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'! v: A2 Thursday May 30 1974 Dear Sami Today--Ma- y ' ’ 25th-- - Dear Sam: The “planning units' of the BLMand Forest Service are based solely upon conservation This is a disasterous policy A very recent report of the National Commission on Materials Policy slated that total land disturbed by all types of mining has been less than th rce tenths of one percent and that one third of the disturbed area has been reclaimed by man or nature The report goes on to state that vast areas of public domain have been so restricted I was having my afternoon recuperation nap (after being in the Moab hospital for nearly a month) I was startled half out of my wits by the sound of our Moab City fire de- partment engine's siren Having been asleep the effect would be hard to describe! think it may only have been a trial or practice run as I nor my nearest neighbor could see no smoke and the two engines soon returned The point is what if it “had been with their status so unserious”? certain that the risk of cannot be ecexploration I have often wondered Justified by onomically (and many of my neighthe prospect of success bors too) what might hapIn of these facts pen “if there might be a new spite forest and BLM re- dire calamity”? gulations would inhibit & control mining we been have So far For every acre set asfortunate here on Murphy in the country for ide Lane “But it could common Americans there happen tragedy" What is wrong with our are 600 acres set aside local planning commis- - for the financial and insion? All they seem to tellectual elite That is think about is recreation how it comes out when we compare the 50000 and tourist attractions of campground for acres more has Lane Murphy American" the “common curves than a Hollywood Starlet needless ones too against the millions of I will add These curves acres set aside for the of are certainly a challenge “elite” in the form spite to the rash of dare devil wilderness areas In withof these facts new speeders (both cars and drawals of land are conwho use it motor bikes) tinuing both day and night The shortages of enerHow about a little and minerals are a gy residents thought for the direct result of lack of who live on Murphy Lane not a lack of development not to mention school raw resources Energy risk who their children availlives daily 'going to and ' and minerals are come to able for centuries from home coming and can support projected school world population at a level Why so many blind cur- -: above present American ves narrow cuts standards of living All and a nasty tricky that is lacking is developswitchback intersection ment (where Murphy Lane takes Conservation is one anoff the Mill and Pack to shortages in the swer Creek road) where I was world if we give up indifew a' into slammed years vidual rights reduce our back damaging my car to reduce our population rea point of constant standard of living to the road this 'When pairs old days forget drefirst began to be used good of an even’ higher ams the need for a wider one not ' foreseen so conse- - standard of living etc I prefer individual quently it is narrow but freedom de technology There are -very lew reserves of en- that would minerals living mage anyone’s property ergy space higher standards for the sake of a safer of living and a helping better road hand to the rest of the a day passes world and future Hardly generbut that I witness a near ations abthink tragedy Let’s Sincerely out it and do something Joe Stocks for the road as well as I the recreation angle have looked and I cannot Dear Sam: find a ’single curve that I am writing in regards could not be eliminated to the Grand County High or corrected greatly School Commencement You’d be surprised to held Service May 23 It see how many new trail- went and all well very er houses are moving in- - those who directed it to this are and many are to be congratulated ought double wide ones I mar- for a job well done I vel each time I see one was especially imprespass how they negotiate sed by the Commencesome of these turns and ment Address given by narrow cuts Dr H K Hancock I felt Yours truly that his motivating reFrank D Lemon marks were truly appro- 1 -- ns - - : “jJtouched A A S V ' -- V I f'S r- John Woodward Citizens and visitors of ' Moab: For months I have been disturbed about the future of Moab The proposed Mill creek Dam and the massive smoke stacks of Kaiparowitz and Hunting ton bring economic boun ty for some and power to people in another state and threaten my life and my children I look around me at all the beauties and health-fi- ll living that my family can enjoy in Moab growing strong in the fresh ir cool canyons