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Columbus, Ind. Price 15 Cents Friday September 12, 1975 ithout THE 4 REPUBBIC Meter Funds, Fool Bills? 1 i 2, i lit I I Last year the city's 620 meters were filled with 131,353.58 in pennies, nickels and dimes. As of Sept 5 of this year the total was $18,174. 75. 1 1 I Ill'" "1 By GREG SCHERSCHEL Suf! Writer It seems almost everyone in Columbus wants to get rid of the parking meters downtown, butno pneseemslQie-able to answer gne question "Where will the money come from to pay for the things now paid for with park' ing meter receipts?" The Central Business association and the Columbus Area Chamber of Commerce have passed 'resolutions calling for the removal of the meters.

CBA members now are seeking signatures from shoppers calling for the removal of the meters. "Columbus Mayor Max An-dress even told The Republic today he would support a 2-month moratorium on parking meters to see what it did for downtown business. But Bruce Dalton, chairman of the CBA's parking meter removal committee, and Andress both said they do not know how the city would fund the items now funded by the meter receipts. ing meter operations, the office also handles traffic work, including street signs and painting, throughout the rest of the city. Because of that it receives about half of its funding kfrom the engineering department.

The total office budget for next year is about $113,978, of which $54,885.52 is listed in the PMT budget and $1,605 is in the PMO budget. The other comes from the engineering office for salaries and equipment for work outside of the downtown area. Two-thirds of some of the budget items are paid for by the engineering department because it is figured that two-thirds of their work is done out of the downtown area. The department is headed by Jim McGinnis of Route 11 who next year will receive $3,000 from the PMT third of the budget and $6,600 from the engineering two-thirds of the budget. Sharon Harris, the office secretary, will receive the two meterettes, Pam Hoi- comb' and Sandy Talkington, will receive $6,282 each; a skilled laborer, Terry Gilpin, will receive $8,372 and summer help next- year will receive $2,295.

All of those salaries, along with the $4,167 one-third share of the salary for a manager of traffic affairs if one is hireoV WTit be paid out of parking meter The rest of the PMT and PMO budgets list items typical of all city budgets, such as expenses for telephones, equipment maintenance, gasoline ($500 of the total $1,500 alloted for the department), stationery and other items, Of all the items in the budg- (Sw METERS, feck Pag Stctton) 1.45-Inch Rain Soaks County Columbus -was drenched by 1.45 inches of rain Thursday afternoon and this morning, the most precipitation locally since May 6 and the third highest 24-hour total of 1975. Official rain totals kept at the waste water treatment plant south of First street said 1.45 inches of rain fell in a 24-hour period ending at 7 a.m. Some parts of Bartholomew county reported around 1.75 inches while Jennings county had rainfall totaling over two inches. The last time Columbus got wetter was the 24-hour period ending 7 a.m. May 7 when 1.68 inches of rain fell.

The year's Police Survey To Check Quality of Department An addition, the city last year- received $9,002.40 from the 71 leased spaces in the downtown area and by Sept. 5 had received $6,983.77. Parking ticket, fines last year brought in a totalt of $9,723.47, and the figure so far this year was $6,568. She the total money raised by the parking meter department last year was $50,353.58. That money is, according to administration policy, to be used in the downtown area, since it comes from money received in the downtown.

The city hall office which is in charge of parking meters is the parking meter and traffic department. That department's funds are provided by different budgets, the parking meter traffic (PMT), the parking meter office (PMO). and the engineering department budgets. In addition to handling park ance, accuracy of reports and the overall degree, of satisfaction with police service. Hilycord said persons involved in accidents, those persons reporting crimes or persons simply seeking information will be.

among those likely to be contacted. The survey will involve not only the uniform division but the detective, juvenile and nar Knight will speak at the 7:30 p.m. dinner at the Holiday Inn on Road 46 West. The dinner meeting is open to all volunteer United Way campaign solicitors and workers. Under Knight's guidance, the Hoosiers have compiled a 4-year record of 92 wins and 19 losses, two outright Big Ten titles and a share of a third, a third-place NCAA tournament finish and the 1973 Collegiate Commissioners association championship.

