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Show Are you tired of reading "arson suspected" in stories and pictures of local fires? The NEWS staff is certainly tired of writing those two words. However, we don't see any let-up if the present trend continues. Confessed arson- ; ists leave the juvenile court with little more than a slap on the hand. Fines are no more than a week's allowance. allow-ance. Trials take months to come to the fore and investigators investi-gators receive tougher examination than do the accused. ac-cused. -0- Thousands of dollars of property damage are excused ex-cused for a few dollars fine and probation. Why? It's easy enough to blame the courts. And certainly they deserve their share of the blame. Hours and hours . of investigations by the State i Fire Marshall's office seemingly seem-ingly go for naught, when the judge hands down his decision. deci-sion. -0- Milford residents are getting get-ting restless. The pattern has been the same now for a number of years. A number of arson fires over a several week period, then a period of quiet, only to start again. Already this year, the worst to date, property damage dam-age is nearing the one million mil-lion dollar mark. -0- What can be done? We believe that there are persons in Milford who know more about the- arson fires than they're telling. Parents, . friends, or neighbors who have noticed things of suspect. sus-pect. 1 There is a trend to not get involved, and therefore, sus- ! piclons may be shoved aside and not reported. -0- You- may think that what you know may not be conclu- ; sive enough to be any good. But in the hands of investigator investi-gator Steve Kennedy, what you know and what your neighbor knows may add up to solid evidence. If you're afraid to get in- I volved with the police, and don't want to report what you j know to the fire chief feel j free to pass your lnforma- j tion on to us at the NEWS ! office. We'll either pass it ! on to Mr. Kennedy, or have him call you, whichever you prefer. -0- j The important thing is that the arsonists be stopped before be-fore more damage is done. At what point do you draw the line? Will you tell what you know now? Must you wait until your neighbor's or your own property is destroyed? Or will you withhold important import-ant evidence until someone is killed or badly injured? -0- We here In Utah think that the future of al unite, Kaipar-owits, Kaipar-owits, geothermal, and other ventures which hold great promise, are in the hands of ' the company, the local bu- 1 reaucrats, or state politicians. politi-cians. However, Utah has little representation in Washington, Washing-ton, D.C., and the environmentalists environ-mentalists know it. They're expending their energy on the populous areas. -0- We recently received a clipping from the Minneapolis Minneapo-lis Tribune, sent by a subscriber sub-scriber to the NEWS. It started with a tourist, his wife and children standing, stand-ing, looking over Bryce Canyon. Can-yon. A forest ranger approaches ap-proaches them and says, "That'll really look great in a few years with a huge power pow-er plant planted right in the middle of it." -0- The story is about Kaipar-owits, Kaipar-owits, but it could be alu-nite, alu-nite, geotherrral, or any other oth-er potential industrial development. devel-opment. A story of this kind in the west would receive (Continued on Page 2) A HERE'S MORE ABOUT JUST BETWEEN (Continued from Page Onp) only ridicule, but in Minneapolis, Minne-apolis, Chicago, New York, or Philadelphia, or any of thousands of other populous cities, it's belie veable. -0- The story indicates the Utahns who -support this growth are addled, and should not be allowed to make decisions which will destroy those beautiful parks they've all read about. living in an apartment house, with more neighbors ! than you can count, and hav ing never seen the wide open spaces of the west, they cannot can-not imagine how ridiculous ; the story is. They'll fight to preserve Bryce Canyon, and they'll write their congressman to see that those stupid Utahns don't destroy the national parks just to make a buck. -0- The greatest environmentalists environment-alists in the world are those of us who live in the West. Little do they know that we'll fight to protect the open spaces we love. The joker who wrote the story in the Minneapolis Tribune, Tri-bune, and other metropolitan metropoli-tan dailies, probably saw Bryce Canyon in the National Geographic. -0- Just one sour note. Sports fans are the ficklest people in the world; something we've known for many years. However, the abuse heaped on the Tigers after the second sec-ond quarter Friday night was ridiculous. Why should these young gentlemen take a beating from their opponents and a tongue lashing from their parents, friends and neighbors? neigh-bors? Surely it's possible to be Tiger or Beaver fans throughout the whole game, and not turn on them like cannibalistic animals the minute your team is down, or makes a mistake. A solid fan is one who boosts his team 100 of the way. The team played the second half why didn't you? , -0- One more note on election. There is only just over a week left to file, and barely enough time to hold a convention. con-vention. We urge responsible citizens to run for city office during this crucial period. The next four years can be the most important four years in Milford's history. Let's have the very best representation rep-resentation possible making decisions at city hall. Call |