Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 January 1950 — Page 3
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" mies which prevented doing much
But Believes He’
Admits ‘Grand Plans’ Are Gone,
s Made Progress
By RICHARD LEWIS
0 a the 0 ems Dry
“wheel in City Hall, he has not
Hos the first to admit it.
Rate see oes Put Kihosh on
oh Xin uot Yeely 0 will male sany iu the last two Years of his administration. :
Mayor Feeney ra
pledged to improve ~jces. He prom
” has been blocked.
pating deficit. The city’s physical equipment was run down because
ties. Police morale was™ow and criminals lurked on the city payroll,
The mayor contends he made -up the deficit in 1948 by econo-
else. He reorganized the police; department and put it on ‘a merit basis. As proof, he points to "Chief. Rouls, a "Republican, and better morale.
He 'told one group of rookies at swearing in ceremonies:
There was a tine when bs told a telepfione caller who wanted an audience as early as possible that his day began at 6 a. m. The caller was there, waiting outside
the locked door, when the Mayor were expected to wink at infrac-
arrived five minutes late: "The caller was the late Powers
Hapgood, then regional director night.
of the CIO. His honor doesn’t make it down the office so early now. His ours are shorter and there is more formality in his office.
1950 Revelry
“|Year's eve on a Saturday night
Closing laws
Some Towns Wink After Midnight
“NEW YORK, Dec. 31 (UP)— The nation celebrated its first New
since 1938 tonight. Authorities an-
keeping with Sunday A check of various states showed most of them intended to enforce rules against liquor sales on Sunday. "But many communities
tions and one—Bayonne, N. J.— prepared to Jet bara stay open aii
The midnight kiss could be expected to be a little longer and the horn-tooting a little louder for this was the turn of a half century as well as a ‘year, although there were those who would be arguing
a
“I want to tell you men you
py don’t .owe your jobs to any poli-|Community Church planned a big ticians, Anyone who says you do/parfy for the college students 1 in
is a liar” The mayor did not promise to keep the tax rate down, and he has not. It has risen 25 cents per $100 assessed property valuation since he took office. His expenditures have increased from $15,033,159 in 1948 to $16,066,579 budgeted for 1950. “This is an increase of 1$1,033,420., Two years ago, Indianapolis had the lowest per capita taxes of 23 comparable U. 8. cities, according to the census bureau. This may no longer be true.
Blocked at General Hospital
The mayor believes General Hospital is doing a better job for me the sky and visible fora more people. Physicians complain its facilities are too limited for|
the city’s present size.
Here the mayor has been blocked in an effort to bulld new but the word was passed that surgical and psychiatric units and a Powes plant. onde Th 1s customers PIE Hao/aD b 8 refreshments
preme Court ruling 0 the one of the parked cars
Mayor contends he has
improved garbage and ash collection services. This appeared to be so until last Monday when;
the system collapsed because the {pears - negligible, but the Mayor Ie became evident this service has made a ‘start in one-way such a narrow |street, directional flow: This will in 69 years. margin of men and vehicles that be expanded in 1950 without anyit could not miake up a day lost.one at City Hall being able to) 12. no longer completely dry, the
men were given one day off.
operated ' on
city from
If traffic was bad when the Mayor téok office, At is worse ‘ There rected its nightspots to bar their
now. Officials admit it. are more vehicles,
Progress fn trafic control ap-|could open again at 7 a. m.
As a resuit, thousands of house-|visualize the results.
. _holders, including the Mayor, were stuck with overflowing/of the diagonal avenues is In- ° garbage ‘cans and ash buckets soluable.
from Christmas week-end.
The Mayor believes the problem
parked cars,
Parking Meter Here fo Stay
BUT HIS ADMINISTRATION has made two real advances. Ctty since their stores were opened on traffic fatalities (49) in .1949 were the lowest since the police depart-| July 19. ment began keéeping records in 1927. He has installed parking meters.
They are here to. stay. .
