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Show ' 9 jbunMa, But 9 JtBana By STEVtl WILLIAMS Writing editorials and columns col-umns ain't no cinch. Lots of folks think it's awfully glamorous, glamor-ous, or romantic, or something, to write columns about interesting interest-ing people, with funny jokes in them, or to write a "burning editorial" cussing out someone for something, or telling the city dads what they ought to do next for the betterment of the ' community. It ain't so. I've seen Ernie Linford sitting sit-ting in his "ivory tower" in the Tribune building staring blankly blank-ly out a million miles or more through the window; and I've dropped in when Dan Valentine was glaring at the typewriter keys 1 ke they'd just said something some-thing mean about Elaine. And I've sat in front of a typewriter myself, with a dozen tiny ideas of ideas chasing each other around the empty spaces in my head, but the pieces never seem to jell into something to write about. And speaking of Linford and Valentine, the more important the writer, the tougher it is to - keep the calibre of the writing v up to expectations; the greater the pressure, the more anxiety in between ideas. Nope, it ain't no cinch. Next time you well-wishing friends start in with "You oughta write an editorial about . . . ", please keep going with some facts and figures and reasons. The street oiling is delayed. The chilly wind of the past few days has postponed completion comple-tion of the project, and it will not be resumed until the weather weath-er warms up a little. In this - j kind of weather the oil just lumps up and gums up the grader blade. But Milford has to try to jump the gun each year in order to use the necessary neces-sary equipment, so we must expect ex-pect the possibility of delay. Until the oiling can be re-x re-x sumed the ricks will stay in the middle of the streets, and residents resi-dents and motorists are asked to be patient . . . soon they'll have smooth streets to drive around on. With Clean-Up Week coming up it's going to be a little dif-iicult dif-iicult for the trash trucks to get up and down some of the streets, and householders should be extra careful to put their trash and rubbish in boxes or other convenient containers, so the trucks can handle it more easily, without scattering it in the usual Milford spring wind. Ben and Ruth Hillman flew over from Ely Monday, to take f Continued on Back Page) HERE'S MORE ABOUT IDUNNO . Continued from Page One Burnett Swindlehurst and a photographer on a mapping flight over the Beaver Mountains, Moun-tains, but seasonal (?) winds made the air too bumpy for taking movies. However, we got some nice shots of Milford from the air. Burnett has the idea of selling sell-ing investment capital on putting put-ting up a couple of tourist lodges in the Beaver Mountains and he has us "sold" on the idea. He plans photo flights in the next few days, to get the snow scenes, summer mapping, and autumn mapping, to picture the beautiful canyon area in all its year-round splendor. Only tiling is, we think some of the Beaver civic organizations organiza-tions sV"uld K'ck in with some expense rune, to help Burnett get the b.-U roiling. Another little "caution" in connection with the newly oiled streets: Please, you fellows who have horses, DON'T ride them on the fresh oil, until it has had time to thoroughly cure. There's nothing in the I world 'that tears up new paving like a shod horse's hoof. So please use other streets, or keep your horse on the grass, for a few weeks. Dave Pearce advises us that July 23 and 24 will be "Old Murdock Academy" days for the Beaver Centennial Celebration. C. Edwin Paice. committee chairman, would like to have 1 the school name and present name of all Murdock Academy students and teachers, and of all students and teachers of the Beaver Branch of the B Y U. So if you're a Murdock Academy Acad-emy or Beaver B Y U alumnus, send him your name, and if you know the address of any classmates class-mates now living out of the state, he'd also like that. Now's ihe time to start getting get-ting that pioneer costume ready for the 49ers. The Legion 49er committee made a nice gesture this week. Usually, money from the sale of those shaving permit badges is used for 49er expenses, but this year the committee announced that all profits from the sale of badges will be placed in the junior baseball fund. So get your badge and wear it and help some youngster play competitive junior baseball this summer. Having the only near-professional camera in town, we're called upon quite a bit to take pictures of everything from birthday parties to club meetings. meet-ings. And usually those who suggest we take pictures also suggest that "it shouid be in the ( paper." i We appreciate the interest of these friends of The News, but there is more to publishing a photo in the paper than just taking it. It runs into money, and much as we'd like to publish pub-lish a news picture of every social, civic or other gathering, we don't have that kind of money. First, there's the cost of film 1 and flashglobes and developing : solutions and sensitized paper and an expensive enlarger to pay for. And film for our 4x5 ' camera is about 12c a single sheet, compared to 35c or 45c for a roll of eight or more films tor your iavorite box camera. Then, after we get a picture, we have to send it to the Big City to have an engraving made, which takes three or four ! j3v-- -and also costs money. Many Utah newspapers don't have a camera at all, and publish pub-lish very few pictures. We are stretching our budget for pictures pic-tures as much as we possibly an, but thought we'd explain that there's more' to publishing a picture than just "having Steve take a picture and put it in the paper." (Gosh, after that first paragraph para-graph about how tough it is to write a column, sometimes, who's gonna believe me after reading all this?) |