Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 239, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 February 1930 — Page 14

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COUNTY HEADS RAPPED BY TAX BOARD MEMBER X Moves of Commissioners on Highway Bids Bring Rebuke. '•Cwilng to scoff, but remaining to pray.” was expressive of the attitude of Mr.non county commissioners appearing before the state tax board today. Backed by some fifty citizens, who reside on Harding street, commissioners came to defend a proposed $158,000 bond Issue for paving the 1. N. Hughbanks road. The road extends from Troy avenue to the Bluff road, on Harding street. Citizens testified the paving is needed. Officials Lectured Harry Miesse, secretary of the Indiana Taxpayers' Association, appealed the case, to the tax board. He stated at. the outset that the appeal was to check bids and not an objection to the project. Then it was that the commissioners were delivered a lecture on the conduct of their office, to which they could do nothing but nod assent. “These appeals are taken to provide a check on contracts and to see that award is made to the lowest bidder,” Chairman James Showalter of the tax board told the commissioners and visitors. Past Record Cited "They are taken because of the record of such contracts in the past. “We warn you that there are several ways to defeat this bond l*ue and all of them are in the hands of the county commissioners. They can refuse to acknowledge the low bid and can receive bids based

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is working on several other measures recommended by the administration to tighten enforcement. Truck Kills Aged Man Bu Time* tips ial NOBLES VILLE, Ind.. Feb. tt.— Charles C. Honnold, 63, township assessor and farmer, was* instantly killed today when struck by a truck driven by Morris Banks, 20, South Bend. Greencastle Musician Dies Bu Timr* Snrrial CRAWFORDSVILLE. Ind., Feb. 14.—Mrs. Lucy D. Springer, 59, musician, is dead at her home here. She leaves a daughter, Mrs. Walter Spencer.

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