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Show A FRONT-PAGE EDITORIAL Many times during the past several years officials of the Associated Civic Clubs of Southern Utah have urged on the Milford Lions club their desire to serve the club in any way possible. Also for some time now, the highway directly connecting Milford and Delta and serving large areas of western Beaver and Millard counties, has been considered the major project of the Milford club. Last Saturday this road project was finally placed before the association over the name of the Milford member of the association directorate, thanks to the work of a special committee appointed for-that purpos e after a hectic meeting of the Lions club. But, as predicted by some of those who had observed the earlier trend of the meeting, it was plainly apparent that the skids had been well greased for this purpose at the executive ex-ecutive session of the directors in the. fore noon, and the application for consideration of the road received scant attention. Unmindful of the fact that this is an inter-county road connecting two of the most important towns represented in the association, the project apparently is due to be completely com-pletely ignored under the excuse that it is a "county road" and some hazy rule or regulation regu-lation of the association prevents the association from going into such mattera! Such a rule (if there is one) that permits the association to work for half a dozen mountain roads connecting highways 89 and 91 at 15- to 25-mile intervals roads thai are expensive to construct and are usable only a part of each year while denying to the Milford-Delta project some measure of support, is screwy, to say the least! And the sooner this "rule" is changed, or "the rules and regulations suspended" (as is repeatedly done at meetings of the group) to permit hearty support of the only project officially placed before them by the Milford Lions club, just that much sooner will Milford people feel that the association is governed by the high ideals of helpfulness with which the association has been accredited. |