Show Let's brighten up our towns with a spring clean-up I t SPRING WHICH has been observed in most of the larger communities in the United States for nearly 50 years is here ROOSEVELT lias by set the period of April 15 to April as the period to follow this half-century-old idea of getting ready for NO DOUBT OTHER CITIES in our area will follow the pattern of other years and join in the Spring Clean-Up I Campaign and brighten up their their their to make OUR TOWNS attractive to visitors and to IT'S VERY EASY TO DO your Simply take an hour or two to go over the things in your attic and basement or storage and throw out combustible trash that has If you have old magazines and news- papers that you no longer throw them If there r is a broken rocking chair or other piece of furniture which you will never use throw it THE SAME GOES FOR OLD old I old pillows and other articles which have been gathering dust for of tills type feed GIVE YOUR BASEMENT the same kind of Throw out old paint old paint and oily The National Board of Fire Underwriters reminds that by so doing you will not only clear your home of but eliminate potential fire WE OWE IT TO OURSELVES to reduce the of Last year in the United States there were compared with the previous In addition to the thousands last year were injured in 1 FIRES IN THE UNITED STATES in 1961 cost in property damage It was the highest dollar loss in history and an increase of per cent over the preceding IT WAS THE FIFTH YEAR in a row in which fire caused more than billion in property During the last five years our total property fire losses aggregated a staggering Think what we could have done with five and one-half billion dollars if we could have halted fires FOR WITH THIS amount of money we could have built 10 Hoover 30 Empire State and 50 Gate and still a few dollars IT IS MORE THAN WE WILL spend during the next fiscal year for Federal aid to space 1 and foreign economic and military aid combined IT IS MORE THAN OUR Federal Government will spend during the coming year on natural commerce and including highway and housing and community WITH FIVE AND ONE-HALF billion the people of the United States could have purchased compact A sum of this size could have provided tuition for complete four-year college educations for more than young ONLY BY REDUCING FIRE can we hope to slow down the mounting toll in lives and steady in fire property THE CITIZENS OF OUR TOWN are asked to make Spring Clean-Up a bang-up We can beautify our community by cleaning up empty and our shopping business and civic WE WILL ALL PROFIT BY HAVING made our community and span and safe for the coming |