The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-03-31
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BY CITY STREET
WORKERS SLATED
Alley Ways to be Worked by Dan
Beets' Grew; Asks Househoders
to Pile Rubbish; To Be a
"Real Campaign"

Beginning tomorrow morning
spring cleaning in Chickasha will be
extended to the alleys. Or at least
that was the report of the city street
department today, when Dan Bees,
street commissioner, stated that a
cleanup campaign would be carried
on until every alley in the city had
been ridded of its rubbish tin cans,
scraps and other undesirable trash.
1t is the plan to start four city
wagons tomorrow morning along the
alleys east and west, beginning at
Iowa avenue, and to work north un-
til all the north part of town is
cleaned of its trash, and then to
start again at Iowa avenue and clean
up the remainder of the city. The
wagons will remove everything that
appears undesirable with the excep-
ton of combustibe materials.
In preparing for the clean IN, it
is explained, residents should pi
the trash from their premises in the |
alley to the rear OF their property |
so that it will be convenient for the |
drivers of the wagons to pick it up,
or if there is no alley, then the rub !
bish should be piled on the side of
the street or in some other place |
easy of access. In no case, it is
said, will trash that has not been /
piled up be hauled away for reason
that the street department has not /
the time and is not authorized to do
the work The labor Of piling the |
materials devolves upon
the residents alone.
Expressing his determination to
see that the cleanup work was car
ried through to completion, Commits /
sioner Beets said, "Tbis will not be !
one of those pen and pap clean-ups |
that look so encouraging on paper
It is to be the real thing. The work |
will not stop until every part of the
city has been reached
Maintenance Work Being Done.
At the present time the street de-
partment is engaged in maintenance
work in ward two, precinct one |
which includes the territory between
Iowa and Choctaw avenues west of
Fifth street to the city limits. The
dirt surface streets are being grad
ed and the catch basins cleaned out |
while the paved streets are being
thoroughly cleaned, The sidewalks
in the territory, too are being clean
ed of dirt and grass in conformity
with the city ordinance recently pass
ed by the city council requiring such
work to be done.
The walks adjacent to property
which is occupied by the owners are
being cleaned by the owners them
selves but in cases where the own
ers cannot be easily reached the
work is done by the city and charg-
ed to the property as taxes.
Although city officials are being
very satisfactorily co-operated with
on the part of most property owners,
in cleaning the walks, it is pointed
out that it is necessary in some
cases to serve notices to the effect
that the work must be done, and
that some trouble and expense would
be saved the street departments II
the work were done voluntarily.
The alley cleaning work will in
no wise interfere with the street
repair work, it is said, and all streets
in the city will be repaired in their
turn. The pavement on Chickasha
avenue is slated for attention as soon
as the work is completed in ward
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