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SUNDAY, SEPT. 7, 1952

(Editorial, Page 20) By DAVE WATSON

The $23 million public school budget will ‘feel .the scratch of the County Tax Adjustment Board comb this

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although an attack on the budget was launched before the hearing date, " What Costs More The board will go into its new year with the school system buffeted by inflation and rapid

growth. Pay has gone up. New

financial pie went to the business of teaching the city’s children and planning their courses, Superintendent Herman L. Shibler said.

A whopping big chunk of the

Teaching Costs Most

week. Ibulldings have been started, Shall for that purpose. That's Maxwell V, .Bailey, schools! Equipment has been ordered and |2POUJ 61.9 per cent of the money business manager, expects the outward bound from the school

spending schedule to go to the review board Friday. No objections: to the were made during the public hearing last month when the School Board met to approve it. No remonstrances were made

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INDIANAPOLIS , PUBLIC SCHOOLS PROPOSED BUDGET - 1952-1953

Hefty City Goal Faces

By JOHN V, WILSON The city’s record $5.50 tax rate goes into the County Tax AdJustment . Board - grinder tomortow, What will come out is anyone’s guess, But the rate is sure to

‘wind up several cents lower.

' The board opens a 10-day hearIng on rates and budgets submitted by all governmental units in Marion County. First session is set for 10 a. m, in the Court House, : Here Are Rates 3 Here are the Indianapolis tax ra by townships, the board

OentoR ceavesecs 0¢.§5.571 POITY csesesvsssesss 5.606 Waren S000 0000000 ‘5.55015

sohool, 64-cent county, 15-cent steté and warious township tax

rates, New Problems Two new problems confront the board this year — the city sanitary and the new city-county health board rates. The Sanitary Board requested 2 27.T-cent rate but it was cut to 25 cents by City Council. Then

Howdy, Tex,

So-and-So

DALLAS, Sept. 6 (UP) — General Manager James H.| Stewart of the Texas State Fair said tonight that a statue of a Texan's idea of himself will be built at this fall's exposition.: It will be 50 feet from the crown of the statue’s T75-gallon hat to the soles of his high-heeled, size YO boots. ’ A 25-FOOT BELT will encircle his 253 inch waist. His blue jeans will be hoisted with a house-mov-ing derrick and the buttons will be sewed on his checkered shirt with hawser rope. : Mr, Stewart at first considered having him wired for sound but finally decided he would have more appeal as the strong, silent

type. In a burst of originality, he de-

made out of steel pipe, chicken wire, lathe and papier-mache—

He said all Texans over nine feet tall wil be admitted free.

Mrs. FDR to Speak At $20-a-Plate Feast

CHICAGO — Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt will speak on behalf of the Democratic national ticket at a $20-a-plate “breakfast with Eleanor” here Tuesday. The independent voters of Illinois said it is sponsoring the breakfast to raise funds for the Illinois campaign for Gov. Adlal E. Stevenson and Sen. John Sparkman, Democratic nominees for President and Vice President.

Wars on Vandalism + COLUMBUS, O.—Gov. Frank J. Lausche today ordered the State Bureau of Criminal Identification to move into the hunt for vandals who have damaged homes, being built by their owners. Three reports of vandalism

reported.

Bix's Mother Dies

DAVENPORT — Services were COUrses, ¢ in dramatie art planned today for Mrs. Agatha J. Belderbecks, 83, the mother of the _. late Bix Beiderbecke, famed trum- : Rt last night after a long|George F. Kennan announced to-

of the 1920 jazz era.

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| budget

bond issue payments are coming due.

the operating cost up by $2,166,746. Department. heads polled said the budget could have gone

coffers, and will account for $1.87 This combination has kicked|°® the tax rate for schools.

smallest of the nine budget divi-| sions to be reviewed by the county

agency. That will run $397,580, About 100 new teachers have letics, physical education, voca- the tax rate would require the an increase of $47,768 from last been added to the school staff tional education and special edu-| School Board to wipe out all] cent; librariés, hdine year,

That means the administration : {section of the school system will| The budget ‘says $12,500496 take about 1.9 per cent of the budget pie, 6 cents on the tax rate. School officials stoutly defendithe city about $64,000.

the need.for supervisors and de-~ Without that supervision, said partment heads who hold jobs Dr. Shibler, both pupil and new Administration costs are the questioned during attacks on the teacher would be hanicapped. budget which was finally adopted| There are also special super-|/planning and conferences.

