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Show Vernal Express Wednesday, August 11, 1993 9 High school , hires new Walk around town administrator r if?! ft ROB LEETHAM is the owner of Uintah Video Productions. He officers offi-cers a new advertising medium available to local businesses. Video advertising company opens Uintah Video Productions, located at 75 East Main in Vernal, is introducing intro-ducing a new concept of business advertising in Vernal. Working with : the local cable company, Insight Cable, they are offering advertising ; on national cable stations, ESPN, TNT, CNN and USA Network to ; the immediate area served by the : cable company. ; Uintah Video Productions is ; owned by Rob and Sandra Leetham and Clayton Perkins. Sandra, for-; for-; merly of Vernal, a daughter of ; Gordon and LouJean Perry, is a - Uinlah High School graduate. Rob is the former production man- ager and owner of Wade Productions in Salt Lake City. They ' opened a similar video production company in Cedar City in 1991, working with Insight Cable. When they were looking to expand, Vernal was one of the areas Insight served. This gave the Leethams a good rea- son to move back to the Easin. Using high-tech computer graph ics and video equipment, Uintah Video Productions can produce professional pro-fessional local television advertising for much less than most people expect ex-pect The four major cable stations break away from national advertising advertis-ing and allow local cable stations to insert their advertising. The ads are shot on location with in studio "voice-over." Only the area served by the cable stations see the ad. According to Leetham, this gives good exposure in rural areas for local lo-cal businesses and is the up-and-coming advertising medium. In addition to the video ads, Uintah Video Productions will also do family histories and gatherings, weddings, duplication work and promotional work for companies. The Leethams are joined by two children, Ben, 9-months, and Kelsey,. age 2. Rob and Sandra say they are pleased to be back in the Vernal area and to be providing a pioneering pi-oneering service to businesses in the community. Farm Bureau upset with grazing fees hike A proposed increase in grazing fees announced by U.S. Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt will eliminate many public lands ranchers ranch-ers in Utah, and place enormous hardship on the rural economy of the state, according to the Utah Farm Bureau Federation. UFB President Ken Ashby, Delta, said Secretary Babbitt has proposed increasing the fee by almost two-and-a-half times, to $4.28 per animal ani-mal unit month (AUM) by 1996. The current fee charged ranchers to graze cattle and sheep on the public lands is $ 1 .86 per AUM. "For more than a year, the ranching ranch-ing community has worked with respected re-spected economists and others to develop a new fee proposal that would charge ranchers for the actual value of the forage consumed by livestock on public land," Ashby explained. "That new formula was recently introduced in Congress by a bi-partisan group of Senators last Friday (August 6). "Our proposed new fee formula will meet the Clinton i Administration's goal to raise an additional $35 million per year from grazing fees, while the Babbitt proposal goes far beyond that goal," Ashby said. In a series of hearings held by the Secretary throughout the west earlier earli-er this summer, ranchers and agricultural agri-cultural economists repeatedly told Mr. Babbitt that significant increases increas-es in grazing fees would wreak economic eco-nomic havoc on livestock producers as well as the rural economies that depend on the public lands grazing industry. A study by New Mexico State University Economist John Fowler shows 42 percent of public lands-dependent ranchers will go out of business if significant fee increases in-creases are made. A more recent Pepperdine University study by Thomas Dudley shows federal land ranchers have no economic advantage advan-tage over private land ranchers. "Secretary Babbitt has ignored the testimony heard in his public hearings; hear-ings; as well as these studies, and has proposed a fee level that will sound the death knell for many Utah ranchers," Ashby added. The Farm bureau leader says Babbitt also proposes to eliminate grazing advisory boards as presently present-ly constituted, take private water rights away from ranchers on public lands, and take federal possession of any new improvements ranchers have made on their federal lands grazing allotments. 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"I've admired the school and programs here for a long time," he said. "I like the good facilities here and I feel things are going in the right direction. I hope to learn from those I'll work with, add some of my own ideas and keep improving improv-ing things." Bunderson and his wife, Nan, are the parents of four children. Prove it to yourself. Yoy've earned ami j off everything you buy You'll save an extra 10 off the marked price of every item you buy-even buy-even if it is already sale or clearance priced! This is a great opportunity to stock-up on products your family uses, but that rarely go on sale, or to save even more on your Back-to-School shopping! Fri at. or Sued August 13, 14. and 1 690 W. Main 7894230 Vernal HOURS: Mon.-Sat. 9 a.m. -9 p.m. Sun. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. I 680 E. 200 N. 722-5571 Roosevelt J? |