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Show After leaving out all of the front page last week and a fair amount of advertising, we've got to admit that our readers have get be among the greatest we didn't receive one complaint, not even from those whose stories stor-ies were left out. We- appreciate this understanding and as we get bask to normal, will try to make amends by doing a better job of do'ng our job! The fraternity of newspaper publishers is a fairly close knit one and we received lots of oilers oi-lers of help from around the state. It makes you proud to be a part of the Utah Press. Throughout the pre-Centen-r.ial and right up to the last minute, we got good coverage from the- weekly press in Southern South-ern Utah, even though we were without funds, they know that publicity was deserving and gave it not once cr twice but for most, they used four to six of our press releases. For this we thank them. Our Centennial was a greater success because of the weekly press in Southern Utah. Not so the dailies even though I have been for the past three years their reporter in the Milfcrd-Beaver County area, and even though they send me a gung-ho letter once a month on how to dig stories out of the woodwork they for some rea-sc.n rea-sc.n refused to use the- press releases re-leases on the Centennial. Now this was legitimate news. Pictures Pic-tures and stories of our Queen and her attendants were not used, releases on the Jelesnik show were not used in fact, we don't know of a single story, though ever twelve releases were sent to the Tribune and only one was used by the Des-eret Des-eret News. n The TV stations thought our Centennial worthy, and as we say the weekly press did a fine job but the dailies ignored us right up to the minute. .Since being in Milford, we have given exclusives to the dailies on such stories as the sheep kill in February of '71. Helped get them into a crosscountry cross-country car-thel't ring, and covered cov-ered a train wreck, along with numerous other less earth-shaking stories. We've tried to do what was good for the dailie-3, as well as what was good for Milford and Beaver County, not paying attention to the fact that they often didn't pay for the stories sent in feeling that it was serving the community. o We've turned over our darkroom dark-room and telephone for wire-photo, wire-photo, and cooperated in every way, with no holding back for a scoop for the News but no more. We have resigned as stringer for both dailies our scoops will go to someone more worthy and we will do our best to help their competitors, prove that there is a Utah south of Provo. o The jobs are open, I'll be glad to guide some budding journalist journal-ist on his way, turn over their materials, etc. But from now on we will stick with the weekly press, an association we are proud of. Of course, you can't, control those who enter a profession, and like all other professions, the weekly press has its bad ones. We were non-plused last w?ek when we picked up the neighboring sheet (Beaver Press) and eyed a story titled "Chamber of Commerce Files Suit in Zoning" which told about the suit filed by a group calling themselves the Beaver Valley Chamber of Com., against the Beaver County Commission as a Commission and individually individual-ly and asking for extraordinary relief in the zoning issue at the Sulphurdale Interchange. The mere fact that the Beaver Press reported on this suit is not what bugged me, it is the fact that the story, obviously slanted and biased, never mentions men-tions the fact that its writer, and the editor of the Beaver Press, George Rich, is one of the plaintiffs in this action. It leads the reader to believe that this is an organization with wide membership and support in the county and pretends that the Beaver County Commission was not serving the interests o the county when they zoned the Sulphurdale Interchange to Hi-way Hi-way Services. Continued on Back Page To the Editor: Just having been a visitor to the beautiful and naturalness ot the Rock Corral Recreation Area in the immediately close canyon east of here I'd like to urge seme civic organizati:n in town to join hands to improve im-prove on the place. There is no reason that Mil-forcuixj Mil-forcuixj thculdn t have as nice and as caol a place to picnic ate, as the Beavers nave in UVir mountains. It's probably even possible that the spring at R;k Corral could be dammed up to provide a pjnd for fishing. Thank you' Virginia Grimes. slow turnout, most of the eligible eli-gible young men have turned out with the old Rah! Rah! spirit. This is important in a school the size of Milford, because be-cause lack cf participation especially es-pecially in a major sport such as fcotball, could easily kill it for years to come. For schools with a small enrollment football foot-ball is a borderline sport. Every head and every body must be c.untcd and put to use, in order tc survive. We congratulate every member of the team for their effort and sacrifice in the name of school spirit. Your support sup-port is needed. For these who are not enthusiastic footballers, we give an extra boost of encouragement, en-couragement, and hope your efforts ef-forts will prove