Syracuse-Wawasee Journal, Volume 45, Number 31, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 19 May 1950 — Page 7

FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1950

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Mr. Jap Jones who has a fondness for Wawasee Lake, has been coming to the lake, for many years. About twelve years ago, the Jones family was looking for a house of their own, on Wawasee. On Odgen Island, they saw, one of Mr. A. L. Miller’s ‘For Sale’, signs, promptly hunted him up, and went to look at the Paul Palmgren house, on Kale Island. They “came,,saw and purchased,” so to speak, all within the day. Mr. Jones said that events went about the same way, with the purchase of the South Shore Inn. He was at dinner one day, with Mr. John Boyts, who “like to sell the hotel.” It seems, Mr. Jones mentioned, he wouldn’t mind buying it, and that was done within the hour “Keeping up with the Jones’es” would be a little swift, for a majority of “John Q. Public.” The Jones family is a large one, when they all get together. Ralph Jones and family, have a cottage on Bay Shore Beach, and Ralph manages the Jap Jones Hotel in Fort Wayne, formerly the Wayne. The Marvin Jones family live in Indianapolis, and Marvin has a; “Super” Drive In, on East Washington, past Irvington. The three daughters are, Mrs. Russell Franklin, Bloomington, Mrs. John Brook, Indianapolis, and Mrs. John Brigton, Columbus, Ind. There are seven grandchilren, all girls. Jap Jones gives all the credit for the beautiful decorating drapes and furniture of the South Shore Inn, to Mrs. Jones, for she directs all those things It seems there has been the initial purchase price, spent over again, on the hotel, to “keep it up to the minute.” The former screened porch is now completely “pictured windowed,” with ample air flow, for warm weather. Mr. Jones claims the views from the porch, are unsurpassed by any Indiana lake, there is a full view about three miles, both ways, as 1 observed personally by this reporter, and some say, the view and the natural beach, is the best in the middle west. An ‘air-view” taken of the hotel, and grounds, shows a part of the South Shore Coif course, also and a good bit of beach and lake, piers, bath house, etc., attesting to Mr. Jones righteous pride, in the whole setup. This picture has been made, quite large, and adorns a wall of the Jones owned, Spencer Hotel in Indianapolis. DEWART LAKE Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Metzler of Nappanee have recently returned from a Florida vacation. They will spend part of the summer at their cottage on the Lake. Mr ,and,Mrs. Bernard Raisor of Muncie recently bought a summer home on tire Lake. A “Muncie Cottage” will be built this summer at Quaker Haven Youth Camp. It is being sponsored by the men of Friends Memorial Church of Muncie. TIPPECANOE LAKE Mrs. Ira Thornburg entertained a group of friends at a May breakfast at the Tippecanoe Lake Country Club House, recently. Cobert McClellan and William Hupp have returned to Muncie after spending several days at the McClellan cottage. Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Wright of Avon Park, Florida are spending the summer at their home on the Lake. r LANDSCAPING Spring, spring beautiful spring! Would you not enjoy retaining it through the summer with a< beautiful lawn, roses, and other flowers .. . you can! We are just as near as your telephone — Ph-> Syracuse 1625-W. Creamer & Higgins

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A Statement By Your Telephone Company

• United Telephone Company, Inc., has approximately 49,000 telephones in service in 73 communities in the state of Indiana. Os this number, almost 20,000 subscribers are located in rural areas. Our Company serves a greater rural area than any other telephone company in the state, and in so doing we must maintain more than 7,000 miles of pole line, carrying many thousands of miles of open wire circuits. • Practically all of our territory lies ii the northern part of the state which is located in one of the worst “ice” belts in the United States. Within the past four years this company has experienced four major ice storms, aggregating in cost between $600,000 and $700,000. This spring, three crippling ice storms caused us an outage of 20,000 subscriber telephones and 450 long distance lines. Contrary to popular belief, we are unable to obtain insurance coverage for ice storm damage. • Believing that our primary obligation to our subscribers is to keep our lines in working order, we have spared no expense in restoring telephone service in record time after each of these storms. However, the loss of revenues during the period of restoration as well as the cost of repairing the damage has been tremendous, and the Company finds itself in the position of being unable to continue its present program unless financial relief is obtained at once. • In 1947, the Public Service Commission of Indiana granted us a rate increase which would permit us a “fair return” on our investment so that we might attract the additional capital that is required to enable us to improve and expand our service. Since that time, we have added $2,500,000 in net additions to our property.

In the latter part of December, 1949, we filed an Emergency Petition with the Public Service Commission of Indiana asking for emergency rates to cover the costs of immediate increases in pay roll that would become effective on January 22,1950, under the new 75c Federal Minimum Wage-Hour Law. The Commission, on December 29, 1949, issued an Emergency Order, increasing all principal subscriber rates, effective in February, 1950* These rates, as approved, were established by the Commission on a temporary basis only and were to remain in effect only until further review and order of the Commission. On May 4, 1950, your telephone company filed a supplemental petition, requesting that the Com- <? mission establish due process for early hearing and review of the company’s current position and subsequently “ ... authorize permanent rates and charges which will be reasonable, just, adequate, and non-coiifiscatory ...” United Telephone Company, Inc.

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• However, for the twelve months period ending March 31, 1950, our earnings failed to reach the “fair return” figure set for us by the Public Service Commission. This means, of course, that we are realising no return whatsoever on the $2,500,000 additional investment which we have made since 1947. In fact, the return on our invested capital bonds, common and preferred stock, notes, and surplus for the first quarter, 1950, was only 2.66%. Obviously, we cannot attract additional capital from investors while we show such a low rate of return. • Without improved earnings, the Company will not be able to cope with the steadily increasing costs of operation and attain the sound financial position necessary to attract the investment of the large amounts of money needed to improve our present service or to enlarge our facilities in order to provide service for the many prospective customers who are still without telephones. • Among the many items of expense which have contributed toward our present situation is the increase in employee wages. For instance, in the first three months of 1950, as compared with the first three months of 1947, we experienced a 100% increase in operators’ pay roll costs alone. By the same token, our *otal pay roll costs have increased since 1947 by a figure equivalent to $7.50 per year per telephone in service. These increases were brought about through the anticipation and final realization of an i increase in the federal minimum Wage-Hour Law as well as our desire to ray wages which are in line with wages paid by other industries operating in communities which we serve.