Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 May 1951 — Page 3
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Coal Dealers’
Truck Is First Weighed for
Ton of Fuel Hits ie a Close to 2000 Pounds
By JOE ALLISON When you buy a ton of coal, it's a pretty safe bet that it'll weigh almost exactly 2000 -%% pounds. As a matter of fact, it can legally be no more than four pounds more or less than a ton. That's a 'ump about the size of a grapefruit. y To make sure that your coal dealer is equipped to give you this exact measurement, the Weights and Measures Department of the city is constantly checking the huge scales dealers use. They can be wrong only two-tenths of one per cent. That's the four pounds, plus or minus, in the ton. Simple Devices : The scales used to weigh a ton, or 10 tons, of coal really are simple devices. But they're big. They will weigh with accuracy the average-sized man, or a 50- on the scale platform to simulate ton truck. In weighing a ton of > 7 - ga coal, the loaded truck is weighed ° and the known weight of the u truck is subtracted frem it. State Relief Various types are in common use, A. Tony Floreancig, city ° weights and measures chief, says. At the Irvington Ice & Coal an S I Co., 412 8S. Ritter Ave. a type! known as ‘wagon scales” are in| use. They get their name from] the fact that they were designed! to weigh wagon-type vehicles in|
tributed over the four wheels.
Scales ‘Red-tagged’ it Other types are designed to 2aSSiStance. ; check trucks in which most of the The report came just as
weight is concentrated over the trustee system was under in-| rear wheels.
The Irvington firm's scales vestigation for “shakedowns” were checked one day early this of Hoosier school teachers. spring. And they were ‘“red-| Indiana ranked among the tagged.” Nothing much was pighest states in the dispensing wrong with them, but they were of “pobr relief.” Only nine other outside the legal limit of two states had higher relief rolls pro-| pounds in a 100 of.error. |portionately than Indiana, where Because of this error the State 'the assistance is handed out by Department of Weights and township trustees. Measures, which does the testing, ‘Phony’ Cases | put a red tag on the scale, ban-| ning its use until it was repaired. Indiana was Illinois, where a reJohn Galloway, state scales cent professional survey showed tester, explained that the Irving- one in 15 cases to be “phony.” ton scale, like nearly all found to The Federal Security Adminibe in error, had worn slightly, | stration chart comparing recipient,
causing it to give the incorrect | rates in the United States in! showed that! plained, is caused by trucks con- Indiana's average is 7.5 relief re-
readings. This wear, he ex- December, 1950,
stantly stopping on the platform. |cipients per 1000 population, comUse 1000-Pound Weights |pared with a national average of
Scales Price Slashes Given Close Check
1000 POUNDS COMING DOWN—Test weights are lowered the weight of a loaded truck.
By DONNA MIKELS : Indiana's archaic township trustee poor relief system, decision. This would be June 5.
under fire for years for everything from general inefficiency which the weight is evenly dis- t4 out-and-out graft, today was voted as having one of the 10 highest caseloads in a national survey of general public be sold cheaper than the price
Follow Ruling On Fair Trade
Whisky, Aspirin
And Soaps Cut | ‘CHICAGO, May 26—Over-| the-counter prices of razor
and aspirin were cut in some
the U. S. Supreme Court's
“faif trade” decision. 2 Drug stores in Albuquerque,
No cut in prices was found in a check of leading Indianapolis drug stores last night, However, merchants are watching each other for a possible break in the price line.
war with cleansing tissue reduced from 19 to 9 cents a box, one patent medicine from $1.19 to 89 cents and one brand of aspirin marked down from 59 to 35 cents. Chicago liquor dealers slashed! {prices and one Loop store offered {a well-known bonded whiskey at $4.99 a fifth. It had been $6.75. | In Oklahpma City one soap sold
‘for a nickel a bar, half the former | price, and fishing rods were cut from $21.30 to $13. | | The price cuts followed the lcourt’s Monday decision, nullified certain fair trade agree‘ments between manutacturers and {retailers that put a floor under] |prices of many items, including! drugs and sporting items. |
Store Holds Back The lower prices were posted in|
Caseload iim ® ® in Nation
{back on mark downs, however. | | John Schwegmann Jr. presi-| {dent of a New Orleans super- | Imarket, said he is legally bound | {to hold to fair trade prices until [15 days after the supreme court
Mr. Schwegmann’s store refused to sign a fair trade agreement and when a distillery won a decision that said its liquor couldn't
{other dealers had agreed upon, ‘Schwegmann appealed and won, | After the 15 days are up, Mr. - | Schweggman said, whiskey prices arate township trustee relief of-| will be cut up to $1.10 a fifth and fices. Surveys and reform groups drugs up to 60 per cent. have repeatedly urged unification of relief and welfare activities on Watches Slashed a county basis. ’ New Orleans shoppers would| Some township trustee relief of-| find bargains at Manner’s jewery fices have such limited functions store, however, with watch bands, that administrative costs far over- fair-traded at $12.50, priced at shadow the actual assistance|$6.25 and watches, priced formergranted. ly at $33, priced at $22. | In Marion County Denver liquor stores cut prices,
the politics-ridden township
in March,
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blades, whisky, fishing rods| ..
