The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-05-09
Seventeenth St. Improvement
Proposition Before Council;
No Action Taken on the
Mater.
CITIZENS COMMITTEE
ASKS CHEAPER GRADE
Say Hard Surface Road Suffi-
cient That Will Come With
in $500 Limit; Austin
Urges Prompt Action.

The Seventeenth street paving por.
Ject was discussed, but no action was
taken at the meeting of the city
council, held last night in the city
hall.
According to the sentiment ex-
pressed before the city fathers last
night, the city in general must bear
a portion of the expense of putting
down the pavement specified in the
estimate of City Engineer Cranwell,
or cheaper paving constructed on
the street. 1t was pointed out by
several property owners of Seven
teenth street who appeared before
the city council last night, that the
property would not stand for the
construction Of paving costing 1888
per front foot, and to undertake such
a movement would result in confis-
cation of the property
Cheaper Paving Urged.
They further pointed out hat the
Seventeenth street boulevard could
be hard-surfaced with material cheap
er than the character of paving de-
signated in Engineer Cranwell's es-
timatG Ccushed gragitc4 or gravel
were suggested, following which
Councilman DuBose stated that he
would convey the street committee.
together with the mayor, member
of the Chamber Of Comerce, and sew
eral Seventeenth street property
owners, to Mountain View and Fort
Cobb, where the crushed granite
paving is better used and which, he
says, has given perfect satisfaction
The principal spokesmen for the
property owners were Scott Jones'
and G. W. Noryele. 81 think every
one on Seventeenth street wants a
hard surfaced road, providing that
such could be obtained within cost
of maximum of $500 per front
foot said Mr. Norvelle.
Mr.. Jones, who made speech to
the council pointed out that the city
in general would be equally or prob
ably more extensively benefited byI
the constructing of paving on Sew
enteenth street<it being a frequent
ly Travelled boulevard, and therefore,
he said, the city should bear a por-
tion of the expense in putting down
the improvement.
In a vigorous talk, G. w. Austin,
president of the Oklahoma College
for Women, and one of the prime
factors in bringing about the Seven--l
teenth street paving project urged
that everybody work together, with
intentions of working out some feast
Bile means by which the boulevard
could be hard-surfaced without in
flicting hard-ships or hard-feelings
upon anyone. "This can be DONE"
President Austin declared, "and it
should be done in the most conserva-
tive, business-like manner and as
soon as possible
No definite action was taken, by
the council, pending further consid-
Grafton and investigation
Nesrose Want Negro Cop. \
A petition, signed by twenty-four
negro voters in the colored district
of Chickasha. praying that a negro
policeman be appointed for duty in
the negro district. was submitted
and read to the council in it's ses-
sion last night. The petition point |
ed out that many immora, acts
were being daily in the negro sec
tion, and that a white policeman
could not detect such violations,
and that a policeman of the same
race could render much more salts
factory service to both the negro
element and the city in general,
than could a man who did not know
the ways of the negro and the loca-
ton of the root of crime in negro
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