Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 220, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 January 1932 — Page 5

•JAN. 22, 1932'.

HIGHWAY CHIEF WAHTS COUNTY * GAS TAX SHARE Wedeking Would Have State Take Over Roads to Provide Jobs. Counter-offensive in the drive to curb state highway department expenditures by returning more gasoline tax money to local communities, was launched by Albert J. Wedeking, chairman of the state highway department. In an address at Cannelton Thursday night. Wedeking would have the state highway department absorb threefourths of the 1-cent-a-gallon which his department does not now get. This three-fourths cent goes to county government for road maintenance. The remaining fourth cent goes to cities and towns, and the state highway department gets 3 of the 4 cents collected on each gallon. Advances Plan Wedeking termed unfeasible the plan announced by certain senators to taking one-half of the present state highway funds and divert them to the local governmental units to reduce the property tax for roads. “No explanation is needed to show the senatorial plan is impossible,” he declared. Then he advanced his plan, which is said to have grown out of a conference with Governor Harry G. Leslie. It is to take the three-fourths rent away from the counties, and increase state highway department revenues from the present $24,000,000 to $26,500,000, with the state maintaining the major county highways. Proposals Attacked Wedeking predicted this would reduce local tax levies by 16 cents, and permit the state to help the unemployed by furnishing jobs. Critics of Wedeking’s scheme contend that unemployed men don’t care whether the work is done by the county or state, as long as they can get a job and are paid in gash. Critics also have contended that it costs the state about $4lO a mile -to maintain roads, while county costs are S2OO a mile, or lower. Another constant comment regarding state highway department conduct during the last two depression years is that huge sums have been permitted to pile up in the treasury, here and at Washington, instead of having been spent for road work which would have provided jobs. "The department has more money now than it knows how to handle efficiently,” say senators wffio seek to divert the funds to their local communities. Department Has Surplus Since this agitation has become increasingly popular, and threat of a special session looms, the department has been speeding plans for paving contracts so as to save all the funds possible. But they started the fiscal year with $6,500,000 in the state treasury and the previous fiscal year with nearly $9,000,000 in uncollected federal aid at Washington. In his speech, Wedeking said that his plan is in line with Governor Leslie’s policy to reduce local tax levies. But the Governor failed to it the 29-cent state tax rate. Unless he gets more than $2,000,000 of state highway funds taken from in- , heritance tax in 1923-1924, the state general fund will be depleted and a higher tax levy necessary, due to failing revenues. Highway department revenues now are greater than all other branches of state government combined. How they have grown is shown by the following tabulation: 1920, $4,312,404.13; 1921, $6,954,864.13; 1922, $8,718,326.93; 1923, $15,642,117.46; 1924 $14,879,459.35; 1925; $13,983,796.21; 1926, $14,290,653.38; 1927, $16,070,904.53; 1928, $19,485,596.19; 1929, $21,749,628.01; 1930-31 (fiscal year) $23,009,095, and estimated for the current fiscal year. $24,494,398. WEST SIDE PARK NAMED Board Chmtcns Site in Honor of Paul Lawrence Dunbar. 4 The new twenty-eight-acre park on West White River boulevard at Belmont avenue today became Paul Laurence Dunbar park, as result of park board action Thursday. The board named the park in honor of the famous Negro poet, acting on suggestion of the West Side Community League. More than five thousand trees ai i shrubs have been planted in the park, and the ground has been improved since the board acquired it last year through a trade involving two city lots. Aviator Injured I>U United /'re** ELKHART, Ind., Jan. 22.—Severe injuries were suffered by Joseph Toth. 20, when the plane he was piloting crashed in a field near the ’ Aero Service airport here. Toth, chief pilot at the airport, was returning to the field for fuel when the craft went into a tailspin at an altitude of about forty feet.

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PROPONENTS OF WAGE SLASHES EYE VETERANS Some Ex-Soldiers Draw Double Salaries From Government. By Scripps-Howard Actcspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—Agitation for the reduction of government salaries over $5,000 again has brought into the limelight veterans who are drawing large government salaries, in addition to veterans’ compensation for disabilities. Senator Reed (Rep., Pa.), last session pushed a bill which would have made the drawing of two salaries from the government impossible. He plans, it is understood, to introduce a similar bill this session. Cases were cited last year of retired emergency officers drawing as much as $5,000 and $7,000 yearly from the veterans’ bureau in salaries, in addition to as much as $l5O and S2OO monthly disability allowances. TRUCK HEARING MARCH 1 Arguments Are Delayed on Petition Attacking New State Law. Hearing on a petition for a permanent injunction to prohibit enforcement of the new state law limiting weight and height of trucks using state highways was delayed until March 1 in superior court five today. In the suit the Central Transfer and Storage Company, petitioners, obtained a temporary restraining order from Judge Russell Ryan Frank Mayr Jr., secretary of state, is defendant. The delay today was granted on agreement of parties.

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lars sway to charity and to aid the unemployment and is practically “broke” at the end of the year, persons close to the chief executive asserted today. The comment came up in connection with talk this week about reducing the pay of government employes. The President is paid $75,000 a year. He has an additional $25,000 for traveling expenses and another $25,000 for official entertainment. But in the last few months he has given $22,500 to charity. “And this does not take into account the scores of donations the President makes during the course of a year to private charities,” the spokesman said. “These unquestion-

ably run into several thousands of dollars. “Furthermore, the President spends thousands of dollars on entertainment at the White House which must come out cf his own pocket. The $25,000 for official entertainment falls far short of covering the dinners, breakfasts and other functions he must give that can not come under the head of ‘official.’ ” Even so, the President was represented as willing to accept a reduction in salary if congress decides to cut the pay of government employes. The President’s personal fortune is said to have shrunk materially in recent years. It was estimated now at “far less than $1,000,000.”

POLL TAX FEES HAVEDOUBLED New Auto License l.aw Is Aid to County Revenue. Marion county's tax revenues have increased considerably the past two months by an influx of payments in the poll tax division. Fay Wright, chief deputy treasurer, announced today that the new law requiring all automobile owners to hbve poll tax receipts has

doubled the county’s poll tax collections. Many persons, who. heretofore, never paid poll tax nor personal tax upon their automobiles are paying this year. In the assessor’s office, where lists of all car owners are kept, the system catches tax dodgers two ways, according to Wright. When the car owner pays his $2.50 for a poll tax receipt, in order to get his car license, the assessor usually checks to see whether or not he has paid personal tax on his automobile. All persons who lived in the city prior to March 1, 1931, are being asssessed for poll tax in this county. Poll tax payments average more than 100 each day.

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DAVENPORT RITES SET; Last rites for John W. Davenport* 67, commercial artist and local advertising agent, will be held in Hillside Christian church at 2 Saturday. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. After a long illness, he died Wednesday at his home, 1946 Arrow avenue. He had been an invalid six years.

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