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    5/22/63 Mr. Conrad Terpaek Western Floatcraft 4125 Paden Street Riverside, California ?ç Dear Mr. Terpack, Mr. Freeman asked me to write you to get an adjusted bill for the float, due to the poor quality and construction of the float, and due to the fact that it had to be towed through the parade. Personally, I believe the $600 paid to you previously was an overpayment, however, A1 has requested an adjusted bill. 1 sincerely think you had a lot of gall in calling me Monday, asking if we had won any prizes with the float. That float was the laughing stock of the parade, and from all of the ill feelings here at the Sands, it would certainly have been better not to have entered a float at all than to have ran the float you constructed. The float was not constructed so as to even faln&y resemble the sketch you submitted. The quill and the scroll were insignificant on the float, were not of professional design or construction, and did net resemble the sketch ap all. The lettering on the scroll