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Show r comment Review - Wednesday, Sept. 7, 1988 - Page 2 Rtinsf in Primary Election is important exercise of rights The local election scene has been so quiet over the past few months that it may suprise many that Tuesday is Primary Election Day. In fact, there are few contests to generate the type of interest that accompanies the general election in two months. Neverthe-less, Tuesday's election includes some important races. Democrats throughout Utah County will help decide whether Craig Oliver or Robert Stringham will challenge Howard Nielson for Utah's Third Congressional District. Although Nielson has maintained a strong hold on his post ever since he won it, and is in a good position to win again, local Democrats must decide who is best prepared to give Nielson a good contest. Republicans will be selecting candidates for two seats in the Utah House of Representatives - both of the contests are impor tant and merit the voters attention. IfyOU don't th1 is important, just ask Mssrs, LeBaron, Hadley M ?theeV tine, the candidates in these elections. enfVa;:. Most local voters going to the polls Tuesday one w'l partisan race, and possibly one non-partisa- n Vot' the small numbers, how we vote will be important 1Tf''V be a good measure of how much we value our Vot( ri ht t( do so. ' How to enjoy BYU football on television the editor's column By MARC HADDOCK Make no mistake, it's that time of year again. Fall and that means one thing, Cougar football. That's right, over the next few months all BYU fans will have an opportunity to go to pieces as they watch their favorite college football team and one-tim- e national cham-pions fall apart throughout the season or put it all together, whichever the case may be. Unfortunately some avid Cou-gar fans weren't able to get a season pass or can't afford to fly to various game sites each week. Those are the poor slobs relegated to the cheap seats in front of the televi-sion. For some fans and some games, this means finding a friend who subscribes to cable television all year long just so he can watch the few BYU football games. Once you h ave located such a friend, it's a simple matter to sit back and enjoy the game. And to m ajte sure you get maximum enjoy-ment, here are a few guidelines to , help you get the most out of this season. We are already one game down, of course, but all of these wonderful ideas came to me last Thursday when I was trying to pretend I wasn't watching the BYU-Wyo-mi-game. Anyway, here goes: For any televised BYU contest, true fans will gather well before the game to discuss the upcoming con-test. This is called the pre-gam- e warmup. For the most part, it consists of lamenting the team's performance the previous week, discussing all of the things that could go wrong this week, and praising and condemning Jim McMahon. McMahon fits into all discus-sions of BYU football somehow, no matter where the discussion There are some simple guide-lines for this. Take the number of people who are watching the game, multiply this by four, and buy enough food for that many people. Go heavy on salted foods (chips are excellent) and soda pop (decaf-feinated, of course), but a lot of meat (cold cuts, for example) is also recommended because football is a fall and winter sport when all that protein is needed. Start the game by worrying a lot out loud about how this player or that player is going to do this week. Pay particular attention to Sean Covey, this year's whippingboy, er, quarterback. It's also good to speculate about how long the starting quarterback will last in this game, and would be appropriate material for a friendly wager exceptBYUfans don't bet. As the game starts, we enter the play-by-pla- y portion of game-watchin- g, or second-guessin- g the coach after the ball is snapped, as some refer to it. Here again, McMahon comes in handy, with phrases like, "If McMahon was in there, he would have made that pass and caught it himself, if he had to." Each play can be a source of aggravation or satisfaction for the true Cougar football fan. If the play is either not a 20-yar- d run or a completed pass, a moan is an ap-propriate response. If the play is a circus catch of a pass thrown while the quarterback us and about to be smothered with 300-poun- d defensive players, the ap- - propriate comment is: "Well now we're starting to play like we ought to." If the play results in a BYU touchdown, the Cougar fan can take satisfaction that his or her team is now doing its job. At the end of the first half, we move into the half-tim-e ramble, where the fans try to figure out how the team can come back and win the game, as well as determining just what is wrong with the quar-terback