The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-11
Council Gives Go-Aheod
10 improvement Plans

At the city council session yester-
nav the go-ahead signal was Civ
on to a number Of municipal pro-
iects, mainly to the construction
of city community building and
+be development Of sewage dis
posal plant.
successful motion providing
for City Manager A. C. Nichols to
make a study for presentation to
tbe council of all needed or desired
nost-war projects was made by
rouncilman ]. E. L. Wade. Incorpo-
rated in this motion was a pro-
Vision authorizing Nichols to repre-
cent The city and accept an offer of
$4,000 from the Federal Works
Agency for the drawing up of plans
md Specifications for $782, 900
community building and auditor
jun,
The latter clause required that
tbc city managers action be SUBJ
iect to the approval of City At
torney w. B. Campbell.
The manager suggested that the
citv board act to pave the way if
POSSIBLE to develop sewage dispos-
II plants for the city, This pro-
nosal was endorsed by Campbell,
who said there was enough infor-
nation available to develop prelim-
mary work on plant.
Nichols suggested that. the ''sit-
nation be explored to see if we
should develop one plant or two"
You can't leave that (sewage
disposal plant) out of your next
public works program the at
torney declared.
Also to be undertaken by
Nichols, acting on instruction from
the council in connection with a
motion by Councilman w. E. Yopp,
is an investigation of the cost and
feasibility Of constructing either
an overhead or underground pass
or tunnel at 18th and Market
streets. so school children would
not have to cross that busy inter-
section in the face Of heavy traf-
fic.
The council followed another of
yopp's suggestion in ordering that
policeman be stationed at the
corner, as a safeguard to students
crossing the street.
Other action by the board in
Guided discussion of truck lane
in Wilmington, and the general con-.
census of members was that the
route should run around rather
than through the city,
The subject was introduced by
Councilman Robert S. ,LeGWin,
who asked for a report on what
had been done on the matter. He
and Wade previously had been de-
signated as committee to study
the possibilities of a truck lane.
Nichols informed him that
state highway department engine
er had visited Wilmington for
preliminary study and that a traf-
fic survey by that depa rtment was
expected at some future date. Fol-
lowing such a survey, recommen-
dations of highway officials would
be submitted to the board for
study.
The traffic survey, the manager
explained, would consist of data on
the starting points of trucks COM
Ing through Wilmington and where
they were headed, so that salts
factory route might be worked out.
Councilman Garland S. Currin
raised the quqestion of what CITY,
county committee action had been
taken on a three-month-old investi-
cation of New Hanover Bureau of
Identification activities.
He was assured by Mayor Lane
- who with Attorney Campbell,
Addison Hewlett, chairman of fthe
county commissioners, and County
Attorney Marsden Bellamy, COM
prlses the committeeman that
body was conducting an investiga-
ton and report would be brought
In at the earliest possible date.
So thorough was the German