OCR Text |
Show You have just until Feb. 5th to order the World's Largest Valentine. They must be ordered by then so that there is time to mail them from Loveland, Colorado. See advertisement on page 3. -0 You'd never guess how m uch of my mail goes in the waste basket each week, and most of it is those third class throw-aways that offer of-fer sweepstakes, $100 a month for life or some such fantastic get -rich -quick scheme. But Tuesday, we got one that we couldn't pass up. The cover said, "Get the real facts about how your company can save hundreds of thousands of dollars per year." -0- Now, you've got to adm it, that's pretty good when my company doesn't even gross a hundred thousand a year. And they said we could do it just by using their air filters. fil-ters. The ; average American householder is bombarded with more come-ons in a month than the average European, Eur-opean, Asian or African receives re-ceives or is exposed to in a lifetime. -0- Now with all this exposure, you'd think that we'd soon become so blase or cosmopolitan cosmo-politan that nothing would phase us. But the fact is, that as P. T. Barnum once said, "There's a sucker born every day", and few of us can pass up that quick bargain, bar-gain, a chance on a $100,000 sweepstakes, or whatever fantastic scheme that is thrown at us. -0- . Millions are taken annually by these mail-order schemes that offer look-alikes of expensive ex-pensive merchandise for pennies on the dollar. Thousands Thou-sands of subscriptions, etc., are bought, on the remote chance you might win a sweepstakes. -0- It's true that local merchants mer-chants don't offer many of these fantastic bargains but the bargains they do offer of-fer are real they stand back' of their merchandise, and generally service their products, so that if something some-thing is wrong, the customer does not suffer. Local merchants are in , business year after year. They want you to come back, so they treat you right, honestly hon-estly and fairly. The fly-by-nighter who rents a wharfside warehouse for 30 days and mails millions mil-lions of thirdclass brochures never intends to do business with you but one time. He doesn't care that the merchandise mer-chandise you buy is not what you thought you were getting. He cares only that the literature liter-ature he mails is not so misleading mis-leading that the feds can't clap him behind bars before he can peddle his merchandise merchan-dise and move to another location, under another name, -0- So, if you want a real bargain bar-gain deal with a local merchant the store that is in business now, tomorrow and next year. Your friend and neighbor. -0- Petty Ray GeophysicalCo. has moved into the area and will be doing seismograph work for Amoco. A tiny boost to the local economy that is badly needed. -0- Thanks, Beavers! We knew you could topple the Bulldogs. Bull-dogs. Now it's up to North Sevier and the Tigers to continue con-tinue to keep them on the skids. The Tigers regained No. 1 in the Deseret News polls this week. Panguitch, the only undefeated team in Region Re-gion Eight, may dispute it, but the Bobcats still have to prove themselves InDivision I competition. They did beat Kanab early in the season and Wayne and Bryce Valley Jumped on Beaver before they were quite shed of their football pads, and the Bobcats beat the Badgers. But the Beavers and Cowboys Cow-boys are handling the round ball pretty good now and it isn't likely that any Divl- (Continued on Page 7) HERE'S MORE ABOVT JUST BETWEEN sion II team will walk on them again. -0- The Round Robin is in Beaver this year. It'll be played again like last year, when we left two Region Eight teams home that probably prob-ably were better than half of the teams in the tourney. It looks like it could happen again! Region Eight takes seven teams to State again this year and it seems ridiculous that two of the first and second sec-ond place teams in the final . standings could be left at home. -0- After last year's Round Robin, when Beaver and Piute were left home, we were ' sure it would never happen again. But we understand under-stand the Robin will be played play-ed in the same fashion as before be-fore with three byes in the first round. We advocate automatic State berths for the first and second place teams in each division, with those four playing a mini tourney for seeding only. The bottom teams in each division could play off in a preliminary game the first session, with the winner filling out an eight -team bracket in the second session. -0- The argument for the present pres-ent arrangement is the four day tourney, which makes the region more money. That, in itself, is doubtful! But, as outlined above, you could run a good full card tourney of six games the first day. Five games the second day and7 four games the final day or you could spread it over four days by holding two game night sessions, and no afternoon after-noon sessions for the cham- pionships. This would prob-I prob-I ably put more money in the ! till with less expenses. i But more important we'd I be sending the best seven j teams to State and the chanc-j chanc-j es of leaving first or second i place teams in league play ! home as we did last year ' would be impossible. |