The Columbus Ledger from Columbus, Georgia • 19

lood Ordinance Restricts Building Works Projects 4 Restricted to City Staff Photo by Al Alexander Art Goes Up or Plaza Exhibit can a fasMood Vent Education Views Tuesday Teachers will have their tall stories at Bakers! 7 Special Day Proposed or Kicking Smokes rom our collection of new 4 inch thrillers! See us for more new rom 1 highs in hee Swift Si' As seen in Glamour STORES reading un a proposed rates S' 3 month for ii board room Sessions will run from 4 to 6:30 pm and 7 to 9 pm Citizens can vent their views on education Tues day in Atlanta By JRobirs ornoff Ledger Staff Writer phone 297 1767 this afternoon from 1:30 to 5 pm This exhibit is a preview of what the club will hold later at Colum bus Square when it co sponsors a show with the Museum of Arts and Sciences Junior Club members Mrs Louis Lomeld Mrs Seth Harp and Mrs Richard Harrison hang paintings that are part of the annual exhibition The ex hibit at the Columbus Govern ment Plaza Level is open purchases exceeding $1000 for parts to repair city vehicles provided com plefe information is furnished the council at ihe next meeting 3 Approval of a plat for the Northside Commercial Center to fulfill the Mapped Streets Plan re quirements for Hamilton Road 4 A resolution permitting the owner of City Mills to construct an office ex tension within the right of way of 18th Street with understanding that any future council can rescind the permit without paying damages 5 A resolution authorizing an application to the Depart ment of Transportation (DOT) for up to 30 per cent of the operating deficit of METRA amounting to $691446 for fiscal year 1978 and $606849 for fiscal year 1977 6 Repurts on: equipment out of ser vice in excess of five days a recommendation for a 23 mile per hour limit on Rosewood Drive the status of city county contracts with the DOT the Convention and Visitors Bureau executive board the Housing Authority's community development activities and the Human Services of solidated government In addition to restricting the use of land in areas sub ject to flooding the propos ed ordinance would prohibit the alteration of natural drainage channels or dredging that would contribute to downstream flooding A property owner would not be allowed to divert water onto his lot The ordinance also will affect the type of financing available on property in a flood plain and force some owners to buy special flood insurance As an example of the latter trustees of the Springer Opera House in downtown Columbus have been required to purchase flood insurance for the historic building to be eligi ble for federal grants Because of the far VtL' 77z news anyway with an 11 pun show scheduled for' around the first of the year and a public affairs program in the early afternoon McCroba says he expects to hire three more news staffers and gel some new electronic gear including minicameras Although a company can own only one station in any iarea Amos is looking around for others outside the I broadcast radius i WYEA he says is "only a drop in the While The Ledger Enquirer Sunday October 23 1977 7 Richmond said the il government also couldl issue a new surgeon smoking report as media event which would go far in publicizing the health damaging effects of smoking" The last such report was issued 12 years Iago The memo offered such Acting City Manager John ranklin will ask Phenix City council Tuesday to reaffirm a policy forbidding the use of public works department equipment on private property ranklin said he will ask Council to approve a recommendation that public works projects be restricted to "work on city property rights of way and easements without council approval and without reim request is the result of an incident earlier this month during which a public works employe claim ed he was injured while working on private property Myron McIntyre was injured Oct 8 when the grading equipment he was operating on Clarence Revel's property struck a stump McIntyre claimed two foremen instructed him to do I the work on property However ranklin said his own investigation into the claims revealed while McIntyre was instructed to grade a right of way he i proceeded on to the Revel property on his own I initiative i ranklin fired McIntyre Monday for allegedly con surning alcohol on the job which ranklin said was con 1 tributary to the employe's injury The city has in the past and will continue to grade rights of wav for individual property owners if it 1 represents an obstruction or hazard to private property 1 according to ranklin people may have gotten it confused that the i work is supposed to stop at private be said "This way won't nobody be able to say they 1 sure exactly was the