Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 July 1940 — Page 6

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The City Hall —

TURNER AIRPORT LEASE APPROVED

Council Applauds Resolution Explaining Action Was Taken | Because of War Emergency: Blushing Colonel Expresses Thanks.

By RICHARD LEWIS On Julv 3. 1940, a war emergency existed in the United) States. To provide for the national defense, the Indianapolis | City Council approved the construction of a $100,000 hangar at Municipal Airport and the training of defense pilots by Col. Roscoe Turne: | “his was the substance of a resolution City Councilmen nimously into the record last night, to justify to] terity their approval of a 20-year lease of three acres | Turner Aeronautical Corp. was drafted President Joseph G. a stir among the Council members who

read

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partisal

views to applaud it.

rner, standing - cilmen heard a list of reasons why they should act favorably on it from | Henry Ostrom, chairman of the Chamber's Aviation Committee The listed in a letter docu- the Works Board, were: 1. The area Col. Turner asks for comprising less than three

attorneys and Avia-

X mmittee members. lis-

Commerce

reasons, to | * $14 3 OG Lit

blushing beet ri “is small

Coun- acres Won't Hamper Development

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2. Hangar location will not inter- |

| fere with future airport develop-|

ment 3. Additional hangar space critically | 4. Commercial airline executives confidentially predict an increase of cent in landings at the port w of this, additional office be needed which is not

ilable

necaea

300 per

y, In vi space 1 Turner is rated as the No 1 pilot and is qualified to State prepa y pilot training

ness proram the Government has wsked Col. Turner to participate 8 The $100,000 hangar building hi Col Turner proposes to would be rity for fuormance conditions in

in whieh

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th iraet ne contract

O. K. Sewer Projeect rith its expanding interests in the City has a much largte under the ground its water anda anirany sewer of a yerl

aware that breakdown itary drain might a major disaster, Works sped preparations the 40-year oid interceptor and

Board today White Rive sewer between W. New The job will cost 844115, according to the estimate of City Engineer M. G. Johnson, and will be financed bv a $250.000 bond issue for general sewer repair Specifically, it involves the instal-

members 10 replace sanit

ary Washington

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d-inch six feet) coucerete and 94 feet of corrugated iron sewed Also to diversion

drainage gates

{ local sanitary sewer

feet

be reconchambers mans

cone-

—SALE—

A Special PUR-

I'he } must be com- 1 pleted before flood control work on White River can be sta on the east bank, Mr, Johnson

big mterceptor

rted 1 {1

said

One street and three alleys should be paved, the Works Board decided vesterday Linden St. will be im-

CHASE and SALE of 2300 Pai airs of Fine proved LaGrande Ave. to n Ravmond St. at a total cost of t Quality F u | | - Fash- $4325 Property owners would pay h

sessments ranging from $457 a

from

for concrete to 8609

. . imneat Ix a ioned Pure Silk Mose | «or vie he three allevs are the first alof Sturm Ave, from Arnal Ave. to State St SH463.75 tota nd $2.87 to £3.79 a foot. and| On Sale Friday | i wey cast and the fist al-| i Uy i t ill it % IF nl i ai y lev west of Delaware St. from 61st to 64th Sts The total cost of the latter two alleys computed at 215,000, but footage costs have not yet been determined, | The Board ordered Mr. Johnson| to prepare plans and specifications | for the paving of ( St. | rom Washin St. to Moore Ave; hester St 37th to 38th 2. 13th St, from DeQuiney St. to Ave, and the alley north 32d St. hh Northwestern Ave

