The Independent-News, Volume 87, Number 33, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 15 August 1963 — Page 4

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— THE INDEPENDENT-NEWS — Aug. 15. 19«3

V A Few Can Jeapordize Many

Last week, an inspection of the Youth Building in Walkciton one evening was called by the Youth Building Commit! as a report of vandalism had been done Upon arriving at the building. it was obvious that someone had be--n inode with just that one thing in mind, to make a mes- of the place. The vandalism th.it was done was nothing that took a g: at amount of money to clean up or repair, but it did take several man hours of time and there was a loss involving a few dollarsj However, the actions displayed and the fact that the complete lack of r - sped for a place such a the

Now A Bridge Goes To No Place

Reports in the Sout' l Bend Tribune recently discussed the fat t that the Sample Street Bridge project may easily turn into another "Interstate Skeleton’’, a situation that has happened so many times in the network of Interstate roads. A section that is completed often sets for some time before it can be used because it starts and ends in the middle of nowhere and is not usable by anyone. ' The reports out now state that the bridge will be done before anvthng is accomplished on the e; st side of the river where th* Navy Reserves and National Guard have their meetings. Right of ways on the east side have i t even been purchased an<l mon delay will come before this is don-?. It looks as if a nice new bridge will set across the rivei for some time with no way to get on or off of it. Meanwhile, here sets Indiana

Train Wrecks Becoming More Common

The train wreck in Walkerton last Thursday evening was the third within a 40 mile radius in five days. As one railroad man stated following thia wreck, train wrecks used to be a rarity, and now they are a common thing. The railroads have suffered from the lack of heavy traffic they used to have and possibly cut their crews strictly to eliminate all the overhead they could. । However, this has shown up as i a poor choice as the checking of the tracks that used to be done and the checking of cars i

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Youth Building that is used by many through the Scouts, dances. Junior League and other groups, w the matter that concerned the coinnutlea. It was deci<led to do a* the building for a couple of weeks completely as a good work session is going to be undertaken by the IJons Club with paintfhg and c!’nntng to improve the appearance. But during this time, no one will uae the building mainly because of the disrespect shown. This has grown to the point that further dan - age and vandalism will have to be handled in a different manner to stop the little acts that occur from time to time

23. When the groups and individuals of this area travel -d to South Bend a couple of years ago to meet with David Cohen on the po edbiUties of getting some action on 2?. the Sample Street bridge was also a topic of discuss ion It was stated that only so much money could go in one area at a time and this bridge is an expen ive item. Now the smooth new bridge may set unused while everyone continues to bounce along and shake their cars to pieces on the old landmark of the late twenties. The blame has been placed on the City of South Bend for negligence in this matter Wh rever the blame lavs. maybe this bridge can be connected to tli<' stretch of by-pasi around South Bend that runs almost the same, from nowhere to nowhere. as the.mual format in such things persists, confusion and more planning.

in the yards slacked off considerably. This could i>- definite reason for some of the accidents. Whatever the cause is, the damages that are done and thousands of extra work hours, much with costly equipment, are draining millions of dollars on each wreck. The thankful part of the Walkerton accident was that there was no one injured. Many of the accidents aren’t so hkkx as injuries and deaths have been reported hi many of the recent wrecks in addition to the heavy property damage.

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Survey Made Os Municipal And School Budgets A survey of municipal and 1 school budgets m 71 Hoosier Cities disclosed the following information which was announced bj the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce; Annual salaries ol mayors range from a high of SIB,OOO at Gary to a low of $1,200 at Butler. Mayoralty salaries paid in the largest Hoosier cities include $16,500 at Fort Wayne; $16,200 at Hammond; $15,000 at Anderson, East Chicago and Evansville; $13.200 at Indianapolis, Muncie am! South Bend; $12,000 at Michigan City arid Terre Haute; $10,200 at New Albany and SIO,OOO at Elkhart. Kokomo and Richmond. The number of policemen pel 1,000 population has increased gradually over the last ten years The 20 largest cities showed 1.43 policemen per 1.000 population in 1953, and/or 1963 the ratio had risen to 1.52. Highest in 1963 was Hast Chicago with a 2.3 ratio, and Indianapolis was next with a 1 s ratio. East Chicago also led among the larger cities in 1963 in the numbed of firemen per squar • mile with a 12.4 ratio. South Bend was next with 10 firemen per square mile. Others were Anderson, 9.7; Indianapolis and Kokomo, 9.4 and Evansville. 9.0. Reports on school building programs in 19 large cities showed their cumulative building funds levying an average rate of 77.6 c per SIOO assessed valuation in 1963. In 1953, three of the cities had no such levy, bnt the average rate for the otlrer 16 cities was 48.7 c. "Because this is a municipal election year there will be great public mtecest. iu the costs of municipal governments,” Jolin V. Barnett, State Chamber executive vice president, sail* in releasing the results ol the annual "Local Budget Analysis" survey. ‘‘However, the piincipal »-eason for the survey is tha bringing together of factual data Which may be helpful as decisions are made on new budgets. "There is no intention that any comparisons made ‘Uply that public salai ies are kao high oi too low <*r that specific types of commuinty services are over-ad-equate or imieUtquate he said The survey covered costs of personnel items in local budgets

principally, including municipal salaries, police amt fire departments. school cities and street and sanitation departments. Cooperating in the survey were local chambers of commerce and local tax research orgnmaationa.

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