Artist Jim Shepherd paints the likeness of Uncle Sam as he works on the mural for Brian Mundell's military museum on Wabash Avenue, Wednesday, April 25, 2012 in Terre Haute, Ind. The outdoor mural depicting the famous World War II flag-raising on Iwo Jima is the start of a much larger project that will pay tribute to veterans of several wars. (AP Photo/Tribune-Star, Joseph C. Garza)

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — An outdoor mural depicting the famous World War II flag-raising on Iwo Jima is the start of a much larger project that will pay tribute to veterans of several wars.

The mural in the 1100 block of Wabash Avenue is being painted on a building owned by Brian Mundell, who owns Superior Kitchen and Bath at 1143 Wabash Ave.

The painter Mundell has hired, artist Jim Shepard, plans to include images from World War I, World War II, the Korean and Vietnam conflicts and modern-day wars in the Middle East. The two worked together to develop ideas for the project, and Shepard said he has done research "trying to pick iconic images from those wars."

A measure on the June ballot in San Francisco would require that the city's waste collection services be put up for competitive bidding, but the proposal's opponents claim it would create an unnecessary bureaucratic headache.

Proposition A's backers include community activist Tony Kelly and retired Judge Quentin Kopp, who say the city's current garbage company, Recology, has an unhealthy monopoly over San Francisco's waste collection services thanks to a local law passed in 1932.

That law, which created a nonpartisan board to set the rates for the city's garbage services, would be amended by Proposition A to set up competitive bidding for five different aspects of the services.

Companies would have to bid on separate contracts for residential collection, commercial collection, recovery and processing of recyclable materials, transfer and transportation of the residual waste, and disposal or conversion of that waste.

Kelly said Recology currently receives about $220 million annually from residential and commercial ratepayers in the city. He said that figure could be reduced by as much as 25 percent through competitive bidding.