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Show ",V The A2 Times-lndependen- The Thursday, March 25, 1962 t, Times-lndepende- nt pre-scho- Community Comments . . . UPS Second Class Permit No. 630-92Entered Second Close Matter At the Post Office at Moab, Utah Under the Act of March 3, 1897 Second Class Postage Paid at Moab, Utah 84532 Official City and County Newspaper 0 Moab, Grand County, Utah 84532 pre-scho- It would be easy this week to write about the weather. Or, if that subject is not one which excites the fancy, we ' could talk about the busy News Editor Assistant to the Publisher Circulation Director Production Foreman '. EDITORIALS tote that bag, lift... Its time to do a frank inventory of your yard. Gloves and tools in hand, go out into your yard and spect it as if it belonged to someone else. Most people will experience a mild shock wave at what they see. The fact that the many little visual sins have been there for some time tends to blind us to their presence. The patches of rubble, or old boards, or weeds, or trash seem to clone themselves. Many trees appear to have grown an excess of branches during the winter. But help is at hand. Saturday has been designated Cleanup Day in Moab" by Mayor Tom Stocks, and city crews will pick up all that mess you gather up if you will call before Friday. Do it now. Both you and your neighbors will be glad later that you did. 259-753- 1 tour... take a FAM This week, the Grand County Travel Council announced that three familiarization (FAM) tours will be conducted during the spring for local residents who deal on a regular basis with tourists. The tours are designed to inform interested business people on the many activities and scenic attractions of the Moab area, so they can pass the information along to visitors. This is a positive step in Insuring that visitors tp the Canyon Country will have an enjoyable experience. Grand County is so large and varied that it is sometimes difficult for tourists to decide where to go and what to do. Being able to obtain accurate, complete Information from local residents will go a long way towards convincing people to extend their stay in the Moab area . Travelers who remember friendly treatment and concern from local residents on a trip through Moab are more likely to return, and to recommend the area to their friends. Grand County has a lot to see, and citizens should be proud to help tourists experience the beauty offered by the surrounding slickrock, mountain and river country. Free trips are being offered to the Island in the Sky, Arches, Castle Valley and the Colorado River. Local business operators are encouraged to participate in the program being offered by the Travel Council. Results should prove to be well worth the Letters to the editor . . . Dear Sam, Onced again environmental fanatics are throwing up smoke screens and obscuring the real issues by using only isolated facts to support their arguments. We must see through their deceptions in order to make reasonable We should judge this project on its importance to the technological advance of the human race. Obviously nuclear power is necessary and is merely a passing phase of our developing technology and benefits from it will transcend small difficulties such as by product storage. This remarkable energy is already leading to the utilization of responsible decisions concerning Gibson Dome Nucle- ar storage. Foes of the plan tell us that poison millions of times more toxic than raw uranium ore will be transported through our midst and stored in a poison pit near us. This has already occurred on a daily basis for decades. Propane, butane, sulferic acid, quick incredible technologies which are opening the doors to space travel and to the future protection of this planet. If a storage facility at Gibson Dome will help accomplish this then lets make it as save as possible and get on with it. Joe Stocks lime, chlorine, dynamite, gasoline, industrial chemicals, natural gas, raw sewage, etc. are all plenty lethal and most of them are transported and stored in "poison" containers and pits CHURCH FILM The First Assembly of God Church, at 1202 Boulder in Moab, will sponsor a film entitled "Years of the Beast," Sunday, March 28, at 7 p.m. The film, which deals with possible happenings during the Tribulation, was produced by Skyline Production and released by Gospel Films. Pastor J.W. CarUle and the members of the church invited the public to attend the presentation. infinitely more dangerous than those contemplated in the Gibson Dome projects; further most of the other products are transported and stored in quantities millions of times greater than the relatively insignificant of nuclear by products to be stored at Gibson Dome. So why this unreasonable discrimination against this project. HORSE CLUB 4-- WEATHER The Horse Club will meet Thursday, March 30 at 7 p.m. at 6 Orchard Way. Children are invited to bring their parents and sign up. 4-- H For further information, contact Yvonne Pierson at or Sandy Norton at 259-642- 1 259-677- 9. StoEH-SniiEpcnbE- nt Name. Address. State . Scvffimtsm Utah - $8M .Zip. IlMwhere over management of hospital services in our community, which is important to all of us and has no easy solution. Grand County's hospital began falling on hard times some two decades ago. Patient census figures de- clined alarmingly for a number of reasons. Moab people, it seems, had become healthier for one. Improved medical procedures required less hospitiR-zatio- n. A stable operational economy with little in the way of industrial construction lessened the number of industrial accidents. There were other reasons for the decline in use of the hospital that dont need mentioning here. The fact of the matter and the end result was that the hospital simply could not operate on revenues generated by users when it was used to less than half its capacity, hence the burden or responsibility for maintaining the operation fett on the property taxpayers of Grand County did not entirely divorce itself from the operation. Hospital policies are still made by a locally-appointe- d Hospital Board, working with the private health care provider. That board has been active, and indudes some of the most respected citizens of our community. But from the outset, the operation has had its critics,' many with legitimate complaints. , In an attempt to determine just how the community felt about its hospital operation,' Board members recently commissioned a professional polling firm to sample coummunity opinion. The results of that poll are published, for the most part, this week. It indicates as was expected that people have strong