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Show ! Evet?bo&'8 j IRuimiutor In which anyone and everyone is invited to express their opinion opin-ion about anything and everything every-thing that will help Milford so long as they "don't cuss no one uui' that privilege is reserved. The Utah State Press Association Associ-ation is' sponsoring a Highway Safety Campaign "for our Cen-. Cen-. tennial, Year. Hundreds of ' .thousands of outside visitors will help jam our highways this summer. sum-mer. With an already high accident acci-dent rate, unless extreme caution is the watchword of Utah motorists, motor-ists, our death rate will zoom . to appalling heights. Scheduled to run for 13 weeks, the campaign is directed at education edu-cation of motorists and pedes- trians alike. , Every newspaper in Utah is participating, with advertisements prepared by recognized rec-ognized safety experts, dramatically dramat-ically presenting common causes of highway casualties and their remedy; a series of articles written writ-ten by state and national officials offi-cials and safety experts; actual photographs of Utah accidents, dramatically displaying the results re-sults of improper or illegal highway high-way practices; safety tips, and editorial and news features. Attention of News readers is especially called to the "safety tip" appearing on this page, and to the advertisement on page eight, sponsored this week by the Milford State Bank. We have had so many calls for the February 21 issue of The News that our reserves have been depleted. We'd appreciate ap-preciate receiving a few copies from subscribers who may still have that issue. : We were "flabbergasted" this week when Asa E. Dixon of Los Angeles and Milford showed us a washtub containing various files, bolts, nuts, pieces of wire cable, and other assorted articles, which he had fished from the bottom of his well north of town. Mr. Dixon said his well house had been "run into with a two ton truck, and then shot full of holes." After straightening up the well house, he attempted to pump the well, used to irrigate his flax acreage. The well wouldn't pump, and believing it to be "sanded up," his workmen began cleaning it out. The as- sortment of junk was.fished out. This is not only vandalism and the type of lawlessness that makes a person lose faith in his fellow man, it is sheer sabotage of the future of Milford. While merchants, business men and citizens are attempting to interest inter-est manufacturers, miners, farmers farm-ers and others to consider Milford Mil-ford as' a site for their operations, opera-tions, trying to build Milford into a thriving little city, irresponsible, irre-sponsible, warped-minded individuals indi-viduals commit such acts of depredation, undoing in a few minutes many months of work by others. A At the ChamDer of Commerce meeting Wednesday evening, a few pretty strong statements were made regarding lack of proper functioning of some of the city trustee duties. We agree that everything in our city isn't as desirable as we would like to have it. But we can't concur in all the complaints. com-plaints. And we can't overlook the fact that the city dads are trying to make a living at full-time full-time jobs while they help run the city. Running a city takes a lot of time, and the pay our trustees are drawing hardly would support a family. Our streets are a disgrace. It's a fact that the city dads won't deny. We believe they could be put in a lot better shape, even with shortages of materials and all.- At least the. town grader could smooth out some of the bumps. Regarding the sewer system, which admittedly isn't all it might be, our information is that it was sufficiently modern to serve the needs of Milford up until the war years brought an increase in population, and residences. res-idences. Since then, it's been like pulling eye teeth, trying to i i get soil pipe.' The garbage deal is really a "stinker." We believe that incinerators in-cinerators in the alleys or lots back of the business houses, to burn cardboard boxes and paper, pa-per, and a larger, city-owned incinerator in-cinerator at the dump to burn the grapefruit rinds and coffee grounds is the only satisfactory solution. And. of course, a more modern truck to do the pick-up job. Perhaps we're too small a city to "put on airs" with these more modern, sanitary improvements. But it isn't too early to start thinking about them, and' planning plan-ning for them. |