The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 127, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 26, 1954 Page: 6 of 10
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 1»S4
THE ORANGE LEADER
of engineering survey, Cooper’s
Gulley work is the iiAmediate
need; get rid of those Navy-built
2nd and 3rd street dams (they
were erected to carry about one-
an older portion of Orange. That
area lying north of Park avenue
to Cooper’s Gulley It has no plan-
ned drainage. And, sort of like
Topsy, the problem just grew and
grew and grew.
Drainage there was supposed to
be toward Cooper’s Gulley and if
ever a plan is developed to carry
off those waters it will be toward
the gulley.
Admitting, of course, that none
will work until the gulley’s ob-
structions are altered to handle
the city’s drainage needs.
, There is another flood tone,
the Main street area. Smith long
ago devised Us remedy. A dike
and pumps in the paper mill
area. The need isn’t even hard
for a layman to figure out.
Main street elevation is 5 feet
above sea level and adjacent
Adams bayou often rises to the
5 Vi feet level.
But, here is the city’s real
problem in fighting storm floods:
It rises only a few feet above the
marsh. Park avenue, for instance.
drainage did most of the Job.
Norwood Mapoi had more wa-
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problem yesterday. The city needs was not hard to arrive at In the
to talk a new look at its overall first place had the 24-lnch drain-
drainage program, to draft a pro-! age pipe going into Cooper’s Gul-
such conditions, give1 and occasional park facilities•
---' What needs doing? It was ol
vious to anyone who surveyed the ter than ever.
to recognize the necessity of dia*
Dramagt- •' is&.
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“In tha meantime. the property bed of natural drainage course,
owners hovt been encroaching and to construct expensive ma-
upon the water courses, narrowing senary storm sewers: or. a* a
them and. in some cases, actually first Wage, open - top. waited
filling them In, so that they do ditches art» constructed. Such
not have the capacity they once drainage ditehee donot addto
had. As conditions become worse, the attractiveness of the com-
tho flood damages show up: and, muntty.
sooner or later, the city is forced ”lt is suggestedjh.l tbe^.ty o*
to talk a new look at it* overall first place had the 24-lnch drain-
drainage program, to draft a pro-! age pipe going into Cooper’s Gul-
gram aimed at its solution and to ley been adequate drainage would
present it to the people for action, have been stow because of the
This was yesterday’s situation, level of the gulley’s flood.
There was more than a three-foot But, the 24-inch pipe would
holdup of Cooper’s Gulley drain-! have a hard job under ideal con-
age between 2nd street and 11th ditiops draining that 23 acre hous-
street at 3 p. m. yesterday. Dur-* jng site to say nothing of-the
Survey of Parking
Meters Completed
|f | Your Old Suite
Y 0JJ Is Worth More
Than BARRELS of MONEY!
' fep NOW
* Re-S,yled NEW
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NEW
BY SOUTHWESTERN
Addition of another 500 park-
ing meters in th’c "Orange down-
town business district was a step
closer today as a parking meter
engineer completed N survey of
the city.
His survey closely approximated
the estimate of additional parking
j meter need which had been pre-
*-stented to the City Commission’ by
a delegation representing, the Re-
tail Merchants Committee of the.
I Chamber of Commerce. \
The onlv noticeable change In
S the r e’su its of the engineering
i study and that made by the com-
| mittee was In restricting installa-
tion of meters to the area south
of Elm Street and to change traf-
fic flow on a portion of Elm street
to run in one-way only. In that
section parking meters would be
installed on one side only.
Dave Gough, speaking for the
committee of merchants, said his
committee was “pleased with the
survey's results" , ,
Gough accompanied by corn-
mitteemembers Mrs. Una Martin
and Winston Lewis met with Po-
lice Chief Ravmond Sanders and
City Electrician Pat Scarborough
this morning to hear the parking
j meter report from the engineer.
The installation, recommended
by both the committee and the
pneineer would more than double
Feel Better
Look Better
BE Better
It Wasn't near any of the homes
but* the streets in that section
were under water. The problem
there is handling' the Jack's Is-
land drainage.
State Bottleneck
Roselawn’s own drainage struc-
tures were doing as good a job as
could be expected in the day’s
unusually'-heavy rainfall. Its bot-
tleneck problem was traceable to
the State Highway Department.
•- Engineer Smith, who did Rose-
lawn’s engineering, explained the
state had refused to go along with
a plan for changing drainage
structures that would have spared
Roselawn the water which floods
its Entrance from Highway 87.
The state’s flood design was for
land in agricultural use: it has rte-t
fused to acknowledge the fact "that
the land use has been changed for
more than a year and is now resi-
dential. with a subsequent _ijeed
for improved, at least' different,
drainage.
only 5(4 to 6 feet above sea level
and the Sabine River is normally
about 1(4 feet
That;, four feet of difference *s
hardly adequate for good drain-
age. It means that an 18-inch
'storm drain below the street will
be jut barely above the river’s
level. It means that where a 24
or 30 inph pipe is needed for
drainage it can’t be used.
It means that a mile from the
river on Park the needed 38 inch
sewer pipe is absolutely out.
What the city did back in the
late Mayor Abe Sokolski’s time
was to install a flat rteeinforced
concrete box beneath Park, Smith
says it still is adequate for the
drainage it was designed for.
To Be Rosily
figures, “Take out the 2nd and
3rd street obstructions and a big
part of the fight is won.”---
Smith has in mind structures
similar to the Simmons drive
crossing of the gulley. He’d put
in 30-foot spans at both streets
.estimating the cost to be about
room air conditioner
SABINE ELECTRIC CO.
1003 FOURTEENTH ST. PHONE 8 2544
There was no problem below
2nd street, the gulley drained
rapidly into the- river.
Smith says the pumps at the
river can handle 140,000 second
feet of water. He made no mea-
surement yesterday and doesn’t
know if the gulley was emptying
that much or not.
Actually the pumps weren't
doing too much of the work.
The flood gates were open and.
the river being lower natural
Air Conditioner
For All Stondord
Makes
Air Conditioners
FILTERS
Summing it up. without benefit
There was a problem, too, in
before - "
Your Sofa Restyled Like This
Sixteen Absentee
Ballots Recorded
There were 16 absentee votes*
cast in the county clerk’s offices
for the Saturday trustee election
at Orangefield, with two other
votes probable. County Clerk,
Sadie Stephens said today.
Doh'i tw'CC our sbed&i prices oh
j£8r-Cushions
Midnight of yesterday was dead-
line for the voting. Observers say
the number of ballots indicate,
heavy interest in the election for
which W. L. Chandler and. Lyons j
TfSpud) «Gilcrease are candidates
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Browning, J. Cullen. The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 127, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 26, 1954, newspaper, May 26, 1954; Orange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth556717/m1/6/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar State College – Orange.