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WEISSless than d by Leth-bination of md a city i the citymen col: id he addedng for a imed the and aider-icttnf and ••dent c*m-it a lt;*ur-fy »f civic ' cover howHe reach-*11 ignited e a hen he can Park* wav dc-camc up; liflg a pool'ans pool! mpbeli re-r Weiss to xine Park 1 pporlinc a ity - t\ pe ' city, saidjthe Recreation C«MMBiaioii chaired by Aid Campbell, last year kept the Rideau Park plan secret too long Aid Campbell said swimming facilities should be established neat year at Rideau Park and Curran ParkAid. Walter Green *«td a more efficient supervision should be placed over city werks projects. Many city sidewalks and roads art in bad shape and council should allocate more funds for mainte-nance o* them.B F Batt. trying for his firstterm, said the city should impute a strong winter works proram However, m so doing, the City should not fail to stay in -top with conditions of the Winter Works Act Fmp oyees on palt;! city winter works projects have been under-pa:d, ht*. said Gil Box. another freshman aidermanic hopeful, advocated a mensure of n rn nchmertt City borrowing and spending should be kept down ncx* year, he a d Mr Box pointed out that excess construction of housesshould be eliminated Too many new homes in the city without rapid population growth tends to cause a movement -of residents from settled areas emptying older homes and devaluating others, he saidAid. Flora Cowan, claiming fhoro is a placa for a woman's point of viow at tho local government level, said another term of office would allow hor to complote tho Fairviow Homo extension program and re location of wards of tho city.‘ And if we can keep financecommittee chairman Bumeski in his mood of ‘What's a million'’' we might even get a new city hali and auditorium '' quipped* Aid Cowan.Aid ^ ilham Bort 'kic, making a bid for his twelfth council term, proposed extension of storm sewers, sewage system to North Hill swimming facilities at Curran Park water service to KM of Cornwallis and the Mental Hospital, development of a recreation ari d at the Ten Mi jDam on the Little SaskatchewanRiver and parking tots down townHarold Watson said city coon Cil should ob«y more closely the provisions of the Municipal Act, especially in connection with voting on money bylaws. Brandon voters were ' deliberately by passed ' in the double count of ballots for the storm sewer bylaw in 1*57, he said.The Municipal Act should be considered the Municipal Bible said Mr Watson Fred Mott, another new face in the civic political arena said the industrial committee ha*-achieved little in ite attempts to lure industry to Brandon. The vujnm ttee he said, should a ter its approach and concentrate more on tempting smal’er industries rattier than only large ones, to move into the city Miss Dorothy Geiger makng hor first try for civic office, cam# out solidly ogamst Sun day sport* tor Bra-sdon Once cihxons start tampering with the basic laws o* God’ they are getting into deep water she said.Miss Geiger 'aid breaking the aw by hav * l 'ports e S t lavs i' much the sa ne as bre.ik, g the law by stealing.
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Brandon Daily Sun
Brandon, Manitoba, CA
Fri, Oct 23, 1959
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