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Show CCBP. 2.X 2603 3-- 71 81101 CITY SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Congressman Owens Leaning For Vote to Allow Vital Pipeline Utahs freshman Congressman Wayne Owens said that after his trip into Alaska that he is now tending to favor the Trans-alas-k- a pipeline. Rep. Owens said that his concern over the environmental impact of such a line was answered by a 36 hour inspection of the Alaska site itself. Congressman Owens and Oklahoma Rep. James Jones took the tour to see first hand what the whole situation was. The two Representatives left Washington on a bill that would give Congressional authorization for the project without further court hearings, a measure that both said they planned to endorse. Representative Owens and Representative Jones both sit on the full House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee. The Bureau of Land ManageCongressman Wayne Owens ment flew Jones and Owens over more tundra and not much in some 60 inches of reading ma terial of the environmental im wildlife. The only items that either pact statement. knew were those items reported (Continued on page 5) . . Recommendation Made for UTA To Cover Wasatch Front Areat The Transportation Coordinat- ing Committee of the Wasatch Front Regional Council made a recommendation that a regional transit authority be created by expanding the Utah Transit Authority to encompass the entire Front. The recommendation was made to representatives of cities and counties along the front during a meeting at the Davis County School Board Auditorium. The study has been made for the Transportation Committee of the Wasatch Front Regional Council. Salt Lake City Commissioner Conrad B. Harrison is the Transportation chairman. The recommendation must be passed by both the committee and the Wasatch Front Regional Council before presentation to the Utah State Legislature for its consideration. It would require a change in the state law to allow for the creation of a Regional Transit Authority. Under the proposal the new Authority would have a board of directors based upon the population in each county and the members would be selected by the county councils of each county government. Voting would be based upon services or number of routes on the regional issues. The proposed Regional Authority would be funded by a proposed Utah Transportation Users tax to raise funds to finance the system. This would be based on a half cent increase on each gal- - FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1973 Moss Criticizes Governor Releases Report Utah Drivers Voluntarily Cut Speed Water Report Of Commission In a speech on the Senate floor this week Utah Senator Frank E. Utahs Governor Calvin L. a released Utah HighRampton way Department Report this week which indicates that Utah drivers are voluntarily participating in a slow down save fuel campaign. Following more than ten years of almost steady increase, the average speed of Utah motorists has taken a downturn. According to the Utah Department of Highways, the average speed has dropped 3.8 miles per hour. The Highway Department has 18 permanent reporting stations in non urban areas in the state and each year the speeds of passing cars are sampled and compiled in a speed survey. These sites are carefully chosen to prevent rush hour traffic and other factors for distorting a study. This year for the first time in a long time all stations except two in southern Utah showed a decrease in the average speed. In some cases the reduction was as high as seven miles per hour. Even the two stations showing an increase had the smallest increase in ten years. Highway officials are quick to emphasize that a drop of over two miles an hour represents a significant change in driving habits. To create this kind of influence on the aveage, the bulk of the motoring public has been reducing speed by more than five miles an hour. Observation from Salt Lake County Sheriff officers and Utah Highway patrolmen bear out the results of the highway department study. Troper Lloyd Olsen of the Highway Patrol says he Moss took issue with the National Water Commission Report Moss is upset over the Commissions criticism of the federal water resources programs for agricultural irrigation in the west. The Commission has re- marked that the federal reclamation program has contributed to excess productive capacity in U.S. agriculture and that there is no need in the foreseeable future for any continued federal interest in irrigation, he said. He disagrees strongly. A 1971 Iowa State Uinversity study is a major part of the foundation the Commissions conclusions were built. Moss said some of the assumptions projecting a favorable farm picture into the future have already been discredited. Droughths, floods, frost and blights can all too easily wipe out a years farm production over a major region of the nation. Regional diversity and capability to produce in excess of domestic needs are not national burdens as the Water Commission contends. They are insurance against some of the worst disasters a nation can experience. Moss pointed out that President Nixon blamed bad weather causing the crop and livestock shortages as part of the reason for current food price problems. Senator Moss quited Nixon comment that the key to curb food prices in increasing supplies. These comments highlight the fallacy of judging the adequacy of agricultural production by a short term surplus. He pointed out that the U.S. could be selling large quantities of excess food to other nations now to correct its balance of payments, but there is no over supply. on which Governor Calvin L. Rampton has noticed that most drivers have reduced their speeds by about five miles per hour around the Salt Lake area. Some drivers are still driving the limit and beyond, though. Stations have recorded drivers doing almost 100 miles per hour past their posts. These drivers create a safety hazard. By driving, speeds faster than the majority of the traveling public, the drivers are creating a speed differential, and it is the difference in speed between vehicles on the same highway, not the rate of speed that causes accidents. The few who are exceeding the speed of most drivers arc making the highways less safe from all and seriously wasting gasoline. . TODAYS Mrs. Rampton Hosts Girl Scout Troops Mrs. Calvin L. Rampton will host the 72 Girl Scout partici- Moon Walk Day pants in a national event, Traces Through Time at an orientation The moon first felt human life rustling about on its tea at the Governors Mansion, 22. Sunday, July surface .July 20,1 909, 2:17 MDT, when two U.S. astroIncluded in the group are repJuly 20 resentatives from the six regions nauts descened in the lunar module Eagle. of the United States, two from became known as Moon Walk Day and it iscertainly one Comm. Conrad B. Harrison Columbia, South America, and date that will remain emblazoned in the minds of all who Ion of gasoline and $1 increase two from Sweden: were able to watch the dramatic event on television. in the state vehicle registration Using artifacts Mrs. Rampton On that historic day, pilot Michael Collins orbited fee, estimated to raise some $3 will give the girls the local backmillion. ground of the Freemont Indians the moon in the command module, Columbia, while The study also recommends whsoe culture is the subject of and Edwin Aldrin explored the moon. that 100 miles from Brigham the event to be held in the Ver- Neil Armstrong 6. The duos entire stay on the m oon lasted 21 hours, .30 City to Payson be divided into nal area, July nine zones. The recommended After the official greeting of minutes and the actual moon walk initiated by Armzone within each would be local leaders these .Girl Scouts fare was 2 hours, 15 minutes. The potential spin-ofanother 25 cents. A trip from will depart for camp. The Ver- strong Ogden to Salt Lake City would nal Chamber of Commerce will benefits from this venture, added to the overall contribucost 75 cents, which is about host the girls at a western ( Continued on page 4) becue during the visit in Vernal. half of the present fare. 25-Au- g. ( Y 72 |