Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 December 1948 — Page 42

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| Income Tax dea Spreads Amon Cities

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CHICAGO, Dec. 18 (UP)—In-| ‘como ‘axes levied by’ local governmental units will total more than §40 million in 1948, the Mu“nicipal Finance Officers Association reports, | Eigh'y-five jurisdictions, pre: dominantly cities and school districts,, will benefit from income tax revenue. The total is an increase of 83 units over- the number levying such a tax last year. Passage by the Pennsylvania state legislature of enabling legis lation earlier this year was responsible for the greater part of the increase, After passage of the bill, 78 sities, boroughs and schoo! [HE— districts in Pennsylvania adopted’ Si pay roll ordinances, The association reported that most state legislatures were reluctant to empower thelr municipalities to levy taxes on individual incomes. Missouri adopted a special law that authorized only| Bt. Louis to tax incomes.

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Pioneer School

Had Growing Pains CALVIN

FLETCHER 8chool No. 8, with its history closely Several Ohio cities levy pay roll linked with: the development of | taxes on the basis that there is free public schools in Indiana-|

School No. 8... Inset, Lloyd N. Blue, principal.

Ito defray costs of tuition in the {schools. No. 8 was huilt.in an era when free school proposals were bitterly contested even by thé people ‘most likely to. benefit from. them.

4 # = SOME PERSONS, with ability

——ne- forbidding state law. Wiscon- Polis, was beset with trouble into pay tuition costs, complained

sin has prohibited the levying of!its ‘beginning. local income taxes by law. | The building ‘was erected Dayton, O., recently authorized 520 Virginia Ave, the city commission to draft an/vote of approval by school trus~“ordinance levying a tax on indi-{tees in 1857, but lack of funds vidual and corporation incomes prevented the appointment of «effective Jan. 1. ~The rate to heitéachers. . used has not been determined by| Financial troubles were major the city but rates of .5 per cent|obstacles in the transition of or 1 per cent were under com- schools from tuition to tax supsideration, Iported Institutions. All of them Toledo expected to receive $6 closed their doors in 1858 when million in income taxes this year./the Indiana Supreme Court ruled Columbus, Youngstown and that a city could not collect 1axes Springfield are other Ohio cities! EE

that collect local income taxes. i . Portsmouth, O., recently repealed gvernmen [ges its nay roll tax ordinance without! collecting any revenue under the f ti b M il

act, Advises Schools .

. Philadelphia Returns Heavy Philadelphia, which firs! adopted To Exploit System LINCOLN, Neb., Dec. 18 (UP)

an income tax in 1939, probably will receive more revenue than any other city from it. The esti—Correspondence education is “big business, -but schools are missing the “boat in developing

mate is for $28.5 million. this kind of learning” according

8t. Louis, whose .5 per cent tax became effective September, to-Dr. Walter H. Gaumnitz. Dr, Gaumnitz, of the U. 8. of-

1048; will collect about $2,570,000 for the four-month period. ~ An “occupational license tax” Bb Loulsvill which is, in effect, a r cent | pu § come tank: wil yield fice of education at Washington, addressed the second international conference on correspondence education, held on the University of Ngbraska campus.

an estimated $4.6 million each

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- ? Almost 1.5 1lion Americans R >staurantman 5 spend more than $50 million an- . » nually attending school by mall, F aith mn Humans he said, falling generally into : —— ,,,— —five-categories: : RESTAURANTMAN Charles] ONE: Children in small schools

which cannot atford to offer vocational work or college preparacomes from renewed faith in hu-| tion. man nature, : TWO: Adults who dropped out Mr. Boehm, who runs Miller's/ of high school and now want Restaurant, 3001 E. Washington their diplomas. : St., got a letter a week ago from THREE: Middle-aged men and 2 woman in Charlotteville with| women who want college educa25¢ enclosed. She said her hus- tion.

band had forgotten to pay her FOUR: Adults who want to : . tmprove their general education

o o y Sa A FEW DAYS later, came an-| et 00ng ther

other letter from Decatur, Ii another re The. Hors, addditional technical training for concsientious wife. {young men with = supervisory “Often the wives walk on out 2PIlIty. : and say their husband will pay,” But Dr. Gaumnitz sald; colMr. Boehm explains. “We always | le8es are only skimming the sur- ~ give them the benefit of “the face in enrolling these potential doubt. we | Students. He said instruction now not so Som this_proves we're offered should be improved, and:

; on jSOmME plan developed for assign-| Care Urged in Treating Poultry With Sulfa

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taxes supported the school system. | On the other hand, opposing {factions held that favoritism toward the pupils: of financially stable parents ‘was sure to de[velop in the schools if they were {supported by tax funds. | However, the free school plan {was adopted in 1853 and School |8 became part of the system in time to share in the controversies {which followed.

| ! 1 # ws | INDIANAPOLIS managed to open its free schools again in 1860 and eight teachers were assigned to the Calvin Fletcher | building. | Six years later a third story was added to the building; makng room for an enrollment of i 6: . | This addition was removed in 1883 and primary grade pupils

|and the new structure became {High School No. 2 to meet de-| {mands by Southside residents for the upper grade instruction.

LANL 4 1 SIXTH, seventh. “and eighth grade pupils attend Calvin Fletcher; which has become a} {Junior higit“school for pupils from schools” 7, 28, 13 and 25. Facilities for -shop and home economic instruction were made available at the school with the construction of four new rooms, in 1915-16. Before that time,| girls went to No. 13 and boys to No. 39 for those classes. f

” » o THE GYMNASIUM was built in 1942, withmepussatioa capacity of 400. A public address system had been installed in the school two years before. Teachers at No. 8 make full use of modern teaching methods. Sound ~~ movie projectors, slides! and map projectors supplement text books used in regular reci-| tations. - Extra curricular activities also] play an important part’ at, the school, The spirit displayed by| pupils in special projécts won| them a “Schools at War” flag for their war stamp purchases during World War IL | Lloyd N. Blue, school head, is

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