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WHY CHASEBUSINESSAWAY S AYSPRESIDENTLake Gounty Gretna Green toTVntlV n tlwFFight tor That $100,000If Necessarytlhc;kCROWN POINT, Feb. 18.Any attempts to end a business that is “worth $100,000 per year to Crown Point” will meet with serious opposition from the local chamber of commerce, its president, ClaudeAllman told The Times today. Allman denied, however, that he had already aligned his organization against Mayor Vincent A. Youkey, fiery leader of the forces trying to breakup Howard H. “Spot” Kemp’sbusiness monopoly.“Mr. Youkey evidently plans only to see that the business is divided among* the three justices of the peace, Allman stated, but if he tries to keep you nr: couples from coining* here to be married on the ground that it blackens the name of our fair city, there will be plenty of opposition.lt;5,000 COUJPI.ES COME“The 6,000 or more couples who come here every year spend .$100,000 with local business men. Why should any one try to* chase that much business out of town? he queried.Allman said that so far the chamber of commerce had done nothing* about the controversy. “We prefer to act in an advisory capacity, if at * all. he added.Despite all of the argument concerning the local Gretna Green, business continues to be good . . . and the much maligned Kemp, the-“Marrying Squire is handling most of it.Sitting in his office just across the street from the county courthouse, where the marriage licenses are issued from the clerk's office, Ivemp handles a dozen or more marriages a day. His own figure of $2,50 per marriage would indicate an average intake of $25 per day, but his chief opponent, Mayor You-«Jfs1M 1 ^ ^ 1— I 1 ~ — * - ■ - - m |i I—J J - ^(Continued on Page Seventeen)
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Hammond Whiting Evening Times
Hammond, Indiana, US
Tue, Feb 18, 1930
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