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Local Doctor Shows Great Civic Spirit InAgreeing To PriceDR. R. T. STANTON, grand medical e^ajniner U. B. of F and S. M. T. of Texas, who sold one-half Af the site selecteeby tKe city commissioners for the Negro Playground to b( located in West End. Dr. Stanton said that a fight agains threatened condemnation proceedings would bold’up the plai for the park indefinitely and Jie did not want the project de layed any longer, especially on his account. (By JOHN WESLEY McGAFFEY)Ss lt;Well, after a small matter of-10 years you are to get i playground. One half of the proposed site Has already beei purchased, the other half will he gotten for you even thougl the board has to^go to the court to get it. Something funnj here—the playground-was sidestepped for years; men wouk come and go, but no park came -with them. Unfortunately you Jiad a group of tiny Sambos who stood in the breach a election time and told you to vote for-men who were indiffer ent to you and yours and you . did that. It looked like yoi were in the wagon once again, but something evidently hap pened, and to see that you get your 10 year past due promise the board will go to court with anybody who tries, to _stanlt;
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Galveston Voice
Galveston, Texas, US
Sat, Oct 17, 1931
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