Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 195, Decatur, Adams County, 19 August 1953 — Page 6

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BUSY DAY IS (Ceatlaned From Page Oae) District of New York administered the oath, and the President held Bible for the swearing-in. Vice President Richard M. Nixon is chairman of the committee.

Prescribed by State Board of Accounts City Budget Form No. S NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS OF TAX LEVIES In the matter of determining the Tax Rates for Certain Purposes by Decatur, Indiana. Before the Common Council. Notice is hereby given the taxpayers of Decatur, Adams County, Indiana, that the proper legal officers of said municipality, at their regular meeting place, on the 31st day of August, 1953, will consider the following oaaget: Budget Classification For Cities GENERAL FI ND MAYOR'S OFFICE Personal Service—Salary ..J...L .. .. $2 246 no Contractual Service ..1...; 1 1 ' ' 15’00 Supplies ....... LA : AA±A" 35:00 tCurrent Charges J... J...... k .........................L 5.00 j - S. 2 295 oe \ CITY JUDGE'S OFFICE • ' Persona] Service^—Salary ...«. ....... .$ 450.00 Contractual Service ......... ■;..... ;....... ’ ’ : ! -— $ 575.00 CLKHK-TREASURER'S OFFICE Personal Service—Salary ......' 7..L.Z $ 2,000 00 Salary; Temporary ..J....... . $ 1,500.00 i i 1 Contractual Service 4 . > 1 9 0 00 Supplies _ . ] ' 500.00 Current Charges ; ( 267 00 Properties ........ 40 vu DEPARTMENT OF LAW , |. ' * 4,42,.00 Personal Service : Salary, City Attorney .......j...... ....... A.—s 1.320.00 Salary, Other Compensation ... ~.......... uL- 10.00 Contractual Service .. .. .... . . 25 00 Supplies ; ; ... 125.00 Current Charges . 12 50 , T I 1,492.50 ' . POLICE DEPARTMENT Persona] Service i\ Salary, Chief of Police !.......$ 3,900.00 Salary, Regular Police .. 31,200.00 Salary, Temporary Police .... 1,400.00 Contractual Service ...... L.t. 1 165 00 Supplies 2,850.00 Current Charges ..... .... < 65.00 Properties .. - L. 2.400.00 — $42,980.00 FIRE DEPARTMENT Personal Service . Salary, Chief $ 300.00 Salary, Regular Firemen 18,720.00 j Salary, Volunteer Firemen 2 1,800.00 Salary, Temporary Firemen 300.00 Contractual Service .... 1,427.00 Material & Supplies ...... ; .....1...’.,. 1,890.00 Current Charges , 470.00 Properties . 4 6,800.00 -J— $31,707.00 STREET A SEWER DEPARTMENT Personal Service .il Salary, Street Commissioner 3.600.00 Salary, Regular Labor : 25,000.00 Salary, Temporary Labor .' 2,500.00 \ Contractual Service , 4,880.00 Supplies » 4.1L.J..... 3,980.00 MarterhflU .......... ..... 20.000.00 Current Charges m- l.;l L 500 > . ’ . Properties ...(77 i.U...... 1 5,000.00 \! $64,965.00 V ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT Personal Service. ■ Salary, City Engineer 2,300.00 Salary, Building Inspector 3,500.00 Salary, Electrical & Plumbing Inspector..]. .... 480.00 Salary, Temporary Labor ; _ 200.00 Other Compensation .i.-.-i 900.00 Contractual Service .J..... ...: 11.......... 465.00 Supplies A...J... ...... 250.00 Properties L . . _t L...1... 200.00 i $ 8,295.00 CITY HALL Personal Service ’ ' Salary, Custodian „...i....u....$ 2,160.00 Contractual Service .......j........4....L...4 3,185.00 Material & Supplies I ....... 1,050.00 1 1 i . $ 6,395.00 DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH Persona} Service j O ' Salary, Health 'Officers .Salary, Milk Inspector i.... L..., 480.00 Contractual Service ............... ... L.jL.... 230.00 Supplies ....J_4..„....... J..L ■ 75.00 $ 1,235.00 COMMON COUNCIL Personal Service '■ i ] Salary, Councilmen A. .....L...L....1 1,250.00 . $ 1,250.00 MISCELLANEOUS I Printing & Advertising .....i ...4...4..$ 850.00 ' Insurance i....:. .. k |....L........ 3,800.00 Municipal League—Dues ..L...J 100.00 American Legion—Decoration Day -1. ..4....L.. i 50.00 City School Bands i....|....;....L...v 300.0® Dog Pound .7. 2j..l ; 150.00 County Auditor. ... ..........: r . .....4... .L.]..—- 100.00 Examination of Official Records 50.00 il Transportation & Expense J.j J J..:!.... i 200 00 Hydrant Rental 1, - U .....4.4....L.;. i 10,500.00 Old Age & Survivork Insurance 4............... H ..j 1,004.00 — $17,104.00 \ X DEBT PAYMENT? Bonds—School Aid & Setver ..4....$ 8,000.00 Aid & Sewer ».... ...4 .J.,]....... 1,530.62 * V , $ 9,530.62 TOTAL .....'. - $192 251 12 PARK FLND V DEPARTMENT OF PARKS Personal Service Salary, Regular Labbr ] $ 3,500.00 > Salary, Temporary Labor J, 1 1,000.00 Contractual Service 1 .....L : ;.j..i.L 2,730.00, Material & Supplies ... . ....... ...... .4.... . 1,600 00 Current Charges v 2.00 Properties 200.00 — ’ $ 9,032.00 TOTAL 4. :... | 9,032.00 DEPARTMENT OF’ RECREATION PersonaLService ; .1 , Salary, Manager ..............•■. 4,800.00 Salary, Janitor .' _,4. .4.1 1,800.00 Contractual Service’ .a J..-. .4. . .. 1,509.20 Supplies _..„4..,.:.. l. 300.00 Current Charges L .J.j 1. 5(10.00 * ; ■— J 7 3 8,909.20 \ • !' TOTAL J...J : $ 8,909.20 M < POLICEMEN'S PENSION FIND Contractual Service zi...™.'!.;... i.... 4-$ 190 Current Charges' ..' .4 4,233.00 » $ 4,234.00 TOTAL ?. : I $ 4,234.00 FIREMEN’S PENSION FUND ? Current Charges - $ 2,430.80 $ 2,430.80

