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2' TUESDAY JUNE 23, 1964 ^- Mrs. W. H. Draper, of 121 Park Street, by letter registered a complaint against Moorefield's Laundry & Dry Cleaners, Inc., located at 622 Memorial Boulevard, protesting not only continued pollution of the air in the vicinity with smoke and soot but also the emitting of lint from the laundry-dry cleaning operations. Mr. Carl Bach, of the Smoke Abatement Committee, informed Council he has been informed by this firm that, with the cODlpletion of an addition to the plant and with the installation of new equipment, conditions in the area should be considerably improved. Council requested, however, that a copy of Mrs. Draper's letter be forwarded to Moorefield's with the request that this firm inform Council as to what is being done, or is to be done, to abate current conditions. By unanimous action, Council re-appointed Messrs. Charles C. Broun and Frank I. Richardson, Jr., to membership on the City School Board for three-year terms beginning July 1, 1964. - City Manager Hirst presented a thoroughfare construction program, with estimates of cost by projects proposed, listing several phases identified as portions of an inner-loop system of new streets and several phases identified as portions of an outer-loop system of new streets and highways, all a part of a proposed major Thoroughfare Plan. The estimated costs given by City Manager Hirst were: Inner Loop $1 ,0,41 ,100,00; and Outer Loop 2,062,000.00. Ways of financing the cost of this construction program were suggested by City Manager Hirst, viz., for the inner loop a budgeted year-by-year allocation or a bond issue; and, for the outer loop, by bonds. Mr. Robert Canupp, as an officer of the Retail Merchants Association, urged Council to proceed with the inner loop program and complete same as soon as possible but not at the sacrifice of the current curb-and-gutter program. Upon motion, Council unanimously directed City ..~