and why can't he make more than 50 percent of his passes. Game play resumes with the play-by-pla- but then moves into the fourth quarter blues, as the fans all express concern and dis-may at the fact that the Cougars are losing a game. The fourth quarter blues are often punctuated with fond remi-nisces of the Miracle Bowl finish, and how Jim McMahon threw that Hail Mary pass to Clay Brown with no time on the clock to win the game. "What we need now," you'll hear during this phase of watching the game, "is another McMahon, only a nice one." After the game is finished, the fans move in the After-gam- e pick-apar- t. This is typified by a down-by-dow- n denouncing of the Cougars' game plan and perform-ance. The highlight of the after-gam- e pick-apa- rt is when the fans pool their gripes to come up with the most inane question about the game and the coaching. Whoever comes up with the question which most feel is the most inane then gets to call up for the Lavell Edwards after- - game show on KSL radio and ask the question. Once Lavell gives his answer, all the fans get to go home, to pre-pare for next week's game. With these simple rules in mind, I hope you will be able to enjoy tomorrow night's game, and all the games to come, throughout this Cougar football season. And let's hope they make it to another bowl game, or else! starts. True fans are quick to point out that while McMahon was the best quarterback ever to play at BYU, he is probably the worst person to ever attend the univer-sity. And regardless of how today's contest will go, McMahon will be a major part of the discussion as the game proceeds. Good pre-gam- e warmups focus heavily on the stupid things indi-vidual players did the week before, as well as a healthy dose of second-guessin- g the coach's decisions. Today's game plan is also heav-ily contemplated, with strong emphasis on returning to the glory days of BYU's passing offense in-stead of running the ball so many plays like they will probably do in this game. Food is also an important part of any football game, and any inti-mate gathering should have a broad assortment ofitems to please the palate of the various fans gath-ered to watch the game. " "X; xx'5--'- - f ' . - i ' I r ) . , - , r ' V j Tilting with high wires... Utah Power and Light crews prepare to remove this power pole which was snapped off at the base when a vehicle hauling some high equipment hit a television cable and pulled everything over. The accident occurred at 100 W. Center Street, Pleasant Grove, on Friday. Leichty candidate for State School Board illlilpHllS?' III WKM i lilt! !fpiiK ' f j ' ? : ' . Jay Liechty has announced his candidacy for the District 8 seat on the State Board of Education. District 8 covers central Utah County including Pleasant Grove, Orem, Provo and Springville. Leichty is a member of the Governor's Committee for Cost Effective Government, and is chairman of the subcommittee which has just completed examining the public education system in Utah. This assignment has taken him to many of the school districts in Utah and given him broad insight into the public school system. He believes Utah must adopt more efficient ways to educate young people. "Utah is locked in an em-barrassing standoff which pits the taxpayers agianst the educational establishment," Liechty says. "We cannot expect anything but more frustration unless we are willing to modify the educational system." There are successful examples operating right now in Utah where students are learning more with less money being spent. Liechty is a Certified Public Accountant with extensive ex-perience in the business world. He is a classroom teacher at the LDS Business College who feels that leadership in the classroom is the prime factor in guiding students to Jay Leichty a good education. Liechty describes himself political conservative wiP respect for a strong worked Cor excellence in education holds a BA degree in ecoiC from BYU and a MA dep. economics from Stanford1-- ; sity. He attended law seta1 UCLA. ,. Members of the Liechty have lived in the more than 100 years. Jay ; are parents wife, Suzanne Calder, of 10 children. Jay;-an-reared in Springville A little blue because moon has no name By MARCELLA WALKER There is nothing more beautiful than looking at the moon when it is in its full phase, shining brightly in the night sky. The moon is a romantic symbol and it is found in all kinds of songs and poems, providing a setting for love. It is a bit of a different creature, I am sure, to those astronauts who have walked its dusty surface, than for we ordinary folk who have just looked at it. In fact, the moon rocks I have seen are really quite drab and dull in color and nothing like the yellow orb we see