Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 December 1950 — Page 39

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Ask Merit Setup "Don't ake Hero Out of Me’

For Auto Bureau ~* Disclosure of Errors - Brings Action

bureau with the present low wage scales in the department. y “We realize that in order to establish a permanent, efficient staff of clerks the pay will have to be increased to meet competition for personnel in private business,” he said. : Called a ‘Mess’ : Secretary of State Leland Smith and Clyde Black who took over directorship of the license bureau Dec. 1, attended the Safety Council's session .on the bureau's condition which they both have described as a “mess.” However, Secretary of State Smith said he didn’t believe merit system would “help matters|| very much.” ~ “Most of the trouble lies ip the low pay scales for personnel,” he said. “Under present law we can only pay clerks $140 to $160 a month and you can’t get many workers qualified for specialized record work for that pay.” Mr. Smith said he and Mr. Black would “do everything pos-| sible to get the best qualified clerks available.” ’ . ‘He said he thought that the de-| partment could be straightened out on an efficient basis in a few

Firemen Lathen Trigg, James Wallace and Roy Pope Jr. (left weeks.

to right) talk it over at Station I; following the recovery last night | by Mr. Wallace of a body from the ice-encrusted White River.

Show, Cold Hampers

Work on Farms 'Only My Duty,’ Fireman Says

Field work on Indiana farms was held at a minimum during te, AA R : 5 of ; past week because of the cold and, er ecovering o Yy Crop. Bulletin fo the Indiana| James Wallace Lowered in Bosun's Chair: I’

Crop Bulletin issued by the Victim Plunges From White River Bridge

Weather Bureau. i Snow and ice over most of the| By FRANK BARRY “Don’t make a hero out of me,” pleaded Fireman James Wallace,

state prevented corn picking.! Wheat and meadows were re-| s ” ported in good condition despite what I did last night was just part of my job. the weather, |

{at 1445 W. Michigan St. had a cold, ticklish job on his hands for {about 25 minutes. : In the swirling snow and sub-freezing temperatures, Mr. Wallace was lowered 50 feet in a rope saddle over the side of the there was to it,” said Fireman W. Michigan St. bridge to recover Wallace.

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{Green said identifications was recovery, dangled the distance to made through cards found on the the frozen water.

“The man's head was sub-| P0dY- The cards list Mr, Skiles’

i 5, 1 , - merged just below the ice,” py, ja0dI208 BR 5. or MJ E. Ray Wallace sald. “The police rescue ____

squad had hooked his body 50 it) STOP HIT-AND-MISS home wouldn't sink further. 'hunting. Read The Times real es“There was no sign of life when gq4e Classified Columns EVERY I reached him. I tried to pull him pAY and don’t miss the big speout and get him on a section of cja) Real Estate Section in The solid ice but it was too slick. |Sunday Times. Yom will find

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Lf Sem; CS “4 | i the body of Victor M. Skiles. | A member of the fire departbh Cn as A witness, Fred Worth, General ment for only two years, Mr. 181) N. MERIDIAN ST Hospital pathological department Wallace lives at 3962 Cornelius employee, said the man jumped. Ave. HAWTHORN Mr. Skiles died instantly of a Saw Vietim Leap DINNER |skull fracture when his body Mr. Worth, the witness, said | plummeted through a two-inch that at about 8 o'clock last night Complete! | thickness of ice covering the he Was driving Bcrugs the bridge . iriver. {when his attention was drawn Served Every Evening Lightly Clothed {to the leap victim's pecular acSTH P.M. L= Aided by Capt. Lee Fulmer and tions. He told police the man sud- : a four-man Fire Rescue Squaa, dently stopped, mounted the! 75¢ to $1.15 Fireman Wallace, gloveless and Pridge railing and jumped.

“Then I hooked the back of his many helpful articles about the overcoat, half-pulled him out, and real estate business as well as

» flator an ‘anti’ They say he is| State Now Aiding :=:io som et my y h {brings around even the most hesi- : tant lawmaker.” : ay - s Budget Director Lytle Free- vv vate [1]1] /hafer, who assembles all’ budget’ / requests, said he would release at 5 3 p. m. today the financial reMore ‘May Be Added quests of all state departments.

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state. The new groups were in- i : . A 19-year-old Indiana Univer-' eludes in a special appropriation Extension student told police . 4 > she was raped and pushed out Groups Are Listed 5 i The alded. organizations and 0° A rorohnie late last, ight) AY {bry reed t the amounts they receive: her into a car at N. Delaware

g $ 3.000 f Academy od Bolente : so0jand E. Michigan Sts. ; i Vegetable Growers Association ..... 300! The young woman said she had |

Corn Growers Association ow ne Livestock Breeders Association .... Dairymen's - Association vais tate Horticulture Association ..... and Army of Republic ames nited Spanish War Veterans .....

500 left class and was awaiting the 3.000 bus when the car stopped andl +500ithe. men grabbed her. She said

Disabled American Veterans ....... 11.920 she screamed and fainted. She feterans of Forelsn Wars... 15000/said both men raped her at 15th!

diana Sausdron, Navy Club ..... 1.000 St. and the Canal and pushed her| Military Order of Purple Heart: .. 1.000 from the car. Police said her, The new groups added in 1949 clothing was ripped from her, were the Amvets, Navy Club, Ma- body. rine League and Purple Heart : Order. ; : "y : The state provides the money Hoosiers Needn t Wait for reimbursing the aided organ- Turn to Be Drafted izations for “ordinary and con-| poggiers between ages of 18 tingent” expenses. Part of the 5ng 2g no longer have to wait money goes to pay the salaries their turn to be drafted into the and travel expenses of officers, qq forces. and for convention expenses. | Fear Opposition , Statehouse officials and legislajtors privately say the aided origanizations appropriation is Brig. {a result of pressure. But nearly {all the legislators fear to take a {stand against it. | Three State Senatdrs who con'sidered fighting the bill in 1949 {believed it wrong in principle because it leaves the state treasury wide open for raids by all sorts of private organizations. The senators who eventually approved the bill, posed this ques-

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