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Show Page 60-T- HK HERALD, Provo, Utah, Sunday, March 27, 1977 Letters to Editor Sexes 'Simply Be Themselves And Realize Their Natural Potentials' Let Both Disneyland Corrects xWater Water Everywhere And Not a Drop to Drink7 Editor Herald: When Brigham Young set up camp in Salt Lake City he ordered Mill Creek dammed for irrigation. This seems to have started a mania that can't be stopped. Deer Creek, Rockport, the Duchesne tunnel etc., were all created to be the answer to Salt Lakes water needs. Then Flaming Gorge, Lake Powell and the proposed confluence dam at the Green and Colorado were to solve the Great American Desert water problems. The idea is bigger storage and longer reaches to other drainage basins with tunnels and dams. For Brigham Young these ideas were great and contributed to the life and death struggle probably more than anything any one could have done. I have worked with Dr. J. R. Mahoney at the University of Utah as a research assistant and illustrator. The places marked with an asterisk and page number will be taken from Dr. Mahoney's publication "Navigable Lakes of the Bonneville Basin Their Full Potential under Effective Water Management." As you read this take out the latest Utah map. The area of water surface exposed evaporates about two to five acre feet of water each year, per acre depending on the elevation. For Utah Lake it is 4.5 feet (P. 38) It takes about the same amount of water to raise an acre of alfalfa. Thus for the water wasted with evaporation we could water a farm as large as the Great Salt Lake, Utah Lake and Lake Powell plus all the other multi million dollar evaporation ponds we have created in the desert. We can no longer plunder our water resources in this way. It should be clear to any sane person as the population increases the evaporation ponds will have to be drained and farmed. The underground reservoirs will have to be managed. Excess winter runoff must be stored as ice in man made glaciers for quality cold culinary water year round. Sublimation is 10 of evaporation. All culinary water must be reused as irrigation water. The charging of underground reservoirs and underground irrigation will be the normal procedeure. The homes built on the valley floors will all have to be torn down for farms. The city will have to move to the dry foothills in highrise and underground homes for drainage to the valley floor. To me it is not a question of should we do the above or not, it is a matter uf when, It is our means of survival for the increasing population in the desert. We need 10 new evaporation ponds and more robbing Peter to - pay Paul tunnels like we need a hole in the head. We NEED the money to properly develop a way of KEEPING and using the moisture we get, not a way of evaporation it or diverting it with the Central Utah Project. We now divert a major portion of the Provo River to Salt Lake Valley adding to the Increased level of the Great Salt Lake while Tower Utah Valley ends up in sage brush. The talk is to evaporate the water in the North Salt Lake to lower its level and divert Phone Listing Editor Herald: Through an inadvertent error, an incorrect number telephone water from Eastern drainage or more Duchesne tunnels to bring more water to Salt Lake City with the Central Utah Project. It is no wonder the Federal Government balks. We do need some reservoirs for flood control if charging wells for underground reservoirs and irrigation will not divert spring run off. These should be as high as possible since at 10,000 feet we have about 50 inches of rainfall. For a good portion of the year these high dams would be frozen over and while it rains into them they are not evaporating. We need MONEY for pipes to large recharging wells and to drill the wells (12 inches in diameter). We need tax breaks and loans for farmers who will install subterranian systems or hot houses for winter produce. With water holding tanks hot houses will contain evaporation and by increasing efficiency could produce vegetables with the 6 inches of rainfall on the valley floors. The attitude of some who would call for birth control to solve the water problem is appalling to me. At the recent Colorado interstate water conference the conclusion seemed to be "move," if you don't like water shortage. This is an attitude resulting from the past billion dollar blunders. However bad these blunders are the water problem is still with us and will continue until we stop creating evaporation ponds and diverting tunnels. We must realize that Brigham Youngs day is passed. There are over three million acre feet of water evaporating from the Great Salt Lake each year. For the lay person an acre is approximately 200 by 200 ft., or about 23 of a football field. An acre foot of water is this area to a depth of one foot. Thus we speak of saving water by not serving it in restaurants which is advocating that we jeopardize our health while we evaporate over three million acre feet from the "Great Evaporating pond". Stupidity is a word far too mild to describe our approach to water conservation on the Great American Desert. Robert H. Peterson 1588 S. 50 W. Orem appeared in an Disneyland ad which recentlv placed in your publication. We would be most appreciative if the error could be called to the attention of your readers. The correct number for the Anaheim Visitor and Convention Bureau is (714) Bob Roth publicity and Public Relations Supervisor And as for what Adrienne Morris said, "I suggest to some of these letter writers that they climb down off their pedestals, plant both feet firmly in the 20th Century and support their sisters," believe me, I'm very modern and very much in the 20th Century, but the women of yesterday were very good, hard working women, charming, down