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Show SALT FLAT NEWS, JULY, 1971 Editorials. DOWN IN THE DUMP All good things seem to come to an end and the Wen-d- o ver Dump is no exception according to The State of Nevada. Present plans call for the dump to be returned to its original arid condition minus the mark of man. While a new dumping site is planned on the Utah side, it is not today's object of the NEWS to ponder on, though there seems to be a certain air about that particular decision. An object worthy of note is that a dump is really an investment in recycling and the business of garbage starts at the bottom. A suggestion to Nevada might be to resalvage via a contractual route, the components, be they various and sundry, that constitute the dump. Utilizing the present location of the dump as a pilot project for this research in recycling. A matter, too, of secondary importance would be the status of Floyd Eaton, Guardian of Garbage and other treasures. Initiation of such a project as proposed here would encourage Mr. Eaton to stay on in Nevada rather than to leave Wendover in search of new frontiers. You can sure bank on the saying that there will always be garbage notwithstanding life, death, and taxes. PERFORMANCE ! . . . Ive got just the one Letters to the Editor Dear Editor: Dear Editor: My husband and I live in Castro Valley, California; however, we own some acres of Utahs Salt Flats near the Lucin cutoff in Box Elder County, We do hope that Utahs spaceport will go through. We had a friend who was visiting in Salt Lake bring us some newspapers and we enjoyed reading Wendovers picture paper, The Salt Flat Newt. I have ensubclosed a check for a one-yescription. Please send any back issues you may have. I have read your paper and I especially like the stories called "Queen of Blood." It la great western writing. My dad likes it too. Judy Wheeler 5th Avenue New York, N.Y. ar Thank you, Capt. and Mia. 0. B. Lundgren P.O. Box 2224 Castro Valley, California Dear Editor: In your April issue of the Salt Flat News you have pictured a rock formation on the southern shore of the Great Salt Lake near Lake Point, Utah. You have referred to the rock as Hie DeGaulle Stone and as "Agnew Rock. NEWS photo hy H. Manual Who knows whose nose f I do not want to be disagreeable, but I was bom and raised in Lake Point, as were my father and mother. For all their lives and mine the rock has been known as "Burmeisters Nose. It may not make too much difference to anyone, but it bothered me to have it referred to as something else in our day. I do not know the history of how it got the name of Burmeiater's Nose but would like to find out. Thank you, Mrs. Marlene Goodenaugh 8894 W. Helen Drive Magna, Utah 84044 (Reprint from January Issue) NEWS: The Great Salt Lake until recently has been considered a geologic white elephant in the eyes of researchers. Would you favor a research task force set up similar to the International Geophysical Year (IGY) with a mission to study the Great Salt Lake for the benefit of scientific knowledge and economic management? SEN. MOSS: I would welcome such a study. The Great Salt Lake is unique. Its the only thing like it in the Western Hemisphere and I guess the only other lake similar to it is the Dead Sea in ImeL I would like to see a full and complete scientific study of the lake and all of the ecologic and geologic circumstances that surround that body of water. We're beginning to exploit the brines of the lake to quite a high degree and we ought to be able to project to know what this is going to bring to the lake. Are we really going to dry it up or will the lake stabilise at some point? AD of these things we don't know and we ought to know if we can find them out. MMMtatabvN H Dear Editor: It has been brought to my attention that a recent article in your January, National Edition, focused attention to remarks made by Senator Frank E. Moss, concerning "insight to Salt Charles Uelly-Uta- Words are created with the hope that (hey will outlast the author. Unfortunately, most authors tend to outlast their literary crea- tions. But when words do their creator, the greatest tribute a person can pay is to read his works. Charles Kelly left Utah at after the age of eighty-tw- o and books six authoring hundreds of articles on the history of Utah. Unlike many historical writers, Mr. Kelly's works had a personal outlast h Scribe sparkle, allowing the reader the privilege of creating his own verbal television while cither exploring the Masting Cutoff (Salt Desert Trails) or riding along with Butch Cassidy (Outlaw TraU). Mourning the departure of Mr. Kelly is a temporary thing; more lasting are his works and the pleasure of reading them, which Is the zenith of tribute one can pay to such an author as Charles Kelly. Dear Editor: I am looking through the Salt Flat Newa this morning before leaving for school. I see here on the cover a picture of a girl looking up. It saya "Adastra A harbinger to the heavena screams into Salt Lake City while pretty Maretta Ann Hatch awaits the future of winged things to ome. I would like a question answered. Why in heavens name do you have her pose like that ! with dress clear up to her If she were out in the wilds, as the picture portrays, surely she could wear alacka. Just what is she supposed to be looking for? In that position and that dress it could be other than winged things! Thanks, Worried about our times Sunset, Utah ! Flats, page 5. In particular, those comments concerning the Great Salt Lake and the "research taak force with a mission to study the Lake for the benefit of scientific knowledge Hie Utah Geological and Survey was created and funded by the legislature as set forth in Utah Code It operates under the advice and ... al guidance of an Advisory Board whose members are selected from organizations specified by law. Currently UGMS activities are concentrated in three general areas: (1) Utah's energy resources with special emphasis on coal and sandstones; Salt Great Lake; (2) (3) Urban and engineering geology wherever geologic hazards exist in Utah but with emphasis on the problems of the Wasatch Front. The Great Salt Lake represents the greatest untapped potential source of revenue for the state, the UGMS, therefore, hu been attempting to learn everything possible concerning the Lake's nature of future, the long-tim- e the Lakes mineral reserve, and the Lake's long-timequilibrium. Hie urgency of this project calls for expansion of studies of Great Salt Lake with emphasia on the effect of pollutants on brine and on shores and bottom sediments of the lake. (Continued on page 7) e mm nisto HIE SALT FLAT NEWS is published twelve times a year by the Salt Flats Publishing Corporation, a Utah Corporation. EDITOR Richard Nahum Goldberger Jess Green GENERAL MANAGER - P.O. BOX 11717 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 84111 |