Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 November 1940 — Page 5

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STATE BRIDGE BODY ‘BEGINS TO FUNCTION

Commission Asks Bids on Bonds to Purchase New Har-

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Crossing on/New Route to Ft. Knox.

By EARL RICHERT The State Toll Bridge Commission, which hasn’t bought or built any bridges since it was created by the 1939 Legislature, is getting ready to do some of both. 8 The two Democratic members, William G. Minor, Cannelton, and Edgar Miles, Corydon, announced yesterday

after a lengthy closed session

Commission again would receive bids on Nov. 25 for the

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sale of $1,050,000 worth of 20-year, 3 per cent bonds with which to buy the toll bridge over the Wabash River at

New Harmony. The commission also announced that Mr. Miles and John Parcell, St. Louis consulting engineer employed by the commission, would go to Mauckport today to look over a site for a proposed bridge across the Ohio River.

Costs to Be $945,000

The Republican member of the commission, M. J. Briggs, Indian-

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New Harmony bridge for $945,000, approximately $300,000 more than the bridge cost when it was built 10 years ago. The original cost of $637,000 does not include cost of

the right-of-way approaches, officials said. Lew O'Bannon, Corydon, commission attorney, said the $300,000 increase over the cost price was justified because the bridge is a profitable business. He said the income from the bridge this year would amount to approximately $132,000, and at that rate it would pay for itself in eight or 10 years.

Dec. 10 Is Deadline

The commission has until Dec. 19 to complete the deal with the New Harmony Way Bridge Co., owners of the bridge. Stock in the company is held by about 60 persons * living in Indiana and Illinois. The money left over from the sale of the bonds is to be placed in a fund for future maintenance of the bridge and is to be used to pay the per diem salaries of the commission members and the salary of the commission's consulting engineer, according to Mr. O'Bannon. It ‘is estimated bridge repairs will cost. $5000. The commission can pay its expenses only from revenue from toll bridges that it buys or constructs. <As the commission has not yet built or bought aay bridges, its members have so far received no wages nor expenses. Per diem salaries are fixed by law at $10.

First Bids Rejected

Bids on the $1,050,000 bond issue were received several weeks ago

(for less than the $100 par value of the bonds. Governor Townsend told board members that the bonds should bring at least par. Commission members point out that purchase of the bridge would

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81 Now Being Constructed

—The United States has six “super submarines” such as Germany is reported to be building but its 81 new ones will be smaller, it was The commission plans to buy the learned today.

and Narwhal—exceed 2700 tons, mount two 6-inch guns each and can carry 24 torpedoes or 16 torpedoes and 60 mines. three—the Barracuda, Bointa—exceed 2000 tons and 4-inch guns and 16 torpedoes.

rines, the R and S classes, now be-

ing reconditioned, displace 670 and 900 tons, respectively.

range from 1500 to 2000 tons, naval sources said.

houses and, 11 lots.

6 ‘SUPER-SUBS’

Will Be Smaller Than Those of Germany. WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 (U. P.).

Three—the Argonaut, Nautilus

The other Bass and

The World War vintage subma-

Prior to the passage of the “two ocean” Navy bill, the Navy had 38 submarines under construction; it now has 43 more building. All

The “super submarines,” these sources said, larger than any Germany could build with her present facilities, are valuable for use as surface commerce raiders since they can mount heavier guns than armed merchant ships. They also have value as “sneak” mine layers since they can slip into a harbor submerged, plant mines, and leave without an enemy OnE the operation until a mine explodes. For the type of sea warfare the United States probably would have to wage, Navy sources said, the 1500 to 2000-ton class submarine would be superior. Modern construction materials and design, they said, make it possible for a submarine of 1500 tons to carry virtually as heavy a torpedo load as heavier ones of an earlier vintage, at the same time reducing fuel requirements.

6 HOMES, 11 LOTS SOLD ON N. SIDE

North Side Realtors members this week reported the sale of eight

Houses sold were at: 4043 Ruckle

{ASKS CONGRESS NOT T0 ADJOURN

Head Wants to Start Work On 1941 Funds.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 (U, P.). —Chairman Edward T. Taylor of -|the House Appropriations Committee today opposed plans of Administration leaders tp adjourn Congress next week. . Rep. Taylor, in whose committee all appropriation “bills must originate, believes Congress should begin work on next year’s departmental! appropriations immediately. Unless hearings are started at once, he said, the bills may be delayed two or three weeks after the new Congress meets Jan. 3. Speaker Sam Rayburn has an--|nounced that a resolution for sine die adjournment will be introduced in the House next Tuesday. He has |summoned members to return and | expects support by enough Democrats to outvote Republicans who are opposed to quitting, Mr. Taylor had tentatively planned to start subcommittees working on several of next year’s bills the first week in December. He fears that if Congress adjourns subcommittee members will not remain here. He pointed out that they have been working almost cory,

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Sponsors Ship

The American Export Lines’ 15,-000-ton S. S. Examiner, eighth of a new fleet of 16 ships for the East Indian trade, will sail the

.seas under the sponsorship of 12-

year-old Mildred Nicol, above, of Bronxville, N. Y., following its launching at Quincy, Mass. The young sponsor, daughter of Robert Nicol, now in Calcutta: as the steamship lines’ Indian manager, was born in Italy, came to the U. S. from Spain last summer.

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Hoosiers who attended the National Funeral Directors’ Association convention recently in San Francisco, Cal, stopped on their way back at the Hopi Indian settlement: on the south rim of the Grand Canyon. They and a few of the Hopis are shown here in front of an Indian home. Mr. and Mrs, Vernon Hinkle of Indianapolis were in charge of the party.

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not cost the taxpayers a cent since the bonds would be paid off with toll fees, and add that it would be advantageous since it would make the bridge “free” within a few years. The present toll is 60 cents for a

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round trip. Mr. Miles said that Army officials desire a bridge over the Ohio River at Mauckport so that Ft. Knox, Ky., traffic can come into Indiana by a route other than through Louisville, Ky. . Engineer Hasn't Heard

He said that if a bridge were built at Mauckport, about 30 miles of Road 135 which runs to the Ohio River at that point would have to be improved. He estimated that the bridge would cost about $1,500,000. M. R. Keefe, chief Highway Commission engineer, said he had not been informed that of the Army’s desires. “The people down at Cory- _ don have been trying to promote that bridge for a number of years,” he declared. It is also reported that the com“mission has given some thought to constructing bridges over the Ohio .at Cannelton and Mt. Vernon.

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WAR FAILS TO HALT U. S. HOME BUILDING

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 (U. P). —Despite the war, new home mortgage loans reached a nine-year high during the past fiscal year in which investors’ funds continued to flow into financial institutions, costs of home financing dropped and the rate of building increased. Although the war was expected to depress housing finance in the United States, conflicts abroad have not discouraged saving nor home ownership, according to the annual report of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board.

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