policy The proposed policy also will conform with an at torney opinion that city equipment or per sonnel cannot be used for work on private property without reimbursement In other action the council will be visited by Don Arrington and Jim Walls representing the East Alabama Mental Health Center: make appointments to the library board approve public works projects and consider an i application for an on premise beei license submitted by Jack Harris for the Pizza Inn at 1053 280 Bypass WASHINGTON (UPI) 4 Surgeon General Julius Richmond is proposing a Don't Smoke a on which no cigarettes would be sold or smoked in the United States It was one of a series of suggestions" of a federal task force in a memorandum lo Health Education and Welfare Secretary Joseph Califano By Constance Johnson Ledger Staff Writer i A proposed flood plain I ordinance that would sharply restrict devel i opments in low lying areas along the Chat in tahoochee River and most creeks throughout Muscogee County has been delivered to members of the Columbus Council The lengthy ordinance covering more than 50 pages of text and maps predicts flood conditions on thousands of acres including a large part of 'downtown Columbus between the river and Weracoba Creek The highest water levels that would be reached un der varying conditions (a 25 year flood a 100 year flood) are listed for every drainage area in the con Low cut black smooth pump Silky suede look black strap slinked with fake snake other anti smoking suggestions as giving government employes time off from work to break their smoking habits gov ernment encouragement of private suits against tobacco companies by in dividuals ending price sup port programs for tobacco increasing federal excise taxes on cigarettes re on questing a ruling whether nicotine can be federally controlled as addictive and dependence producing An HEW spokeswoman said Califano who is a former smoker had vetoed the suggesting of encourag ing suits and the proposed phaseout of price supports but the others are still be ing considered City Attorney 1 irst reading of an ordinance to rezone property on North Avenue from 4 (residential) to 3 (highway commercial) 2 Second reading and a vote on a petition to rezonc a lut on Victory Drive between Lambert Drive and in fantry Drive from 2 res'dential to 3 (highway commercial) in order that owner restaurant 3 Second increase in Columbus Cahlevision City Clerk 1 Minutes of city board meetings 2 Receipt of a letter from Attorney Baxter Harcourt representing Millie Beaufort announcing intent to sue the city 3 A request from the St Elmo Day Care Center for permission to close 23rd Street tor 3 carnival 4 Announcement of new assignments for the council's rotating committees overseeing various city departments 5 Selling Nov 1 as the date for a public hearing on a petition to rezene property on Lockwood Avenue from 3A (residential) to A 0 (apartments off'ce) 6 Setting date for a public hearing on a petition to rezone property at 3291 Victory Drive from i (manufac turing) to 3 (highway commercial) ANNOUNCEMENT Scot A Wall MD announces the opening of his office for ophthalmol ogy Disease and surgery of the eye and eyelids 1610 21st Ave Phenix City Ala Mon thru ri office hours 8:30 AM tn 4:30 PM Master Charge Visa COLUMBUS SQUARE The public airings are sponsored by the Atlanta region office of education of the Department of Health Education and Welfare Others are being held next week in Chat tanooga Tenn Bir mingham Ala and Louisville Ky Teachers parents ad ministrators students and citizens can speak out on say during the first session education issues at an with the evening meeting Town expanded to include at the Atlanta public school everyone else 4 QU ALIC RAT SHOE I i i 7 i Ln UU DU IJ Uinj Ul VJ Ul VUV uuvuvv the profits are expected to roll in John Amos will begin 7 to make himself heard at those meetings of network af filiates be a member of the club heh he says A I fl 4 zz WraW 7 '9' reaching implications of the ordinance on future development council is not expected to take any action Tuesday although it may set a date for a public hearing Other matters that are subject to action Tuesday according to the agenda are: City Manager 1 Purchase of 10000 burlap sand bags for the Department of Public Works from Marianne Chemical Co for $1680 unds budgeted 2 Resolution authorizing the city ffil rn IHU I Hi I I Hl 1 1 7a Al1 i i 3 4 i i is ev Xkwsi a i tx aj 9 i 7 Mi 3 9 8 I Bi i lu W'T al i Md '7 7 I i wi'Z zffe III $3 7 afflEfc 'A' 'v' 5 4z 7 MWiiP jJMWJ jllt A 7 4 IW: k87' 'W 4 11 ll wig isw1 kM 2 A st 7i7bil Was 1 tS Id 1 i 'j wg v7 MlMIl Hi8la '7 jhMHB 77 T7 Ifer Mwr i Jdi 71 1b ESjyCx 7 wp II Mil la 1 jpMlI sj 1 S7 lid 1 I I 1 1.