Clifton

And Oiling, Too . .. By paving City 18

in north

east

and Saturday

hristian ton from Sts: first om

streets each year, the gradually reducing the mileunimproved streets, perpettaxpavers these

ual frritants to

Complaints on streets are ill in the vanguard of Street Comsioner Wilhur Winship's lers which are now their annual out and m down Mr. Winship reported that so far 1 vear., 1039 blocks unpaved ts have been smoothed and licked. This, he said, is the equiv-| lent of 100 miles, almost half of the 243 miles thoroughfares the City and taxpavers have to contend with

graders | in the! task of

streets sli kine

of dirt

The Playgrounds Boom Off the streets and in the parks! ind plavgrounds these days are tho voungsters, enjoving what City officials claim is the most extensive recreation program ever put on here Directing this activity for youngtall, fair-haired J. Patrick Rooney, who gave up a position as secretarv to the Catholic Youth Organization to become assistant Citv Recreation director, Six davs on job have convinced Mr. Rooney that recreation $ can and is going places in Indianapolis. He doesn't want to confine it to youngsters, though. He to develop a community program m which everybody plavs Mr. Rooney came here last vear. after a varied career. He worked in Schenectady’s electrical shops, | for a time he was a shart order cook, then secretary to a professor of philosophy. More recently. he directed activities three years at the Albany (N. Y.) Home for Chil-|

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Map Indiana National Guard Expansion

THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1940

| for

State officials met with a representative of the Army general staff yesterday to map a large-scale expansion of Nationa! Guard armory facilities through the state. Meeting at the state WPA headquarters were, left to right, seated, Maj. Arthur R. Wilson, me mber of the Army general staff, supply (G-1) section; Governor M. Clifford Townsend, Adj. Gen. Elmer F, Straub, Maj. Norman Thompsen, Gen. Straub’s assist-

ant,

Hoosier Goings-0n

OUT OF FRYING PAN—

Into Marion Fire Department; Willkie Has Corner on Elwood

By JOE COLLIER

NEXT TO A MOUSE under

the

bed, it appears from a recent

Marion happening that a fire truck is the most scary thing a woman

¢an encounter

This woman was driving and heard a to pass a and past her car just as it was passing the other one 1e firemen sassed her about

and started in back ot

another

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was her rel

One of ti

PLAN OUTLINED | TO UNITE NATION

16 Groups Call on Members

To ‘Revitalize’ Ideals of Democracy.’

YORK. July 4 (U. P) ntatives of 18 organizations membership of 30.000. outlined a program and strengthen

NEW Represt

eraay

the nation

Ves to unite racy Them through

statement was issued the Citizenship

nal Service and appealed

+ {101 to

members and other citizens to “‘revitalize democracy

the ideals of American our fellow-Amer-bility to act calms courageously in 1B) tiand

believe in their a

“We ANS alg decisively and emergency,” said of the C

Service

nk Kingdon, head Education of the program

Pledge Selves to Action

The statement said, in part: “While recognizing urgent jecessity for military preparedness are deeply convinced that the] yaramount need in national defense s the strengthening and invigoratng of democracy in the United

the

ztates., “We Americans yedge ourselves To join wholeheartedly and with in strengthening organizations and activities state and

as solemnly

sacrifice he work ot our f other ecivie and our community, nr nation

‘To be

social our

vigilant and courageous human sympathy for the rights of

nd respect

Warn

others! {

of Demoeracy’'s Enemies

Educa- |

“To beware of the enemies of]

racy, whatever their pass-

“To stand united with all lovers|

“To keep our nation strong valor, and confident in freedom, that government of the people, the pecple, for the people shall not perish from the earth.” Signers inciuded Sanford executive director, Bovs Clubs of Samuel M. Cavert, gensecretary, Federal Council of Daniel P. Higgins, president, Catholic Youth Organization of New York; Everett M. Clinchy, director, National Congress of Christians and Jews; and Judge Irving Lehman, honorary president, Jewish Welfare Board

'40 ROAD CONTRACTS NOW TOP 3 MILLION

The awarding $741.300 more highway paving contracts brings to more than three million dollars the total road projects started by the State Highway Commission in the six weeks New contracts awarded by Commission vesterday included one for $504.213 for the construction of a dual-lane highway from Lawrenceburg to the Indiana-Ohio State line on Road 50. It was| awarded to the O'Conner Construction Co. of Springfield, Ill. Others were awarded to the MI. M Best Co, of Louisville, Ky, at $100,000 for paving three miles of Road 31 in Clark County The third contract was awarded! to Shumaker Brothers of Indianapolis for $136995, to surface six miles of Road 28 in Randolph County

Churches;

Lafayette Gets Gift of $50,000

fiMmes Ny 1!

