The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 21, 1936, Page 7

ea oe t Government Cost]FORMER GOVERNOR [Lion Tale ‘Not Funny’, THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1936 Fargo Pastor’s Wife, 69, Taken by Death HIGH SCHOOL CROWDITs $47.49 Per Person) RAPSEXPENDITURES) Says Hugh M’Culloch 224% ‘Magician Entertains Big Au- dience at First. Perform- ance Tuesday Maurice F. Raymond, master ma- gician, professionally known as The Great Raymond, amused and mysti- fied a capacity crowd Tuesday night at the high school auditorium. ‘The performance, staged as a bene- fit for the high school equipment fund, was highly succeksful“and will be re- peated at the school auditorium to- Sell ig eee ‘The public is in- vited. 4 Raymond jis not only amazingly | skillful and dexterous but witty and humorous and was an instantaneous success. with his audience. Oranges, eggs and beautiful silks were made to appear from nowhere and then to disappear again to the myatification Of the audience. Included in a committee which as- sisted Raymond on the stage were Supreme Court Judge W. L. Nuessle, Wesley L. Sherwin, F. F. Skinner, George Bird, Frank Cave, Alfred Ran- neld, Adam Klein and a number of women, ‘These, as well as the audience were baffled by the trick which was pre- sented as having mystified Thomas A. Edison, the great inventor, and. others who have seen it. Raymond’s feminine assistant was bound by the committee and encased in s huge bag, which was sealed with sealing wax. Woman and bag then were enclosed in a trunk which was securely tied with ropes and the: trunk was placed in a tent which had been erected on the stage. At & word from Raymond the woman stepped forth from the tent and Ray- mond stepped into it. A moment later the committee entered the tent and dragged out the trunk, still securely roped. Inside the trunk was the bag, seal unbroken, but inside the bag was Raymond, his hands and feet tied as those of the woman had been. With the exception of the trunk trick, the program scheduled for to- night will be entirely different from that presented Tuesday night, schoo! euthorities said. * Ransom Dems Stage Old-Fashioned Rally Devils Lake, Oct. 21—()—A po- Mtical rally of old was reenacted here Tuesday night by Democrats who mobilized ticipate in s torchlight program et which John Moses of Hazen, guber- - candidate, and William DePuy, Grafton, attorney general can- Gidate, discussed campaign issues, A water conservation and water use Program is a need above and beyond Partiés, Moses told his audience. He submitted a four-point plan which ineluded: (1) Small dams on. every farm in North Dakota; (2) Larger dams, basins and reservoirs through- out the state (3) An irrigation pro- gram and, (4) The Missouri river di- - Version project. ; Both speakers asserted “let us get transpor' must change their watches t {n 10 hours to conform to time . Speaks Here Tonight A.B. (Happy) Chandler, governor of Kentucky, World War.veteran and member of the American Le- gion; will speak at 8 o'clock to- night at the city auditorium. Only 38 years old, Chandler is one of the youngest governors in the United . a a & *e ASSAILS LANDON'S BUDGET-BALANCIN Chandler Asserts 500 Kansas Schools Closed, Teachers Getting Poor Pay Gov. A. B. (Happy) Chandler, who is scheduled to speak at 8 p. m., to- night in the city auditorium, com+ mented Tuesday night on the budget- balancing achievements of Gov. Alf Landon in an address at Minot, his second in North Dakote. 5 “I'd heard so much about the way Gov. Landon was balancing his bud- get in Kansas that I just went oyer there to see for myself what he was doing,” said Chandler, who ts cam- paigning for re-election of President Roosevelt. “I found he balanced his budget, but it meant more than 500 schools closed, teachers receiving from $25 to $30 a month, ep ae ad public health protection and decfeased social se- curity.” Referring to other presidential cane didates, Chandler said “Don’t vote for @ fellow as s gesture when he has no chance, if loss of your vote means any possible return to ‘Hooverism. Willlam Lemke has no chance.” Young Mandan Girl Is Claimed by Death Doris Braaten, 13, Mandan, died Tuesday in » Mandan hospital. