Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 July 1936 — Page 3

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45-GENT RATE)

Estimated Levy Is 7 Cents Higher Than County’s 1936 Tax Figure.

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000, as the cauniy’s share of the welfare expenses. The free gravel road fund, requested but not appropriated in 1936, is to be asked by Herbert Bloemker, county surveyor. The county surveyor is to seek $60,000 from the

road fund, or a levy of approximately one cent. :

Sinking Fund May Balance

The sinking fund estimate has not been made by County Auditor Charles Grossart, but if the fund reaches last year’s total of $579,000, as appropriated by Council, it may be will not count in the tax levy if placed against the liquor fees and miscellaneous revenue estimated for 1937. : Thus, observers pointed out, the county tax rate may be formed into, the 45-cent rate from the 31cent general fund and tuberculosis hospital request, plus the 14-cent welfare budget and possibly the 1cent free gravel road fund. The total budget requests, with the sinking fund, county general fund and .gravel road included, would reach an estimated $3,155,000 and of this amount an estimated $500,000 could be deducted for rev-

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budget requested and for which taxes may be levied at an estimated $2,655,041.

Expect Little Valuation Change

Tax experts and the Center Township Trustee's office estimated that the probable assessed valuation of the county may remain ‘close to the $591335380 valuation in 1936, upon which a 38-cent county tax rate was based. "In the budgets released by Auditor Grossart, salary increases and larger appropriations for food, fuel and clothing were asked by some county departments. The 1936 appropriations of the County Council for the general fund and the tuberculosis hospital totaled $2,116,481 or $386,440 more than the 1937 budget calls for. The reduction in .the proposed 1937 general fund budget, however, generally is accounted for, dt was said, by the fact that the new County Welfare Board had absorbed the old-age pension, juvenile dependents, Board of Children’s Guardians Home, burials of dependents, to amount to an estimated $700,000, with the state and Federal government bearing a portion of this epexnse. The largest increases in budget estimates over the money appropriated by the County Council in 1936 ewere asked by the following departments and for the following general reasons: * County Clerk—Request, $78,000, $10,980 increase over 1936 appropriation; salary- increases resulted in increase, one elerical salary item raised from $49,620 to $54,400. County Treasurer—Request, $97,915, or $7165 more than in 1936; deputy salaries raised. County Auditor—Request, $68,630. or $8450 more than last year: extra help item, salaries and printing increased. , Marion County Infirmary—Request, $84,421.36, or $13,460.12 more than last year; food appropriation increased as well as clothing and

slight increases in salary schedules, |

Indianapolis Colored Orphans’ Home—Request, $56,874, or $16,803 more than in 1936; food, fuel, and clothing items boosted. County Health - Commissioner— Request, $14,850, or $5158 more ithan last year’s appropriations; nurse added and $3000 added to the rabies fund. : The largest decreased budget was that of the county commissioners, which was reduced $392,603.50 to a 1937 request of $454,103. Shifting of old age pensions and. other items to the Public Welfare Department resulted in the large decrease. The budget for maintenance of the Marion County Courthouse - showed a reduction of an estimated $23,000 because of failure to include ligitt and power in a budget total of $26,522.64. Township budgets ranged almost on the same figures as the amounts appropriated in 1936 with Warren Township with a request for $6655, or $1780 increase over 1936, as the greatest increase. 5

Township Budgets

The township budgets were as follows-—Center, $80,772; Decatur, $556; Franklin, $1055; Lawrence, $1026; Perry, $2840; Pike, $755; Washington, $12,560, and Wayne, $10,686.

New rugs for the grand room and his own offices coupled with law book expenditures raised the budget resquests of Prosecutor Herbert Spencer from $67,000 to $69,000. . The | Municipal and Superior Courts showed slight increases in salary items and per diem pay for | Superior Court 4 showest increase, $2100, with

1, $14,140; Mupal Court 4,

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ods and: Nature's niggardliness with rain, dust! and drougth turn whole counties of once prosperous farm land into a bleak desert. As on this Oklahoma farm, even deep-probing trees shrivel in hot winds that smother

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$8585; Superior Court 1, $12,125; Superior Court 2, $12,355; Superior Court 3, $12,200; Superior Court 4, $13,450; Superior Court 5, $12,250.

Juvenile Court Increased

Juvenile Court showed an increased request of $2513 for salaries;

with Probate Court $2880 higher and Circuit Court $1200 larger than in

1936. Increases to the court reporter,

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b ||7 LIQUOR LICENSES REVOKED BY STATE

Violations of Indiana Law Charged " by Beverage Commission, Seven retail liquor permits were revoked today by the State Alco--holic Beverage Commission. Dealers whose permits were revoked because of alleged license violations, commission members said, were: John Nahas, Michigan City; Lilly N. Tilly, Huntingburg; Walter W. Sullens, Terre Haute; Fabian Halatach, Whiting; Stephen Setajda, South ‘Bend; Robert W.

dition of one probation office with the per diem pay for jurors increased $1000 resulted in a $2835 budget hike for the Criminal Court of Judge Frank P. Baker. The court did not budget for an investigator in this year’s request. » The voters’ registration bureau budget provides $1283 less than that allowed for the current election year. The budget in 1937 calls for $15,692, against $16,975 in 1936. The office of County Recorder increased its appropriation to $29,349 or an addition of $1504, mostly for salary raises.

