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Show Deal Gill: ' May 19, 1949 :. Andy Norling's new building is going up according to sched-,' sched-,' ule, and before long his high , board fence will come down. In (i case you don't know, that fence serves as more than a blind. It is a safety factor to keep people i from falling into the excavation V or from getting hit on the head 'with a falling hammer. . It might not be a bad idea i when Andy takes the fence ('down, for Dry Gulch to buy it : and fence off its open ditch which runs through town. That ditch just about took the life of a youngster last week. yt Someday a little, old, inno-I inno-I cent kiddie will drop into that ditch, and a culvert will have i to be cut open to remove the 1 body. You remember what hap-1J hap-1J pened in California not long ago . When a little girl lell into an l abandoned well? There won't be j much difference when some-t some-t body's youngster disappears in ' ' the irrigation ditch. I : I don't know just who is re-4 re-4 sponsible for making the town ditch safe, or keeping it danger-jous. danger-jous. but you can be sure we'll find out if a fatal accident happens hap-pens and a suit is instituted, : The fact that the ditch was there before the town was settled set-tled doesn't alter the fact that 0now the town is settled, something some-thing should be done to make it safe. There's no denying it, that , , irrigation ditch is a potential death trap, and unless something 1 is done to lessen its danger it will , surely become more than poten-tial. poten-tial. As ever, Unc |