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Show CLEAN-UP TIME Soon thousands of American communities will inaugurate inaugu-rate their annual clean-up campaigns. Those campaigns give all towns a chance to achieve two highly important goals a handsomer town, and a safer town. A properly managed clean-up drive helps to lessen the ever-present danger of fire. Vacant lots are cleared and diverted di-verted of litter. Old shacks are torn down. Buildings are repaired and painted. Dead trees and bushes are cut down. And when that happens, fire hazards disappear. Order and cleanliness are among fire's most effective enemies. Hear is a real opportunity in which every town, no matter mat-ter how small, can participate. Every citizen should cooperate. co-operate. It's a rare town indeed which doesn't contain eyesores: eye-sores: rattletrap buildings, long unoccupied; lots on which weeds have grown waist high; accumulations of junk and refuse which belong in an incinerator; lines of broken fences, etc. Clean-up week needn't be expensive. The combination com-bination of a little paint, plus plenty of elbow grease, will work wonders in many cases. A wrecking bar and a bonfire bon-fire will do the work in most others. m |