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"Service Way's children get traffic guard: City erects warning signs in Lawrenceville thoroughfare: 2 streets repaired: Crafton Heights residents complain of mud and ruts." Mr. Fixit. Pittsburgh Press, July 25, 1932, p. 11. Newspapers.com 146909815.
—Mr. Fixit—
Two signs, warning motorists of children playing in Service Way, located between Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Streets, Lawrenceville, will be erected, Lewis W. McIntyre, city traffic engineer, reported today.
"Many motorists drive through at 40 or 50 miles an hour," James R. Rafferty, 272 Service Way, wrote to Mr. Fixit. "There are many small children playing here who are constantly at the mercy of the drivers.
"As the thoroughfare is paved with brick and in good condition many motorists use it in preference to the regular highway," the letter said.
One of the signs will be placed on a "U" bar pole near the entrance, according to McIntyre. The other will be on a wood pole near Sherrod Street.
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A complaint about residents dumping refuse in Junilla Street was received from K. T. J.
During a hard rain the rubbish was washed down the street in front of his home, he wrote.
The Bureau of Sanitation ordered the street cleaned and rubbish removed from the complainant's home and driveway.
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Two streets in Crafton Heights have been repaired by the Bureau of Highways and Sewers following complaints to Mr. Fixit.
"Milnar Street, Crafton Heights, is practically impassable due to the mud and ruts," wrote James A. Isherwood of 108 Milnar Street.
The roadway has been scraped and cindered, according to District Supervisor Whalen.
"Earlham Street, between Stratmore and Clairtonica, is in need of cinders or red dog. The road is a mud hole after a rain," complained Mrs. N. K. Schaller of Earlham and Startmore Streets.
This street has been leveled and cindered, Whalen reported.
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East End police are investigating complaints of residents of Frankstown Avenue in regard to a gang of loiterers in the vicinity of the 6300 block.
Storekeepers in that section protest that the presence of 10 or 12 idlers is harmful to their trade.
The gangs will be broken up, police said.
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Attention was called to the unsanitary condition in front of a residence at 3616 East Street, North Side.
"The sewer evidently needs cleaning out, as it has a bad odor and is very unsanitary," C. W. Sharrer wrote.
The condition has been remedied, L. C. Bruegel, district supervisor of the Bureau of Highways and Sewers, reported.
Mr. Fix-it
