Show Bennett Charges Distortions Of His Position on Parks WASHINGTON DC D.C. Sen Wallace F. F Bennett Utah R-Utah Sunday released the tM text of a aletter aletter aletter letter to the Five County Organization Or Or- Organization of Southern Utah in answer to what he char charged d were distortions of hi his position on new national parks in Utah Replying to an alleged political cal attack by Garfield County Commissioner William G. G Bruhn following a recent meeting of the County Five Organization Sen Sens Bennett said This is the first time to my knowledge that the Five County Organization tion has been used for political pUl purposes Oses Mr Bruhn a Democrat Demo crat erat Is state co chairman of President Kennedy Kennedys Operation Support Intended to create grassroots u support Ort for the Kennedy Kennedy Kennedy Ken Ken- nedy program In reply to the charge made by Mr Bruhn that Sen Bennett has taken a stand for no new parks in Utah the Utah senator senator senator sena sena- tor listed eight bills he has hat In Introduced Introduced introduced In- In which would create new national parks parka or monuments monuments monuments ments within the state These Include a bill establishing a Southern Utah National Parkway Parkway Parkway Park Park- way to connect the national parks monuments and recreation recreation recreation tion areas In the southern part of the state a bill establishing a acre Needles National Park Recreation Area in Southeastern South eastern Utah bills giving Na Na- Honal Park status to Rainbow Bridge Arches Cedar Breaks and Capitol Reef National Monuments menu ments and a bill establishing a Golden Spike National Monument ment In Box Elder County In discussing his opposition to Secretary of Interior Stewart Udall's original proposal for setting aside One Old million to sLIt six million acres of ot Southeastern Utah for national parks Sen Bennett noted that the original proposal would have banned all hunting mining prospecting oil gas and uranium development water development and soil soU conservation con con- and nearly all graz grate ing It also would have blocked development of 01 such Industrial assets as the 30 trillion milion potash plant now being built near Moab In addition he said Utah's school children would lose the tremendous revenue revenue- producing potential from the foUr school sections In each I township throughout the six million acres Once Governor Clyde and I pointed out that this action would forever lock lock- lockup up the vast resources of this huge area Secretary Secretary Sec Sec- Secretary Udall and the Democrats In the Utah congressional delegation delegation dele dele- gation started to retreat Sen Bennett said They finally ended ended ended end end- ed up with a acre area with some multiple use per per- In other words they re retreated retreated retreated re- re treated almost all of the way to the position I took to begin with which is that a new national national national na na- na- na park may be desirable but it should be carefully studied kept to a reasonable size and multiple use should be permitted In the area finally set aside Insofar as possible This can be done and ant still sUll preserve and protect the scenic features Further replying to the charge that he was pla playing partisan p politics Sen Bennett Dennett said if it Is Js partisan to think of the future welfare of all of the people people peo peo- pie of Utah and to oppose a aone aone aone one to six million acre land grab by Secretary Udall and his congressIonal congressional congressional con con- gressional friends for one use only looking at the the- scenery then I 1 plead guilty Moreover I invited other members of the delegation to join with me to sponsor my Southern Utah Parkway Survey Bill and my bills bUls making Arches Cedar Breaks and Capitol Reef National Na Na- parks arks They all refused to do so or at least they haven't done it yet My willingness to work with the other members of the delegation for the betterment betterment better better- ment of Utah hardly constitutes playing partisan poll politics tics |