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Show CLAUDE'S rommsmiA S by Claude Orton For the second time this year we are having to give Governor Calvin Rampton a pat on the back. The first was the way he handled the budget bud-get session of the state legislature legis-lature last month, in holding the line on expenditures and revenues.. And now for the way he is conducting himself as he faces the upcoming political po-litical campaign. Everyone is sure that he is going to run for an unprecedented unprece-dented third term for governor, a plum that several have tried for but none has achieved so far. A poll conducted several weeks ago by the Tribune, showed that he was very popular, pop-ular, with even the Republicans Republi-cans polled showing that they liked him, and that he could probably win another term. Now this is the part that I like about him. He just won't come out and throw his hat in the ring, will not make any announcement. He gives this as one of his reasons: "I think campaigns are too long even with the May filing deadline." I think they are too. The Republicans have a few possibilities for the office but they are reluctant to throw their hats in the ring, especially if they have to face Mr. Rampton, waiting to see who they will have to run against. But Rampton seems in no hurry to announce his candidacy candi-dacy as yet, and I feel that his delay is holding the Republicans Re-publicans back. Some good Republicans Re-publicans say the people know the Governor's "Track Record" Rec-ord" and that he should retire for the good of the state, Lots of others seem to think that his record is pretty good.. As the college basketball season nears its end, we have watched the records pretty close in regard to the size and height of the players of now and yesteryear. It seems that they are "growing up." Two players that come to my mind came up through the Parowan ranks and went on , to state and national renown. And they were big men in their age of the game., but would be like pigmies on today's Lackey 7-0 and Jay Bunker 6-8. How would the teams of the 1920's and 1940's stack up : against the 1972 BYU team?. ; And the Y gives away height against the Arizona and New Mexico schools. Well, the league basketball season is over as of last week, and the Kanab Cowboys took the championship of the Class A division, and the spot in the state tournament, and the Parowan Rams and Beaver Beavers are in u tie for second sec-ond place, Milford Is in third ; and Enterprise brings up the , rear. In the Class AA division Delta has taken the championship cham-pionship there, and has the trip to the state Class A tournament tour-nament all sewed up. Now comes the payoff, or playoff, I mean to see who wins the second spot in each division. The four remaining teams in the Class A division will square of this week end along with teams from the other division, in a supposedly round robin, to pick another representatives from their divisions, di-visions, to represent them in the big meets. Parowan, Milford, Mil-ford, Beaver and Enterprise will play Thursday and friday to determine this spot with Kanab getting into the melee Saturday night to round out the event. Did I say payoff .well that is what it really is, the ten teams playing for a payoff, and as I understand it, the payoff goes, not to the schools involved, in-volved, but to the regional athletic council or whatever it is called. In other words it is a payoff, for honors for the teams participating and cash for those who are engineering engineer-ing the deal. Any way it is a big deal, a cash deal for the higher-ups. teams. Back to 1922 we had Frank "Huzzy" Ward, a 6-3 "giant", who led the PHS team to its first state meet in history. He went on to BAC in Cedar City and then became a member of the famous "Golden Bobcats Bob-cats of Montana State in 1927-28 1927-28 and 29. The team gained national honors both in the West and the East. Ward was the biggest man on this team. Others were his brother, Or-land, Or-land, also a star for Parowan; "Cat" Thompson, of Dixie; John "Brick" Brceden and Max Worthington. This team was a very good one. Then in the 1910's along came John V. Benson, a towering tow-ering giant of 6-1. He gained all-state honors at Parowan High, then went on to BYU where he broke into the starting start-ing lineup as a sophomore. He held scoring, rebounding and foul shooting records, that stood for many years. He was an all-conference center in his senior year. Now let's look at. today's team at BYU. Here is the squad on this year's program, with their heights: Of course we must start with Kresimer Co-sic, Co-sic, the Yugo Slav, at 6-11. Then Dave Bailey 6-1, Belmont nderson 6-3, Greg Clawson 3-3, Doug Richards 6-3, Brian mbrozich 6 6, 1'ernie Fryer 5-3. Kalavi Sarkalahti 6-8, Phil Tollestrup 6 6, Greg Snow S-7, Ciai;j Jorcniicn 6-S, Steve |