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TUESDAY APRIL 28. 1953 -' Council's attention to a public hearing on primary highway allocations for " the Salem District to be conducted by the State Highway Department at Hotel Roanoke, Roanoke, Virginia, at 8:30 A.H. on Hay 12, 1953, Council indicated that a full representation from the City will be present at said hearing. Upon motion, duly seconded and unanLrnously carried, Council authorized City Manager Mathewson to execute on behalf of the City a proposed contract between .....- the City of Marlinsville and the Town of Lexington, Virginia for the care of certain prisoners of said Town of Lexington by the City's Prison Farm. Pursuant to City Manager Mathewson's request of December 16, 1952, a special committee appointed by ~U". Mathewson made a study and review of the City's Electric Code, the result of which was found in the co~rnittee's recommendations ~- i! i that certain parts of the Code be revised in accordance with the committee's findings. Council, thereupon, called for a Public Hearing on said proposed revisions to be held at the regular Council meeting the forthcoming May 12, 195.3 . Council next received a rezoning request from Dr. H. P. Williams and Mr. W. B. ......-..., Muse in which these petitioners, supported by numerous citizens of the area involved, seek to have imposed limited business usage in a!1 area now zoned as "B-1 Business" at or near Ailcle Street and Pine Hall Road. This request was referred to the Planning Connnission. ,~- Under the terms of a contract between the City of Hartinsville and Mrs. Lucille Andes Weaver Ct'1:r. Rives S. Brown, Sr., Agent) under which the City now operates its East Main Street Parking Lot, the Council unanimously voted to exercise its option in said contract and extend the contract for two years from August 1, 1953, City }1a!lager Mathewson being authorized to act for the City in this matter.