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THE POST-DEMOCRAT VOLUME X—NUMBER 14. MUNCIE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1930. Price 6 et:Ms-1'2.00 a 1 ea. OP OSE REN MING FOR SC 001 BOARD EARLY CENSUS CITES ACTION ON HAYMONDS BOND AS SIDELIGHTS ON FIGURES SHOWS INDICATIVE OF THE LAXITY IN THIS MOST IMPORTANT MATTER RECENT PRIMARY GAIN OF 10,000 Renaming of Edward Tuhey, Muncie manufacturer, to ITuhey has indicated that he desires to succeed himself on AND CONVENTION succeed himself on the school board by the city council at Ithe board and his friends are making a quite active attempt First figures of the census taking figures so enthusiastically boosted the expiration of his term next month is meeting consider- do bring about his renaming to the school board. There were many interesting, by sOaleone up at headquarters, as in Muncie released yesterday by J. from year to year. - able opposition among the councilmen. 1 Since the school board handles nearly $1,000,000 of amusing and contrasting events in in very- often the case. The some- Figures released by , Fitch are for Already the names of several other persons have been 'funds annually the membership of the school board is im- the recent prmiary which illus- one at headquarters filled In the Monroe supervisor for the the .first, second and. third ward trates the trellil of thought of the name of Mrs. Langdom district, in • .1 .ii that the city of and in them is a gain of 1,819 per- suggested for the Tuhey berth on the board among those portant to the citizens desiring the best possible conduct of voters in Delaware county. Nose it happens that Ruby Rat, Muncie immation will be about sons over the 1920 figure. The first being Mrs. Ed Winder, wife of Councilman Winder; Mar- ,this phase of their governmental activity. More than one- For instance out ill Liberty town- widely known visitor to the lakes ship for the first time ill land during the past Hampton adminis- 46,000 FAIV t I, 1930 canals just corn- ward with an enumeration 01 4,353 garet Harrison, whose husband is the bailiff in the court of third of all the money collected for taxes is devoted to edu- persons showed a gain .of 205 over i know, when Billy Williams lost out tration -when she received a salary pleted. • the figure ten years ago and the J. Frank Mann, her father; Vincent Jones, who has been ac- 'cational purposes and the school board has a large sum at anti an anti-Williams Man was se- as police matrms, is the big noise This will he a gain of abolit. 10,- second ward with its 4,70 Polmla- tively identified with Democratic party affairs for many its disposal during each year. lected trustee. Frank Wright, the ill that precinct and fully expected 000 for the past decade, although Hass gained 1,106 liersons during years, and Henry Hager, manufacturer, who was for a timc . Great care should be taken by the council in the selec- dyed ill the wool devotee of the to be the vice chairman after com- the year to year enthusiastic fore- She past ten years. slated for election to the chairmanship of the county Dem- 'lion of its representative on the school board to prevent an- suburban postmaster, lost the town- pleting her census taking duties. cast of population increase in In the •third ward there was a ocratic Central Committee. ship by 31 votes. But instead of Ruby the vice con, Muncie wash! indicate that the city gain of 508 persons in the Fitch re- other Haymond fiasco._ Citizens asking for naming of an- In that same township which is mitteeship went to Langclons other population was past the 50,000 port. Gams m the other w;ards are Opposition to Tuhey cites apparent laxity of the board other person other than Tuhey on the board point out that the home of Lewis H. Acker, the half and according to reports from mark. Several very scientific sur- expected to bring the total imputa- in the matter of the official bond of George Haymond, for- the record of the past board was certainly far from being one alleged Democratic county commis- the Seventeenth. Ruby did not feel veys have placed the population at tion to near the 46,000 mark. In mer treasurer of the school board, who was about $53,000 that could be pointed to with pride and feel that at all events sioner who was clecisively defeated entirely sociable about the slight. various times as high as 55,000. 