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x x xTUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1958Largest Afternoon Circulation Between Fort Worth and Ei PasoPAGE THIRTEENEctor Commissioners Plan To Call For BidsAirport LeaseBy MY ROGERS American Staff Writer When will the Ector County Commissioners’ Court put the lease of the Ector County Airport up for bids again?This was the question whicharose during the Monday morning portion of the commissioners’ allday meeting.Attorney Will Hadden, who said he was representing a client who wished io bid on the lease, posed the question.This was the answer he got:The bid-letting would be advertised in the paper, and one commissioner said he would even notify Hadden when the bid-letting would be.Hadden mentioned the fact that the lease on the airport had expired. Nothing further was said on the matter Monday morning, as Hadden left the meeting.(Actually, Glen Flournoy’s lease on the airport expired on June 1 of this year — more than five months ago.)The matter came up again at about 4 p.m. — as commissioners were breaking up for the day —when an Odessa American reporter posed these questions:Why has the county waited so leng to advertise for bids on the lease?“We wanted to see some county that had a similar operation. The only one is at Longview, Commissioner Tine Davis said:“We wanted to see how other counties handle it,” Judge Selwyn Webber said.Commissioner J. E. Donaldson indicated the court wanted to see how to advertise” (apparently meaning for bids).We wanted to check and see what we can do,” he added, toget as good an operation as possible.”When will the bidding be advertised? the reporter asked as commissioners continued to leave the courtroom. .“In about 30 days,” Commissioner Donaldson said.We’d better put that on the minutes tomorrow (that commissioners are going to Longview to check the operation there),” Commissioner Davis said.How has the airport been operated since Flournoy’s lease expired?Commissioner Ted Roby said it was on the same terms as included in the last contract — with Flournoy paying the county $150 a month for the lease.The law requires the advertising for bids, doesn’t it?“Yes,’’ one of the five-member court said.Later, in a telephone interview, Flournoy indicated the lapse in time in bidding on a new lease was because he and the court“hadn't had time to get together.What is the history of the lease-letting on the airport, erected shortly after World War II? Here is what the records in the County Clerk’s office show:On Feb. 10, 1947, it was leased to a W. E. Madden for two years (Jan. 1, 1947 to Jan. 1, 1949) at a rate of $100 per month. On that date there was one other “application,” by Robert Currie for $700 a year for the lease.On Feb. 2, 1949, Madden’s lease was renewed at the same rates.On March 20, 1951, the contractwas awarded to Glen Flournoy. Terms of the contract were not mentioned in the minutes.On March 26, 1953, Flournoy’s “bid” of $100 per month was accepted for a two-year period.On April 11, 1955, the court authorized the county auditor to advertise for bids “for two year lease” of the airport.On May 2, 1955, Flournoy was the only one to submit a bid. He offered to sign a contract for $125 a month for two years, or a contract for $150 a month for a three-year period. Flournoy said he fav-|ored the latter, and the court accepted the three-year offer. That contract cove red the period of June 1, 1955 to Jure 1. 1958.Here are the terms of the contract, as explained by Flournoy:For the $150 rent, Flournoy gefs the rent off of the big hangar, which he says holds 12 to 15 airplanes, profits off of the sale of oil and gas and repair work and he pays the utilities and premiums for liability insurance. The county pays for improvements at the airport and receives the rent off of the 52 T-hangars.MemberProgressive Building Program. .. • •.. lt;End Long StrikemmmifiIronworkerslt;y.’ •£V Y :.-.‘.V - • . • *•:::iSign ContractmmfV # • *• * -V,|m' r v. ':• •'i*,'...■ .•’ V **• • •V . •f.V-t v •/. ; V.V.$ \ '%:;/• f- V.•/ •: • •« • • •• •’..91V'.'.V*::sIronworkers in Midland and Odessa had a new contract with the West Texas chapter of the Associated General Contractors — ending a five-month strike.The new agreement sets the scale at $3.20 an hour, effective immediately, and an additional raise of 7% cents on April 1.But for some of the 44 iron workers in Odessa and Midland, this will mean a cut in pay, George Dunn, business agent for the International Iron Workers local, said. And for others it will mean- a slight raise.Dunn pointed out that following the start of the strike on June 30, a “working agreement of $3.32 an hour was reached with some contractors. He indicatedthat the scale agreementy%Wi.,mm•, • ■ • i j'.r*y. *• . .