Years Ago 50

In a meeting at the Municipal Auditorium of some 30 residents, most of them from Letha and the area southwest of Seminole, criticism was levelled Thursday evening at the proposed sanitary landfill planned for the Sinclair Industrial Tract owned by Seminole Industrial Foundation. After an hour of questions and answers Mayor Waldo Lilly told the meeting that the city council will meet and give “full consideration” to the objections presented. Lilly said after the meeting the council will probably meet Tuesday evening. The meeting opened with a film presented by Oklahoma State Health Department Entomologist LeRoy K. Rachels demonstrating how sanitary landfills should be operated. Seminole County Health Department Sanitarian Bill Hisle was present and assisted Dr. Rachels with showing the film. The film showed deep trenches, as deep as 30 feet, with complete dirt coverings continuous as the trash and debris is buried. Some of the speakers questioned the application of the procedures in the film because the proposed Seminole city sanitary landfill will only be eight feet deep and the width of a grader blade, normally also eight feet in width. Objections included lack of adequate equipment available to the city of Seminole to do the kind of job shown in the film. Mayor Lilly said several landowners had requested the landfill to be done on their property to fill gullies and can yons. One protester suggested that a depth of 30 feet could be reached if the old City Lake bed was utilized for the landfill. Some of the comments bordered on the bitter side and every person speaking, except the health department officials and the engineers for the city, protested the location.