Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 1, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 May 1922 — Page 14

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HARDSURFACE ROADS MAKING GOOD PROGRESS Six Contracts Will Be Completed During Year, Lyons Announces. Six hnrl surfacing projects on the National road, placed under contract this spring by the State highway commission are progressing nicely, despite numerous setbacks occasioned by recurring heavy rains this spring, Lawrence I.yons, highway director, said today. All contracts will be complete this year, when the National r<ad will hare been paved across the State from Terre Haute to Cambridge City. On the section known ns from Louisville, Henry County, to the west line of Wayne County, a distance of seven miles, George T. Miller, of Lebanon, contractor, has started laying concrete. Tavement laying will be started soon by C. M. Kirkratrick of Greenfield, contractor for the project between Greenfield and Knigbtstnwn, a distance of twelve miles in Hancock and Henry Counties. .Tiisf west of Plainfield to the west line of Marion County, the contractor is now building bridges under twenty-foot span preparatory to pavement laying. Grading is in progress on all the other National mart projects, Mr. I.yons says. Th° same activity Is In evidence on eighteen bridges contracted by the commission on April 4, the largest of which Is the 1 SOO foot bridge to span White river at Hazeiton. where the water course divides Knox and Gibson counties. The Stein Construction Company of Milwaukee, which obtained this contract, is now shipping in machinery and equipment. and is prepared to start construction as soon as the river waters subside. Charles G. Moore, company superintendent. has moved his family to Hazelton. 11. A. linnapel, field bridge engineer for the highway commission, will superintend the work for the State. Hanapel recently concluded work In a similar capacity at Attica, where a 1.000 foot State-niil bridge was built across the Wabash river. When the n.nzeiton bridge Is opened to traffic not later than Oct. 15. 1923, It will give on outlet to a section of Indiana which had always depended on a ferry crossing at this point on the river.

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Profiteering Peddler Did Not Sell Dope DENVER. May 12.—A A “profiteering dope peddler” was discovered here when Federal agents arrested Ben B. Green on a charge of selling cocaine and morphine. Green protested his Innocence and demanded that a chemical analysis be made of the capsules found upon him. “Nothing but quinine ln these capsules,’’ reported the Government chemist. Green Is alleged to have been selling quinine capsules for $1 each, purchasers believing them to contain drugs. Ills profit on each capsule Is figured at 10,000 per cent. Short Line Railroads to Have Their Inning ATLANTA. Ga„ May 12—Short line railroads, long the butt of wits and comic supplement artists, are going to have their Inning at lrst. A meeMng In iheir defense, to which all interested in them are Invited to crime, has been called at a local hotel by A. ,T. Henderson, receiver of the Ocilla Southern Railroad Company. Asa result efforts will he made to give them legal protection. hTe Georgia legislature will be asked to pass laws giving them time to pay their debts. ’ There has bepn much said against the short-line railroad and many fforts made to Junk them in recent years,” Henderson says. “The people served by short lines would suffer In the end If this were done.” He declared that there is not a railroad ln Georgia that has not been In the hands of a receiver at some time.

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JOHNSTON WINS FIRST PRIZE IN ESSAY CONTEST Columbia City High School Writer Honored by Education Committee. WASHINGTON. P. C.. May 12.—An essav by Lawrence Johnston, a student in the Columbia City (Ind.) public schools, won first prize for Indiana ln the national safety campaign conducted last fall, according to announcement today from the office of the highway and highway transport education committee, under whose auspices the contest was held. Miss Maude A. Gaskins, a teacher In the Ft. Wayne public schools, submitted the best lesson for the State. Her lesson now represents Indiana before the national lesson committee, which Is reading one lesson from each State and Territory, and likewise the essay by Mr. Johnston Is before the national essay committee. In addition, the student receives a check for sls and a gold medal. Eleven other students also receive prizes. Second honors ln the essay contest went to Jesse E. Toombs, 224 West Centennial avenue, Munole, who will receive a silver medal and $lO. Third prizes, bronze medals and $5, go to the following pupils: George Peckham, COO South Main street, Elkhart; Charles S. Preston. 1218 Brown street, Anderson; Grace Carlson, Chesterton; Robert Hawkins, Smith field Township school, Ash-

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ley; Mildred Etchlson, Columbian school, Kokomo; William Higgins, 1033 Indiana avenue, La Porte; Frances Cushman, Michigan City; Jeannette Weatherford, Dlllsboro; Arthur Lea Akers, Lebanon, and Floyd Faust, Pendleton. Essays and lessons were chosen by a committee appointed several weeks ago by Benjamin J. Burris, State superintendent "of public Instruction. Medals and checks have been sent city superintendents for distribution.

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