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Show (?0KKtti- ... : o St two news releas-.s m Washington. DC. last ,n-ek from ,Wl li'tforont por. . ; sons in Utah's Congressional f vat.on. Ttiat in itself wa ' rJ u:iiiKV The unique tiling 4 W1J that both releases were identical. The joint release, issued ; f,v Congressmen Sherman. p Lloyd iR) and K. Gunn ' juKay' tD concerned their ' joint sponsorship of a bid ' on the Glen Canyon Reerea- tion area matter, which ' ' cJ'.ne about after lengthy ' hearmgs and a meeting of tiie full Senatorial and Houv; '' delegation from Utah, and Gov. Calvin L. Hampton. I For the first time in over ; a decade, all four Utah Congressmen Con-gressmen and the Utah Gov. ' emor threw politics pretty much out the window and got their heads together to come up with a united effort on a public lands issue of u-tal u-tal concern to tlie entire State. Sta-te. Amazing! In editorial comments a month ago. . .just prior to the Kanab hearing on the Glen Canyon Issue. . .we predicted that even though this was the logical approach it was an unlikely happening because Utah congressional delegates were of different faiths and this was an election elec-tion year. We're delighted that our prediction was ia-correct. ia-correct. The compromise bill on Glen Canyon encompasses most ef the things we thought important in the legislation. Most important, it deals with the matter of the Southern Utah Parkway matter in realistic, emphatic terms. That this type of coopera- tion has not occurred to any r great degree in the past is a real shame. Utah has only four members of Congress out of a total of over five hundred. hund-red. If they can't get together togeth-er on a measure affecting their own state, it seems unlikely un-likely and in most cases impossible im-possible for sponsors to con-, con-, vince enough delegates from ' other states ef the merit of an issue to give it approval. Had it not been for the presence pres-ence over the years of neighboring nei-ghboring Congressman Wayne Way-ne Aspinal of Colorado as head of the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, Af-fairs, we fear that nothing much would have happened. Needless to say, we ar j pleased with the joint action j and the announcement, al-' al-' though we published only one of the two releases submitted to us. Let this year's candid-nates candid-nates fight over their personal financial statements; fluori-; fluori-; nation; Southeast Asia and whatever else . politicians fight over these days. For , once in the last ten yeari, let's hope that Utah's public lands are treated with bipartisan bi-partisan objectivity during 'his election year. Sam Taylor |