07/27/1953 Board of Public Safety Minutes

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July 27, 1953 A regular meeting of the Board of Public Safety was held Yonday, vly 27, 1953 at 10 :00 A. M. T,'[inutes of the previous meeting were read nd approved. Claims of the following suppliers, in the amount of x,5669.59 'ere approved and ordered paid: ne-rican LaFrance Foe-mite Co. `�IOL;_.00 Axelberg Brothers ?5.1 0 obbs- Co. 2.00 Brennants Jewelers 6.00 TTerrill ar Parts, Inc. 4.96 Car Parts, Inc. 8.00 ar Parts, Inc. 7.09 The Gibson Co. 62.72 'he Gibson Co. 6.56 Hoffman Bros. Auto Elect. 20.76 dw. 1.. Hanyzeiiiski 60.00 Indiana Bell Telephone Co. 9.19 ndiana Bell Telephone Co. 9.144 Indiana. Bell Telephone Co.27.79 ndiana Bell Telephone Co. 123.2: - ^:' ar.a Bell Telephone Co.29.60 ndiana Paint & !!Mllpaper Co. 14.34 Koontz- Ivagner Electric 59.1.2 [ittle-r Supply Co. 6.90 National Body Co. 52.50 "elson Engineering Co. 3.60 No. Indiana Public Service 1.00 ailway Express Co. 5.L;_2 Bernard J. Reiter 60.00 1' . Smith Co. 22.00 The Studebaker Corporation 4.78 .lbert 'he Studebaker Corporation 36.71 The Studebaker Corporation] -5.58 'ire tc Disc '' ,rneel Sales 6.63 Iffirc & Disc V:7.eel Sales 13.82 CO. JTy"i1an. Co. 35.21 X71. A. R. Equipment Co. 2.90 erber T.ig. Co. 3.75 Gerber Ts'ig. Co. 51;7.35 chilling=s 11.37 Koontz- 151agner Elect.Co. 19.69 iotorola, Inc. 1.102.72 Tiotorol_a, Inc. 3.64 IRE DEPARTT:!;ENT: Asstt. Chief A. 0. Brown appeared before the Board and brought to he Boards attention the muck fire prevailing west of Belleville and south f Somerset Avenue, on land believed to be the property of the Colpaert ealty Company. In view of the current water situation and the fact that he fire, at present is -remote from any buildings, the Board directed ss1t. Chief Brown to advise the property owners to establish a trench round the fire, the practice which has been successful for the control f such fires in the past. OLICE DEPARMITM: Chief of Police, Richard J. Gillen, being present, first placed before he Board, the request of Officer fm. D. Bush for permission to attend the ational Guard training maneuvers, in which the organization of which the fficer is a. member, Headquarters Company, 293rd Infantry, Indiana National uard, will be engaged from July 25th to August 9th inclusive. The Board ranted its permission. The Board next constituted and appointed, upon recorunendation of Chief illen, Gerald Dean Smoot, an employee of American District Telegraph ompany, to be a special police officer in and for the City of South Bend. EC TRICAL DEPARMIENT: y The recommendation of Supt. Ira Hunsberger that the pole be changed d a 2500 lumen light replace the 1000 lumen light used at the alley tersection south of 1Testern Avenue, between -gain and T,ichigan Streets, s approved by the Board. Supt. Hunsberger Is reconziendation, for the installation of a 4000 umen light on the southeast corner of Oak Park Drive and White Oak Drive, ,as approved by the Board. The request of C. Harry Swanson, Inc. for street lighting at five ntersections in Swanson Park Addition was referred to Superintendent Ira unsberger for investigation and report. A petition, dated July 27, 1953, for improved street lighting at the orner of Bowman and Leer Streets, was examined by the Board and referred o Superintendent Ira Hunsberger for investigation and report. A petition, dated July 27, 1953, for improved lighting at the inter - section of Green Street and Goodland Avenue, was examined by the Board end referred to Superintendent Ira Hunsberger for investigation and report.