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Show Moss Strikes Back At Bennett on Canyonlands Attack Senator Frank E. Moss (D-Utah) (D-Utah) Monday struck back at Senator Wallace F. Bennett for the Utah Republican's attack on the Moss bill which would create a Canyonlands National Park in the colorful country of southeastern south-eastern Utah. In a Salt Lake City newspaper, news-paper, Bennett was reported as stating that protection for oil and gas development in the proposed pro-posed park was wholly inadequate. inade-quate. Moss said: "My bill is based on the fact that the most valuable valu-able dollars and cents use to which Utah and San Juan County Coun-ty can put the Canyonlands area is as a tourist attraction. "This evaluation is set forth in the economic report of the Bureau of Business and Economic Eco-nomic Research of the University Univer-sity of Utah. "Senator Bennett's demand that the tourist potential of the Canyonlands be subordinated to mining and oil exploration flies in the face of the findings in that report. "My bill provides for some secondary uses in the park area. But it is wholly unrealistic to expect Congress to create a national na-tional park in which oil and gas development proceeds under exactly the same regulations inside in-side the park as outside." Senator Moss noted that the newspaper report contained this sentence: "The Bennett bill would guarantee 'multiple use' of resources in the area, the Utah Republican said." And Moss said: "There is no such bill. Senator Bennett has introduced no bill in Congress to create a national park in the Canyonlands area that mentions multiple use. "Senator Bennett continues to refer to his bill and to insist that he favors a Canyonlands Park while he does everything he can to delay and frustrate the proposal. pro-posal. , "His true position was made clear earlier this year when, in the Senate, he voted with Senator Sen-ator Tower (R-Texas) to recommit recom-mit the bill to create a National Seashore at Padre Island, Texas. "In this case the arguments were just the same. Senator Tower said no one favored creation crea-tion of the seashore anymore than he did. But he argued that it should be delayed, and his motion mo-tion would have killed it for this session of Congress. Senator Bennett voted with him to recommit re-commit and kill the bill. "Regardless of what they say, these men do not favor the creation crea-tion of National Parks and National Na-tional Seashores and will fight to delay them as long as they can. |
