The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-06
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CITY help in
BORER BATTLE
$19,305 from Marion Co.
Aids in Campaign to
Save Corn.
ROBINSON GIVES FIGURE
Half of Dollar Goes to
Promote Cause of
Education.
ROBINSON GIVES FIGURE

Marion County taxpayers, 30 per
cent of whom live in Indianapolis
and hence see a corn field only
when they crank up the flivver and
tour to Flackville on Sunday, paid
$19,305.46 to help fight the European
corn borer in Indiana the first six
months of this year.
City taxpayers, however, benefit
by the campaign in the preservation
OF an important food source.
The corn borer figure is one Of
the interesting items in a report up
on division of the 100000 collect
ed up to June 30, made today by
County Treasurer Clyde E. Robin
son.
Large Share to Schools.
Almost half the taxpayers dollar
goes to school and affiliated causes.
such as teachers pensions, while the
balance is divided among the scores
of special funds, spent by elected
and appointed officials and special
boards.
Under the general expense head,
only about 100000 is collected, but
the small statutory levies for this
and that special bring the total up.
in Center township, to 1854 per
500 valuation. 1t is slightly less in
other Marion County townships.
Collections for the first half of
this year exceeded those for SINH
lar period last year, Chief Deputy
Treasurer o. H. Harris said.
This increase is attributed by
Robinson and Harris to the fact
that advertising in the local papers
was run just prior to final date on
which taxes could be paid without
delinquent penalties.
Mostly Spent Successfully
Robinson spent $500 of his own
money for this advertising this
spring, and so successful was the
experiment that he will put a $1,000
item in his budget for 1929, he said
today.
There were hundreds of collec-
lions this year that we could trace
directly to the ads" said Robinson.
IF advertising is good in one busi-
ness, it is good in another"
Actual collections for the first half
amounted to $40, 160,14721. This is
made up of the $1,000, 1915 collec-
tons Of current taxes, $17,54486 in
delinquents, less the applications
and errors, plus the total on the
extra assessment books.
Robinson's Office in 1928 will han-
die between S17,000,000 and $18,000,-
600, but a large amount of this is
spent by officers other than county.
Some goes to the State, some to the
city, some to the schools, Robinson
acting as collection agent for all,
Half Million to State
The tabulation on which the vari-
Gus amounts were turned over to
the spending agencies follows:
To the State: general taxes. $685.
953.19; State school, $3.50, 47099:
State teachers pensions $70,531.51:
State soldiers memorial $23,51057:
State agricultural board, $9,796.06:
Dunes Park fund, $7,83686; State
forestry, $3,88979 corn borer fund,
SIG, 305.46; Clark memorial fund at
Vincennes, $15,445,37.
To the County: county general,
$577,419.71; free gravel roads, $685.
247.18; county sinking fund, $780,
1899; township tax, 25,99089:
county tuition, $2,374 ,S9953; special
school district funds, $1,304 ,249O1;
special school bond interest fund,
$72, 1875; road tax, $4835I7; town.
ship poor fund, $54,54057; three
mile road fund, $239, 43O.42; county
tuberculosis no pital, $97 ,38726:
small city corporations, $38,63650:
library, 1902, 1888; free kindergar-
ten. $30,33477.
To the city general, 1927 1868:
city sinking, Sl02, 1926; board of
health, 1896 ,979.09; sanitation, $371,-
837.11; park general fund, $177,-
9674O; park district bonds, $143,-
98602; school help, $42,29036; rec
reation, $50,59934; track elevation,
$1O0,7 O1.72; city tuberculosis, $23,-
513.64; flood prevention, $50,599.34;
World war memoriay, $41,54490;
street resurfacing, $50,8478l; thor
oughfare plan, $16,860.45.