The Armored Sentinel (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 9, 1953 Page: 26 of 31
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KILLEEN OPEH HOIISC
30 Acre
MUNICIPAL PARK
with over
$50000
Improvements.
$329619.76
Budget For
Maintenance Operations
$44500
for garbage equipment and land.
THE POLICE DEPARTMENT
for your protection
80 WATT Transmitter and the latest receiver available for our station use.
60 WATT Transmitters in our Patrol Cars. Contact can be established between two
or more cars or from a Patrol Car and the main station.
We are in constant contact with Sheriff's Department and all radio equipped enforce
ment agencys in the S.
A total of two Patrol Cars with a Total of 10 men in the Police Department.
$44500 increased expenses last year.
GARBAGE DEPARTMENT
Garbage buried daily in modern ramp type sanitary fill. This disposal method has beeir the
basis for all Central Texas.
1 T. D. 14 tractor 3 yard bull clam.
2 12-yard COM-PACTOR trunks enclosed bodies.
2 15-yard COM-PACTOR truck enclosed bodies.
1 Large open truck for rocks and bulky trash.
1 Fogging machine for ridding our city of insects and vermin. This unit used every week or
10 days.
Hand spraying with D. D. T. once weekly. (Garbage Cans)
Residential pick-up is twice weekly the business district is Daily.
ADVERTISEMENT
DEDICATED TO THE IMPROVEMENT
of KILLEEN
The employees (80 to be exact) off Killeen take greet pride in the present con*
dition of the cities' affairs and are striving to continually better the physical as
pects of the town. This ad will in some part describe the composition of the in
dividual units and give you a view of our future plans.
Two asphalt distributers.
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WATER and SEWER DEPARTMENT
continually striving for a better Killeen
Have let a contract for 2000.000 gallons of ground level resevoir.
Four Pick-Up Trucks Two equipped with plumbing material.
1 Ladder type ditcher 29" wide cuts eight feet deep.
1 Ladder type ditcher 20" wide cuts four feet deep.
One welding machine and all the necessary materials.
STREET DEPARTMENT
for safer and more enjoyable driving in KHfeen.
Two large motor graders. A 12 thousand asphalt storage tank.
One crawler type tractor. One loading machine Oae mechanised street sweeper for the b«si-
mounted on tires. Capacity is
3/»
yard
One leading machine with a capacity of I
yard.
One spreader box for street topping.
One mounted rotary broom for sweeping
streets before topping.
One ten ton flat wheel steel roller.
CITY OF KILLEEN
...Operating for your convenience...
ness area.
One Farmall tractor.
Three dump trucks
One flat bed truck.
$518000
Budget for the Water and Sewer Department.
$415000
Budget for street improvements and drainage.
$60000
Capital outlay out of fiscal funds.
One 600 gallon water truck for watering
streets during construction.
One automobile for plumbing building and
electrical and inspection.
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The Armored Sentinel (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 9, 1953, newspaper, April 9, 1953; Temple, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth254326/m1/26/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Casey Memorial Library.