or before the tenth day after publication by the county auditor of tax rates charged, whichever date i« later, and the state board will fix a date for hearing in this county. * Dated August sth, 1952. THE CITY OF DECATUR | AUGUST 7— 14 _ H. Vernon Aurand, Clerk-Treasurer

THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1952

Michigan, Npll Rtgebler, chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee, passed on his congratulations, adding, “The participation of average citizens in politics, because they want good government, is more Important than any momentary success or failure in politics.” Owen J. Cleary, chairman of the Republican State Central Committee, commended the Junior Board of Comment "for the most worthwhile work wtyieh you are undertaking.”