at a meters going in; Council passes ordinance Parking meters for York's business section' were assured when last Thursday evening at the regular October meeting of the city council an ordinance the meters as a part of adopting the city's traffic system was adopted and passed by a vote of 6 to' 2. This vote was the culmination of almost a year's controversy the meter situation. When over the meters were ordered from the manufacturer many business men appeared before the council to request that the contract be cancelled. This the council fused to do. But time was given for a more extended consideration of the factors involved.
The meters were purchased on a year's trial basis. If at the expiration of twelve months from installation the city council thinks meters have not benefitted the parking problem the makers will remove the meters and their standards without expense to the city. The meters, costing about $75 each Installed, will be paid for of the money deposited in out them in payment of parking privileges. The city and meter comwill split fifty-fifty the repany ceipts per month until the meters are paid for. After that they are exclusive property of the city.
In preparation of the tion of meters the business streets about the public square have had their parking spaces repainted. The spaces allowed for parking are about 18 inches wider than they were, which permits of an easier job of parking with more liberal space between parked vehicles. The slant of the lines is more horizontal which makes parking and driving out of Former resident recalls old times Bert Thomas, former resident of York, now a substantial citizen of Middleborough, is making one of his periodic visits to York in company with Mrs Thomas. They made the trip from Massachusetts in their automobile and will travel a bit over the middile west and south before returning home. Mr.
Thomas is engaged in banking in Middleborough. A prized possesion he was showing to friends is an elaborately printed invitation to a reception given by York Military Band at the LeGrande hotel on New Year's Eve. The year does not appear on the card but Mr. Thomas says it was either 1894 or 1895. Assisting band members as receptionists were Mr.
and Mrs. W. H. Crabb. Mr.
Thomas was a member of the band and played the piccolo. After graduating from York high school in 1897 he removed to Massachusetts and has been there ever since. His aged mother, now, 89, makes her home with him. She will be remembered as a resident of York by many older citizens. During their stay here Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas, attended a OES district meeting which had an appeal for them, Mr. Thomas having been a ranking officer of the Masonic order in Massachusetts. Rev. Kenneth Reeves to new assignment Rev.
Kenneth Reeves, former pastor of York Presbyterian church, who went to Philadelphia from York to accept the position of director of youth activities at Presbyterian church headquarters, has been appointed associate secretary of the division of higher education in charge of student work in colleges and universities. Mr. Reeves recently returned from abroad where he attended a world conference of Christian Youth held at Oslo, Norway. He was one of a thousand delegates and two hundred advisers from two continents attending the conference. DISTRICT COURT CASES LeRoy Hower has filed an appeal from a judgment in the court where he was convicted of indecent exposure and sentenced to 90 days in jail by Judge Edgar Thompson.
Betty Dobberstein has appealed to the court to sever her marriage bond with Thomas Dobberstine. Historical Society XX State a parking stall a quicker acton. The parkng zones where meters will be installed are: Lincoln avenue from Fourth to Eighth. Grant avenue from Fourth to Eighth, Fifth street from Platte to Nebraska. Sixth street from Platte to Nebraska.
Eighth street from Platte to Grant. The steel standards on which the meters set have been here for several The meters proper will be shipped sometime within thirty- days from the adoption of the meter ordinance. As previously explained, the meters are set to operate at 12 minute periods. One may park in a space for. two hours without visiting his car if he has deposited two nickles.
Pennies may also be used if the car owner wants to park for a less period than one hour. The meter ordinance fixes meter charges as follows: Twelve minutes or less, one cent; more than 12 minutes but less than 24, two cents; more than 24 minutes but less than 36, three cents; more than 36 minutes but less than 48, four cents; -more than 48 minutes but less than minutes, five cents; more than 60 minutes and less than 120 minutes, ten cents. Parking hours in which the meter rates will be collected are from nine in the morning to six in the evening on week days, except Saturday. On Saturdays the meter rates run from nine in the morning until nine at night. No charge for parking in meter stalls, on Sundays and holidays.
Police quit after raise is denied With the council voting four to four and the vote of the mayor necessary to settle the tie, members of the city council denied a request for a raise in pay made by four members of the city's police force, A. J. Gardner, G. N. Nelson, William J.
Wolfe and Al Zimmerer. Following this action council last Tuesday night the four filed written resignations effectve October 16. In denying the request Mayor Andrew Grosshans said the present state of city finances would not permit an increase of pay for members of the police force at this time. He commented that the police fund had less than $100 remaining in it after September salaries were paid. Salaries of members of the police force are: Chief Floyd Mohring; $190; Senior Night Officer A.
J. Gardner, $180; Officers Nelson, Wolfe and Zimmerer, all night men, $175 each; Ed Fitzpatrick, traffic officer, $165. Aged McCool resident takes his own life Luther Cantrell, 81, a resident of McCool, for about 35 years, took his own life as he lay in his bed last Thursday morning, October 2, about 7:30. Death ensued from a bullet wound in the head. The bullet came from a 22- calibre pistol.
