plead and prove its good faith in abolishing the Investigator positions. Our review of the record discloses only one item tending to support this burden of the City, that being the City Council's recital in the preamble to the ordinance that the action was taken because the positions were not needed and abolition of them would promote efficiency, economy, and be in the best interests of the City.
Such a self-serving declaration does not meet the City's burden. The supreme court's decision in Wallace indicates that the City must produce pertinent facts relating to the economy and efficiency of the change. City of San Antonio v. Wallace, 338 S.W.2d at 158. Even if the City had produced live witnesses to state that the action was taken for proper purposes,This site is "deep." The navigation bar at the left is just the beginning. For example, the "Time Line" gives access to hundreds of articles. Use the Search Box at the bottom of each page to help locate specific topics.

April 4, 1967 - Freeport Journal-Standard, IL - However, Stengel's varied lunacies are recounted with gusto. The one that's described best concerns the occasion in 1912 when he was playing the outfield for Montgomery, Ala. Here the description: "He found a drainage hole in the outfield and disappeared from sight. A short time later he arose like Triton from the sea, drainage cover under his arm, just in time to grab a fly ball. His manager, Kid Elberfeld, was not amused.

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