Iron County Record | 1954-07-08 | Page 2 | The Life You Save May be Your Son's

The Life You Save May Be Your Son's The Utah Municipal League has. launched a state-wide campaign to safeguard the children of the state against death in abandoned ice hoxes. The league, through its board of officers and directors, called on each of the L'ld municipalities in Utah to eliminate locally the hazard which claimed many tots throughout the country dming the past year. The campaign calls for a proclamation issued by the city designating tin week of July 2t as "Abandoned Refrigerator Refriger-ator Week." During the week citizens and civic organizations organiza-tions will be urged to ferret out abandoned ice boxes in their neighborhood, and to obtain consent of the owners to remove the catches or hingles or to destroy them. In Cedar City this should be "law enforcement week," since the city council some time ago passed an ordinance requiring the removal of all catches or locks from any abandoned refrigerator. We have no way of knowing how many people in Cedar City have obeyed this ordinance when discarding an ice box of any kind. The move to eliminate all such hazards to chilldren is a worthy undertaking, and it is hoped that if any such hazards are found in the city that action is taken immediately. immed-iately. If such abandoned ice boxes are found anywhere, Ihe need to "obtain consent of the owner" is entirely unnecessary. un-necessary. Those who find such hazards should proceed to remove the locks, call attention of the owner to the necessity neces-sity of removing the locks, or merely notify the police. It would be well for the people of Cedar City to coop-orate coop-orate in the move sponsored by the Municipal League, and to see to it that the ordinance is enforced. No one should dismiss the danger that might exist merely because be-cause "it is against the law." A few minutes action may save the life of -some tot. Anyone know ing of such abandoned aban-doned refrigerators or ice boxes with locks remaining on them should act immediately.