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. ‘Braaten, two brothers and three sisters. sur- wie Funeral services will be Satur-| ay. r $49 Taken From Each Indivi- dual in Typical Year, Tax Survey Shows The cost of government in North governments, the comms- found receipts for the single fis- al year amounted to $33,363,334 or an from general property taxes and 15 per cent of all revenues from special taxes, licenses and permits. The re- maining 27 per cent of all revenues were obtained from interest and rents, 6rants, fines, earnings of departments and institutions, income from public Utilities and special assessments. Bréeakng the amount down by divi- sions of government the commission teported that of the total revenue col- Jections in 1934, $12,411,926 or 37.20 per cent was received by the state; $6,274,575 by the counties; $3,660,782 by the cities and villages; $9,612,028 by the achool districts; $1,242,146 by the townships, and $161,876 by other civil divisions, Much of the revenues collected by the state were spent by local units. Revenue Excesses Listed “Excess of revenue receipts over governmental cost payments for 1934 ‘was $1,083,230 for all divisions of gov- ernment,” the report read. “Excess of state government reven- ues over expenditures was $1,412,270; of city and village governments $614,- 819; of school districts $116,681; while county government expenditures ex- ceeded revenues by $851,743; township governments $248,432 over revenues and other civil divisions, $10,365.” The revenues collected included: $19,408,475 {rom general property taxes; $4,707,209 special taxes, $314,567 cense and permits, $1,091,717 interest and rents; $4,224,159 gifts, grants and subventic 1,674 fines, forfeits and eachea’ 025,407 earnings of gen- eral de ts and institutions, $1,113,2 miscellaneous revenues; $268,298 net operating profit from Public utilities, and $1,193,565 special assessments. Major items for which the money was spent are general government $4,385,984, education and libraries $10,364,099, highways $8,322,736, pro- teetion and corrections $1,458,403, in- terest $1,000,635 and social welfare $3,124,926. Attention Masons: Meet at the Temple at 2:00 P. M. Thursday, October, 22, 1936, to attend the funeral of Brother O. E. Anderson. L, A, French, W. M. “We shall hoody invade the low-priced field with s fine new Chrysler. It will be a big, hoon car that will set new Chrysler stiewlasde of performance, economy Langer Asserts N. D. Payroll Has Increased Over $2,000,- 000 Per Bienniim (By the Associated Press) Lashing the Welford administra- tion for expenditures, former governor William Langer, independent guberns- torial candidate, asserted the North Dakota state payroll has increased over $2,000,000 per biennium or néar- ly $90,000 a month, since he was re- moved from office in 1934. Langer charged in an address Tues- day night the. state highway depart- ment under Commissioner W. J. nigan had “on its payroll hundreds of employes more than in any year in the state’s history, yet 8 report shows this department did just 60 per cent Be SUCH. fed PS URIRE BAANA Oe 1934.” He asserted the “entire highway de- partment is drawn into politics and over eight hundred’ maintainers are called into political meetings while the taxpayers of North Dakota take dusty detours and the highway death rate is much higher than last year in spite of $80,000 spent for highway patrol.” The former . governor declared “roads cannot be maintained when Animal Has Actually Been Seen by Four Different People, He Asserts “There really is a lion at large in Burleigh county. It is an African lion. And if it kills somebody it won’t be so funny.” The speaker is Hugh McCulloch, ‘Washburn attorney and self-consti- tuted press agent for the lion, which has caused more talk in Bismarck dur- ing the last few days than the poli- tical campaign. McCulloch was jus' little peeved . {when he talked to The Tribune. He felt that it had dealt with felis leo in & spirit of levity, whereas he regards it as a serious matter. What is more he offered evidence to prove that it is serious—and he warned that the great jungle cat apparently is nearer to Bismarck now than it is to Wilton. The Washburn lawyer, who first an- nounced the presence of the lion in this district, said late Tuesday that he had made a trip into séctions of Bur- leigh county to check up on the lion and this is what he found: Three Persons See Beast Oscar Colefnan, living 11 miles east of Baldwin, saw him Sunday evening thousands of dollars ate being dissi-;St ® distance of 200 feet and is sure pated in