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Show IRummator A In which anyone and everyone is invited to express their opinion opin-ion about anything and everything every-thing that will help Milford so long as they "don't cuss no one out" that privilege is reserved. I Legionnaires who had been apprehensively scanning weather weath-er reports the past couple of weeks, breathed fervent sighs of relief when a "storm" struck the area las. Saturday and Sunday, turning into warm weather on Monday and holding promise of a salubrious evening on the 16th, when the Legionnaires stage their annual Forty-Niners celebration. cele-bration. Clif McShane, Telluride super, reports 2 73100 inches of moisture, mois-ture, after the snow melted, at Upper Telluride in Beaver Canyon. Can-yon. About 12 inches of snow fell at the plant during the storm. A visitor to Nevada who recently re-cently made a trip thru Lehman Cave informs us that the lighting light-ing system has been repaired and is now in operation; to make more effective the hundreds of be .utiful sights of the cave. For the past several months the light plant has been out of operation, . undergoing a thorough overhaul ing- Also, we are informed, Nevada - ' in constructing a new, hard-surfaced road to the cave, and , the Custodian of the cave has completed construction of new stairways thruout. Vhile there is still considerable consider-able seepage water in the cave, visitors will find dry footing all the way thru the spectacular cavern. : A few days ago Ruminalor was stopped on the street and asked what happened to the crossing safety devices the UP was supposed to install at the highway crossing east of the city. We could only answer that we don't know an electrician elec-trician made some surveys, properly bally-hooeyed, and left that's all. Our friend told of driving to the crossing one rainy evening, noticing a' uain on Lne track with engine being serviced, and seeing the blue flag up, started across the track. About half way across, he heard the streamliner whistle and jammed on the brakes, stopping the car a scant foot from the whizzing train. Had a nervous person been driving, he said, or had he hit the gas instead of the brake, he would have wound up somewhere some-where near the round house. ' When streamliners first began pasjing thru Milford, we are informed, in-formed, the agent on duty was instructed to flag traffic at the crossing.. Those streamliners move, whether they're traveling thru Milford or the desert, and the Union Pacific owes motorists the protection of a crossing watchman. Some time ago, at request of the Board of City Trustees, the City Attorney prepared an ordinance ordi-nance requiring 24-hour crossing cross-ing watchman service. The ordinance ord-inance was not passed, because contacts with Union Pacific officials of-ficials had brought forth a promise prom-ise to install a floodlight at the crossing. ' At the same time, an ordinance was passed forbidding trains to block the crossing for more than five minutes. (We understand' rail officials have instructed trainmen to ignore the ordinance during after-midnight hours). Less than a week after the ordinance went into effect, a member of the town board who had voted for passage of the ordinance waited 19 minutes for a train to be serviced and clear the crossing. Reporting the incident inci-dent to the city trustees, we are informed it was suggested that the railroad company be "given more time" to make up their minds to comply with the ordinance. ordi-nance. If those who pass the ordinances ordi-nances won't insist upon their enforcement file charges against violators how can they expect the average citizen to obey the laws they make. And when they see, know and recognize recog-nize a menace to public safety, why are they willing to allow such menaces to persist, when it is in their power to legislate against them. Installation of a light at the crossing will not remove re-move the hazard of fast-moving trains endangering the lives of motorists who can't see thru box cars and switch engines. The only assurance of safety at the Milford crossing is a watchman. Will it take a horrible accident to prove it to the city trustees and the railroad officials? |