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~ 12 ~ -~-'--"-- --.~' -- .....--.--.- ~- -- ~,._--- - '_.~ - - - -.- ~- ~'~-.- GENERAL FUND (Continued) ~' George A.. Halton Company 29.19 Pacific Tel & Tel Company 24.10 I' p.., Simmons Company . 19.19 Fred Wentworth, Treasurer 73.00 Shell Oil Company 153.45 . Councilman Hendershott was granted permission to lee.ve the council chambers 16 at this point. Councilman Farrington reported that the complaint of' an old barn located on 1 Clark Street between Madison and Monroe was not in order. City Engineer Clubb stated at this time that the barn in question was located on Lawrence Street betwee Clark and Cheshire and that this property belonged to Lane County. The Health Com- 17 mittee is to see the court about having this removed. /' It was reported that there was an old shack located directly across the aIle at 154 West 20th and the property belongs to the city. 1'he Health Commi ttee was 18 given power to act in this case~ / The Sewer Committee was granted a period of two weeks in which to consider t e request of the U.S.P.O~ for' the elevation of a new sewer of' not less than 10 inches in diameter to be constructed in the alley and to extend to the southerly side of 19 the new Post Office site, at no expense to the United States~ / . The rBquest of C. V~lentine Boyer for assignment of a patrolman to conduct traffic in the district of the university during certain hours of the day was held 20 by the Police Committee for study for another two weeks. / The request of C. A. Carlson to connect with the city sewer to serve Lots 5, 6, and 7, Block 1, Edblom's Addition, was held by the Sewer Committee for another 21 two weeks. /' At this time Mayor Large called on Mr. Carlto~, an employee of Booth-Kelly Lumber Company to put his problem before the counci 1. Mr. Carl ton a.ddressed the council stating that he wanted to build a home on Alder Street but that because I his firm was an I~E.U. plant the local Central Labor Counc~l had decided to picket . him. His contract is with independent contractors. He later read a section of his call for bids which called jor "ope~ shop" on the job. Mr. Carlton addressed the - council at great length on the picket situation and asked that som~thing be done~ Mr. Allen, attorney representing Ralph & Stanley, presented a petition bearing 88 signatures in favor of an anti-picketing ordinance. Mr. Fo G. Reese addressed the council on behalf of the ordinance and asked that action be taken now. The Mayor sated that the petition and ordinance would be left with the Jud:.ciary Committee to repor 22 on at the next meeting. ( Communication from the Board of Appeals granting pel'mission to the Gilmore Oil Company to erect a roof over their grease pit at 282 Van Buren Street, was ap- 23 proved by the council. / Communication from the Civil Service Commission namIng for permanent ap- pointment those individuals who had successfully passed the performance examination required by Civil Service was approved by the council. To the police department Pa...ul J. J: orgensen, Leonar.d Kearney, Edmund R. Nevers, and ;rames S. Will cox were ap- . pointed as were Claude A. Bradway, James V. Green, Robert A. Johnston and Wallace C ,24 Volz to the fire department. From the certified list of applicants eligibl~ for appointment to the police department, Theodore D. Brown, highest on the list with a grade of 82, was selected . )5 by the Mayor and Common Counci 1 to replace Clair Larson. I' Upon motion made and duly seconded, Mayor Large!s request that Clair Larson, stricken with paralysis, be granted a one year leave of abGence, was approved by 26 the council. /" Reports from the Engineer, Police and Health Departments for the month of 27 October, 1937, were presented and ordered filed~ Petition for the installation of a street light at ~he alley bounded by 12th , 28 and 13th and Alder and Kincaid, was referred to the Fire and Water Committee. .1' An ordinance directing the City Recorder and the Ci~y Treasurer to deduct . ,. . from the pay check of the various employees of the city the monthly premium to be paid upon their insurance to which tne city contributes, had its fIrst reading and passed to its second and third readings by unanimous consent of the council by titl under suspension of the rule. The ayes and nays were called, councilmen voting aye Lamb, Reid, Page, Hanns, Farrington, Bond and Carlson; nay, none; absent, Hender- .2S shott. The ordinance was declared passed and numbered 8526. .....