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Contractorts Bonds continued:
Hilton Construction Co., Inc.
Alvin Linn
Peter Schumacher & Sons, Inc.
There being no further business to come before the Board, the meeting was adjourne
at 11:05 A. M.
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May 25, 1953
A regular meeting of the Board of Public Works was held Monday, May 25th, at
10:00 A. M. All members were present. Minutes of the previous meeting were read and
approved. Salary claims in the amount of $29,320.14 were approved. Claims of the
following suppliers, in the amount of $15,979.11, were approved and ordered paid:
Business Systems, Inc.
$1.58
Business Systems, Inc.
$3.60
Business Systems, Inc.
2.93
Business Systems, Inc.
17.28
Columbia Carbon Co.
45.00
Paul Heilman
5.00
Indiana Bell Telephone Co.
10.99
Indiana Paint & Wallpaper Co.
56.12
Nelson Pontiac, Inc.
161.70
Office Engineers, Inc.
90.72
Office Engineers, Inc.
81.80
Office Supply & Equipment Co.
5.85
Office Supply & Equipment Co.
8.65
Schillingts
21.72
Simon Brothers, Inc.
10.30
South Bend Window Cleaning Co.
53.50
PARKING METER DEPARTMENT:
DOG POUND:
The Dual Parking Meter Co.
3.60
Levy Ward Grocer Co.
59.73
Harley Davison Sales
100.00
SEWER DEPARTMENT:
Trojan Tool Equipment Co.
168.62
Trojan Tool Equipment Co.
328.02
Trojan Tool Equipment Co.
101. 0
STREET & TRAFFIC:
American Auto Parts, Inc.
2.25
American Steel Dredge Co.
109.86
Bearings Service Co.
39.36
Belleville Lumber & Supply Co.
119.23
Braham Laboratories, Inc.
45.31
Brulin & Co., Inc.
38.25
Cotrell, Earl R.
6.00
Edwards Iron Works
47.37
Elgin Sweeper Co.
6.07
Elgin Sweeper Co.
116.59
D. Sherman Ellison Co.
750.60
D. Sherman Ellison
35.85
D. Sherman Ellison Co.
11.78
Englewood Electrical Supply Co.
12.37
James Eveld
21.50
Gaf ill Oil Co.
1415.70
Gafill Oil Co.
54.60
General Handle Co.
13.97
The Gibson Co.
1.89
V. Graves Auto Glass
11.08
V. Graves Auto Glass
18.08
Maude H. Haberle
24.00
Hoffman Bros. Auto Electric
36.6i
Hoffman Bros. Auto Electric
60.?4
Hoffman Bros. Auto Electric
19.0
Hoffman Bros. Auto Electric
15.05
Hurwich Iron Company
37.84
Indiana Lumber Co.
135,00
Indiana & Michigan Electric Co.
5.52
Indiana & Michigan Electric Co.
35.00
Indiana Towel & Uniform Service
8.80
International Harvester Co.
53.17
Koontz -Wagner Electric Co.
24.59
Korte Bros. Inc.
339.82
Korte Bros., Inc.-
26.15
Korte Bros., Inc.
3271.53
Kuert Concrete Inc.
783.73
Materials Handling Equipment
20.92
McComb Battery Co., Inc.
69.36
Ben Niedow
39.95
Memorial Hospiatl
3.00
G. E. Meyer & Son
60.30
Millerts Marathon Service
24.26
National Auto Service Co.
12.01
National Auto Service Co.
19.81
National Auto Service Co.
35.06
National Brake Service Inc.
2.70
National Brake Service Inc.
16.22
Office Engineers, Inc.
34.56
Phillips Petroleum Co.
36.72
Romy.Hammes Corporation
18.08
St. Joseph Hospital
3.00
S. S. Saunders Co.
31.49
S. S. Saunders Co.
285.57
S. S. Saunders Co.
285.71
Scher -man Schaus Freeman Co.
1.94
C. A. Schrader Welding Co.
21.85
Schuyler Rose, Inc.
143.00
Simon Brothers, Inc.
342.00
Simon Brothers, Inc.
342.00
Simon Brothers, Inc.
342.00
Simon Brothers, Inc.
342.00
Simon Brothers, Inc.
342.00
Simon Brothers, Inc.
342.00
Simon Brothers, Inc.
342.00
Simon Brothers, Inc.
342.00
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Sinclair Refining Co.
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�472.92 C. D. Smelser Co.
$286.19
South Bend Electric Co.
3.90 H. M. Tomlinson ( Petty Cash)
23.62;`
South Bend Supply Co.
37.)�6 Standard Automotive Supply Co.
189.15''
Standard Oil Co.
96.20 Teeter Sales & Service Co.
34.61
Western Avenue Iron & Metal Co.
85.00 Wire & Disc Wheel Sales
22.84
Indiana & Michigan Electric Co.
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122.20 Indian& Michigan Electric Co.
1.98:'
Indiana Bell. Telephone Co.
47.57 Bockts Mobilgas Service
1.50�
Bockts Mobilgas Service
28.12 South Bend Supply Co.
1.62
South Bend Electric Co.
650.98 Sears Roebuck Co.
3.89,
Schilling's
1.39 Schillingts
2.73
Schillingts
1.60
Memorandum of Mayor John A. Scott,
under date of May 22nd, was read and considered,
It was the decision of the Board that
the period from 10:00 to 10:30 A. M. of each
regular meeting will be reserved for
any and all citizens having matters to transact
or bring before the Board. The period
from 10:30 to 11:30 A. M. was designated
for
hearing from the various department heads, with the stipulation that the first
to be
heard at 10:30 sharp is to be the Street
Commissioner. It was also stipulated
by the
Board that the Traffic Engineer is to
be available, on call, from 10:00 A. M. until
• 12:00 noon on the regular meeting day
of the Board.
