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NEw ElXlGLAI~ID z6xSSOCIATIO~I OF FIRE CHIEFS
Now, if there are any questions, I should ,be glad to try to answer them
for you.
CHIEF KIMBA~.L: I think that the maiority of the Chiefs had expressed
themselves prior to. Jim’s coming in here, and I should like to see Jack Adams’
.motion put at this. time.
CHIEF WELLS: If the Jewelers’ convention only have 12 5, wouldn’t there
be accommodations possible, whereby that group may have a meeting and we
could have our meetings too, in the room where the Bingo games-are?
MR. SMIWH: That is not the question; it is the rooms upstairs that constitute
the bottleneck. You see, their convention would center around Monday
night, and that is the night you had six vacant rooms; so that it would be a mattee
of rooms.
CHIEF KIMBALL: And they want Sunday and Monday?
MR. SMITr~: ~ Yes. As I endeavored to explain, on Sunday night, you had
2~11 people here. Now, if you put your meeting on, on Tuesday instead of
Monday, we would have those 211 in the hotel, and by the time your group
arrived on Tuesday, then we could take care of them.
CHIEF KIMBALL: With the 125 of the Jewelers, you wouldn’t have
accommodations: for both groups?
MR. SMITH: NOt unless you move back one day, starting your meetings
on Tuesday, which would mean your dispersal on Friday. In other words,
then, we would figure that the majority of the Chiefs. would come up on Tuesday,
or one day later. ¯
CHIEF ADAMS Of Marblehead: I don’t know anything about the Jewelers,
but when I asked Chief Scanlon to confer with the Major, it was. not my intention
to set any particular dates. I thought that it would improve our situatio.n
to have a Monday meeting, but I did not know, at the time, of any Jewelers’
.convention. And, I simply thought that we would get an expression of opinioh
here. I don’t know whether I am for the motion, but I should like to see the
;Directors. get an agreeable arrangement with Mr. Smith.
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PRESIDENT FORXIER: Chief Adams, as a suggestion, could it be left to
the Board o£ Directors? ~ ’~
CHIEF ADAMS: I don’t know whether it is good business to leave it ~:o
them to handle, or let the majority of the Chiefs have their say, here. In all
fairness, I hope the thing can be worked out.
CHIEF SLAMA~: At the meeting of the Board of Directors, Mr. Smith
made the suggestion, and we told him that it would have to be decided at the
Conference. Now, here we are at the Conference. Decide it.
CHIEF ADAMS: That’s fine. "But, we didn’t know until Major Smith
came in here anything about the Jewelers’ convention.
CHIEF ANDREWS: If there are no further questions of Mr. Smith, I woul,tt
suggest that ~e excuse the Major, and then we can talk about this matter
further.
CHIEF COLI2INS: How many rooms do the Jewelers have?
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