60 years ago, March 9, 1961
Council Will Vote On Milk Ordinance At Next Meeting
Officials of the Kay County Health department attended the city council meeting Tuesday evening at city hall to urge passage of a stricker milk ordinance for the city.
Mills Garrison, Omer Brooner and Haskell Pickett told councilmen that since a local business was no longer involved, they strongly recommended an ordinance, allowing the retail sale here of nothing but Grade A Pasteurized milk. The passage of such an ordinance would give enforcement powers to the Health department and month spot checks would be made on all milk marketed in Tonkawa.
Garrison said milk samples would be taken from delivery trucks in Tonkawa and analyzed in the state laboratory. Thus providing a close check on milk being sold for consumption here.
The officials further recommended a license fee of $100 annually be set on dairies delivering in the city.
After discussion on the proposal, councilmen decided to consider the ordinance at the March 21 meeting.
Albert Wetmore, chairman of the recreation committee of the chamber of commerce, appeared before the group to outline plans for the expanding youth recreation program and to request that a summer director again be provided by the city. Councilmen voted to include $600 in the budget for this purpose.
In routine affairs, the council approved claims of $7,137.17 on the general fund $694.89 on the street and alley cash fund and $150 on the water improvement project.
City Leads County In Collections of Sales Tax
Tonkawa again led Kay county cities in a retail sales increase, according to figures released today by the Oklahoma Tax commission for sales tax collections in January reflecting December business.
While the overall gain in the county amounted to .59 percent over the same month of the previous year, Tonkawa’s increase was 8.74 percent to a total collection in sales tax of $8.955.
Ponca City registered a gain of 1.56 percent, but Blackwell collections were down 3.06 percent. Newkirk collections, showing an increase of 4.39 percent were approximately half those of Tonkawa with a total of $4,512.12.
For the month, total tax collections in the state registered an increase of 1.30 percent to a total of $5,379,284. Kay county’s gain of .50 percent was on a par with Osage county’s gain of .60 percent but lagged behind gains in Grant (8.64), Garfield (6.96), and Noble (9.79).
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