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Show Editorials. SALT FLAT NEWS, JULY, 1971 DOHN IHK DUHP. All good things seem to come to an end and the Wen-dover Wen-dover Dump is no exception according to The State of Nevada. Present plans call for the dump to be returned to its original arid condition minus the mark of man. While a new dumping site is planned on the Utah side, it is not today's object of the NEWS to ponder on, though there seems to be a certain air about that particular decision. deci-sion. An object worthy of note is that a dump is really an investment in recycling and the business of garbage starts at the bottom. A suggestion to Nevada might be to resal-vage resal-vage via a contractual route, the components, be they various var-ious and sundry, that constitute the dump. Utilizing the present location of the dump as a pilot project for this research re-search in recycling. - A matter, too, of secondary importance would be the status of Floyd Eaton, Guardian of Garbage and other treasures. Initiation of such a project as proposed here would encourage Mr. Eaton to stay on in Nevada rather than to leave Wendover in search of new frontiers. You can sure bank on the saying that there will always be garbage notwithstanding life, death, and taxes. Letters to Dear Editor: My husband and I live in Castro Valley, California; however, how-ever, we own some acres of Utah's Salt Flats near the Lucin cutoff in Box Elder County. We do hope that Utah's spaceport will go through. We had a friend who was visiting in Salt Lake bring us some newspapers and we enjoyed read-ing read-ing Wendover's picture paper, The Salt Flat News. I have enclosed en-closed a check for a one-year subscription. sub-scription. Please send any back issues is-sues you may have. Thank you, Capt. and Mrs. O. B. Lundgren P.O. Box 2224 Castro Valley, California Charles Helly Words are created with the hope that they will outlast out-last the author. Unfortunately, Unfortu-nately, most authors tend to outlast their literary creations. crea-tions. But when words do outlast their creator, the greatest tribute a person can pay is to read his works. Charles Kelly left Utah at the age of eighty-two after authoring six books and hundreds of articles on the history of Utah. Unlike many historical writers, Mr. Kelly's works had a personal w ' 'i the Editor Dear Editor: I have read your paper and I especially like the stories called "Queen of Blood." It is great western writing. My dad likes it too. Judy Wheeler 5th Avenue New York, N. Y. Dear Editor: In your April issue of the Salt Flat News you have pictured a rock formation on the southern shore of the Great Salt Lake near Lake Point, Utah. You have referred to the rock as "The DeGaulle Stone" and as "AgnewRock." NtWS ptxxo cuutlmi U 1 AH Miil bul - Utah Scribe sparkle, allowing the reader the privilege of creating his own verbal television while either exploring the Hasting Cutoff (Salt Desert Trails) or riding along with Butch Cassidy (Outlaw Trail). Mourning the departure of Mr. Kelly is a temporary thing; more lasting are his works and the pleasure of reading them, which is the zenith of tribute one can pay to such an author as Charles Kelly. PERFORMANCE ! . . . I've got just the one ! NEWS photo by R. Men lies Who knows whose nose? I do not want to be disagreeable, disagree-able, but I was born and raised in Lake Point, as were my father and mother. For all their lives and mine the rock has been known as "Burmeister's Nose." It may not make too much difference to anyone, but it bothered me to have it referred to as something else in our day. I do not know the history of how it got the name of "Burmeister's Nose" but would like to find out. Thank you, Mrs. Marlene Goodenaugh 8894 W. Helen Drive Magna, Utah 84044 Dear Editor: I am looking through the Salt Flat News this morning before leaving for school. I see here on the cover a picture pic-ture of a girl looking up. It says "Adastra A harbinger to the heavens screams into Salt Lake City while pretty Maretta Ann Hatch awaits the future of winged things to ome." I would like a question answered. an-swered. Why in heavens name do you have her pose like that with dress clear up to her ! If she were out in the wilds, as the picture portrays, surely she could wear slacks. Just what is she supposed sup-posed to be looking for? In that position and that dress it could be other than winged things ! Thanks, Worried about our times .Sunset, Utah ... NEWS photo hy R Mpnn (Reprint from January Issue) NEWS : The Great Salt Lake until recently has been considered a geologic white elephant in the eyes of researchers. Would you favor a research task force set up similar to the International Geophysical Geo-physical Year (IGY) with a mission mis-sion to study the Great Salt Lake for the benefit of scientific knowledge and economic management? man-agement? SEN. MOSS: I would welcome such a study. The Great Salt Lake is unique. It's the only thing like it in the Western Hemisphere and I guess the only other lake similar to it is the Dead Sea in Israel. I would like to see a full and complete com-plete scientific study of the lake and all of the ecologic and geologic geo-logic circumstancesihat surround that body of water. We're beginning begin-ning to exploit the brines of the lake to quite a high degree and we ought to be able to project to know what this is going to bring to the lake. Are we really going to dry it up or will the lake stabilize at some point? All of these things we don't know and we ought to know if we can find them out. Dear Editor: It has been brought to my attention at-tention that a recent article in your January, National Edition, focused attention to remarks made by Senator Frank E. Moss, concerning "insight to Salt Flats," page 5. In particular, those comments concerning the Great Salt Lake and the "research task force with a mission to study the Lake for the benefit of scientific scien-tific knowledge ..." The Utah Geological and Min-eralogical Min-eralogical Survey was created and funded by the legislature as set forth in Utah Code 53-36-2(1-7). It operates under the advice and THE SALT FLAT NEWS is published twelve times a year by the Salt Flats Publishing Corporation, a Utah Corporation. Corpora-tion. EDITOR Richard Nahum Goldberger GENERAL MANAGER - Jess Green ' P.O. BOX 11717 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 84111 !yA f- NtWSpftolo by H In guidance of an Advisory Board whose members are selected from organizations specified by law. Currently UGMS activities are concentrated in three general areas: ( 1 ) Utah's energy resources with special emphasis on coal and oil-impregnated sandstones; (2) Great Salt Lake; (3) Urban and engineering geology geol-ogy wherever geologic hazards haz-ards exist in Utah but with emphasis on the problems of the Wasatch Front. The Great Salt Lake represents the greatest untapped potential source of revenue for the state, the UGMS, therefore, has been attempting at-tempting to learn everything possible pos-sible concerning the Lake's future, the long-time nature of the Lake's mineral reserve, and the Lake's long-time equilibrium. The urgency of this project calls for expansion of studies of Great Salt Lake with emphasis on the effect of pollutants on brine and on shores and bottom sediments of the lake. (Continued on page 7) |