Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 August 1943 — Page 4

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‘Merge Two Offices

THE NEXT major change proPosed in recent government sur-

veys is a merger of the county

treasurer's office with the county ‘auditor's office, establishing an «over-all fiscal officer, directing the functions of both present collecting and disbursing offices in one

; Under the present setup, the

county treasurer operates inde--

_ pendently of the auditor's office, _Deither being responsible to the other for anything. Thus tax money is collected by

alone.

lons daily. *

spoonful of cooking

lost.

bomb.

food a yeer.,

lcies on property valua-

BE. A NURSES’ AID—Hundreds of nurses from Indian- © apolis area have gone to war and there are 209, more patients in our hospitals.

SAVE MORE TIN CANS— One can supplies the tin for | hand grenade or | smoke

STAY ON .YOUR JOB—

—Production for war fell behind during June and July.

BUY MORE BONDS—Since July ‘| our offensive war has cost $265,000,000 a day.

one independent division of government and spent by another, using two staffs. Government observers point out that the cost of the collecting and spending the tax money could

be reduced 25 to 30 per cent by

a merger. of jobs into one operation, / # » #

Reorganize Board

THE THIRD major change needed in county government, observers agree, is a complete reorganization of the functions now

- under the county commissioners.

* Their duties have grown far beyond their capacity to function efficiently under the present setup. They are charged with making all the county purchases, running into the millions of dollars annually, and are custodians of all county property. including hundreds of miles of highways. ‘This was not too big a job for

GIVE MORE BLOOD—1500 lives were saved at Pearl Harbor with blood plasma

SAVE GASOLINE — United States fliers over the Mediterranean use |,100,000 gal-

SAVE KITCHEN FAT—One

rease wasted means five bullets

DON'T WASTE FOOD— One soldier needs | ton of

overnmental Setup

three men 50 years ago when supplies were only a fraction of what they are now and when the county's property was just the courthouse building and a few desks.

Central Buying Agent

. BUT: NOW present commissioners admit they can’t possibly administer all the duties imposed upon them efficiently.

“We are charged with buying all the supplies but can’t possibly get around to see that they are delivered or what kind of stuff was delivered for the money,” declared William Bosson, president of the commissioners. - Observers have agreed that the answer to the commissioners’ dilemma is establishment of a central purchasing agent for the county, working directly under an over-all fiscal director, with proper -.checks and double checks.

NEXT: Township Governments.

HORTEN THIS WAR by 5.4 minutes and you SAVE A YANK'S LIFE! Yes, statistics show

PT. BENNING, Ga., Aug. 18 @. ] P.).—Pvt. ‘Albert Kissell of Corning, } N. Y., accused of the murder of Pvt. |

Claude A. Alexander of Valparaiso, Ind, went before a general court-

martial at this army post today.

Kissell is accused of having mur- |

dered Alexander on the night of Jan. 9 by striking him with rocks,

cutting and mutilating his body

and, with two companions, throwing him into the Chattahoochee river. The two others connected with

the slaying are Pfc. Erschel Hunt,|

of Betsy Lane, Ky., and Pvt, Raymond Fortney of Otho, Iowa. They will be given courts-martial following the trial of Kissell

according to Lt. Col. William C, Coulbourne, |*

judge advocate.

'COY VACATIONING FRANKLIN, Ind., Aug. 19 (U.P). —Wayne Coy, assistant, director: of the budget, was on vacation from Washington at his home here today.

He is a former Franklin news-|

paperman.

that over 1000. of our boys were casualties during the last hour of World War | and that so far in this war a Yank

is killed every 5.4 minutes. We point this out in an effort

to show how important it is that we do everything possible to bring VICTORY as soon as possible. EVERY MINUTE COUNTS! Check the list at the left. . . they represent a few of the things we here on the home front

can do to shorten the war.