Pocketed
CAMBRIUGE Mass, May 26 (UP). — Harvard students today took their Selective Service military deferment exatnination: Proctor (reading from instruction sheet): “Grab your answer sheet with left hand and carefully detach the report sheet by tearing along perforated line. This leaves about an inch of paper left. Dror this nn the floor by your seat. “Now place Selective Service cards in your pockets. Any questions?” Student (shouting): “Which pocket?” ..
At Reports of Truce
SOMEWHERE IN KOREA,
N. M., waged a full-scale. price May 26 (IUP)-— South Korean govCARI ernment’ would not accept any truce order that failed tn unify Korea. announcement boosted the stock of widely rumors.
The statement at Pusan had the , distinguish them from lair of an ultimatum |South Korea's allies and Com- i anpnet |munist enemies. It said the South |ayunching. [Koreans would continue the war |alone, if necessary, until the Reds nificant milepost” reached by| were defeated, and Korea was pnaval ordance united under one flag.
announced tonight it The
circulating peace
to both
Guided Missile Program in ‘Output Stage
| Details of Weapon Guarded by Navy
{ By United Press f WASHINGTON, May 26-—The |Navy discloged today that its
- ‘guided missile program is now in
‘the production stage” to put
4 - —~—— [them out as standard equipment communities today because of South ' Korea Blasts
[for the fleet, @& It guarded the details, carefully ‘but said the weapon to which it referred was for use from shipboard against aircraft. Nothing, can be said, it added, about the] guiding system, range, speed or weight.
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| daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rich- | ard Howard, 5744 Carrollton | Ave., has disappeared. |
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Hoosier Missing In Naval Sinking
‘Whew’ Missing
Sammy, a bashful, dehydrated skunk, belonging to Mary Louise Howard, 12,
| She asked police ,to help her Rg hunt for him last night. EWp v Ko
“Sammy is very bashful,” | said Mary Louise, a tear glistening. in her eyes, “I'm afraid | he will be frightened and never some home.” Like all well-dresged skunks, Sammy wears a neat white stripe down his back. He's completely house-broken and quite friendly, she says. > But until he returns, Mary I.6uise is a pretty unhappy little lady. ’
Times Special NEWPORT, R. I, May 26—An Indiana man is among at least 17 sallors listed ds “missing and presumed dead” in Newport Harbor where helicopters and small craft are searching for person.nel of a motor launch that sank ‘Thursday.« Electrician's Mate 3/C Ralph
8. Hennecke, son of Mrs, Eldred Heffern, R. R. 2, Jasonville, had
“WAC Corporal,” a rocket set in
the nose of a German V-2 rocket been in the Navy four years last _
for anti-aircraft’ work, are listed Apr. 15. as’ rockets rather than guided] He had returned from a voymissiles. age to England May 17 and exUp to now, air-to-air, air-to- | pected to start on a 20-day leave surface and surface-to-air mis- next week, according to word re-
A guided missile is a weapon |, "have been fired in experi- layed from his wife, Mrs. Agnes
which contains devices to steer it toward its targets. It usually is self-propelled. The phrase is used! “free | missiles” change direction after
A Navy statement said a “sig-
step-up from limited production to
A United Nations adviser said production for use.”
(he wished the South Korean gov-|
added with a shrug:
Among. the guided missiles
iment.
“will hasten the
Hennecke, Fall River, Mass. The Navy's only guided missile CHS a Ne I ean ship at this time is the converted _, celebrated his birthday and
| seaplane-tender “Norton Sound.” s married last January. SUCH as rockets which ! A heavy cruiser is being converted | ry
He was born in Beloit, Wis, as a missile ship and some test| ang attended school there, °. firings have been made from a,
converted submarine. ‘Educational Program
The Navy has not released any information about any other pro-| A $500,000 educational program posed guided missile ships. |is being carried on this year by
Undersecretary of the Navy the American . Institute of Real
ernment would stop issuing public/which have been fired by the Dan A. Kimball said in a speech | Estate Appraisers. Regional con|statements in conflict with the Navy in research and develop- at Purdue University, Lafayette, |ferences will be held throughout declared policies of the Allies. He ment are the “Viking” and “Aero- | Ind., Thursday, that “it is only a bee,” ground-to-air missiles, and /matter of time until we build
the country, and appraisal courses will be given this summer at the
“We can’t shut up the South the “Mighty Mouse,” a rocket | submarines specifically designed University of Southern California,
|MacArthur.”
