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Show J 9 jbunita' Forbidden fruit usually makes a bad jam. Last week wc published an "or-! chid" from a North Main Street resident, complimenting the Milford Mil-ford police force for the slowdown of teen age drivers. Now come some gripes from the teen agers. "Daddy, can a cop give you a ticket for speeding when he's patrolling pa-trolling in his own car instead of - the police car?" "They hide around the corner with their lights out and then, when you pass, they follow you and give you a ticket." "But, daddy, it's not fair! They're supposed to be patrolling in the police car, and they aren't supposed sup-posed to hide!!" Maybe it's true (horrible thought!) that cars were meant for transportation and not amusement only they weren't made for playing play-ing bumper tag and "chicken" and the exhileration of floorboard zooming up hills. --, And, if some of the younger driv ers are unhappy now because the cops are using "unorthodox" methods meth-ods of apprehending traffic law violators and have got wise to their hormsignals so that all young drivers who know the signals will know. at all times just where the patrol car is, they're really going to be unhappy vhen the officers start enforcing the law against unnecessary un-necessary sounding of horns. The toughest instrument to play is second fiddle. Sen. Ted Moss Washington, D. C. Dear Ted: Let's try to talk the Post Office Department into going back to the former mail schedule for Utah, at ledst for communities on the rail-roada. rail-roada. The new system is wonderful wonder-ful for out-of-the-way places that used to wait two or three days for their letters and now get mail overnight, but ain't so hot for the cities on the railroads. Fer instance I'm waiting for important news cuts from Pocatello that I used to get promptly, when it was placed on a train at Pocatello and came direct to Milford. But now, with the "speeded up" mail service, the engravings go from Pocatello to Salt Lake by train, then from Salt Lake to Provo by truck, Provo to Beaver on another truck, and Bea- (Continued oil Back Page) Here's More About j I DUNNO Continued from Page One ver to Milford on still another truck. Only this time the Provo to Beaver truck cracked up at Levan and five lovely Beaver County lassies competing for the title of Miss Great Basin of Utah won't have their beautiful faces reproduced repro-duced in the Beaver County News this week unless Milford Postmaster Post-master Norman Baxter can find some way to get the mail from Beaver Bea-ver to Milford, after it finally arrives ar-rives in Beaver. Another "speeded up" innovation innova-tion that seems screwy is for letters, let-ters, mailed in Milford and destined des-tined for Cedar City, 80-odd miles away, that formerly traveled by train from Milford to Cedar in a couple of hours, now go to Beaver, 32 miles; from Beaver to Provo, about 200 miles; from Provo back through Beaver; and, finally, the 55 miles from Beaver to Cedar City. Sounds more like something the Army would do, instead of the Post Office Department. The guy who bought a load of topsoil for his flower bed said some things may be dirt cheap, but dirt ain't one of 'em. American Amer-ican Legion Magazine. |