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Show !!!!!!!!!!l!!!!l!il!!!nnill!!l!lll!ill!!!,!I! Hut 9 JieanA. . . By SECOND GUESSER The only money that goes as far today as it did in 1940 is the nickel that rolls under the bed. Neal O'Hara. This week we had our first real spell o' sickness since we've been in Milford must be an awfully healthy place to I've. Anyway, a s:oe cf illness and a really large prin'irw job i :i a shop this size fi8,000 potato "shim.s" for the spud packers who are shipping the Mi!ford Wit y pol:ito harvest, are jointly responsible for the paper being late this week. And while we were stewing around trying to cut corners and g''t The News out on time, we lan into a Quotation in this month';: Coronet: "I can't see no use in hurryin' when there's a perfectly good day comin' tomorrow that ain't even been touched yet." We'd all probably be a lot better bet-ter off if we'd sort of adopt that quotation as a, habit. One of Milford's really pub'ic spirited citizens, who goes abou. hjs public services and Milford boosting sort of quietly, is Bert Smithson. At the Fourth of July celebration this year, Bert made the committee a present of a-nice tender steer for free barbeque for the kids, and a day or two ago he handed Perry Neal a check for $100 to help the Bulldog Bull-dog Club pay their half of the cost of lighting the football field. The kids won't forget Bert for a long time. Alcoholics Anonymous, the non-profit, non-sectarian group of men and women who have banded band-ed together in an. effort to solve the problem of alcoholism, have - scheduled regular group meetings, meet-ings, at 8 p. m. each Saturday, in the Valley Rooms. A phone call to the chairman of the group, at 167-J, will bring full particulars and any information desired. This week we received an unsigned un-signed letter and a clipping from another publication, showing a sign posted in Washington warning warn-ing sportsmen to apply at the landowner's house for permission permis-sion to enter the premises before beginning their hunt. The sign points out that "Hunting and Fishing on Farmers' Lands are NOT RIGHTS, but PRIVILEGES. DO NOT ABUSE THEM." The letter states: .. "Comes fall and comes another headache for the farmer, so I have enclosed an article on hunting, hunt-ing, which applies to pheasant hunting in this area. Every year more fences are broken down and more new crops trampled out by these so-called so-called hunters that it's getting beyond be-yond a joke to the landowner Even those fields which are posted are entered as if the dumb numbskulls couldn't read. It's really amazing how many "hunters" "hunt-ers" will shoot toward the farm houses, too. This farmer doesn't even hunt on his own property so why should others be allowed to set foot on his property. Also, the law should get on the tails of the California potato pickers or workers. This time of year finds them poaching pheasants all the time. I do hope this article can be published, as people need waking up to this fact. I don't think I'm being unjust, either. Thank you. A TAX PAYER. |