Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 August 1949 — Page 11

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: Check Mechanical Equipment, Use Good Judgment, Be Alert

By NORMAN BOURNE MIND YOUR motor manners. equipment is good. Consider the other fellow. That's a sure way of becoming a wreck-less driver. wreck-LESS—not to be confused with the usual charge

of reckless driving.

A hoard of Indianapolis professional drivers has for-

mulated a set of rules for

ners.” The rales make for safe driving and more wrech.LE8S dvivers.on-Indiana- highways... 3 The. rules are simple. They urge that motorists TE sure of their. own car, brakes and mechanical workings; use good judgment on the highway; be rested and alert

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and consider the other fellow.

The ‘board of experts should know.

Between them they |

Wilford Brunk . . . A spofless record for 16 years . . . He says:

way.

"Give the other fellow the right

Vernon McConaugha . . ,

rolled truck from road

to miss car.

"Robert

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"Get plenty of rest and mind your motor,

manners.”

123,000 In County Can Say ‘Thank You’

Received Help

From Fund

MORE THAN 123,000 Marion County people can

_{ say “thank you” today for

help they received last year

from one of the 47 Red Feather —#gencies of “the -Indianapolis- Community Fund...

They're people who have . Jearned that beneath the bustle of industry and commerce, a city like Indianapolis can have a heart that beats a little

have compiled 76 years of safe driving in all kinds of weather and | | faster whenever someone with

under all kinds of conditions. They estimate that they have driven

4 million wreckless miles.

“" f the | versity said, “the professional truck driver is the gentleman o | county's half-million peop le

highway.” These big trucks, tractor and semi-trailer combinations, were fnvolved in only 1.64 per cent of the Indiana highway accidents in 1947, according to

figures released by the Indiana

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Traffic Com ion.

WILLIAM LaROCHE, 3550 Rural St, king of local safe drivers, has driven 1,200,600 miles in the last 30 years and has had no accident. © Mr. LaRoche drove 12 years for the ¥. R. Perkins Co., and in 1979 went .to work for the Hancock

Trucking Co, In his present routine, he drives. about 65, 0 IEE Lear THe

three round-trips to Cleveland each week.

Mr. LaRoche was cited last.

| plenty remembers to give to

i those who need. These are the men who wheel the big ones. Every night they |

are on a road somewhere. It is just as Dr. Miller McClintock, Director of the Bureau of Street Traffic Research of Yale Unl- |

_ an oncoming car would miss The berm was soft, and |.

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+ “My record was marred 15 | ears ago,’ he remembers, i “when I pulled off the road so |

me. the truck toppled over. into the | ditch. No ome was hurt" ——— His formula for safe driving | is: “Get your proper rest; keep | your hands on the wheel and your eyes on the road.”

ROBERT "HEDGES, ~ 510 E. JOH St this year 16-year safety award from an | insurance company. He has driven all that time for the |

gix trips to. Evansville each | week. |

His formula for safety is:

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year by the Indiana Motor Truck “Association, and has received many other awards for his wreck-LESS driving. He says driving takes only good ent. : “If a driver has good. judgment,” he says, “he will be a good driver.” -

r » ” - VERNON McCONAUGHA,

12 N. Walcott St, has had 15 .

years of -errorless driving fof the Kibler Trucking Co.

“Always consider. the other fellow, use courtesy, and mind your motor manners.”

= ” » WILFORD BRUNK, 7205" N, Tacoma Ave. has been driving 16 .safe years for the Kroger Baking Co. He makes a regular run to Logansport six times a | week. He says the best way to keep out of accidents is: i

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Freight Tires: He makes:

In the fall money was being raised for 1948 needs, 95,483 of Marion

gave to the Community Fund. At the end of 1948, reports showed that a total of 123,498 county persons who needed help had gotten it from the fund's 47 agencies. That 2

DEO D received service from the Community Fund | gave to it.

Basically, the “Community

| Fund agencies give four major | types of service:

child care,

family rehabilitation, health

the “Services Ena-youth services.

Broken down, each Commun“ity Fund dollar in 1948 was spent. like this: THE Care Family Rehabilitation .25 cents Health Services ...... 5 cents

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- 3 7 cents The other 13 cents of the dolfar went for community planning (4 cents), United Service Organizations (2 . cents), "administration—{3 cents), and the campaign “ cents). »

: TO THE 18 Red Feather serv“Give the other fellow the i ices for youth activities goes Tight of way." {the Tons share of the fund

of 1947, when

last year than ~

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A day in the Indianapolis Day Nursery .

