Speedway Flyer, Volume 35, Number 35, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 October 1966 — Page 4

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SPEEDWAY HISTORY (Continued from page 1) wards instead of the original three. , NEXT (B) One or more candidates is nominated from each ward by people residing in that ward. NEXT (C) Then the entire convention votes on the candidates for nomination, selecting one person as their choice from each ward. NEXT (D) The votes are then counted and the person receiving the highest vote in each ward is placed on one ticket. The person receiving the second highest vote in each ward is placed on another

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■ticket These ten people, consisting of two from each ward, make up the candidates to be voted for in the final election in November. From 1926 to the present time (1966) the town has grown very rapidly, both industrially and residentially. In 1926 there were 507 residents by 1930 the population was 1,420. In 1940 it was 2,235. In 1950 it was 5,398. in 1965 it was 11,319 plus. There are also five major industrial plants and several lessor ones plus two large shopping centers and two large apartment complexes. The town owns the water works and the Sanitation system including the sewage treatment plant. The town also owns the school system. The water and sanitation systems, are financed by the citizens who use these facilities. The school system and the town expenses are paid by a tax levy on the property within the town. The net 1965 taxable property valuation was $39,000,000.00 and the rate is $6.61 per hundred dollars. Now this is a good rate - in fact - Center Township in Indianapolis is $9.52 per hundred. We are very fortunate here in our town because we have such a fine tax base. This is due to the industry we have, such as Allison’s Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Linde, Esterline, Electric Steel Casting and American Art Clay. Then we have a lot of fine commercial property - shopping centers, motels and finally some good places to eat. These are what helps our tax base, thereby helping to keep our rate low.

For these taxes your town furnishes police and fire protection, garbage and trash pick-up, street maintenance, park and recreation facilities. Four public elementary schools, one public junior high school, and a $4 million dollar high school that was recently finished that is second to none. The actual town budget, which is 1.297 per hundred dollars only includes The Town Enmployees, The Fire Department, The Police Department, Park Fund and The Street Fund. It does not include The School Fund, The Water Department and The Sewage Disposal Plant. The latter two, of course, are public utilities and are supposed to show some profit. I will not attempt to go into the details of the School Fund because this could be done much better by a school board member, or Mr. Jordan, Superintendent of Schools, however, I will give you

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a, brief rundown of the other departments. First, the. Street Department with Mr. Lou Jackson in charge. There are 43.6 miles of streets and alleys in our town. It cost $61.85 per pavement mile to maintain these streets. We have already started a street repair program that is showing a lot of improvement Actually we have a Gunite Machine that forces cement under the existing street paving which makes a sound base. For example, 20 tons of cement were used on Schoolwood from. Meadowwood to High School Road. In 1965 it cost us $1.02 per curb mile just for sweeping the gutters and picking up leaves. This doesn’t sound like much, but do you realize we swept 1,138 curb miles last year? And that is a lot of leaves; however the town purchased a new leaf machine and with our new “picker-upper” actually saved the cost of the machine in just one year.

Next, let me tell you a few facts about sewers. There are 42.2 miles of sewers, both sanitary and combined sewers. Here again the maintenance cost is only $137.20 per mile but the cost of installing these same sewers is almost astronomical. So you can see with our water problems here in our town, we had to anticipate a lot of expenditures for the improvement of the existing sewers, and the construction of additional sewers, which I assure you is still being done. Now all of this sewage has to be disposed of, and I can assure you again, that we have one of the finest disposal plants anywhere. I would almost wager that none of you have gone through your plant, but I will guarantee you the surprise of your life if you do. Way back on December 17, 1946, the pollution control board of the State of Indiana, issued a final order to the Town of Speedway to cease and desist causing the pollution of Eagle Creek. Here again our town had a decision to make of either tying into Indianapolis’ sewers or building our own plant, and, here again, the citizens of Speedway and the town board decided to remain apart from Indianapolis and build our own plant. Due to litigation and an induction, it was early 1954 before construction finally started, and 14 months later it was completed at a cost of $975,000.00 It was decided to pay for this new plant by a sewer service charge, proportional to the metered water consumption, rather than by general taxation, because this way the user, whether domestic or industrial, pays for the service according to the amount of water he uses, rather than by his assessed property valuation. The

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capacity of this plant is approx* imately 4,000,000 gallons per day, but presently we are only processing about 2.5 million gallons per day, at a cost of less than IQc per 100 gallons. Even if our population should increase and our sewage requirements sky rocket, we can still take care of our town because, several far-sighted men looked far enough into the future, to build it, so it can be expanded easily,we can then process about 6 million gallons a day. Why don’t you visit and let Mr. Cal the superintendent, show you around this fine installation. , Now for a few remark about the water department headed by

