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Show "1 W ison Hunting camp! It'satradl-tlon It'satradl-tlon with many famllies.It's a lifetime experience for 16-year-olds. The deer hunt provides the last escape before the holiday season, a time for family reunions, for old friends to gather and new friends to meet. o- There is a comraderie during the deer hunt that Is seldom found elsewhere. Meet another hunter on a mountain, and he'll greet you warmly. Visit his camp and he'll welcome you to warm by the fire. Few complain about inclement incle-ment weather. Most are happy hap-py when another hunter bags his buck. They share his joy they help pack it out, and admire the kill. Yes, the deer hunt is much more than the hunt. It's a return to the day when there was time for friends and neighbors. It's a vacation from the tube, from world affairs, and the trials of dally living. It Is the esthetic value of the hunt and camp, not the meat that makes the hunt popular. Few hunting camps could justify the expense for the meat that goes in the freezer. Choice grade beef Is cheaper. - 0- For us, this years hunt was one of the best. Camping Camp-ing at picturesque Rock Cabin. Good friends, good food, amid the beautiful pln-acles pln-acles in the Mineral range. True we came home empty handed. We just couldn't put horns on those does. But still we were encouraged, there were more deer than in many seasons. That holds promise for next season. A future of hunting camps for more generations. - tilt's ti-lt's heartening to see good candidates filed in each com -munity for city office. With all the confusion created by the new election laws passed by the legislature, there was some doubt for a time that there would be enough candidates cand-idates file to give people a choice. As it Is, Minersville has only one candidate for Mayor and three for council. Still it would seem that all seats will be filled with good people for the next two years. 0- It's a wonder that anyone wants to file for local offices problems, provide needed services and maintain order. In small communities like these in Beaver County, most candidates are well known. But you may not know how they stand on the issues.It's as much your job to find out as it is for them to tell you. Get involved in your local election. It's only 10 days away, on November 3rd.Your vote does count. Be sure your registered. Choose your candidate, and work to help him or her get elected. The next four years are as important as the last four. And they could be as important impor-tant as the next 40 or 400 to those who follow In our foot -steps. Be sure that our stewardship is well guided, by electing competent people on November 3, 1981. -0- If you think the MX Issue is over, you're mistaken. Several anti groups, Including Includ-ing the Utah Salt Lake based MX Information Center plan to keep active. They are so tickled with the decision not to base it in Utah, and Nevada that now they want to stop MX altogether. So they are holding a rally In Salt Lake on November 14th. In fact, they plan to branch out, and take on other Issues. Anything to keep the organization organi-zation going and continue the employment of the few paid staff members. -0- Not at all unlike the bureaucratic federal government gov-ernment and many national charities. Once their job Is done, they are seldom disbanded, dis-banded, but instead look for another cause to prolong their jobs. On the one hand this may be commendable, that they wish to continue to work and function. However, we believe be-lieve that they often duplicate functions of other organizations organiza-tions or agencies and the country would be far better off to disband these groups regardless of their effectiveness, effect-iveness, and reorganize when an issue develops that creates the demand. -0- For Instance, polio is almost al-most a thing of the past. Certainly, with proper Immunization Im-munization it Is no longer a threat. Still the March of Dimes continues to exist some 20 years after theSalk vaccine rendered polio Impotent. Now we cant fault the March of Dimes for Its efforts ef-forts to eradicate children's diseases and birth defects. They have made a successful transition. But throughout the country, and particularly In the federal government, there are thousands of organizations or-ganizations and agencies that are not performing a useful service. They exist purely for the sake of prolonging the organization structure. Some function so little that, nobody knows they exist. They would be better disbanded. anymore. The pay is minimal not even enough to pay expenses ex-penses of the office, If its done right. And It seems as If your damned it you do, and damned if you don't. It's Impossible to please everybody. And though its probably not true, it seems as if everybody has an axe to grind and wants City Hall to grind it for them . So be thankful that there are these public spirited citizens who step forward to run for election. People who diligently try to settle the |