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Show Wednesday, June 21,1978 Page 12 Roadless Area Review Called 'Whitewash' Laws At Kingsbury Hall Tom Estes To Head Fashion Place The Hahn Property Man-anagement Man-anagement Corporation, parent company Ernest W. Halm, Inc., developer of Fashion Place Mall in Murray, has announced the appointment of a new center manager. Park City resident Tom Estes, former assistant under Dave Fairbourn, will assume the position of manager man-ager at Fashion Place effective effec-tive June 15, 1978. Mr. Estes, formerly of Southern California Califor-nia has lived here for about six months. Mr. Estes will replace Dave Fairbourn who has joined a local company, Trolley Square Associates. Community Volunteer workers gathered at the Park City stadium Saturday for Community Involvement Day. The volunteers erected 600 bleacher seats and put the finishing touches on the new sports facility. IS j Mr. Estes is a native 01 Southern California and was very active there in the tennis scene. He was assistant assis-tant manager of Laguna Hills Mall in Laguna Beach, California before coming to Utah. Prior to entering the shopping center business, Mr. Estes was the manager of the Balboa Bay Club and Raquet Club in Newport Beach, California. He also managed the Anaheim Hills Tennis Club in Southern California. We would like to welcome Mr. Estes and his wife, Debbie to the Salt Lake area. They presently reside in Park City, Utah. nvo Ivemen Day $ J The Forest Service's Koadless Area Review and Evaluation was labeled "Washington whitewash" by Senator Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah). The Utahn said the Environmental Impact Statement fails to consider "important natural resources resour-ces in Utah" and puts the whole wilderness review procedure pro-cedure in jeopardy. "The RARE II Environmental Environ-mental Impact Statement (EIS) totally ignores oil and gas exploration on Forest Service lands reviewed in spite of the fact that most of the land in Utah is right on top of the resource-rich Overthrust Belt," according to Hatch. He pointed out the National RARE II statement calls the Overthrust Belt "the single most promising area for oil and gas potential in the lower 48 states," but the Utah supplement does not consider that economic potential. "The Forest Service says wilderness designation would not seriously affect the economies of the counties of Utah. That statement is just plain irrational. The only way it could be said is to forget about mining and energy development and that is exactly what was done," the Utahn said. The EIS will be the basis for wilderness designations according to the Forest Service. The RARE II survey sur-vey considers every parcel of Forest Service land over 5,000 acres that meets a definition as "roadless." Nearly three million acres in Utah fell into the RARE II review. Forest Service officials offi-cials have been careful to say that not all three million acres is suitable for wilder- High School football ness designation. That possibility possi-bility exists as an alternative, alterna-tive, however, in the draft statement released Thursday. Thurs-day. "The economic tables included in-cluded in the statement ate utterly worthless," Hatch said. "I can find no serious consideration of mining or oil and gas drilling anywhere in the tables. It may be a shock to Forest Service officials, but they are sitting on prime drilling ground. They cannot ignore the energy potential and the national economic welfare and still say they have done a good job of reviewing our natural resources." "If this is a preview of future wilderness designations, designa-tions, then they better go back and start over," Hatch said. Hatch enumerated several specific complaints about the RARE environmental impact statement: The national document recognizes the importance of the Overthrust Belt but describes it as extending from Canada south to Utah when the southern boundary of the belt may actually continue into Arizona information infor-mation is not conclusive. The statement takes a "wishy-washy stand" on the management of wilderness areas with respect to energy resources. "On page 47 of the document, wilderness designation desig-nation 'would restrict, to some extent, or occasionally prohibit development of mineral and energy resources.' resour-ces.' That means they are either going to allow development in wilderness areas or they are going to shut off energy development completely. Energy developers and wilderness advocates have to have more information on how the U.S. Forest Service plans to! control wilderness before these interest groups can make solid recommendations," recommenda-tions," Hatch said. The national document cites 137 roadless areas that contain "proven or producing pro-ducing critical mineral sites." That figure is based on Bureau of Mines data that is outmoded at best, and wrong at worst; the figure is probably much higher. The document says the primary inflationary effects of wilderness designation would come from the withdrawal with-drawal of softwood sawtim-ber sawtim-ber volume and pretends that oil and gas potential does not exist. "Fairy tales," according to Hatch, "make poor wilderness policy." The national document is "dangerously vague" about the disposition of private and state lands that fall within wilderness boundaries. boun-daries. "We have lost