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Show IRu initiator 4 In which anyone and everyone every-one is invited to express an opinion about anything and everything that will help Milford Mil-ford so long as they don't "cuss no one out" that privilege priv-ilege is reserved. : A beautiful blanket of clean, white sncw started sifting into Milford Wednesday morning, and changed into a good-sized blizzard later in the day. Melting Melt-ing in the afternoon, the storm took a new hold with the coming of colder weather after dark, and promises to cover, for a few days at. least, some of the fallen leaves that have been cluttering up a good many of the Milford yards including ours. Only thing that's bothering most of the residents who hadn't raked their leaves (including us) is the fear that the blanket of pure clean snow will melt and trickle away before we get ready to tackle the leaf-raking task. : Lots of activity on the Tri-State Tri-State block, with the contractors and their locally-hired labor getting get-ting right at the job of building a good-lookin' $35,000 building on the lot that has been an eyesore eye-sore so long. Another eye-sore, on the south end of the library , park, will begin to take on new beauty when the Legionnaires get on the ball Saturday and Sunday and begin actual con, struction of their new home. it 4 Dear Ruminator: You have probably received a number of letters this week commenting on the fine work our Milford Volunteer Fire Department De-partment has been doing in connection con-nection with fires and airplane accidents, and I hope I'm not the last one to say "Good work, j boys! That's just what this city needs to keep our rating on top." I don't think anybody can . complain about the fine spirit and enthusiasm the men have, nor about the fine fire-fighting .apparatus they handle so well, but I would like to offer- a suggestion sug-gestion to the' fire department and the city officers, that would help strengthen the now sturdy department, and lessen the dangers dan-gers that go with a fire in the south end of town. I think we NEED a siren some place in our end of town, that would sound off simultaneously simultan-eously with the one we now have in what was formerly the center of town. Fires come and go, and we never know anything about them until we read all about it in The Milford News. It is impossible to hear the siren unless one is listening for it every minute, which is quite an inconvenience, and if my neigh- bor's house was burning I would never be able to save his life or kiss him good-bye, because be-cause I probably wouldn't know anything about it until it was all over. I would like to see this suggestion sug-gestion argued pro and con in your column in order to find out what other people think about it, and to see what parts of town cannot hear the siren at the time of a fire alarm. H. A. HICKMAN. Well, "Hub," we can answer for the extreme southwest section sec-tion of our city. The siren can be heard up there if you're listening for it or everything just happens to be quiet. The sound is so faint, that it greatly resembles the whine of the Streamliner going thru at nite, . and we've rushed outside several sev-eral limes, thinking the Streamliner Stream-liner was the fire siren. Perhaps we don't need another anoth-er siren, tho. We believe if the alarm were place on top of the water tower, or in some other similar high spot, the sound waves would penetrate to every section of town. Dear Ruminator: There is a lot of vandalism going on in the lobby of the post office each night between the hours of 6 p. m. and 11 P- m., when the night marshal closes the office for the night. These vandals use this lobby for a gathering and necking center cen-ter and also resort to destroying destroy-ing property in the lobby, tearing tear-ing down posters, emptying waste baskets over floors, and writing vulgar names and words on tables and walls. If this nuisance isn't stopped the postmaster will be compelled com-pelled to close the office at b p. m., thereby causing a great ." inconvenience to the public This hoodlumism m u s t dc ' stopped and anyone found oi "... caught molesting, destroying . property, or found using lobbv as a loafing and necking (Continued on Page Five) HERE'S MORE ABOUT RUINATOR Continued from 'Page One place will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. The post office lobby is for you to come in and get your mail at night, but it is not to be used as a hideout for hoodlums! If any citizen should see any of these molesters busy in the lobby of the post office at night, it would be greatly appreciated if their names be given to the postmaster, and proper action will be taken. RUDOLPH NIELSEN, Postmaster. : Kyoto, Japan, Oct, 31.' Hi, Steve! I suppose you have your big buck all hung up by now, and know you had a great deal of tun getting him. I would like to do a little hunting myself. Tut about all there is to hunt here is mushrooms and ducks. I am sending check for a ! vear's subscription, as I think it is either due or over-due. Change the address to conform to the one below. Give my regards to the family fam-ily and any other friends of mine in Milford. Yours. ROY. Capt. Ephraim L. Puffer Hq I Corps, G-4 Section APO 301 San Francisco ! |