Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-08-09
From TheD
Melvin Schultz
President,
Local II. UAW.CIO

Now that our city has ample revenue with
which to function, it seems to me that sugges-
tions would be in order from residents of the
community and also, those non.residents who
either work in the community or do business
within the community thereby helping with
raising of the aforementioned revenue.
/, for one, would like to suggest that the
garbage collection system be improved, since in
my particular neighborhood there is no notice.
able improvement in this city function. would,
also, like to know when rubbish collections will
be inaugurated and why, at least a temporary
system could not be started now.
/ would like to suggest that some of these
funds be used to correct the traffic hazards
which are numerous in the streets of our com.
munity. | can point out, in particular, Auburn
Avenue which carries very large amount of
traffic and which street is in deplorabe con-
dition. 1 would like to suggest that arrange
ments be made with the Toledo Terminal Rail-
road to fix the street crossings wherever they
are needed and would call their attention, in
particular, as a starter, to the crossing of this
railroad on Central Avenue. With automobiles
increasing in age and not able to take the strain
OF bad streets such as exists at this crossing,
this situation actually constitutes a hazard to
the lives of people who must use this street
Recreational facilities should be established
in conjunction with the school board on the
Fairgrounds of all the schools. So far during
the summer vacation, these school grounds look
like just a big vacant lot Instructors with
equipment which could be used by the kids Ia
the vicinities of these schools would certainly
be big help to our community. We should
more in our Daily Press of where these pro-
grams have actually been put into effect and
children of teen ages be glorified for demon
strating their skills in some athletic event. This
would be far better than reading in the paper
of how these same age children are able to
jump a 512 foot span between buildings to
escape from the Juvenile Detention Home
Vocational training could certainly be given
to children during the summer vacation as a
recreatonal feature 1t would train the minds
and hands to do things and to become creative.
Model airplane building, model home building,
and other activities of this nature are the desire
of good many children who lack only the place
to carry on their activities, the guidance, and
small amount of materials.
accept baseball and softball teams as very
good activities; however, it is not enough to
merely mark the outline of the field on the
ground and call it a recreational program.
Further then this, large percentage of the
games l have observed being played in our COM
munity are played in the evenings as recrea-
ton for people who have worked in the shops
and factories during the dayI think that this
should be continued and expanded, but there are
about or 10 daylight hours ahead of these
scheduled games when children of preworking
ages should have full advantage and encourage
ment for the using of such facilities as I pro-
pose above
would like to encourage everyone who may
read this article to look around your neghbor-
hood to observe the whole community as you
may be travelling through it and from these
observations make recommendations to our City