, 1921-06-15

suggestions made and the rep
of Commerce luncheon this n,
all comes the real clean up 81
then from time to time plans
carried out
The suggestions for a city plan. sub
uitted by c. T. Weidner. chairman Of
the city plan committee. incorporated
the ideas Of Casper Of the future.
Mr.. weidner said.
II think all Of you realize the neces-
aty for a city plan as outlined by
the COMMITTEES OF city planning during
the last year. The greatest necessity
a. 4 plan Is future economical con-
struction and getting for our taxpay-
ers the greatest value for money ex-
pended. To accomplish this result a
plan by which the city layout may be
I studied or paper is most important
zone point of engineering studied
from all angles on paper will many
times save you who are taxpayers,
thousands q, dollars considering the
costly experiments OF the past along
q haphazard line
II am sure that we win save many
times the expense for n city plan be-
sides creating a city beautiful for
which none Of us must make u
and everyone can be proud. With a
beautiful city we can attract the kind
Of citizens we want. Looking forward
we can see a city of considerable size
which will shortly become 2onderous
and unwieldy and which will present
many complex problems II not con-
trolled by definite plan"
His suggestions y remedy this in
cluded coming the city by restricting
certain areas according TO the kind OF
business or other undertaking thai
was contemplated thereby regulating
the industry and decreasing fire haz-
arc for the attraction of other enter
prise; restriction on residences: limit
ing the ~closeness with which they
could be built to sidewalks; eliminating
haphazard store buildings In new resi-.
dence districts; require all additions
seeking entrance to h city to have
sdewailts laid and curbs set; better
>nent of water S.d sewage conditions
and by encouraging planting and beau
trying parking.
G. r. Hagens. speaking for the Com
munity Extension corporation. dwelt
at length on the plans Of the corpora
ton for n city with a future telling OF
the work and plans of tho Standard
for improvement OF it's 4o-acre tract
and Of the arrangements to make the
other tracts which would be offered
far sale conform with this regulation
n with the city.
L. A Reed announced that he was
heartily in sympathy with the pro-
gram and called direct attention to
the menace Of vacant lots which are
left year in and year out without any
attention being given to them.
Major Ormsby too the stand that
additions seeking entrance to the city
should be required to set aside cetrain
portions of the addition for park pur-
poses.
R. s.. Ellison made a motion that
the chamber Of forum rec
ommend that the board of directors
cooperate with the city and the Com
punity Extension corporation to hire
"a city planning expert to come here
and work out q plan for the entire
city as well as the land comprised in
the 500 acres held by the Comm-fsity
corporation south of Casper. Mayor
Ben H. Pelton volunteered this serv-
ice fo- the city.
hooert Le ftouxr a representative
of the American Legion. made a brief
but forcefui address on the aims ana
aspirations of the American Legion
and briefly outlined its success during
the short existence.
E. c. Calhoun called a meeting of
all team captains who will have
charge Of districts in the cleanup
campaign to meet at the chamber Of
commerce at Z o'clock tonight. He also
called for volunteers to assist in the
work and for at least 10 or ~ more
trucks or teams to haul the winter
denominations away.
C. H. Armour. appearing for the
Glenrock Community club. told Of an
Organized attempt being made at Doug
las to divert tourist traffic from Glen
rock and Casper by routing tourists
over the highway between Douglas
and Buffalo n thence to Sheridan.
The chamber Of pledged CO.
operation with the Glenrock club tt
see that traffic Is brought this way.
Africa embraces nearly one-forrth
OF the total land area of the globe.