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Show Frank Snyder Leads Riders To Another Uintah District Title At Rangely; Champions Now Playing In Tournament "The Winners and Still Division Di-vision Champions," is the statement state-ment that eminated from the lips of many followers of the Roughriders from Roosevelt high school as those "never-quit" kids overcame a red-hot Uintah team last Friday night at Rangely, Range-ly, Colo., and won the play-off contest 36-35 from the Utes, and the right to again represent the Uintah Basin in the Utah Class B tournament this week in Salt Lake City. Approximately 1500 staunch Roosevelt and Vernal basketball fans packed the Rangely gym to an overflow capacity, each expecting what was dished out to them a battle to the fire for the title that the Riders have held for five out of seven years, and which the Utes have not been able to- capture in seven lean years. It was a tough ment fund into the .unifprm school fund. State appropriate appropria-te this fund, required to meet teacher contributions, are about $9,000,000 in arears, and are scheduled to get even further behind during the next bien-nium. bien-nium. There is only $1,000,000 provided in the appropriations bill against the $2,450,000 necessary neces-sary to meet teacher contributions. contribu-tions. The governor and many others would attach this appropriation ap-propriation to the minimum school program and directly to the minimum classroom unit figure, which definitely would run it between $3500 and $4000. The only issue in which the governor was overridden was basic budget for higher institutions institu-tions on a classroom unit basis. He vetoed this measure with a plea that the bill be amended to include dedicated credits (tuition fees, etc.) in the formula. form-ula. The Legislature passed the measure over the veto after Sen. Marl D. Gibson (D-Price member of the Utah Legislative Council, who headed a subcommittee subcom-mittee that worked out the I formula with college leaders, ' had agreed with the governor that dedicated credits should come into the formula. He added, add-ed, however, that "this is such a big step forward that I think the bill should be passed and the other matter studied and determine de-termine in the next two years." Reapportionment was finally side-tracked by the Senate and sent, to the legislative council for' study after a brief flurry between urban and rural sen-1 ators. Sen. Alonzo F. Hopkin (D-Woodruff) summed up by pointing out that urban lawmakers law-makers had been the aggressors in the issue and that despite their higher population, the rural rur-al areas would not give over complete control of both houses to the city dwellers. " We are just as jealous of our way of life as you are of yours, and we'll fight to preserve pre-serve it," he declared. While the tax issue was "middle "mid-dle of the road," there were plenty of other issues, medium and minor, that were settled in the 141 bills and several resolutions reso-lutions passed by both houses. A highway program was settled set-tled upon by lawmakers, with a gas tax increase of lc included. Also the Legislature arrived at an agreement on an increased truck licensing scale after downward down-ward alterations had been made on smaller trucks as used on farms. Also the lawmakers passed again a bill to refund tax paid on gasoline put to non-highway use, applying largely to farm equipment and the like. The bill has been approved twice in the past, only to be vetoed. Allocation of $4,670,000 was alsomade to education and welfare! wel-fare! institutions for construction, with the funds to come from the building reserve set up from emergency relief fund surpluses. game for Coach Clark Green-halgh's Green-halgh's boys from Vernal to lose, because they started out like a house-on-fire and before the Riders actually knew what was going on, the Utes had hit their first four tries from the field they missed the fifth and made the sixth, and took a 10-3 lead in the first five minutes. min-utes. But those ' Marcus Garrett-coached Garrett-coached kids from Roosevelt wouldn't be denied victory and they kept fighting and fighting, and occasionally they sunk a field goal and a foul pitch to close the gap at 18-14 at the half. With Frank Snyder leading the way, the Riders tied the score six times in the second half before they were finally able to jump into a 1-point, and than a 2-point lead with only a minute and 10 seconds left of the game. ' "A" time-out was called and when the game resumed, the Riders employed a ball-control game, and with less than five seconds to go Marion Caldwell, Ute forward, was fouled by Scott Nickell and awarded two pitches enough to tie up the game. With 1500 pairs of eyes on him and tons and tons of pressure upon his shoulders, Caldwell made the first throw good, but missed the second, land with it the Utes lost their I chance at the title as Roosevelt ' gained possession of the ball following the miss, and held on to it until the buzzer ended the contest. There were many features about the game that could be .mentioned, but from this writer's writ-er's observation, the most impressive im-pressive of them was the accuracy ac-curacy of the Utes from the field in the first half, and the tight the smaller Koosevelt kids put up to overcome a red-hot Ute tearji. One other commendable commend-able phase of the game was the fact that Roosevelt played the first 15-minutes of the game without committing a personal foul they made only two the first half. It was the shooting from the field and fine defensive play of Frank Snyder in the second half that paved the way for the Riders' victory. However, he was ably assisted by the other oth-er four players, with John Benson Ben-son playing the best game of the year after he had replaced Norval Hanson in the lineup. But to fail to mention Ken and Scott Nickell, Hanson and Franklin Peterson for their fine contributions would not be the best reporting of the game. Bry-!son Bry-!son and Max Caldwell were eas-' eas-' ily the top men for the Utes. Ordinarily the forgotten men n any , basketball game are the officials the only time anything any-thing is said about them is when they are bad. . . However, a word of praise is due the War-die War-die brothers , for the efficient manner they handled the game. The box score: Roosevelt G T F P Peterson 16 4 6 Moore 0 0 0 0 Snyder 5 5 2 12 Nickell 1113 Hansen 12 13 K. Nickell 16 4 6 Benson 2 2 2 6 TOTALS 11 22 14 36 Uiniah G T F P Bryson 3 0 0 6 M. Caldwell 3 5 4 10 Wilkins 0 3 2 2 Wilkins 0 3 2 2 Fisher 4 3 2 10 Max Caldwell 2 2 2 6 Barr 0 2 11 - - I TOTALS 12 15 11 35 Score by quarters: Roosevelt '.. 5 14 28 36 Vernal 12 18 28 35, |