rewarding, that they will be recognized and appreciated, ap-preciated, we are sure. And just one other thing. Team pictures will be scheduled next week and as ah added attraction, eveiy team member who finishes finish-es the season with Coach An-o'rus, An-o'rus, the News will provide an 8x10 glossy free of charge. o This column is gettiug a little strung cut, but remember that we bioke down last week before getting a chance to have our usual two-cents worth. Board members Gary Sullivan and James Mayer brought the new Superintendent around to meet us and introduced him to everybody they could find up and down Main Street. Their . purpose was to help Mr. Haslum get acquainted quickly i.n town. This is fine and we strongly believe in it but in case he just doesn't quite remember your name next time you meet. don't get your nose out of joint while the rest of us have only got one new face to lemember, he's got about 5,000. We've invited Mr. Haslum to submit a picture of himself and his family or take his chances chan-ces in front of our camera and we'll interview him for a story in the News. This will help to get him acquainted in the community. com-munity. We weren't informed as to which community Mr. Haslum Has-lum plans to make his home. Rocrgnizing that housing is limited lim-ited in Milford, we would still HERE'S MORE ABOUT JUST BETWEEN (Continued from Page One) There are those in any profession profes-sion who stoop to no ends to satisfy sat-isfy selfish anc' wanton desires. No industry or profession can entirely weed out those of this ilk. But sooner or later they're found out and exposed. Surely this we must do with the Editor of the Beaver Press, who cannot pietend to write a story report-ling report-ling a suit in which he himself is personally involved as a plaintiff. Now we do not pretend to know how extensive the membership mem-bership of this so-called Beaver Valley Chamber of Commerce is, but we challenge Mr. Rich to produce a list. of this membership, member-ship, and publish it in his next issue, so that the people of Beaver Beav-er County will know exactly who is suing whom. We further challenge Mr. Rich to honest rcp'rang of any iurther pro-cecures pro-cecures in this case by limiting limit-ing his comments to the edit-crial edit-crial columns of the Press, and to al'ay any possibility of misleading mis-leading his readers inta thinking that they are reading unbiased reporting of this suit, since as a plaintiff in this action, Mr. Rich can hardly claim to be unbiased. un-biased. Friday will be our first opportunity op-portunity to see the Tiger football foot-ball team in action. Vacation and personal illness have kept us away from the first two games. Barring any other misfortune, mis-fortune, we will plan to make all other games this year and with this added boost, we expect ex-pect to see them victorious in the rest cf the season. On the bright side Coach Andrus reports that after a there were a few roasts left over the last night and the Centennial Committee sold them cut at $2.00 lb., raw weight. I bought a couple and was chided by my wife that I was being extravagant, extrava-gant, until the next morning's radio broadcast listed buffalo irteak gcing for $2.93 a lb. in Calif. welcome him to cur community. In any event we hope that he finds time in his work to meet all of the people of Beaver Beav-er County and to get to know them, and until next we meet welcome! Just one more axe to grind and we can put this eld heifer to bed. There have been a lot of fires on the flat and we all know this has been a common com-mon practice in the past, to burn c-.'i the old stubble field, before discing it under. Scrry folks but that's against the law. Be-sides Be-sides it's dangerous, especiallly after the wet spring that grew weeds from seed that had been dormant fcr the last thirty years. Anyway there is a legal way and safer way to handle the situation sit-uation a.nd it won't get you in trouble with the fire warden. Just give hima call and iget a permit. He'll probably bring the county fire truck and so there will be less chance of burning more than you intended. It just takes a phone call, to Lynn Cart-wright, Cart-wright, Milford, 387-2688. If you don't, you'll be eligible for a citation. Had quite a few people telling . us that credits for cooking of the Beef and Buffalo should have be on spread to others. It's true that Bill Wcod did leave town on personal! matters the day of the barbecue, and turned the duties of the actual cooking over to some subordinates. We've known of some of these helpers and others we've heard about, but felt that since the responsibility rested with Bill and Cattlemen President Ralph Pearson, that we needed go no further in our plaudits. However for your information, Bill was so disappointed that he was unable to follow through on the Barbecue August 4th that - he volunteered to cook the meat for the Centennial Committee on August 10th also. We see little sense in local bickering over who actually did the cooking since those who were involved seem satisfied as it is. Certainly, there would have been no barbecue at all without, the help and cooperation of these Minersville people. o An interesting sidelight - |