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Show r Sun Advocate Price, Utah Tuesday July 17, 2001 5A Letters to the editoi1 (Continued torn page 4A' GordonCreek? ?' ' Why not bufld a dam at Stinky : ; ; Springs? do something with Ce-Whynot . critical mass racial balance that . 1 . . tendance at the public meeting chimed in, pointing outthat I have .ao idea how precarious the situar ; . ; f - . . .Ai' .4 V . V darCreekandtbeGentry? V . v . Maybe if the two counties were lion realiylsL In the same district it would force - Ouf schools and commuhity : havedone well lit integrating the our local leaders to act Maybe astate senatorrepresent- - Anos and Native American popu-in- g vv viV ; .Two older school teachers inat- - : U ' exists--'. sWf&t ' lations, in my opinion. Still, there continue to arise rar did frictions that. I believe could v easily explode. While we aretrying tolntegrate ; . our community and schools, out-trying. ' .It is going to happen. I would ; side Influences appear to strive to rather be part of a district with incite racial strife. :r. ,; Summit bounty than with Utah Complaints haveoome to me that ' one environmental group represen- . County , v I have written to the oommittee tative reportedly attempts to incite stating my opinion and urge everj ' Native Americans Against the,, one to do the same.': j.'. Anglos to push forward the politi-- , ; Th wMnjmtttafts mlrirpgg cal agenda to ctononire the uranium V Jtilll south of Blanding find get it is redistrictingstate.utu8; ' Gerald S.Uoyd removed: Price v Several.Ute Indians have report being told that their ills such as diar both counties would bring about . acompromiseiIn my opinion, anything would be better than it fenow- .One other commentabout redis- - y : . - - r . 1 MB J . . "W f " . :; ; . ! 4. J MP'b ' V' 4 ; - 4. - . S'! . V? .IV. - 'ViM I $ i I - ;. ,;-- S i . - 1 A AOfepwion vV: in racial strife issue V' Editor: '' Several weeks ago; 1 com- mented inapublicmeetingthat aColumbineikeshootingcould easily happen in a :Blahding school bediuse et a perpetual r ; W concerns the Utah ligisiatures wmmjfe regarding proposals to reapportion arid redistrict areas containing Carton arid Emery Sen: ' MiHUmitrich-addresse- s : : Dimitricb's arments .to keep.; counties. Many members oft th? conimtitee Caiton and Emery intact within orje district were the strongest of the afternoon. Legislature coritemiplates spUtting up Carbon County: (Continued tom ptigd ers from sumnuriingoountiesex- pressed the same desire as from Cartxm and Emmy adequately ex-- !. r Fkfpe dfy toeinff-flkelatip- Rqi.lting, on theother haiwi, ex- - strength of Democrats in Park City pressed great faith in the members ' and. the stronghold of RepubBcans of theleglslatlveredistrictingoom- - hiSumrim County care is bdngtakmi mittee. His greatest frer is that out- - by the majority party to protect the Willis. . words the danofflclal pressedin . Rep, Brad King pointed out that, us side groups will havea bigger Influ-- Republican seat from Duchesne County.-LeaIt is a political process, explained .alone.''.'ahhoughSaltLakeCoiintymayloseence thanmaybetheyshould.' Retired Sheriff JimRobertson re-- a remesentative, having astate rep- feVetalkedalittlebitaboutthe Rep. King on Monday morning The . quested that East Carbcn, Sunnyside reSentative live eight blocks from P word, partisanship, and I would way to determine if partisanship and Kenilworth be included back away is significantly different than hope that whatever decisionscome jdaapartinthejMxwessistowatch havlnga representative live mwe out of this the final decisions are andseeifanyRejmblicansare withtherest(rfCarbonCountyinthe district boundaries. than 150 miles away make because of rationale, and the advantaged by the new redistricting Of interat The committee members asked oommunities best interests the state and not the lines. ; Rooking interests ofaparty"comnKted AKhouitisafadthattwohirds best CaibonandEmeryattendceswbythe est,thethidiatwouldmakemore two local counties should be left in "sense to get 7,000 voters all you Rep. Khig v .v of the state is Republican andonly tad verses other areas with