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Show Well, Tuesday is the day that we've got to decide who will do battle In November. It's not an easy decision this year, because we are either faced with candidates who are relatively unknowns, or candidates who we know far too much about. -0- This is unfortunate, because be-cause the average voter will go to the polls, not to vote for the best man, but rather to vote against the worst. Only one newcomer stands out of the crowd as far as we're concerned, enough so that we've already made up our mind. That's Orrin Hatch, who clashes with Carlson for the Republican nomination. Hatch should compliment Jake Garn in Washington and Carlson has spent most of his life in Washington, and we're sure hell return whether he's elected or not. -0- Speaklng of returning to Washington, First Lady Betty Bet-ty Ford made a slip on TV the other day. The former Michigan congressman's wife said she'd be glad when Jerry had completed his last term as President so they could return home to Virginia. Vir-ginia. It proves a point we've so often made. After they spend too many years in Washington, Washing-ton, they forget that home is where the constituents that elect them live. -0- Maybe we should limit Congress to six month sessions, ses-sions, and force them to spend six months in their home state where the rest of us have to live. Now, they just run home for a weekend now and then to keep the electorate in their pocket and spend the rest of their free time in the Washington Wash-ington social scene or on a junket to Hindustan or some other exotic foreign country. -0- Only two gubernatorial candidates made the trip to Beaver County. Matheson came some time ago and spoke to local Democrats, and Dixie Leavitt spent an hour in Minersville on Labor Day morning. If any attempt was made to Inform the press that Dixie was coming to town, we didn't receive it. But two stories were turned In Tuesday, so we combined them. We're sure they would have been less bias had we reported the meeting ourself. -0- The trouble with the gubernatorial guber-natorial race Is that there's nobody to really get behind and support. We kind of liked Matheson until we learned he was one of the major drafters draft-ers of the Land Use Bill. He still admits to favoring land use, but says the people have spoken. Does this mean he won't push for land use the first year in office? -0- Leavitt and Romney both have track records that will give the astute observer a fair idea of how they'll perform, per-form, regardless of what they say during the campaign. cam-paign. Leavitt sponsored SB23, the land use bill that Matheson helped draft. He also is the father of the AOG's and his record will hardly back up his conservative conserva-tive campaign promises. The Attorney General won't receive many plaudits in Beaver County, where his department has hassled the local race tracks and pubs numerous times. Of course, you cant fault a man for doing the hob to which he was elected still other tracks and pubs around the state seemed immune to the' harrassment. -0- That only leave s Creer and , believe it or not, he hasn't made a big enough impression to get our ballot. We think geography will tell the tale in the gubernatorial guberna-torial race. Believe me, this is a poor reason for voting for anybody for govenor. Because if they move into the governor's office they should represent all the people peo-ple of the state. -0- Beaver Countyites need not hang their head at the State Fair this year. They will be (Continued on Page 2) s HERE'S MORE ABOUT JUST BETWEEN (Continued from Page One represented and we believe, be-lieve, mighty well. We believe that Howard Pryor's macrame should top the State Fair, just as it did the County Fair. And Dohn Martin's dried fruits and vegetables got raves from the ladies who helped us get it entered last week. But even more, Beaver County has a booth in the county exhibits. And for a couple of no -talent bums like Keith Lemon and ye ol' Ed, it didn't turn out too bad. Course, we could have used a sign painter, and if we'd had another barrel of cubes it would have helped. But the end result looked pretty good to us and we think it will fare well with the other county exhibits. -0- Anyway, Beaver County is represented majbeforthe first time in the 120 year history of the fair. The fair starts today and runs until the 19th. |
