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Show Wednesday , October 20, 1971 6 BLUE *} BONNET RGARINE M.D. COUNTRY SIDE MEDIUM ‘AA’ GRADE EGGS | TOILE TISSUE THE HERALD,Provo, Utah—Page 22 DEL MONTE CATSUP = t i a 140Z. BOTTLE Det Monte 4 ROLL PKG. » BOTTLES BAR-S HAMS WHOLE ORHAIF...... ib. 98° Writer Asks: Who's PRE-SLICED ...... ......... » 91° In Charge in Town years of mounting accidents RATH PEPPERONI U.S.D.A. CHOICE BONELESS CENTER CUT $, 69° DAK SALOMI NS BONELESS TOP ROUND». °1 3” FRYER THIGHS| FRYER LEGS FRYER BREASTS »_18° Tt bp.68' _ T-BONE STEAKS TURKEY HIND QUARTER ROAST U.S.D.A. CHOICE lb. “A” GRADE $439 RIB STEAKS................. ae SLICED BACON. a 94° SIRLOIN | — TIP ROAST» ° 1"? BACON. n:. 98: FRANKS... 59 RUMP ROAST 1° 1° BONELESS days, was zere, The mayor N. J.—() afternoon, coming home, I drove across the main intersection of this town at about the same time another man was driving 4 Never mind who was in the wrong. I stomped on my brakes and swervedleft. He stomped on his and swerved right. We stopped, bumpers kissing, not more than afewfeet or slow reaction away from serious iajury, possibly more. I was terrified. Angry. Terrified at the thought of the missed accident, angry because the main intersection of this town does not have a propertraffic signal I said to a neighbor ‘“!’m BONELESS SIRLOIN OLD WORLD TEXAS CUT RUMP... Tene les correct. Nobody in authority in my t: wn can remember with certainty when the publie campaign began, but the borough clerk says: ‘Fifteen years is probably right. Everybody has complained at one time or another. We've had dozens of accidents at the intersection over the years. It’s a main cross- ing for schoolkids. Butin all this time there's still not a Why not? Because, it seems, in this town and in most towns, the people do not control all of their own destinies. Because they do not make their own decisions. Because, for all of the elections and taxes, the people have woefullylittle power. The traffic light is a depressing example. The peo- ple wantit, demandit, need it, deserve it—butstill in all they don't, to this point any way, have it. The situation began in the late 1950s, as this part of northern Jersey continued to open up to crowd-weary resi- dents of New York City Once nland, the area GLEEM TOOTHPASTE - SECRET ANTIws PERSPIRANT DEODORANT ew i A MUST FOR THE HUNT , h $1.09 VALUE $1.09 VALUE ) SS 4 9: $2.05 $ VALUE 1°? 69° EASY RIDER RAZOR WITH PURCHASE OF 4 BLADES section was a county inter- section and the county governedit So the people, through the council, went to the county, which had less interest in the crossing than mostresidents thought. “We have 70 municipalities in the county,” one resident was told, “ande' one is screaming for traffic lights,” Besides. the county added, sighed, it was out of the county's hands. The state is the de- feet from the pavement. Peo: ple going either direction on the hill usually go fast, ei ther because of or seeking momentum. And peop! ing to the grocery store o! block off, back up into, or obscure the vision for one full side of the roadcrossing In thebi theinter section had no traffic control at all except for sideroad stop signs. Andafter several whereas, not sec dangerous as the peopie said. So the state rejected an application for a traffic signal, and instead suggested that the stop signs be painted, or something like that. The situation stagnated then, For two more years. Until one day a Volkswagen with an infant passenger was traveling through the intersection and was violently crushed by a car coming the other way. The baby, two months old, was instantly killed. The people were stunned The town was, too. Even the county. And the state had to take another look. Sometime after the accident, in 1966, the state determined again no light was needed and wondered again about painting the stop sign. After that, the town decided privately to circumvent the law It erected a light of its own. A blinker. Which is mostly worthless. And which has been winking over the horrible intersection mostly as a memorial to the slaughtered tot Officials insist the blinker is only temporary. They say a genuine traffic light has finally been approved by the state ‘in April of 1969). They say all that remains to be done, harrumph. is a few more years of fiddle faddle andfooling around. Meanwhile, I almostkilled somebodyat the crossing the other day. Little children dodge big trucks now that school's open police chief s agin. The he just doesn't know what to do about it at all, The mayor. sounding like the mayor of 15 years ago, says the whole thing is a downright shame. And the people of my town can only shake their heads and wonder who's in charge aroundhere. Five Cycle Gang Members Sentence the Death Draw The men were found guilty AIKEN, S.C. (UPI)—Five FRE 51.89 VALUE 69: came in so did their auto mobiles. Thus the mainintersection of the town becamecrowded, and the residents became concerned, Then, as now, it hill, and thereis a small but busy grocery store not 20 SIZE FAMILY SIZE gave way to residential sprawl; and as the settlers was a poorly engineered crossing. It lies on a steep 4 oz. explained that it was out of his hands—that the inter- signer of the master traffic plan, and so the state must give the first O.K. Onward and upward then, to the state, which, of course, had even less interest than going to complain.” the county, and had considHesaid, ‘Join the crowd.” erably more municipalities screaming for stoplights. “What? But finally, on Jan. 4, “People here have been trying to get a_ stoplight 1964, some official action was taken. The state investithere for 15 years.” gated the intersection and Incredibly, the neighbor is found it to be, wherefore and stoplight there.”” lb. BAR-S RATH THICK SLICED ing of teeth wa many town councils. But the result of it all, in the early 5 OZ. PKG. lb. b. 58° | the townsfolk began to grumble Letters were written to the mayor and officials. Much lamenting problems townin New Jer 5 y relate to & Provo % Springville % American Fork ¥% Orem - membersof a motorcycle gang havebeen sentenced to death in the electric chair for the murder of two members of another motorcycle club. Circuit Judge James Alexander Spruill Jr., who said it ‘vas the first death sentence he had handed down in 10 years on the bench,set an execution date for Dec. 10, but took a motion for a new trial advisement. last week with no recommendation for mercy, making sentences mandatory against Leland Osgood, 32, McCelville, S.C.; Dennis G. Davis, 23, West Carollton, Ohio; William R. Holland, 20, Vero Beach, Fia.; Gary V. Faustn 20, Monroe, Ore., and Bruce G. Poe, 24, Cleveland, Ohio, Holland cried as Spruill read the sentence. |