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3t TUESDAY NOVEMBER 26. 1968 The regular semi-monthly meeting of the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, with Mayor F. T. Renick, M.D., presiding, was held Tuesday, November 26, 1968, in the Council Chamber, City Hall, beginning at 7:30 P.M., all members being p~esent, viz., Mayor F. T. Renick, M.D.; Francis T. West, Vice-Mayor; Harry L. Boaz; W. Donald Hartford; and William D. Hobson. -- After the invocation, Council approved as recorded the minutes of its regular meeting held November 12, 1968, and, with one correction--as to counties proposed to comprise the local Planning District--, the minutes of its special meeting held November 25, 1968. Pursuant to its action during regular meeting held April 23, 1968, Council authorized the executing of a contract (dated November 26, 1968) with Lester Lllmber Company, Inc., replacing similar contract or agreement dated December 17, 1965, transferring water and sewer service conditions--formerly applicable to premises occupied by Kilby's Drive-In Restaurant along the north side of Route 220 North, just outside the City's Corporate Limits--to a new building and premises, at same location, leased by Lester Lumber Company to Humble Oil & Refining Company for construction and operation of an automobile service station. Mr. Erskine White, Regional Deputy Coordinator of Civil Defense, along with representatives of the University of Virginia's School of General Studies and the Federal Civil Defense Agency, appeared before Council and presented an outline of procedures--subject to Council's approval--for conduct of a simulated civil defense elnergency exercise in (and for) Martinsville on Thursday, February 27, 1969. After some discussion, Council authorized the conduct of the exercise as proposed.