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Show MILFORD STREETS GET GRAVEL TOP " "The Beaver County Commissioners, Commis-sioners, Milford town employes and Western Beaver County miners teamed up from Monday to Thurs; day of this week In a cooperative' effort to beat the weather and get Milford's streets in first class condition before the next snowfall Neglected by workmen, "beat up" by four bitter war-winters and kicked around by mine and cattle trucks, the streets were a pitiable sight. Then the spring thaws changed the crossings where sewers sew-ers served newly constructed homes from bumps to "straddle trenches," and the streets became all but Impassable Im-passable to vehicular traffic. Last Thursday, the town board accepted the county commission's offer of county equipment tc spread new gravel on some of the streets. The mine operators heard the good news, and offered use of their trucks to haul to moist gravel to the rutted traffic lanes. On Monday morning the work began, with the new county grave loader filling the ore trucks, the county grader spreading it, and town employes working up a healthy sweat putting on the finishing fin-ishing touches. For nine hours Monday, from early morning till after twilight, surprised townspeople towns-people gleefully watched the rapid change as more than 100 loads of gravel spread a 3-inch coating over 2 blocks of streets in the residential resi-dential district. Tuesday and Wednesday Wed-nesday the work continued, and by Thursday every street in town that needed resurfacing had been covered cov-ered with moist, well-packed gravel. As soon as spring weather is assured, as-sured, oil will be mixed with the gravel, then it will be well rolled and Milford's motirists may face the 1946 winter without fear of bogging down if they stray from the main highway arteries. |