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Newspaper
Canton Daily News
Location
Canton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1920
Page
6
City Auditor Barr declines $953 bill for prisoners’ keep to April 1 after Canton failed to sign a contract with Stark Workhouse under a $1 per day rate set by directors over six months ago. Workhouse Superintendent Boyer asks council to act and sign now. matter referred to finance committee.
City council sewer and garbage committee Monday night backed extensive improvements at the Howenstine sewage disposal plant. The plan aims to double capacity and boost efficiency after a survey by councilmen who visited the plant Sunday. Chairman Babcock suggested future talks with Mayor Witter, City Engineer Sarver, and plant superintendent Frank Ebersole to finalize needed upgrades.
Mayor Herman R. Witter submits to the council the half year budgets for city departments for 1920. Second half estimates exceed first half by several thousand dollars due to street work and salary raises. Council finance committee to begin immediate work for July action.
The policy change named Vancey does not affect the salary of Chief Engineer Scott. The decision preserves existing compensation while outlining new constraints for other roles.
Council members voted against creating the deputy city sealer post due to the city's tight finances. City Sealer Harry Conrad had proposed an assistant after stating his duties were becoming too numerous for one person.
The annual city council picnic will be held next Sunday at The Cedars on Louisville Road with committee members W. T. Kirk W. Edgar Jackson and W. E. Sarver. The council also approved bids for repairing the City Auditorium and two other ordinances including street dedication in Hardwick Heights and a sanitary sewer project in Anderson Place SW.
City adopts new parking limits on Zoar streets and Tuscarawas. Parking restricted to two hours on street blocks during 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily except Sundays. In business areas, drivers must park at block ends when possible. No parking rules require a director permit. No passing or driving alongside at intersections.
A ten percent wage increase effective July 1 was granted to firemen and engineers at city pumping stations by the council. About ten city employees are affected after council finance committees earlier overlooked the engineers and firemen in a blanket wage advance.
A group of southeast city boys left Monday for the YMCA camp at Turkeyfoot Lake for the first week of the annual camping season. They will return Saturday and another group will spend the weekend there while Stark County boys go into camp next Monday, remaining until June 31.
A Greek representation urged the city council to amend the coffee house ordinance as council actions tighten restrictions. They seek Sunday hours from noon to 10 30 pm and argue the current rule is unfair. The court halted enforcement pending ruling, with operators unarrested for now.
A compiled Q and A series covers topics from discharge paper color codes to White House history and acreage, baseball ball liveliness, university course length estimates, pongee silk duties, Monterey cheese origins, car washing methods, meanings of Minnesota and Dakota, swan genders, removing floor oil stains, and ship time signals eight bells. The column invites readers to write for more questions and notes authoritative sources.
The article traces the rise of cord tires and a uniform standard set by the United States Rubber Company. It notes that since 1903 the firm pioneered the first American cord tire and maintains control over production from cord fabric to plantation rubber, arguing the cord standard delivers major tire economies.
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