where other have left civilizations their Joyous marks of life Here in Moab I thought my children could become individuals close I to the land Here could grow older in beauty peace and health without the tensions and distress of the ci- - 11' friends and try also Yo-sem- ite 'V ivfstr'-- ' ' - : Frontier Airlines of- ficials met with the Grand Commissioners to determine space and rental requirements at the Can-yo- n lands Field then under construction The Towne House Cleaners was again under the management of Jim Sar-te- n and was to start an expansion program Mr Sarten intended to erect a 24 x 50 foot addition to the present building to house cleaning and service facilities Mayor Norman Boyd & members of the city council began wading through columns of figures in an attempt to provide a solution to an budget and a bank account ney to pay expenditures for the balance of the fis cal year ending June 50 The senior students and their dates n-i- n discharge : - FASHION CAREER Universal-International- - following all-nig- ht Kleenex 200's4bxfor 21" Polish 18 cl Remover ClothesPins 7ox Decanter Bottles 2 for ' ( I to I - Savings Bonks Coldr Books Stoneware Scented 2 for Incense Chamoise Box 48 Canyon Ca 94516 Sincerely Martha Beutler NT n-- ' ce Cru-scho- ol Irv oSemosere J week-perien- airport Times-Independe- nt ng - fi Ago new county Through the Files of - Memorial day end was Friendship fee weekend in Moab and Green river and CCRMA officials reported inquiries had been recei- ved from boat clubs' from 11 states to date County ' phy-sic- ar AS K "l‘ " Years 10 commencement exercises at the high school were to go "to the Helen M Knight school for an party Events were to include a movie dancing games a smorgasties bord and a breakfast to 1 Join Dr Shanteau in follow the party Senior more to there is saying life than progress and class sponsor KusselDo-noghu- e asked all seniors consumption I challenge Sam Taylor to prove that to turn in ttieir caps and to the high school smog will not invade Mo- gowns ab and sit in our beautiful 20 Years Ago valley making the air miTwo loads of legal serable with every low trout size were planted pressure system comes from any the valleys and by the rection Salt Lake ocean Of course Yose-mi- te once beautiful also has become so crowIf you have not lived ded that you need a reserdo in cities perhaps you not know what the future vation to get in There is nosuch thing can hold for us I lived in Cleveland Salt Lake as a visible line between and too much Portland New York City enough down the road of Start and Milwaukee They were 'all beautiful places growth and development so and y°u will never seea onceTOwpyare - ntfkpost until yotiarq napolluted and without tore that it is hard to long past it It is just one remember the beauty It small acceptable step af- is hard to breithe many terGoanother Moab and the ahead days The places to hike rest of Utah -- go ahead and picnic in coolness and privacy disappeared vironment with all of your one by one I am only one person reasonable compromises dollar-thinkiI (to not know what I can and your outdated It will happen do to stop what I know ' so that fast enough you I must But is dangerous will still be around to If concerned are you try warn Nevada maybe you will ask questions and talk to your Remorsefully Thomas -Snhcptiibait Site v"- I intellectually moving ex- I have had In this past year It is unfortunate that a few of the small minds pre sent did not show the courteous attention to Dr Hancock’s address that he deserved but this is their right 1 guess The community is certainly fortunate to have a man of Dr Hancock’s calibre in its midst Hello people of Utah— I’m a visitor from Calthat place that ifornia used to be called the Golden State before the smog hid its sun and the pollution killed off the massive fields of poppies that used to be there along with many of the most QJiuiEH productive orchards that have ever been made to flourish in the west I almost cry as I see ENTERED AS SECOND CLASS MATTER struggling over the you AT THE POST OFFICE AT MOAB UTAH questions of how much UNDER THE ACT OF MARCH 3 1897 environmental control is and what is Second Class Postage Paid at Moab Utah 84532reasonable’ Official City and County Newspaper SmiSMlLi Published Each Thursday at 29 E Center game old familiar arMoab Utah guments about meeting Samuel J Taylor Editor and Publisher new growth needs and Feature & News Editor Adrien F Taylor all Foreron Sport Urn Emert B Milner 0u Trai"’tme i cn remember when Califor- Keep Abreast of Activities in nfa was the most glorious This Rapidly Growing place of all and nobody could tell us that there Visitor Mecca were any limits to