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the
with
one relief recipient, Franklin Township only two cases involv-
cases, five individuals. This compares vith the Marion County Department where one investigator handles about 200 persons monthly. C. of C. Efforts Fail Two attempts of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce to
The testers returned last week
This time they passed. The testing is done with 1000pound weights carried state testing truck. The weights are winched out of the truck with a power mechan-
employees.
approximate weight of a loaded
coal truck are placed on the scales |
and a reading taken. The weights are accurate, They must be checked every two years with National Bureau of Standards weights in Chicago. If the scales are outside the
legal limit, they are orderd out of
use and the owner given a ‘“rea-
only 6 persons per 1000.
| Compared with Indiana’s poor and again checked the scales. relief record, the state’s public the Indiana General Ascensply welfare spending ranked with thas .
nation’s lowest case loads.
in the Welfare recipients are carefully |screened, those seeking poor relief trystee lobby, whose political lev-!
{are not.
Only nine states had fewer Old {sm and manhandled into position Age Assistance recipients than| with a dolly operated by city Indiana, per 1000 eligible popula{tion. The Hoosier average of 129 Weights corresponding to the persons per 1000 eligibles was be-
low the national average of 224. On Aid to Dependent Children assistance Indiana was 13th lowest state, with 22 recipients per 1000 eligibles, compared to a national average of 34. There is a sharp distinction between ‘‘welfare” and ‘poor relief.” Welfare is the aid given |by public welfare departments re-
{unify the five townships within Indianapolis were defeated in|
Although the proposal affected only Indianapolis, it was defeated
i | |
y the powerful state township erage rests on relief office pa-| tronage. { In the past, numerous scandals /have rocked the state’s township |trustue system. | Assistance rolls frequently take! |a decided upward trend in months| | preceding elections. ! In many cases township trus-! tees give relief to old agers or dependent children awaiting welfare grant. This means the same| case is investigated by the town-| ship trustee investigator and by| the worker from the county wel-|
fare department.
One of the states higher than Lawrence Township handled only 80 cents to $1.10 for fifths of
whiskey, 60 cents for pints. There were bargains for many
ng six individuals and Pike two jn gasoline, too, although the
lower prices offered in Greens-, (boro, N. C., (down from 30 to {23 cents); Hartford, Conn., (down {from 26.9 to 16.9 cents) and Philadelphia (down from 26.9 to 22.9 cents) didn’t have anything to do with the fair trade decision. Dealers said there was just too much gas.
College Students Fail in Fight to Restore President
By United Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla.,, May 26 —The Florida legislature refused the requests of some 200 Rollins College students today in a fight over a bill that could reinstate] Dr. Paul A. Wagner as president] of the school.
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paired. Flagrant and constant violation of scale accuracy limits can bring from $10 to $100 fines and up to three months in jail on the first offense. Subsequent violations can mean fines up to $500 and a sixmonths sentence. Deliberate violations are rare, Mr. Galloway explains. Most scale users are more than glad to have
pendent children and the blind. | {“Poor Relief” is aid given by! {trustees in other categories and | to persons awaiting welfare as-| sistance. Urge Ban on System For the past 10 years various government reform groups have recommended abolishment of township trustee poor relief, both because eof inefficiency, duplicating functions and frequent cases
Divide List of Trustees | members motored some 250 miles Indiana’s 1009 trustees are di-| to the capital in protest of the vided into 108 urban and 903 rural “quickie” legislative bill. townships. LaPorte County has| But—with the Rollins delegathe largest number of townships, tion sitting in the House gallery 21 for a population of 76,740 and| —the Lower Chamber voted 56
Ohio the fewest with four trus-/ to 16 not to reconsider Thurs-| tees. {day's adoption of the proposal
Government research groups that appoint-11 new trustees to|
have cited Ohio County as an| example of the outmoded nature, of trustee relief, pointing out that
the little college. Sustained By Senate Dr. Wagner's opponents charged
inaccuracies pointed out to them, of graft. he says. The system, a 16th century
‘hangover from the poor laws of . . | Elizabethan England, dates back Bus Line Strike {in Indiana to the days of the Hits Terre Haut ItS 16IT€ nalie, 4th City in Stat
{state's early development when a mes State =eryece
|centralized relief agency was not |possible because of poor transportation. Today, with centralized welfare agencies in each of the state's 92 counties, there are still 1009 sep-
their are four trustees for about that all 11 are friendly to the
4000 population, or one trustee pe) “boy wonder” president, ousted by 1000 person.
