Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 308, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 March 1936 — Page 7

MARCH 4, 1936.

LOW BIDS ARE ANNOUNCED ON ROAD PROJECTS Highway, Feeder Improvements Costing $982,244 Are to Be Made. Low bids on highway and feeder road improvements costing $932,244 were announced today by the State Highway Department. The projects and low bidders include: Huntington and Wells Counties— Surfacing 12.04 miles on State Road ;16 from Marklc to Bh'fflon, Middlewest Roads Cos., Indianapolis, ♦178,149. Johnson County—Widening and paving .396 mile on State Road 31, S. Madison-av, in Greenwood, Union Asphalt Construction Cos., Indianapolis, $39,609. Ii Vanderburgh County—Paving .232 tfmle on Morgan-av, east of Faresav, in Evansville; also paving 1.334 miles on Fares-av, north from Co-lumbia-st, in Evansville, William D. Vogel, Indianapolis, $85,133, Wabash County—Resurfacing 1.983 miles on State Road 15, from Wabash to two miles northwest. No bids under engineers’ estimates. Allen County—Paving 1.238 miles on Lincoln way in New Haven and West, Grace Construction & Supply Cos, Fort Wayne, $56,937. St. Joseph County—Paving 4.611 miles on feeder road, from State Road 23 to U. S. Road 20 west of South Bend, Reith-Riley Construction Cos., Goshen, Ind, $218,336. Allen County—Paving 2.254 miles on State Road 27 from Murray and Clinton-sts in Fort Wayne to south ctiy limits, no bid.s under engineer’s estimates. St. Joseph and Elkhart Counties— Paving 1.506 miles on feeder road from State Road 2 to U. S. Road 20, west of South Bend, Reith-Riley Construction Cos, Goshen, $42,062. M. A. Hinsey & Cos, Waterloo, Ind, was low bidder on grading and structures on 8.247 miles on State Road 63 in Warren County on a bid of $53,859. Clark County—Paving 3.158 miles on State Road 62 from Jeffersonville to Watson, Wilmore Paving Cos, 'Middletown, O, $91,091. The Highland Cos, Louisville, Ky, was low bidder with bid of $158,430 for grading and structures on 8.247 miles on State Road 63 in Warren County. PENSION FUND DIRECTOR f TO BE GUEST SPEAKER Dr. A. E. Cory, Disciples of Christ Officer, to Talk of Evansville. Time* Special EVANSVILLE, Ind, March 4. Dr. A. E. Cory, Indianapolis, pension fund director for the Disciples of Christ, is to be the guest speaker during Holy Week services sponsored here April 6 to 10 by the Evansville Ministers’ Association. Other invited to participate in the ♦cries of religious programs include Dr. I. M. Blackburn, Evansville College, who is to be the musical director, and Ralph Waterman, pianist. Assisting Dr. John T. Scull, arrangements committee chairman, are the Rev. Clyde Koehler, Rev. L. T. Riley, Rev. E. Craig Brandenburg and A. W. Lumley.

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Capt. Irving Johnson Is to Make Talk Before Men’s Group. Capt. Irving Johnson, who speaks tonight at Caleb Mills Hall under the auspices of the Men’s Club oi the Episcopal Church of Advent started life by being a champion corn raiser. That was in the East when, as a boy, he hoed the com on his fathers farm and dreamed of the high seas. Nobody knows now the corn got to be prize winning, and Capt, Johnson isn’t interested. Now he’s the owner of a boat in which he just has completed an 18-month voyage around the world, and he’s going to start out again on another soon with his wife and three months old child. Meanwhile, he is to talk and show pictures of his last trip. Before owning a sailing boat, he sailed the “wrong way” around Cape Horn on a square rigger, bravely intc three weeks of hurricanes. Once, in a hurricane, he climbed into the rigging and shouted at the top oi his lungs, but couldn’t hear his voice. He was second in command oi Shamrock V on its trip across the Atlantic after the international cup races. They ran into such gales that the boat, stripped of all sails ran before the wind with her poles bare. That gives you an idea. SANITATION GROUP IS TO DINE HERE TONIGHT Officials and Employes to Meet at Hoosier Athletic Club. Employes and officials of the community sanitation project in Marion County are to attend a dinner and conference in the Hoosier Athletic Club at 7 tonight. Short talks are to be made by leaders of the program. D. J. Turpin, county supervisor, is to preside. Leaders expected at the dinner are Clyde Williams, state director; Dr. C. B. McCullough, district WPA director; Carl Kortepeter, assistant supervisor; Dr. Herman G. Morgan, secretary of the city health board; Dr. Verne K. Harvey, secretary of the state health board; Dr. O. D. Ludwig, county health commissioner, and Lawrence Sheridan, State planning board consultant. Lyndhurst O. E. S. to Meet Lyndhurst Auxiliary O. E. S. is tc meet tomorrow noon with Mrs. Inez Adams, 865 Denison-st.

