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Show Letters to the Editor . . . Dear Sam, I, like many other Americans, Amer-icans, am "Sick and Tired." Sick of reading and hearing hear-ing about all the economic woes of the country. Tired of hoping that our representatives repre-sentatives and officials In Washington will have guts enough to straighten It out. Sick of listening to the commentators on the nightly night-ly news tell us about everything every-thing that is wrong with America. Tired of waiting for someone to stand up . and say all the things that are good and noble about America. Sick of all the militants, kooks and weirdos, who want to destroy our country. Tired Tir-ed of waiting for their plans to make our Country better. Sick of all the welfare programs, socialistic legislation leg-islation and so-called common com-mon cause pleadings In the name of human betterment and ecological and environmental environ-mental survival. Tired of the abuse of food stamp and unemployment programs; tired of watching able bodied people languish on their rear ends while Jobs go begging; and tired of obstructions ob-structions to programs that would help our economic and energy problems. . Sick of seeing statistics that crime is flourishing in our land. Tired of new laws and Supreme Court decisions that shackle our law enforcement en-forcement agencies. Sick of hearing and reading read-ing about break ins and vandalism. van-dalism. Tired of hearing the same old excuses that there Is nothing that can be done about it. Sick to death that this great Country broke a solemn promise pro-mise to defend a freedom-loving freedom-loving people. Tired of listening lis-tening to the "bleeding hearts" tell us that this was the only and Just course we could follow because the people peo-ple of America no longer had the vigor to fight and pay the price of freedom. Sick of seeing war-ravaged refugees running scared scar-ed and en masse from thelr on-rushlng Communist conquerors. con-querors. Tired of hearing those same "bleeding hearts" say those people have nothing to fear. Sick, as a member of the so-called Middle-Class Establishment, Es-tablishment, of being blamed blam-ed for everything from runaway run-away inflation to disastrous recession; and tired of having hav-ing to, once again, pick up the tab for all of It. Very truly yours, Charles C. McMurray C87 Hillside Drive Moab Dear Editor, Wo would like to take advantage ad-vantage of tills column to ox-pross ox-pross our duop and heartfelt gratitude to the many people In this community, who have given tholr I lino, their cor-curn, cor-curn, thulr onurKy, and tholr monetary support (particularly (particu-larly tho funds which sont youth to tho Youth Development Develop-ment Conforonco) towards our program, especially In tho past several months. Wo woro beginning to foul too indebted to wait, until wo actual Uo a colohratlon, soon to be announced, at which time we may express our appreciation ap-preciation more directly and personally. Thank you - so very much. Most Sincerely, Roberta Anderson Peggy Page Community Action Program We want to inform the Community Com-munity as clearly as we can, about the status of Community Commun-ity Action Program In Grand County, as of this date. This Is for sure: We will continue to deliver services and run programs until June 30, 1975 . . . We're here till then. After that point In time, not much Is clear to report. Currently, the County Commission Com-mission has agreed to keep the program, as motioned by Commissioner Taylor and unanimously passed at a Four County Association of Governments Gov-ernments meeting, held In Castle Dale, Utah April 10th, 1975. MOTIONED: That Grand . County be allowed to operate their portion of the C.A.P. Program under the Grand County Commission, with the realization that there will be a Grand County C.A.P. Board to serve In an advisory capacity. capa-city. There will be a separate Grand County Board which will comply with OEO Guidelines. Guide-lines. This will be effective after the start of the fiscal year, July 1, 1975. End motion. mo-tion. Last Tuesday, April 1 nth, the City Council voted to alien with Mayor McDougald's letter, let-ter, Dated February 24, 1975: LETTER: Dear Commissioner Commission-er Taylor After considerable commun-tly commun-tly reactions over the past years in the City of Moab, and after lengthy discussions and study by the memlwrs n( the City Council of Moab, I have been Instructed to write you and to requost the discontinuance dis-continuance of the Community Commun-ity Action Program In the community. The governing body of the City of Moab, the City Council, Coun-cil, does not fool that this program has added anything of worth to the continual and progressive growth of our community. Respectfully yours, Wm. Dean McDougald, Mayor. Monday morning at tho regular re-gular Commission mooting, tho Commission, agreed to take proper procedure, as outlined In tho Fodoral guidelines, guide-lines, to form a local Advisory Advi-sory Board, composed of 13 Low-Income, 13 Private Sector, 13 Public Sector, which would then come up with a formulaproposal for allocating allo-cating C.A.P. funds in Grand County. Two of the City Counctlmon attended this mooting, and stated that If the City approved approv-ed the Advisory Boards new formula for allocation, that the City would reconsider ln-volvomont ln-volvomont In the program. What next'.' Who knows'; Wo are hero to servo you until Juno 30th for sure! P.S. Meanwhile, wo aroro-i aroro-i activating a non-profit cor-i cor-i proatlon, called Moab Action Council, sol up in June, 1973 I by Frod Beljon, Joel Kiilon, i 1)111 Bongo, Judy V lslier, HI i chard Ilagley, to take C.A.P.s place should the program pro-gram even be defunded by the Federal Government, or experience ex-perience difficulty In continuing con-tinuing to deliver services and programs In Grand County. Coun-ty. More to follow, when the time Is rlht. Sincerely, C.A.P. Staff Dear Mr. Taylor: Since you seem to get a lot of mall on the subject, I thought I'd let you In on this old vacationer's view. Last February, we visited Moab for the sixteenth time In about 13 years. I suppose I still have more canyons, arches, overlooks and other beautiful sights on my list to see this August than I did five years ago. Each trip to the area, I see some places I've had on my list for some time but seeing see-ing them, I learn of others and my list gains some more. I never cross one off my list, though . If one of our party wants to go there, I'll gladly return. All tl.ts brings me down to something of Interest to the local people. I am speaking of these prolific governmental governmen-tal proposals on public land use, closure, regulation, and so on. You may remember that in the early sixties, the general gen-eral public was highly encouraged en-couraged to see the country. Places like Natural Bridges, Capitol Reef, Colorado National Na-tional Monument got beautiful beauti-ful new visitor centers, Improved Im-proved campgrounds, new rest- rooms, entrance roads, and so one. We even got Can-yonlands Can-yonlands Park Itself. The magic words wer Go and See and Do, and wo did. People IxiuiTht trailers, earners, new cars, jeeps and bikes. Along alxiut this timo,Coi-gress timo,Coi-gress passed this law ubout wilderness areas, and turned the show over to the bureaucrats bureau-crats as usual. The period of regression W'gan. We got all tho nice things in the parks; but lo and behold, some eager underling, operating under the full blessing of the system, makes thousands of dollars for himself and his cohorts by writing many pages of stuff he just KNOWS will or will not happen in tho area under his super-educa tod scrutiny. Ho decides that they'd lietter close a canyon tralla good two mllos short of the main attraction oven though only a handfull of peo- . plo would dare taking a Jeep down Into tho canyon in tho first place. Or Includes a long-used pi; ellne In his wilderness wil-derness proKsal. It's to be a wilderness to the ordinary Jee'i', but tho plpeliner has all tho necessary entry bull dozers and all. As wo ride along a trail, we roall.e If It hadn't boon for a Uranium prospector, (ill Company, Power Company, Com-pany, or Cattleman coming In before we did, the trail probably wouldn't 1 there. When we pass a tost hole crew at work, we Just wave and keep going. When wo got lo i nllle, we give them nwldo li'ilh, and leave tho gates like we found them. It grieves mo to read these |