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SPECIAL MEETING
October 26, 1953
A special meeting, called by the Mayor, extending invitation to representatives of
otre Dame University, St. Maryts College, and officials and attorneys, representing
ocal governmental units particularly concerned in the matter of the Toll Road, to meet
ith the Board of Public Works at 2:00 P. M., Monday, October 26, 1953, in the Council
hambers of the City Hall, was held at that hour. The purpose of the meeting was to
resent an opportunity for officials, and their attorneys or representatives, of the
ffected communities, to consult and advise with members of the Indiana Toll Road
ommission and a representative of the Toll Road Engineering firm of J. E. Greiner Company?
f Baltimore, Maryland. Board member, I. A. Hurwich, presided. All members of the Board'
-ere present. Full recordings of the proceedings were taken on two electrical recording j3
evices and very thorough coverage of the meeting given in the Tuesday, October 27, 1953
ssue of The South Bend Tribune.
There being no other matters to come before this special meeting, the meeting was
journed by the presiding officer at 4:45 P.M.
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Clerk
November 2, 1953
A regular meeting of the Board of Public Works was held Monday, November 2, 1953,
at 10:00 A. M. All members were present. Minutes of the previous meeting were read
and approved. Claims of the following suppliers, in the amount of 052,065.38, were
approved and ordered paid:
Business Systems, Inc.
$9.31
Ward H. Crothers (Petty Cash)
1.90
Surgical Supply Co.
16.o0
SEWER DEPARTMENT:
Armco Drainage & Metal Products
68.48
South Bend Foundry Co.
63.00
DOG POUND:
Overhead Door Company
3.90
SANITATION DEPARTMENT:
South Bend Truck & Equipment 43,500.00
STREET & TRAFFIC:
Bearings Service Co.
27.68
Art Cannada Speedometer Ser.
23.96
Century Tool & Metal Co.
252.33
Champion Corporation
27.63
Edwards Iron Works, Inc.
24.38
Elgin Sweeper Co., Inc.
40.31
Gafill Oil Co.
167.31
The Gibson Co.
101.80
V. Graves Auto Glass
23.70
V. Graves Auto Glass
8.73
Romy Hammes Corporation
50.95
Indiana Equipment Co., Inc.
274.41
Industrial Towel & Uniform Ser.
13.20
Koontz -Wagner Electric Co.
27.34
Koontz -Wagner Electric Co.
87.75
Korte Bros., Inc.
7.73
J. C. Lauber Co.
19.00
Ben Medow, Inc.
331.b5
G. E. Meyer & Son
13.62
Municipal Supply Co.
162.30
Office Engineers, Inc.
16. 2
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Radio & Television Dist. Co.
9.45
Scherman Schaus Freeman Co.
8.47
Singer General Tire, Inc.
224.94
South Bend Sand & Gravel Corp.
62.90
Standard Automotive Supply Co.
82.22
Standard Oil Co.
3.30
George R. Stroup
21.25
Indiana & Michigan Electric Co. $ .20
Indiana & Michigan Electric Co. 200.20
W. J. Stogdill, M. D. 20.00
Niles Excavating Co. 969.00
Walter J. Braunsdorf & Son 44.49
Brulin & Company 30.00
Beaudway Hardware Co.
8.58
Central Equipment, Inc.
29.23
Century Tool & Metal Co.
83.44
Deeds Equipment Co.
12.50
Elgin Sweeper Co.
1.92
Elkhart Paint & Mfg. Co.
126.97
Gafill oil Co.
1683.03
V. Graves Auto Glass
14.08
V. Graves Auto Glass
16.30
Maude Haberle
4.50
Reid Holcomb Co.
2.44
Indiana Equipment Co., Inc.
3.12
International Harvester Co.
2.14
Koontz -Wagner Electric Co.
11.10
Korte Bros., Inc.
182•34
Kuert Concrete, Inc.
396.79
Ben Medow, Inc.
20.98
Memorial Hospital
3.00
Motor Service & Parts, Inc.
20.44
National Brake Service, Inc.
51.35
Phillips Petroleum Co.
61.88
Jacob Rose
79.03
Singer General Tire, Inc.
19.25
C. D. Smelser
1163.92
Standard Automotive Supply Co.
150.60
Standard Automotive Supply Co.
303.74
Standard Oil Co.
4o5•08
Temperature Engineering Co.
4.00
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W. A. R. Equipment Co. $30.45 J. W. Werntz & Son $55.58
J. W. Werntz & Son 11.75 Wire & Disc Wheel Sales 39.28
Wire & Disc Wheel Sales 5.25
:STREET DEPARTMENT:
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' Street Commissioner, H. M. Tomlinson, being present, reported on matters pertaining
to the -Street and Sanitation Departments, and mentioned the need for additional trash
(;containers in the downtown area, and suggested that these cans be painted yellow, the
adopted standard color for Street Department equipment. The Board granted approval for
;both the additional containers and the change in color.
The Board next examined and approved local sewer improvement plan, including easement'
between Ironwood Drive and Congress Avenue, from the center line of Lot 14 in Edison Park!!
;Addition to the south line of Union Avenue.
