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The Columbia City Council certainly earned its pay in 1949 meeting With remarkable hindsight acuity, Central Ohio Bureau Chief Cyrus posts this timely story from the Adair County News of June 8, 1949 CYRUS DISPATCH Three Gildersleeves appointed The first order of business (but not the most important; see last entryunder this Council report) was to elect a three man Water Commission"whose duty it will be to supervise operation of the local watersystem." Those elected were Owen Miller (three year term), EdwinHutchinson (two years), and Henry Morgan (one year.) J.D. Harper wasalso selected to serve on the new Commission as the City Councilrepresentative. Mayor Kerbow reported that improvements and extensions to the watersystem were "progressing satisfactorily" and that such work should becompleted by August. Paucity of police cars in those days Next, the Council placed an order for a (one)* police car, a new Ford V-8,delivery of which was anticipated within the next ten days. City got a DDT spraying The Council then voted to allot $50 "to help defray expenses of sprayingColumbia in an effort to eliminate flies," said spraying to be done "atan early date by the State Board of Health under the direction of SamMoore." (An article in the July 13 edition headlined "Columbia Given DDTBath Monday" read in part: "Columbia's business section received a DDTbath Monday morning in a State-County health program to eliminateflies... This is the third year Columbia has been sprayed with verysatisfactory results... [A] U.S. Public Health Service power spraymounted on a truck was used to spread the DDT." Parking meters paid for self in about one year Members also voted to complete payment on the parking meters installed"more than a year ago," with the stipulation that "only income on handderived from meter revenue" be used for the payment. Humble bureau chief calls for investigation into missing funds (Again, no mention was made of the two dollars in fines collected, onefrom Editor Hamlett, the other from Mayor Kerbow, in June '48 for theirflagrant failure to feed the meters. It is the opinion of your humblereporter that the case of these disappearing dollars should be broughtto attention of everyone from Bliss to Beech Top and from Coburg toCundiff and a formal investigation be launched to determine exactly whatbecame of those funds.) Council went legit The next agenda item was the Council deciding to become a law-abidingentity. The members agreed to have published a financial statement forthe past year as required by state law but not so done since 1942. Council addresses sin And finally, the Council, having thus policed itself, moved to policeColumbia's dens of iniquity; to wit: "Effective July 1, 1949, personsallowing youths under 18 years of age to operate a pinball machine willbe subject to a $25 fine and 10 days in jail." (The statute of limitations has long since run out. Would any of thesethen under-age pinball wizards care to speak up?) No mention was made of Joe Moore adjourning the meeting. Reporting from way up north, I remain, Your humble central Ohio bureau chief, Cyrus *In the report on the 2005 June Council meeting, the big argument is whether to replace three, or to replace four, of the City of Columbia's 10 car fleet of police prowlers. This story was posted on 2005-06-08 06:56:23
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Cyrus sends report on heroism of Lt. Warren Shipp in WWII In the news 60 years ago this week More on Mrs. Edsel's (Edsall's) Edsell Reception reported to be good on TV set in Adair County Letter to Editor: When was Adair County Genealogical Society founded? A Cyrus encyclical: Closing the circle on a lot of missing information In Kerbow Era, Parking Meters Were City's Best Revenue Source Mystery Photo #5 Identified: Mr. Ray Flowers and 1949 Buick Roadmaster Cyrus reports: Parking meters and scofflaws on the Square, 1948 Four-year-old rides horseback 9.5 miles to Columbia in 1916 View even more articles in topic Local History |
 
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