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Show Next Tuesday is the Utah Primary election, and though there hasn't been a great deal of politicking going on around Beaver County since the party convention, there are a few contests that are Interesting Inter-esting enough that you may want to exercise your vote. -0- On the county level there are races for Sheriff and the two-year County Commission Commis-sion post. -0- By an unwritten gentlemen's gentle-men's agreement, the seat goes to Beaver City and all candidates who are on the Primary ballot qualify in this respect. However, all Commissioners Commis-sioners are elected at large, with all voters in the County eligible to vote for each Commissioner. -0- It would seem that Beaver City is out to dump the incumbent, in-cumbent, Fred Harris, though for what reason escapes es-capes this writer. He has been conscientious, devoted, fair to the majority with just about the right amount of partiality to his , home city. Possibly, his sin is that a strong Democratic Democrat-ic vote from Milford carried car-ried him to victory four years ago. -0- However, four opponents (two from each party) filed against him. Burton Myers lost out in convention so Harris Har-ris will be opposed by Mack Patterson in the Democratic Primary. Blake Smith and Rex Carter will do battle In the Republican Primary, for an opportunity to meet the Democratic winner in November. No-vember. -0- Sheriff Mel Tait, Milford, who is going after his third term, is opposed by former deputy Dale Nelson, who served with Tait for about four years. JO- On the local scene, there is a race for Milford Precinct Pre-cinct Justice of the Peace. Ben Price ischallengingEd-mund ischallengingEd-mund L. Smith, who has served in that capacity for many years. -0- Both major parties knocked knock-ed the competition out of the Senatorial race, giving Salt Lake City's Republican Mayor May-or Jake Garn and Democrat Rep. Wayne Owens a straight shot. However, American Party candidates Bruce Ban-gerter Ban-gerter and Kenneth Larsen will do battle. -0- For the second Congressional Congres-sional seat, now held by Owens, we've got a full slate, even though the conventions did whittle the field Just a little; Demos Allen T. Howe and Daryl J. McCarty, Republicans Re-publicans Austin Belnap and Stephen Harmson, and American Am-erican party candidates, Wayne Boacher and Paul Turner. -0- In the Primary, you have to choose a party, and for an old ticket splitter like yours truly, it'll be a tough decision. We've no advice except to pick the candidate you believe needs you the most and BE SURE AND VOTE! -0- A beautiful ballgame between be-tween the county rivals ended in confusion and consternation consterna-tion for many fans Friday night when a 0-0 tie at the end of regulation play brought a new rule Into effect. ef-fect. One which fewfans knew about - and according to local lo-cal Information, has not yet been accepted by the Board of Regents. -0- The rule as we understand lt, eliminates tie games. On the flip of a coin, one team gets the ball on the 10 -yard line and has four downs to try and score. Then the team losing the flip, gets four downs from the same 10-yard 10-yard line to tie or win the game. -0- The consternation came when one referee, Quarnberg dropped his "hankie" on the 4th down for each team. Then after the play was complete, picked it up and stuffed it back in his pocket. -0- On Beaver's fourth down, a clean pass play scored eas-(Contlnued eas-(Contlnued on Page 2) farmers who don't notify the Fire Dept. when they are going go-ing to burn off a stubble field. They have permits, of course, but by not notifying the department of the exact time and place, many false runs are made unnecessarily. unnecessar-ily. A good many football fans missed the third quarter Friday night to answer the alarm. Let's not forget the little boy who cried wolf once too often. Make sure the MVFD and the District Fire Ranger know where and when , before you strike the match. You might really need us someday - and you do want us ALL to come. HERE'S MORE ABOUT JUST BETWEEN (Continued from Page One) ily. On Mllford's fourth down, a judgement call of pass interference was not called. -0- When fans asked what penalties pen-alties went with the flags, Quarnberg replied he had dropped his "hankie" accidentally. acci-dentally. -0- No inflection is intended on the officials during regulation regu-lation play. A superb ball-game ball-game was called. A superb game was played by both teams. However, on the two most crucial plays of the 'overtime' or 'extra inning' or whatever they call it, one referee accidentally dropped his 'hankie', something he had not done once throughout through-out regulation play. -0- One cannot help but wonder, wond-er, had Beaver failed to make their touchdown, would he have called a penalty and given giv-en them another down? A penalty did, in fact, give them their fifth and successful shot at the goal line. -0- If Mllford's last play had of scored, would it have been calle d back? The flag was down if needed! Was, in fact, an interference penalty overlooked? Coach Marshall is smart enough to advise his defense to interfer rather than to allow a TD. This would at least have forced the Tigers to try again. -0- We have no answers. Maybe May-be Quarnberg did drop his 'hankie' accidentally. We're not crying. Both teams played play-ed a beautiful game. Milford had more first downs, more yardage and their share of breaks. They should not be ashamed of the final score. -0- We've the greatest respect for Referees Reid and Rpb-inson. Rpb-inson. We have no reason to suspect foul play by Quarnberg. Quarn-berg. We have , however, talked to many fans from Beaver, Minersville and Milford. Some Minersville fans drove over the next day to see us. Others called on the telephone. tele-phone. To a person, they don -n't like the new rule. They did not like the end of the game and would have preferred pre-ferred the teams to go home with a tie. And not one can explain how a seasoned referee -even on the first game of the season - could accidentally accident-ally drop his 'hankie' on the two most crucial plays of the game. And the more they think about it, the less they like it. -0- The Beaver-Milford game was not the only one in town Friday night. Seems acouple of pranksters kept a Union Pacific freight tied up in town for nearly four hours. They kept turning the angle cocks, first at one end and then the other, of a 115 car freight, until finally Marshall Marsh-all Cox and Deputy F other -Ingham were called to assist. They were spotted scooting scoot-ing out with their car lights off towards the Milford Flat. Deputy Fotheringham reminds re-minds them that interfering with interstate commerce is a federal offense. -0- Another petty gripe is the |