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Show Milford Lions Club Starts Community Survey Monday Within the next ten days, members of the Milford Lions Club will conduct a community survey in an attempt "to analyze Milford, to evaluate its present conditions, to study objectively certain aspects of community life, and to act creatively and energetically when changes appear to be called for," it was announced Thursday by Lee Pettey, Lions Club President. "Changes or alterations are not a necessary outcome of these studies," Mr. Pettey said, "for in many instances the situation 'as is' is shown to be the most desirable by these community studies." Planning for the Milford community survey has been under way for more than a year, with the Lions Club taking tak-ing the lead in this endeavor to gather basic facts about the community and determine which direction or directions the citizens would like to move. Lions will canvass the city, leaving questionnaires after explaining ex-plaining the program, then pick up the questionnaires at a later la-ter date, and evaluate the answers. an-swers. The questions are designed de-signed to gather information as to the types of families, length of residence, number of adults and children in the families, number available for employment employ-ment if industrial expansion is developed, and attitudes of the residents toward city services and facilities, tolerance of residents, resi-dents, and what the individuals like and dislike about Milford. Also, the survey will determine de-termine the attitude of the community toward becoming the nation's "pilot space ago city," as an addition to the cemmunity survey. "Change is probably the most real aspect of life, and the area that plans its own future is fundamentally a more vital area than one which is gradually gradual-ly changed or isolated by outside forces," Mr. Pettey concluded. |