Provides for Food Increase

Traveling expenses for prisoners were sliced $1000 by Sheriff Otto Ray to bring his budget down to $43,685. The sheriff's jail budget, however, was $3754 more than in the current year. Set at $52909.84, the budget based the increase on food costs. The county superintendent's office asked for a budget of $1940 more than in 1936, with a total of $6495. Municipal probation department requested a $3000 increased budget to add to probation officer’s salaries. Other budget requests, with little variation over last year’s appropriations, were: County surveyor, $16,974; county assessor, $10392; county coroner, $10,177; county truancy, $1500; city truancy, $10,260; county agent, $7950; = Dete tion Home, $11,901; Julietta Hospital for Insane, $52,320; board of review, $3884; drainage ditch, $5000. |

RISE REPORTED IN LOCAL AIR TRAVEL

1936 Figures Nearly Double Those for 1935 Period.

Indianapolis citizens are” becoming more air-minded,

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East Chicago Blacksmith Takes 8 Lives and ‘Own in Rampage.

EAST CHICAGO, Ind., July 10.— Célestino P. Gonzalés- killed eight persons and then committed suicide because he feared he had iost his wife's love and was discouraged over a recent illness, police believed today. Wort Eate * The brawny Mexican blacksmith hacked his wife and six children to

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then hunted down his helper, Joe Aro, and killed him.

He committed suicide a moment

later. Police found the bodies of Mrs. Gonzales and her children scattered through three blood-spattered rooms when they arrived to tell her of her husband’s death. They had ‘planned to ask Mrs. Gonzales if Aro had been attentive to her. He had been a boarder in their home. ‘Mrs. Gonzales’ apparently . was killed in her sleep, but it was evident that her children put up a sharp - struggle to escape. They

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No Relief in Sight for |ESersrematis

Parched Central States, Says Forecaster.

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records were sét in New York and other cities. In Jowa, the Dakotas, Minnesota and central Illinois it was the start of the second week of temperatures above 100 degrees. The Weather Bureau saw no relief in sight. Farmers near Seymour, Ind., carried water to their parched stock. In the Dakotas, many farmers said their water supply. was disappedring. Cattle. were shipped out of the

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Elkhart (Ind.) residents -heard five pavements explode under the burning sun. .

No Rain Is in Sight Forecaster J. R. Lloyd of the Chicago Weather Bureau said there would . be no rain in the entire Central States District during the next 36. hours except in the ex-

treme western part of North Dakota. He held out some hope for the Dakotas, northwestern Minnesota and western Nebraska with a forecast of scattered showers in those areas on Sunday. A light sprinkle at La Crosse, -Wis.,, was the only rain report in the district this morning. Except for a few clouds at Green Bay, Wis. and in northern Michigan, the blazing sun beat down again over mid-America. “Our forecast means more crops will be burned out.” . Lloyd said. “They've haa temperature readings of 100 or highergin most of the Upper Missouri : district since u ly. Lay a

Light Rains in Montana

West of the Chicago forecasting district light rains fell today in

‘central Mon:ana, bringing tempor-

ary relief ‘from excessively high temperatures. The heaviest fall was at Lewistown, where .23 of an inch was recorded. “But Montana, like the rest of the Western states, saw no relief except from government bounty. After a two-day conference leading to immediate stabilization of livestock prices and: WPA jobs for farmers, Gov. Elmer Holt announced that Dr. W. J. Butler, state veterinarian, would go to Washington to aid in formulating the national emergency relief program. :

DOG TAXES HELPFUL

Increases, Funds of Center Township $10,072, Trustee Reports.

Fido has increased the fund in the Center Township trustee’s office. Por $10,072 in dog taxes were turned over this week by the Center Township Assessor's office to the trustee for taxes paid in 1936. Last year’s dog taxes'totaléd but $8800.

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Mrs. Ethel McCracken Is Scheduled to Be First Defense Witness.

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Penny as he drove his Kroger Gro= cery and Baking Co. truck on the National-rd near Belleville March 7, 1935, ; The slender brunet said thal Gerald Haygood, discharged union crganizer, Victor Cri3kmore, a union member, and a Ruth Miller threw stones at the truck. . Fred Goodfellow, former Kroger personnel manager here, said the night following a conference with Peats and Williams his auto had been stoned. : : “Peats told us at the conference that unless we signed the closed shop agreement there would” be

trouble,” Mr. Goodfellow testified. $2500 Reward Offered

The Kroger management informed the union it “would never sign closed shop contract,” Arthur W. Metzger, Indianapolis Kroger mane ager, said. He testified op cross examination that he was interested in the prose= cution of the case and his firm had posted a $2500 reward for the aps prehension of the person or persons who killed Penny. ; : “Has Gerald Haygood ever ask C to participate in the reward,” Mr, Metzger was asked. : Lod

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