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Show tmzm ; Feedback V lion President Carter has proposed for the new budget. The EPA gets $4,000,000 to study a few sagebrush and Juniper trees in this area (as I said before, who cares), and a few days ago the University Uni-versity of Utah was granted $2,000,000 for geothermal studies in the area. We want development, not studies! It appears to me that Congress Con-gress is trying every way possible to cut money that should be given to the State of Utah. A few examples is the Central Utah Project and hiway funds. It is beyond be-yond my comprehension how the UJS. Government can throw away millions (if not billions) of dollars on junk studies and programs, and yet close down a station that is worth every penny of the $43,000 the UJS. Government is trying to save. In conclusion, this letter is to inform you to please try and stop the closure of the Milford weather station. Sincerely yours: Gary E. Sullivan Milford, Utah 84751 Dear Red: The Salt Lake City Chapter Chap-ter of the S.P.E.B.S.QJS.A. (Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Bar-ber Shop Quartet Singing in America) regularly assists Religious, Civic and Fraternal Frater-nal organizations in their fund raising drives by providing pro-viding our Chorus and two oi three quartets for a show. The only cost is for transportation trans-portation and by charter bus into your readers area would by roughly $10 per man. We have in mind perform -ing in Delta on Friday night and into Milford for Saturday night, bringing perhaps 50 men including two quartets. It might be desirable to stay over, in which case the organization or-ganization could house the fellows in homes of their members. Our show is of the highest high-est caliber and in fact we perform in many L.D.S. wards in the Salt Lake City area. Would you kindly print this letter or portions thereof to inform your readers of this service? There are three ol us Milford kids in the Chapter Chap-ter and we would like very much to acquaint our formei neighbors with the joys and harmonies of Barbership-ping. Barbership-ping. As a regular subscriber to "the News" for many, many years, let me say you've don more to unite the people o: Beaver County in perhaps its most exciting era since the coming of the railroad. Very truly yours, John L. Grimshaw Secretary : Dear Editor: Red, I do enjoy your paper, i You really do seem to be j getting the hang of putting one out each week. ! Western Washington is getting wetter and my web j feet are getting thicker every year. Say hello to all those wonderful won-derful Milfordites and hang tough in your battles with the bbueaucrats. Ron Uffens i ' UJS. Senators Garn and Hatch Rep. McKay and Marriott Editor, Beaver County News Dear Sirs: Being a farmer and private pri-vate pilot, I feel I am com-i com-i pelled to make a few com- I ments about the closing of the National Weather Service Office in Milford, Utah (Salt Lake Tribune, Jan. 22, 1978). The output of alfalfa hay ! " in the Milford area is worth approximately $3,000,000 i j per year, with much of the hay ! being exported to Japan. Al though the weather station is small, it provides valuable information for the production produc-tion of this crop. Flying many times a month to Salt Lake C ity on the north, j and St. George on the south, j with the exception of the Flight Service Station at C edar C ity (whose weather is not always representative of the area), the Milford weather wea-ther station provides the only j I reliable weather reporting from Las Vegas, Nevada to Salt Lake City. On flights from Denver, Colorado to San Francisco, Calif., the ; same is also true. All we I ! have is Cedar City, Utah (south of the route) and Ely, Nevada (north of the route) reporting reliable weather information from Grand Junction, Colorado to Tono-pah, Tono-pah, Nevada. Also by los-! los-! i ing the station, the only avia- i ! tion forecasts we will receive for central and southern Utah : will be for Cedar City and Bryce Canyon, Utah. If the station is closed, the General Aviation pilots will be losing a valuable reporting station in the intermountain area. Rather than close the station, sta-tion, it is my belief that the i station should be enlarged to j' 24 hours per day operation to i cover aviation interests in central and southwest Utah, j ; At the present time the En vironmental Protection , ; Agency was alloted $4,000, - 000 for weather studies in ; the Milford area for the next : 10 years, to study the ef fects the geothermal wells and possible Alunite project might have on the local en-! en-! ; vironment. Personally, I ! could care less about the EPA study. The Milford weather station has complete records back to 1947, with some records going back to 1908. The National Weather Service Ser-vice says they will save $43,-000 $43,-000 per year by closing the local weather station. That I; amount is the size of an atom ' compared to the $500 bil- ill |