Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 March 1946 — Page 6

ys Local Company Faces $390. 000 Loss

of elght and one-third] allusion by the utility to.an actual necessary during| suggested rate in ‘an otherwise of 1046 to keep : the| general plea for an increase. J 7 out of * Projections based on past experi- | The present rate of four tokens] ence and on inter-state commerce Ar. [for 25 cents has been in effect since| commission forecasts of . future ‘the second time as{Jan. 21 under an emergency order | transit riding indicated ‘that even josie’ yea before issued by the commission pending|the three-for- -a-quarter rate would an increased |the outcome of the current hearing. not be sufficient after 1946, Mr.

A projected agcolipting indicated that even with the higher token rate the . company would be oper-

tween 1947 and 1949, he said. At the preesnt rate, that deficit would zoom to more than a million dollars a year, the company treasurer testiffed. In. an exhibit accounting for actual revenues since the emergency token order went into effect, it was shown that income revenues were $73,000 less than they would have been under the previous rate of eight tokens for 55 cents, and $21,000 less than the same number of riders would have paid the preSeptember schedule. ; Earlier, two local investment bankers testified that Indianapolis Railways should be permitted a profit of from eight to-10 per cent on a “falr value” of its transit properties, The witnesses were Harold B. Tharp, vice president of the Fletcher Trust Co. and John T. Collett, president of Collett & Go., Ine.

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Hears 17 Citizens

The commission also heard in %oday's and yesterday's hearings, a string of 17 business and personnel officials who testified to the vital need of a modern transit system for the welfare and growth of the | city. Witnesses giving this Testimony, were: Theodore B. Griffith, president of L. 8. Ayres Co.; Meler 8. Block “vice |

<R.: e president of the Wm. H. Block Co.; | X Ray Check # * * * * William A. Hacker, assistant superintendent of schools; Louis J. Bor-| Somme one * Blackhawk * Red Goose enstein, member of the city plan-|

ning commission; Ralph Phelps, |

* Classmates personnel director for Link-Belt Co.; Murray H. Morris, manager of . * the Merchants’ association; John * American Juniors Eby Smith, manager ‘of “The Union,” local labor newspaper; Willlam H

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Book, executive vice president of | the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, and W. W. Springer, president. of the Indianapolis Real Estate board. Also, George A. Huhn, of the mayor's post-war planning com- | mission; Noble P. Hollister, direct- | or of city planning; Clyde E. White- | hill, president of the Indianapolis | Chamber of Commerce; A. E. Sin-| clair, personnel director for P. R.! Mallory & Co.; G. W. Maibucher, | president of the Indianapolis Board | of Trade; Paul V. Brown, city parks | director, and Henry T. Davis, sec- | retary and manager of the Indian- | apolis Convention and Visitors’ bu- | reau.

DR. VALE TO SPEAK AT GHRIST CHURCH

Dr. Roy Ewing Vale, pastor of the Tabernacle Presbyterian church,| will speak on’ “The Things That | Make for Our Peace” at the downtown World Day of Prayer services| this afternoon. The meeting will be held at 1:30 p. m. at Christ Episcopal Church on the circle. Mrs. Asa E. Hoy, chairman of the committee for the oar, will preside and Mrs. Leonard C.| Hunt will sing, accompanied by | Cheston Heath, host organist. Mrs. |= Hunt is the wife of the superin-| tendent of the Wheeler mission. ! In addition to the Christ church meeting, the Indianapolis Council |

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MARSHALL PLANS TRIP HOME | CHUNGKING, March 8 (U. P.).! —Gen, George C. Marshall, special envoy to China, is preparing to leave for -the United States next Tuesday, it was learned today. |

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