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Show j;"t Li' (tax Ty;-- , ' Norma Matheson, wife of Utah Governor Scott Matheson, explains a point to South Elementary School students. She was in Cedar City last week as part of Council on Aging Conference. Governor's wife 'grilled' By BRUCE LEE Record Assoc. Editor They came . with their lists of probing questions in their hands, their pencils tucked neatly behind their ears, and film in their cameras. And the questions were tough. The press conference was with Norma Matheson, the wife of Utah Governor Scott Matheson. The press? Well, the press was a group of fourth graders from the Cedar City South Elementary School. The governor's wife had been invited to the school :. to field a host of varied questions from the students. The students generally go on a field trip to Salt Lake City to see the governor and his wife, but this year they took advantage of a visit to town by Mrs. Matheson for the Council of Aging Conference, explained teachers Carmen Hep-worth Hep-worth and Gary Roper. Mrs. Matheson answered an-swered questions con cerning, among other things, the sagebrush rebellion, El Salvador, nuclear accidents, Salt II, the coal miners strikes and MX. "You have a lot of serious questions. Don't you want to know if we have a dog or a cat or something?" laughed Mrs. Matheson after several probing questions concerning the past legislature and the possibility of nuclear accidents. The fourth graders have been studying government and world, , state and local affairs very intensively, and it certainly showed from the breadth and depth of the questions asked. "By now they have a pretty good background," said Mrs. Hepworth. And by now Mrs. Matheson surely has a pretty good background on how fourth graders think and what concerns they have. After all, her husband has probably never faced 40 reporters quite as tough as these were. |