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Show Women take petition to Gov. Matheson Governor Scott Matheson met with three Cedar City women Apr. 23 to accept a petition from 1,765 citizens who oppose deployment of the MX missile in Utah and Nevada. Almost all the signatures were of Iron County residents. The governor received Arlene Braithwaite, Jennifer Thorley and Laura Cotts after releasing the state's response to the Air Force's DEIS on Land Withdrawal and Acquisition for the missile project. He expressed sympathy sym-pathy with the Cedar homemakers concerns about possible boom town conditions, and told of the problems the Bear Lake, Utah, area has coping with the large influx of energy workers from Wyoming seeking recreation space. "Bear Lake residents have no way of handling it, since the large tax-paying tax-paying companies are based in Wyoming," he said. The governor explained that state studies show that new residents pay only 50 percent of the cost of the increase in services they require. The other 50 percent must be made up by tax-paying businesses and he emphasized em-phasized the federal government does not pay taxes." Governor Matheson also related his conversation con-versation with the Mayor of Edmunton, Alberta, who has children currently attending Brigham Young University. Edmunton has a population roughly equivalent to the Salt Lake area. While Salt Lake has 300-400 policemen, the mayor said Edmunton has 1,200 policemen and "on weekends we need every one of them." Edmunton receives impact from energy development in northern Alberta. |