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Show Ruminatin Roundabout f In which Ruminator proposes to dream a lot, think as little as necessary, scatter a few bou quets while their objectives are still above the sod to enjoy them, and fire a hot-shot now and then while said Rumma; or can enjoy seeing the apai t fly. For several years before coming to Milford the writer wondered why it was that this community, looked to as one of the most progressive pro-gressive in the state, was stilT functioning as a town when dozens of much smaller and less important communities in various parts of the state had changed to cities ol the third class with commensurate commensu-rate advantages in many ways. Coming to Milford a little over five years ago, we still continued to wonder why this condition ex-- ex-- isted but, until just lately, we fig ured we were alone in giving much thought to the matter. Now, however, how-ever, we find that others, among them some of the most substantial substan-tial citizens of the town, have likewise like-wise been doing a bit of wondering by themselves. During all this time Borne Milford people have sort of kidded themselves by referring refer-ring to the president of the v town board as "The Mayor", but there has been no legal 1 asis for doing so. The only other Utah community of importance compara'ble to Milford Mil-ford that we call to mind as having retained the town form of government gov-ernment was Bingham eanyci and this community only a few I weeks ago effected the change by gubernatorial proclamation the change being that easily accomplished! accomp-lished! One of the big advantages ot the city form of government is the assurance it gives against a com- j plete new governing board going into office at one time. The city form of administration consists of a mayor and five couneilmen all elected for two-year terms with the exception of one member of the council, who is elected for four ; years. Always it is thus provided j that there is a holdover member of the council to sit (with the new j , board. With all due respecct to j the present town board, the presi-i dent and all memlbers of which are I trying, hard to do the right thing j in the administration of town af-. fairs, the body would have been in a much better position to serve if there had been a member of the old board carrying over into the new administrjation, every member mem-ber of which found himself new to the work. It is understood that there are other advantages, includ-. ing the adoption and strict adher-1 ence to a budget but these arei matters anyone can easily investi-' gate, with Beaver, Fillmore, Paro-wan, Paro-wan, Cedar City, St. George and. Kanab among the towns of south- ern Utah who have this form of government, Kanab having changed chang-ed from town to city only two or three years ago. Under the old law it was necessary neces-sary for a town to vote the change but an amendment to the law, effected ef-fected toy the 1935 legislature (and for the special benefit of Kanab, as we remember it) provides as follows: ". . . any town shall have attained at-tained the population of 800 or more, it shall be the duty of the president of the town board of trustees to certify such fact to the governor. Up-( Up-( Continued on last pge) Ruminatin (Continued from first page) on receipt of such certificate, the governor may declare by public proclamation such city to be a city of the third class." There would not be oiecessary any change of board or officer personnel and all ordinances would remain in effect as theretofore, the statutes expressly providing for this. It is possible, however, that the present board, as a city council, would be expected to add a member to the council and perhaps per-haps to designate one of their number as a long-term councilman council-man to hold over into the succeeding succeed-ing administration, but we are not fully posted in this regard. While we are on the subject of town affairs, we should like to commend the administration and officers on what they have done toward getting rid of the weeds, but why were they not hauled away rignt alter cutting ; as it is, people who have kept their premises, prem-ises, and streets and alleys abutting abut-ting their properties, scrupulously free from weeds all summer, must now wrestle with armloads ol cut weeds from some other part oi town every time the wind blows! The implied suggestion is that these weeds should be hauled away as soon as cut. Burning weeds in town at this time of year is "poison" to hay fever sufferers and letting them dry and blow around town is bad too. But in hauling the weeds away, here's hoping they will be taken to the proper place! As it is, strangers in the community com-munity may well be excused if they dump trash anywhere west of the A. T. & T. building, build-ing, never getting to the near-ideal near-ideal dump grounds set up a few years ago. Tree limbs and other wreckage left by the May snowstorm may be found scattered from the west edge of town all the way to the place where it should have been dumped! |