The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-10-29
LABORATORY FOR
CITY TO HANDLE
TESTS OF WATER
Council Approves Plan to Install
Such Equipment; Take Daily
Test; City Engineer viii
Be In Charge
CITY WILL NOT HAVE TO
WAIT ON SLOW REPORTS
Cost to be Several Hundred Dollars;
Council Believes Worth it; Pass
Ordinance Regulating Car
Parking.

A laboratory in which a daily
archaeological analysis of the city
water may be made will be estab
lished in connection with the city
engineers office, Mapor S. c. Durbin
announced today.
Laboratory equipment has ben pur-
chased, the mayor said. Just when
the equipment will arrive here is
not known.
Mayor Durbin stated that the es-
tablishmentt of a. laboratory here
was absolutely necessary because
two weeks is the time required to
get report from the state health
department.
Plans of establishing and main
tanning the laboratory as submitted
by Mayor Durbin were approved last
night by the city council in session
in the city hall
MilIiken In Charge.
John c. Milliken city engineer,
will be in charge OF the laboratory
which probably will be installed in
the room adjoining the city engi
neer's office in the city hall
Mr.. Milliken received his G. E. de-
gree from the University Of Okla
homa shortly before receiving. the
appointment here. Since completing
his civil engineering studies which
according to Mayor Durbin, offers
the foundation for Sanitary engi-
neering, Mr. Mllliken has devoted
much time to the study of the lat
ter branch of the work
I'VE have every reason to belive
that the laboratory work can be sue
cessfully carried on by the city engi-
neer,' said Mayor Durbin this morn
ing. "In this way, the city is saved
the expense of maintaining a sani-
tary engineering department in addi-
lion to the one now being main
tanned. Mr.. Milliken is efficient and
is capable of doing this work salts
factorily," he continued.
Expenditures Of several hundred
dollars will be necessary to estab-
lish the laboratory, it is said
Ordinance Is Passed.
An ordinance regulating and re.
stricting the parking of vehicles
upon certain portions of the streets
within the city, providing a penalty
for violation of same and declaring
an emergency was passed by the
city council last night.
The ordinance provides that it
shall be unlawful for any person,
except as hereinafter specified, to
park or permit to remain parked d
vehicle upon those portions of
streets hereinafter designated within
the city of Chickasha, between the
hours of - o'clock midnight and 5
o'clock a. M, provided that between
said hours, vehicles may lawfully be
or remain parked in or near the
center of said streets
"The portions of streets within
(which parking of vehicles is re
stricted as aforesaid are as follows;
"All that portion of Chickasha
avenue which extends between First
and Fifth streets.
"All that portion of Second, Third
Fourth and Fifth streets, respective
ly. which lies between Choctaw and
Kansas avenues.
The verb park as used in this
ordinance. shall be taken to near
to stand upon a public highway an,
vehicle when it is not being loaded
or unloaded
Any person violating this ordi
nance shall, upon conviction, b'
fined in any sum not to exceed
twenty dollars for each offense.
by reason of the fact that tn
unregulated parking of vehicles il
such streets at the hours designated
seriously interferes with the pre-
per cleaning of the streets. and thi
measure is necessary for the in
mediate preservation of health an
safety. an emergency is hereby d'
clared to exist, by reason of this ol