Show Iff iMh v r'' yi'? a4 Covering Bridgerland Vol71 No 155 - -- Northern Utah And Southern Idaho Logan Utah Sunday June 29 1980 52 pages 4 sections Thirty-fiv- e Cents criticizes Reagan World Carter on draft MX report: Soviets seeking out MOSCOW (UPI) — An American who met with top Soviet policymakers during the pait week said the Kremlin ia reasiesting its position in Afghanistan and looking for a graceful way out Dr Olin Robison president of Mkldlebury College in Vermont and chairman of President Carter’s Commission on Public Diplomacy left Moscow after meeting with several members of the powerful Communist Party Central Committee early in the week His remarks were withheld until after his departure as a condition of the interview ri Crude price hike K - KUWAIT (UPI) Kuwait will Join other members of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries and increase its crude oil prices by 2 per barrel to £150 as of July 1 the newspaper As Siyassah said Saturday Kuwait is one of the smaller US suppliers But oil Industry sources said Libya which accounts for 10 percent of US crude imports plans to raise its top quality oil by 20 cents to $37 a barrel on Julyl Government sources had no immediate comment on the newspaper report but As Siyassah said the Kuwaiti oil ministry had already informed oil customers of the price hike “After July 1 the price of a barrel of Kuwaiti crude will be $3150" the newspaper said 'Pray for shahV CAIRO (UPI) — President Anwar Sadat cut short a visit to the seaside Saturday to be close to the ailing deposed shah of Iran in a Cairo hospital saying he is in very serious condition and “all of us have to pray for him” One of the shah’s doctors indicated that the latest complications were the result of lymphatic cancer Sadat earlier said he was getting hourly former ruler and reports on the hoped he would improve adding “Otherwise I shall leave for Cairo" The a hospital near Cairo shah Friday for what first was called a fever By Peter Gillins - SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan Saturday criticized the Carter Administration's defense policies — condemning peacetime draft registration and poking fun at the president's proposed method for basing the MX missile Both the draft plan and funding to begin work on the nuclear weapons system won approval in Congress last week “I don't happen to believe in a peacetime draft nor do I think it is necessary" Reagan told cheering delegates at the Utah State Republican convention “What I think is necessary is to recongize that we need a professional military a volunteer force capable of handling the sophisticated equipment in today's world’’ Reagan called for better pay and bigger fringe benefits for soldiers to keep them in the service and to foster a strong military reserve “We need to have a realistic pay scale that will do more than see 70 percent of our enlistees serve only one term” he said “If we began drafting men now we wouldn’t have enough officers to train them" The former California governor told the 2500 delegates the Carter Admins tration had turned United States into a "third rate” military power by delaying the development of new weapons systems and allowing the volunteer force to deteriorate for lack of incentives The candidate said he supported development of the new MX missile but he looked with “trepidation” on the Carter Administration's plan to deploy 200 of the weapons in a $33 billion system of 4600 shelters spread across 45000 acres of Utah and Nevada Many people in the two states including their governors and senators oppose the deployment plan because of the land it would occupy and the economy it might create Reagan said the elaborate system would waste land and was probably unnecessary He said the system was designed to accomodate terms of the Salt II treaty which would allow the Soviets to verify the number of missiles deployed in the United States "In other words it was designed to conceal the weapons from the enemy yet allow the enemy to determine where they are "You know I hope our Republican senators won't even pass the Salt in the dinning room” he said Reagan assured the Utahns that if he is elected "there must be a great deal more study and research before we commit ourself to that particular method of launching” The Utah convention was the last GOP state convention in the nation and Reagan was assured of winning all 21 of the state's delegate votes to the national Republican meeting next month in Detroit He was greeted at a convention breakfast by an elephant borrowed from a Shriners circus which was appearing in an arena next door to the Republicans The candidate enthusiastically shook the pachyderm’s trunk and thanked the Utahns for their warm welcome A brass band and members of the singing Osmond family led Reagan into the main convention hall boom-and-bu- st UPI telephoto Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan shakes the trunk of an elephant at the Utah GOP convention in Salt Lake City while Utah Senators Orrin Hatch (left) and Jake Garn applaud UB0T gathering canyon information environmental specialist said he has been studying traffic and accident statistics in an effort to determine how necessary road