too much land usage through de facto condemnation to federal fed-eral ownership. This problem pro-blem must be settled before action takes place," according accord-ing to the Utahn. "Fortunately, Congress has the final say in wilderness wilder-ness designation. But I worry about the kind of decisions my colleagues would make on the basis of this collection of misinformation misinfor-mation and incomplete data. I have heard better evalua-, evalua-, tions from the most rabid preservationists." The Forest Service must rely on public comment. Statements must be to the Forest Service by October 1, 1978. at South Building, 12th Street and Independence Avenue, S.W., P.O. Box 2417, Washington, D.C. 20013. "The public input phase offered room for correction, and I hope we can clean this thing up enough for the final impact statement. The serious ser-ious problems here leave me with little hope for an acceptable environmental statement." "It's just useless. We can't use it for making policy in Washington. This statement is written from the viewpoint of an ostrich, and I am afraid it has endangered the whole process of public lands review and preservation," Hatch said. "Not a single person I have talked to is happy with this statement." .j m & -a . a m. ' j 1 SSXX.'C- Jaz? flute legend Hubert Laws will bring his own particular brand of jazz classicalrock fusion to Kingsbury Hall on the University of Utah campus this Saturday evening at 8:00 D.m. The Mountainland and Uintah Basin Regional Quilt Show and Contest, featuring cash prizes and contemporary contempo-rary design from traditional patterns, will open June 27 in Brigham Young University's B.F. Larsen Gallery. This regional show, which runs through July 16, is part of the Third Annual Festival of the American West Quilt Contest sponsored by Utah State University. Local residents resi-dents can enter the contest by taking their quilts to the County Extension Office at Bond Sale Figures May Series E-H Savings Bonds sales figures released by the Department of the Treasury credited Summit County, Koy Page Chairman with $2,545, bringing year-to-jrdatlfsales!Mt,o ?lft2 22 percent of the 1978 quota. State Chairman Wendell E. Gile and 1978 TSIA Campaign Chairman James B. Chaney announced that the total May sales of Series E and H Savings Bonds for the state came to $2,592,402 which brings the total to-date sales to $12,202,230, 34 percent per-cent of the 1978 quota of $35,600,000. Nationally, Americans are continuing to buy Savings Bonds in record volume. They purchased more than $3.6 billion worth in the first five months of 1978. Americans Ameri-cans now own more than $79 billion in U.S. Savings Bonds. More than $4.5 billion of this amount has been added since last May. County Chairmen urge residents to take advantage of the Payroll Savings Plan for the purchase of Savings Bonds which is offered by many companies throughout the state. Or, inquire at your bank about the Bond-a-Month Plan. Golf Against Cancer Utah golfers can help wipe out cancer with just a swing of the club this weekend. The event is the 10th annual Virginia Whitney Golf Contest to be held June 24 at the Ladies Day prior to that date on over 70 courses throughout the state. Golfers who donate at least one dollar on the green of a designated par-three hole are eligible. Any tee shot that lands inside a ten-foot chalked circle around the hole wins three new balls for every dollar donated. The grand prize for a hole-in-one is a set of irons. Every dollar collected will go toward financing more free Virginia Whitney clinics which are sponsored by the Utah Division of the American Ameri-can Cancer Society. Ninety-, one clinics have been held state-wide in the last 10 years with over 20,000 men and women examined. The clinics aim primarily at cancer of the breast, uterus, colon, and rectum. The project was named in honor of a Salt Lake golfer and courageous cancer victim vic-tim who lost a personal struggle to the disease. Quilt Contest June 27 75 E. 100 South in Provo. Deadline for entries is Thursday, June 22. Successful entries will be displayed in the BYU show and prizes of $200, $100, $50 and $25 will be awarded for the top quilts. These quilts will also be judged and displayed at the final contest at USU the last week of July. Reg. 33 cents 16 cents June 22 to 28 only From Kodak, COMPARE OUR PRICES You won't beat them anywhere in Park City. KODAK AND TRANSAMERICA PROCESSING We believe we use the best photo processers available. We wouldn't send your film anywhere else. 24-HOUR SERVICE ON EKTACHROME SLIDES On request, 48 hour service on 110 and 126 film. lllto(nllffli(lll(Ei i i ii ii in iiiiii nil ii ii i mi 1 1 i xv A reception honoring individuals indi-viduals exhibiting quilts, in the regional show will be held from 2-4 p.m. July 10 in Room A-550 of BYU's Fine Arts Center. According to Irene Thompson, Thomp-son, USU Provo Extension Home Economist, contest rules require each entry to be hand quilted and be a Focal, Fuji, GAF and mm Park City, Utah 523 MAIN STREET (Across from City Hall) 649-9431 4a single bed size or larger. The quilts must have been made within the last five years by the person who submits the entry, Ms. Thompson added, and the person must be a Utah resident. Documentation to show how the original pattern or patterns inspired the quilt design is also required. Fotomat films I 1 COLOR FILM I O nmi |