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Show CLIFF MEMMOTT, Editor TRAFFIC LIGHT ADDS SAFETY TO CITY, SOME PROBLEMS STILL EXISTING .... Roosevelt's semaphore traffic light on Main and Lagoon street intersection has brought a definite feeling of safety to the community. . . No longer is there a single danger of an accident there if those who drive and those who walk will keep their eyes on the light and go only when the . light is green, .and stop when it's red or yellow. The city police department advised me Tuesday that . they had encountered but very little difficulty with drivers of vehicles most Tf them are very cautious. . . However, the pedestrian is the hard problem especially the one who starts walking when the light turns yellow, or doesn't stop on the warning -signal Then there are a few who just don't watch the light. . . Also there are a few drivers who still . insist on making a right turn on a red light this is against the law. : No citations have been given yet, and another week of education Will be carried on before warning tickets are issued. . . Then the natural sequence is traffic tickets to . the violators, just the same as are issued in any city where a light is in operation. It's been reported some people who live outside of Roosevelt have the thought the light was installed by the City of Roosevelt with the idea of paying for it out of extra fines collected from the ' violator. . -. That's a very wrong idea In the first- place, the state installed the-light without any obligation on the part of Roosevelt City. . . And secondly, the light was installed for the protection of the people who use Main street. . . All the people, whether they live in Roosevelt, Altamont, Tabiona, Uintah county, or in foreign states. Only when a law is enforced will it protect the people from invasion by others which is the same principal to be used in enforcing "No U Turns" Stop on a Yellow and. Red Light Go on a. Green One , and No Turning Right on a Red Light." , v E v --' : UTAH'S SANITATION PROBLEMS SHOULD BE AIRED FOR PUBLIC .... Last Friday I -spent a couple of hours in the office of one of Salt Lake City's eye specialists', where I had gone to cousult him professionally. ; -." It so happens that Dr. Charles Ruggeri was once our family doctor and a personal friend as well, and now holds the distinct honor of being chairman of the Utah State Board of Health. A couple of appointment ap-pointment had cancelled out, so we had a few minutes to visit and talk over past activities and experiences in Carbon county, where he followed his profession for several years. After a brief visit, Dr. Ruggeri began telling me some of the problems the board of health is trying to solve, and the progress that had , been made on others. I was utterly amazed when he told me that less than 6 of all the people living in the State of Utah had adequate sewage disposal facilities. ... He named the very few cities, which included only about four, whose .sewage disposal system meets community health standards . . . The information that cities in Salt Lake county,' outside of Salt Lake City, almost entirely used the septic-tank method of disposal, really stopped me. . . . He then told .me about various "culinary water systems in the state that could easily become contaminated because of sewage from communities empty into reservoirs that supply the wafer". . a Best illustration of this is the Deer Creek project -that is now" serving the city- of Salt Lake with culinary water '. '. . Severel towns situated along streams that' feed Deer Creek empty their sewage into these same tributaries. : The State Department of Health has made may recommendations recom-mendations to' the governor and advocated the passage of legislation that will correct 'some of the ills where public health is concerned. . ..My purpose. in relating this expedience exped-ience is to give -a little aid to Dr, Ruggeri and other com- . Petent men and ,. women who have spent hours and hpurs studying and investigating the various and sundry problems that need consideration. .'-.. ' v E v 1 1 ' ' LAST WEEK TO SUPPORT THE "MARCH OF DIMES" CAMPAIGN . . . This week will wind up .the national campaign to raise funds to combat Infantile Paralysis, which has taken such a great toll among the youngsters of the country. . . In Duchesne Du-chesne county a fine organization has responded to the call and by the time next Saturday is over perhaps every residents resi-dents in the area will have contributed at least a dime to the "March of Dimes." u The concluding phase of the' program is the national 'Mother's March On Polio," which -will bring some mother to your front door if the porch light is on, or a light is shining in a window. - "Give A Dime That Some Child Might Walk Again," could well become a slogan for each individual as the 1953 March Of Dimes" campaign passes into history. .'. If you have not made, a; contribution,- there is stilt time.. ) , '- '.' 1 v E v ; . '-. NEWSPAPER IS TOWN'S VALUABLE ASSET ... Roger W. Babson recently said that he considered news-Papers, news-Papers, whether large dailies or small weeklies, gave their readers the greatest value of any article or service offered to consumers. "Furthermore," he said, "it would be a pretty poor . community that did not have a paper. 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