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4r TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 28, 1965 ~ The regular semi-monthly meeting of the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, with Mayor J. Frank Wilson presiding, was held Tuesday, September 28, 1965, in the Council Chamber, City Hall, Beginning at 7:30 P.M., all members being present, viz., Mayor J. Frank Wilson; Vice-Mayor Fred T. Renick, M.D.; Harry L. Boaz; Thomas J. Burch; and E. E. Stone. After the invocation, Council approved as recorded the minutes of its regular meeting held September 7, 1965. Reflecting certain policy decisions rendered by Council during special meeting held September 2, 1965, City Manager Hirst presented a revised draft of a proposed CATV franchise ordinance, which incorporated certain proposed operating procedures and provided for pole attachment agreements with other utility systems. Council acknowledged receipt of a letter from Attorney Stephen D. Martin in behalf of Booth Broadcasting Company and, also, informal notice of application filed by Lee Telephone Company with the State Corporation Commission for a General Exchange Tariff to establish rates and regulations governing installation by applicant of CATV cable, should applicant choose to install such cable as transmission cable agent for a CATV franchise grantee. Council, too, acknowledged comments by Mr. C. Harry Anglin--and his attorney, Mr. William F. Stone--who objected to limiting a CATV franchise to not more than ten years and to the proposal that the City would reserve the right to acquire a CATV facility under cited conditions; and, further, to a form of monopoly which might be created if other utility systems are reserved the right to serve as transmission cable agent. Mr. William Lawless also appeared before Council in further representation of interests previously recorded in Council's minutes. Meanwhile, Council indicated that it would continue the matter of CATV for further study and consideration.