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[422 <br />1 <br />Superintendent Hunsberger next presented to the Board report of <br />accident, in *hick the Electrical Departmentts truck was involved, <br />together with quotations from reliable automobile repair shops for the <br />repair of damage to privately owned automobile. These were referred to <br />Attorney I. A. Hurwich for disposition. <br />A petition, dated September 17, 1954, to "connect" street light <br />at the corner of Leer and Irvington Street was examined by the Board <br />and referred to Superintendent Hunsberger for investigation and report. <br />A petition, dated September 23, 1954, for <br />street light at alley between North Shore Drive <br />on North Lafayette Boulevard, and requesting al <br />three reflectors in replacement of red light at <br />at the river bank, was examined and referred to <br />Hunsberger for investigation and report. <br />the installation of a <br />and Marquette Avenue <br />so the installing of <br />dead end of Lafayette <br />Superintendent <br />A petition, dated September '27, 1954, for the installation of <br />street light in the area indicated as the intersection of Congress, <br />Union and MacArthur was examined and referred to Mr. Hunsberger for <br />investigation and report. <br />1 <br />A petition, dated September "27, 1954, was next presented to the <br />Board by Attorneys Chas. H. Wills, and J. Chester Allen, who were present <br />together With certain signers of the petition, which requested the censuring <br />and disciplining by suspension of two police officers named in the petition. <br />Petition sets forth accusations, and carries statements by several wit - <br />rierses, in the main, high school students, giving their individual <br />accounts of the incident; involving the arrest of certain juveniles on <br />the night of Saturday, September 18, 1954• <br />City Attorney, I. A. Hurwich, being present read to the Board and the <br />assembled persons, petition and statements. Attorney Hurwich then called <br />upon Chief Gillen for the written reports of the police officers in- <br />TT117 ST�f, <br />Considerable discussion took place and various persons, including <br />Attorney J. Chester Allen, Captain Elmer Sokol, and Mrs. Flora B. Ingram <br />offered helpful comment. It was generally conceded, in the light of <br />all circumstances involved, that the police had acted within their <br />rights and exercised much restraint under provocative conditions. The <br />Board took the matter under further advisement. <br />There being no further business to come before the Board, the <br />meeting was adjourned at 12:50 P.M. <br />a rman <br />Attest. <br />Clerk <br />1 <br />