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Show Boyd Williams co-chairman of clean-up days Utahns are among those hailed by Secretary of the Interior In-terior Walter J. Hickel in Washington, D. C, Thursday as sponsors and participants in a new citizens' drive to clean up littered recreation lands. The campaign has been dubbed the "Johnny Horizen Countryside Clean-up Days." Co-chairmen of the campaign in Utah are Mrs. Clare N. Beagley, 112 West 200 North, Spanish Fork, and Boyd Williams, Wil-liams, 645 Aaron Avenue, Springville, who are affiliated with the Rocky Mountain Federation Fed-eration of Mineralofical Societies. Socie-ties. The Countryside Clean-up Days, scheduled October 10-12, are named after the symbolic outdoorsman developed by Interior's In-terior's Bureau of Land Management. Man-agement. The Johnny Horizon character represents thoughtful users of publicly owned lands. In commending the various sponsoring organizations and individual participants, Secretary Secre-tary Hickel said, "This grassroots grass-roots volunteer movement is a most heartening demonstration that Americans really do care about the quality of their environment." en-vironment." Secretary Hickel credited the California Outdoor Recreation League with originating the autumn clean-up plan. After it was first proposed in California last spring recreationists in 11 other states have joined in the event. The American Federation Federa-tion of Mineralogical Societies has been instrumental in securing secur-ing co-sponsors in other states, he said. "Such terms as 'natural beauty' and 'environmental protection' pro-tection' have become by-words in our vocabulary, but too many of us react only with mere words of protest when we see a littered and blighted landscape," land-scape," Secretary Hickel added. "The sponsors of the Johnny Horizon Countryside Clean-up Days are showing their concern with deeds, and I highly commend com-mend them for their local action ac-tion plans." "Recreation and land man-aagement man-aagement agencies at all levels are working with very limited budgets, yet the cost of removing remov-ing litter from our public lands, parks and highways is now a staggering $500,000,000 yearly. With volunteer clean-up efforts such as this we arae very hopeful hope-ful that part of that tremendous tremen-dous sum can instead be spent on developing badly needed facilities," fa-cilities," he concluded. Organizations and individuals in Utah wishiing to participate should contact either Mrs. Clare N. Beagley in Spanish Fork or Boyd Williams in Springville. |