The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-11-07
COUNTY TO MAKE
CITY FIRE BOND
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passed by the board on the corr
dition that it include the stipuls-
ton that the county collect the
money from the person whose
properly is threatened.
County Attorney Marsden Bel
llany said that it would be legally
possible for some sort OF arrange
ment to be worked out and 1or
the county to make an agreement
with the city to pay expenses OF
fire trips outside the city, if agree
able with the city government.
The board agreed that the coun-
tvs guarantee would probably
eliminate any delay in case OF
an emergency.
Commissioner Lewis Coleman
brought up the question of grass
fires outside the city and the ex-
pense involved. He said that
some sort Of rules, regulations
and restrictions as to what type
of call would be answered Should
be worked out. Some obligations
should be placed on the owner Of
the property because we're
spending the taxpayers money." "
he added.
"I'm thinking about the welfare
Of the taxpayer of the county
the man VINO has been benefited,
who owns the property, and if he
fails to pay we should tax the
property" he continued. " / don't
see why your good tax money
should be spent to protect my
property"
He emphasized that he certainly
did not oppose the county putting
up the money but repeated that
ne wanted to see the man who
was protected pay the bill.
W. A. McGirt, Of the Forest
Hills section, came before the
board and said, Here. Is the
proposition. It's nice to look al
: house that is not burning but
, when you see house burning
: you know that somebody is losing
something, a great economic loss
l think that you'll be refunded or
rs per cent Of the calls.
'We're asking only a $10t
guarantee from the county. Tner
it'll be understood that the cit5
cannot lose penny when it come:
to the rescue of suffering human
ity," he continued, adding tina
some zoning system would hav'
l to be had in relation to the calls
Coleman answered him with, *
fireman told me last night tina
three out of four fires they wen
to last month were grass fires
I'm not opposing this thing, Tn
only trying to save unnecessar.
tax money being spent.
He went on to say that som
regulations should be made a
to the type Of fire the depart
ment would go to because tire
grass fires month would amour
to $500 Of taxpayers money was,
ed.
I'D like to see the board &c
Mr.. Bellamy to get in touch wit
the city and see how much ia,
payers money it would take an
, how much We are willing t
, SPEND, Coleman added.
. Commissioner Gardner sugges,
ed that 1--WE need building re
striction outside the city as wei
; as inside so we won't have thes
| firetraps.'
Raymond Grove, local insur
ance agent who has recently NOV
) ed to home outside the cit,
limits, in his appeal to the boar
for action in the matter, said tn,
fire department takes the posi-
: ton that it cannot take the re
sponsibiiy to always go but tina
they will go whenever possible.
The Rev. o. K. Ingram, paste
of the Sunset Park Methods
church, and VINO gave the petitiol
to Mr.. Hewlett Saturday, was I'm
able to attend because of Hines
but was represented by his wife
Aaron Goldberg, local attorney
representing several Sunset Par
residents, came before the boar,
to ask that steps be taken to rem
edy the very bad drainage con
ditions in that area which hav
existed since the building of tn
Riverside apartments caused tn
ground to be somewhat elevate
and left the territory with yer
ineffective drainage,
He pointed out that the peopl
concerned wanted speedy relic
because heavy rains resulted il
flooded Easements, making heat
ing difficult, ruined victory gar
dens and caused many mosquitoes
Mr.. Hewlett said that he ma,
discussed the matter with River
side people and that Mr.. Brow
Of the state highway commissio
had said that a survey of the are
would be made.
Commissioner Gardner move
that the county board draft
suitable resolution to the stat
asking it to investigate and tax
action Immediately. The boar
{ also agreed to give consideration
to the drainage at Washington
and Northern Boulevards and t
I ask the highway commission t
investigate the possibility of con
meeting three dead end roads