01/26/1953 Board of Public Works Minutes

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555 January 26, 1953 A regular meeting of the Board of Public Works was held Monday, January 26, 1953, at 10:00 A. M. All members were present. Minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved. Salary claims in the amount of $25,618.24 were approved. Claims of the following suppliers, in the amount of $20,532.51, were approved and ordered paid: • Charles Armstrong & Son $2.5 0 STREET & TRAFFIC: Charles Armstrong & Son 1.40 Studebaker Corporation $3.60 Charles Armstrong & Son .85 INTERCEPTOR SEWER: jArteraft Printers 17.50 Thos. D. Nolan, Contractor 6919.58 Ray S. Andrysiak 3G.80 Thos. D. Nolan, Contractor 81701-00 Business Systems, Inc. 12.83 CONTRACTOR'S IMPROVEMENT FUND: Casimir Kusz 25.69 Haines & Haines, Contractor $5290.50 Englewood Electric Co. 9,78 South Bend Tribune 10.36 Indiana Lumber & Mfg. Co. 46.06 South Bend Tribune 10.83 j Herbert Leary 5.00 South Bend Tribune 12.72 Memorial Hospital 24.50 Wilbur H. Gartner & Assoc. 408.78 Meyer's Hdwe. Co. 9.92 South Bend Tribune 6.75 Meyerts Hdwe. Co. 6.49 Peterson Printing Co. 294.00 Office Supply & Equipment Co. 20.04 Peterson Printing Co. 292.00 South Bend Window Cleaning Co. 53.50 South Bend Tribune 11.30 Carl L. Shaffer 9.05 Rieth-Riley Construction Co. 4616.43 South Bend Tribune 16.01 Wilbur H. Gartner & Assoc. 610.81 Tri County News 16.63 South Bend Tribune. 11.30 Taube Printing Corp. 24.00 I First appeared before the Board, Mrs. R. T;1. Robinson, representing the American War Mothers, requesting permission of the Board to designate the date of Saturday, May 9, for this organization's annual sale of boutonnieres on the downtown streets. No. iconflicting permit having been granted, the Board gave their approval and directed that a letter of permit be furnished by the Clerk of the Board. Mrs. 19m. Eichorst, Chairman of Flower Day Comm., Daughters of Union Veterans, ;appeared before the Board requesting permission to conduct their annual flower sale ion the downtown streets on Saturday, April 25th. No conflicting permit having been 'granted, the Board gave their approval and directed the Clerk to furnish a letter of permit to this organization. Rt. Rev. Msgr. John S. Sabo appeared before the Board and presented a letter and blueprints pertaining to annexing to the City of South Bend that portion of the area on !which the new Catholic High School is being constructed, presently lying outside the 'city limits. The matter was given considerable discussion and the statutes referred to • hand read, resulting in the unanimous opinion of the Board that the matter should be laid before the Common Council for the required special ordinance, and Msgr. Sabo was so instructed. The Board next examined and approved plans for grade, curb, walks and pavement, !submitted by Portage Realty Corporation for the following streets in West Maven Addition: Canterbury Drive Sussex Drive 1 Grove Street �{ The Board next examined and approved plans for grade and pavement of Elwood Avenue, West Haven Addition, as submitted by Portage Realty Corporation.ij The Board also examined and approved sewer plans for Ardmore Trail, Canterbury Drive and Sussex Drive of West Haven Addition, as submitted by Portage Realty Corporatio �. McKinley Terrace, Section "A" sewer plans were next examined and approved by the Board, as submitted by Place and Company, Inc., and designated, as follows: i' Brighton Place Whitehall Drive Patterson Drive • I Hickory Road Sorin Street Corby Street I Brookhurst Place Northern Indiana Transit, Inc., appearing by its attorney, Nicholas Pa Cholis, and its President and General 14anager, John T. Martin, made proof of the publishing of notice of said hearing in the South Bend Tribune on the 7th day of January and on the CJ