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Show ! J j - : : - FT! 'tt I':' LJ W" (' 1 - ' ' I i iS-'' I -. ' 1 L j&.a: . , .. , i .. , , .., n-.i-..J, I Wallace F. Bennett, Utah's senior senator, sen-ator, commented on a variety of points of interest now being debated in Congress Con-gress during his visit here last Thursday. Thurs-day. The meeting was conducted by Bennett Visits iVloab, Delivers Talk To Group of Fifty Area Republicans U. S. Senator Wallace F. Bennett made a brief stop in Moab last Thursday, speaking to a group of some fifty Republican leaders lea-ders from the Moab area before leaving on the remainder re-mainder of his state-wide swing through Utah. Mr. Bennett, now in the final two years of his third six-year term in the U. S. Senate, talked on a number of issues now facing fa-cing Congress, and answered ans-wered questions from Moab Mo-ab residents attending the luncheon. Commenting on the nation-wide copper strike, Mr. Bennett stated that he hoped the President would heed a resolution introduced in-troduced recently by Bennett Ben-nett and other Republican Senators, calling for immediate im-mediate invocation of injunctions in-junctions under the Taft-Hartley Taft-Hartley Act, which would force copper workers back on the job during contract negotiations. Copper supplies sup-plies are dwindling, and copper producing states are Republican vice chairman, Donna Lov-eridge. Lov-eridge. Introductions were made by Rep. Ed Drake and State Sen. Sam Taylor. (T-I Staff Photo) so suffering, Sen. Bennett said, and no serious efforts ef-forts have yet been made to end the crippling strike by the parties involved. Sen. Bennett said that recent advances in the development de-velopment of nuclear-powered electric generators, coupled to the government's govern-ment's gradual pull-out of the monopolized uranium buying market, should make a big future for the uranium producing states of the Colorado Plateau. He stated his opposition to the proposed Antelope Island national monument bill now before Congress, sponsored by his colleague, Democrat Frank E. Moss. Hi It is ridiculous for the federal fe-deral government to spend millions buying and developing de-veloping Antelope Island in the Great Salt Lake, when the State of Utah can buy and develop a FROM ARIZONA S fJ Mr. and Mrs. B ? Foots, of Tucson, Ark? '1 have been visits .J?'-.5 week , at the SamV. " 1 home in Moab. i .it? portion of theiTj:'8 a fraction of the cost u said. He also doubted 'th, Vw Antelope Island was national monument p,iV bre. caif Bennett commented J his long-standing effort ta connect scenic Souther! Utah park areas by a J jtional parkway, sajJ that utilization of the J and old parks of Utah t! the fullest extent, was j. rectly tied to access road-In road-In answer to a qmto from the floor, Bonnet! said that he oppoSC(i movement by Senator Mos to increase the size Canyonlands national p3t until full development o the initial park had bee completed. "The lands t be added have been therllf a long time," he said. "M few more years won't hurP them." 1 Bennett chided the p, mocratic administration ! Washington, and in partk ular Interior Socretarj Stewart Udall, for increai ed restrictions on resounj 1 development on publi ' lands of the west, "t;, easiest way to correct th situation is to change th man on top," he said. Although he declined t comment on his futur plans in the political area Bennett left little dout that he will be a candidat j for reelection to a fourt: ' term when election tinj 1 comes around next yeai-v He stated that he wi make a public announci ment on his decision ar ound the first of the yeai " |