LISTEN TO "HOOSIERS AT WAR"

An all:service radio program devoted entirely to the fifty-two war agencies in Indianapolis; 5:30 P. M. Monday through Friday, Station WFBM. :

| Miss: Anna Catherine Petit ‘ (above), daughter of Sheriff and ‘Mrs. Otto W. Petit and secretary to Luther.L. Dickerson, city librarian, will report -at Hunter college in New York, Sept. 7, for in‘doctrination into the WAVES. Miss Petit was sworn into the ! service at Cincinnati on July 9.

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Weather Is Only Thing Quebec Writers Are Sure About.

By KARL A. BICKEL ; Times Special Writer | QUEBEC, Aug. 19.—The weather would not seem to be especially important in an international conference that is expected to, settle the dates of things that will affect his tory for centuries to come, but it is important, It is important because it is the ‘only thing about this conference that the 150 correspondents herded together in the prosy and very English Clarendon hotel know for sure. The rest, some million words of it apparently so far, is just the old horseradish

Even for a conference of this type it has been a bit duller than usual, so dull indeed that the correspondents, feverishly sweeping up and down the corridors looking for newcomers whose liquor-ration coupons may not as yet be exhausted, have started to write about themselves instead of just talking that

way. \ Touch of the Casual

Canadians have a touch of the British sense of casual informality, and so far the conference has been

usual American appurtenances of serried ranks of secret-service men, plainclothes pests and just average dicks. Early in the morning, for instance, a party of us picked up a touring taxicab and directed him to take us into the Citadel, where in all the seclusion of a Tibetan lamasery the captains and the kings are meeting. And the cab was permitted to procéed clear to the very gate of the innermost precincts, not only without .objection but with the active assistance of the trafic cops. Then and then only did & mountie in stiff-brimmed stetson and scarlet coat remark: “Say, buddy, you got a pass go in there?” r No pass being forthcoming, we were politely urged to go away from | there, but. there was no swift urgency about it.

Two-Mile Quarantine

It wasnt’ like that at the Homestead in Hot Springs, Va., where a mere food conference, with no major stars at hand, threatened Washington correspondents with a two-mile quarantine; Rumors roll around and pile up in the corners. One of them is that this conference isn’t going to emphasize the Pacific situation at all but will confine itself strictly to

| the problem of the race to Berlin

and the when of it and the percentages of manpower. Another is that the generals will submit a very compact memorandum and Messrs. Churchill and Roosevelt will look it over, talk it over and say their say—and that this will be the end. : The real work of the conference, it is said, has already been largely done by the men in uniform in the grim old gray building on top .of the hill, and the premier and the president have but to accept it or reject it. But no one knows, at least none of the correspondents.

TYPHOID DEATHS CUT IN HALF

-CHICAGO, Aug. 19 (U. P.)—The typhoid death toll in 93 large U. S.

95, in the two years between 1940 and 1942, the American Medical Association Journal reported today. Cities recording no typhoid deaths for two or more years increased from 26 in 1941 to 31 in 1942. Ft.

‘| Wayne, Ind, headed the list with

no deaths in eight years. Other

1eities with outstanding records were

South Bend. Ind. no deaths in seven years; Fall River, Lynn. and New Bedford, Mass, no deaths in six years; Cambridge and Lowell, Mass, no deaths in five years,

HOPE DARE GIVES UP ~ SUIT FOR DIVORCE

. LOS ANGELES, Aug. 19. (U. P.). —Former Follies girl Hope Dare ‘dropped her divorce suit against

‘agreed to a reconciliation. Miss Dare said they have settled

{ their differences and will keep their

marital troubles out of court in the future. ‘ : i ,

MOTHER OF GENERAL

DIES AT WASHINGTON

‘WASHINGTON, Ind. Aug. 19 (U. P.) —Mrs. Lena Faith, 71, mother

‘| of Brig: Gen.’Don C. Faith, head

‘of the WAC training program, will be buried here today. Mrs, Faith,

| wite of an attorney, died Tuesday.

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