Salt Lake Telegram | 1942-05-25 | Page 6 | Let's Do Something About It

Lets Let's Do Som Something thing About It DAD BAD news for Salt Lake motorists motorists Com Commissioner Com Com- missioner Matheson at eson head of the city street department said it will be impossible for his men to finish the job of repairing the city's winter-ruined winter streets before the end of the summer If times tunes were normal this would be bad enough But But times arent aren't normal A major effort is being made all over the nation right now to conserve tires and cars so as to make them last for the duration of the war It is important th that t they be saved Yet the terrible terrible terrible ter ter- condition of Salt Lake City's streets is doing more damage to tires than all the economizing economizing economizing econ econ- in car use and careful driving by motorists can make up for Everybody recognizes that we have had hadan hadan hadan an extraordinarily severe winter which caused unusually heavy damage to our streets and that we have also had a very late spring which which has delayed repair work That however should not be a reason for forus forus forus us to shrug our shoulders and just go methodi- methodi ally about the business of r repairing pairing the damage damage damage dam dam- age fn in n normal routine fashion There has been an n extraordinary amount of damage to streets the past winter It calls for extraordinary measures to correct the damage It ought to tobe tobe tobe be possible to figure out some way to put our city streets in reasonably good condition condition- even though complete repairs might not be made made made-I made long long ng before the end of the summer Salt Lake City's motorists are justified in demanding that Commissioner Matheson and his fe fellow commissioners find some way to handle this problem This is an unusual situa situa- tion It is an emergency emergency and and it may call for emergency efforts to find a solution rather than a were licked and theres there's nothing we can do about it attitude