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Show . .. mH ! i I $ " o ; ! - " 1 Ks .! I . " ' it'1 ' ,if . i HE -'"1 II I If' ') IAL I ; - "v r " , T'""'- n longressman Walter Baring, D-Nev.,. cen--r 'conducted a hearing in Moab last ifi'diy flight relative to the expansion of ircte National Monument. Left of Bar- " in? in this picture is Rep. Don Clausen, 31 thirty-Five Interest Persons Attend louse Hearings on Arches Addition Some thirty-five people ' at-" jbded the Memorial Day k spring ield in Moab by j Public Lands Subcom-i Subcom-i jttee of the House Interior i ipmittee Jast Friday. The J1ling, conducted by Hep. Iter S. Baring, D-Nev., Irman, was also attend-by attend-by committee members, ). Don Clausen, R-Calif.;' I Rep. Laurence J. Bur-, Bur-, R.Utah. Its purpose was take testimony on the icent enlargement of Ar-es Ar-es National Monument. Nine .persons testified at e hearing, which lasted I larly three hours. Intro- feed first was Superintend npt of the Arches-Canyon-Jfcds complex, Bates Wi-" J R who described on a ; fee map the area .which : id been added to Arches Itional Monument ,by for- II r president, Lyndon B. j fijinson on January 20, and Warned why the various t fctions were included in t ''I monument. s2: fitnesses included Sam R-Cabf., and on the right, Rep. Laurence J. Burton, R-Utah. All are members of the House Interior Committee and Baring heads the Public Lands Subcommittee. (T-I Staff Photo) Taylor, editor of The Times-Independent; Times-Independent; William Harding, Hard-ing, : retired Moab businessman;' business-man;' Hardy Redd, San Juan county rancher; Calvin Black, tSan Juan County Commissioner; Superintendent Superinten-dent of San Juan schools, Kenneth'. Maughan; D- L. Taylor, Moab livestock man; Paul Rattle, secretary of the Utah Mining Association and Mitch Williams, local tourguide.- ' Testimony offered, for the most part, protested the addition ad-dition of the vast amount of acreage to Arches without with-out prior notice or hearings, and fasted that wherever possible, the boundaries Be adjusted downward. A few witnesses . asked .that -the Congress rescind President Johnson's order, although many .witnesses' urged that .boundary adjustments adjust-ments be made to the new monument,- rather than- going go-ing back to the old boundary lines. San Juan School District presented a formal resolution, resolu-tion, as did the San Juan County Commission, protesting pro-testing the withdrawal of any additional public lands for park use, saying that the high percentage of federal fed-eral lands in Southeastern Utah placed added burdens Of taxation on private property pro-perty owners, and public lands wherever possible, should remain open for multiple mul-tiple use. Concluding witness, Mitch Williams, urged that "all efforts ef-forts be made to change ths status of Arches from Monument Mon-ument to Park, , and asked that local residents attempt to cooperate in coming up with the best solution. |
