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Show Taxpayers Will Soon Cast Votes On Bond Issue i Milford taxpayers will have a splendid ocportunity, on Tuesday, May 2, of silencing for all time the Ifritieism mac is sometimes raised that our town lacks "permanency". On that day Milford property owners will be able to tell the outside out-side world that they have faith in their town and in its legitimate claim as a community which is determined de-termined to be an ideal "home" town. May 2 is the date set for a special election at which qualified electors who paid a property tax during the past year will have the privilege of voting on a proposed $7500 municipal bond issue to provide pro-vide funds with which to carry on a parking and general beautifica-tion beautifica-tion program. The question is divided di-vided into three different parts: one, providing for $1000 to be used in beautifying the local cemetery; another, for $3000, to provide matching funds for a project to improve the fair grounds, located directly north of the high school a'thletid field and designated as the "North park"; and tlie third, for $3500, to be utilized in parking the municipally-owned area adjacent ad-jacent to the new library building, designated as "South park". The bonds have been contracted for at par, providing they are voted, and carry a rate of interests (by far the lowest rate of interest in the history of the town's bonding experience. Furthermore, Fur-thermore, the bonds are scheduled not to become due until the present pre-sent waterworks and library bond3 have been pretty well paid off, thus making it unnecessary at any time to raise the present levy of . 6 mills for bond sinking and interest in-terest purposes. Three bonds of $500 each are scheduled to be paid off in 1953-54-55, and the remaining remain-ing $6000 in two installments of $3000 each in 1956-57, according to information furnished The News. It is almost unthinkable that anyone with real community pride will be found opposing this question, ques-tion, meaning, as it does, so much to all those who do take pride in their town; and it is the hope of The News that the bond issue shall carry with big majorities for all three questions. It must not be forgotten that more than half of Milford's assessed as-sessed valuation, amounting to more than $762,000, is represented by railroad and utility properties situated within the town limits. As a result, those interests are required re-quired to assume more than half of any bonded indefbtedness voted by the town, making the burden of paying for modern advantages a light one for Milford people compared com-pared with almost every other town in the state; yet it is significant signifi-cant that you never find the railroad rail-road or utility interests opposing measures which are planned for the general good of the town. They want their employes to have the best possible in the way of school and other advantages, knowing know-ing well that enjoyment of these pririleges and benefits makes for contentment and better service. It is hoped that individual taxpayers, tax-payers, most of whom will never pay more than a dollar or so of this indebtedness will follow the example of the these larger interests in-terests and make possible this big step, forward in the way of com-muity com-muity betterment. Each of the" projects is one which will, in days to come, be pointed to with pride even by those who may be lukewarm luke-warm toward the program on firsi, thought. |