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1: TUESDAY D:EX:EMB~ 22, 1959 The regular semi~onthly meeting of the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, with Mayor John W. Shultz presiding, was held in the Council Chamber, City Hall, Tuesday, Decenber 22, 1959, at 6:30 P.M., all members of Council being present with the exception of Councilman Clarence C. Donavant, viz., Mayor and Coumilman John W. Shultz; Vice-Mayor and Councilman E. E. Stone; and Councilmen Thomas J. Burch and J. Frank Wilson. /- After the invocation, Council approved as read the minutes of its regular meeting held December 8, 1959. Having viewed the alleyway between Jefferson Street and Thomas Heights--a portion of which on May 21, 1959 was requested closed by Mr. and Mrs. Arthur W. Matson, Jr., and Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Dent, through their counsel, Attorney Robert H. May-and having discussed the requested closing with various adjacent property owners, Council unanimously denied the petitioners' request and, thus, accepted the November 12th report and recommendation of the Board of Viewers. ,- After considering further an appeal by various representatives of the Martinsville- Henry County Airport Development Corporation--a number of whom again appeared before Council--for the waiver not o~ of the rental charges due and unpaid since October 1, 1958 but also for the waiver of future rental charges and for pemission to use additional land for an emergency runway, Council unanimously accepted a report of its special committee (composed of Councilmen Burch and Wilson) by ordering the writing off of the total unpaid rental charges ($1,137.50) made and due to date upon the condition that an equal sum be expended by the airport group in renovating and generally improving present facilities. Council detemined,