In the main, most trustees have only two functions—dispensing of poor relief which most survey groups say they do poorly and running of township schools, currently under investigation for graft and corruption. Trustees of a few smaller localities also act as assessors.
Many Welfare Scandals
wenn ETE Mi vv Traced Over Past 12 Years
the innocent victims of squabbling | bus line officials and drivers| Here are some of the major Fnicns today as the strike spread scandals in township poor relief o Terre Haute, the fourth Indi- 9 ana city to be. srguited In the in Marion County in the past 12 turmoil, years: “We are not after a wage in- In 1939, Center Township Truscrease,” said George Keneitt, tee Tom Quinn was indicted after president of the AFL bus operat- confessing family and political ors union. “All we want is more! favoritism in a million-dollar re-
rant. In each case, recipients sald the food was never received. One woman shown in a, claim to have received 60 pounds of potatoes was actually off the relief rolls at the time. Another case disclosed a man
[the present board of trustees May! 113. i | | The Senate sustained its unani- | mous approval of the bill earlier. |
| Supporters of the measure hoped| it would become law before Tues-|
'day when the trustees will meet
at Rollins for graduation ceremonies. The dismissal of Dr. | Wagner is expected to come up |again at the trustee meeting.
| Gov. Fuller Warren has not indicated whether he will sign or {veto the bill.
The Rollins dispute started three, months ago when Dr. Wagner announced that he was dismissing 23 facutly members as an economy move. He said the action was ordered by the board of trustees,
10 Men Dive in Lake
‘resentment against
co-operation from the management.” The management has issued no official statement on the work stoppage. However, Mayor Ralph Tucker disclosed to The Times that the cause of the strike was drivers’ the suspension of several operators for minor rule violations. The bus .line, which serves Terre Haute’s 64,047 citizens, is a division of the National City Bus Lines of Chicago. The Terre Haute branch is mgnaged by C. J. Rey-
nar, who was, recently appointed,
Mayor Tucker said. In Arbitrary Session Mayor- Tucker and delegates from both the Operators’ union and the management have been in an arbitrary session at the city hall all afternoon. , Bus lines at Richmond, Muncie and Anderson have been -strikebound for the past four weeks by a salary dispute.
{lief program.
| A subsequent investigation [showed a large percentage of the food orders went to two stores, operated by Quinn’s former cam|paign manager and listing his son |as a partner. The probe also un|covered false claims and “contributions” from favored stores.
The same year, a Warren township trustee was investigated on the accusation that he gave his ‘two campaign managers control of his appointments and contracts, A signed contract was found. 3
Ten years later, in 1949, an investigation by The Indianapolis Times disclosed padding of relief bills in many stores and “price-hiking” for Center townskip relief clients, It prompted grand jury and state action. Grocery claims were found showing families to have received 140 pounds ‘of-‘fiptatoes a month, (enough to stock a small restau-
To Escape Ring of Fire
had been receiving food orders for a woman he hadn't seen in NORTH BAY, Ont, May 26 19 years, listed as his wife. | (UP)—Ten firefighters dived into A grocer convicted the year be- a lake today to escape encirclefore of shortweighting relief ment by Canada's worst forest clients was still being allowed to fire: of 1951, which raced out of fill Center township relief claims control through 10,000 acres of The same vear, the grand jury parched bush and timberland probed the Decatur township near Gogama, Ont. ‘trustee office after a Times in-|- Six hundred men were diverted vestigation showed the trustee's from other blazes to the Gogama wife was listed as a paid investi- area. They were expected to be gator although she handled no| reinforced by at least 400 more |cases. One township woman said| before tonight. Rangers said con-| the trustee demanded the deed to| ditions in central Ontario were her home for relief. another “extremely hazardous.” \ Slaitned ‘he sought i exchange, ————————— teeter elp for employment in his own So firm, y Class to Open June 4 During the heights of the gen-| Methodist Hospital's eighth eral-election; pictures were made! class for nurse aids will Tegin| by The Times showing present June 4, offering opportunity in| Township Trustee George Johnson|that field to 30 to 35 women. | working in county Republican| Trainees in the two-month | headquarters, at the same time he course are paid while learning] was drawing perv for operating and, upon completion of training, | the Center Township trustee of-| are assigned to permanent floor] fice. £ [stations in’'the hospital. :
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