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g�2 houses to torn down in that area. Mr. J. B. Doaks, 1113 Blake Road, appeared before the Council, requesting that Blake Road be paved. Reverend A. M. Seamon appeared before the Council requesting that improvements be made to Johnson Street Park, Blake Road, and general improvements be made to streets in the black community. Mr. Leon Williams appeared before the Council, requesting that street improvements be made in the black community. Mr. Elbert Desmond appeared before the Council, requesting that the attention of the City be directed to unkept and unattended lots and that improvements be made to John- son Street Park, attention be directed to delapidated houses, and suggested a munici- pal swimming pool. Mr. J. H. Blankinship appeared before the Council in behalf of the Paris Independent School District School Board and requested that the widening and paving project for. 24th Street S. E. remain in the budget and the project completed. Dr. Donald Lewis appeared before the Council, requesting that the protective signaliza- tion system on 24th Street S. E. remain in the budget and the project completed. Mr. Paul Daniels appeared before the Council, questioning the request of the Senior Citizens project for an addition to their building at Kaufman and 19th Street S. W..', and was informed that the project was in the proposed budget Mr. Homer Thornton appeared before the Council in behalf of the Paris -Lamar County Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, stating that the chamber supported the hotel- motel occupancy tax in which the City had a contract with the Chamber of Commerce for the promotion of the City of Paris and that the project for the study of the downtown area as proposed by the Downtown Development Association remain in the proposed. budget. Mr. Thornton stated that the Board of Directors supported the Sanitary. - Landfill pro- ject as well as the improvements on 24th Street S. E. stating that the project was vital to the City as a whole. Mr. Thornton stated also that the Board of Directors sup - ported the protective.signalization of 24th Street S. E. railroad crossing. Mayor Brunette declared the public hearing closed. Councilman Malone stated that,he felt that 24th Street S. E. was. adequate and that 12th Street S. E. leading to Jefferson Road and Paris High School could be widened; that emphasis on Wise Field be taken off. Councilman Williams stated that Wise Field improvements, in his opinion, could be deleted from the budget. Councilman Williams stated that he was concerned in getting the number of persons involved in assessment programs, that being presently 70%, to participate in street assessment programs and suggested that major thoroughfare streets be given priority. Councilman Fisher suggested that the new budget omit development of Wise Field and that he opposed the 24th Street S. E. project and questioned the railroad signaliza- tion on 24th Street S. E.