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Dr. Earl B. Griffey has been reappointed city health officer for the next two years. Dr. Griffey, whose current term expires Nov. 26, was re appointed with the unanimous consent of the City Commission which met at 7:30 a.m. today. Regularly scheduled for Nov. 26, the meeting was moved up og it fell on Thanksgiving ay. In other action the City Com mission: Accepted a quit-claim deed from Missouri Pacific Railroad Co. of a strip of land 65 by 240 feet wide in the Rambeno area not being used for railroad pur poses. In consideration of which the city will release the railroad company from a paving lien assessment and pave the 1,300 lineal feet of street on W. Fifth St. covered by the assessment referred to as Unit 21 in Or dinance 620. Passed to second and fine reading an amendment to the zoning ordinance changing from residential to apartment class ification A. J. Witte’s two acres on Tulane Ave., which face on proposed U. S. Expressway 83. Witte proposes to use the land for multiple dwelling units. Passed on first reading an Ordinance abandoning and Va cating a portion of the alley ly ing between McDavitt Blvd. and Shary Ave. at the rear of 278 McDavitt Blvd., where the ap plicants, Ignacio Reyes and Da vid Domingues propose to ex tend the Villa Verde Grocery Store building.
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Brownsville Herald

Brownsville, Texas, US

Tue, Nov 24, 1964

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