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Show tcommunity iL o comments... We're introducing a new feature this week, and from the looks of the first Installment, It's going to be a lot of fun and hopefully extremely helpful to the large number of owners of newly-built homes in the community. Karla Hancock, wife of Utah State University's "H" K. Hancock, has had a lot of experience In the subject she covers. "We'd never lived in any place more than a couple of years until we moved to Moab," she said, reviewing the number of different communities they had called home while Kay was completing work on his doctorate. She went on to say that she and her husband had planted a lot of yards, but had never seen one mature yet. I know what she is talking about. We are now completing our fifteenth year In our home, and for a long time I thought I never would get all the bare spots covered with something attractive. Now, however, It's pretty mature and I'm not sure I like it. Simply trimming, maintaining and harvesting goodies from the yard (all the way from cut flowers to English walnuts) just isn't as much fun as planning the project and getting the stuff in the ground. There's something pretty magic about putting a seed or sappllne Into the ground;nurturlng it and watching it grow intosomething magnificent. We hope you enjoy the series. Installment No. 1 is on Page B1. sjt Transportation Secretary William Coleman's request to Congress for funding so that his Civil Aeronautics Board could begin certifying and subsidizing commuter airlines comes like a breath of spring to those of us who have fought long and hard to keep daily commercial air service in this community. . Hopefully, this will be just the extra push needed to bring ! some longevity to. the demonstration project now being conducted which Is providing Moab with twice daily service to Salt Lake City, and once daily service to Grand Junction. I Its too darn bad Key Airlines wasn't patient enough to ! stick it out a little longer. It's pretty certain, though, that a substitute carrier will be willing to carry on, even though not as Impressively backed with corporate financial depth, as is Key, a division of Denver's Johns-Manvllle Corporation. -sjt- I don't always agree with my good friend Cal Black of Blandlng on a number of subjects, but I always find his comments extremely to the point and interesting. I've got to share with our readers this week Cal's letter to CBS, following their shabbily put-together 60 Minute program on Utah's power development projects: "CBS News 524 West 57th Street New York, New York "Gentlemen: "Never have I seen such a case of distorted and slanted reporting as that contained in your "60 Minutes" program last night on the Kaiparowitz Power Project and Southern Utah! I call your attention to the following: "1 . You did not show the site of the proposed plant. Had you done so and reported that the scenes you showed of the beauty 'that would be destroyed' were from 40 miles to 100 miles away, it would have been the truth but not so dramatic as was your lie. If a project so far away and located in a drab, desolate area as the plant site would destroy the beauty you showed, then I submit that Redford's Sundance Resort northeast of Provo and only about 25 miles from many times more pollution from Salt Lake and Utah Valley's, would have been 'destroyed' long before he was even born. "2. You gave an erroneous and distorted picture of Page, Arizona and insulted the people who live there. "3. You did not ask anyone who lives and helped settle Southern Utah what they thought about it. Nor did you report that more than 80 percent of the people who live in Utah favor the project. "As far as I am concerned, Dan Rather is a biased reporter who presented an unfair and distorted 'documentary' and used as his 'anchor man' an environmental phony who speeds all over in fancy sports cars, jets over the Country in chartered planes, and guzzles gas in his big boats, then talks about using less energy and having less pollution. "I can only now assume that all of your programs are just as bad. Sincerely, Cal Black, Chairman San Juan County Commission nillllllllllllnilllllllllllllllllllllllllllll 111! ,,iii..,,riiii u iiiiimmiiiiilillllllllllli |