The Syracuse Journal, Volume 29, Number 33, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 10 December 1936 — Page 1

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OLUME XXIX

AUTO LICENSE BUREAU SOUGHT

Plan Winter Sports Program

ICE BOATSMEN WANT RACES HELD ON LAKE To Install Flood Lights And Build Shelter at At Park Is Hope Possibility of forming a Winter Sports Association here, and developing a winter carhival are being discussed by a number of ice boat and skating enthusiasts. It hu been proposed to members ■< of The Town Board by interested individuals that some effort be mule to establish in the City Park, a small shelter or concession stand and to have flood lights erected so that Syracuse Lake in its present frozen condition can be used for winter out. door activity. A number ot persons from Fort Wayne, Indianapolis, South Bend, Chicago, and nearby communities have expressed considerable interest ! in such a plan heie, and have dur- ; ing the past week proposed ice boat races and skating parties. .Such a program it b believed will | bring many people to Syracuse during the winter months and will arouse more interest in the possibility of winter development here. Local lakes are frozen to a depth sufficient to accomodate skaters and . ice boats, and already a number of j people have been on the ice. ~ Ice boat fans say it is possible to have a fleet of thirty or forty ice boats here, and to hold regularly | scheduled events throughout the winter, if proper provisions are made.

STREETS DECORATED WITH HOLIDAY LIGHTS J Colorful Christmas Athmosphere Prevails in Business Section The business section of Syracuse has been gaily decorated by local merchants for the holiday season. Bright colored Christmas lights have been suspended in festoons acroea the Main street and a beautiful and cheerful athmosphere is prevalent each night. A number of stores have decorated Christmas trees and placed them on their curbs along streets and sidewalks, while numerous stores are displaying trees or holiday decorations in their store windows and rooms. The lights are the property of local merchants and are placed over the street each holiday season. The Syracuse Electric Company installed the decorations. MORE GAME SHELTERS NEEDED IN COUNTY Local sportsmen should begin building shelters and feeding stations for wild life in this section, Charles (Jim) Kroh, president of the Wawasee Conservation Club Stetled this week. Last winter, it is estimated that hundreds of birds and wild game died of cold, exposure and hunger around the lake country, except in sections where feeing stations and shelters were established.

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Attack On State Financial Structure Is Expected By Leaders When Legislature Meets January 7th

Powerful Groups Seek To Change Present Program By Frank A. White ’-I Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 10—The existing financial structure of the state government, built around a backbone of gross income tax which | will bring in 816,000,000 this year, will be subjected to extensive attacks in the legislative session opening January 7, it was apparent here today. More than a dozen powerful groups private interests and individuals, are In the field to change the existing ‘ tax structure, and are forming the : mort formidable lobby in the history ; , of Hoosier legisature it was known here today. Townsend Ready M. Cifford Townsend, who will I become Governor January 11, with | a new but predominately Democratic . Legislature on his hands, is not going to be caught holding the bag I with a huge deficit at the end of the biennial period, he has let it be t known. He will insist that the in- • creased expenses of state - government, incident to new functions, social security legislation and cam- ’ paign promises, he met with suffi- i cient revenue to balance the budget, j

f The Governor elect has served in the legislture as a representative. He has presided over the Senate sessions through the McNutt administration and is no longer the farm boy that he was sometimes called. With a broad legislative experience back of him, his speech before the assembly is expected to be one stating explicitly what he expects that body to provide in governmental costs. Lobbyist Already in Field Already the mythical “third house” of lobbyists of the coming session ' are in the field. Representing in some instances highly respected groups of citizens. They have pro. posed the following changes, which ! If enacted, would rock the taxation = structure of the Hoosier state. Complete repeal or modification of the Gross Income Tax law. Shifting of the twenty percent soc- } ial security costs from the county jto the state. The Federal govern- : ment now pays 50 percent, the state i 30 percent and the county 20 percent. Making of the tax limitation on real estate property of 81.50 in the urban centers and 81.00 in the coun- \ ties absolute by removing the emergency clause. A greater share of the gasoline tax ! to go to the counties. No less than 8600 a year per teaching unit to go from the state to the local units of government commenc- . ing in 1938 in keeping with a Demo. ■ cratic caanpaig promise.

SYRACUSE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, DEC. 10, 1936

Amendatory provisions for the liq- ' uor control law. To Settle Tax Greivance In his fight for a balanced budget Townsend has made only two definite utterances regarding the tax pro- | ! blem. The first of these is his avowed purpose of vetoing any drastic ' changes in the Gross Income Tax Law that would lessen the total rev- ; enue coming to the state. He has called a tax conference here this month, seeking a friendly settlement | of Gross Income Tax grievances. Considerations of a special legislative ' z committee that so-called “nuisance taxes, * such as a levy on cigarettes and luxuries will not meet with the approval of Townsend. He said that he was against the so-calL ed “nuisance taxes” which he term- i ed a sales tax in disguise. The Governor elect, it was reported, believes that if counties have a say in spending social security money that they should also accept the responsibility of providing some of the revenue. I Seeks Able Leaders The immediate concern of Town- > send is to get able leaders for the session upon which will hinge much . •>e success or failure of his ad- • ministration during the next four I years. Jacob Weiss, presdient pro tern of the last senate, feels that he did a good job as a McNutt leader, and will accept the post again but • will not battle for it if Townsend

