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Show YACC camp not for Green River residents By Pearl Baker Kinball L. Young, State Assistant to Jake Gam, and Preston Naylor from the Garn office in Salt Lake City, met with the Mayor and City Council and School Board president on Monday in regard re-gard to the YACC camp proposed for the Missile Base. Mr. Young stated that this is the only resident camp in the state proposed so far. There is another site being considered at Wendover, and the Forest Service would like to establish camps at Camp Williams and the Brigham City Indian School site. It was pointed out to Mr. Young that because of the problems inherent in this location, that a camp here might well damage the program pro-gram as much as it would the city. It might be a better policy to try one closer to medical and recreational facilities facil-ities and then after expertise is attained, bring it into the outlying districts. After an informal meeting, it was decided to ask Senator Garn if something could be done to slow down this movement move-ment until we can have a meeting and get better organized. organ-ized. There will be an open meeting for all the townspeople towns-people shortly after the Erst of October, and anyone wishing wish-ing to express an opinion for or against the YACC camp will have a chance to do so. Local law officers pointed out that Green River has another bad situation to contend con-tend with the county line runs through the middle of town. This would make law enforcement of people living in Grand County almost impossible. im-possible. To the suggestion that the YACC youngsters could build their own recreational complex com-plex in the Outdoor Recreation Recrea-tion planned for the north end of the State Park land, it was pointed out that since the city had to pay for the material, it could in no way obligate itself for that much money. This was also true of the airport, which will need a big building program in the coming year. Unless some funds are delegated dele-gated for these projects, there is no way that Green River can meet an expense of that magnitude. As far as local recreation goes, a force of fifty with no supervision could create a tremendous problem at basketball bas-ketball or football games, and dances. It was also pointed out that the living quarters at the Base are mobile and could be moved to Moab where the camp would be more convenient conven-ient for the Parks, the Forest Service and the BLM to administer. It was decided to hold a public meeting in the near future to find out what the general feeling in regard to a YACC camp at the Missile Base is. No date was set, but Mayor Hatt suggested it be within the next month. Mr. Day agreed with the idea, saying that the target date of starting the project lies somewhere some-where in the future, within the next month. Mr. Day agreed with the idea, saying that the target date of starting start-ing the project lies somewhere some-where in the future, within the next ten months or a year, and there is plenty of time to make considered, sound decisions de-cisions about it. At a meeting September 6 attended by BLM and officials of Emery County and Green River, it was brought out that due to inadequate medical, law enforcement and recreational recrea-tional facilities of the small town, a YACC camp at the Missile Base was not advisable. advis-able. The meeting was conducted by BLM District Manager Gene Day of Moab, assisted by Ray Lewis, also of Moab and Earl Hendley of Salt Lake City. County Commissioners Gardell Snow and Glenn Jones, Sheriff LaMar Guy-mon, Guy-mon, as well as local Deputy Sheriff Dwendle Wilcox, Sgt. Jewkes and Night Marshall Ben Wilmont of the Highway Patrol attended, and expressed expres-sed their doubts of the feasibility feasi-bility of conducting a camp at the Base. The local Medical Center, staffed by a doctor one day a week and a fine and dedicated Nurse Practitioner the rest of the time has about all it can handle, County Commissioner Gardell Snow pointed out. Mr. Day stated that no additional or project funding would be available for the 60 to 120 people in the camp, who would look to the Medical Center for care. - Probably the most controversial contro-versial aspect of the project was law enforcement. Mr. Day stated that there would be no law enforcement at the camp, as such, with the YACC youths free to come and go as they wished. The group would be both boys and girls from 18 to 23 years of age, and are to come from the surrounding area, not from city locations. |