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Show A2 The Times-lndependen- Thursday, March 10, 1983 t, Looking backward . . . THfough the Flos of The Times-lndepende- nt and the Grand Valey Times the nearby Mdountain States Oil lease. The wells were to be tested 80 Years Ago On Feb. 20, it was reported in the Grand Valley Times, the people of Castle Valley assembled at Castle-tofor a meeting and picnic. The picnic was served at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Corbin. A dance was held in the Kelly building. It was estimated that about 70 people attended the gathering. Winter was still making itself known in the Moab area, as the mercury dipped to a low of six and eight degrees during two successive nights. The high temperatures on the two days were 38 and 40. State Rep. Molyneux of Grand County was praised in an editorial in The Times for introducing a bill providing for free textbooks in public schools. The Times commented that the bill, if passed, would prove one of the most progressive steps the state has ever taken. for potash and magnesium content. If sufficient deposits were to be located, extensive development was anticipated, including construction of at least two shafts, at an estimated cost of $850,000. , Grand County motorists who had B and C mileage ration books were reminded by Winford Bunce, rVmirmnn of the local war price and rationing board, that Feb. 28 was the deadline for initial tire , inspections under the Office of Price Administrations program of period-- , ic inspection to make car tires last as , long as possible. Car owners failing , to meet the inspection deadline were denied gasoline rations. n I find strange things on my desk from time to time. Invariably, when a controversial, unsigned letter to the editor appears, it always lands on my desk when Im not in my office. Who left that there? I asked the staff. Gosh, they unanimously say, We didnt see anybody around. This week an .unknown friend left me a clipping taken from a Louisiana newspaper with an intriguing headline that reads: Losing Hair? Try This at no Risk." It goes on to explain that a Texas ' company is now marketing a treatment for hair loss that is not only stopping hair loss, but really growing hair! Now why in the world would anyone think Id be interested in a story or a company like that. Actually, I wouldnt know what to do with a full head of hair if I had it, which I dont. And its been so long since I had to worry about carrying a comb I can hardly remember what it Americas superb modem wildlife Dear Sam: was like. management programs. All wild In hopes this can be printed to As a joke (I think), my wife once species benefit from these proginform the sportsmen of our area. wig. I wore rams, in Alaska and throughout the bought me a hippy-styl- e 1980 tiie Alaska Lands Act In to it a couple of times-mosU.S. closed 25,000,000 acres of some of This is the first time Congress has Halloween parties and such but the worlds best hunting lands to faced with a yes or no vote on couldnt stand it. It was hot, the been hunters. There was no good reason stuff got in my eyes and it wouldnt hunting attitude. for perpetrating this distortion of have been The stay on straight. Some of my American rights. false doctrine legislators acquaintances who have spent a feeding 25 million acres is bigger than the bundle of r jnoney on really good about wildlife, hunting and hunters whole state of Indiana. The wildlife for over a decade. Was this inclusion toppers tell me my problem was that resource is different from such of hunting and trapping prohibitions my wig simply wasnt quality resources as oil, coal, timber. .You spend enough an expression of enough. Drilling, mining and cutting do sentiment, in 1980, or was it just an money, and youll get satisfaction, affect the wilderness environment. oversight caused by ignorance of the they say. The hunting and trapping of To heck with it. I kind of like going true facts. abundant species do not. out in the wind and looking the same Lets make sure that our In the new Alaska National as I do on a calm day. I like being legislators know the facts, and know Hunting bill, now before Congress, able to dry my hair with a Kleenix there is no change in the how millions of sportsmen feel about after a bath, and getting my coiffure this issue! The Congressional prohibitions on drilling, mining, in shape after a nights sleep is no attitude revealed by this vote will cutting. AU that 48. proposed is the affect all major decisions on problem at all. Besides, my shiny restoration of hunting and trapping skuB adds to mj grim took and hunting, fishing, trapping and rights in force before the 1960 act. y wildlife in all parts of the U.S., by image, and Oats The Alaska National Hunting Bill tant to me, because in a Congress and by state legislators. will be acted on in 1963. The bill It is our turn