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Show Milford won't have its usual Santa Claus this year. Alden Johnson, who has served this capacity for a number of years, is down with phlebitis. However, Milford will not go without. The Lady Lions and other organizations, who annually sponsor the old gent In the area, have made special spe-cial arrangements through Santa's North Pole representative, repre-sentative, Marion Walker, for a Santa apprentice to fill the role. -0- Admittedly, the whiskers of the former were for real but at least the latter won't find it necessary to fake the stuffing. ' -0- In this issue is printed the summary of the proposed Alunite Project as prepared for BLM to write the environmental envir-onmental impact statement. We admit that the print is quite small, but felt that it was better to print in this manner for all who wish to read it than to have it made available only to a few. --0- Since neither Alumet nor BLM is required to publish this information except in the final impact statement, we decided to do this atCOUNT Y NEWS expense. Therefore the necessity to use the cheapest method and the least space possible. And while we know that few will read the whole summary, sum-mary, it will acquaint those who are interested with the facts of the project, Alumet's intent and purposes, and the population and social impact on the area. The summary will also provide you with a glimpse of the areas to be undertaken under-taken by the E.I.S. (environmental (environ-mental impact study). -0- Over the next several months there will be several public meetings andhearings held for public input by the BLM Environmental Project Office. We urge you to attend at-tend these meetings and express ex-press your concerns either for or against. If for some reason you cannot attend these meetings, contact the Project Office at 490 So. Main, Cedar City, Utah, Ph. 386-9938. -0- We believe that frank, open discourse is the best way to expedite the project and that most of those who oppose the project will remove their objections when they are completely and honestly informed. in-formed. For this reason, the COUNTY NEWS will continue con-tinue to print the facts as they become available so that you may keep abreast of the project and its opposition. In this manner we hope to keep the "alunite project" from becoming bogged down as the Kaiparowits project has done. -0- The COUNTY NEWS strongly supports the economic eco-nomic growth represented by alunite and geothermal development. However, we expect to insist that the com -panies be good citizens and good neighbors. By this we mean that they must meet reasonable standards stand-ards in every phase of their operation. The key word here ls reasonable! -o- Far too often, anymore, bureaucratic agencies, self-styled self-styled environmentalists, and when the occasion suits them, politicians, become headstrong with power and forget all reason. For instance, we see nothing no-thing unreasonable about Alumet being forced to contour con-tour and reseed the mine area after mining is complete. com-plete. However, to insist that the depression be filled with tailings before reseeding ls an unreasonable expense. To force Phillips Petroleum Petro-leum to take precautions to stop pollution of a dry stream bed ls ridiculous, as are many other demands of the radicals. -0- Comm . Fred Harris stated j recently "The technolo- ' gy is available to have our cake and eat it too." Certainly we must give j industry a chance to com- 1 pete with foreign imports, (Continued on Page 8) We of Beaver County must make our Input heard above the din of those who do not live here. We must not be stampeded stamped-ed by those who embroidery the negative, such as KSL-TV KSL-TV did in interviewing the City Council recently. We must not encourage such strict ordinances that we force all new growth to neighboring communities. However, we must have a reasonable zoning law to protect existing property owners from raggle-taggle development of a boom town. . The Planning Commission has spent many hours studying study-ing ordinances but it was obvious that the majority of the small group at the Nov. 24th public hearing had done no previous research. Ironically that single public hearing may be the only opportunity for com- HERE'S MORE ABOUT JUST BETWEEN (Continued from Page One) whether it be oil, fertilizer, grain or some luxurious nonessential non-essential commodity. Must those of us who live in this desert wasteland of Utah suffer a below average economy forever, totally dependent de-pendent upon the whim of the tourist, who wants to visit or pass through every few years and find things just as they were the last time? -0- munity input. It fulfills the letter4 of the law, and at Monday's Council meeting the Planning Commission recomm ended the ordinanc -es be adopted with no changes chang-es even though at the public pub-lic hearing a number of recommendations rec-ommendations were made and Mr. Millard and theCity Attorney concurred that the changes should be made. -0- Only thirty-two people attended at-tended that public hearing. Subtract from that the members mem-bers of the City Council, Mayor, Planning Commission, Commis-sion, recorders and reporters, report-ers, and Mr. Millard, and you come up with 18. At least half of that number were realtors, or mobile home owners, or park operators. This leaves just a half dozen who were at the public hearing hear-ing for informative reasons or concern for the community. communi-ty. One Planning Commission Commis-sion member stated that he took the light turn-out to mean that the people of Mil-ford Mil-ford had the utmost confidence confi-dence in the Commission. Is this so? -0- With all due respect for the Planning Commission, we just can't buy that. We think that the reason most weren't at the meeting was because they were apathetically apathet-ically at home watching the tube. -0- This is where the real danger lies, whether it's zoning and subdivision ordinances or-dinances in Milford, or Kai-parowits, Kai-parowits, alunite, or geo-thermal geo-thermal environmental impact im-pact statements. If you tie yourself to the boob tube instead of getting involved the self -proclaimed environmentalists, en-vironmentalists, the bureaucrat, bureau-crat, the politician and the industrialists will do as they please. You'll suffer whichever wins, and you won't have any say about it. |