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Show Many Entries Already for Big High School Rodeo The Grand County High Rodeo Club has received 156 entries for the first sanctioned high school rodeo of the year, to be held at the local arena April 9 and 10. ' This will be the first of 21 rodeos in Utah sponsored by various high school clubs before the state finals scheduled sche-duled for June in Heber City. Competing from the local club official admitted to the author that they really had no development plans. "All we know for sure," he said, "is that we will continue to pay to maintain the leases." By paying the leases they prevent anyone else from developing this vast resource. Politicians as well as bureaucrats bur-eaucrats have facilitated a-chievement a-chievement of the oil companies' compan-ies' self-serving objectives. For example, the same White River Oil Shale Project official conceded that Vice President Rockerfeller's energy development develop-ment proposals "could not have been more to the liking of his company if he had written them himself." Rockerfeller proposed using tax dollars to subsidize oil production from shale, as part of a massive U.S. energy development program. pro-gram. The recoverable oil from shale in the United States (est. 1,063.2 billion barrels-1974 World Energy Conference) could supply the entire U.S. petroleum needs at 1975 consumption rates for 640 years. Furthermore, efficient technological methods have been developed to cheaply produce abundant oil from shale rock (see illustration above). The efficient "Paraho process," recently abandoned rather than being used to help solve the energy crisis. No one profits from the continuation of the energy crisis as do the major oil companies. Although small scale oil shale operations have been successful in several countries (such as, Scotland and Estonia, Eston-ia, USSR), Interior Department Depart-ment officials have been led to believe that the best policy is to "block up" the tracts for lease to large developers. The highest bidders, of course, are the companies who have most to gain by stalling the production of cheap petroleum from shale, and the agency responsible for leasing the land is the Bureau of Land Management. (Copyright Kenneth L. Gray, 1976) Next week's article, "Democracy and Bureaucracy," Bur-eaucracy," deals with the effect of extraneous agencies on public policy. will be Merrill Noyes, Daran Narans, Roy Krist, 'Shawn Knutson, Jamie May, Carolyn Dalton and Jill Krist. Other participants will be coming from Odgen, Richfield, Bear Lake, Price, Tooele and Emery. Admission to the rodeo, which will begin at 2 p. m. both days, will be $1.50 for adults, $1 for students and $2 for reserved seats. A special attraction will be the presence of Connie Del Lucia, Miss Rodeo USA, Events will include bareback bronc riding, calf roping, bull riding, saddle bronc riding, team roping, clover leaf barrel racing, pole bending, breakaway break-away calf roping, goat tying and a queen contest. |