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Show The Utah Enterprise Review, February 2, 1977 Pae 19b Pragmatic Dogmatics Bill Brock's Gamble general elections. by Kent Shearer "But," Broder continues. '"Brocks plan is far more ambitious, not just in cost but in its redistribution of state and national party responsibilities, than anything that has been attempted previously. Under normal circumstances. Brock's concept would encounter unrelenting resistance from state GOP cadres. Jealous of their own prerogatives, of own abilities to judge the mood of their regions, and inherently suspicious of anything which smaks of "Big Brotherism, the local sachems would drag their heels in the selection and education of the directors and, once those directors were on the scene, would treat them with the distrust and foreboding normally accorded the emissary of an alien, hostile foreign power. Are the circumstances, however, sufficiently abnormal to occasion an alternation of natural personal and parochial opposition? The answer, I suspect, resides in large measure upon the nature of a given states 1976 GOP performance. That record varies markedly from state to state. In some, it have been dreadful might just might enough to promote some relinquishment of state independence. In others, there is no felt need for assistance from outside. Brock's native Tennessee, like most of the southern and border states, is an Newly elected GOP National Committee Chairman Bill Brock has undertaken a gamble. He wagers that state and local driven to desperation by Republican units will permit a national electoral reverses committee influence to a degree never before exerted upon their internal conduct. Brock told Washington Postman David S. Broder Salt Lake Tribune , January 22) of the initiation of a long-tereffort to rebuild the eroded base of Republican In organizasupport around the country. tional terms. Brock contemplates Committee e selection, training and finance of a organizational director for each of the 50 states. He has budgeted $1.7 million in 1977 for this venture. Selection and training will be negotiated with the respective state parties; the later will pay the selectees expenses. Theyll work for the state said Brock, "but theyll be chairman, trained by us and report to us." As Broder notes, Both parties in the past have engaged field representatives, usually on a regional basis, to assist local candidates and organizations. One such is Chuck of Sunset, Bailey representative Utah who has been charged with the Western region over the past three self-confide-nt m full-tim- takes cm OF MS I two-to-on- state-by-stat- voove MODS' V00UE Prior to 1976, example of disaster. Republicans had captured the state in 5 of 6 presidential contests, but Ford received less than 44 of its vote, losing even worse than did Barry Goldwater in 1964. Brock's U.S. Senate seat fell to Democrat James R. Sasser. The Third U.S. Congressional District, which Brock had represented for four terms, went Democratic by well over a e margin. Little wonder Brock is sympathetic to a program which will integrate GOP effort nationally. On the other hand, Utah, like most western states, is an example of success. Ford received his highest popular majority in Zion. Utah Republicans elected a new U.S. Senator, a new Congressman, and new Lieutenant Governor. They regained control of the State House of Representatives and of the Salt Lake County Commission. "What, Utah Republicans will be prone to ask, "have we to learn from the Tennessee mafia?" I wish Bill Brock well in his endeavors. As one, however, who is not absent experience in dealing with local prima donnas. I suggest that Brock proceed with both deliberate speed and painstaking e caution to accomplish the best modus vivendi achievable, and to disdain any initiative which may be perceived as untoward imposition. I Of TAKE avss cm TO ME, w w, I Gne THSV I ONUf' TO TAKE UOTHIU6. i tem go HAVE 00 TH0X)6H LIFE eonpav EXCEPT ME. FRIEUPS. a) pmm)T TEUVISW! cooup you sumve WITHOUT ME ? Water, Water, But From Where? by Parker M. Nielson c 0 u N T E R p 0 I N T decided to apply some of the solutions that are currently under consideration by the Utah legislature Since Salt Lakes recently when my sewer overflowed. sewer, the Great Salt Lake, is also overflowing, it seemed that I might take advantage of some legislative wisdom. Besides, I reasoned, I might just as well save the money usually spent on the The Jan. 5 Enterprise Review reports that the legislature is considering spending millions to excavate a pool in the bottom of the lake, thereby lowering its level. So I dug a basement, but it quickly filled and the water continued to rise. My next bit of wisdom was gleaned from Senate Bill No. 98: breach the railroad causeway at a cost of $3-- 4 million and allow the waters to flow to the north, thus preserving the wild life habitat on the marshes of the south. Ergo, by breaching the wall between my rec room and bar, now submerged, and my kitchen, I could reduce the level. Alas, in two days my kitchen was ankle deep and the level at my wildlife habitat had not dropped perceptibly. my bar Next, the solution the Enterprise Review says is being investigated: pump the water out of the lake to the parched expanses of the desert. With bowls and buckets I laboriously carried the water upstairs to my bathtub. My back became strained and my hands calloused but the water level in my basement dropped not at all, and with every flush of my "john it rose even higher. Wont the water flow back from the desert, as it did from my tub? And now, sitting knee deep in effluent at my typewriter, I Roto-Roote- r. to wonder if the legislature is going wrong. Has some ultimate truth escaped them? As I made use of my neighbors private facilities to avoid further compounding my dilemma, it dawned on me. In a closed basin such as Great Salt Lake, and assuredly with my sewer stopped, my basement has become a closed basin, all water introduced at the top of the system eventually ends up at the bottom. It simply has no place else to go. The lake is the basement for surface and subsurface I am forced water alike. Could it be, do you suppose, that the sponsors of these solutions have failed to consider where the water comes from? The equivalent of my "john in the Great Salt Lake diversions from the Uintah drainage is the Basin. According to the Bureau of Reclamation approximately 100,000 acre feet of water per year is now being transported from the Green River drainage where it could flow out to the ocean, to the Bonneville Basin, where it must flow to the Great Salt Lake. The Central Utah Project will add approximately 135,000 acre feet per year on its completion. Drink it, water your grass with it, bathe in it. no matter: it all ends up at the bottom of the basin, less whatever amount evaporates or is expirated by plants and animals. Just as flushing my toilet wras the key to the flood in diversion of CUP may be my basement, the the key to the rise of the Great Salt Lake. The hydrology of the diversions may also be the ultimate limiting factor in the development of the trans-mounta- in trans-mounta- in trans-mounta- in Wasatch Front. Despaired, but somewhat enlightened, Roto-Roote- r. 1 called the |