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Show Livestoclimen should initiate legisla be worked out to update the outdated Taylor Grazing Laws that have remained virtually unchanged since the early 1900's. Congressman Lloyd in dicated that recommendations from the hearings should take into consideration , variables in setting of annual fees for permits on ; federally ; owned lands.. ',' '..:.. - lloyd . ahjo, touched pri the import, situation as it; affects tho livestock industry and indicated-, that he would support sup-port legislation expected to be introduced in congress to require that Inspection of imported im-ported beef be brought up to meet the standards that are currently being enforced on domestically raised meats. In connection with the import im-port i&iue Lloyd suggested to the livestockmen that as an organization they help with the drafting ; of legislation that would meet the needs of this basic industry to give congress some guidelines. , Extremists in environmental interests are advocating single sing-le and dominate use over mutliple use of the land, Lloyd indicated and he reem-phasized reem-phasized his support of multiple multi-ple use of land. In connection with this concept the congressman con-gressman indicated that he had introduced a bill in the Congress reducing the size of the Lake Powell National Park boundaries so that more land" could be put into multiple multi-ple use. : In the question and answer period the Utah Congressman was asked about consumer in-terests in-terests and he responsed by indicating that consumer movement "don't care if you (livestockmen) live or die. if they can get meat one or. two cents cheaper." Extremism and capitalization capitaliza-tion on reactions were noted as difficulties faced in congress. con-gress. Lloyd used as an example ex-ample the recent legislation that passed the House by a margin of 400 to 6 which ten times the penalty invoked on the killing of Eagles from $500 to $5000 and added additionally ad-ditionally a $2500 reward to the informer. "This is extreme, ex-treme, emotional legislation," he advocated. The $500 penalty pen-alty was adequate if it was enforced, he suggested. The Congressman indicated to the group that as the result re-sult of a discussion on the issue is-sue of poisoning of predator Iron County livestockmen were aumomsiiea to heip diaxt legislation that woum meet the neeus ot cm;ir muustry Dy Coiigitsaman . sncrjnan Jf. Lloya, in-Utah) at tne annual meeting ox me iron county Cuouemens Association neiu on tne ooutnern ucan isiaie Conege campus, baturuay evening. ev-ening. inc congressman, representing repre-senting tne oocuiid uistnct oi Uiaa, touciied base on a scries scr-ies ot pertinent issues to tne Jives'iocK industry Delore opening op-ening tne session up to questions ques-tions anu answers. "A great issue throughout the country is tne locKing up of tne land," he commenteu then adued that 'it appears that some in our country prefer pre-fer predators over livestocK." Specnically the Congressman Congress-man expressed bis belief that there was a need for empnasis on planning of land uses both on lederal and private grounds. He told the livestockmen that "their basic industry is being threatened by the advocates ad-vocates of make work industry indust-ry at the sacrifice of the "hard rock basic industry of livestock." live-stock." As a member of the Interior Committee the congressman indicated that hearings would be held this year to study recommendations re-commendations of the Land Law Review Commission and that he believed that from the hearings a formula will VP tVJli' ! ' '""'"ft r W animals that he had been assured as-sured that a representative of the White House would be sent out on a fact finding mission to determine the extent ex-tent of the recent ' executive order banning such control measures. ADDRESSES LIVESTOCKMEN. Congressman Sherman Sher-man P. Lloyd, (R-Utah) was featured speaker at annual an-nual meeting of the Iron County Cattlemen's Association Associa-tion Saturday. |