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Show ! Council Votes Tennis Court Closing On Sunday; Awards Lights Contract The Springville city council voted to keep the tennis courts at the city recreation park east of town locked on Sunday at their meeting Monday evening, when a delegation 01 ciuzens met 1 with the council to ask that the courts be open for Sunday use. ' Councilman Child and Ruff vot ed in favor of keeping the courts -i open while Councilmen Haymond and Whiting voted for closing. In the absence of Councilman Watts, ' Mayor A. W. Cherrington was ask ed to vote and his vote to close the courts constituted the majority major-ity in favor of the closing. The citizen delegation stressed the point that they would rather have their boys and girls playing tennis than- participating in other torms ot recreaiion, wnue on uie other hand council members favoring fav-oring the closing of the courts on Sunday felt that if tennis were permitted, per-mitted, someone might want to-play to-play ball and the resultant njise might interfer with church meetings. meet-ings. The council members accepted a bid from the Graybar Electric Co. to furnish flood- lights for the two recreation parks east of town and the one near Park RoShe; at j $39.35 per light. Two other bids a both higher, were submitted. ( The resignation of Mrs. Helen ' j Crandall as head of the women's civil defense activities in Springville, Spring-ville, was accepted and Mayor Cherrington was asked to contact : Mrs. Grace Alleman to accept the ! position. j Appreciation was expressed ty ' the councilmen for the fine job i done on clean-up day by the schools, the clubs, individuals and property owners. The city took on ' a neater, cleaner appearance after ' : the clean-up day. they reported. . I Complaints have been made con-, cerning dogs running loose on the streets of the city day and night and of some not securing licenses, councilmen reported at the meeting. meet-ing. They ask that owners of dogs keep the animals on their own property and stressed the fact that all must have a license. |