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7 TUESDAY SEPTEliIBER 8, 1959 At the request of Mr. Rives S. Brown, Jr., on behalf of the Virginia Travel Council, Council endorsed the proposal to extend U.S. Route 58 through Kentucky to St. Louis, Missouri. In response to City Manager Hirst's inquiry regarding policy and interpretation of the City's ordinance regulating the extending of city utilities outside the corporate limits, Council indicated that, in the case in question regarding a local industry's plans to establish a storage yard outside the corporate limits, so long as the City is able to assess and collect business license taxes on the total gross receipts of the company and the prevailil"'.g f1outside" water rates are paid by the company there would be no bar to the water line being extended to serve the storage yard. In order that several members of Council might attend the forthcoming annual League of Virginia Municipalities meeting to be held September 20th-23rd, Council postponed its next regularly-scheduled meeting (for September 22, 1959) to September 29, 1959. Mr. W. K. Plltney, Jr., and other representatives of the local Pony League baseball organization appeared before Council and expressed their appreciation of Coureil's assistance, financial and otherwise, in making English Field available for use of the Pony League during the current season. In addition, these gentlemen presented to the Cit'rJ a check in the amount of one hundred dollars ($100.00) for use in recreational activity in the City. A petition submitted by Mr. T. J. Childress, Jr., requesting the rezoning to IIB-l Business" a certain lot on Brookdale Street, between the Early and Wray properties, was referred to the Planning Commission for its consideration and reCOTI1rne ndation.