Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-08-27
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Board" looking directly at DR..
Kieinschmidt as he made his state
ment.
Claiming that his request for an
investigation of the Health Board
was dictated not be politics but by
his own convictions, Mr.. Etchen
stated that it was his mind and
no one was going to tell him what
to do.
Councilman Addison @. Thatcher
took up the cudgels in behalf of
his friend Mr.. Etchen and also
made it very clear chat l don't
care what the Toledo Blade or To-
ledo Times think. If we do not do
what the papers think we should,
they accuse us of playing politics.
They can take their minds and
stick 'em where the monkey put
the peanut" Then, looking at the
TOLEDO UNION JOURNAL re-
porter, he said, "And that goes
double for you"
Majority Opposes Etchen
Mayor Lloyd Roulet, ex-officio
member of the Board of Health,
stated his opposition to the Etchen
resolution as did Councilmen Bame
ard Disable.
DR.. w. B. Brinkerhoff, a men,
Der of the Toledo Health Board,
stated, eve have a good commits
sioner, but it seems to me that part
of the official family (Council is
trying to tear down what we
build" DR.. Brinkerhoff stated that
he believed the matter of personnel
SHOULD be left to the discretion of
the Board, which he said was in
better position to know the needs
Of the department than a group of
councilmen.
At this, Councilman Thatcher in
terjected and said, "There isn't
anyone l want to put to work, I
dtn't know who it would be-" Mr..
Thatcher then went on to say,
"You want a closed Board, COM
posed of DOCTORS" and carried out
this theme to some length.
When the vote was taken on the
Etchen resolution, the resolution
lost by a vote of 6 to 2.
$500 Appropriated
Following the slapping down of
the Etchen resolution, Council
passed an appropriation of $500
fol- the Health Department, al
though $4,000 had been requested
earlier in the year.
DR.. Earl E. Kleinschmidt was
never given an opportunity to de-
fend himself from the charges
made by Councilman Etchen, who
obviously took advantage of his
position to cast suspicion upon the
health commissioner which could
not be substantiated by Mr..
Etchen.
Contacted by the TOLEDO
UNION JOURNAL, DR.. Klein
schmidt denied that he had sought
backing for his program and said
that the Health Department was
working shorthanded due to the
laying off of 80 WPA workers
early in the year.
DR.. w. B. Brinkerhoff, member
of the Board of Health, told the
JOURNAL, "If they are going to
make a political football of the
Board of Health and the Health
Department, we might as we'll all
play" He said that the Board of
Health was nothing but a 'whip-
ping boy" for people like Council
man Etchen, and said that until
Council gave the Board sufficient
funds to work with and took it out
Of politics no great progress would
be made IN Toledo.
Councilman Etchen was soundly
repudiated by his fellow council
men and it is doubtful if he will
again attempt to attack this de-
partment during the balance of
his term in office.
City Council Needs Tom Burke!
UNION HEADS GET WAR
FORT MEADE, Md. - (FP) =
Twenty-Five union representatives,
including five women, gots a real
taste of army life here when they
volunteered to crawl more than
100 yards through a machinegun
and dynamite barrage laid down
by their hosts, the soldiers of Fort
Meade