Show itrVfK U- V V' Just as sure as I was that Mon -day would come as usual this week I was sure that we would have a let- - and everyone else fes expressed that this1 year’s tournament attracting top teams from two states was a success of well getting rid beard foe fig- - th real hazards not JgJ chaaing down the travel- - because those wufVf?r er st 65 or 70 on the open tkipated this year par?£ have Knti0f-hWwyMalready said be sure to " II By the way nationally invite us next year and causes about 50 we’ll be back SSinlSf 5 alcohol fatalities They e ?m-U ws H?!? £ of all the friendliness where the Wsnt safe highways let’s cf the Moab people and the ulnKl" get the drunks off the fee hospitality they rend ada support for -- EJjMn of Gov- - officers when they bring ceived We appreciated them too i these characters in in- Sincerely-Dixi' Stead of slapping the hand Barker ®f the offender and having J5° h’?rJ£183r Moab Chamber of j Commerce President ctly nothing mms feel ' beat Sank certainly PSNo Sam'1: Friday Your editorial in last actuality ter to the editor from Fran Barnes would night’s Mill Creek flood- relative to my editorial last week week's paper on the Mill But to date there are ing did not answer any concerning the proposed Mill Creek Creek Dam project was too many ' unanswered questions it just raised interesting project questions for me to make still more Much of the and timely Hope-fola sound decision for or damage inflicted by the Fran’s letter a good one ' it ' will serve to against a dam on this page He makes high water was caused by atcreate more a some good points and does it in a patient Of course some are a poorly designed man- calm way which should contribute a titude within the com- against dams on general made structure across the principles Just as others course Our good deal to better understanding munity concerning between groups which he claims current lack of solid in are for them on general over Mill ' have become formation shout this pro- rhird South These two recent prinjiples polarized months of individuals will was turned into a dam by It might be Ln how- - Kups A few comments I feel are mostly remain on oppo masses of trapped deb- in order however First no one ever to consider one of it sides of the fence ris forcing the causes of the polarity outif lu of facts argues that a dam should be the which is appearing within regardless built if it can’t be considered and But adeouate bed there are many of completely safe In Moab about the proposed all the years of study until the most And as I stood on the us who consider ourlnt!! Sincerely recent work on dam Dear Citizens tof Moab: - selves to be reasonable rear of ’my own' pro- - this’ limiTwasiJr ' core drilling was undertaken no one could Dail W Magee f T8 Juanita and I have just really The first legal notice who say for sure whether or not the rock formations want answers perty watching this tor- - iJSS'J simply returned from recently Dear Sam: would support a dam' Final results of that concerning the dam sn to the questions that have of water ror for JSSS the lions International testing finished Moab neceshas for the application been completely just wom-sn- Convention in San Fran-been created by the limit-bias- with according to : Its first officials so it would be hardanalyzed to say whether or not sary water rights ap- ed and informs- - and and uprooted trees’ cisco ' While there’ we ( tournament softball Hie in on TIMES peared ' ratimal people could take a completely pro pnsttion tion so for available Go- - I asked myself thrre SSffS and (him all indications jpicked up some thoughts miasMan ala Auguet 12 1971 That is ing strictly by the k relative to construction at this time If we wanted a almost Ion j how to kill our comthree pace I follow! wun regardless of safety factors we could ago If not the spirit of the We thought you save a Since that timeyears munity a myseries lot of money in the employment of safety experts and peed National Environmental which suddenly had ac- be would interested so u to will 81 be back participate W8i perfectly a frirfrteniiur re- simply go out and hire a bunch of beavers to do it for of stories and publicity