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362 FEBRUA11.Y 9, 1965 TUESDAY or stations available, and subject to some arrangement with the City for the use of its electric utility poles for transmission wires required. Council suggested that Mr. Anglin present his proposal in writing and include therein the amount of franchise tax and other fees he would care to offer. Mr. Rives ,So Brown, Jr., on behalf of himself and nine other persons, appeared before Council and requested the rezoning from 11.-9 to R-6 of a six-acre tract of land located on Fairy Street Extension (Northside Drive), on which land these persons hold a purchase option from Lester Lumber Company and on which land they would propose to build and operate a fifty-bed Tlnursing homeTl. Council referred this request to the Planning Commission for its consideration and recommendation. By letter dated February 9, 1965, Mr. George W. Lester, II, on behalf of Lester Lumber Company, Inc., requested Council to proceed with the establishing of plans for the construction of a bridge over the Carolina & Northwestern Railway as an extension of Fairy Street. Mr. Lester referred to an action of Council taken November 14, 1950, in which reference was made to such a bridge in connection with property purchased by the City from Lester Lumber Company for the City's raw water storage reservoir and, as a separate matter, in which reference was made to the offer of Lester Lumber Company to donate right-of-way for the present Northside Drive and the present Armory Hoad. Dr. H. Marvin Midkiff, on behalf of the Patrick-Henry Dental Society, appeared before Council and urged Council to take such action as would permit and require the fluoridating of the City's public water supply in accordance with accepted or authorized procedures. Dr. Midkiff pointed out that the necessary