to earth, and very much respected and never complained about what they did. And their men loved and respected them, and if us letter writers are supposed to be on pedestals, it's because maybe our husbands and loved ones put us there, because they come first, and we care and love Editor Herald: I had to write another letter. I feel strongly about the my views on the ERA, especially after reading letters from Adrienne Morns of Springville and Verla Holindrake from American Fork, saying "The Equal Rights Amendment is the most misunderstood document the country has seen," that we should study it because untruths are passed fro. i one person to another, with the facts sometimes lost along the way, and that all ERA is going to do is "make first class citizens out of women." Then about ERA losing in Nevada because they depend on women to make the beds, clean the toilets, wait the tables and all the other low paying jobs. Did you forget all the high paying jobs for women in Nevada. Now have you weighed all the facts? If ERA should come to pass, women would be drafted and go to war and fight for their country just like any man has to. them more than ourselves. Verla Holindrake said, "I care enough about myself to think I deserve equality of righs under the law regardless of my sex, and as for Mrs. Vetta Madsen, Judy Alispac and G. J. Miller, if they don't care enough about themselves, I guess that will just have to be their problem." Well, I guess we care more about our families first. That's why we are on our pedestals. On Monday, March 14, the Herald ran an article by Don Oakley titled, "Boys and Girls are Different." The report was by Dr. Brian Sutton of Columbia University's Teacher College, and studied 40 boys and 40 girls in the New York area, to find out Center for their night whether attempts to encourage youngsters to expand games. Here they can ac- beyond traditional roles had any impact on their Provo, Orem High Schools Praised for Sportsmanship Upen Letter to Provo and Orem: Congratulations to the public and students of the Provo and Orem High Schools. The support and sportsmanship that exists between these two great schools are to be commended. They com- game. The students from both Provo and Orem were cheering the Golden Tigers on. After their own game was over, the Orem students stayed to cheer and support the Bulldogs in their battle against Skyline. Their and friendship pete vigorously and enthusiasm was preciated during enthusiastically their own games, but are loyal rooters when either team is playing another by ap- the Bulldogs. There is the same type of support at the state school. These two schools are examples for other schools to follow. At the state basketball tournament, our family arrived during the last half of the Orem wrestling tournaments. In a time when other schools are playing in the afternoon to prevent riots and gang fights, Provo and Orem high schools move to the Marriott an even commodate larger crowd of spectac-tor- s The two rival student bodies are separated only by a streamer of crepe paper. Congratulations to the and fans. coaches, players, students and parents for the valuable experience sports has been in our area. Even though Provo High will become two schools, we hope this example and tradition will continue. Grateful fans, The Robert B. Johnson Family piay-i- t did not, he found. No matter what toys were available, the girls played with toys concerned with domestic operations while the boys played with toys oriented to activities outside the home. Similar findings have been published in another source, which can hardly be accused of bias against women. The world is changing much too fast. What happened to all the good things and natural things people used to be content with? Where is it all going to end? I guess God only knows for sure. Don't forget about him. And, as Don Oakely ended his article: "What the feminist movement should be working for is not a unisex society, but one in which persons of both sexes are as free as possible simply to be themselves and to realize their natural potentials." Gwen Miller Orem Keep Free Agency In Seeing Movies Editor Herald: Most people, including myself, believe that we were placed on this earth to exercise our free agency to the best of our ability. I also believe that laws and their enforcement are necessary to protect rights. everyone of their I feel it is good to have certain age restrictions on movie ratings and now I would like to express my ideas. What I can't understand is the few people who feel they must take matters into their own hands and tell everyone what they can and cannot see. It seems a power stronger than us they are trying to over-rul- e all and I don't think anyone should have the right to tell me that my husband and 1 cannot go see a movie rated "R" or'"X". The day that happens is the day that movies rated "X" will go underground. When pornography is forced underground all ages will have access to them, and I mean all ages. So what it boils down to is would you rather see people learn how to love one another or kill one another? If you prefer the latter, just stay home any night and watch television. In certain places, people are able to watch television programs that would be rated "R" and "X." But the laws restricting violence are very stiff. These people don't seem to be in any danger of corruption and ruin. If the money spent on anti - pornography could be channeled into recreation areas for our kids, the lawmakers wouldn't have to worry about a 16 - year - old sneaking into a "dirty" movie, experimenting with alcoholism. hard drugs, or experiencing teen-agBut these recreation centers must be made available to all kids Not just rich kids in rich neighborhoods. 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