Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 65, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 July 1930 — Page 3

JULY 25, 1930

STOKER CHARGE MAY RESULT IN COURT BATTLE Tax Official Scores School Board for Refusing City Firm’s Bid. Possibility of libel suits and a state tax board probe Into activities of the city school board loomed today as a three-way verbal battle between agents for a stoker company, school officials and Philip Zoercher, state tax board member, increased. Zoercher charges in a letter to A. B, Good, school business director, and Russell Willson, school board president, that the board awarded a contract to the Brownell Company lor a stoker that cost $270 more than the type on which a bid was submitted by the Fire-King Stoker Company. The latter company is a local concern. Good declared the board opposed the Fire-King product because the board found it cost more to install and equip it than the difference In the other product. Good said it was necessary to install ash pans and motor enclosures in the local firm’s device while the other was equipped. Denied by Kimmel F. R. Kimmel, vice-president of the Fire-King Company, denied this and declared "there has not been one call for repairs or service on any of the sixteen devices installed in city schools.” Good declared officials of the local company and Zoercher had made statements that it "might be necessary to fight it out in court.” On the other hand, officials of the Fire-King firm were emphatic in their statement that they "were going to find out a lot” and Zoercher said he might have the matter probed through a special investigation. The complaint against the contract awarding was made by Theo Hopewell, general manager of the Fire-King firm, to the tax board, j over awarding the Brownell com- ! pany the contract for a stoker in School 49 recently.

Surprised at Letter “We have to do the work,” Good said. “With the Brownell it is all done before we get the stoker. The Fire-King carries a separate adjustment for coal and air. while the other product combines the two in one move, so the custodian of the building knows that when one lever is pulled the machine does the rest. “I feel that a letter, written by a public official and given to the press for publicity and notoriety, before it is delivered to the person to whom it is addressed, does not warrant an answer.” Good said he was working for the board and would do as directed. Wilson said he was surprised at the letter, adding the board “can run the school affairs from this end.” Referred to Tax Board Good said the bids were referred to the tax board and no complaint was made. It was known Good was with tax board members Thursday afternoon and he said he did not know of the letter at the time nor was any statement made by tax officials. "I had hoped that when the new board went into office we would not ha’c these controversies and that the thing uppermost in the minds of the school commissioners would be the interest of the taxpayers,” Zoercher wrote. “Two hundred and seventy dollars seems a small item but it seems to me that public officials ought to save wherever they can.” “Some of my friends who did not want me to take the interest that I took in the campaign are laughing at me because of these things.”

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