Policy Act and the River here are: they ki imder gafe releases another about the US pror and Harbor and Flood qjuu 1 Don’t traffic conditions pro- It’s always hard to get pity taxes Let have appeared within Control Act it Could the earth-fi- ll Fran’s comments regarding the design of the' ject may not the other felloe Moab pay his the new off news Several media something Third South Bridge are valid It is an engineering yet be time for public dam now being planned vfiJin are then complain Mcause even to and rehave all of this ground Pdetiy Virtually even telling if emntv when the blunder and only serves to prove that these promeetings But I and others the streets are not kept leased information has feel fessionals (like newswriters editorialists and enthat three years after ’i up to 1mit involved much work observed is the is alleged the first legal notice is the total volume of water vironmental writers) are not infallible All you can emphasised 2 At meetings don’t' old and ki on® benefits the established Mill of organisation damming that down not too in Mill do soon for some engineering design is profit from past exhave anything tossy Walt iSShin the next sev- - tnim Creek Little "has been standpoint of sweewtion of pUwe hall’! meet- - Creek perience gain opinions from more than a few experts Moat peoplswill single until you get s outside Actually’ this and overdesign where necessary to provide a sufappro- - erelhours? ' it M ohd perspn to con- - then criticize those who Rpeea fo Or ficient margin of safety to overcome problems poUMiaj troUnu- prlata public offldala ter ucccsi’but made suggestions and find a prowould would nuke One other comment I would like to make at this KSwldsartmenil5?t feulti ' with things that objti time concerns the difference between a publicity prod1-Report and make torrent of water and de- - a went on TM This 0 commit' Job j® mpn year's bris in part and for a 40 foment 'effort to release and a news article 3 Get all you can out which is all only ones who ere tee was made up of st time and then failed A publicity release is something of produced by 15 in your community but : had who least favor of resfctonte people tffr&Jfe ffve! sending an irresistable are those whothisdo special interest for submission to news media for £22 don’t give anything in little Afferent areas of coorproject WMfe ew a meeting wll of water thrmigh return Evto no dination or onhandle busmany a might not produce unani- - Moab? The list of failed traveling media by asking questions and seeking answers 4 Never accept " an Mtt no bout tto tbun it earth-fi- ll ' hoping dams in this iness by car or truck eryone did the job that Office It’s easier that the final result would be interesting bu to criThe cost in time had to be done and I SmV! enough to gain the interest of readers or listeners certainly clear the country and iin Utah is amazing when one lost is won’t go into the naming ticize than to do things ' £ el1" figures and grim to reviewing the news coverage we have given dispel any atmos- 5 Don’t do anything J it up Just to Grand of' 15 different people the Mill Creek Project studies over the past three munity But it hai also phere (rf secrecy and go more than you have to take a long way toward mini years we cannot find one that was a publicity release When others willingly written by the Grand County Economic Development mixing community polar and unselfishly give" of Director or Grand County Water Conservancy Dis- fey on the subject of fee escaping from the their time and talents to damvll might alio tend riling waters of a natural £h improve the community ' to give those who Southern Ctlifnrnl1' fm ftuStrating responsi complaint because it is blindly favor the dam a of water that ia char where V the ktiity of keeping the fields run by clique many-o- f more substantial basis acteristic of failed study project officials (many of whom were 6 Look st every procourses I need to take hr condition and making dam? reluctant to say as much as they said at that time of cohesion alltong ' Moab for their conclusions And earth-fi- ll with a selfish the sure are citizens officials talposition were if this because given il many it