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Show City Inspection of Meat Proves Value Of This Service; Garbage Rules Given wrapped in bundles and tied. Hot ashes will not be handled because of danger of fire in the truck. Building materials will only be collected under special pickup rates. This includes dirt, rocks, lawn sod, manure, auto parts, etc. All containers must be removed re-moved from the curb reasonably soon after the pickup. Oil drums and. barrels are not permissable to be used as containers. contain-ers. All garbage and trash not collected col-lected by the city truck, must be hauled to the dump grounds. Containers are not to be overloaded over-loaded as employees have to lift them. Water Meters City officials also point out that several people have already made application for water meters to be installed. City officials are appreciative appre-ciative of this as they plan to have the entire city on meters within the very near future, it was stated. In a recent city-wide dairy inspection in-spection under the direction of Ruel Averett, city health inspector, inspec-tor, Sanitary Dairy and A. R. Snow Dairy rated high on milk samples. A report by the city health inspector in-spector prior to the closing of school, showed that some hamburger ham-burger sent in for school lunches did not pass inspection and was turned down. Routine inspection by city officials kept the meat shipped ship-ped in at a high grade. Garbage . . . It is pointed out by city officials that trash and limbs should not be piled in the streets and left for long periods of time. Any one wishing to have extra garbage or limbs and trash hauled away, should first arrange with the city or someone else to have it hauled away immediately and not left as an unsightly mess on the streets, City officials said Wednesday. In view of the fact that many citizens are not aware of the rules governing the collection of garbage, gar-bage, city officials announce the more important ones as follows: All garbage be drained of surplus sur-plus water and wrapped in heavy paper or several sheets of newspaper news-paper before it 'is put into container. con-tainer. Ashes and garbage should not be placed in the same container, con-tainer, because it forms an acid which destroys the container. Containers should be of metal and water tight and have tight covers. Containers should be kept covered at all times. Ashes and table garbage with the container should not weigh over 100 pounds. Garbage should be placed on collection col-lection days at a point designated by the collection foreman and placed pla-ced before 8 a.m. Shrubs and twigs should be |