Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 September 1941 — Page 17
der Attorney General's Opinion, State Loses $70, 000 in. A Year Because Legislature Did Not Specify
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oe : Annual Registration.
Another “boner” by the 1941 Legislature which will , Gost the State about $70,000 annually until the condition is
Vepectified was brought to light
today by an official opinion by
“Attorney General George Beamer. g2 The Attorney General ruled that since no provisi n for
~ Shnual registration of school
busses was made in the 41
¢* gehool bus registration law, the special school bus plates purchased under the law this summer would be perpetual. .
_ A plate purchased now will ‘be good, he said, as long as the bus is in use by one operato f operators change, then a new license plate will have to be purchased. New plates will also have to be purchased
for new busses.
‘Both Republican and Democratic legislative leaders said that it was ‘ the intention of the ‘legislature to set up an annual flat license fee of $10 for school busses, and that it was a “slip-up” that there was no provision made in the law for annual registration. Beneficiaries of the “slip-up” will be the operators of the 7000 school busses now in operation in the state. They won’t have to huy any new plates until another legislature corrects the law. Sought Flat Fee : Bert Nightenhelser of Westfield, president of the 00] Bus Drivers’ Association which sponsored the bill, said that he too understood that the $10 registration fee was to be an annual one. The ° operators had ‘complained that since they were operating a vehicle for the public good’ that it was ‘unfair to them to make them pay regular truck registration rates plus the ‘weight tax and’ that they should have a flat fee so that they would know what they would have to pay each year. “Certainly if the legislature had intended that the registration fee required in the act be an annual registration fee, it would have been easy for it to do so by adding one - or two/words in the act as passed,” .° Mr. Beamer said in his opinion to .- R. Lowell McDaniel, commissioner of the Bureau of Motor Vehicles. --He said that there ‘was no language: whatsoever in the law to indicate that the legislature intended | for the $10 fees to be
annual, - In-an earlier opinion to Mr. McDaniel, Mr. Beamer held that townships are required to buy the special licenses for the busses they operate; that the plates are not transferable and that - school bus operators could not use truck - licenses, even though they cost more than the regular bus licenses. Rebate Suggested Having already purchased their ‘regular 41 license plates and paid their weight tax, bus operators . throughout the state have been “up in arms” about having to purchase the new $10 plate this year, as required by the law. Had the Attorney General ruled the $10 fee to be an_ annual one, they would have had to purchase a new license plate; next January, making their total license costs run about $40 during on -month period, $20 for the trick tag and weight tax and $20 for. the two special plates. Mr. Beamer, however, advised the
Motor Vehicle License Bureau that
it could rebate a part of the truck license fee when the bus operator purchased the new special plate. Another apparent “boner” in the new law is that it does not specify where the money obtained from the $10 fees is to go. Mr. McDaniel said he would probably ask for an attorney . general’s ruling on that point.
DANIEL KINNEY DIES OF HEART AILMENT
Daniel Kinney, 332 N. Arsenal Ave., died yesterday of a heart attack, He was 71. ° Survivors are a brother, Stephen N. Kinney, and two sisters, Mrs. Catherine Stewart and Mrs. Sarah Lovett, all of Indianapolis. "Funeral services will t be held at 8:30 a. m. Saturday in the Grinsteiner Funeral Home and at 9 a. m. in Holy Cross Catholic Church. Burial will be in Holy Cross Cemetery.
OBSERVE. TRUCE IN KANSAS GITY
New Power Blackout: Is Threatened in Edict By Union.
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 18 (U. P.).—A new shutdown of ‘electric power was threatened here today as union matum to officials of the Kansas City Power and Light Co. 3Striking members of the A. F. of L{ International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers agreed to return to work until 2 p.m. today, when they were to walk.from the power plants again unless “a satisfactory Di ” has been reached. They maintained .a token “picket line at the two main power plants, but allowed their own members
turbines, until the deadline. s A. E. Bettis, vice president of:the:
workers delivered an ulti-|’
through it to man the massive |#
company, said he believed the com- |;
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Last night 600° young people—200 soldiers, 200 sailors and 200 Indianapolis girls—danced ‘ in" the : paved parking area atthe State
House under: the sponsorship of the Service:Men’s- Club.
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thrseea soldier 3.31 and's sillofesilioy, patuded in the grasd:march
under a bower of flags.
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pany would be able to continue fur- |&
nishing power without interruption. Special Police Guard
W. D. Petty of Washington. arrived here late’ last night to join Albert F. Wright, another of the union’s international representatives, in an attempt to reopen ‘negotiations with the company. The union, which claims 350 members, struck because it seeks to rep-
ing sessions 200 members of an independent organization, which it said is a company union. : The .independent union has been the basis of a National Labor Board action and a circuit court of appeals decision affirmed ‘the board’s order to the company to disestablish it. The company has not complied and is to answer a contempt citation in circuit court here Oct. 11.
