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Show f io tepii)0 to f em "We urge people to become involved in government," govern-ment," Wilson said, "we represent the 'silent majority' major-ity' everybody hears about, but never hears from. Well now, through PLUC we will be heard! We welcome all other concerned citizens to join us." Other speakers forthetwo sessions at the Red Lion Inn, March 18, starting at 1:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. are Em-mett Em-mett Dahl, president of the Western Mining Council; William B. Murray, attorney for the WMC; Fred Heringer, president California Farm Bureau; Arthur Lantz, president pres-ident Cascade Loggers Association; Sen. Wilbur Faiss, 2nd Dist. Nevada; and Assemblyman Stan Stat-ham, Stat-ham, 1st District California. joy public lands for recreation recrea-tion will be restricted to interstate in-terstate or state' surfaced highways. The Public Land Users Coalition, which will hold it's next meeting on March 18 at the Red Lion Inn in Redding, Red-ding, California is also preparing pre-paring initiative petitions for all public land states to take control of public lands within with-in their boundaries. "It is hoped that state legislatures will see fit to introduce bills in the various states to accomplish ac-complish this purpose," said Milt Allen, PLUC legislative chairman, "but if not, the pe -titions will be used to put a referendum on the ballot in each state, to bring the matter to the people for a vote." Persons wishing to attend the Reddingmeetingare welcome. wel-come. For more information contact Richard S. Arbo, Box 385, Douglas City, California 96024 or N. E. "Red" Wilson, Wil-son, Box 368, Milford, Utah 84751. Meetings willbeheld at 1:00 and 7:00 p.m. "It looks like the tide is beginning to turn on public land legislation," Wallace Fotheringham, president of the Public Land Users Coalition Coal-ition said recently. "Legislation "Leg-islation about to be introduced intro-duced by Senator Jake Gam (R-Utah) andCong.DanMar-riott andCong.DanMar-riott (R-Utah) is a start in the right direction, and is supported by PLUC. Cong. Dan Marriott (R-Utah) (R-Utah) will be the featured speaker on Saturday, March 18th, evening. Rep. Marriott is drafting legislation to repeal re-peal the Organic Act, one of the major goals of PLUC. Senator Garn's legislation would return control of public pub-lic lands to the states. Rep. Marriott is preparing legislation legis-lation to repeal the Organic Act, which with bureaucrat written regulations threatens threat-ens to close most public land to mining, logging, raise grazing fees (AUM's) to the point that cattlemen and wool growers will be put out of business, and tourists, ORV's, hunters, fishermen, rockhounds, and all who en- |