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Show ": Drilling auwvuj in in general Moab area has def-S- jnitely picked up this spring, " and it's not just core drilling drill-ing for uranium deposits, ev-;en ev-;en though there is a consid-Oerable consid-Oerable amount of that. ': Major oil companies are C'. again ' beginning serious i. 1 looks, via seismograph ex-5 ex-5 ; ploration, and some drilling j5',1 operations are starting ' many aimed at the ofren-' ofren-' probed Paradox Salt level J underlying Grand county. One reason, according to an oil scout from the Salt Lake area this week, may well be that the problems encounter- cr(ed in off-shore drilling operations oper-ations in the Santa Barbara tCharmel area of California, s.y and elsewhre round the coast, may well be pushing the oil companies to look to the inferior in-ferior in their ' exploration programs, y At any rate, activity is def-.initely def-.initely on the upswing here, h whatever the reason. 11 , -SJT- We're not surprised at the '6: popularity of the Lions Club Talent Show last weekend, which played to sell-out aud-ll aud-ll iences both nights at Star Hall. Last reports from the Club indicate that the show -will probably provide some n $500 for the Club to be used 'I in sponsoring glaucoma eye test clinics in the community - -SJT-j It's a lot more fun to criti-scize criti-scize public officials than it Lis to defend them, but occasionally occas-ionally a situation arises 1 where a little defense is called call-ed for. K; Such is the case currently ! involving Grand county's airport, and the part local officials had in placing it where it is. a Commissioner Ralph Miller -is correct when he states that the Commission had very little to do with the sel-4 sel-4 ection of a site for the new ".airport a few years ago. As d matter of fact, no one was particularly enthused about , going a full 16 miles from i town to build a new airport, i including the Commissioners, hut by the time the standards of Fderal and State agencies agen-cies were brought to bear, the site selected was the ( only one that filled the bill. As for the condition of the soil, the current condition condi-tion of the runway, the nature na-ture cf the deterioration in th terminal building; it must be admitted that these are problems that shouldn't have occurred in such a short time after construction. con-struction. But it must be remembered remember-ed that a qualified engineer-ln8 engineer-ln8 f'rni was retained to design de-sign and supervise construc-lln construc-lln of the airport; a long-wperienced long-wperienced ' contractor was cd to build it; and a quai-'wd quai-'wd architect was hired to , design the terminal building. 's apparent that sub-surface soil conditions are to b-5 Warned for the problems in a" cases. But we see where "We blame can be placed at the door of the County Emission Chambers. |