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Show Ben Lomond Beacon, Feb. 23, 1978, Page 2 dthatfs Ykut ! f Beacon published each Thursday. Deadlines for each weeks issue is Monday at 5 p.m. We welcome all articles from those who wish to contribute. Business office is 5388 So. 1900 W., Roy, Utah Phone The Ben Lomond 825-166- '1 1 v. , V , ' 1 j.y A is i 4, V . 6. J. Howard Stahle Mrs. Bonnie Stahle Sue Ellen Sims Publisher Advertising Manager Correspondent A jet engine machanic, was Airman Young selected for professional skill, duty performance and exemplary conduct. He is assigned to the 9th Field voted for Jimmy Carter. Did they have to vote for Jimmy Carter, just because you designated them in the full expectation that they would do so? Not necessarily. In 1976 the Republican voters of Washington State designated electors whom they expected to vote for Ford, but one kicked over the traces when he got to the Electoral College and voted for Reagan. Similar incidents have happened before. The Electoral College can elect a President who receives fewer popular votes than his opponent. (A candidate who wins California by 100 popular votes gets more electoral college votes than a candidate who wins New York by a million votes because he gets all of Californias electoral votes which are more than New York's). And the electoral college takes no account of voter turnout. Louisiana and Minnesota each have ten electoral votes. In 1976, 700,000 more voters actually turned out to vote in Minnesota, but nevertheless at the Electoral College, each cast 10 votes. In order to win a majority of the Electoral College votes, all a candidate needs to do is to win pluralities in the eleven states with the largest populations (therefore the most electoral votes). So candidates tend to focus upon those states and specifically in each state upon the blocs of voters most likely to swing the election. This throws undue weight to powerful blocs of voters within a handful of states. One could give additional arguments, but the point is clear. Americans had better get used to the idea that the system needs an overhaul. There are various plans for a more rational system some pretty good plans and some less good. They deserve consideration and debate. But the debate never takes place because the American people have not up to now been very interested. It's time we woke up. Let's turn to the task of modernizing the electoral college. Maintenance Squadron, a part of the Strategic Air Command. The airman is a 1974 graduate of Weber thgh School Want to Save on Your Energy Bill? Call The Energy Hot-Lin- e or A former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, John Gardner is the Founding Chairman of Common Cause. UTAH ENERGY OFFICE yv QUALITY EYEWARE & Dior FtAYBOY Y NEW LOCATION IN DAVIS COUNTY or hearing problem call Knighton Optical for doctor's referral. 9 AM TO OGDEN 950 25th St. Suite 393-843- 9 N- -l 5:30 PM . , SATURDAY 9 AM LAYTON 2179 N. 1700 W. West of Davis No. Hospital 825-162- 4 fr 'Til NOON terri brogan OPTYL A K I U fre, A Ip-. . N k vV: ' -- V? picture from the 1930 archives of Glen Perrins, reporter for the Beacon, shows early dcy Saints beside the Utah Pioneer president George Albert Smith of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-daTrails and Landmark on the road from Henefer in Weber Canyon. This marker is on the old Pioneer Mormon trail southward across the mountains to Emigration Canyon and into Salt Lake Valley. President Smith took over the presidency when he was 75 years old, following the death of the late President Heber J. Grant. . THIS RARE y i't' V LAKE CITY-Mor- mon women should think for themselves and learn to tolerate different opinions and attitudes within their n church, according to a at Provo, panel Utah, at the third annual SALT four-woma- at Conference Womens Brigham Young in Provo, Utah. 8,000 women at meeting. The University There were the annual conference was designed to increase awareness of the role and of Mormon potentials Women, said Chairwoman Sharon Hoge Women of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-daSaints tend to follow the counsel of Mormon Church y hierarchy without stopping to work out opinions and solutions for themselves," said Barbara Vance, panel Mission heads get assignment Salt Lake City. Utah The appointments of four Salt Lake City men to serve as Mormon mission presidents are announced today by W. Spencer president y of the Saints Church June President LeGrand Curtis, 53, is a Salt Lake City dentist w ho earned his dental degree from the University of Missouri President Marvin Curtis, 57. a brother of LeGrand Curtis, is a real estate broker. Both have been Mormon Church !! giiifi.il Representatives. President Luckau. 