-.-r-m .. .• * v.v.W'*lt;*7 .........A'/A1 ‘ V.'.V •, . * V ff. #‘0t'.-7,Ml... .yy.y, .• . ,y •••.•.* ’AWV.VW.J/ v .to:#:#’ •:‘V.'A * — j.. . .....y.vy//.Oy.ys.'■Yy• w/.v.y •. -. • * •.*.•. W.'.Vy/.j- v* .* V.' V . • .'J• v*. • , . . ..■»'• •'v-;- : ••‘ • .v: ' ''am.v.'.w. .••• • • ••06 Vf.. y;r.-. .: * *y...DISTRICT COURT tXvorce cases filed: Geneva Williams V*. Fred WilUams; Peggy Marie Bird vs. Maurice K. Bird; James R. Bowerman vs. Ruby Mae Bowerman.Civil cases filed: A. L. Latham vs. J. B. Hayes, repossession and foreclosure of lien; Frank Morris vs. Parker and Parker Construction Company. Inc.. damages; L. W. Hurst vs. Travelers Insurance Company, appeal from Industrial Accident Board award; Ernest Wallctt vs. Monahans Coca-Cola Bottling Company,damages.COUNTV COURTMarriaee lirpn«u*j; DHIr Fran™**reached with the AGG sets the ironworkers wage scale Cor the area.Affected by the new contract, effective Nov. 7 and expiring on April 1, 1960, are only about 50 ironworkers in Midland and Odessa. This is far less than the number who went on strike in the two cities originally. Dunn said many went to other areas, because work was curtailed here. He said many of these would now come back tothe Midland-Odessa area.♦The agreement will mean a “gradual” shifting of union men back to AGC jobs, Dunn indicated.On the surface, the agreement will not have any big effect on any AGC constrution job in the area,3c thp AHf. inhc have hepn nnpr-mm-mm/•■v v .• ■ •. * ••(y • • .v..*.\'.'.yvv. .\ yyy.y. .yy..V.*\-■ •/. .* •..Says Hospital UnableTo Meet Added CostsBy OLIN ASHLKY, American Staff WriterA veteran member of the Medical Center Hospital Board of Managers Monday night said he believes the county-owned hospital is financially “unable” to meet payments on its progressive building program which calls for expenditures of up to $10,-000 per month.Sidney Parkis, former president of the board and a member for eight years, couched off a spirited discussion of the hospital’s current building program when he stated that “the records don’t show that we can do it.”Parkis said the seat of the problem lies upon the endorsement of a program which would require the spending of about $3 million for hospital expansion, when the bond issue approved by the voters authorized the expenditure of only $2.6 million.“Just where did we get away from th? $2.6 million? And by whom? Someone sold us a bill of goods, and it got up to about $3 million,” Parkis stated.He pointed out to members at their r'.gular monthly meeting that since Jan 1, 1958, the hospital has realized a net income of approximately $3,500 ner month, and, he asked, “Can we increase by 300 per cent our net earnings in a year’s time?” He said it would require such an increase to handle payments of $10.00*0 per month.Earlier, Parkis had moved that the ho-nita! board “rescind this lease pm chase★ ★ ★For Addition Construction—y,' *•ip.s.oyy/f-'. .•Hfi■Vi'v.VAV.VBuilding Paymentsprogram and make our expenditures consistent with our ability to pay.” The motion did not receive a second however.Approved By BoardTrvstoad. R. C. Mason, b^ard pre-■sidont. apnointf»d n building committer and a financial committee ito mak»» a study of the progressive building program “to see i? we are to get something less than we anticipated, and to look intoy-i»-.v.•V:'•O'.% v.V.;.m..-v.-y.'Y.tern. V.% . •.*/xWiV *TOthe matter of paying for the pro-Medical Center Hospital’s Boardl last month totaled 214, and 191 in gram.” of Managers voted Monday night i October, 1957. Operations totaled Parkin and Lester Young were to approve a total of $167,274.10 in; 411, compared to lt;382 for the same named to the building program, contractors’ certificates on the] month last year, and emergenciesjand W. V. Stowe and Jack Wom-current Rhaso 2 of the hospital’s were listed at 886, compared to jack were appointed to the firaan-building program. 1823 for October erf last year.Ci a I committee.The certificates will now be presented to the Ector County Commissioners Court for payment.tAt- _t:According to a report issued by! Another committee which was Benson, the net accrual profit for!previously named by Mason to the hospital last month totaled;consider the hospital’s contract $27,401.17. jwith Ross Garrett. Chicago hospi-
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