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Show City Officials Ask for Federal Grant in San Francisco Meeting Mayor Paul T. Fordham, City Recorder Millen Radmall and City Engineer Ross Syphus were in San Francisco Tuesday, January 9. The trip was made on city business, relative to the consumation of a $240,000 federal grant from the Federal Housing Administrtion and Urban Development Agency. Returning City Officials em-' em-' phasized that full details of the program are yet to be worked out following their trip to the coast. However, they said that they were well received by the government officials, there, and expect that the deal will be consumated within a week or so Mayor Fordham said that the fluids would be used for a long-planned long-planned water and sewer improvement im-provement program. He also said that matching funds are already available from a bond issue, voted two years ago for this very purpose. If final arrangements are made, the official signing of the agreement will take place in San Francisco, the mayor noted. When asked just how the approximate half-million dollars dol-lars would be utilized, city of ficials explained that the sewer sew-er system would be extended to serve the entire ciity and that extension and enlargement of the culinary water system would be made. |