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Show LOCAL FIREMEN " EQUAL TO AHY Article Appearing in Newspaper . . Arouses "Ire- of Bingham Canyon Townspeople. In an account of the disastrous fire tf April 30, when the upper section of Bingham Canyon was gutted by fire, a Salt Lake City . Newspaper dwells at length upon the wonderful work done by the County Fire Department, De-partment, stationed at Murray. V- '$', The fact is that the County Fire ' Department did do wonderful work, in fact it is said that without the "aid of V' these sterling fire fighters the entire .V. town would have been wiped out. Be I that as it .may,,," the Press-Bulletin "f wishes to go on record as saying that without the Bingham Canyon Volunteers Volun-teers the county fire department would have been just as helpless as were, the Bingham Canyon lads without with-out the county fighters. , . This newspaper also comes out in its issue on the day following the catastrophe with the pictures of the county fire department. Why not the Bingham Canyon lads also? Is Bingham Bing-ham Canyon too far from the Utah metropolis for recognition? Whenever there is a fire in Bingham Bing-ham Canyon, every volunteer in the town does his very best, and pray what more could be asked of anyone? It is too bad that such men as represent rep-resent the Bingham Canyon Volunteer Volun-teer . Fire Department should be slighted in such a manner, and yet there are many in the county who feel that the only thing that Bingham Bing-ham Canyon should be given credit for is their enormous amount of taxes paid for the upkeep of said county. Once more let it be said that if the county fire department is efficient enough to get its picture placed in a Salt Lake City newspaper, then too, . Bingham Canyon also be allotted , space in this same newspaper, right along side of the county men, as the county firemen did not work one bit harder than did the local fire fighters fight-ers and vice versa. It is to be hopetl that in the future" that when men. f Bingham Canyon -do something worth while they will be remembered with "the same pub-, licity as that afforded others who re-. re-. ".. side closer to the Utah' metropolis. |