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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (July 8, 1962)
MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON 8 SUNDAY. .!t.'LY 8, 1SR2 ; Zll. A : - City Council Grants Variance for Installation of Sign The Medford city council Thursday night overruled the city planning commission and voted 4 to 3 to grant a vari ance to Siskiyou Memorial Park which will permit the erection of a 3 by 7 loot sign at the entrance to the park. A council committee ap pointed to consider the mat ter also had recommended against granting the variance, although one of the committee members. Councilman Stan Stark, dissented from the ma inrilv. A statement ourtinlng the reasons for Stark's dissent wa read to the council. In general he argued that the residential nature of the nniohhrirhnod In the vicinity of Siskiyou Memorial Park would not be damagea oy me sign in any way, nor was the sign large enough or in such taste as In constitute b nuia- ance to the residences in its proximity. InrlimtM Vllta I,, jnhn W Snider. however, indicated after the council meeting that he was rnnsiderine a veto of the measure. In other action, the council approved ordinances and res olutions to: -Amend the city's em ployee compensation plan. -Establish sewer service rate increases and apportion revenues derived thprefrom. -Authorize the city mana ger to enter into an agree William Doarnbach, 143 Mace ve., Msdford, ad dressed the city council briefly Thursday nigh! to advocate that the mayor and councilman be paid for attendance at council meet ings. Under Doernbach'l plan, the mayor would receive $25 per meeting, and each councilman would receive $20. Total cost lo tht city if such a plan were adopted, Doarnbach said, would ba S4.440 a year. "Such compensation might provide an incentive for more people to tun for city ollice in the coming election if it were adopted," Doarnbach said. Mayor Snider advised Doernbach the council would consider the proposal. ment with the Oregon state highway department provid ing for illumination of the freeway interchanges. Extend An Option -Authorize the administra tion to pay $1,200 to extend an option it holds on land known as the Earhart prop erty which lies along Bear creek. -Permit an agreement with parents of the Medford swim ming team to operate a con cession at Hawthorne pool. -Amend personnel rules for city employees to extend sick leave accumulation from SO work days to 120 days for 40 hour work week personnel, and to 60 work days for 64 hour work week personnel. Set Public Hearing -Schedule a public hearing on July 19 on a request for a change of zone for a piece of property on West Main st. be tween Hamilton and Quince sts. to premit construction of a Safeway store. I Plans and specifications j were authorized and approved to pave portions of East Main t. from Eastwood St. to Valley View dr., and Valley View dr. from East Main st. to llillcrest rrt. Public hearings were set July 10 on the two projects. Plans and specifications also were approved and a public hearing called for a proposal to pave a portion of Newtown st. from Catherine lo Belmont sts. Similar action was taken with respect to construction of a sanitary wwer for Rogue Valley Estates. A method for assessing the sewer system also was approved by the council. Two completed Improve ment projects were accepted by the council: the paving of Johnson St. from Corona ave to a' point 7B0 feet east, and the paving of Miracle lane In Brookhurst Villa subdivision. Local Youths Back From Detroit Event Jim Scvclk, 17, and Clar ence Lamp, 18, Medford High school students competing in the National Plymouth Trou ble Shooting championships in Detroit, Mich., returned home recently. 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