1920 the official census of Mulicie If n. renomination, received just 9 Langdon, however, still thinks that Fitchs report will be a disap- showed 36.524 persons. short in school funds at the time of the discovery of Hay- /he present board personnel should not be continued in of- votes. Ed Acker, a close relative Ruby worked against him last fall pointment to the citizens who Six wards remain to be tabulated mond's financial orgy which resulted in his serving a two Itce. to Lewis H. received testes for when be was the Republican can- thought the citys growith during before the completed announcement to fourteen year sentence in the state prison at this time. ier It was expected that the council would take up the mat- precinct committeeman anit won didate for council from that district the past ten years was up to the is made by Supervisor Filch. the place even at that insignificant. and so he should worry. He intends Now in Blackford County rests the legal procedure t of naming successor to Tuhey at the regular June 2 meet- vote. These imposing vote figures to laugh it off, 555 to speak. which was started in attempt to unravel the Haymond ing, but in the past few days there has been talk of a special apparently tell the story of the pup- school board $53.000 shortage situation and the bonding session next week to consider the school board appointment il/lardy ot the Ackers in their home Charles G. Samuels, the Unity company in refusing to make good the amount of the short- and 1(150the request of the board of park commissioners for I bailwick. Leagtm broadcaster for the prim- age alleges very confidently that the former treasurer was 4uthority to spend $11,000 from its own general fund for this falls election will be watch- ary, was defeated for precinct com- mills interest in tisat lownahsip mitteeman in the Twenty-fourth but not properly bonded by the board of which Tuhey was a airing and resurfacing of drives in the three city parks. ADEQUATE PAY p ,1%di• flub \Stllianss sill he deal- 0555 the countycommittee in its reor- member. Persons mentioned for possible appointment to the in the cold right in Ids home town- ganization named him seeretary of In view of this predicament several councilmen believe ichuol board in the Tuhey berth are being actively sponsor- ship and Acker, ex-county chair- the aggregation. Court Asher, the lO ntan, shares a similar fate and it is Sims.Bunch-Finan-Acker broadcast- that it would be unwise to rename Tuhey to the school Od by their friends and it is expected that a lively interest unusual for two such leaders, one er also was defeated in the Find- FOR EFFICIENT board for another term as the citizens of Muncie still strong- *ill be shown at the council session when the vacancy is alleged to be Democratic and the teenth precinct for the Democratic ly resent the activities of the board in the bond matter. tinder consideration. other an important key in the old committemanship, but he didnt Republicah machine, to be so repu- land when the Acker-Bunch-1,0.n- diated among their own relatives Sims crowd readjusted the alleged POLICE OFFICERS and neighbors. Democratic county committee. - REDKEY MAN IS R. EARL PETERS Lafayette, Ind., May 16.—Ade- en a most enthusiastic welcome at Ifarry Langdon, the hokey pokey An indication of the waning pope- quate salaries for efficient paths the convention at which Gov. Les. ARGUE ISSUES man of the Seventeenth Precinct, I larity of/Doc Bunch, was evidenced racers was urged by Mayor George• lie, Otto (I. Fifield, secretary of KILLED IN FALL AGAIN NAMED AS was elected the committeeman In the Eighth preeillet when Char- state; John E. Frederick of lokir- Irma there on the Republican-Unity les Redding tied with him at 44 R. Dale of Muncie, Ind., speaking mo, widely known Democratic lead- last night at the convention of the to er, were also speakers. Leemore Williams Instantly STATE CHAIRMAN ;;;:;;sTie,, fs rse,is!t, • e bor ic Indiana Association of Police The convention program devoted ON INJUNCTION In said to have merely signed his !Doc would not have been opposed, Chiefs. much space to a story of the brand Killed In Fall From Ilk: own name and 1.4t that of the o ice pnit. Redding lie certainly spellsj,he "One of the biggest problems of new Muncie police force and its ef- Scaffold Thursday. 5 5 5515515 iii blank lo he tilled ill I Waterloo for the ex-mayer. the slay is to secure adequate sal- ficient. activities since its appoint- Named By Democrats Over aries for the police officm, after an ment ill January. A picture of Chief SUITS MONDAY lee Bays of Sullivan efficient force is obtained," Mayor Massey also appeared with the Redkey, Ind., May 16. –Leemore On 13 to 12 Vote, Dale deelared.