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other station was not allowed to
open at 46th & Fourth.
Erection Of q station at this
point would tend to downgrade
and depreciate the property In
the area, Bennett charged.
John Warder, 1866 Fifth Av. s.,
who organized the protest against
the granting OF the building per-
init told the committee he had
been promised in a letter sent to
him by Alderman Earl Johnson of
the 18th Ward that he would not
OK. a permit for any gas station
unless the persons living adjacent
to the proposed site approved Of it.
Warder had previously been Of
fered $1,000 to approve Of a per-
nit being granted for a station,
but had refused it in the interest
of the neighborhood
The letter, parts Of which were
read to the committee by warder
went on to say unless Warder
heard from him (Johnson) he
could rest assured no permit would
be granted.
The exchange Of correspondence
between Johnson and Warder took
place in April. Warder said he
proceeded to consider the matter
closed, because Of Johnson's word.
However on July IL, Mrs. War
der and Mrs. CartreIl Cooper of
454S Fifth Av. s. noticed a sur
veying group working on the three
lots, Mr.. Warder Immediately
called Alderman johnson. He was
dumfounded, he stated when the
councilman told him a permit had
been approved by the city council
! on June "a.
johnson told Warder he had
sent letters to the residents Inn
mediately surrounding the site
and no one had appeared In OPP
position to the granting Of the
permit
Later the failure OF area resid-
ents to receive notice of the hear
ing were called a clerical error by
Alderman johnson. Alderman Earl
Johnson did not appear at the
hearing.
Warder disputed Johnson's claim
because he did not receive a letter
and neither did any of the resid-
ents Immediately surrounding the
three lots.
Two weeks ago people in the
neighborhood hurridely organized
a protest movement and a hearing
was arranged before the council
roads and bridges committee COM
posed Of Alderman Allan Ander-
son as chairman and Aldermen
Romeo Riley, Walter HaIloran
Bruce Pomeroy, and H. P. Christ
ensen.
Norman Stewart, former 18th
ward alderman, an attorney APP
peared for Phillips Sc and the
parties who were to own the land
and station. He pied that the
council had already acted upon the
permit and that the land was
zoned commercial. In reply to the
allegation that such a station
would provide traffic hazards for
the school children Stewart said
his children had to walk past three
service stations on the way to
school and that 1t was his opinion
that children should be taught
more reliance upon themselves.
Mr.. Warder introduced Velma
Denny, principal of the Eugene
School who spoke against the serv-
ice station permit saying that the
traffic hazards against the chill
dren who attend her school were
already great and that the intro
duction Of a gas service station
with driveways on both 46th street
and Fourth avenue south would
increase the dangers.
Robert Murray, 4O34 Third Av.
s., president of the South Central
Improvement Assn, spoke and
told how he advised Mr.. Warder
to proceed to block the establish
ment of a gas station near his
home.
Mrs. Charles Mark, 500 e. Min
nehaha, vice president Of the Field
School PTA registered "A COM