Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 63, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 July 1931 — Page 3

•TOLY 23,1931.

‘ALL-BLACKTOP’ ! BIDS ILLEGAL, COURT DECIDES Not Distinct Types, Holds Judge in Enjoining Highway Body. BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY Booming business of the blacktop paving interests with the state highway department was dealt a death blow today when Judge Harry O. Chamberlin enjoined the commissioners from awarding contracts on ‘ all blacktop” specifications on State Road 9. The ruling, unless appealed, gives the palm of victory to William J. Titus, chief state highway engineer, in the long-standing feud with A. H. Hinkle, superintendent of maintenance. Hinkle has been termed a “blacktop man” and Titus “concrete.” Despite a two-year old ruling holding it illegal, Hinkle has continued to do blacktop construction and award contracts on specifications consisting of "blacktop, blacktop and blacktop.'’ Not Three “Types” Suit was brought to enjoin the commission from such awards on the ground that three bituminous pavements did not meet the requirement of the highway law that there be competition between three "distinct types.” Robert El. O'Connor, Ft. Wayne paving contractor, instituted the suit as a citizen and taxpayer. Attorney-General James M. Ogden refused to represent the commission because he had ruled that the three blacktop types are illegal. So Merl Walker, known as a blacktop interest attorney, took up the cudgels for the defense. Pickens, Davidson, Cause, Gilliom and Pickens appeared for O’Connor and won the case. Director John J. Browm of the state highway department was one! of the witnesses called and revealed he knew very little about the mat - 1 ter. So the opinion handed down today j by Judge Chamberlin goes into the j thing in some detail. The gist of it is that a layman, i let alone a highway engineer or di- i rector, should know that the Hinkle j specifications of “puddled macadam, bituminous retread and bituminous coated aggregate surface” does not constitute three distinct paving types. Disposes of Points It takes brick, concrete and blacktop. Three points raised by the de- j fendant are also disposed of in the j

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The world in general knew Wednesday that George Cook, fireman at headquarters company, New York and Alabama streets, was a newlywed. The photo shows George handcuffed and belted to

opinion. It holds that O’Con lor had a perfect right to sue as a citizen, that the work done is construction and not maintenance, and that the types being all blacktop are not distinct. Under the law Hinkle has no right to do construction at all, but the commission has ignored this for years, although it was plainly set out in an opinion from the attorneygeneral. Today’s ruling puts the commissoin further in the hole on their federal aid collections. Hinkle had pledged to collect $460,000 on blacktop and first having failed to qualify the specifications now has the work enjoined. In addition the attorney-general and Brown have agreed to withhold payment on blacktop contracts under construction, including the one involved in the suit, awaiting the court’s ruling. Contractors were warned to proceed at the risk of not getting paid. Floyd E. Williamson, state auditor,

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a bench outside the fire station. There, with the toes cut out of his sox and his face blackened, he held a doll and stared at a baby carriage and household implements during the day.

has asked for an official opinion from Ogden regarding such payments. Neither Brown nor Hinkle was on hand today to comment on the decision. Owen Boling, assistant to Brown, said he considered it unlikely that the case will be appealed. So the blacktop boys who “went to bat” for the commission when it was under fire during the legislature must think up anew way to get their rewards.

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CHAMBER'S TAX STAND ‘SINCERE -BUTJNWISE' ‘Wrong Patriotically and Economically,’ School Defender Says. “The Chamber of Commerce is sincere, but unwise,” Howard M, i Meyer, Indianapolis attorney, told members of Garfield park Amer- j ican Legion post, No. 88, Wednesday i night at the post hall, 810 1 -! Virginia avenue, protesting recent ac- , tion of that body in demanding a drastic reduction in the public school budget.” “They are on the wrong track, patriotically, and economically,” he said. “Education of the masses is the only method by which communism in the United States successfully can be combated. Police power can not eradicate communistic groups, ! but merely drives their work below the surface. “Ignorance Breeds Communism” “Tenets of communism take root among the ignorant, as in Soviet Russia, but the type of people reached by the sections of the school of the school system which the Chamber of Commerce wishes eliminated—the night school and day vocational school for adults—are those who help fight the ones who wish to destroy all governments,” he declared. “The economic crisis is blamed for the present situation which the Chamber of Commerce says must entail a budget reduction and removal of several important departments. Why should they strike at those who can not be responsible for the economic crisis? “Many unemployed would attend the schools as they now use the public libraries whose activities the Chamber of Commerce also wants curtailed. Mistaken “Economy” “Seventy cents on me assessed value of SI,OOO will be the extent of saving of the taxpayer for 1932 by the reduction. Will we be so infernally cheap that we will not preserve the strongholds we have

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