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Show Mortensen hits f or 35 Want to Sell? Create Shortage points in losing effort The Parowan Rams basketball basket-ball team played host to the Milford Tigers Friday night in a mid-season league encounter en-counter that saw the Rams once again come alive. The first quarter saw both teams in a man- to man defense. de-fense. The Tigers from Milford found that they could not contain con-tain the Rams in a man to man as the Parowan net men drove the defense time and time again. The quarter ended end-ed 18-14 for the Rams. The second quarter found Milford going to a zone to contain con-tain the driving Rams, but the hot shooting of Russell Mor-tensen Mor-tensen from outside kept the Rams In the ball game as the half ended with Milford a four point advantage. Third quarter action continued con-tinued about the same as both clubs hit well from the field but the Tigers picked up four more points and lead at the end of the quarter by a big eight points. With four minutes to go the Rams trailed by ten. The Parowan Par-owan crew went into a zone, press to try to get back in the game. Two quick turnovers put them within six points, but Milford fought back with the hot shooting of Richard Smith, who hit for 12 points in the last quarter, to shatter the Ram hopes. Mortensen, a tall thin senior, sen-ior, kept the Rams hopes a-live a-live throughout the game as he put in 35 big points to lead the scoring for the night. by Mary Gae Evans If you want to sell some-thing some-thing anything all you have to do is say that there is going to be a shortage and we, the public, will break our necks to buy it from you. I wonder how many of the current shortages are real and how many are not. It seems that one thing leads to anoth-er. anoth-er. They tell us that there is an oil shortage, so prices zoom up and up on all gas and oil products. I am really having a hard time making my 70 miles per hour foot ease up to 55 to save gas fand avoid arrest). They also tell us poly, ester is made from petroleum products so it too is disappear, inging from the shelves, 20 yards at a time. Now that people have this bit of information, infor-mation, they are also buying yards and yards of cotton be-cause be-cause they figure if they can't get polyester there will be a shortage of cotton. One of the Cedar City stores had a sale recently on polyester, 'cotton towels and shoppers were so frantic several were wounded in the battle. The huge stacks of merchandise were gone within an hour. Now they tell us there will be a wheat shortage that will cause bread to go to a dollar a loaf. If this happens, and if the price of tuna fish goes any higher, I suppose tuna sandwiches sand-wiches will become a gourmet dish we only serve when we have special guests. My husband, hus-band, for one, will be glad of that he won't have to have them in his lunch anymore. The latest craze is tolet tissue. tis-sue. Someone happened to remark re-mark that there might be a shortage and the shelves in the stores cleared like lighten-ing. lighten-ing. The high school juniors will never be able to buy enough to use for prom decorations decor-ations this year, because there are tons of it stacked in people's peo-ple's basements. Remember the raisin shortage? short-age? For a while the only place we could get them was in Post Rasin Bran cereal. Now every store you go in has raisins stacked and no one Is buying them, because now there Is no shortage. Whisper i the word again and whosh the raisins would disappear. The same thing happened with the meat shortage. Everyone Every-one filled their freezers with cuts of meat they wouldn't ordinarily buy. Now there Is plenty of meat in the stores but most of us learned to get along without it so it just sits in he meat counter. I thought I'd test this theory of creating public panic so while I was shopping I just casually mentioned to a few friends that I'd heard there was going to be a shortage of canned dog food. Sure enough, the word spread and soon everyone in the store had a cart full of canned dog food. One lad. got clear to the check stand before she remembered she didn't have a dog. (She bought the dog food anyway just In case.) The newest shortage, It seems, is fertilizer. I'm going to do my part by offering my whole corral of high quality "natural" fertilizer to anyone who wishes to bring a pickup and shovel and get some (may be to store in the basement or garage for future use). I've also got a few odds and ends around the house I'd like to sell. I just might start a shortage rumor and see how fast I can get rid of it. |