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unchallenged.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

County Board Takes Up Record School Budget This Weel

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salaries, $12,509,406 or 61.9 per visitors and {elementary teacher and specialother “co-ordinating” functions, Some ‘Part Time’ {subject consultants and super-|$1,114,976 or 5.5 per cent; main{taught less than five years. In the high schools, whege de-| visors. tenance, $526,205 or 2.7 per cent; Prevent Handicap partments are big, some teachers! Where It Goes rent, insurance and other fixed Both groups require classroom Spend part of their day planning] If the review board approves Costs, $517,904 or 2.6 per cent; supervision, a task assigned to and supervising. Most spend atthe budget wanted by the schools, | auxiliary agencies, including 118 experienced teachers. They cost least five periods daily in the/the money will be parcelled out|lunchrooms, food costs, help, |classrooms. In the bigger depart- in this manner: etc., $1,244,540 or 6.2 per cent; ments they sometimes spend only] Administration of schools|{payment on bonds and other two periods in class, using the $397,580, about 19 per cent; debts, $1,099,979, or 5.4 per cent; {remaining five for co-ordinating, | equipment, repairs, etc., $823,760 operations, including janitor’s “lor 4.6 per cent; instruction, in- salaries and utilities, $1,867,035 lvisors in art, music, health, ath- To save another 4.25 cents on'cluding teacher and supervision or 9.2 .per cent,

{this year, they said. There ‘are/cation. labout 800 teachers here who have!

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INSTROCTION 61.9%

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the board rejected most of the | cut and sentya 27.1-cent rate to! the adjustment board. > The board must decide whether to accept the decision of the council or the sanitary board. The health rate is a bigger; complication. The new health merger board, ! scheduled to take over city and! county health functions Jan. 1, adopted a 42.9-cent rate.

Double Trouble

About the same time, a Superior Court ruled the law creating the board was unconstitutional. An appeal has been taken to the Indiana Supreme Court. Meanwhile, both the city and county health departments .figured their own budgets, just as if the new board didn’t exist, These budgets are incorporated in the city and county tax rates. If the law is finally held constitutional, legal opinion is that two actions must be taken. The city and county rates will have to be reduced accordingly. Then the health merger will be tacked to those figures.

State Gets Them

Members of the adjustment board are Republicans Donald LaFuze, Paul Jones, John Barney and Herbert Jose and Democrats Ross Moore and William L. Winter, After the board completes its work, the tax rates go to the State Tax Board for final approval

Navy Finds No Trace

Of Mystery Submarine

TOMS RIVER, N. J~—Navy authorities reported an air and sea search had failed to turn up any sign of an unidentified submarine which a Coast Guardsman said he sighted five miles off the New Jersey coast. Seaman Adrian Salter of the Seaside Heights Coast station said he saw the surfaced submarine through binoculars Friday about five miles out in the Atlantic. His report was flashed to the Navy, which sent planes and surface craft to search the area.

Scotland Yard Agent Fined for Petty Theft

LONDON-Tony thews, 20-year-old Scotland Yard wundercover agent whose fiancee quit the Communist Party rather than yield to the party's demand to give him up, was fined today for stealing three pillows and a sheet from ‘his former lodgings. Mary Johnson, 23-year-old daughter of a village vicar, was discharged on the same charge on condition of good behavior for 12 months. Mathews was fined. ish The landlady, Mrs. Margot Oddone, said she had rented part of her flat to Miss Johnson and Mathews and that when they left she found the’ linen missing.

Parents’ Consultation Planned at Jordan

Jordan Colege of Music at Butler University will institute a new service for parents of students this fall. 8 consultations will be held with parents who desire their children placed in ‘classes according to age, experience and maturity el. Besides music

and dancing will be offered,

Kennan to Rest : MOSCOW-—U, 8. Ambassador

day that he would fly to London Sept. 19 for 10 days of rest and consultations. :

Churchill to Vacation LONDON—Prime Minister. and

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