salaries to highway employes who render no service except that. of a political nature.” “Taxes must be reduced and even though we raise the salaries of teach- ers, and state employes to meet highér cost of living, taxes still can be re- duced materially by currying out waste, inefficiency and extravagance,” he declared. : During the 20 months Welford has been in power “not one tax has been reduced and most of them are raised,” he charged. “Never before in the his- tory of North Dakota has so much money been spent as no Swedish Film Will Be Seen Here Next Week ‘The Swedish talking picture, “Wo- msn Around Larsson,” announced by C. O. Lindbergh for two days show- ing at the State theatre in Bismarck, will be on Wednesday and Thursday of next week and not on Wednesday and Thursday of this week as stated in the headlines of the first nouncement, Scenic films will also be shown picturing, the country in Varm- land and about Sweden. BISMARCK GROCERY COMPANY it is an African lion, May Little, living one-half mile south of Baldwin saw him Friday eve- ning and Victor Coleman, living 10 miles east of Baldwin, saw him at P. Friday. The lion was only 60 feet away and Coleman is sure it was an African lion, Porter Nelson, living 12% miles east of Baldwin saw him at 4 p. m,, Sun- day and tried to track him but lost the trail in the rough country of that neighborhood, McCulloch said further that the man who first Feported the lion in the vicinity was not Albert Johnson but Carl Johnson. Albert Johnson, in a statement to The Tribune, de- nied all knowledge of the beast. No Joke to Mother To the people in the neighborhood where he has been seen, McCullcch averred, the lion is a grim reality and not a joke. Mrs. Chris Buchholtz, he said, is so perturbed that she will not let her children go to school un- ti the lion is killed or she is satis- fied that it has left this part of the country. McCulloch was insistent that some- thing be done about it. He regards the lion as a menace to life and prop- erty and suggests that the state game In Cans © In Bottles Order a carton for your home= and fish department detail about 10 men, armed with high-powered rifles, to comb the territory and dispose of the lion. That part of-Burleigh coun- ty has rough terrain, he said, and it is practically impossible to track the beast over the hard ground. The only feasible method he can think of is to beat the brush and drive him out. In all seriousness, The Tribune joins in the suggestion that, if there is a lion, he ought to be killed or captured lest harm result. Bismarck hunters should be glad to take part in a lion hunt. It would, at least, be different. 'They don’t get an opportunity to hunt the jungle king every day. Suggest Lion Hunt To the state game and fish depart- ment it has suggested that all doughty nimrods be invited to participate in a lion hunt, say on Sunday when most men can take part without loss of time. Members of the Bismarck Lions club have signified interest in such & proposal. McCulloch has an explanation as to how an African lion happens to be at large so far from its native habitat Last summer, he said, two lions es. caped from a small circus in Bottineau county. The circus management ad- vertised for trace of the big cats but later withdrew the advertisements and dented that they had published them because they were afraid of lebijjity if the animals did any harm. So the lions remained at large. Story Not Verified ‘This part of the story was checked last week by the Associated Press but it could obtain no verification of the alleged facts. At the rate he is reported to be traveling southward, the lion should be in southern Burleigh county by Sunday and all farmers are asked to keep a lookout for him and report to The Tribune by telephone, collect, if he is seen, The temperature dropped to 23 de- @rees Tuesday night and this should cramp the style of the lion, which is ‘@ native of the tropical jungles. May- ‘be by Sunday he will have left the country. But if trace is found of him in the meantime there should be plenty of hunters trailing him over the week-end. FOR METAL WEATHERSTRIPPING AND CAULKING See Oscar A. Johnson Phone 1799 218 W. Sweet Ave. noon for Mrs. Margaret Cooper, 69, wife of Dr. H. P. Cooper, retired plo- neer clergyman and executive North Dakota Methodist churches. Burial will be at Casselton. 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