10/04/1954 Board of Public Safety Minutes

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October 4, 1954 A regular meeting of the Board of Public Safety was held Monday, October 4, 1954, at 10 :00 A. ICI. All members were present. Minutes of the previous meeting .were read and approved. Salary claims, in the total amount of $82,266.54, were approved. Claims of the following suppliers, in the total amount of $1519.26, were approved and ordered paid: American Auto Parts, Inc. $4.75 Eddie's Carburetor &.Ignition Co.42.15 General Equipment & Machine Co. 4.00 Capt. John Gish 41.00 Russell J. Hoffman 41.00 Indiana Lbr. & Mfg. Co. 6.44 Indiana & Michigan Elect. Co. 4.h Indiana & Michigan Elect. Co. 3.8 Knapp Seeds & Hardware Co. 10.75 G. E. Meyer & Son 1.92 hodern Decorating Co. 729.00 Redmer Distributing Co. 11.90 Redmer Distributing Co. 1.94 Scherman- Schaus- Freeman Co. 4.80 South Bend Glass Works 4.20 South Bend Mower & Motor Serv. 3.50 Studebaker Corporation 43.41 POLICE DEPARTMENT: 123 r American Auto Parts a55 Lt. Paul L. Flary 41.00 Geographical Publ. Co. 29.50 The C. H. Hanson Co. 30.00 .J. A: Holem Co. 221.75 Indiana Lumber & Mfg. Co. 14.81 Indiana &. Michigan Elect. 15.20 Inlander- Steindler Co. 12.13 Koontz- vVagner Elect. Co. 59.93 Michigan- Calvert Hdwe. 18.20 Radio & Telev. Dist. Co. 3.43 Redmer Distributing Co. 16.52 Redmer Distributing Co. 13.60 South Bend, Glass Works 10.40 South Bend Janitor Supply 28.13 Studebaker Corporation 10.28 Weisberger Bros. 27.35 Chief Richard J. Gillen being present, took up before the Board his departmentfs need for six new four -door sedans replacing a like number �f 1951 and 1952 sedans to be traded in. Funds having been appropriated Cor the purpose of such replacement of equipment, the Board directed the J'lerk to proceed with the required legal advertising. With reference to hearing of last monday regarding censuring and iseiplininm of Officers Leader and Jensen,itis the decision of the oard that evidence given at the hearing a week ago supported the omplaint of several young girls that they had been molested by a umber ofboys and that officers had responded to the appeal of the irls to protect them and :identify their assailants. The most im- ressive evidence against the boys was in the form of written admissions y several of the boys themselves. There was also abundant evidence, that he efforts of the officers to do their duty had met with oral and hysical resistance on the part of several boys. The officers and the olice Department are commended for.their persistence, under unusually gated circumstances, in doing what they could to put a stop to a highly :nproper kind of juvenile behavior. Police Department application of Lawrence Nilson Toothman was ined and ordered placed on file. Police Auxiliary School Patrol application of Martha Amilia Mester as examined and ordered placed on file. TRICAL DEPARTMENT: A petition, dated September 28, 1954, for a street light to be stalled at the corner of-South St. Joseph Street and Dean Street, s examined and referred to Superintendent Hunsberger for investigation i report. Upon the recommendation of Superintendent Hunsberger, the Board approved the installation of a boulevard light on the northwest corner f Leer and Irvington Streets, and also a light in the area of the.corner f Congress, Union and MacArthur Streets. Yj?. Hunsberger next submitted three quotations for the conversion of e heating equipment of Old Fire Station Ito. 3 from coal to oil. The e Board examined the quotations and awarded the contract to Goff Sales Service Company, 1417 S. Michigan Street for the sum of °285.00 and rected the Clerk of the Board to issue purchase order authorizing sane.