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Show :,H.ii!lilil!lllilillllllt!llHiilillilil)h Hid 9 Jte&id By SECOND-GUESSER iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii This week we publish our regular edition a couple of days early, 'cause who wants to work the day after 49-ers? We expect to leave after the celebration for a few days of soaking up sunshine, and the News Office will be closed the remainder of the week. The farmers in South Milford (especially Carl Goodwin) aren't getting much kick out of the unusual1. y heavy run-off of Beaver Beav-er Mountain snow waters. Carl's "front yard" is flooded for about as many acres as he'd like to i be cutting hay on, and the Cates ' road is overflowed near the old Weston place. Elsewhere on the Flats, run-off water is flooding the land and doing minor damage dam-age but many of the farmers are busy with their first hay cutting. , Just east of Milford traffic on . U-21 is on a "slow" basis, with ' water flooding over the highway . in three places. i The heavy runoff is expected i to continue for another two weeks, according to Hamner . Christensen, Forest Ranger in 1 the Beaver Mountains. About 475 to 500 second feet is flowing thru the mouth of the canyon, but it is expected that no major j damage will occur. ; i Lots of "Ohs" and "Ahs" asj Milford citizens turned kibitzer I and peeked thru the Jeff Merc j windows over the week-end as the quick-change was made from old-style to modern, more convenient con-venient arrangement of shelving, check stations, etc, in the groc- i ery department. While the remodeling is not . yet completed, the enlarged grocery department is now as ' convenient and attractive as any of the nation's mammoth super- markets. In addition to the new equipment equip-ment and fixtures installed, the future plans call for a self-service meat department, with shoppers shop-pers selecting their own pre-cut meats and roasts, I i Mrs, A. M. Connell is hobbling , around with a cane this week, ' after cracking an ankle last Fri-' day when she stepped into a hole in the pavement in front of the J. C- Penney store, Mrs. Connell thinks the City Dads should take a check-up on the springbrakers (and ankle crackers) on our streets, both downtown and in the residential area . and we agree. I Improvement was made a few weeks ago, as soon as the streets were dry enough to work on, But it's time to do the job over again. Among the hundreds of thousands thous-ands of booklets and pamphlets issued by the government, they are bound to hit a "natural" once in a while and offer the reading public something worth while. This week comes notice of a new booklet describing water-saving water-saving canal linings, at low cost. It reports six years of Bureau of Reclamation experiments and research and points out that at the 25 see?ge rate on unlined canals and laterals in 1949, the 3,900,000 acre feet of water lost on 46 federal projects would have been more than enough to irrigate an additional one million mil-lion acres of land. The booklet costs two-bits, and may be obtained from the Supt. of Documents, U S Gov't Printing Office, Washington 25, D. C, or from L- N. McClellan, Bureau of Reclamation, Denver Federal Center, Denver, Colo, With the progress being made on the new Masonic Temple, the Milford Masons are now offering offer-ing their old building andor lot for sale. Persons interested may contact Harold Cline. |