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Show Spring's In the air - It's filling tlie house and you can't tie the kids down long enough to eat or sleep. For us old fogeys it takes a little longer to shake off the winter doldrums. -0- However, there were a lot of local folks working in their yards over the weekend. week-end. Spring cleaning Is underway, un-derway, and each day sees the old neighborhood getting spruced up a bit more. -0- One item of spring was common place until just a few years ago. The smell of burning leaves. Somehow, Some-how, as we remember it as kids, the smell was a part of spring, not at all obnoxious. Neighbors used to gather in the evenings around a pile of burning leaves, rake in hand to stir the embers, and discuss the long winter, win-ter, the kids, the coming fishing season, whether Dizzy Diz-zy Dean could win 30 games in the coming season, or any of a thousand other little things. -0- But the E. P. A. (Environmental (Environ-mental Protection Agency) put a stop to such nonsense. Burning causes air pollution, pollu-tion, and there are laws against it. So now, instead of just raking your leaves into the street and striking a match to them, we have to bag them all up and haul them off to the dump. Not even there is it legal to burn. The law says that they must be covered over, "No burning." -0- So, as a moment of nostalgia nos-talgia grips us, and we think that our youngsters are being be-ing deprived of one of tlie great smells from tlie good old days, and as we begin to mount a march on city hall for the return of one of our basic freedoms .... But wait! There's just a whiff of something in the air. Yes, it s coming from just down the block. Hurry! Close all the windows! Call the kids to get in the house! That so and so down tlie street is burning garbage. Can you imagine that, burning burn-ing leaves and garbage right there in the alley. Smells just like a west wind coming from the dump! -0- "Strike while the iron is hot!" Every agitator, trouble trou-ble maker, subversive organization or-ganization or other so-called radical knows that tlie easiest eas-iest way to get lots of support sup-port for any particular gripe is to rally the people to tlie cause before enough information infor-mation is available for them to make a determination on their own. -0- Certainly this is what, a few Beaver Citizens did last week in forcing the School Board to back down on some of tlie changes they had made at their regular meeting. They were not interested in the Board's reasoning, or whether the district or school was the beneficiary, only that they get their way, right now! In tlie face of Mr. Rowley's resignation, pending an audit of the Beaver High School accounts, we understand tliis group - or another like it - is again mounting a campaign to force the board into a decision before all the facts are in. We can only hope that the Board , keeps a cool head, and presses for an honest evaluation of the facts of the case, before making a decision which might adversely ad-versely effect Beaver High School. -0- To do tliis, the Superintendent, Superin-tendent, and the Board Members Mem-bers will have to stand their ground, in the face of an onslatfcght by those who are less informed, until all tlie facts are in. This takes tlie intestinal fortitude, fort-itude, and dedication to service for which no compensation com-pensation has ever been adequate. For tliis reason, we call upon all residents of Beaver Bea-ver County, to give wholehearted whole-hearted support. Let's not, through ignorance, make tlie situation worse that it (Continued on Page 2) seeded. If you-have an hour or a day - stop by the course and lend a hand. They Will be glad tosee you! HERE'S MORE ABOUT JUST BETWEEN (Continued from Page Onel already is. Let's let them try to do the job they were hired and elected to do, without interference. -0- Basketball season is finally final-ly over. The Little Leaguers Lea-guers had their tournament last week. Little League All-Stars were shellacked by the North Las Vegas Bucks, the Utes were snipped at the finish in the N. I. T. tourney and So. Carolina State knocked off UCLA and Marguette to win the N. C. A. A. Championship, Champ-ionship, and Richard Smith was named to the Tribune Class A All -Stars. -0- Won't it be nice to get on to the less hectic sports like track, baseball, golf and girl watching. Golfing will take on a new emphasis in Milford this year as the new golf course is opened to play. However, How-ever, there is still much to be done, and all you duffers or would-be duffers are asked ask-ed to give a few hours to help get the new course in shape. There are almost daUy work parties as the Mil-, ford Golf Assn. tries! to get the- work completed) so the course ' can- be |