Social Security Costs Will Be Topic At Session and the other leaders want Fred Eichhorn, of Gary, or Tlumrna Gottschalk of Berne. Eichhorn was chairman of the powerful judiciary “A" committee, the graveyard. of anti-administration bills. Gottschalk was on the budget committee and powerful in enacting social jecurity legislation. Stein May Be Speaker Edward Stein, of Bloomfield, it was felt, may be re-elected speaker lof the house, and be forg ven for backing Pleas E. Greenlee in the Gubernatorial race. Stein wrs speak- !• er last session and wielded a heavy ; gavel in driving through administrat tion bills. Possibility that W liiam E. Jenner, of Paoli, fiery sens er, may . replace I. Floyd Garrott, of Battle- ■ I gjgPhd as senate minority leader, it j I was reported here. Joseph A. Andrew, of Lafayette, may : scend to ■ the post of house minority leader, it was said. ! There were indications hare today j | that the many vexing questions in the offing would cause the session to j ; run the constitutional Ur lit of 60 j days. |

CIVILIAN UNIT ASSIGNED NEW COMMANDER Conservation Corps On Lake Wawasee Has Naval Officer in Charge Ensign Victor F. Wadsworth, United States Naval Reserve formerly stationed at the Civilian Conservation Camp in Lebanon, Indiana, arrived at the local camp on Lake Wawasee last week’, to replace Second Lieutenant C. E. Bledsow who has been promoted to commanding officer of the A and S detachment, Fort' Benjamin Harrison. Ensign W ads worth has already taken complete charge of the camp and company here, and much progress is being shown in the projects. He is a graduate of North Western University. Members of the CCC camp are landscaping the new ponds built as a part of the state fish hatchery and putting up guard poles. There are now a total of 29 ponds at the hatchery, which is the largest in this sec. tion. When completed various species of gttne fish will be reared in huge quantities. The camp here is the oldest in the Fort Wayne sector, which embraces eight camps. There are 1320 men in the sefftor, 17 line officers, five i medical officers, one sector comI mander, one sector chaplain and educational officer and 146 teachers, conducting 205 classes. The educational program last \ month numbered 19,170 man hours of instruction. There are 8700 books ' in the camp libraries and 840 of the i boys read them regularly. The athletic program includes a ' basketball tournament to be played in the National Guard Armory in Fort Wayne, December 19, with i nine competing teams. The local : company will be represented. The end of the eighth six months’ I period for CCC camps will be in March of next year. President Franklin D. Roosevelt has announced that the camps will be continued, and projects in many sections will be completed next year, with new ones probably started. Two thousand CCC enrollees working on twelve Indiana State Forests and Game Preserves, comprising 60,000 acres of Indiana’s promise land, are continuing the program that by March will have rendered I these state properties available to the nature lover. The promised land, that portion of Indiana which has been bought by | the state as submarginal land, is be- j ; ing transformed into the new century version of the primeval forest ’ by these CCC enrollees cooperating with the Indiana Division of Forestry and the U. S. Forest Service. More than a dozen dams which will result in beautiful lakes in Southern j Indiana are under construction. | These wil provide water for game ■ and fishing for the public. The desolate* looking stripper banks in the local areas of Greene, Sullivan and Pike Counties are being rapidly planted with trees, black walnut, black locust, oak, popular and pines, which in a few years will change these areas from one of Indiana’s eye-sores to one of its beauty j spots and will make one of its best j i game sanctuaries.

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DELEGATION ENCOURAGED BY OFFICIALS

Attempt Made to Have Here to Buy Auto Tags Ross Osborn, Milt Wysong and Warren T. Colwell, president, of the Syracuse-Wawasee Community Chamber of Commerce returned last night from Indianapolis where they interviewed state officials in an effort to have an auto license bureau established in Syracuse. This project has been in charge of a committee of the Chamber of Commerce with Junior Jones, A. L. Miller and several others working on it quietly until it seemed possible that the bureau could be obtained. In as much as the license bureau is a political proposition and is made possible by political appointment, the Chamber of Commerce committee found it necessary to move cautiously before the election. The two major parties here have agreed that the local bureau, if obtained, would be operated by the Chamber of Commerce, in a nonpolitieal manner, with such revenue as is realized "being tised to Deip finance the office of the Chamber of Commerce. . When the local group interviewed the state officials yesterday, it was indicated that the state is closing and ciMisolidating some of these bureaus, rather them opening new ones. However, the officials promised that Syracuse would be given every consideration, and that perhaps something might be established here as bureau can be established here as outlined. New license went on sade today. Authorities here believe that after the rush is over that some action can be taken again, to establish the bureau here.

JOSEPH LANTZ HOME DESTROYED BY BLAZE

Family Escapes in Night Clothing as Flames Consume Frame Dwelling Fire believed caused from a kitchen stove destroyed the dwelling of Joseph Lantz, two miles north east of Syracuse Sunday night. Local firemen were summoned but the blaze was beyond control when they arrived. The family had retired early, and about 11 p. m. Lantz was awakened by their baby coughing. The child was choking from smoke and fumes coming from the direction of the kitchen, where the blaze was burning fiercely. He aroused other members of the family and all escaped in their night clothes. Only a few pieces of furniture were removed. Lantz has about five acres of land in his property and does some farming. He is employed, however at Nappanee. The house was partially insured, firemen stated.

AFTERNOON CLUB PLANS CHRISTMAS TREAT HERE The Wednesday Afternoon Club met December 2, at the home of Mrs. C. R. Hoy. All the members were present at this meeting. Committees were appointed to make plans for the annual Christmas treat which this club provides for the children of the community.i The next meeting will be bed with Mrs. Warren Colwell instead of Mrs. Harley, as printed in the programs.

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