Show we dont don't like it Wh Why the Monticello mill The Atomic Energy Commission has given reasons for shutting down the ilie Monticello mill Now overstocked does does' not need as much ore as it is currently ing cannot operate the Monticello mill as economical economical- ly lyas as it can purchase ores from privately owned mills Two of the reasons So plans to close the mOL mil This is a valid decision maintains Valid because because because be be- cause there is an supply oversupply of uranium ore but purchasing purchasing asing will continue to be made from Africa from Canada and from other foreign countries Validity valid because cannot operate the Monticello mill milt economically so miners are ordered to ship their ore elsewhere lowering output and II certainly Increasing ratio costs Meanwhile refusing to sell to private private vate concerns who believe it can be operated economically Five yeas years ago Sheldon P P. P then manager of the Grand Junction Operations Office of stated at Moab that the objectives of the prospector and miner are identical with that of the Where Is his alleged unity no now At that time Mr Wimpfen stated that the unified unWed objectives of and the miners were to produce as much uranium as all possible The miner is still Interested in pro pro- producing uranium interest is not so keen It could well be true trae that there is an supply over of uranium ore and that curtailing is necessary But should it be the Monticello mill Should it affect those same miners with whom only five years ago AEO sought unity and urged production of as much ore ora as possible pos pos- sible Should i it be those men who have invested locally benefiting all persons of the surrounding area those mei me who pay their share SPire of the taxes which support AEO has bas offered the miners now supplying the Monticello mill the opportunity to sell seU their ores to mills purportedly already operating open at capacity AEO has not suggested what the men employed at the mill mUl might do has Chas offered no suggestion as to how Monticello might continue to survive without the payroll pay pays roll 1011 which has meant ita its growth and on which the tha existence o of ot outer other local businesses and services depend Js Is is In effect deserting those whose favors were sought only five years ago D Deserting American uranium miners and mill men In favor o of continued buying in oth other r countries countries- by closing the mill |