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Show for repel it leprae (M of the other thousands of refinements re-finements they've become used to, Wilson said. This is the message we plan to take back east. Groups in almost every western state have initiated some action either in the courts or in the state legislature. legis-lature. We don't want to change that, Wilson said, but our coalition would coordinate co-ordinate all efforts so that those in one area would know what the other is doing. We want the Attorney General Gen-eral in each public land state to file suit against the federal fed-eral government to return jurisdiction of public lands to the states. The Constitution Constitu-tion gave this jurisdiction to the states. We want it returned. The meeting is expected to draw several hundred people from the western states. The meeting is open to anyone interested in public lands. For further information informa-tion contact the Beaver County Land Users, P. 0. Box 368, Milford, Utah 84751. Representatives of Mining Councils, Cattlemen's Associations, As-sociations, and other public land users from 15 western states will meet in Milford this weekend, August 27-28, to form a coalition to work for the repeal of the "Organic "Or-ganic Act of 1976". The meeting is jointly ; sponsored by the Beaver : County Land Users Ass'n. : and the Prospectors, Min-i Min-i ers, and Land Users Ass'n. ; of Ely, Nevada, t The meeting, to be held i in the Catholic Recreation ii Hall, may have to be moved j to larger quarters for the c mass meetingSaturday night. Registration quarters will 8 be set up at the Catholic Hall H at 3:00 p.m., where guests i can register and receive or -H ientation. At 4:00 p.m. there j will be an organizational H meeting before adjourning e; for supper. is The main meeting at 8:00 it p.m. will feature speakers t from different states, deter-it, deter-it, mination of direction, elec-,cj elec-,cj tion of officers, and adopt ill plans of achieving repeal of Dt the Act. co: Sunday morning, for those iot who stay over, there will be pu a business meeting to wrap aj up loose ends from the night ,q, before. Sf "We hope to start the ball C0! rolling, that will finally wind up in Washington, D. C," N. E. "Red" Wilson, chair-e'Jman chair-e'Jman of the meeting, said. s '"This is a fight that can't Pibe won in the West, but West -emers must fight it." Wallace Fotheringham, 1 president of the Beaver if'County Land Users Ass'n., said, "The true message of slpublic lands must be car-mt'ried car-mt'ried east of the Mississippi. iy o The West is where the natural natur-al resources are, and is where they must be developed." devel-oped." "It's the little guy who has always found the ore, the cattleman who pays for developing the grazing land, and the lumberman who harvests har-vests and plants trees," he said. "The bureaucrat does nothing but write regulations." regula-tions." "The economy of this country depends upon research, re-search, exploration, develop ment, technology and private capital," 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 unconsti-tutional to begin with, but the BLM regulations on surface sur-face mining and grazing carry car-ry the force of law, without the approval of Congress " We're not bitter or vindictive, vin-dictive, Fotheringham said, we just want to be able to keep our mining claims and work them like we have for years. We want the freedom to herd cattle, sheep, rock-hound, rock-hound, hunt, fish, and to develop de-velop the West. The Organic Act will stop this, along with the Clean Air Act, BLM, EPA, and OSHA regulations. Free enterprise en-terprise is doomed. And if they shut the West down, that means the country is going to be shut down. Without the West's resources re-sources the people east of the Mississippi won't have food, cars, energy, or any |