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Show ROLLO GlyphicsBoo Had several people contact me this week with suggestions for the column. For instance one of the suggestions concerned the use of credit cards. The suggestion is that the credit card is part of our economic problem. If the money we spend for interest were spent for a new product we would be able to create more work for the people of this country. Let me throw out another suggestion that was made for this week. This one's in the form of a question, so I'll pass the qu4stion along, having no immediate im-mediate answer of my own. Why doesn't California-Pacific Utilities Company buy up surplus power on the proposed Kaiparowits Project and make it available to Utah? I suppose only Cal-Pac can answer that one. There was also expressed to me some concern this week about our many baseball programs in Cedar City. Probably the community has one of the most outstanding programs anywhere, but, at tournament time one thing always happens. The league is forgotten and all attention is turned to the tournaments. tour-naments. Now don't misunderstand me, the tournaments are great. This games played to determine final standings for the regular league season. After all more boys are involved in league play than in tournament play. And where the most are, that's where the emphasis em-phasis should be made. One final thought that is interesting. in-teresting. It concerns all the talk about the Five County, or rather Four County Association of Governments and its deliverance of services. They have made a decision to move many of the offices from Cedar City to St. George, because of the pull out of Iron County Commission from the organizational structure. Regardless of Iron County's involvement it appears that for the effective delivery of services to the other four counties, or similar services from state agencies to Iron County, that Cedar City is still the most centrally located community in the area. Moving some of the offices to St. George is not going to solve the delivery problems of Beaver and Garfield County and after all for the main, the funds funneling through FCAOG is still state money in process of providing services to the counties, Iron County included. past week we saw an exceptionally ex-ceptionally fine tournament in the Senior Little League program. But this week could end the tournament play and what will happen to the leagues? Well in the first place in at least two of the regular leagues a clear-cut championship has not yet been determined, but it appears that once the tournaments tour-naments are held all else is forgotten. In my way of thinking, this is a mistake. We are putting our emphasis in the wrong place. Despite the exitement of the tournament play, the most important im-portant aspect of the Little League baseball programs is the summer recreational opportunities op-portunities to the young boys of the community. The league is the most important im-portant part of that program and to completely abandon the league program for the sake of tournament play is a mistake. I firmly believe that if league championships have not been determined that the league should be resumed and sufficient i |