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C. P. American
At last! The whiter has lived
long enough to see the city dads
really DO SOMETHING \vocth-
while) Fpi• to, these many years
we Lave watched various cl[y ctrows
;' dtaggtag along Irying to get our
eireets end alleys In decent ehePe
` under an aiJ1u1 ha»dicap caused b}'
i lack o[ proper mgchinery and
equipment We have seen all sorts
''=of make-shift things tried wits
varying success. Hut the present
city council tinally took the bull Uy
;, the horfis„as Lhe feller said, and
•deald'ed last aprhrg It ..•es "time far
`~ a changa."
. So when the time came to prepare
1~ the city budgef for this year several
new llama Were included-such ae
'one providing for o separate police
dopartment, which had tong bcn~
needed, Then an item of $3000 wa-
provided for a new dump truck. The
Uttle old one was so badly avorn ow
that [t cast enFlrely tau much L•
keep it running. We heard some
criticism al the time of paying sr
much money just tnr a truck. )i'c^
no one ni the city dflds Tad' and
idea of doing such a thing. Instead
hay looked over the used truck
market and (ountl one Thal wouirJJ
answe[ the city's needs far a lon-
time and Imught it Fnr the sm+d
Bnm of $1075. Anyone who knmw
anything about such things n•il'~~
admit that the city got a hm~gair i~
ihe[¢ •
• . ~
On accmutt of the [act [hat thr~
$3000 item {n the butlgel n•a= s-
written that it migFi~he uud fa~
other Items of sfreet ~equipmenl Uc
s1de~ a (ruck, Lhe boys avant out any'
Inund a dandy used Fordson tractor
factory re-hunt, with new sirnch
manta o[ various kinds. The liter
machine haz a mower ,-.tlachmeM'
~a loader atta_chmcnt, a scraper nn<'
a grader or bulldozer blade. An<
to cap the climax, the price of l~~
outfit es•origlnally 'quoted, ava•
about $8200, but try the lime Coun
Gilman John Cupp got thraug.!'
-bargahiing, the city obtained lMr
whale thiri~'tor test $1758; s dis~
count of about 5454. "rvhich isn't to
be speezed at. Bath mac~ines ens}
the city just $2033, or 5167 corder
the budget.
The new tractor was delivered
Tuesday anernoon and the boys nut
R to work at once. They wanted
to load up the truck with nil-mi::
to patch up Some of the put-hole=
'-- -ht "the all€d-3t ce s.-S}ioFcling ii
into the high truck by_ hand o~as a
t;idmus 1-'o rF-so ~the¢ gat out Ihe~lr:ao
for with the loader atlethtnedt end
loaded the truck in about fiva
minutes. The time saved right
(here meant just that many morn
holes patched in one n•nrking day.
And-tloo best part of it is C,at ehr)
little machine will ahvays Ce readJ
to do that sort of Thing every dr
in the year. .~