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Show Commissioners seek cooperation in maintaining highway signs sign, other than authorized personnel, per-sonnel, remind the guilty persons per-sons of the inheret dangers in their actions or notify the law enforcement agency in the area. The signing program of the Utah County Highway Department Depart-ment needs public support and help if it is to be effective, according ac-cording to Stanley D. Roberts, Utah County Commission Chairman. He said they are trying to divert as much money as possible pos-sible to the highway signing program within the road system sys-tem of Utah County but the public will have to help to accomplish ac-complish what is intended. Part of the problem is pure vandalism vanda-lism and part is thoughtlessness of the general public. All of the acts create dangerous conditions con-ditions and some instances are almost certain to cause serious accidents and possible deaths on the roads. Vandalism One example the commissioner commission-er gave is that of removing the top support of a curve sign causing it to swing under and indicate exactly the opposite direction of the curve to that intended. If someone not familiar fam-iliar with a road were to anticipate an-ticipate a left curve and then drop on to a right curve the results would be disasterous Another example is that of removing re-moving a stop-sign from its support after the public has become accustomed to driving the street as a through street and is dependent on cross traffic traf-fic stopping at the sign, serious accidents could occur in such situations. A third instance of example is that of removing reflectorized delineators along rivers, canals, large ditches, etc. Of 18 delineators along the American Fork Boat Harbor road all but three were taken. This road parallels the American Ameri-can Fork River which has been dredged to a. depth of as much as 10 feet deep in some spots. The reflectorized signs were helpful indicating the shoulder of the road, especially to motorists mo-torists passing each other eith- er in the same or opposite directions. di-rections. Other problems are such as removal of road closed signs, moving flasher barricades, barri-cades, etc. How to help Commissioner Roberts said that there are several ways the public can help in supporting a safe signing program. These are: Notify the Highway Department De-partment of Utah .County immediately im-mediately if a dangerous con-tioned con-tioned conditions is found before ment if one of the a foremen-tioned foremen-tioned coditions is foud before the department may have observed ob-served it. If someone is seen tampering with or removing a |