Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 May 1951 — Page 3

sot . THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1051 _. THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Coal i PAGE 3

cher's Cir cle Pa aving Wings of Death Hover Over Madison Ave., Belt Railroad Covig i

Trade Group Pleads

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: Someone is going to be killed . Among . lat Madison Ave and the Belt Rat-

Delay Over-Al! Time Limit of 3 Weeks road.

d Or Les P d } Some hapless motorist will die i ob col wo a Sos —— ax rate an . S Fro [unless something is doing about . WE TR operty valu- C 1 pose or Completion that crossing where traffic piles ling blocks omplete repaving of - Monument Circle and its ap- up fot blocks as switch engines - pay raises * x’ proaches was: to be proposed to the Works Board today. Irate hie ane Fgnals wd . ! [motorists The long-sought project tentatively is proposed as a minutes.

L [oe ons for the ii job, with contracts to be let for 24-hour-per-day| " Sone Stivers wol’ t wait as the’ : : : J ; date of" ork schedule : ltrain stands near the crossing . 1 # ? ~ . : : "/L v ye SE ules and an over -all time limit of - three weeks) with the street unblocked. They RPS i 7 nll en : 2 : A J it 7 Dwight yr or less. e . ag at the blinking red light, d $ : told in- The area to be repaved, in- RR CEE DNR jake a Jui look down the « A. . ack, slip across. Tax Board . "cludes the Circle, Market St. © “the regular city tax money and track. sn p he rate over fr llinois 5 % “:'funds received from -the state! That's been going on for some te” of the'” : rom lllinois to Pennsylvania from gasolige tax, he proposed the time. f saw it happen yesterday. rl Sts. and Meridian St. fram expendifure of $1 million of bond: Flasher signals ' were ‘working at a Short-"" Washington to Ohio Sis, money. 1 but the train was stopped when eting called Bayt OKs Plan This sum “will permit Indiafiap- an Indianapolis Railways bus a . % : ms : re. rs objected - *_ City Engineer Will R. Hunt 25 te put its averall street situ- pulled up to the crossing. The bus ; met mama ma 1 3 rr Witham R unt “Ge » y : y y ‘ Times Photos by Heriry E. ilesing Jr sreases and ation in “Good shape,” ‘Mr: Hunt was crowded = with rush ‘hour ; ” . R Nid vi ili 8 ; Sey : i declared yesterday the Circle has said. p standees® + BLOCK:-LONG JAM—Truck drivers and motorists, delayed by railroad switch engines, take PETITIONERS-—Olin K. Flanery, 214 S. Addison St. and Jou. loption ; long been = need of major re Key Projects Listed The driver didn't even bring the time to visit until the road is cleared. Neff, 1728 N. Parker Ave. 4 . s on N G . . . : the budget Mayor Bayt has given his in- Major projects already under ps oa Jul Tl Jiving 8 Dyer men’s Association is trying to would be ready for contract last giving the Madison Ave. under-, Drivers want to get home at That was at 4:25 p. m. 51° year will © dorsement to the plan, subject to contract or near that stage In- clipped into another gear and! save that impatient motorist’s month. pass priority over the W. 16th St. rush-hour. And they risk their, In the next five minutes more August. al- approval of a request for a =ec- clude the repaving of Senate Ave. Irove the DUE ACTOSS ile. And trvi 1 a the block. Getting ‘Run-Around’ project, but the decision was up lives or a $5 and costs fine for vio-/than 30 cars, including Bus No. gust, , ond $500,000 bond issue tor street from Indiana Ave. to 16th St.; Sa hi wn e, And \I'ying to en $ They declare they are geiti to the State Highway Department. lating the flasher ordinance rather) 372 and a taxicab, (Red Csb No. erating the repair and maintenance. New York St. from Blake St. to That isn’t unusual, residents ing of traffic on Indiana's prin- y , getUNB phe Mayor called the Madison!than wait 10 to 20 minutes for 78) crossed the tracks against the: he 1951 tax | Final plans will not be com- White River Pkwy.; Emerson Ave. Su Rcores of A _busses and cipal north-south highway and @ "fun- -around.” State highway Aye situation “more desperate.” the crossing to clear. (flasher. i pleted for the project for several from Brookville Rd. to Lexington taXis do it.every day. one of Indianapolis’ key south- Officials inform them that an Aroused South Siders dont As the businessmen watched, At 4:30 p. m. the train moved her stated months, Mr. Hunt said he was Ave.; South St. from Virginia to Seek an Underpass bound arteries. r underpass: on 168th St. now has want to see a busload of people Belt Engine No. 14, pulling a long |up and blocked the street. After d anticipat- p bringing the idea before Works Capitol, and Alabama St. from The law of averages says one of the top priority. State highway smashed before planning can be line of freight cars, drew slowly! backing and going forward sevai property . Board members today to get their Washington St. to Virginia Ave. these in-a-hurry drivers will fail They want an underpass. They engineering staffs are not able to completed. toward the crossing. It stopped eral times, it cleared the street at ade the re- opinion * before extensive engi- In addition, approximately 2G ‘0 see an oncoming train in time. want the underpass which C. B. do the planning, the businessmen More than a dozen members of about 50 feet west of Madison 4:39 p. m. d, he added, ! - neering has been completed. other projects, generally of $25,- And he will die, or be seriously Kendall of ‘the association de- are told, because of a manpower the businessmen’s group yesterday Ave. The flasher signals started] During this 14-minute peried Cost Set at $150,000 000 or less in size, are scheduled maimed. . clares the State Highway Com- shortage. polled motorists who were stalled working and tHe warning bell{cars piled up for more than three ction alone Mr. Hunt indicated the cost immediately. The Madison Ave. Business-) mission promised last Novenjber Mayor " Bayt said he favored by switching trains at rush hour. rang. blocks in both directions. .s in property would be about $150,000. ree ne i