The Board then examined and approved the following sewer plans for McKinley Terrace
;Addition, Section "B":
Brummitt Lane Manchester Drive
Browne Lane Bentley Lane
Whitehall Drive Beutter Lane
Boynton Avenue Voll Lane,
Rexford Drive from Helmen Rexford Drive from Helmen Drive j
Drive to Hickory Road to Brummitt Lane
j Ebeling Drive from Edison Ebeling Drive from Rexford Drive
j Road to Rexford Drive to Oxford Lane
Helmen Drive from Edison Road Helmen Drive from Rexford Drive to
Rexford Drive Manchester Drive '1
j. The Board next examined and approved the following Grade, Curb, Walk and Pavement
"Plans for McKinley Terrace Addition, Section "B":
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4'Uhitehall Drive Brummitt Lane
Beutter Lane Bentley Lane '
Voll Lane Boynton Avenue
Browne Lane Manchester Drive
Ebeling Drive from Edison Road Helmen Drive from Rexford Drive
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to Rexford Drive to Manchester
Ebeling Drive from Rexford Drive Helmen Drive from Edison Road
to Oxford Lane to Rexford Drive
Rexford Drive from Hickory Road Rexford Drive from Helmen Drive
to Helmen to Brummitt Lane
A petition, dated October 3, 1953, to vacate public utility easement between lots j
75 and 76 in Edison Park Addition, from the north common corner of both lots to a point
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70 feet south along the common property line of both lots, was examined and referred to
the City Plan Commission.
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j` Protective restrictions pertaining to Zook1s First Subdivision, as drawn up
land submitted to the Board by Attorney Seymour Weisberger, for Zook Realty of South Bend 11
!Inc., and bearing the signatures of the president and secretary, and the corporate seal
of this firm under date of October 26, 1953, was examined and approved by the Board. j
This being the time set for the hearing pertaining to the vacating of a portion of '!
'Kaley Street and the alley between Kaley Street and Meade Street, abutting on Lots 125,
126, and 127, and Lots 82, 83 and 84 of Kaleyts First and Second Subdivision, announce- �
jment was so made, and the Board heard the following remonstrators:
Joseph Edwards, 2617 Kenwood Avenue, remonstrating because he believes the vacating
:would lower property Values in the area, and stated his remonstrance is against both the
'Vacating of the portion of Kaley Street and the alley vacation.
Frank S. Szarwark, 2621 Kenwood Avenue, remonstrated against the alley vacation,
:although his signature is shown on the petition calling for this vacation. Mr. Szarwark
explained that at the time he signed the petition he had not considered the garbage and l
;ash -hauling aspects involved, and believes now he will be inconvenienced in this respect I
.by the vacating of the alley.
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Ben Wojciechowski, 2609 Kenwood Avenue, remonstrated against the vacating of a
portion of Kaley Street, stating this would throw an excess of traffic,at certain periods
,over an unpaved section of Meade Street, causing a dust condition.
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Mrs. Joseph Edwards, 2617 Kenwood Avenue, remonstrates against the vacation, and
estates here views in the matter coincide with those of her husband. !I
Mrs. Minnie Pietrzak, 2615 Kenwood Avenue, stated only that she opposed the
vacation.
The Board took the matter under further advisement.
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VACATION RESOLUTION NO. 2765 - 1953
This being the date set, hearing was had on the resolution heretofore adopted by
the Board of Public Works and Safety for the vacation of the alley between CAROLINE j
STREET AND ELDORA COURT FROM THE NORTH LINE OF DELBERT COURT TO THE SOUTH LINE OF THE E
ALLEY NORTH OF DELBERT COURT, under Vacation Resolution No..27b5. 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 said alley
be vacated. The Engineering Department is directed to prepare an assessment roll cover -
ling -the assessment of benefits and the award of damages to the surrounding properties.
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TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT:
II Miss Virginia Guthrie, Executive Secretary of the South Bend Civic Planning
1Association, being present, brought to the attention of the Board, the need for L-Turn
;indicating signs for traffic turning off LaSalle Avenue on to Main Street, and off Main
�IStreet on to Colfax Avenue. The Board directed Traffic Engineer E. H. Miller to inves-
j tigate and report.
Traffic Engineer, E. H. Miller, reported to the Board, relative to the signboards j
. located at South Bend Avenue and Burns Street, that from the traffic standpoint, there
is no objection to the location of these signboards, against which a petition was filed
with the Board at its regular meeting, October 26, 1953. This matter, having been j
found to be under the consideration of the City Plan Commission and the Common Council,
with a view to re -zoning, the Board, thereupon, dismissed.]
The Board next examined and approved dedication and plat of survey and grant of
Ifs ewer easement on Lots 60 and 61, Edison Park Addition, as submitted by Hubert L. Farmer
and Wilna I. Farmer, husband and wife, and Wilbur H. Gartner and Associates, Engineers. j
Recorded in records of County Recorderts Office Book No. , Page No,
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A request, addressed to the Board, by Indiana and Michigan Electric Company, over
• Iithe signature of J. D. Stoudt, under date of October 29, 1953, for permission to recon- !'
�Istruct and enlarge one existing transformer vault and to construct two new transformer
+!vaults under sidewalks at locations indicated on drawing submitted therewith, was
rexamined and approved by the Board. Ij
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An Excavatorts Bond, in the sum of $1,000.00, binding Earl C. DeVan as principal.,
land American States Insurance Company as sureties,.was examined and approved.
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Contractorts Bond, in the sum of $1,000.00, binding J. C. Gillstrap, d/b/a/Gillstrap
Construction Company as principal, and National Surety Corporation of New York as surety,',
was examined and approved.
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SI There being no further business to come before the Board, the meeting was adjourned';
j at 11:30 A. M. E`
Attest:
Clerk
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