improvements are "Everything is still in the informal stages" Palmer told The Herald Journal "There have n been no formal meetings but only By Janelle Brown staff writer The official word remains unchanged: There is no active highway widening program in Logan Canyon But unofficially the Utah Department of Transportation is continuing efforts this month to gather “background" information on the canyon highway in preparation for an environmental impact statement that will flkely be undertaken later this year According to Jonathon Palmer UDOT environmental specialist a series of person-to-perso- n interviews have been held as part of an effort to establish whether or not there is a need to improve US 89 in Logan Canyon Palmer said he has been studying "driver attitudes” by talking to the Utah Highway Patrol ambulance services truck drivers road maintenance crews and others who regularly drive the canyon In addition the person-to-perso- contacts” The controversial proposal to improve Logan Canyon highway is only being informally studied by UDOT because of some pending federal regulations UDOT believes may affect EIS preparation Those regulations which were mandated by the Council on Environmental Quality have not yet been released from Washington Until they are no formal notice of intent to undertake an EIS will be filed by the Federal UDOT officials Highway Administration maintain that until the notice of intent is published in the Federal Register there is no formal proposal to undertake an EIS for the Logan Canyon project The only work being done on the project officials stress is strictly gathering "background information” Palmer a specialist in UDOT’s Office of Location and Environmental Studies is spearheading efforts to lay the groundwork for eventual EIS preparation Palmer told The Herald Journal he plans to conduct additional traffic surveys this summer in the canyon to determine whether traffic counts UDOT will also be warrant the pro-he added accident its statistics updating "One of the arguments that's been used in the past against completing an improvements project is that Logan Canyon highway is a recreational highway and that the road is aaequate for recreational use" Palmer said "But another way to look at US 89 is as h crosspart of our major country highway system Use and need will definitely have an impact on what type project is finally undertaken" Palmer added ct north-to-sout- Palmer said he is not looking separately at alternative highway projects as part of his “background work" Alternative improvement proposals considered by UDOT during the past year range from placing more signs in the canyon to completing a $73 million reconstruction project Figures released by UDOT’s District 1 office earlier this year noted that it will cost as much as $1 million and take from 5 to 9 years to complete an EIS on the entire US 89 route from Logan to Garden City A study of the section from Right Hand Fork turnoff east to Ricks Spring could take from three to five years and cost as much as 67-mi- le $500000 Palmer told The Herald Journal he had no idea how long it would be before federal regulations affecting EIS preparation would be released Until they are the environmental specialist said he will continue informal work on the project ed Potts gets stay - ATLANTA (UPI) Confessed killer Jack Potts scheduled to die Tuesday in Georgia's electric chair won a stay Saturday from the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals but the state said the stay would immediately be challenged before the US Supreme Court State Attorney General Arthur K Bolton said under normal conditions the state would not appeal such a ease to the nation's highest court before arguing its position before the court which granted the stay No end to crisis By United Press International Iranian President Abolhassan Bani-Sahas declared the crisis over the 53 American hostages “insoluble” according to a speech reported Saturday by Iran’s Pars news agency In another development religious leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini warned that bureaucrats caught using office stationery left over from the shah’s regime would face the firing squad Tehran Radio reported It was not certain what prompted the r a pessimistic assessment from moderate who has previously called for the hostaces’ release But the Friday night speech in a Tehran mosque came only hours after his government came under severe criticism from Khomeini for moving too slowly to tackle the country's internal problems dr state-owne- d 'ff IV - Bani-Sad- Irvide Mike LittHerald Journal Heidi Hatch (left) and friend Amber Haslam show us how to live during the Idaho Days celebration in Franklin The way to live About Cache Almanac Animals are on the run front fires raging throughout the 4 Western forests Bookmobile Businessindustry Classified ads - - A '34 JackAndcnon Jiijr Barry ' - i KifiudiMiMi picked a choice balloon and then went racing Into the wind to enjoy The g day Those clouds snealring W Dr Lamb aaaaaaaaaaeaa 41 News of 45 the balmy easy-goinsummer without a care in the world record overhead may make you think it will rain but there's only an a outside chance of that happening today Monday |