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Show 4 tog Utah Farm Bureau News Land Use Law Calls for Study government abuse of the broad authorizations in present national land use bills. Some Congressmen are deeply concerned that bills now before the House and Senate committees may Issnairi H. Johnson As&tont Director By covered might come up in a state which designated a mountain area, add the provision for key facilities might be interpreted to be equally broad. There is & hazy boundary in land by-san- a lake area, or a beach area as an area of critical environmental e concern. Citizen X, a man nearing Natoral Resources Department retirement age, who has bought use between Federation Farm Bureau American planning taking' land in one of these areas to build a and control. Many people are retirement home finds that conFew issues are receiving doser substantially alter traditional concerned that state agencies may struction of a residence is now review by state legislatures and rights of projferty owners. They p their normal definition of banned by the state land use special study groups than comfear states may take private taking in carrying out land use management plan. land use planning property without due process of planning. prehensive Although Mr. X made a subproposals. law under the guise of land use In the 1972 bill which finally stantial investment in good faith, This situation will no doubt regulation. in the Senate, an amend- - he is no longer free to build; his passed jCOTtinue until state legislatures, 268 203 bill Senate of Section (d) land is now located in an area of and Congress ' can develop1 (Jackson) says that state critical environmental concern. safeguards to protect private programs must authorize the His investment has been reduced ownership of land as well as local state to prohibit inconsistent land in value, which is a form of condetermination. use developments in these four fiscation of property. Under the All western state legislatures categories: Senate amendment, he will be have considered various land use (1) Areas of critical enassured of access to the courts. planning programs. Five states vironmental concern Unless redress in the courts is Idaho, Montana, Utah and (2) Areas impact by key provided for his case, this would be have completed their facilities Wyoming an example of taking land by regular legislative sessions. Not (3) Areds of present or potential regulation. one adopted a comprehensive regional significance State legislatures hopefully will land use program. (4) Areas of large-scal- e refuse to give state agencies land Legislation which did finally development. use planning authority if the pass in these states primarily Various congressmen point out federal law seems to permit abuse authorized the governor or that guidelines for the states are Biiildfeg by. a Bsewtain lake may of that authority. be banned if law passes. legislature to set up study groups very broad and go far beyond If congressional committees and to do more research. typical zoning ordinances now in individual members of Congress Contacts with states where effect. Their fears are amplified by ment was adopted to plug this continue to examine the core of this legislatures are still in session this fact: although the states may loophole. The purpose of this issue, they should steer Congress indicate that similar legislation is define areas of critical enamendment was to clarify that away from a national land use likely. vironmental concern as fragile, states carrying out land use planning program, as now stated in People close to this issue feel historical, natural hazard, or planning laws could not deprive an some bills, to a clearer national that Congress has a serious hurdle renewable resources land, all will individual of his property rights program of federal assistance to to overcome in writing a national be subject to federal review. 'without due process of law and fair states. land use planning law. That is to It means that almost any land payment, if warranted. A strict show clearly that Congress will not within a state could be called an An example of the problem approach may not satisfy encourage or accept state area of environmental concern, which the Senate amendment the planning per perfectionist. But side-ste- - Mb federal-assistance-to-stat- beloved America. It obviously was not a gesture for dramatics. It was a genuine by Dr. George S. Benson President NATIONAL EDUCATION Searcy, Arkansas One of the greatest moments in American history (and, in fact, world history) was the reading of the first verses of Genesis by Astronauts Borman, Lovell and Anders as their Apollo 8 circled the Moon 278,000 miles in space on Christmas Eve CAPRI SeimtSight BUIL T IN BENEFITS FOR LONGER , SAFER MILEAGE Top value, 4 ply nylon conwith struction coupled tough rubber compound delivers extra long mileage -t- stride. See this great new tire today! akes rough roads in Specially priced for Bureau members As low as . . $ 1 I 9 Farm F.E.T (B78xl3 whitewall; other sizes comparably priced) UTAH FARM BUREAU FEDERATION 629 East Fourth South Salt Lake City, Utah 84102 1968. Most Americans and people all over the world witnessed the awesome event on television: In the Beginning God created the heaven and earth. . . Now we Americans have witnessed another moving and priceless moment in history. Staff Sgt. Gail M. Kerns was badly injured in a battle in Vietnam