Knight, 34, was named coach of the year by UPI, Sporting A survey testing the quality of law enforcement in Columbus begins today and will in-, volve the random interviewing of. about 60 persons a month, according to Columbus Police Chief Dave Hilycord. The interview will be conducted by police with persons who have dealt with police recently. Areas to be checked include police response time, personal attitude and appear IU Basketball Coach To Speak At United Way Dinner Sept. 29 cotics divisions as well, Hilycord said.

Hilycord said the survey was not designed by criticize individual members of the department but to check for efficiency, responsibility and credibility of the department. Hilycord said information from the interviews should aid feck Pig tacttwi) News and the U.S. Basketball Writers association. At Army where he coached for six years before taking the IU job, his team led the nation in defense In 1968, 1969 and 1970, was second in 1971 and third in 1967. Four of his Army teams were selected to play in the National Invitational tournament and they finished third in 1970 and fourth two other times.

The meeting will launch this year's United Way campaign which is under the direction of Henry B. Schacht, 4300 rant Super Mark Dooley, 105 Wehmeier, adds a final touch to his Superman painting on the fire hydrant at Third and Chestnut streets. Dooley, a longtime comic book collector, painted three hydrants as part of the Bartholomew county Bicentennial program. His other paintings were of Iron Man and Captain Marvel, local Bi- centennial representative, Linda Bell, reported 24 hydrants painted throughout Columbus with only one left to paint. Designs submitted for the hydrants will be part of an exhibit at The Commons Sept.

15-25. Related Story, A8. (StaH Color Photo by Jon Carlson) Show Planned Industry wettest 24-hour period was that ending Feb. 22 when 1.85 inches of rain fell. And while the area got some relief from the dry weather which hung on all summer, the weatherman had other surprises in store for the week end bundle-up-to-keep-warm surprises.

The weatherman was predicting temperatures dropping to around 40 tonight with cool weather forecast for Saturday and Sunday. The termometer hovered around the 50-degree mark this morning but failed to kip into the 40s. Saturday highs are expected in the 60s while Sunday it may reach into the 70s. Area Death Details, B4 -Geneva Baker Castor, 63, 413 North State in North Vernon, Jennings county Republican vice-chairman. Heaven the past 27 of his 49 years of he has not let that slow him for Sunday is an attention we feel will not only benefit the public but other industrialists as well," At least 10 industries have said they'll participate in the show and 10 to 15 more are likely to participate in the show and 10 to 15 more are likely to participate.

"This is Bob Knight, Indiana university basketball coach, will be speaker Sept. 29 for launching of Bartholomew county's 1975 United Way fund drive. BOB KNIGHT United Way Dinner Speaker Wesu Rev. Ray Hotle Is Trying To Get v- lL -1 posed event. "The Commons is a perfect place to hold this show and we feel it will get.

the maximum exposure there," Deli Said. "None of the industries will be allowed to manufacture any' thing during the show so it will be a quiet, orderly show that Downtown Out Back, At Index t. to1 your lawn -I Closer to Inside Today. going to be a rather simple thing for people to see. There will be various items which have been manufactured by these industries and people finally will get a chance to see these things instead of just hearing about themr" Deli said." 1975 harvest at 565,000,000 bushels, averaeine 100 bushels an acre, B6.

LOCKHEED Aircraft docu- ments show $22 million in kickbacks over the years to foreign officials involved in purchase of planes, A5. STATE'S universities and colleges urged to take their campuses to the students, A5. Tickler INDIANA legislative study. committee authorizes cost evaluation to determine how much in state funds would be needed to establish, system of energy stamps for elderly and low-income persons, PROSPECTS for bumper corn crop in' Indiana even brighter, with Agriculture department's Sept. 1 estimate of Today's By CHARLOTTE SELLERS' Regional News Editor The Rev.

