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Show 9 jbuutaf But 9 Jteana. By STEVE WILLIAMS Having fun is like having insurance the older you get, the more it costs you. Noticed a couple of fiies early in the week, when the weather became so salubrious everyone (almost) was out in the yard cleaning out the flower beds, spreading barnyard essence, and getting the yard ready for spring. Now is the time to Swat That Fly! For every fly killed now means thousands less eggs to hatch later in the year, when we'll be plagued with enough . of the pests anyway. So every one get their flit-gun cleaned up and start hitting the garbage cans early, and we'll have a healthier, more pleasant spring and summer. And with spring cleaning, folks will be taking evening drives and many of them will be dumping rubbish along the highways. We were asked to advise our readers that them days are gone when refuse is i'ound along the highway (or under a culvert), county officers will be checking it for identifying identify-ing objects, and when they can trace a guilty person, the limit of the law will be invoked. There's really no need for dumping rubbish along a highway. high-way. On your evening drive it takes only a couple of minutes to drive by the city dump and deposit the trash where it's supposed to be. Or if the trash is placed in proper containers the city garbage truck will dispose dis-pose of it for you. The direct mail boys are still .frantically searching' 'for new gimmicks to induce people to open their trash mail. Latest we've noticed is marking the envelope: "Free Gift For Wom- .en Only." For a while it was "Important Open Now!" hi big red letters, then "Air Mail Reply Re-ply Requested," and even one outfit had something about "Free Money Inside." They did have a brand new penney in the envelope, but with all their gimmicks, Norman and Junior . Btill have overflowing waste baskets and littered floors in the post office lobby each day. With the money that's wasted daily in junk mail tossed unopened un-opened in the post office waste basket, and littering the street for two blocks, they could buy a lot of GOOD advertising space in The Milford News that's the ' BEST way to get Milford folks to read an advertiser's message. Think we ought to ask our Milford subscribers, though, to please wait 'till they get home before they start reading The News. Sometimes we almost get heart failure watching some of the narrow escapes when readers are so interested, walking walk-ing down the street, they forget to stop reading while crossing intersections. Guy Whittaker may be good at raising spuds, but at other things I Dunno. Seems several friends have stopped at his South Milford potato pit to chat with him when they saw his car parked there during the past two or three weeks, but Guy wasn't nowhere around. They asked him about it a couple of days ago and he told 'em the car was broke down "Won't run," Guy said. "I've got to get a mechanic to go out and fix it." "What's wrong?" Claude Hor-ton Hor-ton wanted to know. "It won't run," Guy said, ' the darned lan belt came off.' Anyone have a good used piano they don't need? Call The News and we'll put you in - touch with a prospective pur chaser, who wants to "try a used one first, to see if my girl really wants to learn to play the piano or if it's just a passing fancy." |