Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 March 1938 — Page 8

PHONE COMPANY

INCOME SET AT ~ $2,361,407 NET

Commission Studies Firm's |

Request to Put Case on State-Wide Basis. The Indiana Bell Telephone Co.

declared- in ms annual report filed today with the Indiana Public Serv-

ice Commission that it had a net | operating income for 1937 of $3,- |

361407.

The uti ity yesterday asked that

pending rte petitions filed against it by citi:ns and officials in eight cities be ombined into one case.

Total o: rating revenue for 1937,

the repor: said, was $12,942,063, an increase ci $1,092970 over the previous yea: figures. Operati:*s expenses totaled $8,2\3, 317, an Lirease of $1,070,722 over 1936. Tails charged to operation amounted “io $1,939,270, which was $220,681 o'r the year before. The to"1 operating income of fae ovas $198,433 less than

In Indisaapolis the total operating revent” for 1937, was $4,906,012. Operating J:xpenses including taxes here amouited to $3,753,924, for a net operaifag income here of $1,152,088.30.

Cor bining Requested The ave age number of stations throughout’ the State served during 1937 was 0,686. Average revenue per station was $43.81, while the

average re enue per station in Indianapolis fvas $55.79. The Pubic Service Commission is expected t® act promptly on the company’s :umping request. Citizens ‘roups and city officials in Indiana’ olis;s§outh Bend and six other citie® have: filed for lower charges. Iublic: hearings on the South Bend case are scheduled to begin Tuesday. It was szid if the company’s request is cranted the South Bend case probaily would be postponed. Other local units represented in separate r= fe reduction petitions are « Marion, Albany, Selma, Anderson, Mishawak= and St. Joseph County. The company said these areas include 56 per cent of its total subscribers and 85 per cent of its exchange property. Declarinz the “consolidation of these petitions into one state-wide petition will result in great economy of time and money,” the company said: “Rates should be fixed so as to meet the entire cost of rendering telephone service in Indiana ... and the company’s total property should be consider=d the unit for rate-mak-ing purposes.” Spreac Termed Necessary

der Commission procedure” a utility’s valuation is fixed and a fair return on that property is decided upon. The telephone company has been operating under rates fixed by the Commission on a state-wide basis March "29, 1926. “Declaring it was not charging an “unfair or uareasonable rate in any eXchange,” ‘he company said rates could not 2ways be fixed in each exchange or city to carry just the cost of service in that locality, but had to be spread out on a state-wide basis.

185 FINISH PURDUE AGRICULTURE STUDY

LAFAYETTE, March 11 (U. P.). —Certificate: were awarded 185 Purdue University winter course agriculture students at commencement exercisas today. President Edward C. ‘Elliott of Purdue passed out the certificates: The students have completed a special eight-weeks course and this year's class was the largest since the study period was started more than two ye=rs ago.

THIEVES STEAL 5000 PACKAGES OF GUM

PERU, March 11 (U. P.).—Thieves who broke nto the Valley Sweet Candy Co. warehouse must be planning on doing a lot of chewing. They carted away 5000 packages

REINDEER SAY ‘NO'TO APPLES

And Even Though They Look Friendly, They Box Each Other in Cage.

By JOE COLLIER

An apple a day is no good for a reindeer even for oné day. Apples reduce reindeer to skin and bones and shortly thereafter merely to skin. The Sportsmen’s Show, now on at the State Fair Grounds, found that out a couple of years ago. To. this day you will find three deer at the show that took the apple treatment. They are tanned hidés hung over the railing. Then Percy Ellis, Rangeley Lakes, Me., got some reindeer and found out that all they can eat is what they ordinarily eat—reingdeer moss. There's no accounting for taste—the moss is a gray substance and smells musty. Not a Bit Friendly

Reindeer are much smaller than any one at this latitude at first supposes. They have big cow-like

eyes and look gentle and peaceful | -

and full of brotherly love. That's why it's surprising they can’t be caged up together When they are, they rear on their hind legs and box each other with their front hoofs until something happens. As you first enter the Manufacturers’ Building to inspect the show, you come upon a large brown beaver, squatting on a raised stone in the middle of ‘a fenced pool. When the show started there were two beavers, but they didn’t like the way things were going and started fighting. One of them had to be removed by the State Conservation Department. Now the one that’s left doesn't do anything but sleep. ¢

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There is .also a problem baby baboon named Bo Bo at the show. He is only six inches tall and because his capacity for property damage is nil, he is allowed on a leash in front of a wooden cage specially built for him. There he plays all day and half the night, tearing up bits of paper and laughing right back at the people. They put down & carpet covered with paper so he woudn't have to be on the cold concrete-floor. But the paper is cold and Bo Bo keeps rolling it up to get to the rug. The show people have assigned one full time attendant to match wits with him on this issue on a 24 hour basis. There is a mama monkey and her

