00 Boys to Use Grollnd
County Farm to
Have Sandlots
~lsa County will provide baseball diamonds on the
county farm this season so more than 300 boys enroled
in a ball program in that area will have a place to play.
The Commislon today agreed
lo put fOUf diamonds on several
a~res of the county fum on the
northeast comer of 61St SI. and
Yale Ave.
The aeUon ts mUdly in line
with previous requests by the
eil)' and I.he Chamber of Commuee
1Q preserve the farm for
park purposes. The county has
postponed Iny Icllon concern_
In,. sale of the main 320'lc«
part. of the fum unUI 1959.
The move today come after
Carl Beesley appeared with the
proposal as an unofficial repre-
Isentallve of the Tulsa Park5 and
Recreation Council.
8ec'lley I I I d the dlamoods
'Il'ouJd be IISed by boys living In
the area between Harvard and
Yale a\'COUCI and 5Ist and 61st
streets.
Btlt the commissioners' Cf'eW$
won't do aU the work, Beesley
said. "We have lots of labor, that
Is, lots of fathers and youngsters
who are willin, to work 50 there
will be a place to play," Beesley
said.
Beesley said the boys in that
area had planned to pIa y at
Carnegie Elementary School, but
new coslructlon at the school took
up room Intendcd for ball diamonds.
The commlssiorers 'aid entrance
n)ads to the area would
be buJlt by county crews and
the diamond.. would be leveled
by n)ld machineC)'.
Beesley said the boys Ind their
fathers already have backstop
screens. The eommluionen also
Igreed 10 let the boys put up seveul
basketball '0.1 posts in the
area.
In another action concerning
f,lrm land, the commission signed
I sbllrecrop leue Igreement with
Leray Creekmore.
Creekmore, 1I farmer southeast
of Tul", plans a corD crop {or
;0 lIcres. The countY will get onethird
of the crop.
The ;0 lIcres Is north ICross 1I
creek fram the pl"O\XlSed baseball
diamonds.
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