The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-10-31
WEST TULSANS
ASK FOR ACTION
City Commissioners At
tend Mass Meeting;
Make Promises
ROAD QUESTION UP
Paving Of Quannah and Storm
Sewer Discussed; Rights
Are Admitted

West Tulsa made itself heard
again yesterday I'm regard 90 paving
OF North Quauunh and a storm sew
er. Tulsa's civic ear was reached
by the simple expedicnt OF having
present at mass meeting OF West
Tulsa business men ana property
owners In the schoolhousc last night
the mayor and commissioners and
representative from tho Chamber
~ Commerce. city nlnu commission,
the school board. the county COM
missiouers and other organizations.
sitting from the several road inn
provemcnt plans suggested, that OF
possible federal aid, the meeting en-
powered W. G, Garrett, welfare
worker for Cosden company, who
presided over the meeting. 90 name
a committee to investigate the pos
sibilty of obtaining such help. T.
w Adams, O. j. Chancy and j. $.
Chamblec are the members Of th~t
committee. The city stood part of
tho cost of paving some 10 or ~
years ago when u was necessary
and the property couldn't stand IT,
Judge Martin said, and suggested
bond issues for both paving and
main storm sewer.
Treated Like Stcpchild.
Commissioners Whiteside, Crutch-
field and Kiskaddon represented the
city. The citizens insisted that they
talk. Commissioner Whitcside said
that West Tulsa had been treated
like n stepchild long enough, advo-
Gated that Il be treated like an ho.-
est t-to-goodness member OF the fam
ily and declared that the commits
sion was ready TO help II West Tulsa
would but show them the way and
how 20 get the money to do II with.
Commissioner Crutchfield was equal
" tactful but went further and said
that he was perfectly willing to
spend the $4,000 or $4,000 that
II seemed was coming in from the
county on West Tulsa. Whererpon
j. NJ. Campbell raised n laugh when
he rose up and said that he'd been
hearing things Ike that for IL
years now and he'd Ike to have n
little bit of action.
O. j. Chaney insisted that Com
missioner Kiskaddon commit him
self, whereupon the commissioner
reminded West Tulsa that no matter
how willing the commissioners We're
10 help, they must conform with
the law, adding that in his estima-
tion paving for North Quannah was
the crying need Just now. lie told
West Tulsa that II had the only real
fire station in .he city and advised /!
II to count it's blessings, not least |
of which was u city commission Will |
ing to be shown the way TO help.
q, ]. Chaney. in the course of n /
discussion of West Tulsa's other |
problems, said that the water We |
bad and asked the meeting what 1
its opinion was as TO what should /
be done to remedy this condition. /
He suggested that perhaps the Shell .
creek water mains 20 the Cosden /
refinery could be tapped and West .
Tulsa temporarily supplied with |
Shell creek water until spavinaw
water was available.
"Personally," said Garrett in re-
spunse TO this. Il have shell creek
water in my house and | don't he
liove you would want 1t IN yours
We don't use it,"
j. NJ, Campbell brought another
ripple OF laughter when he rose
again and said that he had two
houses in Sand Springs supplied
with Shell creek water and that 1t
was fine water.
Improvement OF the roads near
the school buildings, a retaining
wall between the school yard ana
the east side Of the old school build
ing and more room and better facili-
ties were the needs OF West Tulsa
schools most stressed. Sanitary CON
ditions received some attention, but
the two outstanding problems TO
which most time was devoted were
the paving Of North Quannah End
building OF n storm sewer.
The city commission heard cltl-
Zens from West Tulsa two weeks ago
on the matter and asked definite
and concerted request on the part
OF West Tulsa of just what was most
wanted. The meeting last night
was an outGrowth of that meeting
with the commission.