growth We had to learn the hard Subscribe Now to way and now half the state is not fit to live in THE TIMES-INDEPENDEand the other half is swiftly catching up NAME Sure there is still where the air is AODRESS yet clear enough to see real colors and sharp outSTATE CITY lines - enough to remind Grand County 5 00 Out of Grand County 600 por yar us of what we have lost in ' j — prlatc for the occasion The address was the most by another more liberal led up the wash with sand downpour Altogether ab- so that wagons were un" out half an inch of mois- able to ford the backed-u- p The ture fell at Moab And the Grand Valley Times 'water The stage A joke on a bank telwho for the managers L rrrnr-nnrijuler was played by two past two weeks had been The getting a deluge of par- in" the La Sal Mt area had JuAtbeen repainted “gypsy” women winand a at Warremodeled The said pair Game cel post freight and a stopped job recently rWwi Wlnhnnrn one Just completed made this dow to change a $50 bill lot of swooning passenin Lake Oowa and one one of the nicest such While the teller was bu- gers on this side of the in the stream below Two businesses around this sy obliging them they wash were raising their to snatch a voices in thanks to awise more loads were sche- part of the stale attempted roll of $20 bills from providence as they no duled for the area about another nearby teller longer had to keep work-- : 40 Years Ago June 12 Just' before the It was interesting to This man hastily with- ing overtime when: the openhg of the fishing seanote that the decline in drew the bills as the wash was filledwith sand son on June 15 : Mrs Carroll Meador potential production in the girls laughed exclaimand son Bill arrived in Oklahoma City oil field ing over Vthe good joke" : Marcus E Jones geov town from California Bill had been so rapid recen- - After they exited chuc- logist and botanist of Salt an was arrival Lake City was happy to be in civies tly that geologists and kling the tellers examagain following his umpires of the Okla re- ined the $20 roll - j there and left the following day were nine $20 bills mis- for the Pack creek uranon May 23 He gulatory committee preium fields where he exhad spent three years in dicted that in the very sing the different amined the service where he was near jliture the field was 60 Years Ago a sargeant in the US to be allowed to run 100 properties and prospecThe previous week's ted for carnotite ores Marines two years of pf its potential capacity this time being in Korea The efforts of citizens flood in Court House Al- He expected to attend colof Moab in foe past few lege but his plans were years to eliminate noxious weeds (in fact all still indefinite LIICS TO OWN A DRESS SHOP? Shooting started during over the entire state of ’s : the week on Utah) had resulted in a ALL NAME HAND LAMES’ WEAR FACTORY FRESH LATEST STYLES Wesdeal of disappointgreat epic YOUR CUSTOMERS SAVE UP TO 50 Noxious tern “Smoke Signal" at ment weeds Complete Inventory Beautiful Redwood Mexican Hat A big DC- - seemed to 'be increasing ' Fixtures Complete Training Program 3 set the shooting party at a very rapid pace VERY HIGH EARNINGS of 18 down at Blanding Another refreshing then continued on to Mo- storm visited southeastINVESTMENT $12500 ab with Art DirectorDick ern Utah and the parchVISIT OUR STORES TALK TO OWNERS CHOKE AREAS AVAILABLE Riddle and members of ed earth was given a CAU coiucr MR TOBD9M396 1707 much needed soaking The the shooting party on WHITE Jayne and Don Baldwin first rain hit on the TuesBox 26009 Jacksonville Fla 32218 PO of was the week and were Justly proud of their day Thompson garage which followed on Wednesday J B 2 for Dear Sam: It is my guess based on the way things are going that Sun Valley Key Airlines will fold up within the next few weeks What is Zenith 443? You call their number' and the girl will not know either the schedule nor wneiner the plane will come in Called the number at 5 am and received no information Drove to the airport and waited until 8:30 am Called Zenith 443 again anTfoepiiot answered" He said the schedule means nothing that contrary to the advertising’ you must call 12 hours advance He fiirther stated that the airline would lose $14000 if there should happen to be Dish pointments I attended the airline-hearingand feel after today that Sun Valley Key their case -- - that they should not have given Frontier fiirther reason to pullout Yours truly Bob Norman Paint Towels 4f6r : AO Suave ChnmnAfi one passenger Had I left Moab at 5:00 am in my car as we have done in the past I could have kept my ap- - misrepresented Matches s Paper Towel U 4klJ iiviwi WtoWMf 50 SOUTH MOAB Open Evenings Til 8 pm ' i t - |