TOTAL .-. ..... — — 3 2,430.80 : U......J.' 4 ESTIMATE OF CIVIL CIT* FINDS TO BE RAISED ' IJ M Funds Required For Expenses To Corporation Park Recreation Pojirte, ’Firemen’s, December 31st of Incoming Year: , Fund Fund Fund Pen. Fund Pen. Fund, 1. Total Budget Estimate for incotning year $192,.251.12 $ 9,032.00 $ 8,909.20 $ 4,234.00 $ 2,430.802. Necessary expenditures to be made from apprd- h 4 , priations unexpended July 31stiof present year ... 75,828.61 6,374.71 3,800.00 3. Additional appropriations necessary to be made ' August Ist to tJecember 31st of: present year? L. * . 4. Outstanding temporary loans to be paid before , December 31st of present year.—not included in line 2 or 3 14 L... 17........ , 5. Total Funds Required (Add lines 1,2, 3 and 4) 268,079.73 15,406.71 8,090.20 6,034.00 2,430.80 Funds On Hand And To Be Received From < Sources Other Than Proposed Tax Leiy: 6. Actual Balance, July 31st of present year .J... J.. 58,364.99 6,984.87 2,664.44 676.45 7. Taxes to be collected, present year (December < settlement) J 57,090.83 3,673.47 ‘ 918 37 8. Miscellaneous Revenue to be received Aug. Ist of present year to Dec. 31st of incoming year \ r (Schedule on file in office of City Controller): " s a. Special Taxes (see Schedule) ...... —52,303.76 214.95 i- 53.75 b. Fees and all other revenue (see Schedule) 14,584.00 3,700.00 750.00 756.60 9. Total Funds (Add lines 6. 7, 8a and 8b L.L 182,343.58 10,873.29 3,700.00 4,386.56 1,433.05 10. Net Amount To Be Raised For Expenses To December 31st of Incoming Year (deduct line 0 from 1 \ ■ line 5) 4 1- 85,736.51 4,533.42 5,209.20 1,647.44 997.75 11. Operating Balance (not in excess of expense Jan. Ist to June 30, less Misc. Revenue for same period)—-- 65,484.88 3,801.32 436.24 1,085.93 12. Amount To Be Rained By Tax Levy (Add lines 10 and 11) „1_ I_J 151,221.39 8,334.74 5,209.20 2,083.68 2,083.68 PROPOSED LEVIES Net Taxable Property — ...U— 1 810,418,430.00 Number of Taxable Polls,. ..1... .......I—4 - -......- k 1,196 Name of Fund ' i Levy on Levy on Amourtt to r ’ ’ ■ ' Polls Property be raised General - - - - 1.00 1.44 $151,221.39 Park ■...............- — 1 H X-- .08 8,334.74 Recreation 1 .' .05 i 5,209.20 Police Pension 1 i .02 2,083.68 Firemen’s Pension . 4L.;±... L™ .02 2,083.68 TOTAL ..... 44- 1 ~ , ~ 1.00 J 1.61 $168,932.69 . -t COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF TAXES COLLECTED AND TO BE COLLECTED ' > V". To Be Collected -Collected Collected Collected Name of Fund i 1950 1951 1952 1953 T General — - —i ....i - $82,218.48 $91,348.96 $89,623.73 $128,430.85 Park ~..4. 1 9,576.08 9,091.01 7,851.79 8,154.34 Police Pension— — ..4.4... —..J.....4 1,962.93 2,038.58 TOTAL 1 ..... 91,894.56 100,439.97 99,438.45 138,623.77 Taxpayers appearing shall have a right to be heard thereon. After the tax levies have been determined, and presented to the county auditor not later than two days prior to the second Monday in September, and the levy fixed by the county tax adjustment board, or on their failure so to do, by the countv Auditor, ten or more taxpayers feeling themselves aggrieved by such levies, may appeal to the state board of tax commissioners for further and final hearing by filing of petition with the auditor on br before thb fourth Monday of September on or before the tenth day after publication by the county auditor of tax rates charged, whatever date "is later, and the state board will fix a date for hearing in this counts. Dated August 5, 1953. ■'l \ City of Decatur H. VERNON AURAND AUGUST 12—1$ Clerk-Treasurer. L t ■»

