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• • <br />SPECIAL MEET IPdG <br />OF TfB; LA PORTE CITY COTJNCIL <br />MARCx 23,1938, 8:0o P.~~. <br />Meeting was aalled to order by Mayor Sharp, with the follcwing Aldermen <br />responding to roll call: C.R4. Agee, P.L. Benson, F.R. Boyle, J.J. Roark, <br />Fred F. F;uff. <br />The Mayor stated that the purpose of the meeting was to purchase fire <br />hose for the Fire Department. <br />The Mayor called on Fire Chief Guy R. Hamilton who reported that the <br />fire hose the City has on hand will not meet the requiroments of the <br />State. He reported further that the City has on hand 2,200 feet of <br />fire hose, some of which is eight years old, so that the City must <br />depend on 500 feet purchased in 1931. and 500 feet purchased in 1937, <br />only 500 feet of which is really safe for use ander 200 pressure. <br />Mr Yamilton stated that 1,000 feet of hose is really needed but that <br />the City can get by for the present with a purchase of 500 feet. <br />to the City <br />Alderman Boyle then made a report on the visit~of H.D. Keepers, <br />State Fire Insuranee,Engineer. Mr Keepers, after inspecting the <br />City water pumps and the streets, finding 95~ of the residential <br />streets accessible to fire trucks, stated that upon receipt of a <br />copy of a map of the City streets, he would reeo~end a 2 cent re- <br />duction on the Cityts key rate. <br /> <br />After a report on the price and terms for the purchase of fire hose <br />
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