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Show Whoopee! Them were some ballgames last weekend. week-end. But maybe the best Is yet to come. If the Tigers can stumble over Panguitch Friday, and fly over the Cedar Ce-dar Redmen Saturday, life could be so sweet. The game could be a classic, pitting the top 1-A club in the state against the top 2 -A club. Of course, neither club will prove they qualify for that title until the middle of March, and the winds of fortune for-tune , as well as the flu bug, could well change the course of either team before that time. But one thing is certain, cer-tain, even though it's a practice prac-tice game for both teams, fans from Millard County to Dixie will be on hand to cheer their favorite. -0- The largest crowd ever to watch the Tiger -Beaver rivalry ri-valry attended Saturday's game. Official estimates are about 1500. The gym, which is supposed to seat 1600 (allowing (al-lowing 18 inches per person), could easily handle about 2000 before conditions become be-come hazardous. Let's hope they all come out Saturday night to see the Tigers and Redmen. -0- . We said last week that the six best guards in the region would be matched up and could well be the key to the victors. To show you how Milford fared on that score, against Escalante, Milford's Garland Tait (25) and Kevin Barnes (12) with 37 points topped the Moquis' Dallist-on Dallist-on (20) and Johnny Alvey's (8) 28. Liston is the region's top scorer. Against Beaver's Gary Gillins (18) and Dean Eyer's (8) for 26, the Tigers' Barnes (26) and Tait (10) again came out on top with 36 points. -0- Another plus we've looked for all year showed up in the Beaver game when the Tigers Ti-gers high post combined for 15 points. Tom Jones had 8 and Alan Mayer 7. Their 15 added to the 36-37 from the guards makes the three positions enough threat that any team that double teams Jimmy Raines or drops their zone back too far, as Kanab did, is in a lot of trouble. The amazing thing Is that the team could maintain the pace of over 80 points a game when most were under the influence in-fluence of some kind of bug. I heard one mother say recently, re-cently, 'If he (her son) can play that well as sick as he's been, I don't think I'll let him get well." Actually, this bug is difficult dif-ficult to shake off. Dr. Sy-mond's Sy-mond's office reports that there are several different varieties running around. Some quite severe and some mostly running. -0- Time's running out to submit sub-mit pledges for the Bicentennial Bicenten-nial projects. To date, only $3750 has been pledged as shown by the thermometer on this page. Just slightly over half what is needed to receive the total $7000 In Bicentennial matching funds. Clubs, organizations, busl- nesses, and Individuals who wish to make pledges, should do so as soon as possible so that Milford's application can be submitted. -0- Bllls are before the legislature legis-lature on everything from a pension for one -term legislators legis-lators to school district consolidation. con-solidation. In a phone conversation con-versation with Rep. Washburn, Wash-burn, he indicated he would do everything possible to oppose op-pose school consolidation in any form. This from a legislator legis-lator who is also an educator edu-cator is refreshing. Some bills are important, and many serve little, If any, useful purpose. Some are down right ridiculous and others pure pork barrel legislation. -0- We urge all our readers to keep abreast of the situation situ-ation by watching the daily reports in the Salt Lake Tribune Trib-une and Deseret News, and capsullzatlon on TV. It Is Impossible to Include every bill In the Beaver County News' "Report to the People", Peo-ple", so we'll use that column col-umn for your legislators to report to you. There are so many bills (Continued on Page 6) 1 crazy things, but at least the News was glad to hear we won't have to face Revolutionary Revolu-tionary War heros on every fire plug when we visit Salt Lake City. Really now that was going a bit far. the Reaper and Record would not protest since Richfield, Cedar City, Price, and Salt Lake City stand to gain from the centralization of the BLM offices, while all the rest of Utah will lose something. -0- Reports coming in indicate that Milford has at least one more high flying ball team besides the Tigers. Mil-ford's Mil-ford's 1st Ward beat the Beaver 3rd Ward last week, 127-67. -0- The News has been receiving receiv-ing complaints from property prop-erty owners who live between be-tween the school and refreshment re-freshment stands. Seems some students are careless with candy and gum wrappers, wrap-pers, pop cans, and cups, etc. With the winds of the last few days, It's difficult enough to keep things from gettiug ragged - but it would sure help if these items were depostied in litter barrels. -0- Whew! The Bicentennial Commission has done some HERE'S MORE ABOUT JUST BETWEEN (Continued from Page One) already submitted (well over 200), that even those on the job cannot be fully aware of each piece of legislation. Don't hesitate to call or write about even the most minor matter. It well could be one your representative has overlooked, along with everyone else. -0- One thing for certain -there is going to be a big protest on the BLM reorganization. reorgan-ization. Nearly every newspaper news-paper in Southern Utah, except ex-cept the Richfield Reaper, Iron County Record, and the Beaver Press, ran editorials editor-ials on the proposal and stories both explaining and protesting it. It is understandable that |