63, is a native of Germany but has lived in the United Slates most of his life and has served as a Mormon Church bishop New president named to temple LOGAN. Utah-Re- ed Bullen, a veteran northern Utah broadcasti ng executive, will serve as the new president of the Log3n Temple of Uie Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-daSaints, succeeding Elder Lloyd R. Hunsaker, who has served since 1973. Eider Bulicn's wife. Kathryn Bower Bullen. will serve as temple matron Counselors to President Bullen are Oral L Ballam and Elder Arlin R Pubmire, both of ogan. Utah The Logan Temple is currently closed while undergoing major interior renovation, but will be reopened next year. y President Bullen, has been an owner and general manager of KVNU Radio in Logan since 1938, and has served in the Utah Senate from 1363 to 1977. He is a native of Logan, a graduate of Utah State University and has done graduate work at Stanford. He has served as Mormon bishop for seven years, and Mormon patriarch for the past six years. Mrs Bullen also is a Logan native and a graduate of the Utah State University, and has been active in teaching positions in the Mormon, 71, Church's women's, ' :r ny ob WoEYiats HEARING AIDS repoir broken frames and replace broken lenses. have complete hearing aid services, including repairs, sales and service of 10 maor brands. We feature a 30 day free trial, and also have rental aids available. We have on emergency service on hearing aid repairs. MONDAT-FRIDA- ' m A. v are: They LeGrand R. Curtis. Marvin H R. Curtis. Rudolph Luckau, and LaMarr W Poulton. The new mission chiefs will begin thnr three-year- s of service after they have attended a mission presidents seminar here in opbcol prescriptions written by your eye doctor. have large selection of eyewear frames. have prescriptions and non prescription sunglasses. OPEN f 1 (mormon). fill If you have a visual t - Latter-da- Did you know . . . .nr ' Kimball, We We We We We y" A V President HAS AN ADDITIONAL ' If your friend says, Jimmy Carter was elected President on November 2, 1976 and I voted for him ' you have an opportunity to set him straight on two things. First, your friend didnt vote for Jimmy Carter but for a slate of electors representing the state in which the vote was cast. Second, following a tradition that stems from the era when it took a long time to travel from here to there, those electors (and the electors from all the other states) waited many weeks after the election before they assembled. Having assembled, they constituted the curious antiquity we call the Electoral College, and they Paul G. Young of 689 28th St., Ogden, Utah, has been named outstanding Airman of the Month in his unit at 4 n by John W. Gardner Beale AFB, Calif. 581-542- . The Horse and Buggy Electoral College Airman gets recognition for service MARYSVILLE, Calif. Airman First Class David B. Young, son of Mr. and Mrs. f V J Editor Carol Shaw Cl? Vi v 4.S? you! and children's auxiliaries. They have five children. moderator and Brigham between the issues and church doctrines and follow knowledgeably. "Our society is built largely on that level of authority, that we accept authority because ,uM I son'.c held Young University professor of nursing. "Women can follow church authority blindly, or they can learn the relationship even 1 there would be chaos without it, L5ut, often we get stuck and never go to the highest level and that is the principal level. We do the right thing because we have studied it out in our minds. "Too often, she concluded, "Mormon their let disagreements over working mothers or the Equal Rights women Amendment of contention become points that needlessly destroy unity. Sally Harding of Provo and Zoning Planning Commission, said women must try to overcome the concept that final authority outside the Mormon Church rests w ith men. She said men respect a professiortel woman, but women don't. "The women feel that the voice of authority has to., come from a tenor, bass or not from a baritone, woman, she concluded. C5S!32!3S23E53$w School and Home by Dr. Daryl J, McCortv E etuiie Secretory Uioh Edutoiipn Assonol.on ameaitxwwh'HliiMMiiM If a child appears bow ildercd mIioo!, there are reasons that first day in junior hij, During the student's elmentary school years, he had oi all day long (or most of oath day) for the entu Mhool year. The teacher knew every student well But in junior high, a student may have seven differe teachers Each of those teachers may have about b students to teach earh day So it takes teachers longer learn all the names, and more time to establish friend relationships The school is bigger, seven leathers are makir assignments instead of one, and there's a world of different m seventh graders and those lug. big ninth graders. Tl newromers may not have started that "growth spurt" v w lulc some ninth graders are more than six feet tall. Recently, parents in Jordan School District v oted for j option that is expected to change that situation The parents voted for "middle schools." A middle school has sixth, seventh and eight grades. Tl Jordan idea is tograduallv delaleh youngsters from the do student teacher relationship they had in scIkh elementary Entering a "middle school ' shouldn't be nearly so abrupt teacher change For one thing, the sixth graders will spend four peno Oh? same teacher nr team of teachers In the seven grade, the students w ill spend less lime in that situalionai even less in the eighth grade The middle srhod program means that students a idler matched according to their physical maturil proponents say. Some parents have expressed concern about the fact th the middle school idea means their children will have fo years in the "grown up" atmosphere of high school, inste of three Others claim the four year high school, such thm in Salt Lake City, provides a richer program f studertts A building shortage pushed Jordan into adopting t middle school program, but educators there maintain lb it s an idea with sound educational reasons. with |
