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Mayors Assert = State Grabs | . ZL Ss A yred p ‘ FRanklin 4411 Cities’ Rights } :

Plea for Home Rule Marks Windup of Convention Here

Indiana mayors charged today, the state has grabbed too many, of their cities’ rights, The municipal leaders closed the two-day Indiana Municipal League convention yesterday by, reaffirming a love of home rule, declaring “the best government 1a that government closest to bome.” { League members unanimously | resolved to oppose the Delphi Act, by which the state legis-| lature requires all towns over) 2000 population to become cities. | “The league believes this robs | towns of their last vestiges of home rule,” said W, Vincent) Youkey, executive director, Another resolution recognized “the spread of acute alcoholism.” It called for legislation allocating a portion of tax funds received from the sale of alcoholic beverages for the rehabilitation of) acute alcoholics, Other Resolutions In other resolutions the mayors. ONE: Demanded reapportion- | ment of the Hoosier General As-! sembly, charging state legislators | neglected to perform this duty for 20 years. TWO: Asked adoption of a state-wide municipal code, label-! ing changes made in the 1905 code “confusing and crazy-quilt in! pattern.” THREE: Requested legislation | giving federal social security ben- | efits to city employees. FOUR: Called for a law permitting incorporated towns. to re-| main such—regardless of population—unless town residents voted | to become a city. FIVE: Suggested state lawmak-| ers provide methods for financing any new service responsibilities

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Protest Greentown Water Rate Hike |

_ A delegation of Greentown resi- Ayres’ Hat Bex, Street Floor dents today protested s rate increase for the Greentown Water Works Co. during a public hearing before the Indiana Public

Service Commission. The utility, requesting an in-| crease of from 60 to 125 per cent| in rate, Is owned by Sills, Minton| & Co., a Chicago investment firm, “and serves 350 subscribers. | Maintaining that the utility service was “poor,” the Greentown residents asked the PSC to deny the rat» increase and order th firm to improve service. | Milton Ferguson, editor and publisher of the- weekly Howard County News, offered in evidence a bottle of brown-colored water, he said he had taken from an] ordinary kitchen faucet, As-| sistant Public Counselor Lloyd © Wampler said he would use the bottle of water as “evidence to show the quality of tap water in Greentown is poor.”

New Phone Books Are On Way

Delivery of approximately 215, 000 new Indianapolis telephone di- | rectories got under way today. A. B. Nail, division manager of the Indiana Bell Telephone com-| pany said It would take a force of 350 people about seven days, to complete the delivery unless rainy weather interferes, Each new diectory weighs about 3% pounds and contain 468 white and 418 yellow pages, as compared with 448 white and. 404 yel- | low pages in its predecessor’ More ' than a ton of ink was consumed in the printing of this edition; One new item in this issue is the introduction of BOwman telephone numbers in Cumberland. .Cumberland's telephone service | _ will be converted from manual to! dial operation tonight. When new directories are delivered, the old books will be picked up. NAMED TO COMMISSION - HARRISBURG, Bept. 22 (UP) ~—Gov. Duff has announced the appointment of J. Graff Bomberger, associate publisher of the Jeannette News-Dispateh, as a : i ' .

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