Face Charges Today
Loyal employees and strikebreakers succeeded in restoring power to Kansas City yesterday, four hours after the switches first were thrown and the power has continued without interruption under police guard. The police board called 250 special policemen to service and assigned one to guard each of the 170 men working in the plants. Police also were assigned to guard each of the 20 relay stations. Mr. Wright refused to discuss strike issues with the City Council upon advice -of his attorney that the council meeting to which he ‘was summoned did not constitute “due process’ of® law.” Seven other.union members were charged with malicious destruction of property because they allegedly removed switches and . vital parts from machinery when the strike was called. Mr. Wright and the others were scheduled to appear in municipal court on’ the charges today.
HOOSIER WOMAN DIES .AFTER CYCLE CRASH
HARTFORD CITY, Ind. Sept. 18 (U. P.) —Miss Patrica Whitacre, 24, Portland, died at the Blackford County - Hospital today of injuries received in a motorcycle-automobile collision here late last night. Her companion, Vernon Armontrout, 29, Portland, driver of the motorcycle, was - critically ' injured and not expected. to.live. Police said Mr. Armontrout and Miss Whitacre, returning from Hartford City, sideswiped an automobile driven by Melvin Medler, Hartford City, one mile east of here on State Road 22.
Strike Perils Child's Life
resent in present contract bargain- |.
Miss Judy
land, the dancing.
_Buschmann,: 5102 Washington Blvd,, and her partner, Pvi. Howard McVean, Cleve0., enjoyed the music and
. Miss Pauline Hardy, 1739 N. Bolton Ave. and Sailor Richard ‘McNeal, Pittsville, Md, found rough cement the only bar to ‘smooth dancing.
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state Clemency. Commission]
Rules on Appeal of Clarence Schrock.
Clatenve: Sbrock, who ie serving. a 20-year term in the State Prison
|for the 1931 robbery of a Carthage,
Ind, bank, was denied a. parole
today by the State Clemency: Com- | { mission,
‘Schrock and a companion obtained $2400 in the holdup. In May, 1939, his sentence was commuted to.
nine to 20 years and he escaped from the State Prison two months later. He was caught and fined: five
‘Iyears for his escape.
. ‘The Attorney General's office, however, held his commutation: in-
| valid and the Prison Board of Trustees reduced his prison fine to two 4
years. 5 Short Granted Parole _ ; The Clemency Commission granted a parole to William ‘Short, 18-
year-old Indianapolis youth, on the §
condition that he be turned over to Federal authorities who want him on a parole vio charge. Short was convicted here last May
and sentenced to a term of 180 days] :
at the State Farm' and fined $100 for stealing the automobile of Harlan Vandersarr. He is wanted b
y ‘Ithe National Training School for
Boys at Washington where he has served time, Commissioners said.
Other Pleas Denied
‘The Commission denied a parole for Short’s companion in the automobile theft, Wallace Maxey, who received the same sentence. ‘The Commission also denied the
{parole plea of Jesse Davis, Indian-
apolis man, who was sentenced in
'|June, 1940, to a term of two. years
in the State. Prison for second degree burglary. He allegedly looted
|a-number of Pennsylvania Railroad
freight cars. The commission: denied the parole requests of 21 vther State Prison and State Farm inmates and rant ed paroles to five.
25.YEAR EMPLOYEE
HONORED BY BELL CO. |
Leslie S. Hallam, 5456 N. Capitol Ave,, district trafic engineer for the Indiana Bell Telephone Co., today received a gold. emblem in recognition of 25 years service with the utility. Mr. Hallam started as an assistant engineer for the Central Union Telephone Co. in Chicago in Sep-
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‘Lieut.: Gov: Shades M. DED (left). and Max W. Babb, president of 'Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co., look on as Col. Donald - Armstrong, executive officer of. the Chicago Ordnance District, operates a 90 mm. anti-aircraft gun on a nine-ton mobile mount manufactured by Allis-Chalmers and accepted by the Army in a ceremony at La Porte, Ind. It was the first such mount ‘manufactured by private industry during the present emergency.
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‘| to” be produced by Hoosier private 4 industry was on its way today to the Army's Aberdeen proving grounds
in Maryland. It was completed by the AllisChalmers plant here, the first of 300 contracted for, and formally delivered to the Army in ceremonies yesterday. - . The workmen and their families gathered about as Max W. Babb, Allis-Chalmers president, presented the gun to Col. Donald Armstrong, executive officer of the Chicago ordnance distirct. Then it was loaded onto a flat car and began its journey for |
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in the national defense scheme. .. Allis-Chalmers officials and works men were: especially proud to have produced the first of the guns since they were in competition with other
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ELZA' WILLIAMS, 48, DECORATOR, IS DEAD
in his home, 60th and Harding Sts. after a week’s illness.
Elza Williams, a resident of In-|Williams, and two brothers, Clardianapolis 48 years, died yesterday|ence Williams of Indianapolis and
Mr. Williams was 51 and was born| Saturday in the home, with burial in PFranklin.. He had been an in-!in the Greenwood Cemetary. :
terior decorator and painter here the past 20 years. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Mabel
Asa Williams of Chicago. - Services will be held at 10 a. m,
nine tons each and army men claim they have an effective range of 35,000 feet, which is well into the sub-
stratosphere.
SICILIAN TOWN RAIDED
ROME, Sept. 18 (U. P.).—British planes last night bombed and machine gunned the town of Licata in
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