60 years ago  City, fire district, unable to agree on split of
alarm system cost: All five members of the Brentwood City
Council and ditto of the Brentwood Fire District board were
unable to agree Tuesday evening when they got together at the
City Hall to figure a way for dividing between them the cost of
a combined fire and police alarm system.  Total cost of the
system will be about $2,400 yearly. The council thinks the fire
district should go 50-50, but the fire commissioners were
willing to go no higher than $75 a month, after first proposing
that they pay a third. The system will be made necessary when
the dial telephones go into service next spring.  Main point at
issue in the discussion was the proportionate use of the system
to be made by the city and the district. It was conceded that
there would probably be more police than fire calls, but
councilmen insisted that the standby value of the service would
be of equal value. After the commissioners had made their $75 a
month offer, and the council stood