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SMITH’S OPINION – Las Vegas Sun

HAYWORTH FROM PAGE 10

Simply stated, those agrarian and entertainment interests realized that starting movies around 9 p.m. in the summer months would impair farmhands’ ability to show up for work early in the morning.

That argument prevailed in the state Legislature, and Arizona remained on standard time.

Arizona’s Barry Goldwater may have challenged LBJ for the presidency in 1964, but the 1966 law which gave states the power to opt out of DST if they so desired proved — well, “timely.”

The act was vindicated in another fashion by the Commonwealth of Virginia, according to the late Rep. Herb Bateman. In the mid-1990s, Rep. Bateman welcomed his GOP colleagues to Virginia’s First District for a Republican Retreat. Herb proudly called his district “America’s First District,” because it included Jamestown, site of the fi rst permanent English settlement that eventually became the United States.

Prior to serving in the U.S. House, Rep. Bateman spent a dozen years in the Virginia state Senate. Recalling lessons he learned in Richmond, Herb emphasized that arriving at a political decision, even if controversial, was infi nitely preferable to dithering and delay.

What galvanized his outlook was the reticence of Virginia legislators to deal with a dilemma that dogged the Commonwealth before Bateman ever ran for public offi ce — deciding whether his home state would opt for daylight saving time. Not wishing to anger constituents, the House of Delegates and the state Senate left the DST decision to Virginia’s 95 counties. As a result, some counties adopted daylight saving time; others stayed on standard time; and a handful “compromised” by moving their clocks ahead by a half-hour!

The Uniform Time Act of 1966 ensured that Virginia would have to decide, and the Old Dominion legislators fi nally did so, determining that the Commonwealth would fi nd common ground through daylight saving time, putting an end to the “counterfeit compromise” of letting the counties decide.

Today, 19 states have decided that they want a permanent time change, passing resolutions to provide for yearround daylight saving time.

Arizona and Virginia are not among them.

Could it be that we fear Bob Dylan’s old refrain?

“The times… they are a-changin’.”

J.D. Hayworth worked as a sportscaster at Channel 10, Phoenix, from 1987 until 1994 and represented Arizona in Congress from 19952007.

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