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Show Protests camping ordinance Dear Editor: This letter is in response to your recent re-cent article entitled: "Effort Underway to Oust Dwellers", with no staff writers name attached. So many accusations and innuendos were made that it will be necessary to answer them one at a time. 1. It remains a mystery to me exactly what the ramifications of the new county coun-ty ordinance means, in that it allegedly states that "no one can camp for more than two weeks". If it means in one spot, then all one would have to do is to move his camper one foot one way or the other every two weeks to satisfy the requirements of the new ordinance. If it means one cannot camp more than two weeks in Uintah County, then how long would one be banned from camping in the county, one week, two weeks, six months, or forever? If it means only construction workers, then it is a flagrant violation of federal civil rights legislation statutes presently in force. We all know that the only purpose of the new ordinance is to use it as a tool to extract the 400 federal reserve notes in "living allowance" from the workers at the power plant. 2. To put the Uintah Basin District Health Department Director, Rand Webb's mind at ease, 95 percent of the campers or construction workers keep a clean camp. I (we) abhor the other 5 percent who litter and generally leave a mess, and I (we) wish the Uintah County Coun-ty Sheriff's Department would do their duty and issue citations to the guilty parties, and stop harrassing the innocent. inno-cent. 3. As far as not wanting to pay the ridiculous rates charged by local area camping merchants, this is about the only thing this unknown writer got right! And as far as Sheriff's Deputy Wayne Hollebeke and County Commissioner Commis-sioner Neal Domgaard's statement concerning con-cerning the $400 per month, we take home as much of it as we can. (Which isn't much.) And also, Neal Domgaard's statement about Dinosaur Monument Campground, it's already far enough to the jobsite, without adding ad-ding miles. 4. I would like the complaining residents mentioned in the article to come forth and file civil complaints against any and all campers who are doing any damage to them. I do not believe there are any, because of the conversations I personally have had with the local residents while fishing the river. One such resident recently had to be informed as to what was being done in regard to the campers, then said it sounded to him like a "big job of harrassment." I (we) wonder if the complaints are as fictitious as the writer of the aformentioned article! 5. Deputy Hollebeke stated in the arti- cle, "that's because they throw their trash in the river". If the Deputy saw trash being thrown in the river, why didn't he do his duty and issue a citation to the guilty party? As far as me personally, per-sonally, I take my trash to the jobsite and properly dispose of it in the trash cans which have been provided. 6. If Director of Health Department Rand Webb is concerned with safety and health threats, he ought to take a close look at "Sardine City" in Jensen. I (we) are sure he would find plenty of both! In summary, there has to be a rational ra-tional basis and sufficient public concern con-cern (from the citizens, as opposed to the bureau-rats) to warrant any kind of demand for free inhabitants of the United States to leave any public lands ' The phoney "notices" may have done ' the job by misleading some to leave, S but are deficient in every way, as far as 1 the law is concerned. Let me sum it up fa by saying that which all freedom-loving j people have said and support; govern- ment which governs least, governs 1 best! ,i Respectfully Yours, : 1 ROLLINS MILLER P.O. Box 56 Willard, Utah j 84340 V P.S. The following 'Dwellers" ex-, r press the same sentiments: jl David W. Rasmussen , ',s Leigh D. Christiansen j :i |