Word: councill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus emboldened, the council three weeks ago passed its first "ordinance," setting up the office of dogcatcher, requiring licenses for Richland dogs and specifying eight-foot leashes in public places. Nothing happened; the council was told that AEC lawyers would have to think it over. Last week, the Richland city council tried again. Angry over the way the Government was issuing rules about how householders should leave their garbage, the council decided to draft its ordinance No. 2, expressing its own ideas for garbage disposal in the model city. This time it was mad, and so were the townspeople...
...Richland belongs to the Government." A neighbor came home from work one evening to find his carefully nurtured flower bed torn up; that was where the Master Plan decreed that a Government tree should grow. After five months as head of Rich-land's frustrated, ineffectual city council, McDonald discovered that there was no government in Richland except the Atomic Energy Commission, and its contractor,, the General Electric Co. Late one night, Mayor McDonald labored over the manuscript of his first public speech, delivered it next day in a cold drizzle to 45 citizens and the American Legion band...
...word was spread thoroughly. In Manhattan this week members of the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, meeting in a "peace rally," were advised to join "Parents-Teachers associations, the Elks, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and church groups" to "work for peace...
...second opinion is that held by the Council. It believes that students have justified complaints and has formed house food committees to sort out the gripes and pass good recommendations on to the hall managers...
...poll taken by the Council last year, 2582 students voted. They favored an expert, impartial investigation of the dining system, four to one. They approved the nutritional variety of the food by a small majority, but were dissatisfied with the lack of variety in individual foods, temperature of hot items, and the lack of imagination in planning...