The invalid had become despondent and had expressed the wish that he might not live long in his then condition. He is survived by his wife, Laura; two sons, Alkana of Springfield, and Len of Fairmont; five daughters, Mrs. Tina Patterson, McCool, Mrs. Bessie Chambers, Phillips, Mrs. Jera Lutz, Fairmont, Mrs.
Josephine Templeton, Eugene, Mrs. Marville Goodman, Fairmont. Neat sum derived from gas tax funds In the distribution of state funds derived from the gasoline tax York county fared well, receiving for its September allotment $4,119.25 to be applied on the cost of graveling mail roads and $6,178.88 for other uses authorized by state law. The total state allotment from the September gas tax fund collected by the state amounted to $320,767.00 for graveling mail roads and $481,150.40 for other purposes legalized by legislative THE YORK VOLUME SEVENTY-TWO THE YORK REPUBLICAN, Consumers ask reduced use of electric current The shortage of electric current is critically enough to call for a statement to consumers by the District Manager H. F.
Boehner of the Consumers. He has asked them in a letter to join in a general plan of conservation of current, especially at peak load hours. Patrons who read present news about electric current know that the use of electric current in the area served by Consumers has risen sharply and rapidly. Shortages of materials and labor have delayed the company's efforts to provide more and better ties of distribution. It is not, Mr.
Boehner says, that there is a shortage of electric energy; the trouble is with the delays in producing more and better facilities of distribution. Durng the fall and winter peak periods of use of current are between the hours of four and seven in the afternoon and evening. That is when dinner is being prepared and served in the homes and eating establishments in Consumers' territory. The summer load is more evenly distributed since dinner may be prepared by daylight. Also illumination of store windows is greater in the fall and winter periods.
As a matter of public interest Mr. Boehner is appealing to current users to curtail their use of electricity as much as possible during the winter period between four and seven in the evening. General compliance with this request, he says, will obviate the necessity of reducing the use of current by some company extremity. Contralto soloist delights audience Mary Van Kirk, contralto, appearing as first number in the 1947-8 series of the Community Concert Association last night at the city auditorium, sang herself into the musical affections of her large audience and won a return engagement at some not too distant date. The talented singer had been widely proclaimed.
Her hearers last night learned that her vocal ability and her personal charm had not been overstated. She sang a varied program, ranging from folk songs to aria, in all of which her lovely contralto voice was interpretive and vocally charming. She was, many will concede, heard at her best in the simple airs like "Think on Me," "Danny Boy," "Ava Marie" and others that are best understood, These gave occasion for her display of feeling and vocal charm. At the piano her accompanist, Mr. Sektberg, played brilliantly and won high favor with two program numbers and encore.
The two artists completed a duo that will long be remembered by those who were charmed by their talents last evening. Three police officers will stick to jobs Three police officers, who presented their resignation last Thursday night when they were refused increases of pay by the mayor and council, have decided to remain on their jobs. The fourth, Senior Night Office A. J. Gardner, is definitely out and has terminated his duties as police officer.
He is the oldest of the officers from the standpoint of continuous service, A new member of the force to succeed Officer Gardner is Paul Dahlgren, former York boy, who has nine months experience as member of the Lincoln police force. He has assumed his new duties. The three night men who withdrew their resignations are G. N. Nelson, Wm.
Wolfe and Al Zimmerer. RE REPUBLICAN YORK, OCTOBER 9, 1947. NUMBER TWENTY-EIGHT (Henry W. Peters dies after hi'way accident Henry W. Peters, 32, died in the General hospital Thursday afternoon as a result of injuries received when he lost control of his car on a road south of Henderson the previous Monday and suffered injuries that proved fatal.
There were no known observers of the accident. Peters was found some fifteen feet from his car by Carl Pope, a rural mail carrier, who passed the scene of accident. The sheriff's office reasoned from physical indications that Peters, driving his car at a high rate of speed, lost control. It went into the ditch and overturned, Peters, the sole 10ccupant, being thrown clear of the vehicle. He was hurried to the York hospital by ambulance where his condition was at once pronounced serious.
He is survived by his mother, Mrs. John D. Peters of Henderson, with whom he made his home; three sisters, Mrs. H. C.
Bieshline of Grand Island, Mrs. Pete Siebert of Lushton and Mrs. Dan Schmidt of Walton, and five brothers, D. W. Peters of Henderson, G.
W. Peters and Jake W. Peters, both of Wichita, and John W. Peters of Aurora. Funeral services held Sunday afternoon in the Bethesda church in Henderson with burial there.
York Braves are dinner guests A dinner honoring York Braves, members of York's team in the Cornhusker baseball league, was served at the auditorium last evening. The Braves won the 1947 championship and fans took this manner of celebrating it. R. A. Freeman was toastmaster.
H. C. Duncan league president, and also chairman of the cham-1 ber of commerce sports committee, presented individual awards to players. Chas. Bradwell, secretary of the league, presented the league trophy.
Following the dinner and short program a showing of pictures taken of the 1946 world series was given. COUNTY COURT CASES Charles Houston, charged with engaging in intrastate traffic operations on the highways without having first obtained a from the state hghway department, entered a plea of guilty and was fined $5 and costs. Taft Hartley bill Rotary topic York Rotarians last Thursday heard a discussion of the TaftHartley bill, passed by the last Congress to improve managementlabor-people relations. The address was given by B. I.