LAFAYETTE, Ind, July 4—As a memorial to the late Solomon Loeb, businessman here for 70 vears, a $50,000 stadium is to be constructed in Columbian Park. Its erection was made possible through a cash gift to the city by Bert and June Loeb. It will have a seating capacity of 3100, will be illuminated and will be available for cultural, educational, religious and athletic events,

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siren. She thought it Instead, fire truck swerve dangerously

was tne

car,

had to {0

nd. she thought, She the

her driving a tock her license was frightened Mavor, Chief, again siren was curb would

number went to the Fire her never ears when a but to pull to

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and to who sent her The « told trust hex involved

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THE ELLWOOD CALL-LEADER nas hoisted a picture of Wendell 5, Willkie (you've heard of him?) to the top rignt her of the title line One with +1 1

he legend Home

1d con Page tl ( Elwood: Wendell Willkie » uv ” From Franklin comes word that a Mississippi transient conceived and executed a means of getting in jail. where he could eat free food, through the process of first getting drunk (ree. He entered a drug ordered two ounces of This he promptly drank. Then he refused to pay for it. Then he refused to leave the store and, of course, the proprietor called police. “I bope I go to the State Farm for six months,” he told police, who charged him with drunkenness and gave him A for effort. ” n on OTTO HI!ATT—yocu remember Otto IFipton, who recently won $19¢0 by being home hy the phone when the Pot O' Gold called him? Well, Seems that

-ha on

store and paragoric.

still In the lu the other day he and a fellow workmen were putting a roof house and one end of the scatiold broke His was feet to the ground It was his side of that broke, Otto hung 4 ” n The hottest dispute these days, outside polities, is whether or not a dog can recognize a picture of himself or another dog in a newspaper, for instance, or on a motion picture screen, We don't know the real answer to this and don’t pretend to. Nevertheless, one of our favorite dogs belongs to Bob Eldridge of Muncie, the other night, when Mr, Eldridge was showing

he's ck

on a colleague dumped 25 and injured the scaffold

some movies he took, the dog saw |

himself en the screen ined he did, anyway). So overjoved was he at seeing an old friend, he ran into and upset the sereen, He's been looking for ever since in the corner the screen was, ” ” AT MONTICELLO the Farm Bureau, Friendly Neighbor Club, the Social Hour Club and the Union Township Home Economics Club pooled resources and bought a piano. Naturally, all them plaved it As a direct result of the playing, the piano now is out of tune S0 members have been asked to leave with the caretaker of the community building a few pennies now and then to pay the tuner,

(or image

himself where

last year,

the

3 FINED ON GAMING CHARGE FRANKLIN, Ind, July 4 (U. P.). —Five alleged gaming house Kkeepers were fined a total of $179 in Johnson Circuit Court yesterday by

| Special Judge Dewey Myers of In-

the |

| sentences

given at

and of 60 days

dianapolis suspended

the State

| Penal Farm

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Standing, John K. Jennings, State WPA director: Ray Pike, of WPA state office; Lieut. W. E. Brown of the National Guard, and I J. (Nish) Dienhart, Municipal Airport superintendent.

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‘ON TO BOSTON.’ |

LEGION CALLS

300,000 Expected to Attend Convéntion Sept. 23; 1500 Delegates.

The official “on to Boston" call the 22d American Legion tional convention was national headquarters here J. Kelly. More than 300,000 Legionnaires, their families and visitors are expected for the convention, Sept. 23 to 26, at which the Legion will chart its course in the national emergency National Adjutant Frank E. Samuel will head the staff from headquarters here which will establish convention offices in Horticultural Hall Sept. 16 The execulive committee will meet Sept. 22 and again within 24 hours after adjournment of the convention, Each of the 58 departments will be entitled to five delegates-at-large, plus an additional delegate for each 1000 members or major fraction. Members of the national

[committee also are voting delegates SO

that there will be about 1500

~ | delegates.

lifting |

This year's session will be the sec | power of an average-size mushroom ond held in Boston,

The first there was in 1930

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