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Show NO CHANGES TO BE MADE IN CITY'S APPOINTIVE OFFICES W. I. Norton Is to Remain Chief of Police and A. B. Canfield Head of the Fire Department Chris Flygare to Have Charge of Streets and Public Improvements Commissioners Com-missioners Will Not Play Politics Last Meeting Meet-ing of Old Board on Monday. Next Monday, at high noon. Is the date of transition from the old to the new city administration, when Commissioner Com-missioner J. C. Nye will retire and Chris Flygare will be inducted into office. Mayor A. G. Fell will succeed himself and Commissioner T. Samuel Sam-uel Browning will continue in his position po-sition for two more years. Soon after the meeting at noon the new board will proceed to organize by designating the departments each of the commissioners shall take charge of. The organization will not be nearly so difficult as it was two years ago as at that time the commission com-mission form of government canTe Into In-to existence and everything was new to the commissioners, who had been elected for the first time. It required a number of days two years ago to segregate the departmental work and name the commissioner who should take charge of each section. However, How-ever, the preliminary work of organization organi-zation has now been done and about all that the commissioners need do at the beginning of the new administration adminis-tration will be to determine where each commissioner shall serve. According to the statements made by Commissioner T S. Browning and Commissioner-elect Chris Fh gare, the latter will take np the work in the streets and parks and public improvement improve-ment department, while the mayor will continue as head of the waterworks, water-works, finance and public affairs, and Mr. Browning will continue to conduct con-duct the affairs of public safetv. It is said that there will be little, If any change In the appointive offices, it being understood that Valentine i Gideon will continue as city attorney, W. I Norton as chief of police; A. B. Canfield, chief of the fire department, George Shorten, head of the sanitary department: Dr. W. E. Whalen, city physician; George A Seaman recorder, record-er, and A. G. Harris, poll tax collector. collect-or. If there be any changes in the personnel per-sonnel of the various departments, it will be accomplished through suggestions sugges-tions from the heads of the depart ments and passed upon by the city board of commissioners John Hey-woofi Hey-woofi has tendered his resignation as assistant city attorney and Mr. Gideon Gid-eon has not determined who will be called to fill the vacancy. The judicial judi-cial administration will be the same as last term, with W. H Recder, Jr., as Judge of the municipal court and I. NT. Fulton, clerk. A F Larson will take his position as city auditor with W, J. Hoyt and Mary E. Farley as deputies. Wallace Foulger will continue con-tinue as treasurer; H J. Craven as engineer, and L. C. Hardy will be retained re-tained as deputy superintendent of the waterworks department. The commissioners state that thev have endeavored to place the city government on a huslness basis, that employes will be retained under the rules of civil service and that none will be discharged or placed in positions posi-tions for political reasons. The employes em-ployes are to be retained at the pleasure pleas-ure of the board and it is said that it will be the pleasure of the commissioners commis-sioners to keep in office onlv those who do their duties well and give entire satisfaction. This afternoon at 3 o'clock the city-board city-board went into session for the principal prin-cipal purpose of hearing final reports and suggestions from Commissioner J. C. Nye. whose official acts are drawing to a close. The board will also consider a proposed ordinance regulating the traffic of the citv and it is expected that the ordinance will be passed before the afternoon session ses-sion ends. The traffic ordinance, says Attorney Valentine Gideon, embraces 52 sections sec-tions and covers quite completely all the phases of traffic in the city. In fact, the attorney says, the new ordinance ordi-nance is patterned after the state law and is almost an exact duplicate of it. All vehicles shall be required to keep to the right on all the streets and, when approaching a curb, to stop, will be required to turn the vehicle ve-hicle In the right direction before stopping. The speed limit at intersections inter-sections will be not to exceed six miles an hour and any vehicle turning from one thoroughfare to another at intersections will be required to cross directly to the right side of the street which it is entering before turning In other words, vehicles will not be permitted per-mitted to cut corners. The corners must be turned, comparatively on the square. All vehicles will be compelled compell-ed to drive at least ten feet away from the outer step of a street car when the car Is at rest. It is said by those who have framed the ordinance that it is the most comprehensive com-prehensive provision for travel In the city yet enacted. The board of commissioners com-missioners will publish the law in full next week, if it passes today. The annual report of the city sexton, sex-ton, R. D. Brown, was presented to the board this afternoon by Commissioner Commis-sioner Nye. Reports from other departments de-partments are not yet ready and will not be presented until a later date In the annual report of the cemetery ceme-tery department it is shown that the receipts were $4624 and the expenses $1931.80, making a gain of $2692.20 of receipts over expenditures. There were burled in the cemetery 350 bodies, bod-ies, of whom 223 were adults, 103 children. chil-dren. There were two free graves During the year there were 25 removals. |