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Show CLIFF MEMMOTT, Editor A PROJECT EVERY ROOSEVELT CITIZEN SHOULD APPRECIATE. . . . A rather large crowd of people from Roosevelt and surrounding sur-rounding communities was on hand last Friday morning when the Utah State Roard Commission officially presented Mayor Paul Murphy with a brand new paved Main Street. According to information given out by one of the officials of the road department, the newly completed paving job cost approximately $50,000. This added to the amount of curbing and gutters the full length of Main Street from the Gulch bridge on the Northeast, North-east, to the Utah Oil bulk plant on the south, would make a pretty heavy investment in a new business Main Street. Each of the speakers pointed a finger of pride at the new look our business section had taken on and each was right in his comment that a great step forward had taken place in making mak-ing Roosevelt a very attractive city. Mayor Murphy made a humble plea to those present at the ceremony to resolve that they would cease to be a "litter-bug" if they had been guilty in the past of throwing trash on the streets or failing to pick it up if they had an opportunity. He called on each businessman - to keep his place clean on the outside as well as on the inside. Other speakers made similar remarks which if heeded, could do much to make this community, with its big, broad street, something to be proud of. It can be a street that will attract tourists into our places of business, and make them want to return. It is the hope of this writer, who has, in the past five years, stuck his neck out again and again on this issue, by challenging the people to make Roosevelt a clean city. My challenge chal-lenge has not been taken very seriously in the past, but I re- pledged to our mayor that the Roosevelt Standard, as long as it is edited and published by me, will never stop harping about "Keeping Roosevelt Clean." Lack of water, and no drainage has been used in the past as an excuse to let the dirt and litter accumulate in gutters. I have been assured we have ample water at this time, and with the new gutters, drainage will soon be a simple thing engineers' say Main Street will drain perfectly, so that one is out, too. Residents of Roosevelt, and you good people who come here to do your shopping and visit with us, would you join the "Anti-Litterbug Society?" and let's keep this town clean and free from unnecessary rubbish and debris. Remember, A Clean Town Will Be the Best Advertisement Roosevelt Can Send Along the Way To Its Potential Visitors! t "The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it, or spend your time denouncing it but lay a straight stick alongside of it." Dwight L. Moody. vEv UTAH HAD ITS FULL SHARE IN LOSS BY FIRE DURING 1955 .... Last year cost the American people 11,000 lives, $871 million mil-lion in direct property loss, and untold other personal suffering and hardship and economic loss. Utah had its full share of those fires and of that loss and suffering. It is well each year that public attention be centered on the needless loss of life and property from fire in the annual observance of Fire Prevention Week. This year the week will be observed from Sunday, October 9, to Saturday, October 15. Officials, organizations, individuals and all mediums of public information are asked to cooperate in bringing the fire safety message to the American people. This newspaper is glad to do its part by urging the public to consider the importance of fire prevention this week and every week, and to take those steps as officials, as owners of property, and as individuals which will' reduce the toll of fire. Careful inspection of a home, a business, a farm or a school may reveal some of those conditions which often cause fires such things as faulty wiring, defective flues and chimneys, combustibles com-bustibles near furnaces or heaters. Emphasis on the proven danger dan-ger of carelessness in burning trash or brush, of children playing play-ing with matches, of careless disposal of cigarettes and matches, will help avoid the many fires resulting from such causes. Of particular importance to rural' areas is the fact that last year farm fire losses increased from $139 million in 1953 to $157 million, with approximately 3000 lives lost. Better precaution pre-caution around the farm, availability of simple fire extinguishing extinguish-ing equipment and a community fire-fighting organization would have prevented or minimized many of these fires. The same basic bas-ic safeguards would have prevented many of the 4000 fires in schools, the thousands of costly fires in business establishments, and the many fires in homes which cause not only heart-breaking personal property losses but often the loss of loved ones. This is Fire Prevention Week. Let's all join hands to make it really effective through increased individual watchfulness to keep fires from starting, and community preparedness to stop those that do start with a minimum of loss. vEv More American girls are named Mary than anything else 6,000,000 of them. Elizabeth is the next most prevalent monicker. mon-icker. t Success lines in finding what you can do best, and then sticking to it. |