Other members sworn in were Vice Chairman J. Ernest Wilkins, prominent negro attorney from Chicago: Fred Lazarus Jr., Cincinnati, head of the American Retail Federation; John Minor Wisdom, New Orleans, member of the OOP Trade In a Good Town—Decatur!

National Committee; John |ll McCaffrey. Chicago, president of the International Harvester Co.j Mrs. Helen Rogers Reid, president of the NeM? York Herald Tribune; and John Ropsevelt. jeon of the late Democratic president. Two oilier public members of the committee, CIO President Walter Reuther and AFL president George Meany, were unable to attend. Six more members will be appointed by government departments and agencies to round out the 15-iuan committee. Atomic Plant Union ’ I " : , J Workers Study Plan Prolonged Dispute At Principal Plant OAK RIDGE; Tenn. VP 4- A presidential panels compromise proposal to end a labor dispute here was approved by AFL officials today, but they said no action would be taken until they met With Carbide Carbon Chemical Co. officials. , OAK RIDGE. TCnn., (VP) — Rank-and-file AFL craftsmen and officials of Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Co. todayi studied, a compromise proposal suggested by a presidential panel as a settlement of a prolonged contract dispute at a key atomic plant. Officials of the AFL Atomic Trades and Labor Council announced Monday night that \a seven-cents-an-hour wage increase and one additional holiday as pro-

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GOVERNMENT of Iran’s Premier Mohammed Mossadegh (right) set up a regency following flight of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi and his queen (above), to Iraq* The youthful monarch took a plane to Baghdad after a report* ed coVP to oust Mossadegh, and replace him with Gen. Fazlbllah Zahedl went awry. Iranian mobs milled about Tehran shouting “Death to the and “Mossadegh victorious.” There also were shouts of “Point Four must quit,’’ referring -to the U. S. aid offices, which, were shut down when the thrmoil begin. (International}

posed by the special panel appointed by President Eisenhower would be acceptable. 1 . The compromise must .still be ratified by some 3.500 AFL craftsmen and accepted, by Carbide and Carbon before it can become effective. ’ ~ The craftsmen walked off the fab last month after Carbide refused to hike its offer of a flve-cOnts-an-hour increase. The union had demanded'loU. cents. Some .6.500- AFL construction workers refused to cross picket lines set jup by the craftsmen!, touching off a one-day general strike—the first in' Oa|c Ridge history. \ At the urging of secretary of labor Martin Durkin, the strikers returned to work while the panel took the dispute, advisement. ■ . Bombs Away FORT WORTH, Tex.. VP—Police Officer H. B. McMahan. Sr., got a (.all from a woman wanting to borrow a gas bpmb from headquarters. She wanted it, she explained. to “get all these bugs out of my house." Trade In a Good Town—Decatur I

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llliiiiF 18S n FRANK SILLERS, former GovernYnent Printing office employe, is shown on the Senate investigations subcommittee witness stand in Washington, where he refused to Isay whether or not he was a Communist. James Phillips, a GPO employe, testified that Sillers and another GPO employe pressed him to join the . in 1038. (International)

