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Show Statehouse Report Mi Sought to Moke Lake Powell fnsfaSlntions Help More Ufahns By C. SHARP Ke'p cf U.S. senators and representatives raid of Gov. Calvin L. Rampton is being enlisted to generate mere dollars from fuiure developments develop-ments along upper Lake Pcv.en. The plans were broached at a meeting Fr.day of San Juan and Grand county leaders lead-ers with Rampton. The gov ernor met with U.S. Sen. Frank E. Moss, D-Utah, ardent ar-dent sponsor of Canyonlands. development, and his aid. Further meetings are pending pend-ing pricr to May 5 and 6 (hearings .in Washington, D. C. before the parks subcommittee subcom-mittee of the Senate Interior Inter-ior and Insular Affairs Committee. Com-mittee. These hearings will deal with boundaries for Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Caryonlands National Park and Capitol Reef and Arches national monuments. Calvin Black, Blanding, (member cf the San Juan: Ccunty Commission, told Ramptcn that Arizona still '.is harvesdng about 85 per cent cf the revenue from, Lake Powell although more than 93 percent of the lake is in Utah. Most boaters still buy their gasoline and supplies at the Warm Creek Marina neail .Page, Arizona, then go upstream up-stream into Utah to burn the gas he said. Unless concepts of some iNaticnal Parks Service officials of-ficials can be modified, the onarinas now iin use at Bullfrog Bull-frog Basin and Halls Cross-ling Cross-ling and the one to be built at Hole .in the Rock will be of minor importance, he sard. He urged that large residential resi-dential and recreation areas' be reserved for development by private ownership within reasonable distance from imarinas. Reserve Them Now "Such areas would have to be reserved soon," he said. "The actual lands cculd be sold to the highest b'dders." Don Hoffman, new economic econ-omic director for Grand County, sard Farks Service and Forest Service officials have been "stuffy" toward cpening any areas to privateer private-er commercial uses. U.S. Bureau of Land Management Man-agement officials, on the other ot-her hand, have been cooper- ative, he said. Mayor Winfcrd Bunce of M;ab supported the proposal propos-al strongly. Black said the Aneth Oil Field in San Juan County during the past 10 years has yielded $33 million in revenue rev-enue for the state school fund, used to help pay for operation cf public schools. Mare Oil Underground 'Tt is easily possible that similar oil fields and other rich nine rail resources will be developed in the area surrounding Lake Powell if multiple use will be permitted," per-mitted," he said. Black urged particularly rt.hat an area of about 21 square miles afcp a mesa on the road to Halls Crossing Cross-ing be set aside for use by the public. PVihfrcg Basin now is accessible ac-cessible by paved road from Har.ksville, Price cr Richfield. Rich-field. Halls Cross'ng next year will be accessible by paved road and a road from BuFfrog to Hole hi the Rock is in planning stages. Lcck It Up I Ccnse;hrationist inbrests' , have fought bitterly against a proposed road along the norjh rim cf the Colorado from Bullfrog to Hole in the Reck. This would cross iihrcugh the proposed Escal-ante Escal-ante Wilderness Area. Two proposals for state use of the former Castle Val'.ey Job Corps Center scuih cf Price have been rejected re-jected and the Bureau of Land Management is in process pro-cess cf disposing of the installation. in-stallation. Th's properly is appraised at $3 million. Ramptcn announced the action March 18. Proposed use of the center cen-ter for rehjabililating drug msers was rejected because as was deemed advisable to itreat drug users closer to their hemes, Kenneth C. Olson, Ol-son, state planning coordinator, coordin-ator, said. Community Centers Regional community mental men-tal health centers appear to be better suited for aiding drug users, he explained. Use cf the center for vocational vo-cational training was rejected reject-ed because it was decided that a center at tire College ef Eastern Utah is more de-sireable, de-sireable, Olsen said. Robert D. Nie'lson, state d'reclcr, BLM, informed Ramptcn that steps have been taken to dispose cf the center "through usual surplus sur-plus property disposal procedures." pro-cedures." New Excess Property "The BLM will declare the real property on which the center is Situated is excess," Nielson wrote. "The Department Depart-ment of Labor will be asked ask-ed to determine disposition cf the personal property prior pr-ior to June 33, 1970," he said. Arty. Gen. Vernon B. Romney held April 15 that Jerry Rubin cculd have been convicted cf using obscene (language but not of advocating advo-cating overthrow of government gov-ernment during his recent address on the University of Uiah campus. On April 16, two non-students who addressed an anti-war rally on the same campus were charged with "speaking obscene or lewed iwords in a public place." |