~lall-evening that the century act-
n.a platform of only two major lags; ‘He! © safety, health; recreation and. sanitary serv-| to keep the city’s streets, sewers, parks, play8 and vehicles in repair. no “ather real issue in the election and the may has carried out his program to .that extent: —except|!*nd services Sunday morning. In
It is another of his
“| In,
lually won't enter its second half {until 1951.
tions so they will be able to at
Columbus, O., the Rev. Roy W. |Burkhart, minister of the First
/the university town. Board Up Windows As usual, shopkeepers in New York’s Times Bquare boarded up windows and the police 'department assigned’ 975 .men to the square with instructions to keep an eye on fire alarm boxes. The 10,000-man sanitation. Department force was off both Sunday and Monday so the streets would /be littered with confetti, empty bottles,” paper hats and horps until Tuesday. \ A super-duper new sign was to be turned on in Times Square at midnight. It: featured a4 searchlight throwing a beam five miles
NN iehtelubs were under orders to, close at 3 a, m. instead. of 4
at three and conpie them during the next hour. The town of Hoboken, N. J., di-
{doors at 6 a./m.—but told they
Kansas on B Kansas was set to observe its {first legally “wet” New Year's eve But though the state
new law restricts drinking: to homes and private clubs. However, it was expected many customers would bring bottles to nightclubs and dances and keep them under the tables. The Association of Retail Dealers reported {its biggest month of liquor sales
At infractions |, |
ticipated alfrtieulyy in getting|
called ‘on their con-| |gregations Tor moderate celebra-|.
| which had been, kanging in the
{posal for no increase, the Pub-
‘manager.
Nine-year-old David Rans- , 8040 Broadway, who just finished playing the long-nosed lead in the’ Junior - Civic Theater production of “Pinocchio” managed to reward himself for-a good job well done. David and the other 66 youngsters in the play all coveted a silver Pinocchio spoon. tied with a red ribbon bow,
Civic Theater ticket window, waiting for the purchaser of the 1000th season ticket book. Excitement rose high Friday ‘night when it was discovered
Phone Bill Hike 0f $1: Expected
See Possible
PSC Compromise
Don't look now, but your telephdne bill is going. up. 5 It won't be as much as the Indiana Bell Telephone Co. wants, or as little as the public wants
pay. Caught between the phlione com-| pany’'s demand for a $3.8 million increase and Public Counselor William Steckler’s counter pro-
lic Servicé Commission is expected to compromise on half. Mr, and Mrs. Hoosier, who have come to regard the phone as one of the basic necessities of life, will be surprised to learn that the pro-
about $1 a month. Hired Chicago Firm The PSC has listened to arguments against and in favor of the increase for more than a year. The commission even hired the Cyrus G. Hill engineering firm of
Idaho, Robert E.
Attorney General, Smylie issued a ‘“‘re-
The mayor admits they have not solved parking difficulties minder” that state law forbids] downtown, but he believes they have helped. And they yield revenue. (dancing after midnight Saturday “fhe problem of -smoke control te block the overall project, but a and the sale of liquor after 1 a.
is not a fundamental objective in the mayor's administration. He does not believe drastic con-| trol is desirable and neither does)
" his Council. Both he and Council
favor & moderate effort to curb gross violations, Public improvements completed) or nearing conipietion now did not originate in the present administration. The College Ave. Central | Ave, W. Michigan St, W. 10th
St. and W. 16th St. bridges are| The city is prevented by law the products of a decade of plan-| from carrying over a balance
ning. The "Mayor has
is inmotion.
Sunday. But he said there wis
| This is another one of those nothing to prevent rumba-ing and |parked cars. The mayor and his} delebration at home until ‘the wee
{legal staff are trying to have the [hours
courts move it,
In "Chicago, authorities sald
there were no unusual restrictions Although the city’s finances are| better organized under a full time | OT relaxations because the holi-
controler than they were under art time controllers in the past, significant reform appears un- Trooper Application
likely.
day fell on Sunday.
|
Deadline Set Feb. 28
Applicants for any of the 25
{large enough to meet its payrol! !s| trooper positions to be filled this
launched a|pending spring tax collections. Iiiyear in the state police service|
sewer program, but it is essential-/must borrow money from banks will have- until midnight Feb. 28
ly the same one developed by his{and pay interest. The mayor protests this prac-/forms to department heads, Supt.
predecessor, Again, the question| of bonding authority has come up| part of it—the E. 34th Bt. sewer—
tice vigorously. - I “It is refined graft,” he sald.
