Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 247, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 February 1926 — Page 9

FEB. 15, 1926

EDUCATION IS BIGGEST COST Forty-Eight Million for Instruction. Education is costing the State of Indiana more than any one other single item, $48,418,627.63 having been spent for that purpose the last fiscal year, according to Charles Kettleborough, director of the State legislative bureau. Costs of public instruction mounted to $6,000,000 more than the previous year, representing 23.3 per cent of the total cost of government. The second largest item, $45,696,730.53. was for the improvement of streets and highways. Debt payments totaled $27,552,378.68 and buildings and land cost $22,717,041.40. Gross disbursements for the year were $218,057,920.21. Net disbursements totaled $206,875,466.19 as against $288,183,862.59 available. CLUB IS TO ELECT The Hoosler Athletic Club will elect officers find directors Wednesday, it was announced today by Harold J. Hampton, president. Polls will open at 11:30 m. and close at 8:30 p. m., the annual meeting being held immediately afterward. Election officials are Clarence Kinney, John Baldwin, Ike Riley, Louis Dugan and Charles Wallace. New officers will be Installed at the annual meeting and yearly reports submitted.

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Light truck users have found a “buddy” in the new Stewart sixcylinder three- fourths-ton truck of thfct name exhibited at the Indianapolis auto show this week. “Buddy” was an outstanding feature of the recent Chicago show, as this model establishes anew price mark in the light delivery truck field at $896. The new Stewart- model does not stand on its low price feature alone, as it hag gained a reputation of being “all truck.” And has both power and strength for much more capacity than it's three-fourth-ton rating. “Buddy” is equipped wtih a sixcylinder, forty horse power Continental motor. ' The five-inch frame

TO PLAN CONVENTION P. 0, Clerks Open Special Office for 1927 Gathering. A special office in the Castle Hall Bldg., was opened today by Local 130, National Federation of Post Office Clerks. Here all business in connection with the national convention of post office clerks to be held in Indianapolis in 1927, will he carried on. Adolph J. Fritz, secretary-treas-urer of the Indiana Federation of Labor, addressed a meeting of the local order at the Denison, Sunday. ATTENDANCE SET RECORD Farm Business and Bee Keeper Courses Open at Purdue. Bv United Brest LAFAYETTE, Ind., Feb. 15.—The annual farm business and bee keepers short courses were scheduled to get under way at Purdue University here today with the largest attendance in the history of the two schools. The economic problems of the farmers will be discussed at the business school which will close Wednesday while the bee keepers will be in session until Thursday. BODY OF AGED MAN FOUND Bu United Press SHELBYVILLE. Ind., Feb. 15. The search for Samuel Stoughton, 86, who disappeared from his home more than a week ago was at an end today following the finding of the body of aged man- It is believed the aged man died from exposure.

gives some idea of the sturdiness of its construction. A ten-inch single plate clutch and bevel axle with Timken bearings are other features. The truck has fifty-inch long rear springs and 52 by 4 truck type cord tires. A Gemmer steering gear and large brakes make it easy to handle. It is economical in operation, giving eighteen to twenty frniles to a gallon of gasoline and also big mileage on tires and oil. The new Stewart model has an 118-inch wheel. base, suitable for a seven-foot body. Stewards are distributed in Indianapolis by the Martin Truck Company, 921 N. Capitol Ave.

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In slightly more than seven months since production began, more than 12,000 Ajax Sixes have been shipped. That is anew record for the automobile industry—for anew car entering manufacture in anew plant. The Ajax Six is Mr.C. W.Nash’s own conception of a different type of car built for a lower-

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$1,225,000 TO BE EXPENDED Light Company Makes Plans for Year. Indianapolis Light and Heat Company officials today were planning to spend $1,225,000 for extensions.

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priced market than the other two Nash lines. It is built by the Ajax Motors Company, which The Nash Motors Cos. owns outright. Mr. Nash is President of both companies—and the standards of mahufacture are identicaL The Ajax offers a group of mechanical features so distinctively new to this price-class that the car has aroused the most eager demjnd.

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betterment of service and Improvement of plants during 1927, an expenditure authorized at the company’s annual meeting Saturday. Items included are two new buildings and a creosoting plant at Morris St. and the Belt Railroad, $200,000; extensions and improvements, $400,000; extensions of switches and preparation for new turbine at the Kentucky Ave. station, $126,000; improvements at Mill St. and Kentucky Ave. stations, $500,000. All of the present officers were reelected.

PARKE COUNTY ACROSS First In State to Raise Quota In Wilson Memorial Drive. Parke County was the first in Indiana to "go over the top” in the membership drive for the Woodrow Wilson Birthplace Memorial, it was reported today by Zachariah T. Dungan, Indiana chairman. The Parke County quota. $255, was raised under the leadership of William P. Montgomery of Montezuma, Dungan said. Indiana is ex-

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,'ected to raise $26,000 to aid in purchasing the Wilson birthplace at Staunton, Va. i PLAY WILL BE GIVEN Proceeds to Go to ITotestant Orphans’ Home Support. The entertainment committee of the General Protestant Orphans’ Association will give a three-act comedy entitled. "Gappy Rickes,” under the direction of Arthur J. Bieriault, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings at the Masonic Temple, North and Illi-

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