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Show Dust Conditions Are Discussed At ! Lions Luncheon i j Discussion of the dust evil, which has been so unusually ! prevalent in and near Mil-ford Mil-ford this spring, came in for j some discussion Wednesday noon ' at the regular semi-monthly meet-I meet-I ing of the Milford Lions club, and I though no definite action was taken at the meeting, it is more than likely that the matter will ! be given a complete airing in the ' near future. Milford housewives , are literally up in arms at the ' condition, especially in view of j the fact that many local people ; believe that it is due in large measure to the moving of the former Newhouse shearing corral ; to a location near the Union Pacific Paci-fic roundhouse right at the edge of town. This makes it necessary to trail and hold the various herds closer to town than was the case heretofore, resulting in the de-1 de-1 struction of vegetation and cut-I cut-I ing up of the terrin, especially out south and west of town. ; Present at the luncheon as guests of the club were Pratt All-, All-, red, improvement supervisor for the United States Grazing Service; Ser-vice; C. P. Jones, property custodian cus-todian for the service; and Robert Elliott, superintendent of the Bur-bank Bur-bank CCC camp, which is being discontinued with the transfer of (tne Burbank enrollees to man the Milford camp. Twelve members of the club were in attendance, i The dust condition was brought to the attention of the club members mem-bers by Lion Edmund L. Smith, first vice-president and presidentelect. president-elect. Lion L. A. Wynaught, under un-der whose administration as president presi-dent of the town board of trustees the shearing plant was moved from Newhouse to Milford, suggested sug-gested that the increased dust nuisance was due to the abnormal dry weather. Other members, while agreeing that the condition was being aggravated by the continued con-tinued dry spell, expressed confidence confi-dence that the holding of sheep herds in such close proximity to the town was doing irreparable harm. In this theory they were borne out by the grazing service officials present, who stated that, unless measures were taken to reseed these' areas and restrict grazing and trampling, Milford would have an increasingingly serious dust condition with which to contend. |