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Show - J, Ruminatin' $ Roundabout In which Ruminator proposes to dream a lot, think as little as necessary, scatter a few bouquets bou-quets while their objectives are still above the sod to enjoy them, and fire a hot-shot now and then while said Ruminh: or can enjoy seeing the sparks 2 I Upwards of $4,000.00 could have been saved to the schools and towns of Beaver county a few days ago had the state legislature of 1935 used a bit of foresight in wording the act which gave to boards of county commissioners wide powers in the adjustment of delinquent taxes, while deleting certain safeguarding provisions theretofore existing against abuse of the adjustment privilege. And saved the upheaval of public opinion which has come about since the Beaver County board, within the full legal powers of the act, slashed the back taxes of certain highly valuable and income producing property in this county. The act very nicely provides for posting within the county the action ac-tion taken within ten days AFTER its consummation! Pretty much a case of closing clos-ing the barn door after the old faithful family nag has been stolen! Had the act provided for advance filing of the applications for adjustments ad-justments and proper notice given in the papers of the county, where it should be. given, all this fuss and "the biggest steal in the history his-tory of the county," as one prominent promi-nent taxpayer expressed himself could have been saved. And the interests of no worthy applicant would have been injured. Had advance notice been required, re-quired, we'll wager the slashes which have brought the most criticism onto the heads of the county commissioners would never have been made! In the first place, several of the applicants wouldn't have had the nerve to ask for such huge reductions; reduc-tions; second, had they asked, there would have been such a storm of protest raised that no board would have acted favorably. MORAL: Publicity, properly proper-ly applied, puts a pretty positive posi-tive pedal on these and other matters ! High school day at Cedar City, while again a big success in most respects, left some things much to be desired. For one thing, the arrangement ar-rangement of group events gave interested onlookers from one town little or no opprtunity to witness the performances of competing groups from other communities, as has been the case other years. This, in our opinion, defeats one of the fundamental purposes of high school day, for one of the big interests in-terests of the day is lost when parents par-ents and friends of contesting students stu-dents may see only their own youngsters in action. While this is not possble, perhaps, in the case of individual events, there seems no good reason for shunting one school off to one certain hall or school room and the others elsewhere else-where for most or all of the group numbers, where the audiences must, of necessity, be made up a most exclusively of people from the respective communities. It has been different other years. And to get back to the old plan for future high school days will meet with general and hearty approval. While on the subject of high school day: It was not one nor a few but many of those in attendance attend-ance who noticed the absence of our old friend, King Hendricks. The latter is now a valued member of the faculty of the parent college col-lege at Logan, but, until this year, he has been so much a part of the branch college at Cedar City and a big factor in the success of high school days that the event did not seem quite the same without him. Members of the Milford Lions club may expect a call for a special meeting almost any evening now if and when it should turn right cool. And, what's more, if said meeting is called, all those responding re-sponding can be assured they will be furnished with the biggest big-gest and blackest cigars that are stocked at the Corner drug store. No, it's no case of a blessed (Continue J en last page) 0 Rwninatin (Continued from first page) event, even if Dr. X did say t'other night that there was a pair of twins coming up soon to someone in his audience. It's this way: Lion President La Mar Outzen, a year or so ago, decided to go into the orchard business busi-ness on a big scale and this year his trees one peach, one pear, one cherry, one apple and one plum are blooming for the first time at his cozy home on Sixth Avenue. But if this midsummer-like weather should change to the barest hint of frost you can rest assured that special meeting meet-ing is going to be called and the cigars furnished. Someone Some-one might be mean enough to suggest that some of the cigars ci-gars he sells might kill the trees, but if there's any danger of this, we can expect him to augment his list of invited guests to include the fire department de-partment and a few other organizations. or-ganizations. Speaking of weather, friends from Wyoming who spent Monday night with us were completely taken by surprise to view the daffodils almost through blooming and a row of vari-colored tulips at their best at Mr. and Mrs. Ru-minator's Ru-minator's home address While they had left home with snow piled high on lawns and detoured highways made unsafe to travel! At that, it must he that Milford is 'way ahead of other parts of the state for the Salt lake Tribune garden editor was telling only the other day of tulip buds "about to form." You'll meet many interesting persons attached to the government govern-ment service, with the park service about as lucrative as any in this respect. These fellows usually have a saving sense of humor that gets them over som tough spots and aids materially in a fine relationship relation-ship between Uncle Sam's custodianship cus-todianship of the wonders of the west and the visitors who go to view them. The guard we contacted at the entrance to Zion national park last Sunday was no exception to the rule. Russell was his name and he later vouchsafed the information that he knew Frank Martines well and would have liked awfully well to have been in attendance at the recent Milford meeting of the Associated As-sociated Civic clubs. But, to get pack to the park entrance. en-trance. When told that we were from Milford he had the nerve to ask if that was in Utah. To get I even with him he was told that this here town was in Utah but sometimes we had given serious thought to joining up with Nevada Ne-vada if they would have us over there. Then, belying his pretended ignorance of the town, he asked us what Nevada had that Milford did not have! That had us stumped for a comeback but we got even with him when we finally eked out of him the fact that he came from Provo. With that, we gave him a dirty look and passed on in. With such fellows as these in the service of Uncle Sam, one can readily overlook the ho wed-down-with-power popinjay popin-jay one meets on other occasions occa-sions ! |