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Show Western coalition planned for repeal on "Organic Act" Representatives of Mining Councils, Cattlemen's Associations, Associ-ations, and other public land users from 15 western states will meet in Milfo'rd, Utah next weekend, August 27-28 to form a coalition to work for the repeal of the "Organic Act of 1976." The meeting is jointly sponsored spon-sored by the Beaver County Land Users Assn. and the Prospectors, Miners, and Land Users Assn. of Ely, Nevada. The meeting to be held in the Catholic Recreation Hall, may have to be moved to larger quarters for the mass meeting Saturday night. Registration quarters will be set up at the Catholic Hall at 3:00 p.m., where guests can register and receive orientation. orienta-tion. At 4:00 p.m. there will be an organizational meeting before be-fore adjourning for supper. The main meeting at 8:00 p.m. will feature speakers from different states, determination deter-mination of direction, election of officers, and adopt plans of achieving repeal of the act. Sunday morning, for those who stay over, there will be a business meeting to wrap up loose ends from the night before. "We hope to start the ball rolling that will finally wind up in Washington, D.C.," said N. E. "Red" Wilson, chairman of the meeting. 'This is a fight that can't be won in the West, but Westerners must fight it." Wallace Fotheringham, the president of the Beaver Co. Land Users Assn. said, 'The true message of public lands must be carried east of the Mississippi. The West is the place where the natural resources re-sources are, and it is where they must be developed." "It's the little guy who has always found the ore, tne cattleman who pays for developing devel-oping the grazing land, and the lumberman who harvests i and plants trees," he said. The bureaucrat does nothing but write regulations." 'The economy of this country coun-try depends upon research, exploration, development, technology and private capital," cap-ital," Fotheringham said, "the bureaucrat offers none of these, he's like a drone bee in the hive, the others have to take care of him." "Bad laws are worse than no laws at all," Wilson said. 'The Organic Act of 1976 is a bad law. It's unconstitutional to begin with, but the BLM regulations on surface mining and grazing, carry the force of law, without the approval of Congress." The meeting is open to anyone interested in public lands. For further information contact the Beaver County" Land Users, P.O. Box 368, Milford, Utah, 84751. |