Ice Boxes Cause 1 I Fear For Parents Chicagoans Make \ < Death-Trap Claimi CHICAGO -UP — Frightened parents in a South Side neighborhood complained today that 13 discarded refrigerators were paten-j tial ddath traps for their children. The parents’ concern was strengthened by the deaths of 11 children in a 36-hiour period last week in lee, box baby traps in the South and feast. . The refrigerators here are in the |rbgr of the Achiever Refrigeration Service. * A company spokesman said h? had learned'of the neighborhood’s objections to the old ice boxes and said they would be removed “aM" soon as possible.” i '! . “We’ve been aware that the old ice boxes are ever since they began, to accumulate last year,” said Mrs. Rose O’Reilly, a resident of the neighborhood. “I’ve already rescued one five-year-old boy out of one and we don’t want any more riear-tragedies.” (Mrs. O'Reilly herself is the mother of five children. ! \ Mrs. Janies Prohaska, mother of two, said she warns her child* ren to stay dway from the “treacherous” refrigerators. ; \ ] “Blit it’s hard to impress o<i small children that anything ,a s ordinarily friendly as an ice box can be threatening,” she said. Allen County Youth Strangulation Victim (FORT WAYNiE VP — feleveu-year-ojtl Dennis Springer, New Haven, accidentally strangled himself Tuesday as he and a sister played “ceps ’ and robbers." Marlene Springer, 10, said her brother put a strap around his neck and tossed the end over a tree limb in a wooded area near the youngsters’ home seven miles east of Fort,, Wayne. A respirator erdw failed to revive the boy] A bird which has wings apd yet can't fly is the penguin.

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Father And Sons Complete Canoe ’Frip I ST. LOVIS VP — A fjither and his two young sons) finished a 3»»!i-mil-e canoe trip fiom Chicago to St. Ixniis in eight (lays, pulling their 75-pound aluminum craftl into a dock here Tuesday, Frank Mason, 43, of suburban St. Lduis, and the hoys, James, 13, ajid Richard, 11, had planned to make the trip in six days but a stiff wind and fog t.loied them. —..— 4__— — ;• More than 51,000 tons of mailwere' handled by the Army’s Seventh fjase Post Office in Japan during the past two years.

Public Sale - Mgbt Sale NEW QUALITY FURNITURE 1200 BLOCK SOUTH MAIN ST., BLUFFTON, IND. . k . j : ' • , (Directly,south of the South Main St; Service Station) Saturday Night, August 22, 1953 , Sale starting at 7:00 P. M. a .11— h ;■ BEDROOM SI’ITES—2. modern bedroom! suites, with dustproof Mr* & Mrs., Dressers and chests. ‘ | LIVING ROOM SI’ITES AND STUDIO COI'VHES—S. modern living room suites, good quality, assorted colorsq3-.4tudio couches, 2 tapestry land 1 plastic. • • /'':l * ; CHROME DINETTE SETS —4. < hrome breakfast sets, formfea tops, assorted, colols. 7 i I'3 DRESSMAKER EUEICTfeIC SEWING MACHINES— 1. Console Dressmaker sewing machine with all attachments*; 1 desk type Consolh Dressmaker sewing machine and attachipehts; 1 portable Dressmaker sewing'machine. |, * .s '. i J' i; <■ TELEVISION SET-i-General 17” Console TV set, mahjogany finish. ELECTRIC WASHER-—White Way electric jvasher with pump. -r * I ' > 1 - ' : i< .'? J' I ■ " ' I: ’V i 2 innerspring mattresses; 2 bed springs; 6 Congoleum rugs; rollaway, bed and mattress; table lamps; TV laipps; cocfetail tables;- ± i corner tables; 2 lamp tlhjies; 3 drop leaf iend tables. These are all matching tables with leather tops. Other end tables; occasional tables; i 6 childs rockers! base roc.kers; many miscellaneous items! not mentioned. ; k i ■ NOTE—.You are welcome to inspect tlh>: furniture any time on day j JOHN KRIEG, Owner i Ellepberger Bros.—Auctioneers « . { . ' Farmers & Merchants !Bhpk—Clerk •! 19 Hi ■ ’ i ’

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MENTAL HEALTH ___!££? * lwl * e<> Haar Oae) whjje, it comes at a time when people are using: their surplus? money for vacations and planning j for t,he approaching Christman i seasqhl I am sure‘We w ill be able to raise a large .part of the $1,8(10 this, year by voluntary contribu- j t.ipns.4 urge everyone to assist by sending their donations to Mental I post kiffice box number 1, i Decataf.:' Kirsch said. . ' ' I'' The ujiio Grande is the third longesif jstream in the United States? Its 1,800-mile length is exceeded only by the Missouri and Mississippi rivers.

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