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Percy Ellis and his reindeer—which have doffed their antlers for

the season—are in the top picture taken at the Sportsmen's Show at *the Manufacturers’ Building at the State Fair Grounds. Mus-soo-nuk (lower), more conveniently known as Jimmy, an Eskimo from Norton Sound, Alaska, shakes hands with his pet dog, Ipuk, a friendly Mala-

mute in front of a paper igloo.

baby. When baby is given something to eat by one of the spectators, mama hustles over and takes it away. She inspects it. If it is bad: for baby, she hurls it back where it came from. If it is good, she divides it in half and takes one“portioll as an inspection fee. The show remains open until 10:30 p. m. through Sunday. None of the monkeys likes this. Naturally, they go to bed when it gets dark. When it doesn’t get dark, they don’t go to bed. This causes them to lose sleep and they get drowsy during the day. The keepers say they hate to sleep during the day and miss part of the show.

TRUST PAYS 15 PER CENT

LAFAYETTE, March 11 (U, P.).— A 15 per cent dividend of $214,242.76 is Béing mailed to depositors of the Tippecanoe - Loan and Trust. Ce. bringing the total paid thus far to 30 per cent.

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REVENUE DROP

Gross Income and Volume of Product for 1937 Lower Than 1936.

Operating revenues, gross cors porate income, and volume of water used were all down in 1937 as com= pared with 1936, according to the

{annual report of the Indianapolis

Water Co. to the Indiana Public Service Commission, on file today, showed. ’ Taxes increased $144,700 to $589,668, or 23 per cent of the company’s operating revenue, the report showed. The .company gained 747 new accounts, none of which was industrial, but officials said the decrease in water used was due to the recession. : Gross operating revenues for the

‘year, the report showed, were $2,564,-

204, a reduction from 1936 of $69,945

and operaiing expenses declined $10,814, Gig

Dividends 45 Cents - Pumpage was off 711,150,000 gallons and gross

eport showpd However, the report set out that de-

ductions from gross corporate in-|

come were $202,120 less than the previous year, due to refunding of bonds, and the net corporate income was increased thereby $9194. Dividends on common = stock amounted to 45 cents a share, or 4 per cent of the book value of the outstanding shares, and the pay-

| ment smounied to $225,000, the re-

said. Dividends of 5 per cent amounting to $52,745 were paid on preferred stock, which company officials said was usual. The company’s surplus account was increased by $303,000, and capital additions to water supply plant were listed in the report at $213,470, the largest ite being water main extensions, Hydrants, valves and meters.

AD IN PAPER ALIBIS FOR BANDAGED HEAD

BLOOMINGTON, March 11 (U. P.) —Weary of telling everyone who asked why his head was bandaged, David B. Richardson inserted an ad in the Indiana University student newspaper. ; : “To the thousands who daily ask what’s wrong with my bandaged forehead—I cut it on a radiator in a friendly wrestling bout. Dr. Hol‘land crocheted two stitches in it. David B. Richardson.”

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corporate income de-: § | creased $192,927, the r

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Forty-six students achieved high hondrs for the first grading period of the second semester at Ben Davis High School, according to Leland S. Mills, vice principal. Higki honors weat to: Lendell Whitinger, Liday Heaton, Rachel Bland, Anne Cornwell, Virginia Poe, Grace Whyland, Dorothy Fox, Loraine Jacobs, Arnold Finchum, Helen Hamblett, Bernard Powell, Lois McCray, Robert Sheets, Harold Danner, Phyllis Angleton, Dorothy Lancaster, ;vartha Watkins, Betterosé Forrester, Hazel Wilcox, Mary Jane Hulse, Berneice Murry, Donald Trennepchl, Della Sue Bogue, Floyd Good, Leslie Faris, Mike Oltean, Edna ‘Thompson, Mary C. Neidigh, Jimmy Sears, Lois O'Brien, Anna Louise Brewer, Edna Fisher, Grace Mead, Beth Traub, Julia Whitinger, Muriel Doll, Robert Seeman, Joyce Whyland, Mary Bland, Marilyn Pickerel, Marguerite -Badens, John Dean, Frances Millis, Betty Norris, Lula Westfall

C.M.T. C. ENROLLEES BEING RECEIVED

Nine Counties Already Have Exceeded Quotas.

Enrollments are being received for the Citizens Military Training Camp

min Harrison through the summer months. The camp opened March 1. Officers in charge at headquarters, second floor, Chamber of Commerce Building, where applications are being received, said nine Indiana counties already have reached or exceeded their quotas.

They were Clinton, Davies, Franklin, Huntington, Stark, Knox, Vermillion, Henry and Parke. Information can be obtained at: headquarters or John A. Mueller, Tech High School, Marion County chairman.

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