might even serve to Don’t you think Sam because they though it might be premature considerEs-tmotive If the lied of in you can’t pros- the time over (fevering lost up games “fectr alleged that this community deconvince certain honest ing the amount of work remaining to be done) ' 1 vote would to per do released not like seem to personally period of Z year pecialty' I make these comments not in the interest of skqitics like myself that serves the answers to wLj e When Never consider it extra the against and time with other facts agree we should support the these and many other starting or continuing controversial dialogue with my after what is'best for the comfriend Fran And I am sincere in my statement that that can readily be ob project wholeheartedly serious questions before 5S? C08t s munity ai a whole is “Is night r downpour signlfi- friday ‘ any more time and tax his letter was appreciated and constructive 1 agree 1 x something which thepre-se7 a Don’t do anything we decided to con- niton cant factor transPublic that efforts at this time should be to get all the facts "stonewall” ap- - money are spent on this ' with games that I°r the youth of the com portation is not an option svailable before the public I would caution however project? ndien had to work munity Criticize them as four They right people'andbagTrue we lost a lot of that presentations by persons for OR against should over the fields - before potentinl delinquents re ta considered as water b® factual There is no week last that 8um’ Satt’ place in such an important lead mem — ?hLS! pre" have been 8 join any ser-fe- at saved by a£m ' 7che ¥ai t cost gets out fcey :could:be used and vice Don’t srot dialogue for inuendos v- half truths o1 speculation clubs or organ! was in ws Tayior accomplished by Spanish V the 5Sireerprojkt J®'144? “ short-timtions Tell them that you are the i officials who °° busy S Don’t show any en- from Salt Lake is aro“amased thati thuaiasmLo( aT every 1 riTdue1 To date all efforts to thlnkiS a 1 get these legitimate quesanswered have Appearing on page 1 of the second section this tions BhiM S5S L Pi'-is a drug and alcohol attitude survey which is "sponsible “haTfoforTS Tmnperstures were hot designed by the suneUnd I"S Iriun 65 to 55 as it is by the Grand Comity Drug and 8et for farther and lack distance long of polarity 9and yd thefse who officiated In or its leaders Expect engineers who desiened issue pribiidty re Advisory Board to® gnmes those who kept ftem to back you but don’t travel there are many that It i too often alleged that the many boards oftrustlt hasalso South bridsrii Third or cooperate in other vehicles in the same Ocorei and statistics and back them appearance of ie the Prepnration of news over Mill Creek Commission and committees appointed to do a Then they added the those who had towatch all of media stories then they jobs actually do little to justify their jarlety line: “Know anyone like tie for selection whether of this is utended know cnough to answer gams fexistance And while there may be some truth to such all-stthis?’’ ftidividlial I would like to and or not Statements it is also true that most of the work some of the reriousques- awards certainly are to add another that every Sam no one argues with undertaken uid completed by such groups is of such be commended for their one of us should ask ournatore that the public remains unaware ofthe hours the feet that Mill Creek selves in honesty: “How water should to be used nbout Peraerverance Ume of and the the benefits derived by the public from minds of concerned M(b 5ervaV ’spent much of the above applies There finest the become comare for the Mlest benefit and always Highway Patrol of-logical work citiaena to me?”let and these of conin who those officers live in of this jlktots oversights area any win 4Jhe survey published this week is an example vicinity And most but bveSl thfl Ilka of co! 1 tournament on c®"trate what but they do wery r®nt men are no the opposite In order to complete this 'Sincerely"1 welfere and gf project not all of those who now This exception one is the Drug and Alcohol Advisory Board must have MUMP MMM MM the lat'lHi understanding and active