Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 March 1938 — Page 16
IN 500 PER GENT GAIN OVER 1936
Dependent Child and Blind Funds Show Rise For December.
Grants to Indiana’s dependent children in December, 1937, totaled five times the payments during the same month of 1936, the State Welfare Department announced today. .. Meanwhile, 2213 blind aid recipients received $41,000 in December, 1937. In the same month a year before, 1358 blind Hoosiers received $24,000.
Last December, 25,437 children re- |
ceived $329,000. A year before, 5661 were granted $63,000. - When the State Welfare Act became effective. in April, 1936, 1079 blind persons received average payments of $17.80. In December, 1937, payments averaged $1863.
PHONE COMPANY PROFITS DROP
1937 Net Set at 5.34 Per|
‘Cent; Increased Costs Offset Higher Revenue.
Directors of the Indiana Bell ‘Telephone Co., in their annual report today, said revenues were $1,100,000 greater in 1937 than in 1936, but that expenses were $1,300,000 greater. ~ The increased expenses were caused by higher wages, taxes and floods, the directors said. During the year, the company installed 14,258 telephones and did 10.7 more long distance, business than the year before, the report said. The directors reported that the year 1937 as a whole resulted in earnings of 5.34 per cent, .64 per cent below 1936.
Early Gains Lost
“The- year started with great promise,” the report stated. “Our recovery of telephones and long distance business lost during the depression years of 1930 to 1933 continued at the accelerated pace of 1936. “Beginning with April, 1937, however, the recovery in long distance business halted and, by the end of the year, the volume had receded substantially. Our station gain toward the end of the year also was disappointing. “A total of 416,000,000 local calls were handled during the year. Accuracy was 99 per cent and the average time required by the operator to answer these calls was 39 seconds. More than 8,500,000 long distance calls were placed dur- . [ing the year and over 90 per cent of them were handled while the customer remained at the phone.”
STATE-WIDE REMC SETUP IS OPPOSED
REA Official Cites Need for Simple Structure.
Times Special WASHINGTON, March 7.—Director John M. Carmody of the Rural Electrification Administration is opposed to a state-wide service organization for the rural electric membership corporations in Indiana, he wrote Senator Minton today. His letter is in reply to dozens of telegrams and letters from farmer members of these corporations, which have been established by the Indiana Farm Bureau. Pointing out that he had been in the state and found opinion divided in the matter, Mr. Carmody said: “It seems to me to be extremely important that these organizations be kept as simple as possible, and that not one dollar of expense be attached to them that is not absolutely necessary. “The country has had enough experience with holding companies, it seems to me, to be a little wary about eficouraging newly-formed rural electrification projects to folJow in the footsteps of the utilities in that regard.”
MURDER SUSPECTS BAPTIZED + LOS ANGELES, March 7 (U. P.). --Armed deputy sheriffs stood guard while eight men accused of murder were baptized in a galvanized tub of the county jail laundry. The Revs. Ralph Walker and E. Woody Hodson converted the men. The prisoners knelt in the washtub in their jail dungarees.
Representatives of building materials and equipment firms have organized the Indianapolis Producers’ Council. Members, left to right (seated), C. T. Spriggs, P. G. King, Russell Creviston, National Producers’ Council president, and E. D.
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Indiana Federation of Clubs today joined clubs and service groups in volunteering services to build up<®
prison libraries and “rehabilitate inmates for normal, useful citizenship.” Penal officials agree that the prison library is the center of the reform institution’s = educational system. New books “will inculcate self-respect in the inmate, having mastered facts,” officials said. A prison chaplain illustrating the library’s value, said: “One of our prisoners learned to read and write at our prison school. He developed an interest in books and before he was freed he came to me for some books to take home with him. He got them and paid in prison earnings.” John H. Klinger, Division of Corrections director, said: “We are trying to teach men and women to be good citizens; principles of citizenship must be presented in books, in an easy manner.” Books of travel, romance and biography will be welcomed at county welfare offices, where they are to be sorted for distribution. Governor Townsend declared that books are “a tremendous asset to the morale of our prisons.” Terming present library facilities “inadequate,” he said “books safely employ prisoners’ leisure hours.” About 1000 Indiana pastors asked their congregations yesterday to cooperate in the campaign.
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CONSTABLES KILL 3 SHERIFF'S DEPUTIES
RIO GRANDE CITY, Tex., March 7 (U. P).—A gun battle betweentwo forces of peace officers, in which three men were killed, was attributed today to a feud between two Mexican families, who have been fighting ‘among themselves while serving as officers of the law. In the last four years, the feud has cost the lives of six men. The bloodiest incident occurred yesterday on the old military highway outside this border town, where a deputy sheriff and two former deputies were slain by five deputy constables.
FATHER HELD IN MURDER
LEWISBURG, Pa. March 7 (U. P.). — Arthur E. Nearhood, 43, Laurenton WPA worker, was held today on a murder charge growing out of the fatal shooting six years ago of his 4-year-old daughter,
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4 RAILROADS LEASE NEW OFFIGES HERE
N.Y. C., P.R. R., Monon and B. & 0. Move to Circle.
Four railroads today: had leased new downtown offices in the Guaranty Building. Roads which will move their ticket offices from the Railway Exchange Building, 108 E. Washington St., to the Circle location are the New York Central, Monon, Baltimore & ‘Ohio and Pennsylvania. Klein & Kuhn, properiy management agency which handled negotiations, said that a long-term lease had been signed and that removal would be completed about March 28.
T0 RECEIVE BIDS
13 Bridges and TH and Three Other Contracts Awarded In February.
The Indiana Highway Commission announced today it will receive bids March 29: on construction of three grade separations and seven bridges. The projects are in Henry, Lake, Gibson, Spencer, Sullivan, Madison ahd Pulaski Counties. The commission reported that contracts for paving .9.47 miles of ‘state roads, construction of 13 bridges, one grade separation and two drainage projects were awarded in February. Contract prices totaled $780,203. Bids. to be opened March 29 include two grade separations and two bridges in Henry County, where the
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route Road 40 between Knightstown and Dunreith, eliminating a hazardous grade crossing at the west edge of Dunreith. The third separation will be on
{Road 55 in Lake County, carrying
traffic under the Pennsylvania Railroad. Other projects on which bids are asked include a bridge on Road: 57 over Pigeon Creek in Gibson County; bridge on Road 66 over Crooked
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