to take the offense Im sometimes pretty easily intimiof merely changes the names certain the dated. Urge your against to areas from parks park to vote for the Alaska For years, while I put up a stiff, legislators and trapping Hunting preserves. National Hunting Bill. Write two stem front,' whenever Ive been are not permitted in parks. They are confronted by certain types jot letters, one to each of jr6ur senators . ..permitted in preserves. We must all write, 'and nowor people, I turn to jelly inside. Internal' American 73,000,000 sportsmen J ' " ,v lose a lot. Revenue Service agents have had buy hunting, fishing and trapping Write to: Senator Edwin J. Gam that effect on me. Bankers, lawyers licences and pay special sportsmens and Orrin G. Hatch, U.S. Senate, and PTA presidents have given me excise taxes. This outlay amounts to similar reactions. Washington, D.C. 20510. over $550,000,000 a year. These Be sure to give your name and full When you recognise you have a dollars foot the bill for most of the first reached problem, youve I I step in dealing with it, Ive been I told, and Ive been working on this I problem of intimidation. Ive got to I tot made of a admit that Ive I PTA and ladies Lawyers progress. I he getting to be a cinch. Ive got to I admit, though, that bankers and IRS I Adrien Taylor by folks still give me a start. I I Why all this drivel in a column I that is usually so serious? Look over the stories on Page 1 this week. First impressions can be very Legislature this week. Theres not much ton to write about and most especially when The nutshell information on lasting, there. Record unemployment, round the bill explains that Utah has a law they deal with emotionally charged on two hundred and seventy-thre- e issues. Thats why I think it is very which creates a procedure for Gibson Dome and Project Bold just to such in issues district court approval for sterilizaimportant present I like dont feel simply subjects least threatening way possible. the tion of residents of the Utah State week. this with editorially dealing Such certainly turned out to be the Training School, but the statute Maybe things will be better a case with one bill passed by the does not pertain to people outside week from now. the institution. Utah has no law Times-lndepende- nt regarding sterilization of individuals in the community. It continues, It is unfortunate (USPS 6309-200historical truth in the United Stated Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at is a long legacy of there that Utah Under the Act of March 3, 1897 Moab, sterilization of thouinappropriate Second Class Postage Paid at Moab, Utah 84532 sands of handicapped people, Official City and County Newspaper especially children and adolescents. Numerous lawsuits, including Published Each Thursday at 35 East Center Street one against the State of Utah, have Moab, Grand County, Utah 84532 been 'filed to seek redress for improper sterilization. While inPOSTMASTER: Send Change of Address to: The stances of inappropriate sterilization P. O. Box 129, Moab, Utah 84532 occur, there are cases in which sterilization is appropriate for medical, psychological, and familial reasons. 'Largely due to fear of legal liability, many physicians will no longer perform any sterilization procedures. The outcome of all this is that sterilization is often unavailable for those who need it and too often sought for those who do not. The nutshell concludes, The Bill is . . .designed to protect the citizens of Utah against unwarranted sterilization, and, at the same Samuel J. and Adrien F. Taylor time, guarantee access to the Publishers and Editors procedures in appropriate cases. My point here has nothing to do William P . Davis News Editor with the relative merits of the bill Hazel Bradley Assistant to the Publishers itself although I support the Dorothy Anderson Circulation Manager concept it addresses. It has to do Ron Drake with the naming. Production Foreman, Sales Because of the sheer bulk of most legislation, people tend to attach short names to the various bills, to keep them straight. As first drafted, this bill quickly gained the moniker The Sterilization Bill. taefl-3nii2paii- ini Just about as quickly, those who were working to see the bill passed, realized that most people had an Name. instant negative reaction to it without even reading it. The name of the Address. bill was changed to The ReproducState. .Zip. It passed the tive Rights Bill. CfWfcF8 l12 House 68-- and Senate 24-- Would Us&zsghn Uth 8M it have done so with its first handle? I doubt it. ' Letters from our readers . tly anti-hunte- rs . . . bad-gu- anti-hunter- s. , we-coul- ra Marty Trails... The Times-lndepende- Subscribe Now to 0, 0. . . v address and ask for a reply. Thank you for your time and space in this paper. Monte Bowthorpe CVSR Box 2009. Moab, Utah Dear Sam, A new idea was spawned within the Department