support of the greater have reservations about tat’ gtt o see these men of the population of Grand County Without that the project- would 'be in questions answered pub- of favor a dam across the in the form of filling out the survey JW®rt licly and honestly and Va5rofn tbeir job concreek if were they the sooner the better! will be meaningless and project all the hours that have gone into preparation will be vinced that all the claimed pobtic to enforcing what Sincerely for all practical pur- benefits would become wasted Fran Barnes We urge everyone to take the time to fully read land complete the survey form Unless a true cross Through the Files of section of residents responds a distorted picture The :“4he attitudes on drugs and alcohol here will emerge And the Grand Valley Times Wien results are tabulated toMMMMMMMWMWIIIMlIMMMiannWMMlWM We salute the advisory board for undertaking the ' SenatoTFnuUuS :urvey Pject With the cooperation of residents " 8 Moss fee’MMb6 cSv1 Julyfl°tl will be able to evaluate where we stand and some ijjbey cooled off rSuiS? announced that in&ifiT?1 Iff the problems facing us with a great degree of 1485198 had been ear- torrid ttmopphere pSffinS6 ‘Accuracy allowing for more than a random stab at marked for Grand County MmEYi thf for helping solve those problems 60 Years Ago out of the Department J£S The : Interior ApprrUtta single men (Bach- iA 2 O Thursday July 25 1974 for the fiscal year which £££L rnnrnii el°rs) 4®QHitted them- 8®lves with honors in the Progress” was the S!eb8U t8"1® ln Moab the benedicts theme for the Women’s gfoneH-3hthqito- mf Mr ° 7 to LrStato - 'h & 4m ’ i thought-provoki- ng - JJ fS ly s ' : 5a§ i ft 8 : 3 - e issl ' rt ed fS x J“S5 72T5 ’s Sr n ’ -- : STS E£ to S? M u ® JE hSth & 70-8- i i - uaooia & r - jjjjf ’ SV t : he Si ? nt E££lSS£ thevt ’ za-puc- Wuaas5S5:-ii- &Sff5S!$£ syotrr cooperation important as -- Jeage JSSOtSi - ar JtftSrfLJgl !Sv -- ar p I - at - ®®StoilBiasiamiS mmmr - rt dues-wbo4- ® ? Timea-ladepend- ‘ ent 1 cSlS lon-(D-Ut- ££$£ UtraClubnold jSSS tZ?nr ENTERED ::: ::: cL: MOAB UTAH UNDER THE ACT OF MARCH 3 1897 Sond ::: as second class matter ATTHEpoST OFFICE AT An Signed by businessmen of alleged “high-sUmade his es- trader” payment JttKrPMtfng la monies with sug- - - eP® from the county jail tMtions varying as to where he was beiimhVld the Penfflng his 40 Years Ace In only two states Ver- - dKri court on a charge OA akW dating from M MINMM 8£?SS2?£1 Si? Class Postage Paid at Moab Utah 84532 Moab’s past fee first shale tidewaik County Newspaper Published Each Thursday at 29 E Center laid in 1921 Shdiflcfedbty Moab Utah J Taylor Editor and Publisher Samuel r i rlar Assistant to the Publisher Foreman Sports Editor Office Manager 'Vl8man Computer Operator Sffiy SmS Gerber News Desk Keep Abreast of Activities in This Rapidly Growing Visitor Mecca TIMES-INOEPENDQ- fraud -- STATE County— 500 Out of Grand Counff— trwT - A ffL r be acrenitied Ad° dnti Byrd on his first to the Swith Pole He was chief geo- fogfaf of the Byrd expe- dffio into the Antarctic The oppressive hot spell wttick fcsd skv- - ntrrff 7if77i- DTY- - t M 2r?Lair8 IT vADOftfSS - ea Jow a JJJ?8 "jjjjjg rS?’ over the pro- pany of Thompsons cetowg year Sn : ' Lawrence M J J Burke & Co of eonnty tMCbero approve! teacher Salt Lake City were al- Verting negotiations irifo Mi- - lowed the contract to build local school boards ori 2m?!8 h4 spent se- - a bridge over Court House contracts-- fos the I984‘ the Lg Wash three utiles north 65 Ckw7W at g ret aad adja- - of Moab at a meeting of ffeAU mOetink Of fh® two BjWRtolM was an arrival fee slate road comntis jwirt44!ceompmtied sion The wu to by r Dr Gould consist of abridge 100-fosteel worldwide feme spaa the contract price many other Grand aiL Subscribe Now to THE ta Sre2?jSI2l5es SSor ot Of which was r J- - recent-expediti- V'-- i ' ' l'T : v4 rvIs 1 ' j & ' on plant in Moab arrived 8 in Moab He end his com- fi800? were to look over situation wife a view iSSpjff’fcSiiS’Baa’ VI 2 194 'Amin who had 'ty secured a franchise to Install an --ZIP 000 por foot ha e I CONTACT "-- j v'-- ' '' - MURPHY tANBwriMftjftafe Miwwwwstiwwr rffiS!Lrar 1 t- - - wail - |