The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-13
HEAD OF POUND
WANTS TO QUIT;
BOARD LAUGHS
DR.. Conger Is Too Valuable,
Myers View; RidiCuIeS
Complaints.

Resignation of DR.. Elizabeth
Conger, city dog pound superinten-
dent, as result of complaints pre-
sented to the safety board by
residents in the vicinity of the
pound, on Pendleton pike, was
threatened today.
DR.. Conger said she intended to
present her resignation, after six
teen years supervision over the
pound.
That's all right" said Charles R.
Myers, board president, when told OF
DR.. Conger's decision. "She may
think she can resign, but she can't.
We won't let her quit
Charge Bribery
The resignation threat arose when
several persons living near the
pound told the safety board Tues
dav that DR.. Conger was creating a
nuisance by keeping $50 dogs" fail
ing to kill every dog after it had
been there five days, as provided by
law: that she had kept some dogs
there twelve years, and that she
ATTEMPTED to bride witnesses to
keep them from testifying against
her"
"One of the principal complain
ants has been down to see me sew
eral times to get the city to buy his
property, but he wanted too much
money" Myers said. Il think this
fuss is just an effort to create sale
for the property
A reporter who visited the pound
today found it remarkably spick and
span, without odors, and with only
about $50, or at the most 200, ca
nine inhabitants.
Spends Own Money
Eyes, I do have a few dogs here
that have been here several years,
she said, in reply to the charges.
There they are. Most of them 1
bought and paid for, and they all
are valuable dogs.
IF the few cents a week it costs
to keep them is objected to, then
maybe I have been making a mis-
take in spending my own money to
keep this pound running"
City officials explained that DR..
Conger, who is practicing ply
sician, in her spare time" and who
operates the pound as hobby, be-
cause of her love for dogs, spends
more than her salary of $1,000 a
year, on the pound. In addition, it
was her money that bought part
Of the pound site, and she furnishes
an automobile of her own as an
emergency car for the pound, they
said.
DR.. Conger said she and Mrs.
Nellie Maple, her assistant buy most
of the food used at the pound with
their own funds, because of the
shortage in the pound budget.
$50 a Month in Budget
I'VE only have about $50 a month
in the budget for food, and that all
goes for meat, and it's not spoiled
meat, either-like some people
charge-it comes right out of a
butchers electric cooler" DR.. Con-
ger said.
In addition, she employs with her
own funds a woman four days
week to help at the pound, costing
her about $40 week, and feeds and
gives spending money from her own
purse to a night man. There are
three employees of the pound paid
by the city.
I'll admit I don't kill every dog
we get after five days." she said.
Some of these waits are valuable
dogs and can be sold. We took in
$50 last week from the sale of dogs,
and the annual receipts are from
81, 700 to $1,000, which makes up a
large part of the $4,000 budget.
There's Old Man River" she
said, pointing to an aged beagle
Hes been here seven months and
won't destroy him. I'm going to
resign and take him with me. I've
been trying to trade my home for
a country place in order to give
some of these waits a home for
life