of the Interior recently. It should amuse the hunters, ranchers, fishermen, and hikers of Southwestern United States. By chance, 1922 was one of the wettest years in history. Therefore the Colorado River Compact of 1922 allotted Utah, Colorado, California, and other states in the rivers drainage system unrealistic quotas of water. In a typical year the rivers flow is 2.5 million acre feet less than 0 the total promised. Thats of water. gallons Developments like the Central Arizona Project will begin the long awaited water wars. The project, due to be completed next year, will take half of the above mentioned quantity of water to Phoenix. But the Department of Interior hydrologists; have .discovered a brilliant .solution .while drifiting about in the think tanks of Washington, D.C. It seems that aspen trees absorb considerable amounts of water. So if we cut down all the aspens on the Western Slope, Uintahs, and La Sals, the water problem will be solved. Perhaps someone should mention that their clever idea spells 814,627,-500,00- More importantly, forests are necessary to gather the precious moisture that is the lifesource of our rivers. Incidentally, countless tax dollars have been wasted in the past in an unsuccessful attempt to eliminate the salt cedar trees in Arizona for the same absurd reason. George Ottinger Dear Mr. Taylor: In reply to Bill Hurleys letter of last week. Your information from your buddy was, to say the least, outrageous and wrong. We for one, and we are sure any other dealer in town would love to know where the station or stations are that is making a 32 percent profit on gas. It would be very nice to have one of them. Very few stations in Moab pay the same price for gas, for one reason or other. Oil distributors in Moab own or furnish gas to about 6 or 8 stations in rent Moab. They lease some-char-ge and sell them gas, and tell them what to charge at the pump. They put. someone in other stations and give them a few cents for each gallon they sell. Major brands lease their stations at high rent, sell the dealer gas and the dealer has to sell in turn at a price that will turn him a profit to pay the rent and overhead with. As a rule this will be the highest cost at the pump of any gas in any town (reason there is very few left). Other stations in town are mostly brands, either leased or managed by someone other than owner. Prices are set at the lowest price in town by the home office, and manager or lease person is to drop prices at given the any time anyone in town drops. Managers are paid so much a month, plus a percent of the profits that is sold for everything etc.). gas, (groceries, The ones that are leased pay a very small rent for building and can put. or do any kind of work they care to do in the place. They as a rule, get a set amount per gallon for gas sold. The only way a person can make it with gas in a setup like this, is with volume. As everyone knows,' Moab, as well as most all towns in Utah, have been in a price war for some time now. Some stations have been selling at or below cost. They cannot keep this up and stay in business. We would like to see the price come down, and stay down, at a price we could all live with. We the no-na- go-ahe- ' , 40 Years Ago news item in The Times Private Melvin S. reported,' Dalton, Moab boy who recently enlisted in the marine corps, last Thursday won top honors at sharpshooting at the rifle range of Marine Base, San Diego, Calif., when he made a score of 422 points, which is only 10 points below the worlds record in marksmanship. s The number of held at the Dalton Wells relocation camp had risen from 16 to 19. It was reported that the camp had a capacity of about 200 detainees. The Mack Drilling Company, which had been awarded a contract to drill four new wells for the Potash Company of America, spudded in a rotary test on the McCarthy State Lease, near Crescent Junction. A second drill rig was being erected on A Japanese-Ameri-can- people need a break. We are here to serve the people of Moab and to make a living also. The lower the price the more volume we sell, so the more we make. You can bet we are for selling all we can. We do everything we can for this reason to keep the price as low as possible. If you would care to come by our station, we will be glad to give you a telephone number you can call and get the (rack price to Salt Lake City)-oevery brand of gas sold in Utah. You will find that each brand will vary a cent or two, up or down, from one brand to the other. The price they give will be plus the state and federal tax in Utah of .15c per gallon and plus the freight to Moab of 4.38 cents a gallon. Even after your learn this price, to say this is what gas costs the gas dealers in town would not be true. As you can see, we dont all make the same or pay the same. Price fixing is very illegal. Also very hard to prove, otherwise something would