the same WouMhavetodolsaddthecommu- repondingtotheveayreialfact . onetiiird Democrat, the minority - nities dHuntington, Castle Dale and that thesplit dCrbon Gpuifty would voice should be represented In the request of Answers were readilyavailable. few. Utah House, of Represntatives and one the diffuse and (Ulute (hihgeviIletodistrict69anditwould Willie Draughn said that (me of the be whole," pointed out King strongholdsofthe minorifyparty in Utah Smiate to that same degree, most important thlngB facing thenh .; Repl Don Bush responded that the state, representatives Representation should accurately cmaintainedthat the pointismootreflect the electorate and not bound: txmandtheBtaleistheeneiissue. representationiBnotdependentupon in Carton and Eiiieiycoun herethe senator resides. becausethejKocesscaimotbepditi- - arylineB.. Bush pointed out that Sen. calandisstrictly smaller of num-ties, bdngan energy hub fpf.thestate i Utah, have a lot of chalfens fac-- Dmltrich has represented both Re- ttext 10 dighis in the Democrats the however, ang Fbllowing ihg tiisqver meeting, years, spe publican cificaltyihregardstodevriopment RepiLawannaShurtliffofOgdenand of pur resources, commented ; And wboever represents Carbon Sea Beveriy Evans of Ahamont ex- andEmeryoountieswillbeboundto Draughn. all know the concept of a theconstituents theelected dfUdals You Know? house divided, and what we are ask- - serve in representing their best iningas citizens is to be given theop- - testa, regardless of where the Npariyisixin 1Q(56.2 to maintain our district as , tOT may reside, aooordingto the percent) of adults in the top mittee member.;, 50 U.S. markets read a daily Bush was eager to point out, as the best interest not only of Carbon, were many of the committee mem-th- e ' newspaper, and neafly butthebestInterestsoftlmpeodebf state and even, the nation," bers, that the state representatives .seven in 10 (662 percent) ' , roots are in die country and that they pointed outDraughm: , read one on Sunday, ; ... , Other residents in attendance at : are sympathetm to rural issues, according to the Spring tte meeting supported the position ; "If youre going to pit the rural 2000 Competitive Media . thatCprtonandEmeoountiesare areas against the Wasatch Front Index.: bound by the coal and oQ industries, you're going to lose. Tb cut us off so ; to inhume that is supposed person TheCaVUleyareasprimaryfoindustries dif- -. represent an area doesn't help the cusonenmgy-relate- d from other rural ar- - rural populatkm at ah, stated Bush, fer drastically Noticealdy absent from the pub-(Toni) easofthestatewhosefocuslsagri lie hearingwas the general citizenry cuhuraL fove, Dennis VVUlis also pointed out that who have individually expressed the Is southeastern Utah Joined by the kiea that in their collective opinion, v. & tourist industry resulting from the Iheyhavealready lost: ; : ' many beautiful scenic and cultural Inthewordsofonedtizen:Why Source: Acd' About Ifnupen 2000, draws that are unique to the state of Either going to the meeting? It wotft Published by Newspaper Association - . : tors., . De Uamar Gibbons : : : . Standing . HEUJ plrined that, yrith the growing ;, . .v.. should aradaifrindted kming occur at one (dour schools, I firmly believe that It will be due to racial strife provoked by outside agita--.. . PT m I ' intheareaandtheecom)michub,lt is makes sense to keep irepresenta- tion united lathe area, indicated ve . dis-ne- w & - r; . '.n'-- " . , . X I mtu' - - . r - '' ..ML A of bs. trid'':---.- ! . . : . : . Did Whether youre traveling far buslness or pleasure, there'l one thing Platinum carilWlth awealth youll definitelywant topack-aVT- SA of travd anergency services, it makes any orlp more enjoyable. For even more benefits, sign up for Platinum Preferred and get concierge services and points towards merchandise and travel with every1 dollar ypu,spend Receive 5,000 points Just for qualifying! ; sena-portuni- ty '' Visa piatinum ANb platinum preferred offer: No annual fee ; .Low rates starting at just 9.75 APR ; Worldwide access to over 442,500 ATM , . , " . 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