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Show ARSONIST ACTIVE AGAIN: City fathers Offer $50 KeOTird For ArsiiiDSt 10, the department was called call-ed to the Clotlel Whlttaker Gould residence to extinguish extin-guish a shed engulfed in flames, on 300 West across the street from the gym. The last instance (as we write this) was the next night, Sunday, May 11, at 2 a.m., the Roland Larsen shed, one block south of the Gould fire. The shed was Ignited in two different places. Fumes in a near -empty gas barrel exploded, giving early warning. On Sunday, May 4th, mid-morning, mid-morning, an electrical fire called the department to the potato pit. Damage was two bales of straw. Authorities ask residents (Continued on Page 2) Out of desperation and frustration, Mayor Roy L. Young and the Milford City Council put up a $500.00 reward re-ward this week for information informa-tion leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the recent fires in Milford. Milford has been the victim vic-tim of numerous fires in which arson has been suspected sus-pected or a proven fact over the past nine years. Fully one -third of the fires in 1974 were suspected to be the work of an arsonist. Early this year, In February, Febru-ary, three fires destroyed an old car, the McCulley shed, the Ken Barton barn, and the historic old UP ice house. All were total losses, with values estimated to be over $12,000.00. All were suspected as arson. With the bad weather of March and April, things quieted down. The only fires during this period were a false alarm, a stubble field, and the loss of Bill Coon's garage. The latter was the only one suspect. However, on April 27 our arsonist again became active ac-tive and at 5 a.m. the department depart-ment was called out on the cold Sunday morning to extinguish ex-tinguish the blaze which. gutted gut-ted the Kirk building on Main Street. For a time, Jefferson's Jeffer-son's Merc, the law office, and a tin building on the Kirk property were threatened. On Friday, May 2, at 4:15 a.m., a young male adult was spotted running from the unoccupied Hazel Moore house on 100 West. A mattress mat-tress was discovered burning burn-ing in the building seconds later and was extinguished. The truck was taken to the scene, but no alarm sounded. sound-ed. Wednesday, May 7, a tackling tack-ling dummy was discovered burning In the weight room of the old high school gym Authorities were called at 2 p.m. Attempts had been made to ignite the gym In four different places, all unsuccessful, un-successful, except to destroy the $200 dummy. It Is suspected sus-pected the arson was done with a torch sometime Tuesday Tues-day night. At 2:55 a.m. Saturday, May HERE'S MORE ABOUT JUST BETWEEN society, that give us time and money to forget 'we' are the adults, and spoiled 'our' kids! Let's wake up before more good teachers are lost over this perennial hassle! tion and environmental impact im-pact statement, God appeared appear-ed before the HE PA Council to answer questions. When asked why he began these projects in the first place, he simply replied that he liked to be creative. This was not considered adequate reasoning and he would be required to substantiate this further. HE PA was unable to see any practical use for earth since "the earth was void and empty and darkness was upon the face of the deep." Then God said, "Let there be light." He should never have brought up this point since one member of the Council was active In the Slerrangel Club and Immediately Immedi-ately protested, asking "How was the light to be made? Would there be strip mining? Air pollution?" God explained explain-ed the light would come from a huge ball of fire. Nobody on the council really understood under-stood this, but it was provisionally pro-visionally accepted assuming assum-ing (1) there would be no smog or smoke resulting from the ball of fire, (2) a separate burning permit would be required, and (3) since continuous light would be a waste of energy it should be dark at least one -half of the time. So God agreed to divide light and darkness and he would call the light Day, and the darkness Night. (The Council expressed no Interest Inter-est with in -house semantics.) |