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Show j j We often have people stop in and leave items on our counter for the lost and found column- But last Thursday, we discovered a .new item, when we returned from a visit to the doctor's office. Someone had left a hu'e plate of cockies, chocolate chip ,o be exact, and dutifully we put them in the lost and found b x but alas, when we went to write our usual classified ad so that the owner could com" and claim them, we found that ,hey had disappeared. We don't know who thj finger lickin' lip smackin' culprits cul-prits were that stole this property prop-erty They didn't bother the gloves and hats, glasses and keys, the plates, and a her odds and ends, which also fill this lost and found box. Only he cookies are g"ne. Now its true we don't guard the lost and found box quite the same as we do the rest nf the paraphernalia around the News. After all, who but the rightful owner has any use for a left handed man's glove, a set of keys with out locks or a pair of tri-fccals with the glass a quarter of an inch thick. So it is reasonable that we don't keep the lsst and found box under lock and key. o Instead, we often go oi't of our way to find owners of lest items. And if the item has a value other than senumen'al. we insist that the owner provide pro-vide proof by identifying the meichandise. But untoitunatcly with the cookies (smack) missing, mis-sing, we regretfully must discontinue dis-continue our search before it even begins. And, oh yes, The Wilson's say thanks Here is another Serviceman's address, which somehow got put on ;he wrong hook and failed to make it into the the Christmas address column. Pvt. Fowles, T. R. SSN 529-72-3474 PIT 3129 MCRD San Diego, Cal. 94120 o We hear that there was a lot of complaining this year when they blocked off Test Hill for the kids rto slide on. This is sad, because it means that there are those who have forgotten when they were young and enjoyed sliding down a fast hill. o We recognize that it is an inconvenience in-convenience to those who live on that street, but because of its steepness, when it is slick, only 4-wheel drive vehicles are safe on it anyway. And certainly everybody recognizes the safety factor in children using a hill that is blocked off and safe from automobiles instead in-stead of sliding on every street in tewn that has even the least bit of a grade. o Donna and I have a difficult time getting used to a large irrigation stream running dovn Main Street after every snow fall. We"re speaking, of course, of the practice of turning on the fire hydrants to melt off the snow and clear the street. This of course would be impossible im-possible if not for the fact of the constant 70 temperature of the water running through Milford's lines. But even though it does seem as if you must cross a lake to get across the street during this period, and it requires re-quires that most businessmen must drop their work and go to scooping and shoveling t get rid of the white stuff, it is still much preferrable to what the state road crew and the Mayor accomplished last Friday. They moved all of the snow off of Main between 400 and 500 South and put it in a pile at either end. Unless hauled haul-ed off, that pile will be with us till we get a spring thaw. o For whatever its worth, and recognizing that it is the state-crew's state-crew's job ito clean the highway high-way which runs down Main Street, let's do it ourselves as in the many years past, and get the mess over with fast. o Don't forget to be on hand' for the free Christmas Shop-' pers giveaway Saturday, Dec. 16, at 4:00 p.m. in front of Alt-man's Alt-man's Store Eleven $50.00 cash prizes will ' be given away to the lucky shoppers. Sponsored by the Businessmen's Ass'n, |