have been done some time ago. To say that all the dealers in town got together and agreed on a price, without knowing the facts, Mr. Hurley, is pretty outrageous. If you care for the truth, please feel free to stop by our station and make that call, so the information you give to the public will be true and not something you just think, or some misinformed person told you. Thank you, Moab U. Serve Carl, Chuck & LaVida Lovingood 20 Years Ago Construction workers on Moab Citys new water system were startled when a trenching machine turned up a human skull. The machine was trenching at a depth of seven to eight feet near the intersection of Millcreek Drive and Walker St. Later some additional bones, Indian metates and manos were uncovered in the same area. The artifacts indicated the skeleton was that of an Indian. Kenneth J. Kutz, mine superintendent, announced that the shaft being constructed for Texas Gulf Sulphur Company at their potash project near Moab, reached bottom during the night of Feb. 24, 1963. Work on the shaft was started by l, Inc., on June 27, 1961. Total depth of the shaft was 2,788 feet. Work was progressing on two entries to the ore body. The entries, which were to reach a total length of 3,200 feet each, were each 100 feet from the shaft, with work progressing satisfactorily. Harrison-Internationa- 10 Years Ago f With the return of the weather Moab is famous for, I was tempted to crank out a column extolling the delights of that seasonal malady, spring fever. However, that delight was tempered more than a bit when I picked up the latest report on Grand Countys unemployment situation. It is more than a wee bit scary when you realize that nearly 20 percent of the workers in the area are out of a job. It is also an item of concern that there is no quick fix for the situation. The effects of numerous layoffs tend to spread outward in ripple patterns, touching all segments of the community. I suppose it could be pointed out that the fine weather will have some beneficial impact on the area, such as lower utility bills and an influx of visitor dollars. However, such considerations do not touch most of those who are out of work. Future development plans while also important to the community in the long run, also do not adequately address immediate needs. A few weeks ago, the suggestion was made in a letter to the editor that local residents who do have jobs contribute voluntarily to a fund to assist the unemployed. If handled An order to keep the waters of Lake Powell out of Rainbow Bridge National Monument was handed down by Chief Judge Willis W, Ritter, U. S. District Court for Utah. In a civil suit filed by Friends of the Earth, Wasatch Mountain Club, Inc. and Ken Sleight of Green River, the plaintiffs asked that Interior Secretary Roger-B- . Morton and other officials be ordered to maintain the level of the lake at a point where waters would not intrude the monument. Utah Agencies, through attorney j Robert Campbell, filed an answer to an application filed by Frontier Airlines to suspend service to Moab. i Utah Agencies was formed to enhance air travel in Utah. The agency maintained that, including revenues and a federal subsidy, Frontier was making a profit on the route, rather than a loss, as claimed by the airline. Several Moab residents expressed concern over the breakup of many miles of ice in the Colorado River, caused by warmer temperatures. It was feared that when the sheets of ice broke loose and floated downstream, ice dams could form, of riverside causing flooding Moab resiproperties. Long-tim-e dent John "Sog Shafer commented that in 1910, a similar ice jam and breakup resulted in a crest of water, that tore out the Moab ferry and; carried it out into the slough area. ; correctly, I think this could prove to be an excellent idea. Fortunately, a majority of residents, are working. With a little willingness to sacrifice, those of us who are employed could lend some d help to our less fortunate neighbors. I would like to suggest that the county investigate the . possibility of creating such a fund. There may be some legal obstacles, and the clerical and administrative load might prove to be too much to handle, but it wouldnt hurt to take a look. I would suggest that such a fund concentrate on providing immediate finnnriai assistance to unemployed people with families, who have run out of unemployment benefits. If sufficient money is collected, it could help some people hang onto their homes and keep food on the table, while waiting for the economic picture to improve. The fund would be controlled on a local level, to mut sure the assistance went to those who need it most. People in Southeastern Utah have a reputation for wanting to take care of their own problems. With a bit of compassion and donation of a few dollars a week, we might be able to make spring look a lot better for everyone. much-neede- |