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 create a sanitary sewer district. Do you remember anything about that?

C: No. I was not active in city government at that time, but I would say that was
 about the time that we probably needed a real sewer system that we did not
 have, in 1954, because the city was growing. I do not know the date, but that
 probably is about right.

B: Were people concerned about pollution and Tampa Bay and Hillsborough Bay?

C: Pollution, no. You know, once in awhile, you would read that a sewer-line had
 broken and raw sewage was going into the bay, but that was a one-day publicity
 thing and it was gone. What happened is, as people developed Tampa and [its]
 environs, it became necessary to handle the sewage and the storm-drainage.
 They had to do something. That was the beginning of the real growth in Tampa. I
 would say it did not really start, though, until after that date but not very much
 after that date, the date that you mentioned about the sewer bonds.

B: About 1954.

C: Yes. The city of Tampa had begun moving by that time. That was nine years
 after the war.

B: There had been a lot of efforts to annex more territory into the city of Tampa.
 Were you favorably disposed toward that? Did you support it?

C: The big one was the city of Port Tampa, which was actually a separate city out
 by MacDill Field. That was a big thing at the time by some of the people there. I
 think it was good for the area and I think it was good for Tampa, but there was
 one guy in particular who opposed it and he walked all the way to Tallahassee to
 appear before the legislature. I think you had to have special legislation to do it,
 but that did not do any good. They accomplished [the annexation]. I cannot even
 remember now who the mayor was at the time.

B: Do you remember what year that annexation was?

B: No, but it was probably in the late 1950s or real early 1960s. That is just my
 guess. Since that time, of course, the City of Tampa has expanded considerably,
 particular up north. I can remember when the city limit was Howard Avenue,
 which is over here a pretty good ways. Then they moved out, moved out, moved
 out. Now, you go, of course, to the bay. The big movement, though, is New
 Tampa, which they call the area north of University of South Florida. That really
 is growing, and it is sort of gerrymandered, too, but [Mayor] Greco felt like it was
 important to get those people in the city. Obviously for tax purposes it is, if you
 are going to furnish them the amenities they have to have. That was not a
 difficult thing to do. The county opposed it, because the county wanted to keep