Photo by Bob Wallace,

~ Leturgez, Fay Ramsey, Richard Alden and Carolyn Robinson {rear row) listen fo the story of Mrs. John Paul Price is reading.”

dollar—aimost’ 40. per cent. Money went to the Boy Scouts, the Girl Scout

Cui Avenue Boy's Clubs, the Mayer oad

"Southwest Social Center, . the Salvation Army youth program; Christamore House, the Com~munal Center, Flanner House, the Hawtherne Social Service Association: and the Jewish Community Center Association —all “working to help Indianapolis boys and girls to’ be happy, useful citizens tomorrow. These 16 Red Feather agencies served 57,750 boys and

the Lam fire their time: If, saved foney. far. : “Ihdtd na pols ARE 1 may have

Huse, —ih “Helping families

girls in 1848 —gave them a place

to go off the streets and something worth while to do with

saved some boys and giTh from lives of trouble.

viduals to solve domestic and personal problems is the job of the family rehabilitation serv. ices. They got 25 cents of the Community Fund dollai in 1948. The Family Service Association alone worked with 1430 cases last year. Catholic Charities did the same job with 551,

the Jewish Social Services with

—and Tndi- tom &nd— these family services, did,

244, the Salvation Army with 177 and the Volunteers of Ameri with 977.

erhaps 8c DESRK POL Bs GE cin a lem child’ was found not to be such a problem after consultaWhatever

3379 persons got help from them in~ 1948.

To the 1889 Indianapolix chii= dren who had no parents to take care of them came a helping hand last year from such agencies-as the Day Nursery, the Children’s Bureau, the Lu-

theran Child Welfare Association, » Catholic Charities, the Su-

Brice

emma Coleman Home, the General Protestants Orphans’ Association, the Jewish Social Services amd, SL: [ome Wn ee

They used 19 cents

Elizabeth's

of the

Community Fund dollar fo give —food—¢ciothing and"

_children in desperate need. » » » REALIZING that disease knows no religious or social boundaries, the Community Fund earmarked 5 cents of

every dollar last year for health services.

The Visiting Nurses’ Association gave bedside service to wore ‘than 10,500 people last

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. Linda Eaton, Linda Kay Watson, Rodney Bertin, Ann Barclay (front row) and Loretta .

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so Tor give draftees and: “military” personnel a place . to

47 Red Feather Agencies Aided

year. The Social Hyziene Ase sociation conducted an exten= sive program on the prevention of venereal disease. And .the

Flower. Mission. used. its. money .

from the fund to ‘provide milk

“TER STHEr specialized services whose work was included in the costs of the four major serve fces are the Alpha Home Association, the -Borinstein Home for Aged Jewish, Catholie Charities Women's Association, the Goodwill Industries, the Legal Aid Society, Indianapolis Hearing Society, the Salvation Theodora Home, Trave dlers’ Aid Society and Wheeler Mission. Seeing that the county’s so-

cial agencies run smoothly, without overlapping or duplica=

Alive

tion, is the job of six commun-

ity planning services which use 4 cents of the Community Fund dollar to do it.

They are the Bocial Service . Department of the Church Federation, the Service Bureau, the

Couniell -of Social Agencies, the

Jewish Federation of Indianape the Social Service Exe change and the Volunteer Office,

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hang their hats during off-duty Bours. the USO took. 2 cents of

1948.

Campaign expenses claimed 4 cents of the dollar. And yearround administrative expense for salaries, supplies and of fice rent took the last 3 cents. That's where last year's money went. But there's a bigger job ahead, and Indianapolis will need 2 bigger heart to do the Red Feather job of the future.

~ Test House In Reassessment: Valued At $2190, A Cut Of $410

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Deputy assessors examine Indianapolis’ test Ny) in the re-

intel progr

am. Built in 1900, it carries an assessed valuation

of $2600. Here Chirles Russell (rear) and - Arthur Vincel (fore. gréund) take outside measurements of the dwelling at 724 Pleas ant Run Pkwy. North Drive. The owner, Mrs. Ira L. Fletcher,

watches.