in the sky after dark. There are all kinds of legends about the moon. Some say it is made of green cheese and some say there is a man in the moon. The song says "Blue Moon," and the movie said, "The Moon Is Blue," and it doesn't look blue at all to me. There is a Harvest Moon, a ahalf-moo-n andaquar-ter-moo- There is a full moon and a new moon. I don't know how they can tell it is a new moon when you can't see it, but that is the way it is. The cow jumped over the moon, too. Now that is really something! p.g. blab x ... : The moon is a satellite of the Earth. Mars and Mercury do not have one. Some of the others do and some have more than one, such as Jupiter and Saturn, which also has rings. All of these moons belonging to the other planets have names. The scientists have named all of Jupiter's moons and Saturn's , too. I think it is high time that the Earth's moon had a name, don't you? I mean, everything has a name. Our planet has a name, the other planets have names, their moons have names, we people have names, and our moon should have a name. Even Halley's Comet has a name. It would probably be appropri-ate to name the moon after one of the early great astronomers, such as Galileo or Copernicus, or some-one like that, don't you think? It is really in style to name things for the early scientists be-cause they did so much with so little. Both ofmy granddaughters, like everyone else's I am sure, eagerly point out the moon in the sky. They recognized it long before they saw a star. Besides, airplanes are some-times mistaken for stars, but noth-ing is mistaken for the moon. The moon is the moon, the opposite of the sun. The moon often goes into eclipse. I remember one time when we were coming back from Oregon on vacation and we stopped to camp for the night in Hagerman Valley in Idaho. We happened to notice that a bite was out of the moon and so we all watched out the window while part of the moon was blotted out. It was a fun experience. I also remember when I was young and my dad had a telescope and we would go out and look at the moon with it. That was the first time I realized that there were spots, or craters, on the moon. I enjoy going to the planetari-um s and seeing the reproductions of the night sky in our area. I also enjoy reading and learning about the moon and the planets. But I would not have wanted to be one of the astronauts who went to the moon. When those guys were there I lived in dread that the lunar mod-ule would not lift off and .return safely to earth, and those men would be left alone there forever. With every astronaut's flight, I worried so. It was wonderful for them to accomplish all that they did, but I always worried about them while they were up, as did everyone, I suppose. When John Glenn went three times around the earth, I stayed with my ear glued to the radio (we did not have a television in our little apartment then) and prayed that he would land safely, which he did. So, what all this gets around to is this. The moon is up there and it rotates around the earth, and it is deserving of a name because it is so much with us. How do we get a campaign going to name the moon? Lions Club breakfast a tradition at P.G. Community Fair An annual highlight of the Pleasant Grove Community Fair is the Lions Club breakfast. This event will be held Saturday, Sept. 9, from 7 to 10 a.m. in the Lions Pavilion at the Downtown Park. The menu will include ham, eggs, hashbrowns, pancakes and drinks. Prices will be $2 for adults, $1.50 for children 3 to 12 years of age, and there is not charge for children under three. Everyone in the community is invited to this delicious breakfast, a good way to begin the Community Fair activities. Proceeds will be used for Lions Club projects in the community. ' i r . ... 1 ; -- ' ' c 1 ' " " : I ' 'V ' j : i "if ' " " .. - in iiiiini iiwfiY n it ll:ipi.3 Showing off some pets to be entered in the Pleasant Grove Community Fair Pet Show are, L-- Sam Taylor, Marcie Taylor, Erica Taylor and Missy Wright. The Pet Show will be Sept. 10 at 11 a.m. in the Downtown Park for children ages 1 to 12. Kickoff G Pre-gam- e Barbeque - Sept. 9: 5-- 7 Park. Sponsored by P.G. Boost Adults & Students $3 Children under 12 $2 Children under Advance ticket sales at Walker's, Norton's Pharmacy- Football Payson at P.G. 7:30 p.m. Girls Volleyball Thursday, Sept. 8 - Uinta at P.G. Tues., Sept. 13 - P.G. at Sp. Fork Region games - kickoff ity6:l5 Sophomores 4 p.m. ; Jayvee 5 v Jltaaant (Srout Rruirui ISSN No. ? U S P S No. Published weekly except for Thanksgiving, and Christmas by Newtah, Inc. II Soulii Main Plni.nl Grove. Utah uta Telephone Numbers Advertising 4 Circulation News Publisher Brett R. 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