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<br />Contractors Bonds, each in the sum of $1,000.00, were examined and approved
<br />I for the following five contractors:
<br />�I Ernest J. Barany
<br />j Ignatius Golichowski
<br />I E. L. Klatt & Son
<br />I; Arthur B. Strasser
<br />II Rufus C . Ward
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<br />i There being no further business to come before the Board, the meeting was adjourned''
<br />i at 11:20 A. M.
<br />Attest: 0
<br />Clerk
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<br />September
<br />20, 1954
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<br />A regular meeting of the
<br />Board of Public Works was held Monday, September 20, 1954,
<br />at 10:00 A. M. All members were
<br />present. Minutes of the previous meeting
<br />were read
<br />and approved. Salary claims,
<br />in the total amount of $34,059.45, were approved. Claims
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<br />of the following suppliers, in
<br />the amount of
<br />12,179.30, were approved and
<br />ordered paid:'
<br />Business Systems, Inc.
<br />$8.10
<br />City Water Works
<br />21.50
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<br />City Water Works
<br />36.30
<br />Clemans Truck Line
<br />5.05
<br />Deants Office Machines
<br />1.75
<br />Gaf ill Oil Co.
<br />36.66
<br />John W. Gorney
<br />5.00
<br />Indiana. Bell Telephone Co.
<br />10.80
<br />Indiana Paint & Wallpaper
<br />Co. 4.91
<br />Indiana Paint & Wallpaper co.
<br />10.03
<br />Indiana Paint & Wallpaper
<br />Co. 2.42
<br />Inlander-Steindler Paper Co.
<br />3.35
<br />Halsey LeRoy
<br />36.88
<br />Lien Chemical Co.
<br />72.76
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<br />Meyer's Hdwe. Co.
<br />2.80
<br />Office Engineers, Inc.
<br />12.76
<br />Stanley Piasecki
<br />3.95
<br />Dale E. Shelley
<br />58.56
<br />South Bend Electric Co.
<br />1.11
<br />Walter Stickley
<br />39.68
<br />Indiana & Michigan Electric $11,490.67
<br />PARKING METER FUND•
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<br />Charles E. Burkett 25.04 M. H. Rhodes, Inc. 15.04
<br />Casimir A. Szynski 8.64 White Swan Laundry & Cleaning 3.40
<br />GENERAL IMPROICH I ENT FUND:
<br />Wilbur H. Gartner 262.14
<br />In connection with the suit filed by Homer W. Fitterling against the City of South
<br />!:Bend for the vacation of the plat of Richland 3rd Addition, the New Jersey, Indiana and
<br />Illinois Railroad Company presents a Quit Claim Deed to the City, dedicating an addi-
<br />tional ten feet on Dundee Street for highway purposes, and an additional twenty feet
<br />:;on Kaley Street for highway purposes, which deed is accepted and to be recorded.
<br />Recorded in the office of the St. Joseph County Recorder Book # , Page #
<br />Then appeared before the Board, a woments group from Broadmoor Heights, together
<br />with J. T. Martin, President and General Manager of the Northern Indiana Transit, Inc.,
<br />and Wm. A. Hahn, Supt. of Transportation of said company, and discussion was again
<br />opened on the subject of the extension of bus service in that area with particular stress;;
<br />,upon the need for the transportation of school children. The Board heard both sides of
<br />Ithe controversy at considerable length, and again concluded the problem, almost in its
<br />;:entirety, one to be solved by school authorities, and so informed and dismissed the
<br />' assembly.
<br />Next appeared before the Board, a large delegation headed by Attorney Chas. A. Wills,
<br />and William R. Morris, President of the local chapter of the N.A.A.C.P. to "renew"
<br />'their request that the police make on -the -spot arrests in cases where race discrimination.
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<br />is involved.
<br />Considerable discussion then ensued, City Attorney, I. A. Hurwich, endeavoring to
<br />,point out the fact that adequate legal remedy for the violation exists, without com-
<br />;pelling a police officer to "act in the capacity of judge, prosecutor and arresting
<br />;officer, all at the same time." Attorney J. Chester Allen, cited an instance of on -the -
<br />'spot arrest, and injected some pertinent comment, also commending the Board for its
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