+ Doug Shakes the Hand That Turned Against Him |

City Traffic Woes Analyzed

t anticipat- ..would allow for overtime pay for

even certs : night and Saturday and Sunday OK on Chiang on Jan. 12

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Contracts would be let, Mr | ow Hike : Eh ee llth Doug Charg es JCS Put. | t

anticipated Under such a schedule. he ‘said, Continued From Page One eral said that after the Red Cai- Continued From Page One gaged in a conversation with Sen. the paving might be completed in : 8.3 “ itlv re- s. { nted pubiic i Sheed De i saults on enemy supply bases In Bese injervensd Je ooeantly ne lined with cheering fans, ‘mostly BY'd about, photographer Continued From Page One J AS. as! as oS # . y . ; “ & ; S Me- . " $ TNE u o 8 . the next sential, he said. to hold to a mini- Manchuria, we simply will not be women employees in the building, able to place it's own lights and

able to send enough ground troops tionalist troops be employed.” to Korea to drive out the Red He was less clear as to a writ-

Chinese. ten request. for permission to) The plan for the Circle was re- «yon "would go up to the Yalu bomb in Manchuria and to block-| vealed as Indianapolis’ most. am- ,n4 vou would be in: a position ade the China coast, but said he| bitious street repair program be- p..q the enemy could jump you had told Gen. J. Lawton cating 3 gan to hit high gear. immediately,” he added. Army Chief of Staff, that it was ] Under the. impetus. of- JMavor Going ifito another phase, the necessary 1o.."lift those inhibi-| .§ ~ Bayt and the Works Board. the general said he had no. direct HOPS iy City will this year spend mOre|.,nnaction with the United Na-

3 . than three mes the amount it tions. Even the reports which he > ever has given to street main- ,, nay made to the United Na-

tenance. tions, he said, were subject to

to Senator Byrd's office. There AS THE FLASH bulbs popped he stayed, for what Mr. Byrd's and reporters continued to press office described as a “freshening- gpout the General, Sen. Richard| up,” until he walked upstairs to Russell (D. Ga). who as hair-| {the hearing room. e : In a press room on the street ‘man of the Armed Services Com-| floor a woman correspondent of mittee is presiding, banged vio-| Tass—the Russian news agency— jont)y for order with his gavel. sand a-male reporter for the COm- yyhen this failed, he attempted to ;munist Daily Worker, stood wait- quiet the room by slamming a [ng for transcripts of the testi- gia5q ash tray repeatedly against mony he was to give. Both ithe table top. seemed slightly contemptuous of But it was not until Gen. Mac-|

run them, even if they have to pay for them. Local traffic can’t be organized at the state level, Mr. Wolf said. ; Nine major roads leading through the city are under the control of the state.-Local authorities have no jurisdiction over the timing or co-ordination -of signals on them, “In this day and age one-way ,8treets are a necessity. The mar~ chants will beef their heads off,

crease sal- mum the interruption of traffic in nt peak of ° the key business area.

