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Show Appeal! Tcxls 4. This truck is the very latest in fire fighting equipment. It is a pumper type carrying its own water supply. (Usually a fire can be put out if water is applied to it within the first four minutes. The phone number again is 2351, don't put it off any longer, whatever what-ever you want to give will be appreciated. If you don't have a phone use the neighbors and if you are not on speaking terms with the neighbor, you may leave the money at my homo, 192 South Main. ft more convenient, B. Cobbley, 2814, or Dean Atwood, 2591 will come and get the money or you may contact any Jaycee. Fire losses are the highest in the nations history. Pleasant Grove Manila and Lindon have one fire truck and it is only good protection protect-ion for a small percentage of the fires in that territory. Those fires that are located close enough to a water supply that this present truck can pump from. Now that winter is upon us the irrigation ditches are dry and that leaves only the fire hydrants. How close are you to a fire hydrant? It is my guess that you couldn't honestly hon-estly point in the right direction to it as you read this, let alone know if the present truck has e-'hough e-'hough hose to reach your home after they do hoik onto the hydrant. hy-drant. Now for once, let's look at some facts. You can not put out two fires at the same time with one truck. If my home and your home both got on fire at the same time and I turn in Xie alarm seconds before you do, I will get the protection from the present truck & you will get the truck from American1 Fork or Orem and I doubt if they would be of much value to you after traveling so far. Another thing, what makes you think that this truck will always start. Your own car quits at times for no reason at all. Automobile accidents are on the increase and one of these times our fire truck is going to be in one of them and never get to the fire at all. As I see it you have but two choices. Either give towards the new fire truck or buy more fire insurance. If you will call me I will be glad to call at your home and collect your donation for the fire truck in behalf of the Junior Chamber of Commerce. Fred V. Sumsion, Phone 2351 Facts about the new truck: 1. The truck is being purchased by donations simply because the city does n it have enough money to pay for it. 2. The reason the city has not enough money to pay for it is because be-cause after the truck is presented to the city they are going to spend in the neighborhood of $8,000 to equip it. 3. It will take 120 days to get the equipment built into this truck after the truck chassis is purchased by your donations. |