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Show Health Council Urges Citizens To Help Make "Our Town" More Sanitary and Healthful "Let's make our town morei sanitary and healthful" is the slogan of the local Health Council, working in cooperation with the city and Jaycees in the clean up campaign. To accomplish these desirable ends residents must do more than rake lawns and flower beds and pick up cans and rubbish. Flies, rodents and mosquitoes are real menaces to public health. During this spring clean-up is an ideal time to seek out the breeding places of these dangerous pests and to eradicate them. Hauling away all manure from corrals, pig pens, poultry coops and rabbit hutches will not only improve health conditions but will make life much more pleasant for residents resi-dents of the area. Rodents love to hide in old piles of loose boards and rubbish. Lumber Lum-ber should be piled neatly and all ors can be had from the local burned as the first step in such pest control, said Dr. Gordon Johnson of the county health council. i Dr. Johnson said also that cleaning clean-ing up a city is important But keeping it clean requires special provisions for daily garbage disposal. dis-posal. For those who can not afford af-ford to pay for city truck disposal, dispos-al, residents should build incinerators inciner-ators to do the work without unsightly un-sightly marring of the home premises. pre-mises. Plans for such incinerators incinerat-ors can be had frmo the local health council, said Mrs. Lucile Walker, president. Another suggestion for keeping the city neat in appearance is the regular mowing of weeds and grass that line the roads and sidewalks. The grass is green and beautiful now. If the edges of sidewalks side-walks and roads are raked, rocks removed and the vegetation mowed mow-ed regularly it will not prove difficult diffi-cult and will do away with the unsightly un-sightly weeds that later line such places. What an improvement that would make to our city. Lets unite to make Pleasant Grove the cleanest, most sanitary city in the state. |