Has Housing and Parking Plans
Although the mayor has no plans to announce, he has plans,
He will one day ,if he can, blend the Redévelopment Commission
and the Housing Authority into
tends to bring federal low cost housing here to provide living quar-
a single, operating unit. He in-
{to return completed application
Arthur M. Thurston announced today. Forms may be optainel by writing to Supt. Thuyston, State Police Headquarters, Indianapolis. Trooper applicants must. be at least 21 as of June 19 and not
ters for persons to be evacuatdd from slums in areas marked for/DUst De at least five feet, nine
redevelopment. If he is blocked in this, he| will block redevelopment. He intends to \build multi-|
storied off-street parking garages and ‘operate them under his new Parking Authority. The likely location is 8. Illinois St.| between Maryland St. and Union Station. Another lkely sits is) the Traction Terminal. He intends to search for additional tax’ revenue, One-~pos-
sibility is a city wage tax of one: Another is &
Both would re<|
balf of 1 per cent.
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{mayor is not optimistic. The way
ahead is parked solid ‘with cars.
In two years, he hasn't been
(able to.move one of them.
TEACHERS LUN CH EON
Marion County Association o |Classroom Teachers will hold a
luncheon session Saturday noon
|at the Claypool Hotel.
portion. Only those of American|
credited high schools are eligible. |
Patient Plays
‘Named Director
4 “pleasure trip”
tendent of the ins vealed the details,
Nov. 8. Plays Role Well
[drink before leaving the hospital, Mr. Magruder said, and after five days of tippling here and in New
Hotel Dieu, another hospital, in New Orleans.
{more than 34 as of Sept. 1. They inches tall, with weight in pro-
citizenship and graduates of ac-
To Get His Doctor Confined
Acts Out His Role a Little Too Well, Mckes Off With Motor Car and Money
JACKSON, La, Dec. 31 (UP)-—More-than-somewhat erhbarrassed officials of a mental hospital here disclosed today how a patient turned the tables on a staff psychiatrist, had him admitted to an institution and madé off With his car and money. The situation began developing on Christmas day when the patient, identified. as Oscar Hoffman, an and Staff Psychiatrist Dr. ‘|Edwin C. McGowan, left the East| Louisiana (mental) Hospital on|staff at the Jackson institution at|-
Dr. L. F. Magruder; superin-/played his role well. Hotel Dieu utioni who re-|attendants accepted his story at id both men |face value, admitted Dr. were “Irinkers” but that Mr, Mo-|wan as an “alcoholic” and began. Gowan had sworn he ‘had gone|to treat him. jon the wagon when he was hired
{Chicago to make an independent
survey of Indiana Bell's financial.
|and operating condition. i Most of the testimony is in the record today. f m.| Now the PSC-will begin to weigh the. evidence, sift reports and make decisions on exhibits. . Before long—about June—the PSC will formally announce a decision, Two years ago, Indiana Bell won a $3 million increase from the commission. It was filed three years ago yesterday. Changed Twice Before The Commission has indicated that the next increase will not be as high. - On two other occasions tele- | phone rates were changed in Indiana. In 1939, the company made a general rate revision but the majority of phone bills were lowered. ° In 1926, the PSC granted the phone company an increase, the first since the Central Union Telephone Co. and the Indianapolis Telephone Co, merged in 1920.
COFFEE EXPORTS AT PEAK RIO DE JANEIRO, Bras], Dec. 31 (UP)—Brazilian coffee exports broke all records this year, with
a total of 20,170,956 bags, Presi-|
|dent Eurico Gaspar Dutra said today in a ina New Year's ‘message,
Psychiatrist
work often since his confinement; MeGo-
' certain lls hands,
When he was “patient” was In
bought the books.
posed hike would boost phone bills]
good Hoffman calmly walked: oft from| ' The two men had their first/the hospital, pocketed $320 of Dr,
Orleans and Baton Rouge they man would be held Tespansibie. for ended up at the front door -of (the escapade,
Hoffman . told attendants at! probably would go
McGowan's money and drove off| in his car, Dr. said. He doubted, however, that Hoff-
David Ransburg receives silver spoon from Doris Lytle, stage
998 books had been sold. Who | would buy the 1000th book and win the spoon? a avid had the answer. Bright “ing\ his second term as president and early yesterday he appeared at the Civic ticket window and 999th and 1000th The Pinocchio went where David thought it ought to go—to Pinocchio.