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Mr. Max Williams. The Water Company is another utility owned by our town. Our water cames from six wells, ranging in capacity from 200 gallons per minute to 850 gallons per minute. Most of the wells are less than 100 feet deep and daily pumpage ranged from a low of 1,250,000 gallons to 2,700,000 gallons. We recognized that our water was going to be short if we continued to grow. So here again we had a choice of buying water from Indianapolis Water Company or make some other provisions ourselves and again we decided against depending on Indianapolis. Realizing that something had to be done, the past board planned

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for the future, by designing and building a water treatment plant, tbta would take care of the quality and the quantity of water for our town forever. We should never have to worry about not hvaing enough water. This new plant cost approximately %th of a million dollars with no increase in water rates to any residential user. Alos the plans of the state flood r*>ntrol reaching its final stages on Eagle Creek, and the new diversion ditch on Dry Run Creek we won’t have to worry about flood water as we did in 1957. In 1960 a new section of our town called “Meadowwood”, had grown so big and fast, it was necessary for the town to build a 250,000 gallon storage tank, to help maintain an average water pressure of 60 pounds in this area. Our present problem is keeping the tank painted, so if anyone wants to volunteer for the job, he is welcome. This tank

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is still being used in conduction with our new plant. ' One of the biggest reasons for having enough water is the emergency created by fire. This naturally leads us to our fine fire department. In 1928, Speedway had it’s first fire truck. It was a converted old Reo truck rebuilt by Prest-O-Lite, Housed in the Prest-O-Lite Garage, and manned by some of their employees, and some volunteer firemen. Mr. Art Beeler was Fire Chief and Mr. Newt Jennings, Assistant Fire Chief. Prior to 1928 volunteer fireman had a push cart they used to haul their hose on. In 1935 Speedway purchased a new fire truck - a Diamond T 500 gallon pumper and in 1939 Harry “Hap” Bernhardt was appointed Chief. Finally in 1943 the fire truck was moved to the town hall and two firemen were employed, one on each of two 24 hour shifts. In

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194 S Cledith Stephens was appointed Chief, and he still is. As our town grew, the Fire Department also grew in order to give all of us adequate fire protection, and to guarantee us low insurance rates. We now have two fine trucks - one a 750 gallon pumper and the other a 1,000 gallon pumper - both are fully equipped to tight all types of fires. At present we have eleven full time firemen - including the chief. To augment this corps, we also have twelve volunteer firemen. These men are called to every fire by an alarm system in their homes which is sounded by the firemen on duty. For the past few years the department has averaged about 120 fire runs a year. The estimated damage from fires for 1965 was only $13,600.00 We recently moved our fire department into a new statton. It is very modern and efficient, and cost approximately $87,000. After they moved, we held an open house and a lot of people inspected the new addition to our town. If you haven’t had a chance to go through it, drop in sometime and see the nice air conditioned dormitory, lounge and the fine new all electric kitchen. Then before you decide to quit your job and become a fireman, just remember the risks they take and the horrors of fighting fire in zero weather with ice frozen on your face, hair and hands. Finally we come to the police department - This department is directed by Marshall Stonebreaker, more commonly known as “Stoney”. His force consists of 15 regular deputy marshalls, 15 auxiliary officers, 3 dispatchers and one relief dispatcher. These men work in 3 shifts covering 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. There are 5 police cars - one of which is equipped with radar. There are always 2 patrol cars, working every hour of the day and night manned by police officers who have been properly trained, by attending F-BJ. and Indiana University Police Schools. They are also well trained in the use of fire arms, and all are very efficient and competent in first aid. The Auxiliary Police work special events, such as football games, parades, emergency fill-in and also the “500” Mile Race. All of these men help control our crime and accidents. Our record for traffic accidents is about the average ~ rate. Last year we had a total of 2 fatalities, 159 injuries and 56 property damage accidents. This rate, which seems rather high, is due, I believe, to the fact we have so much cross traffic tween highways and streets, and also to high employment of the industries in speedway proper. There are centainly a lot of people, going a lot of places in our town. Our crime of .71 is approvimately 20% less than the average for cities and towns. This crime rate does not include calls for loose dogs which run between 15 to 20 per week. These dogs, when captured, are taken to our dog pound and held for several days. This, of course, is the least important duty of our police, but one of the most important is the patrol officer who rides the lonely night through to assure you that you will awaken safely. Well folks, this is Speedway, This is the government we chose. These are the departments that serve us. These are the people we chose to help and protect us. This is our town and this is the way we want to continue. Thank You NOTICE The Real Estate Sales Depart* ment at First Bank and Trust Co. needs real estate listings. Member FDIC. Phone for appraisal 243-3259.

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