Noble, former district manager for the telephone company and now assistant general manager of the Lincoln Telephone and Telegraph Co. Mr. Noble gave an unprejudiced view of the bill and said it is A very great aid in improving management-labor relatons. Hs own company has accepted the bill as an improvement in labor relations. He believes it will work to the advantage of three labor and the public.
He urged all concerned to give the new law a fair trial in the hope that it will be a means of calming the storm that exists through misunderstanding of what the bill intends and should accomplish. Johnson Son open east side store In the south room of what is generally known as the Jones building at the northeast corner of the square J. M. Johnson and his son, Charles, have opened a new business establishment. Mr.
Johnson, who for many years conducted an art store and was later engaged in the and repairing of typewriters, will engage in the sale and repair of typewriters and adding machines and do a general upholstering and furniture' repair business. Charles Johnson, lately of the men's department of the J. C. Penney store, will deal in men's furnishings and take orders for tailoring. The store space is sufficient to provide storage space for persons who have need of such space for the storage of household goods.
WRITE A LETTER WEEK October 12 to 18, 1947 Do you owe any letters to friends or relatives? It will give you pleasure write them--and they will brighten the day for those who receive what you write. All too many of us neglect from day to day "these visits on paper" that can bring joy to others. Write today to those away; not forgetting those still in the armed services. Peter A. Meehan, Postmaster.
Store windows draw throngs of vocal admirers The autumn trading season was ushered into York Tuesday evening with music, beautiful window displays and extravagant expressions of pleasure from hundreds of people who thronged the bustness streets from 6:30 to the close of the musical program. Planned by the retail trade committee of the chamber of commerce, a very large number of local concerns entered enthusiastically into the preparation of window displays. York never saw such a large number of tastefully arranged show windows offered for inspeotion at one time. The chamber had offered prizes of $25, $15 and $10 for the fret three best displays. To avoid 10- cal heartaches judges were imported from Lincoln.
These men were warm in their praise of the work they were called to judge and admitted that picking the winners was no easy task. Declisons were made on points and the prizes went to these firms: Brown McDonald first; Hughes Supply second; Sam Sterling, third. Honorable mention was given Hobbs Cafe, Baer Furniture Russ Williams Chapman Style Shop and Rogers Shoe Co. All windows were unveiled promptly at 7:30 with an impatient crowd waiting to see them. Preceding the unveiling York high school band paraded the streets and took their position On a makeshift: bandstand on the west side of the court house where they played until the arrival of a second band, the Polk high school band, which proceded to discourse music until the Bohemian band from Wilber took over to finish the evening's varied concert.
Sponsors of- the event are greatly elated over the interest shown and the results achieved. It seems quite likely that the event may become an annual community affair. At a meeting of the Lincoln District Dental association last Monday evening, Dr. C. M.
Andrews 10f York, gave a demonstration on "Cast Gold Crowns," subject he has been studying for some years. He supplemented his talk with a color film which the viewers found interesting and instructive. MEN WHO MAKE YORK DEAN SACK he good soil of York County produces many worthy products. Among them boys and girls whose inbred vision and industry carry them far in diversified avenues of life. A farm near Gresham was the birthplace of Dean Sack and the stepping off place of a career that is already challenging for its vision, energy and achievements.
After finishing the rural schools he attended Gresham high school, graduated, and then took two years of an engineering course in the University of Nebraska. He moved from the university right into a business, career in 1927 when he took with International Harvester drst as salesman and then as credit and collection representative. He covered the South Platte territory and while traveling made the blue print of his later career. He came to York in 1927 and launched the Meridian Finance with himself as president and manager, four years later. This excursion into finance was really the foundation stone for his later financial career as president of York State Bank which he and his associates founded in 1942.
How well the bank has succeeded in its four years of exA istence Is established local history. While conducting the Meridian Finance Co. Dean invaded the field of construction with his Meridian Construction Company which he still heads. Road building was the chief business of the Meridian until the war started. Then construction of roadways and other grading operations at nearby air field installations--Fairmont, Bruning, Harvard, Grand Island and Hastings, to name a few.
Since the war the Meridian has moved into a new field, "well digging, irrigation plant and dam construction. All the activities here related add up to enough for any person of normal resourcefulness, but not for Dean Sack. Perhaps the supreme business. achievement to date in his career of achievements. was the organization of the York Cold Storage with himself as president.
The accomplishments of this group under brilliant business leadership has often been related in this newspaper. The initial construction operations of this group were started in 1944 and concluded in 1946 when the egg processing and cold storage plant opened for business. But that was merely the start. Sack and his associates, seem never to settle down and say, "Well, here we They purchased the land and, buildings of the Harrison Nursery Co. and converted the plant into additional cold storage space and quarters for a large transfer company.
Dean Sack is too busy to have many avocations but he is intensely interested in aviation, his own plane, and is chairman of York Aviation Board which manages the municipal airport, His vision, his unbounded energy, his contempt of obstacles, and his driving power have carried him far and will continue to make and, keep him a leading. figure in the company of Men Who Make York..
