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Show Bulk Rale V.!cn . . - V. $. Postage 'i ' i v IN1' PAID Salt Lake City, Utah Permit No. 2091 W & (MlWifiii Vol. 1 No. 15 June 9, 1969 25c per copy Tooele Ghost Town Wakes To Gold Drill Huni Tooele County Commissioner George BuzUnls strides np road near old Mercur townsite. To rear are the store foundations and the dump of the Mercur Consolidated milL The See Story Page 3 town was bunted out twice at turn of century, then became a ghost town in 1917. Nuclear fuel survey shows 71,300 tons on order WASHINGTON According to a nuclear fuel supply survey released by the AEC, the electric utility industry and uranium supplies have indicated that 71,300 tons of uranium oxide are committed for delivery to domestic consumers through 1982. The orders include initial cores and subsequent reloadings for nuclear power generating stations in operation, or under construction, as announced by 45 utility systems, AEC said. Support for URANIUM PRICE estimates for future deliveries Also are contained in the AEC report. For 1971 deliveries, 31 estimates indicate an average price of $7.20 per pound of uranium oxide, with actual estimates ranging from $6.88 to $8. For deliveries in 1974, 33 estimates show ranges from $7.13 to $9.85, with $7.95 per pound of uranium oxide as the average. The commission said that cumulative requirements for the 61,800 megawatts of nuclear the AEC survey report reflect as of Jan. 1, 1969. The commission said all 45 utility systems asked to provide information responded with data covering 83 commercial nuclear plants with a total generating capacity of 61,800 megawatts, power capacity already the situation committed by the utilities amount to 141,500 tons of uranium oxide. Deliveries of have been 69,100 tons AEC said, leaving scheduled, 72,400 tons of uranium oxide as needed to fill estimated fuel requirements. The near-ter- m now covered by fuel supply arrangements. Twenty per cent of the first cores have been or are being supplied through AEC leasing arrangements, while 35 per- cent of the initial cores are - covered in purchase 1,800 of which were in arrangements with reactor before the operation of the year. supply is manufacturers. The balance of 31 per cent involves direct purchase of uranium oxide from AEC found that 14 per cent primary uranium suppliers, the of the first core loadings are not commission reported. regarded ss adequate. THE DATA summarized in beginning multiple-us- e Heated comments fly in Utah monuments hearings More than 200 Garfield County citizens and officials Saturday sat or talked through a four and one half hour hearing on the land withdrawal controversy in- volving Capitol Reef and Arches National Monument, filling the high school gynasium here with sometimes rather heated words. The hearing, second In the area In two days, was arranged by the U.S. House Public Lands Subcommittee, of which Rep. Laurence J. Burton, , is a member. He conducted the meeting and introduced the other subcomml- R-U- tah tee members, Walter S. Baring, and Rep. Don H. Clausen, D-Ne- v., Rep. Burton said he would recommend that Capitol Reef be cut back considerably and then be made into a park. There is Rep. Clausen said a need for, instead of locking up any resources, for building up countryside USA. Everything should be revitalized in rural areas. Protectionists of wilderness areas have been most active and the loudest. It is now time the other side is heard from, . of the 34 speakers the multiple favored strongly use concept of land management. They said the cattle industry is the basic industry of the area and has to be preserved. Lynn Gates, a cattleman, said What makes America great is its use and development of all resources. Pxytt Gates, speaking as a representative of the Utah State Cattlemen's Assn., said he deplores the locking up of more an more land for single uses. Several speakers challenged then President Johnsons use of saying it to designed preserve small not ones. areas, large studSeveral high school-ag- e ents spoke against the land grab, noting that if the ranching community was dissolved through withdrawal of rangeland, youngsters would have no home when they graduated and wanted to into their chosen work -go ranching. After their statements, Rep Clausen commented that the and from the opinions hearing young proved that even the youth of the country can reach their the Antlguitles Act, Most was . government. A similar hearing, with much the same response from the public, was held in Moab Saturday. At both hearings only one or two persons spoke for enlargement of the two monuments. Among them were Claron E. Nelson, associate research professor of economics, University of Utah, and Noel H. deDevers, associate professor of chemical engineering at the U. Theyvoiced the opinion the oil sand in the area would be of little value and that the area should be a wilderness area.' |