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Show Page 14. THE LEADER-GARLAN- TIMES, December 8, D 1977 ! cont. from page one farmer said. "A lot of people are stopping in at the strike office to talk." And, a lot of people are calling, the spokesman said. "Just today we got calls from Weston, Idaho and St. George." The strike office number is cont. from page one males (41 percent) responded. No breakdown indicating the feelings of men versus women on each question was maintained. The callers also asked respondents their occupation, grouping them under the following classifid cations: farmer or businessman, laborer, teacher, professional person and other. Here's how respondents broke 257-745- 9. Marble said the strike has already had some national impact. A Colorado senator introduced a bill in the U. S. farm-relate- down Senate Monday calling for 100 percent parity prices for farmers. Five Georgia congressmen did the same thing in the U. S. Congress. Come Dec. 14, if the U. S. government hasn't acted, Marble said strikers will implement a "No buy - no sell" policy. "I don't think one drop of wheat will move in this county," he said. And he admitted, that farmers supporting the strike are "stocking up" on groceries and other necessities prior to the strike deadline. Marble seemed to soften the strike threat locally, though noting, "I'd sure hate to boycott Carl and Don's or Safeway or any of these merchants. occupation-wise- : Farmers or farm related busi- nessmen 22 percent (21) ; laborers 20 percent (19); teachers 3 percent (3); professional men 11 percent (11); other (would include housewives) 41 percent (39). Publisher Curtis Starr empha- sized that The Leader claims no particular expertise in conducting surveys. But, he did indicate that a sample of 92 persons, for a population of about 10,000, is relatively large in comparison with samples used in professional surveys of much larger areas. Sheriff Will Fight For Pay cont. trom page one stated.. .upon the strict condition and understanding that you relinquish any and all claim to salary from the County for the time you are so absent from the County and upon the further condition and understanding that your commissioners and sheriffs are administrators who don't need to be experts in their fields - even suggesting that it is a drawback. Asked about published criticism lodged by Utah's top FBI officer against the commission, Chase took the opportunity to respond. He termed the statement issued by the agent, "not knowing any more than they know about the situation," as "unprofessional" and "out of con- commission's stance has been known for some time. "If we didn't okay it he'd just come back one day a month," Burt said, which would satisfy the law. "For us to force him to do that would be foolish," he added. "If I left for three months, I wouldn't take my pay," Burt said later. Commissioner Chase reiterated his stand that "for an elected official facing election in less than a year ... to be gone for three months, would be a poor investment of taxpayer's money." Burt also vdiced his opinion that "they would ever appoint anybody else from this agency" to attend the school. text." Redding said, "If worse comes to worse," and he is unable to get his wages, he will "have to go up to the local bank and make the necessary financial arrangements to offset my expenses while I'm gone." Redding said, "I'm not fighting for myself on this. I'm fighting for the rest of the sheriffs in Utah and I'm also fighting for the department in the future, whether I'm here or not." Redding said the FBI has indicated that with "the attitude of the commission towards education in law enforcement and the tremendous waiting list". ..it would be doubtful whether absence and attendance at said school be of no expense whatsoever to Box Elder County." Commissioner Ted Burt said the letter was the first "official" request received from the sheriff although the Demonstration These people already know what our problems are. We want to let the people in the big cities know." As for help from Utah's national representatives, Marble said Sen. Orr-i- n Hatch has had representatives at two meetings. But he said the other three elected representatives have "not responded in any way ... not even so much as returning our calls." The Leader requested statements Monday from both Sen. Jake Garn (R) and Congressman Gunn McKay (D). Senator Jake Gam's office called The Leader Tuesday morning with a Docombor 9th at 2 PM. V CHRISTMAS I IVRAP ntRg ft. Buy just wktt pu mil Sold LITTON fey tks Microwave Cooking I statement. The senator said, "It's clear that these kinds of demonstrations are protected," and that people have a right to march or demonstrate. But, Garn also said he "personally" doesn't favor such actions whether it be farmers, labor unions, civil rights groups or others. Garn, said the thinks there are "better ways to bring attention to the problem and actually bring about solutions." Garn, long an opponent of greater government intervention, feels farmers are going to "benefit best under the freest possible market place." He also recognizes that prices are too low, a spokesman said, and feels there has to be "some cutbacks" to alleviate that situation. Of 100 percent parity prices, a Garn spokesman said, "If that kind of price were guaranteed to the farmers, a lot of experts say you'd really just have to control the economy." Congressman McKay made the following statement: "I sympathize with farmers' frustrations for the past several years. I believe, as they do, there is sound reason to increase parity and I will continue to support those efforts in the Congress; I don't believe a nationwide farm strike is the way to go about it. I am convinced that a strike would hurt small farmers and just about all consumers. And, foreign and large domestic growers could reap large windfalls at our expense." "The most frequent casualty this year isn't the big farm interest. It's the small family farmer who doesn't have the same capacity to wait out a bad market and sell when conditions improve. Whenever you have a surplus of farm products, there is going to be a squeeze and the hardship falls first, and it falls hardest, on the small family farmer," McKay said. '.'America has a habit of taking her farmers for granted, and making their calling even more difficult than nature already makes it for them. Americans need to be reminded from time to time, and I think the recent farm protests have helped do that. Congress is in a better position now to approve a dramatic increase in parity price support, he added. HALES BROS. FURNITURE 34 South Tremont The LEADER 257-322- 6 MHi Christmas Specials XT Jan. 2 tor tne school. The Sheriff will, apparently, leave the department operation in the hands of Chief Deputy Curtis Larsen. He will leave "As far as I'm concerned, they (the commission) don't pick my successor unless I'm out of office," he said. "As far as I'm concerned, my chief deputy or whoever I pick, will be the one." While at the school, Redding will study courses through the University of Maryland in forensic science, effective communication, management and budgets, social tilanning of community behavior, constitutional criminal procedure, introduction to gambling techniques, tactical unit techniques and operations and special martial arts tactics. 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