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Show Senator Wallace Bennett moves in behalf of local cattle owners ville and Mapleton have asked that yofl grant them a personal person-al hearing before you reach your decision so that you will have an adequate opportunity to understand the issue from their point of view as well as that of the foresters. I fully support this request for a personal per-sonal hearing and sincerely hope that you will grant it. The issues involved are so important, im-portant, the precedence created creat-ed so sweeping and the economic eco-nomic impact' so great, that this matter deserves your personal per-sonal attention. I am sure that the Forest Service will ably present its reasons and justifications justifi-cations for the action it has recommended and I believe that fairness requires that the cattlemen be given a similar opportunity." Sen. Wallace F. Bennett this week sent a letter to Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman Free-man urging him to give full consideration to the appeal being be-ing planned by Springville-Hobble Springville-Hobble Creek stockmen for a reversal (or modification) of the cuts in grazing ordered by the Forest Service for the Hobble Hob-ble Creek Canyon area The appeal to the secretary is the latest in a long series of actions by the group in their battle to halt or modify the order of the Forest Service. The letter said in part: "Because of the drastic nature na-ture of the cuts recommended by the Forest Service in the Hobble Creek Canyon area, and because of the serious impact which this will have on the economic welfare of the people involved and indeed upon the economy of all Utah county, I respectfully urge that you give this appeal your most careful study and consideration. This is not a matter, as I am sure you will realize that should be routinely handled and summarily summar-ily decided. "The cattlemen of Spring- |