Indiana legislative bulletin outlines 502 bills and budget gaps
The Indiana General Assembly faces a sprawling 502 bills with 156 aimed at expanding costs while four seek savings. Highlights include House Bills 178 unifying park departments, 222 loosening bid rules to 5,000 dollars, and 291 proposing a 25 percent surtax for school purposes with referendums. The current biennial budget tops 669.7 million dollars, with committees under Baker and Maddox reviewing expenditures as hearings warn of a revenue shortfall.
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Indiana General Assembly
Indiana
Jack E. Reich
Indiana State Chamber of Commerce
Reich
State Chamber
House
Ways End Means Committee
Laurence D. Baker
Kendallville
Senate Finance Committee
Charles M. Maddox
Otterbein
Indiana faces fiscal strain amid budget plan and tax concerns
The state faces a serious fiscal problem if the proposed expenditure budget is adopted and revenues align with estimates. Indiana must grow jobs and maintain a competitive tax structure while noting $21 million plus remains in the World War II bonus fund. The State Chamber cites a $327.9 million receipts and $322 million expenditures for the last year.
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General Fund
Reich
General Assembly
State Budget Committee
Indiana
State Chamber
Rush County approves wide range of 1955 claims
Rush County commissioners on February 7 1955 allowed numerous claims including payments to clerks auditors deputies treas and health staff. Extensive disbursements include per diems mileage and supplies for court house jail health and welfare functions with multiple vendors and individuals named.
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Rush County Commissioners
Richart Phillips
Louise Phillips
Rebecca Mahan
Howard Ewbank
Helen L. Winkler
Fern Ewbank
Marjorie Brownell
Same
Kenneth Earnest
Coatly
Joan Martin
Treas
Gladys Milburn
Olive L. Miller
Wilma Hougland
Robert L. Main
Bert George
Dora Carpenter
Wayne White
Frances Frazee
C. L. Spuller
Hugh Morris
Lenore Foster
Home
Ann Crane
Edna Jane Hodson
C. M. DeMunbrun
Margaret Parmenter
Phyllis Rehme
Paul Glisson
Perry King
Rushville
Wm. F. Marshall
William M. Carter
Kathleen Keaton
Roy McKibben
Owen Gabbard
Daisy Mitchell
R. O. Kennedy
Cora Sherwood
Ethel Steele
Nellie Palmer
Patricia Sue Easter
William Lashell
Walter King
Helen Woods
Inez Vance
Richard A. Phillips
A. E. Boyce
Indiana State Industries
A. E. Boyce Co
Indiana Carbon Co
the Telfer Co
Robert L. May
Harry Levi
Pris
Republican Co
Roy Patterson
Armco Drainage & Metal
Cr. L. Spuller
Hugh W. Morris
Robert L. Johnson
I. U. Medical Center
L. Haymond
Citizens Ind. Tel. Co
Walter B. Keaton
Citizen’s Ind. Tel. Co
Bobbs-Merrill Co., Inc
Bancroft Whitley Co
Court House
Ind. Gas & Water Co
Churchill Mfg. Co
City Utilities
Agen Ey
Metager Lasher
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Carthage
Kenneth Rhodes
Mrs. Grace Porter
Budget
State General Fund
Ripley Township
Arthur W. Winfield
Posey Township
Clarence W. Northam
Robert W. Morgan
Indianapolis
Rush County
Harry A. McMillin
Roy Pitts
A. Walter Meyer
Heart Fund
Yinne
H.P
Chevrolet
Motoramie
Mays, Ind
George Todd
John Rigsbee
Iast
Vernon Jackson
Fox
Lowell A. Stiers
Russell W. Logan
Wallace Wissing
Clayton Hallgarth
Larry Tucker
Morris A. Shelton
Richard Mahan
Owen Cameron
Charles
Frank Dice
Joe Leisure
Ralph L. Smith
Clarence Barrow
Marvin Cole
Golay Meek
Lowell Roberts
Sheila Noah
Rush Co. Historical Society
Muscatat
Robert L. Padgett
Robert Meltzer
Harold S. Zeis
Armin Kleiman
Rex Gilmore
Walter B. Wallace
W. Pete Anthony
Ora Scudder
Ora Wilson
Zelbert Hawkins
Jack West
Norman M. Ray
Joe L. Brogdon
Rush L. Robinson
Frank McDonald
George W. Abel
Cary Myers
Charles K. Dudley
Rushville Pharmacy
Sup
Earl Vanderbur
Ditch Alloc Fund
Citizen’s Ind. Tel Co
Tel Rent & Tolls
Home C & D Delivery
C & EI Express
Jaggers Oil Co
Culligan
the Metzger Lumber Co
Wm. G. Waggoner Co
M & W Elec. Co
Dan W. Smith
Earl Marlow
Fred Pensinger
Ava Teel
Comm Singer Sewing Machine Co
Jack Duncan
Irvin Miller
Herbert Ritenour
Mgr
John Sexton & Co
M. O'Connor & Co
A. T. Money, Co
Meadow Gold Dairy
Continental Baking Co
P. N. Hirsch & Co
Home Clothing
Public Paint & Wall Paper Co
Montgomery
Sunshine Feed Store
Master Feed & Grain Co., Inc
B. Schenck
Rush Co
Milroy Frigid Locker
Sinclair Refining Co
Danner Bros. Co
Lowell Horton, Co Home Livestock
Frank Lawrence
Highway
Chas. B. Grubbs
Vinton Hudson
Clarence Loyd
Wm. B. Whitton
J. O. Readmond
Noland Hood
Loren E. Mack
Thurston Bebout
Denton Sign Service
Walter Norris
D. I. Dean
Fred Malotte Mach. Co
Rush Co. Motors, Inc
Christian Chev
McCorkle Stone Co
W. P. Wolfal Co
Rush Co. Stone Co., Inc
Cliff Montgomery
Smith Esteb Hospital
T. B, Hospital
Carthage Citizen
Gladys Hughes
Leone McClain
Nellie Myers
Catherine C. Wilkinson
Margaret Henley
Virginia Gridley
Leone McCain
Williamson & Waite, Inc
A. Gunn Haydon, Inc
A. Gunn Haydon
Ralph Gosnell
Elmer Perkins
John R. White
Eee
Federal Land Bank Loans
Rush
Decatur National Farm Loan Association
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Morgan Rushville
Baushack Fertilizer Co
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