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Minutes of a special meeting of the Pulaski Town Council,
held November 26, 1965, at 10:00 A. M., in the Municipal Office.
There were present: Mayor C. V. Jackson, presiding.
Councilmen: Glen K. Aust, H. H. Eggert, W. x. Larson,
W. S. Cummings, F. L. Carrico
Absent: Rudolph Farmer, T. J. McCarthy,
C. B. Gallimore
Also present: Town Manager: T. B. Noland
Clerk: Gladys R. Dalton
Dir. of Recreation Ned Bane
Visitors: Midge Woodard, Southwest Times .reporter
The invocation was given by Councilman Carrico.
Mayor Jackson advised that the special meeting had been
tailed to consider the possibility of the Town sponsoring a team in
the Appalachian Baseball League for the coming season, and, if so,
SPECIAL MEETING to consider sending a representative of the Town to the Ft. Lauderdale
TO CONSIDER
TOWN SPONSORING Florida Professional Baseball League meeting to be held over the wee-
BASEBALL LEAGUE
end, at which time it would be decided how many teams and which mayor
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league teams would make up the Appalachian League, & other pertinent matters.
Recreational Director Ned Bane explained to Council
that the only expense for which the Town would be liable would be
to furnish and maintain the ball park, and that the Town has to
maintain the park during the summer anyway. He further explained that
the Town would receive all the gate receipts on the two "booster"
nights and half the gate receipts on two other nights, with the Town
NED BANE EXPLAINS receiving all the proceeds from the concession stand for all home
FRANCHISE
games. He stated that if the Town decided to try to secure a franchise
and is successful in obtaining same, there would be either thirty or
thirty-five home games, and for the first thirty days of the season
there would be thirty ball players here and for the remainder of the
season there would be twenty players, each drawing a minimum salary
of $500.00 a month. Mr. Bane stated before pulaski could qualify for
a team five hundred books of tickets at $10.00 each must be sold, and
he suggested that assistance in this phase of the project be solicited
from the Chamber of Commerce and Merchants Council. Council was in
Council rains. contd. 11/26/65
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favor of sending Director Ned Bane and a member of the Recreation
Commission to the Ft. Lauderdale meeting and on motion of Councilman
Carrico, seconded by Councilman Fggert, and carried on the following
recorded vote:
W. A. Larson - aye H. H. Fggert - aye
W.S. Cummings - aye C. B. Gallimore - absent
Glen K. Aust - aye T. J. McCarthy -absent
F. L. Carrico - aye Rudolph Farmer -absent, but
approved by telephone
RESOLUTION - it was, RESOLVED, that the expense of two representatives to the Ft.
SEND TWO REP.
TO FT. LAUDERDALE Lauderdale meeting to get all the facts and what the Town would be
MEETING.
repuired to do, be appropriated fr om the General Fund.
Council discussed the need of a stop and go traffic
light at the corner of Madison Avenue and Third Street, and directed
Town Manager Noland to investigate the matter to determine if there
TRAFFIC LIGHT
DISCUSSID was any State Highway regulation prohibiting the use of a traffic
CORNER OF
MADISON & light at this intersection.
THIRD ST.
The meeting afl~ourned at 10:30 A. M.
Approved:
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C. ackson, ayor
Attest:
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