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In Tomlinson Hall, ‘headquarters annex of the reassessment

program, office personnel begin the task of checking and classify. by field crews. Frank P. Hanrahan (left)

ing-the property examined

and Paul Rr Brown check a field sheet against copied pages of permanent plat books. Age, location, improvements and depre-

ciation ° Sonsidered,

Having passed through the rate setter's department where

type_and sheet arrives at the computer's

condition of a dwellin

has been established, the field Mrs, Lillian Duncan has just

finished analyzing the field sheet on the Fletcher property, William I. Ritter, chief mathematician, indorses reassessment figure as being

, correct.

Based on calculations in an appraisal guide prepared By the Commissioners, Indianapolis’ test age. and condition considered, was classified as “average.” Final assess ment is $2190, a cut of $410. Actual tax rate for 1950 and pays .’

State Bard .of Tax

able in +1951 will not be known until tax board sets rate next year.

Photos by | Lloyd B. Walton, Times Stan | Photographer,

“ Baltzell, 70 Years Old Tomorrow, On Federal Bench A A Stormy 25 Years, Known As 'The Hard-Boiled Judge’

“I'M ONLY . sorry the law does not permit the court to give you sufficient punishment.” Those-words and others sim|lar have been heard numerous times in the Federal District Court of Judge Robert C. Baltzell during nearly 25 years of service on the bench here, The words keynoted the stormy term of Judge Baltzel and won “for him the title o “the hard-boiled judge.” Tomorrow the former Gibson Circuit Court judge 4s 70 years

old and his retirement from

- tive service is expected soon.

£15,000

Actually he will retain his office ‘of judge for life and will be paid the salary of his office: untit his death. He dan if he desires, be assigned to hear cases in any U. 8. court to which a district judge may be” -ghsigned. A ” ~ r DURING THE past 25 years, Judge Balfzell has ruled’ the Federal District court here with an iron hand. Colleagues and lawyers described him as “hard but fair” and none could claim partiality. : He particularly was the

..mBecourage of violators of the Federal Prohibitions Amendment during the ‘Twenties. In those days he often. sentenced as many —as. 20 pers sons-at once. He-was-catied-to-New York in the heyday of the bootieggers to sit on the Jack Daniel case, the trial of a bootleg ring. He dealt Justice so vigorously that newspapérs declared “Baltzell Jolts Gotham” ind called him the “hard-boiled Indiana judge.” When he returned to Indiana he received a threat that his home would

be blown up.-It was watched by officers for days. - FF *® » : PROBABLY his most famous case was the trial of George

= Harrett-in-1030 for the-slaying

of an FBI agent in Indianapolis. Conviction of Barre(t brought a sentence of “death by hanging” from Judge Balt,zell, ‘It was the first such sen ‘tence in Indiana since 388, and the" Inst, Not only that, but stead of ordering the execution rformed at one of th estate in stitutions, Judge Baltzel or-

”

dered it done in the Marion County jail yard. Another of the judge's cases

which drew wide publicity was

the trial of William Dudley Pelley, head of the Silver Shirts

‘organization, for sedition;

Judge Baltzell sentenced Pelley to 15 years imprisonment and it was upheld by the U, 8. Supreme Court. There were relatively few appeals. to higher courts taken from Judge Baltzell's decisions. There were only: “350 appeals taken from the thousands of decisions he rendered OF

350 cases appealed, the judge's decision was upheld In 241 cases.

» ® 8 » . IN THE 24 fiscal years be. tween July 1, 1925, and June 30, 1949, a total of 26,364 cases of all kinds were disposed of ‘In his court. That is an average of nearly 1100 cases a year, -Of this number 7507 were civil actions, 7203 were criminal, 6721 bankruptcy and 4843 naturalization. These totais do not inciude the cases disposed of from the time of the judge's appointment 3 in Jan.:13 to July

in Aug. 15, 1879, but got his first’

1 1925, or those disposed of since June 30. The Hoosier judge was born Lawrence County, Il, on

introduction to Blackstone and othér law tomes at the Marion Law. School In Marion. He reGeived his LL.B. degree there ih 1904. The same year he was married to Vienna N. Carlton of Sumner, 11, ‘was admitted to the Indiana bar and began practice with his brother Charles, in Princeton.

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"position on ‘Jar. 13, 1925. was - appointed by President .

He was elected judge of the Gibson Circuit Court in 1930 after having served as Indiana {Onacription agent during World War I. “He served for five years as circuit judge and then resigned to° gceept his present He

Coolidge. Mrs. Baltzell died In “1048. For many years ‘the judge has resided in 5637° Central Ave. He has been in poor health re.

adle to go to his offic,

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