STRAUSS SAYS:
yo.
| [Court; Lt. Gen. Willis B. Critten-
|. [Columbia, Cuba, Dominican Re-
. {floor committee. He will be able
the United States and Canada will oSecorae the west ballroom : the Shoreham Hotel Friday night when the Indiana State Society of Washington holds its ] most gala event of the season. a. occasion is a reception for three distinguished Hoosiers, to followed by dancing. Honor are Associate Justice Sher. Minton .of the Supreme
U.S. military representative to the United Nations and of the Inter-American Board, and Assistant Secretary of State Jack K. Me-
Ee ‘flags. will honor the Defense Board delegates, all De whom have been invited to attend. South and Central American republics included will be Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile,
public, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay,
Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela. Stone Heads Committee Harry Stone of the State Department, a native of Ft. Branch, Ind, will be chairman of the
to talk to foreign guests in their native tongue, as his service is
Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey
; has. arrarfged a special \merican husical program. music will be by Dave
- McFall to Be Honored |
Times today. ¥. WASHINGTON, Dec. 3i—Fiags | {of all the Latin Américan nations,
His
me:
“The doctor received hundreds of
reese: Editors” Poll
of help iri-the fight against charg-
. Freed on $325,000 bail
un Adee ng A
MANCHESTER, N. H., Dec. 31 ( _ |delivered-a néw life a few hours after meray. killing un 8. patn-wracked, cancer pamient, it wag
, the 41-
—DFr, Hermans N Sander ‘was freed on bail in the revealed
year-old surgeon mediately brought a baby into the world at ‘Eiliott Hospital SE
patients stuck with him.
s of
of air into her veins. Dr, Sander}: according. to state officials, has admitted that he did that as an “act of mere since the woman could live only a few hours longer,
es that he put Mrs. Abbie C. Borroto of Manchester to desth Backs mn’ by injecting 40 cublec centimeters
“Advise Truman Not
To Run Again (Continued From Page One)
{with the Latin American division.
his
hu
Sa
orchestra.
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jection. The charges against Dr. Sander brought no apparent change in|
After he delivered a five-pound, 12-ounce daughtér to Mrs, Louise Crocker, 28, of Manchester he picked -up his regular rounds. Four patients were. at his of-} fice waiting for him and’at the! hospital another woman sought] his’ advice on the care and feeding of her nine-day-old son.
The doctor ordered his secre-|,.q; MacArthur. tary not to cancel any appointments. and promised to keep up| his medical practice as long as possible. Atty. Gen. William L. Phinney| NEXT: What the “editors think and County Solicitor William H.|of 1950 election prospects, and of Craig said the case probably] would be the last considered by| the grand jury Tuesday and that it might take until Wednesday to| complete presentation. They said they hoped to talk soon with, take office as president of the the _ victim's auxiliary to the Sons of Union in public installation Yesterday Mr. Borroto handed ceremonies at 8 p. m. Tuesday in a slip of paper to reporters in| the Central YWCA. Mrs. Lela B, which he said he
t Dr.| | Shugart, Marion, TR n"| of staff to the national
Reginald Borroto,
dence in him.
normal life. Resumes Rounds
sband.
nder was d that he
Marshall
tonstall,
Veterans
‘Byrd. and Mr, | though Democrats, got one Ree publican you apiece.
Byrnes,
| Truman s “Fair Deal.”
Installation Tuesday
Mrs, Ruby M. Roesener .will
who .is chief
tof -the auxiliary, will be instale ling. officer,
She died 10 minutes ofter the In-lo7 “Who is the best man _the Republicans could ran against Truman?” 44 per cent’of the edis tors answered, “Eisenhower” 28 per cent said “Taft,” 13 per cent | sald “Stassen,” 2 per cent sald & “Warren.” Seven per cent were undecided. The rest of the vote was scate tered among 11 other names Plan Administrator (Paul Hoffman, Governors Dewey of New York, Driscoll of New Jerséy and Youngdahl of Minnesota; Senators Vandenberg, Sale Bricker and Ives; Gens
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