A letter from the law offices of Hammerschmidt & Johnson, under date of May 21st,
addressed to the City Comptroller and enclosing three copies of Agreement between the
Board of Public Works and the Board of County Commissioners, was next read and examined..'
The agreement, dedicating for street purposes a 30-foot strip of land off the entire
east side of Veterans' Memorial Park, and conveying to the City of South Bend the real
estate now comprising-Pottawatomi Park in fee simple, was found to be satifactory and
in order, and was accordingly signed and accepted by the Board of Public Works.
VACATION RESOLUTION NO. 2754 - 1953
. This being the date set, hearing was had on the resolution heretofore adopted by
the Board of Public Works for the vacation of STREETS AND UTILITY EASEMENTS IN THE
RECORDED PLAT OF BELLEVILLE UNIT "D", AN ADDITION TO THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA,
EXCEPTING SUCH PORTIONS OF SAMPLE STREET AND MAYFLOWER ROAD AS MAY LIE WITHIN THE
BOUNDARIES OF SAID PLAT under Vacation Resolution No. 2754•
The Clerk of the Board having shown sufficient proofs of publication and no
remonstrators having appeared and no written remonstrances having been filed with the
Clerk, it was moved, seconded and unanimously carried that the said resolution be
finally adopted and the streets and easements be vacated. The Engineering Department
is directed to prepare an assessment roll covering the assessment of benefits and the
award of damages to the surrounding properties.
• R. S. Andrysiak, City Engineer, filed primary assessment roll showing the awards
of damages and the assessments of benefits in the matter of the vacation of STREETS
AND UTILITY EASEMENTS IN THE RECORDED PLAT OF BELLEVILLE UNIT !rD", an ADDITION TO THE
CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, EXCEPTING SUCH PROTIONS OF SAMPLE STREET AND MAYFLOWER
ROAD AS MAY LIE WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF SAID PLAT.
In the above named assessment roll, the Board hereby orders that it will meet
in the City Hall at 10:00 A. M. CST on the 22nd of June 1953, for the purpose of hearing'
and receiving remonstrances from all persons interested in or affected by said vacation,'
and the Board further orders that notice of said hearing, together with the amount of
damages awarded and benefits assessed be addressed to the property owners by publishing'
• same on the 29th day of May, on the 5th day of June and one the 12th day of June 1953,
in the South Bend Tribune and the Tri-County News.
A Construction Order submitted by the Northern Indiana Public Service Company,
under date of May 20th, illustrating a proposed extension of gas main on Sample Street,
along the north side of the street, connecting with the existing main approximately
200 feet east of Wellington Street and terminating at Albert Street, was examined and
approved.
STREET DEPARTMENT:
Street Commissioner, Harry PII. Tomlinson, being present, brought to the attention
• of the Board, the urgency for the removal of the steel rails, and possibly steel ties,
at the intersection of Westmoor and Bendix Drive, where the Bendix Aviation Corporation
and the City Traffic Engineer desire to install a channelization island 3t the earliest
possible date. It was considered probable that this intersection and the additional
steel rails to be removed from these streets would produce a total of more than 700
tons of steel, and that the salvaging of this steel and replacement of the street
paving could probably be accomplished expeditiously and profitably for the City, through
a private contractor. in view of the estimated amount of the salvage material involved
and the eoonomy of handling the entire pavement job, rather than the intersection of
Westmoor and Bendix Drive only, the Board placed the matter in the hands of the City
Attorney to be presented to the Common Council for its approval, before proceeding
with the required legal advertising.
• The status of the dust arrester for the asphalt plant was also given further
consideration and, it was pointed out, its delivery and installation can only be
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accomplished upon funds becoming available for this equipmemt. This action is well under
way and it was conceded that the matter is proceeding without any undue delay.
The Street Commissioner next brought to the Board's attention, the alley inter-
secting Elwood Avenue and paralleling Portage Avenue in the 1400 block, together with
the alley bisecting this block and paralleling Elwood Avenue, which are in need of oiling
and which improvement the principal land -yawner involved has agreed to pay for., it was
noted, however, that the alley, as used from the Elwood Avenue entrance, due to topograph
of the land at this point, comprises a 14-foot strip on the west end of the private
property of the individual requesting the improvement of these alleys. The Commissioner
was directed to obtain from this land -owner, in writing, a statement authorizing the use
of this specific 14-foot strip of land as a public alley for the period of one year,
upon receipt of which, the Commissioner is to proceed with the pea gravel and asphaltic
oil improvement of the alleys, as requested.
The probable cost for the sandblasting of the front of the City Hall, having been
estimated by a competent estimator at approximately $1150.00, and this amount not being
available at this time, the Board decided to defer this needed cleaning operation for
one year. Estimator also suggested that the tuck -pointing should be done at the same
time from an economy standpoint, and placed the probable cost of the minimum tuck-pointin
required at $1500.00.
A schedule of price changes affecting Parking Lot at 118 South LaFayette Boulevard,
submitted by the South Bend Parking Co., Inc., under date of May 21st, was examined and
ordered filed.
An Excavatorts Bond in the sum of $2,000.00, binding James A Currie, as principal
and the American Automobile Insurance Company of St. Louis, as surety, was examined
and approved.
The following Contractors Bonds, each in the amount of 1,000.00, were examined
and approved by the Board:
Benjamin Brothers, by Nathan R. Benjamin, Jr. a partner
H. F. Glaser, Jr. Construction Company
Earl Stahl.
There being no further business to come before the Board, the meeting was adjourned
t 11:25 A. M.
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