The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-08-25
PLAN EXTENSIVE
IMPROVEMENT Of
MUNICIPAL PARK
Mayor Orders Drafting OF Ordinance
Asking for Special Election;
Board outIlnes Needs OF
Popular Resort
SEWER EXTENSION ASKED
IN PETITION SUBMITTED
Action Taken by City Dads; Sixth
Street Bridge Covers Recon-.
mendatlons; other matters
Handled by Council.


Extensive improvements will bo
made at shannon Springs municipal
park II $4,000 to finance tho work
is provided. p. G. Stacy. chairman of
the park board, told the city council
In session last night In the city hall.
Mr.. Stacy requested that the mayor
aud council call special election 20
determine whether bonds in the
amount of $4,000 shall DO issbod to
make the proposed improvements.
Although no official action was
taken. the proposal met with some
favor In the council Mayor Coffman
requested the city attorney TO pre-.
pare the necessary ordinances for tho
calling OF the special election. These
ordinances will be brought up for
consideration by the council at
later date.
II the special election Is called and
the bond proposition approved by tho
voters of the city. the $4,000 will be-
expended as follows. Mr.. Stacy said:
For additional equipment, $1,000:
for park for negroes. $4,000; con-
struction OF two additional bath
houses, $4,000; sanding beaches,
s2,500; grading pool, $l,5OO; construc-
tion OF 1880 square feet of side
walk, s3,097; for concrete facing of
dam at swimming pool, $4,000; for
hard-surfaclng of roadways within
park. sl72S5.6O; for construction OF
six ornamental colonados ut ontr-i
RANGES park, $1,000; miscellaneous
improvements, s255S66; engineering
costs (three and one-half percent).
S9S5.OS; superintendent's lodge.
$3.50; trees and shrubbery, $l.500;
beautifying and upkeep of parking on
Seventeenth street, $1,000.
Want Sewer Extension.
A petition signed by number of
citizens living on Eleventh street be.
tween Washington and Tennessee
avenues and asking that the sanitary
sewer mains be extended through
these blocks was submitted to the
council last night. The petition was
referred to the mayor and the street
and alley committee for further in
vestigation.
On motion of Councilman j. A.
Hawn, the mayor authorized the
drafting of ordinances providing for
sanitary sewer main extensions at
.ho .o,,tb aoJe ~ ca,,anth ond EiohiIt
streets. These ordinances probably
will come before the council at its
next meeting.
The mayor and members OF the
street and alley committee asked for
more time in which to make their re.
port on the proposal to sub-divlde
the sidewalk improvement district.
A resolution requesting that traffic
over the Fourth street bridge not be
stopped until after the Sixth street
bridge is completed was passed.
Placing Of fire plug in the alley
near Sixth street between Chickasha
and Choctaw avenue was approved
by the council.
A letter from the state highway
department setting forth certain re-
Communications in the construction
Of the Sixth street bridge was read
last night. Mayor Coffman and City
Engineer Milliken reported that all
of the ideas outlined in the letter
had been Incorporated into the plans
for the bridge,
The Chickasha fire department
membership in the Oklahoma state
Firemens association was renewed
last night. The council authorized
and instructed the mayor and city
clerk to issue a warrant for the pay
ment of the annual dues, $40. This
money will be paid out OF the elec-
trical inspection fund. The Chicka-
sha fire department has been a mem-
ber of the association since its or
ganization. Chief George Gattis is
a former president of the association.
The electricians bond submitted
by w. H. BLY, was approved. This
bond was in the amount of $1,000.