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Show Since a couple of people have stated that they read our note on the lost ping pong balls as being derogatory to the City Garbage crew we feel that we must explain that there was no Intent to place blame or undue un-due criticism on these men We neither want or expect them to sort our garbage, nor do we blame them for our own carelessness. After the initial shock of discovering the items missing, we saw a bit of humor in the situation and felt our readers would too! Our apologies to the city crew the joke's on us! Another four years have passed pas-sed and all the promises thai a better day was coming was so much hogwash and we are still stuck with a meaningless meaning-less primary that has little to do (nothing in Utah), with choosing the men who run for the country's highest office and an Electoral College that is as antiquated and outdated as the silver dollar George threw across the Potomac. Sen. George Aiken and Sen. Mike Mansfield have introduced a bill for a national primary that is a step in the right direction, di-rection, but is so complicated and very likely would be so expensive for the taxpayers that it should never get out of committee. Sen Bob Packwood of Oregon has a plan to divide the country into five regions and have five regional primaries, primar-ies, but it has the fault of then only choosing party convention delegates and putting us right back into the old familiar mold. o We'd go a complete about face and have the party conventions con-ventions first. Each party to choose two standard bearers for their rank and file party faithful to choose from in a national primary which should be held around the first of July. Party jumpers and independents indepen-dents could get on the ballot by petiton, the same way they do in the general election now. With the instant coverage of the news media, and the miracles mir-acles of modern communication there is no reason why, the standard bearers in the primary pri-mary and the results of the General election cannot be chosen by a popular vote, doing away entirely with the need for an electoral college. Convention delegates could and should be chosen by party caucus. o The popular vote is the only truly fair and completely honest hon-est way to follow up on the supreme court's one man-one vote principle. An then only if you vote for the candidate after the convention in a primary, pri-mary, and then choose between popular vote candidates in the general election. o The argument that it would end the party system as we know it is ridiculous the most damaging thing to the party system is the infighting which is now present during the convention. A convention before the national primary with at least two candidates going before the people, would allow both the liberal faction and the conservative faction for each party to put a man before the people and let them choose the standard bearer. The plan (ours) would not only be much cheaper than the one by Aiken and Mansfield, it would give the John Q. Public Pub-lic a real voice in the selection of the candidates, which it does not now have, nor would it have under Packwood's plan. Or maybe you think what you've got now is good enough, well in Utah, unless you are a delegate to the national convention conven-tion you don't even have a say about who the party standard bearer is. And in New Hampshire, Hamp-shire, where the first primary is held and all the others which have primaries before convention, conven-tion, does their voice really count? we don't think so of the five candidates who are battling it out in the primaries, primar-ies, Muskie, McGovern, Humphrey, Hum-phrey, Wallace and Jackson, ya don't want to bet against Kennedy, Ken-nedy, who isn't even running run-ning but, will probably get the nod in convention. Continued on Back Page HERE'S MORE ABOUT JUST BETWEEN Continued from Page One And one of the other five who are in the primaries, have dropped out or are making only a token showing, will probably carve out the VP job at the convention. o And on the other side of the fence, Nixon has such a shoo ;n that he doesn't even have to listen to the peons. |