HomeMy WebLinkAboutC.P. American 04/21/1949
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Were ,low. There were only a few
really solvent ,taxpayers in town-
and. they had all they could do_ to
gay.: the taxes required to. pay off
'that: awful debt.? 4No city"~aitmiitis-
tratlon even .dared to think of rais-
ing'~the tax load enough to put in
and more city improvements.
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And so the years went- by. Every
c tyc counci a ep nt many weary hours
trying to think up ,some way to
melee the debt payments and~t_thc
-same time make the many improve-
, ments asked for by ttre citizens of
the town.. It was a, most thankless
job-and . still is, fbr the matter of
that. They're cussed if they do and
cussed if they don't; Small cities of
our class just don't have money
enough to do all the things the
peo~te. seem to think they want.
Today we can be thankful that th~~
men of old who managed the affairs
of the city did as well as they did to
keep the city solvent.
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Since the coming of the war and
Canip White our city has had many
new problems. Our population has;
lncri;ased rapidly; ~ new industries
suCf~. as the planing mill, the rail-'
roads ties business, -the °stud" mill, i
and others, have: •all brought new
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robTBtiis `"~t~'r`stieeEs.lfave~
'bear; much heavier . traif.c, -lsa~'ir~ttg
=19 become a problem, aiid the .cost
of operatf the eity's baslnesa has
more-than doublett.
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So the city council -of today, is
faced with enough serious problems
without being perpetually bothered
-with "demands" and "petitions."
And we are told. that some crazy
folks are even writing anonymous
letters.to-the mayor; The place.for
such communications, is the.. waste
basket or thg kitchen stove. If the.
writer hasn't -the guts ~to sign his or
her letters they should be igr}ored,
.not worried over.
So, after all is said and done, Cen.
tral Point isn't" ~d` bad. a place:..; ri
wh'ich' to. •live. We have gooci-
schools, food churches, live ,civic
organizations, and our people, while
not wealthy, are the salt of the
earth. Here we have good neighbors,
good f~~ien~ _and a_cheerful_way op
life not often found in larger cities.
Let's be thankful for the blessings
we have, and quit worrying.
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We hear lots of ~umtilin¢ an the
pact aC people who have come to
ibis city in recent years who com-
plain that '9ya all the fault of the
city tounell" tot perhaps iha faun
o[ former city counrflal That out cRY
in not keeping up with the prates- .
lion In the matter oC arrest improve-
ment, 6ettur street lighSing, anJ
what have Yout R seems to the ;
writer that such complaining is as ~
w¢t-and shows the Ignarante of i
whoever Ls doinH the complainia8~ ~
To our Mrtd what Is nestled is a
study of the history of this city, ~
from lb [ounrlin8 to the presets
time. apace will not permit ue in 1
give more than a very bri¢f outline ~+
o[ such hialorY. 6ul even a little in- 1
sight )nto Me pest may help,
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WethsH sot ga into the days trmn
lha liter laying out at the tawnsile 1
way-back in Lhe 80's. ~ L¢t us start I
with what happened to the town
when the "Hlg Hoom" hit the Regue r)
river vellay Itt the eedy y hs of
this century, to•wit: From Y0.5 to +
1911. Lot us rcmemher that Med- ,
foal itself Hrrovr dwin6 those yenrs '
from a village of perhaps 1800 t
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people, to n city o[ 111,000. Literally
mica oC street Improvements in the i
way of-paving. curbs acid sidewalks
were put fn,-asul a[ course charged
against abutting property. Any +
pw~chaser of s tat in that city lh+m
(and now, !on that melterl had to
include such ant to figurkng the i
cost of his new property. (Ry the
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way, along with She rest, was Iho
matte[ Of Weler mains, sewers, ate.. °
which also had-.to be pail for.) a
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The natural result a[ ell this was t
that whenever someone who felt he
couldn't afford eo much ~ oullnY ~
came along he was informed that he t
had better go down to Central Paint
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wl+ere he could fitrd cheaper lot;. a
This city had been bitten with the
boom bug also and had put in a new
water sYSlem, u sewer system and n
haQ paved Plne street for almost its ,
whole length and had also cherged~
Ibat expense against the abutting t
pruparly. Wa had Hono in debt
some 5185,000 to pay for what lilll.
we did do. but what little xe haJ
done wasn't a drop in lha buckct-
nmpazed with Medfard's auilay. 9O t
land was still cheaper here than
there. Thus Our city became a sore C
of working. moo's sub-division of T
IF.e big town--and still ia.
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When the boom fizzled out (as r'
booms have a habit of dain6l our u.
town-entl [he city counrlf of that
daY-found itseQ in a rather difli- tt
cult situation. Hundreds of pMPle
xere out of work and had to move R
away. Literal{y hundreds of lots
and even houses had Lo go fn lher~'
county for taxes. $oMF o1 the lots ~
Pere were taken over by' the rdy Ch
from the manly In protect the lien
:he city had against Them. Thr p'
whole rountry just aorta drifted a"Ise
long, hoping for better things whi ~~'
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never came. Wapes-i( .,vu we.e
;nrtunate enough to have a j` ~'- m
(Cootiauad on pegs 2) t1
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