Ray Hotle (whose name sounds like yodel) is in Hartsville and trying to get closer to heaven literally. of his fnends at the state highway department in Columbus tell him they are going to go watch him Sunday to see if lie breaks his neck. What the Hartsville Wesleyan church minister has in mind come rain or shine is talking to his congregation (and anyone else who wants to listen) from the 40-foot -high roof of his church. His climb begins at 10:45 a.m. In return he expects to raise some money to continue refurbishing the church.

The building is on the north" side of the town square in the community of 500 on Road 46 at the Bartholomew-Decatur county line. Want to find out what makes local industries tick? Then plan to attend the first annual Columbus Industrial show Oct. 24. 25 and 26 at The Commons. Columbus Area Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring the show being held to "show and tell" the community what local industries do and how they doit.

Frank Deli of Como Plastics is in charge of organizing the event. He said today between 20 and 25 exhibitors are expected. All industries will be allotted, an 8-by-8-fo6t space and an impartial drawing will be held to determine booth locations. it has become apparent that fellow industrialists and the public in general simply don't know what industries in town are doing," Deli said. "We were surprised to find out what some industries in town are doing and decided that if we weren't awarecthe general public probably wasn't aware either." Deli said the idea for the show came from Como president George RusseH.

Como was featured at one of the. Chamber's membership breaks fasts and Deli presented a slide program of the firmr'We found to our surprise that everyone thought we did something else. "That gave George the idea that if we were a surprise, others would be and we have since found this to be true," Deli said. Deli said that discussion led to action and that "with the help of Waldo Harrison at the Chamber and Susan Anderson at The Commons, we've made this an event and not a pro Hotle -havbeen on crutches life because of a spinal problem but Of course, you can enjoy a glorious vacation and stay within your budget, but not in the same year. Thanks to H.

Miles. North Vernon route 4. (Send your brief joke or quip to "Tickler." The Republic. PO Box 10. Columbus.

Ind. 47201 1 down. i He works 50 hours a week from the state highway office in Columbus as a communications clerk and job coordinator, in addition to spending about 12 hours a week ministering to his congregation which he says now averages about 20 persons on Sun The Weather day mornings. He says his steeple-high. idea INDIANA Clear, cold tonight.

Saturday mostly sunny, continued cool. Lows tonieht near 40. Highs Saturday uorjer 60s. -'-S. rr-2 rr' I.

z.T7z I getter as well as a potential fund raiser. "I believe it is a divinely inspired idea," he says. The Bedford native, who lived in the south in the 1940s as the son of a minister, actually will stand on a scaffolding, level with the apex of the church roof. Hotle will take a microphone with him. "We have quality of donations," Hotle said.

"We need quantity now." He said he needs $5,000 to $6,000 to finish the work on the church and he wants to raise as much as he can Sunday. He will display pictures showing what already has been done to the church. "We plan to settle here," Hotle explains, "and I want to LOCAL TEMPERATURES Thursday high 73. Over-Amusement Ads night lw 52. Reading at7 a.mf 54, Reading atlL30 a.m.

63: Comics BU RAIN 1.45 inches o'f rain in 24-hour period ending at 7 RayCromiey.v.... A4 fm- tt, DearAbbv B5 SUNSET today 6:59 p.m. Sunrise Saturday 6:24 a.m. Editorials EXTENDED OUTLOOK Partly cloudy Sunday with MaAets B4 chance of showers about Monday and Tuesday. Little day-to-day OWuifre B4 change Sunday through Tuesday.

Highs 70s to low 80s. Lows SportsA Bl-3 mostly 50s. Want Ads. J. B6-11 -Viva Carriers Will Be Collecting on Their Routes This I Week PLANS TO CLIMB The Rev.

Ray Hotle of Hartsville stands in font of the Wesleyan church in the town east of Columbus whe're he plans to talk from a scaffolding on the roof at Sunday in on attempt to raise funds for work on his church. (Stt MOTLI, HMimimI).