that made it possible for the North Vietnam Communists to take him prisoner four years ago. In the prison camp his shattered bones did not mend well. As he walked he had to drag his right leg. It was an awkward and painful moment for him as he drug himself down the steps of the big Army transport plane that had brought him and 20 other POWs back to America. He all but fell into the overflowing of love of country. Soldier Kerns act climaxed weeks of events almost as dramatic, as after plane-loa- d of American POWs from Vietnam came down the steps to the ramps and in front of TV cameras told Americans what a great heritage they had been bequeathed, what a great country they had the privilege of living in. All of the POWs who came to the TV microphones spoke of the debt they owed to Almighty God, to country, and to their plane-loa- d PROGRAM arms of members of his family. Two of the teenage boys took him by the arms and Began to escort him to a waiting automobile for the trip to the hospital. Love of Country Then it happened. As the three walked off the concrete ramp and onto the turfed soil, Sergeant Kerns gently pulled free of his young escorts. He knelt on one knee, then awkwardly flattened out his tortured body so that he could touch the soil with his chin. He kissed the soil the soil of his became epidemic among our youth. Alcohol consumption mounted. Attacks on the American system and all its traditional institutions became the daily fare on the TV menu. A single atheist got the Supreme Court to, in effect, throw the Bible out of our public educational institutions. In all facets of our social life, vices and animal instinct were rmitted to supercede the sic human values on which our civilization was built. ment out of the controversies associated with weakening private ownership of land, such as land taking without due process of law. Wayne County Farmers Qualify For U.S. Loans Farmers and ranchers in Wayne County, Utah, who suffered severe loss of crops and grazing because of the 1972 drought are eligible for emergency loans through July 16. The U.S. Department of Agriculture designated the county a disaster area and announced the eligibility for 5 percent loans in late May 1973. Ranchers in Wayne County reported a drop in winter range grazing because of last spring and summers drought. Farmers Home Administration will make loans to finance crop production, replace livestock, and cover other expenses necessary to continue normal farming operations. Farmers should apply at the Adlocal Farmers Home ministration office in the VaMar Building, Richfield, Utah, by July 16, 1973. The applicant must show that he cannot obtain credit elsewhere. Loans are entirely repayable at 5 percent interest. heavens their courage and undying principles. All across the nation people have begun to lose faith yes, even faith in God and love of country. The Communist propagandists who set about years ago to win the Vietnam war by undermining our moral firmly rNEW? Bormans WHY, RECYCLING WAS JUST A WAV OF LIFE FOR VOW believe that the Americans who were fortunate enough to see this dramatic event are better Americans today, more pleasing to God; they have been challenged to the depth of their souls. So out of a terrible war has come a benefaction if we will use it to renew our faith, to restore our morality, to unify our support of the basic principles of our free society, to rekindle love of manhood, home from the horrors of war and prison r n joyously through tear-fille- d eyes, knelt on the soil of America, prostrated himself and kissed it. God had a hand in this too. I parade of Americas finest prison God-give- blessings. Many came to the TV mikes and told the American people of their spiritual faith and love of country. Sgt. Gail Kerns, crippled but beaming land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called He Seas; and God saw that it was good. And to airports all over America now has come a Are We Worthy? I wondered as I watched this moving, inspiring parade of men who had risked their lives and suffered through yet untold agonies at the hands of their atheistic captors in Communist Vietnam Frank for gratitude And God called the dry voice: stockades, whether indeed the American people were worthy of them, their undaunted faith, camps, some crippled, some emotionally overcome, but all able to express publicly their Making Us Whole And then we heard out of the ef. North es it could keep the federal govern- Knelt and Kissed The Soil QUALITY... Looking Ahead: He Attractive Price 1973 June, country. C H15 TROUSER LEGS WENT INTO ,. NEW PAVTTS FOR JUNIOR. RA6S firRANPAPPy y, T f '(A w V strength found a response among millions of our citizens, not for Communism per se but for the new morality, the new religion. In a single decade important and influential people in backed away from military victory and brought on a political war for which America mounting millions of citizens, had no heart. In that decade our moral foundations as a nation weakened. Law and order was made a shambles because our citizenry permitted political cowardice to rule. Grossly obscene motion pictures drug from the depths of depravity reached the Main Street Our literature theaters. and mankind degraded glorified animalism. Drug use j HARDPANS3 IT drREASE DRIPPINGS RECYLED INTO SOAP...THE LIST COULD DISCRIMINATION HOW COME HAROPAN DIDNT MENTION PtONBMS US IN THE RECYCLING OF FOOD WASTES 41-- fftl |