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Show City Faces Dilemma 'No Burn Law' Hurts What to do about the extreme fire hazard in Milford City caused by the high grasses and weeds, brought on by the wet spring was a matter of concern for the Milford City Council Monday night. In the absence of Mayor Mayer, May-er, Enoch Swain took charge as Mayor Pro-Tem and the discussion discus-sion resolved around the desirable desir-able burn them before they catch fire and destroy property and other methods, .none of which adequately solved the problem. Discussion centered around the possibility of discing the bad spots, getting a youth corps to hoe them out and other methods but always came back to burning burn-ing which was felt could be controlled con-trolled and would be the least expensive, as well as do the best job. The problem arises from the fact that there is a state law against outdoor burning. It was finally decided that contact should be made with the State Fire Marshall or some other authority for special dispensation, dis-pensation, since burning was the obvious and best way of eliminating elimin-ating the danger. . Ed's Note: At press time the News was informed that permission per-mission had been received for the Fire Dept. to do some controlled con-trolled burning to remove the existing fire danger. The city, while concerned with fire loss anywhere in town (there has been nearly a fire a day during the past week) were also concerned with their own properties, such as the top part cf library hill and the new railroad rail-road park. The high grasses of the wet spring have created a lire hazard which is very dangerous dan-gerous to property, both public and private. Swain stated that even though it was the property owners responsibility re-sponsibility it was as difficult diffi-cult for them as it was for the city to dispose of this fire hazard, haz-ard, and all knewning that it is only a matter of time until the tinder box is set off in an area, which will not be detected in time to prevent damage, as has heen the case during the past week. With all members present but the Mayor, they Okayed class A and C beer licenses for local establishments. Read letter from Call Engineering En-gineering stating that plans and funds had been approved for the extension of the runway at the Milford Airport at a cost of $91,646.00. A federal grant of $83,343.00, the State Division of Aeornautics paying $4,582.00 and would leave the city only 4.06 of the cost at $3,721.00. The plan would extend the runway three (Continued on Page Six) HERE'S MORE ABOUT COUNCIL eights of a mile to a length of 114 miles. It would include new lighting and fencing plus purchase pur-chase of an additional 80 acres of land c.n the north end of the present runway. Thompson rquested permission permis-sion to spend $1,800 to repair Center Street from Main east to 100 East and to repair 100 East. He said that he had estimates it would take $33,000 to patch the holes In the streets from the past winter. He reported he was looking into using Gilsablnd as was used on the Airport runways run-ways last iweek. He stated that property owners who do not have their sidewalks fixed who have received re-ceived notices the cty will fix and place a lien on property for payment as soon as time limit Is reached. Authorized free swim for the July 4th holiday. Ages to 11 from 1-3 p.m. and 12 and over, 3-5:00 p.m. Discussed fencing the fairgrounds. fair-grounds. Estimated cost $986.00 Whittaker was told to ask for bids from others including Scholzen at Hurricane. It was also suggested that the city purchase pur-chase their coal by bid. Authorized free swim for Sr. Citizens from 5-7 p.m. July 12th. No public swimming that night. |
