03-26-51 Council Meeting Minutes

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REGULAR MEETING MARCH 26TH, 1951 Be it remembered.tha.t the Common Council of the City of South Bend, Indiana, met in regular seesion in the Council Chamber, Monday, March 26th, 1951, at 8:17 P.M., with all members present. President Niezgodski presided. REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON MINUTES To the Common Council of the City of South Bend: Your Committee on the inspection and supervision of the minutes, would respectfully report that they have inspected the minutes of the previous meeting of the Council and found them correct. They therefore recommend that the same be approved. (Signed) Stanley C. Korpal It A. Kemper it Clem Nie zgodski t` Che ste r Mus zynski Councilman Glass made a motion that the report be accepted. Councilman Tellson seconded the motion. Motion carried. C OMMUIT ICAT I ON Mayor G. Schock City of South Bend, Indiana Dear Sir: March 25, 1951 313 North Johnson St. South Bend 19, Indiana This will inform you of T.V.I.L.S. (Television Interference Location Service) a television and radio service operated by me before being called to active duty with "the United States Army. , In an article in the South Bend Tribune today you stated a proposed ordinance that will delegate Mr. Herb Harrison Chief Electrical Inspector with finding Interference and to quote, "His department has the equipment for finding it" To the best of my knowledge this is false. I believe Mr. Harrison personally owns any such equipment and it is not the property of the City of South Bend. I would like a letter to that effect. I am now stationed at Camp Atterbury, Indiana. After my service is no longer required by tie U.S. Army I will continue the Television Interference Location Service. I wish this letter be read into the record at the Council Meeting on Monday night. I-do not think it fair that the City of South Bend is going into a Radio and Television b''usiness. As a graduate Television Technician I do not see how the city can expect to fine a person for interfering with a television program when that program is received in South Bend by a freak of nature. Evidently the Council does not know that South Bend is outside the range of a Television Station and whence all the interference results. Respectfully yours, Cpt. Joseph A. Przestwor ER Indiana Special Service Section, Camp Atterb y Councilman Korpal made a motion that the communication be accepteIndi attached to the ordinance. Councilman Glass seconded the motion. Motion carried.