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Show In these days of adult cartoons car-toons and the usual fare on (hat naked eye they call tv, it was refreshing Tuesday night to see the movie "Brian's Song" n?.de especially for tv. The medium excels with this type of programming. We would hope that the future will hold much more oi it. o The question arises, as phase II of the freeze preg'-ees. if federal and state employees wages should be exempt. We say emphatically "NO!" What is good for the goose is good for the gander. We remember re-member a few years back. 1967 to be exact, under the Johnson administration, when in an effort ef-fort to control inflation, the administration set guidlines of 3 for wage and price raises. Then congress turned around and raised all government workers pay, and topped it off with a 42 raise for themselves. them-selves. o We say again, NO! State, federal, fed-eral, and yps, even elected officials of-ficials should be governed by the wage and price controls, as are the private individuals, unions, businesses and corporations. corpor-ations. To exempt them would b : n mockery. Every time we give someone a plug in this column, there's always someone that says, "how about me". Well, we got to do it again, and if there is an organization, individual or any group, wheh can come close to matching the record of the ESA Sorority for public service ser-vice (see story on back page) we will see that they get their jus; dues. Keep up the good work ladies, lad-ies, every tow.n should have a group like yours. o - An important meeting . was held in the court house in Beaver by the Dept. of Water Resources Tuesday. Due to the shortage of time and space we will cover the meeting in next week's issue. We were grati-field grati-field that some thirty-one persons per-sons were interested enough to turn out. A giant stride has been taken towards a difficult task. |