Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 April 1941 — Page 15

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Public Urged to Review Water Co. Petition at City Hall April 23.

The Indianapolis Water Co.'s petition to build a $1,600,000 Oaklandon dam and reservoir will be reviewed at a public hearing at 7:30 p. m. April 23 in the City Council chamber, The hearing was set late yesterday at. a conference of Works, Park and Flood Board members with Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan. , The company is petitioning to build the dam a mile northeast of the Fu. Harrison military preserve ro trap the flood waters of Fall Creek, forming an 1800-acre lake. Involved in the hearing, in addition to the physical ramifications of the project, is the question water rates—a factor which has been emphasized in Public Service! —largest so far in the State—will Commission hearings. The peti-| be used to bring the 38th Divition also must be approved by the sion to full strength. commission. More than 300 men were schedIt was understood at City uled to be inducted at Ft. Harritoday that officials may seek the! son today. Counties sending condismissal of the 1032 rate case in! tingents include: Fountain, 26; Federal Court as a condition to ap-| Posey, 20, and Vanderburgh, 254 broving the project, a i na

Action Brought in 1933

The pending suit was filed 1 Federal Court in 1933 to contest a 1932 rate reduction order by the Public Service Commission, the utility contending its rate-making valuation should be considerably higher than that set by the commission. The litigation dragged over the

years until 1938, when the U. S. Su- Council Waits Until June

preme Court affirmed a decision of I ) the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals. | When Legislation Is Effective.

which had ruled that the commis- | City Council will postpone action

Lieut. Col. Robinson Hitchcock

Lieut. Col. Robinson Hitchcock, state selective service director, soon will inspect Camp Shelby at Hattiesburg, Miss., where most of the 6900 Hoosier draftees are to be stationed. The inspection trip was at direction of Governor Henry F. Schricker, who will receive a report on the arrangements made to accomodate the Indiana youths. The April selective service call

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sion’s valuation, $22,368.000, based | on costs as of April 1, 1933, should! be increased to reflect the general rise in commodity prices. The high court sent the case back here for a hearing of evidence on new price levels Through an understanding be{ween the city and the utility, the new hearing never has been held. Thus the case still is pending and rates remain in status quo.

posal until after June 1 when the enabling legislation becomes efTective. it was definitely established today. Council has no alternative, in the opinion of City Corporation Counsel Edward H. Knight. But that is not the only complication to the proposal, The Citv Fathers will definitely have to do something about the 1928 Daylight Saving Ordinance which apparently hecomes operative after a 12 year hibernation when the enabling legislation goes into effect, Mr. Knight said. Advises Old Ordinance Repeal His advice was that the Council repeal the old ordinance. which has lingered on the books since it was nullified by a 1929 statute preventing Indianapolis from operating on daylight time.

Water Rates Frozen

The pending suit has had the effect of freezing water rates at pre1932 levels, according to Public Service Commission members. At City Hall, officials believe the $1,600,000 project might become the basis for a renewal of court action for higher rates, unless the suit dismissed Also involved in the proposal is a Park Board plan of long standing | to extend its boulevard system to and around the site of the proposed | reservoir. The Board wants right. | 4 The 9 Lae 13 Bhs of-way to carry out its plans. De oe {oo he roa ne =» : . 92 ding 5 supIn preparation for the hearing, Te Te . Flood Board President M. G. John- R0S¢¢ to £0 into vm son said letters will be sent r 1. [SiSle lay Goes, sai Ss wi e sent request- Wi } ‘ter that Mr ing the attendance of repr SORE RIL Rl } epresenta- po .ont Jef 1 of tives of Ft. Harris b : Knight, left to the imagination ives o t arrison, the Boy Scouf i Reserva : the councilmen. He hinted that the servation, the U. 8, Army En- ; os ; gineering Depart he confusion that would result would 8 partment, the State be considerable. since some people Conservation Department and Com- 1d d 1d davlight t } missioners of Marion, Hancock and er ad Ne nr Hen Cmte Na stituted while others would clamor jricon Soyndes. __ for the status quo All riparian property owners in Want to Play Safe the vicinity also are heing urged to The corporation ‘counsel ruled Bppeat al the hearing. : that the introduction of the new tre Te A os on said the Daylight Ordinance last month is a lon of the z-mile artificial pot illeeal. despite the fact that the ake would create needed water re- enabling act is not yet eflective. erves for Indianapolis during the However. some Councilmen who ummer. To handle the additional want davlight time believe the safest gallonage, from the reservoir, the thing to do is re-introduce the ordicompany's Fall Creek pumping sta- nance after June 1. tion has been enlarged and new That, they contend. would make filtration beds constructed. it safe all around . . . or would it?

on the Daylight Saving Time pro- |

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LIFE 1S CASUAL IN BURNS CTY: BOOM SCORNE

Village Has Three Years to Finish Ammunition Depot For Warships.

By SAM TYNDALL Times Staff Writer { BURNS CITY, April 4—The U. S. Navy's Atlantic fleet ammunition | depot, under construction on a 75-square-mile site here, is one national defense project about which there is no particular rush. The deadline for finishing the job is three years away. There is no great army of workers here. Less than 500 men have been dividing the area with roads for the past few months This village of 160 people on the rim on the project does not expect to “boom.” Two of the town's filling stations have been enlarged—that’s all. Principal ‘Pantry’ The reason for the comparative casnalness surrounding the building of this depot lies in the very nature ot the project. It is to be the principal ammunition “pantry” for the warships of the Atlantic fleet. In underground vaults will be stored the bulk of the Atlantic fleet's supply of powder, shells, T.N.T, bombs and torpedoes—but storage will not begin until after the present | emergency. The increasing quantities of ammunition now coming from defense plants throughout the country will be stored near fleet bases on the east coast—where it will be close at hand if it is needed in a hurry. | Biggest of Kind So. this depot is really more of a peacetime storage center rather than a project of a war emergency Na- | ture. Like many of the new national | defense projects under construction throughout the nation, the Navy Depot here will be the biggest of its kind in the country-—consider-ably larger than the Hawthorne, Nev. depot which serves as the storehouse for the Pacific fleet. The Atlantic fleet's former ammunition dump located on the east coast was struck by lightning mn 1926. The magazines blew up like a string of firecrackers. But it won't happen again. To store and protect the precious and touchy explosives, the Navy will huild between 60G and 700 reinforced concrete ‘‘igloos,” spaced about 200 vards apart. If one blows up it won't fire the others. These little cellars will be sunk in the ground throughout the 50,000acre reservation. Only a small bulge [above the forest covered hills and (valleys of the reservation will mark the site of each hidden store. | { The igloo-shaped tops of the magazines will be rounded as a protection against hombs. Any projectiles that anyone might try and drop, from the air on ' the magazines would be deflected by rounded tops, the engineers say Special Tracks Built i | A grass “wig” will be planted on! top of each magazine, to both beattify the project and to make it less recognizable from the air. The size, capacity and material used in constructing these maga-| zines is a secret, f The fleet would get its ammuni-| tion from here by train. The Mil-! waunkee Railroad which operates a feeder line near here, is laying a spur line into the reservation. In addition there will be several loading tracks on which a supply of empty freight cars will always sit. |

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homes of the Navy officers who will scattered throughout the area. About be in charge, are now going up. 150 families will be moved under the Construction of the magazines is condemnation action.

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