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; $600,000 Spent in '350 censorship by-our State and De- {the whole proceeding. Arthur had finished shaking no doubt. But the merchant opThe largest amount ever before lense Departments. a S 00S of $$ 4 8 hands with all the Senators posed to one-way streets is devoted to street repair—$600,000 Changes Made GEN. WHITNEY and Col present that Sen. Russell finally] cutting his own throat and cash

Storey entered the hearing room made himself heard and ordered | . |tirst, followed by the hatless Gen. {police to clear the room. i MacArthur, his hair parted care-| Gen. MacArthur sat down— fully on the side and brushed wearily—in the witness chair, across the top of his head. and mopped his forehead. And The hearing wasn't more than the long-awaited hearings be- _ |a,_quarter of an hour underway 830: when the “leaking” started. One Senator walked out and Wolves Birthday , Gifts

|started telling reporters Shot Gen. MacArthur's testimony n For March of Dimes o

| | | ~—was spent last year. And he said, they made “a | This year about three times number of changes” in practically County Salaries z that amount will be expended on every report he submitted. i maintenance and major overhaul, Gen. MacArthur, advocate of To Be Surveyed of time and winter-ravaged the more aggressive war, told the A “small” increase in the 1952 streets. listening Senators he knew our county tax rate was foreseen to-| This year approximately $500,- air forces “wished from the very day if pay raises are granted 000 in projects have either already beginning to pursue an attacking county employees. been contracted or have received enemy plane to the death whether County Council President Howtentative approval for completion it was over the border line or ard Morse made this prediction this year. not.” today at a meeting of all county Mr. Hunt has estimated that the ‘The directives forbade that.” officials to lay the groundwork for| |Red troop movements. NEWBURGH. N. Y. (UP) Tos ported. winter of 1950-51 caused three he said. a broad survey of county salaries. : ; | . As Gen. MacArthur entered the! March of ai solicit t HE'S GOT A JOB—Yukiyoshi The group explained that safety times the damage to city streets| He asknowledged the prohibi- ~The meeting was called without SYMBOLIC—Little Ruby Man- marble walled room. a full March o imes solicitors point| C yoshi land ‘traffic are two : that is caused by the average|tion was not vital until the Red advance notice by Mr. Morse, who y |quorum of both committees al- With pride to one of their most, Kunogi, a student at Columbia |that go hand in hand. Both must

register.” he explained. . “Downtown stores are sunk une less people can get to them. Suburban shopping centers will move in and get the business, un merenants permit traffic to mave in the downtown area. “Our one-way streets were potested by the stores, but we t ahead and put them in. Now they think they're wonderful,” he: xe

winter. |Chineseé entered the war. The Gen- said he believed there is a need ischewitz, 11, stands near Cleo- ready was seated at the center. diligent contributiotts, 11-year- University in New York, is the |be attacked with equal vigor and Ak r | for pay raises in some job classi-| patra’s Needle in New York's [Even Sen. Walter George (D. Ga.), old Muriel Shields. grandson of Yukio Ozaki who [both must progress or neither This Eo Sie adit al |fications. | Central Park to observe the |was there—having gotten up from| For four years, she has re-| gent the ‘first cherry trees to can be achieved, i said nen e, In a 0 a =: i y sal : ! , ; “No Question About It’ tradition of breaking of the [a sick bed to attend. {fused gifts on her birthday. In-| i Indianapolis can be a . shy to the work required by war-en-| Q z Gen. MacArthur first posed for stead, she invites friends to her| Washington, D. C,, is Mayorot: 1,,4'4 city without major

| “If we grant these pay raises,” matzo. The unleavened bread

forced delays in construction has, > y {Mr. Morse said, “the tax rate will is eaten during Passover which

speeded plans for this year. ! Mayor Bayt several weeks ago revealed plans to ask for the sec<

several minutes for photogra- house for a party and asks each) Tokve in es Runegt > Té- problems as soon as enough | . ; {phers with Sens. Bridges and to bring polio donations rather Porlrg on ihe presen erry ple say ‘let's clean it up and stop have 10 go ap There is no ques- commemorates the liberation of Byrd in the center of the room. than gifts. tree situation to his 91-year- (this slaughter.! Any city admins Mr. Morse’ stat te i the Israelite slaves from Egyp- As he stood there. blinking, he To date, she has turned over old grandfather. istration, regardless of politics; ond of two bond issues to expand orse’s $a men came n tian. bondage. [complained that “my ‘eyes hurt.” more than $130 to the March of, can start the ball rolling,” Mr. the repair program. In addition reply to a question by Judge Sau Then he grinned and became en- Dimes fund. Wolf sald.

iA 3 oo Fed ~ i ps gram. aon] Maw "n I. Rabb, Criminal Court 2, who i § { : Nn ] asked: } ; ™ { 2 4 ; : “Can we afford to pay the re-| ; : YR)

sult of such a survey?” { County Commissioner Fred |Nordsiek pointed out that a 1-cent | |increase in the county general | {fund tax levy would produce some! . $80,000. Officials agreed an in-| crease of 2 to 3 cents in the tax ‘rate"would be needed to provide the pay raises. Mr. Morse said the Council was considering hiring an outside expert to make the study. Under consideration for the job are Prof. Richard Lomax, of Indiana University, and Carl Dortch, govern‘ment analyst with the Indianap-| s lolis Chamber of Commerce.

Made Sintilar Study Prof. Lomax made a similar

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