4- Closer to home, in the Bey Area, our opportunities are as greet as any other place in the State. But I have a feeling we can do a lot more to turn opportunity into reality. I am concerned over the tendency to neglect local government because of our preoccupation with the State ami national scene. The overwhelming importance of State and national affairs excites the interest of the electorate, and our political parties are well organized to deal with State and national matters. However, there are compelling reasons why local government should receive more attention than it does. Yet there is abundant evidence of indifference on the part of the electorate in local matters and, perhaps because many of the issues are non-partisan in character, there is a lack of effective and continuing party machinery to deal effectively with these problems. All too often local issues are won by the work of a handful of the voters who, usually for reasons of self-interest, turn out at the pells and take advantage of a light vote to win their cause at local elections. Such an election took place recently in a Bay Area community, where the total turnout averaged 40% for the City, but 4 precincts each with an axe to grind, had a voter turnout of 71%, 67% and 64% and 63% respectively. The remaining precincts, which were basically opposed to the 4 precincts in question, had an average voter turnout of only 33%. This concerns me as a businessman as well as a citizen. Experience has shown that this tyranny of the minority is primarily a negative force, a group that has rallied to the side of the question of preventing something positive being done. In a dynamic economy such as ours where the prime factor is the rapid growth of population, the need is for a positive program of continuing readjustment to the