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<br />i' Contractors Bonds, each in the sum of 1,000.00, were examined and approved
<br />for the following five contractors:
<br />Ernest J. Barany
<br />Ignatius Golichowski
<br />E. L. Klatt & Son
<br />Arthur B. Strasser
<br />Rufus C . Ward
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<br />• There being no further business to come before the Board, the meeting was adjourned''
<br />at 11:20 A. M.
<br />September 20, 1954
<br />• A regular meeting of the Board of Public Works was held Monday, September 20, 19541
<br />at 10:00 A. M. All members were present. Minutes of the previous meeting were read
<br />and approved. Salary claims, in the total amount of34,059.45, were approved. Claims
<br />j of the following suppliers, in the amount of $12,179.30, were approved and ordered paid:
<br />Business Systems, Inc. $8.10 City Water Works .21.50
<br />City Water Works 36.30 Clemans Truck Line 5.05
<br />Deans Office Machines 1.75 Gafill Oil Co. 36.66
<br />John W. Gorney 5.00 Indiana. Bell Telephone Co. 10.80
<br />Indiana Paint & Wallpaper Co. 4.91 Indiana Paint & Wallpaper Co. 10.03
<br />I Indiana Paint & Wallpaper Co. 2.42 Inlander-Steindler Paper Co. 3.35
<br />Halsey LeRoy 36.88 Lien Chemical Co. 72.76
<br />• Meyer's Hdwe. Co. 2.80 Office Engineers, Inc. 12.
<br />Stanley Piasecki 56
<br />y 3.95 Dale E. Shelley 58. 6
<br />South Bend Electric Co. 1.11 Walter Stickley 39.68
<br />Indiana & Michigan Electric $11,490.67
<br />PARKING METER FUND:
<br />Charles E. Burkett 25.04 M. H. Rhodes, Inc. �5,p4
<br />Casimir A. Szynski 8.64 White Swan Laundry & Cleaning 3.40
<br />GENERAL IMPROVEMENT FUND:
<br />Wilbur H. Gartner 262.14
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<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.
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<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 />(the controversy at considerable length, and again concluded the problem, almost in its
<br />I'entiret y, one to be solved by school authorities, and so informed and dismissed the
<br />' assembly.
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<br />ge delegation headed by Attorney Chas. A. Wills,
<br />land William R. Morris, President of the local chapter of the N.A.A.C.P. to "renew"
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<br />their request that the police make on -the -spot arrests in cases where race discrimination.
<br />!!is involved.
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<br />Considerable discussion then ensued, City Attorney, I. A. Hurwich, endeavoring to
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<br />oint 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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