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Shown above is a picture of the Yankee, owned and operated by Capt. Irving Johnson, who tonight is to tell of making an 18-month voyage around the world when he talks at Caleb Mills Hall under the auspices of the Men’s Club of the Episcopal church of Advent. Pictured here also is Capt. Irving. TESTS FOR 6 FEDERAL POSITIONS ANNOUNCED Agricultural Writers, Bookkeeping Operator, Physiologist Wanted. Open competitive examinations for six Federal positions were announced today by Frank J. Boatman, Room 421, Federal Building, local civil service secretary. Positions are flat-bed bookkeeping machine operator, $1620 a. year; associate research physiologist, Air Corps materiel division. Wright Field, Dayton, 0., $3200; principal agricultural research writer, $5600; special agricultural research writer, I $3800; agricultural rresearch writer, $2900, and agricultural radio reI search writer, $2900. CLUB HEARS ATTORNEY G. O. P. Group Told U. S. Needs I Another Coolidge in White House. Members of the Lincoln Club, Republican political organization, today were weighing the words of Homer Elliott, former United States District Attorney, who last night asserted the country needs “another Coolidge in the White House.” Mr. Elliott spoke at the clubhouse, 523 N. Belle Vieu-pl.

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PREDICT CUT IN FOREST SERVICE WORKJNST ATE House Fails to Provide Funds for Purchase of Indiana Land. B’l United Presto WASHINGTON. March 4.—Forest Service work in Indiana probably will be sharply curtailed because of the failure of the House to include in the Agriculture appropriation bill funds for land acquisition. Forest Service officials said today that most Forest Service work in the state consisted of acquiring land for national forest sites. Failure to include an item for this in the appropriation bill would leave the Service without funds to carry on the work, it was said. Officials said they expected to close the district ranger offices at Tell City, Paoli and Bloomington, and reduce the staff of the Bedford office to a few “custodians” who will wind up acquisition work to date. It was pointed out, however, that the work being done by CCC enrollees under Work Relief funds to ward fire protection and improvement of timber stands would continue under Forest Service direction. EX-MAYOR’S FUNERAL HELD IN FRANKFORT Maurice A. Petty Died Yesterday After Long Illness. Time * Special FRANKFORT, Ind., March 4. Private funeral services for Maurice A. Petty, former local mayor who died yesterday after an 18 months’ illness, were to be conducted here today. Mr. Petty, a Republican, was 45. He served as the city's chief executive from 1926 to 1930, and his administration was credited with instituting a number of municipal projects including the construction of a sewage disposal plant, a swimming pool and a boulevard lighting system. Surviving are the widow and a son, Joseph Petty. STRAY DOG DRIVE TO BE STARTED SHORTLY Biting of Police Officer Last Straw, Chief Indicates. A drive against stray dogs on city streets is to be started within the next few days. Several complaints have been received by city officials, and Chief Morrissey said six instances of persons being bitten, including a police officer, have been reported. Four men are expected to be assigned to mar, trucks that will round up strays. Two dogs were biting each other last night and Mrs. Cora Meyers and Mrs. J. P. Martin, both of 4715 Kenwood-av, tried to make them stop. One dog bit Mrs. Meyers. A dog bit, Robert Drotz, 1666 Naomi-st last night.

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A member of the committee arranging the twenty-fourth annual Purim Ball of the Jewish Educational Association Sunday night at Kirshbaum Center is Charles Medias, association vice president. Aaron Unger and Dave Sablosky are co-chairman of the affair. MAYOR IS NEUTRAL ON LABOR DISPUTE Kern Is Neither for Nor Against Picketing. The policy of the city administration is to remain neutral in all labor disputes, Mayor Kern declared today. He said the city’s sole interest was to see that life and property were protected. At a two-hour conference yesterday, a group of local employers indicated they wanted Mayor Kern to use his influence to kill a proposed ordinance wdiich would allow peaceful picketing. “I explained the measure to them,” Mayor Kern said, “and pointed out it was merely seeking to legalize a practice that had been followed here for the last 10 years. I understand our police would rather have strikers on a picket line, since there is less chance of disorder that way. I am neither for nor against this bill.” Chief Morrissey conferred with Safety Board members concerning probability of local labor problems. Burned When Oven Explodes Mrs. Verna Cochran, 813 N. Eastst. Apt. 4, is recovering today from burns received late yesterday when the oven of a gas stove exploded. She was taken to City Hospital.

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ASSESSORS FIX TAX SCHEDULE Hamilton County Prepares Guide for Valuations on Personal Holdings. Timrg Special NOBLESVILLE. Ind., March 4 Hamilton County trustees and their deputies, preparatory to spring tax assessing, today had adopted the following personal property schedule: Radios, 20 to 60 per cent of cost;

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typewriters. SIOO and down; adding machines, $250 and down; tractors. 75 per cent of cost; diamonds. S2OO and down; first-class farm horses. S3OO and down; good work horses. S2OO and down. Carriage and saddle horses, SSOO and down; first-class mules, S2OO and down; common mules. SIOO and down; registered bulls and cattle, $l5O and down. Good cows and bulls. SIOO and down: common cows and bulls, SSO and down; registered sheep, S2O a head; all other sheep, $8 a head; registered hogs, SSO and down; brood sows, S4O and dow*n; stock hogs, $9 a 100 pounds; fat hogs. $lO and down; chickens. $9 a dozen. Wheat. 90 cents a bushel; corn, 40

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cents; rye. 40 cents; oats. 20 cents: clover seed, $9 a bushel; clover hay, $5 a ton. and mixed hay, $5 a ton.

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