10/27/1952 Board of Public Works Minutes

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N October 27, 1952 A regular meeting of the Board of Public Works was held Monday, October 27, 1952, at 10:00 A. M. All members were present. Minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved. Claims of the following suppliers, in the amount of $84,080.75, were approved and ordered paid: Artcraft Printers $189.50 Indiana Bell Telephone Co. 250.17 • Herbert Leary 5.00 Midwest Lite Co. 23.75 Office Engineers, Inc. 1.64_,. Rand's Delivery System 12.00 Peltz Kaufer Paper Co. 36.56 South Bend 'Window Cleaning Co. 10.80 South Bend Window Cleaning Co. 53.50 j J. W. Werntz & Son, Inc. 5.29 I PARKING METER DEPARTMENT: Brehmer Electric Co. 3.45 DOG POUND: Singer General Tire Co. 52.15 W. A. R. Equipment Co. 14.30 Builder's Store, Inc. 9.75 SEWER DEPARTMENT: Niles excavating Co. 485.00 Niles excavating Co. 406.48 E. R. Newland Co. 36.96 Ridge Co. 35.18 INTERCEPTOR SEWER: Barna Massa Construction Co.$18,616.66 STREET IMPROVEPv7ENT: Wilbur H. Gartner 2,644.72 Rieth-Riley Construction 52094.45 • CONTRACTORS IMPROVEMENT: Reed Construction Co. 278.04 Reed Construction Co. 327.38 STREET & TRAFFIC: Art Cannady's Mag. & Spd.Ser. 8.10 Bearings Service Co. 14.98 Gafill Oil Co. 1912.60 Gyori Portable Welding Service 20.00 Louis How, M.D. 9.00 Indiana Bell Telephone Co. 14.29 Industrial Towel Service 6.60 International Harvester Co. 20.45 Indiana & Michigan Electric Co. 81.60 Kaley Motor Service 42.1.2 Indiana Bell Telephone Co. 10.94 Frank Kettring, Postmaster $20.00 Korte Bros., Inc. 4.31 Ben Medow,inc,' 79.62 Motor Service.& Parts, Inc. 8.16 G. E. Meyer & Son 73.91 E. R. Newland Co., Inc. 54.00 Office Supply & Equipment Co. 2.50 Peltz-Kaufer Paper Co. 36.56 Pettibone Mulliken Corp. 58.10 Pettibone Malliken Corp. 2.86 Pettibone Mullikeh. Corp. 4.49 Pettibone Nulliken Corp. 4.31 Premier Autoware Co. 114.61 Redmer Distributing Co. 45.25 Romy Hammes Corporation 5.93 Schuyler Rose, Inc. 52.00 Rieth-Riley Construction Co. 921.02 Simon Bros., Inc. 342.00 Simon Bros., Inc. 342.00 Sinclair Refining Co. 78.86 Singer General Tire Co. 88.25 C. D. Smelser Co. 521.08 C. D. Smelser 183.21 South Bend Electric Co. 2.74 South Bend Electric Co. 47.04 South Bend Electric Co. 3.78 South Bend Supply Co. 63.35 Standard Automotive Supply Co. 84.28 Standard Automotive Supply Co. 87.00 Standard Automotive Supply Co. 19.14 Standard Automotive Supply Co. 58.85 Standard Automotive Supply Co. 42.60 Standard Automotive Supply Co. 68.94 Scherman-Schaus Freeman Co. 29.12 Standard Oil Co. 491.86 Standard Oil Co. 493.80 Standard Oil Co. L47.31 Standard Oil Co. 13.07 Teeter Sales & Service, Inc. 13.25 Western Indiana Gravel Co. 4.82 West Side.Hardware 30.60 J. 'IT. Werntz & Son, Inc. 9.97 First to appear before the Board were representatives of J. E. Walz Garage, Inc., 3423 S. Michigan Street, and Indiana Bell Telephone Company, asking permission of the Board to install a telephone booth adjacent to the public sidewalk at this South Michigan Street location. There being no objection offered by any member of the Board, permission was thereupon granted. James E. Langham and Leonard Barkowski, representing Phillips Petroleum Company, appeared before the Board and acquainted the Board with the improved facilities of their organization in South Bend with a view to supplying city fleet gasoline ana oil needs. i Attorney Burt Ford next appeared before the Board and presented the Dedication of an alley in Whitcomb & Keller's Third Sunnymede Addition on the part of General Outdoor Advertising Co., Inc. The Board examined the dedication and proceeded with its acceptance, to become effective simultaneously with the vacation of the fourteen jfoot alley presently situated between lots 713 and 714, as set forth in the dedication. j VACATION RESOLUTION NO. 2739 - 1952 . This being the date set, hearing was had on the resolution heretofore adopted j by the Board of Public Works and Safety for the vacation of THE ALLEY RUNNING NORTH AND SOUTH FROM MISHAWAKA AVENUE TO THE GRAND TRUNK WESTERN RAILROAD RIGHT OF WAY SITUAq BETWEEN LOTS NU10ERED 713 and 714 WHI TC OMB AND KELLER' S THIRD SUNNYMEDE ADDITION TO SOUTH BEND, under Vacation Resolution No. 2739. The Clerk of the Board having shown sufficient proofs of publication and no remon- strators having appeared and no written remonstrances having been filed with the Clerk, it was moved , seconded and unanimously carried that the said resolution be finally adopted and the said alley be vacated. The Engineering Department is directed to pre- pare an assessment roll covering the assessment of benefits and the award of damages to . the surrounding properties.