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Show Trucks to haul away debris; schools, students cooperate Springville's annual clean-up, for which the city has become famous, is announced for Friday, April 7, providing spring- weather continues. Mayor T. Emmett Bird has proclaimed the entire week as Cleanup Week, to be climaxed with the street cleanup in which the schools will participate Friday. Schools will be closed all day and the raking and cleaning of streets by the older students will begin "at 8 a.m., while the younger pupils will clean the school yards. Townspeople are urged to dispose of the litter collected in their yards, basements and attics. at-tics. City manned trucks will collect all debris which is put out before Friday. Empty lots, alleys, parks, schools, business districts and home property will be expected to undergo the cleanup treatment treat-ment this week. Everyone will benefit the mayor pointed out, as an annual an-nual cleanup makes a more attractive place to live and eliminates what could become dangerous fire hazards in many cases. This is Spring Clean-up Time, and many families are busily engaged in sprucing up their homes. Throwing out accumulations of old newspapers and trash is a vital part of the Clean-up job, because it reduces fire hazards. The National Board of Fire Underwriters suggests that fire safety be made a year-round job. Around one-fourth of all fires are- caused by matches and smoking, the National Board said. Another 20.4 percent are due to misuse of electrical equipment. ... Three-fourths of all fires are': the result of carelessness and forgetfulness. They could have been prevented. |