feelings about health care in the community. It most overwhelmingly indicated, though, that a large portion of the communitys residents simply know very little about the providing of medical care in the community and have no opinion. Recently tempers have heated. They have been exacerbated by the involvement of an investigative television news team from Salt Lake City which has 'been examining the opera- tions of Advanced Health Systems on a statewide basis. This newspaper has attempted since the involvement of AHS in our denied the use of our 2lf0 editorial column for any who might disagree with any editorial or news story we limits to us, and, after a few threats by some kooks trying to gain some infamy, we will no doubt see armed guards and traffic stoppages. Secondly, due to siphoning off of our valleys water directly to the prqject, and diversion of the rest to the culinery demands of the necessary housing projects in Moab and Spanish Valley, we will have squandered one have health problems. If in doubt, she continued, par- school operation. Following in the school, ents should consult their childrens parents will need doctor or a public health to continue the work in their nurse. Mrs. Hoffman point- home, to make it effective, ed out that there are also she stated. The goal of such several local agencies which a program is to prepare the Grandview PointIsland in offer child obser- child to enter regular school and later, to be able to enter the Sky, will be held vation. John West, another parent adult society. Saturday April 3. The second Mrs. Hoffman commented trip, to Arches and Castle involved in the drive to would the that Valley, will be held Saturthe organize day, April 17. The final trip offered comments based on have the advantage of by raft on the Colorado experience with a child in his providing group therapy for River, will be held sometime home. He commented that both children and parents. therapy Travel orientation tours scheduled The Grand County Travel Council will host three familiarization tours (FAM) in April and May, for people in the community who are in direct contact with tourists. Shirley Phillips, executive secretary of the council, commented, "During the summer, so many visitors seek information from motels, restaruants, store clerks and service stations, that the Travel Council would like to make it easier for busiesses to give accurate information and perhaps encourage a longer stay. The first FAM tour, to in May. The council Phillips asked that interes- contact the Travel Council office at 805 so North Main, that buses and lunches can be arranged. 259-753- 1, 1 I I I I Many Trails . . . I I by Adrien Taylor I The phone rang the day before Sam and I left for our Washington trip, and the voice at the other end ' identified herself as V staff member of the Labor and Human Resources Committee. "Senator Hatch asked me to call the newspapers in Southern Utah," she said, to advise them he is holding a hearing here in Washington on Friday on S1483, the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act." Thank you, I replied, My husband and I will be in Washington then, and Ill plan to attend. Her surprise at my answer was understandable. I just couldnt help myself. So Friday morning I ducked out of the conference activities and took myself to Room 4232 of the Dirkson Senate Office Building. Id never had the opportunity of attending a senate hearing in the nations capitol, and was most curious. And the subject matter was of some local interest, what with talk of nuclear waste dumps, and all the publicity about the incidence of cancer among those Castle Valley Comments guides and lunches for participants. There is no charge for the tours. Human Services ana the Veterans Administration. There were chairs set up in thehearing room for about f 150 people, and they were all filled, with people standing around and sitting in window sills in addition. And there was the glare of the TV camera lights. No wonder Sen. Hatchs face always looks so shjny! The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act was developed initially as a response to the woes of those exposed during the Nevada nuclear weapons testing years. Testimony quickly revealed that the scope could not be contained to those people. Also affected were the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; Andy, How are you might have Hi you?,' asked, extending your hand for a friendly greeting. As he reaches out to clasp yours, you noticed his large hand which matches his approxiinch mately six foot-fiv- e frame and think when he latches on, Hes going to break by fingers. You feel his rough calloused hand, the result of years of b&rd, honest labor. And he always answers, "Im just right. Andy Bowthorpe died March 20, the victim of a battle with cancer. Despite his rough exterior, he was a warm, gentle, friendly man who was constantly helping someone with a project. He always had an experience to relate concerning his life in the Moab area or about his childhood. He loved nothing better than to putter around his little ranch in the valley where he prided himself for growing some of the sweetest com you ever tasted and of wateran melon and other vegetables. He was buried Wednesday, March 24 in the dusty little Castle Valley Cemetery not far from where he lived. Not knowing him nearly as long as many people in the Hanford, Washington area residents; Marshall Island area resi- Island dents; Three-Mil- e area residents; uranium miners, and on and on. One of those giving testimony pointed out that statistics show that 35 percent of U.S citizens will 5 Moab teams placed in recent tourney . Five Moab teams placed in the womens division of the annual Canyonlands Volleyball Tournament, held last Friday and Saturday, March 19 and 20 at Grand County High School and Middle School. The event was contract some form of cancer in their lifetime. The Hatch bill, if passed, he suggested, exposed to higher than would open the doors of the sponsored by the Moab national treasury for radiaaverage levels of radiation. of Commerce. Chamber There were three panels to tion exposure compensation. and Rons The Dynamites took his Sen Hatch lumps Lock be heard during the mornand Key of Moab And I while that morning. ing; one from members of second and third the National Council on agree that the government placed respectively in the B Divireshoulder some should Radiation Protection Measion. TGI took first in the C sponsibility for damages Division. surement; one from repreCanyon Country sentatives of Department of occurred to innocent people and Boise 4x4 took Trucking feel some was what Energy and the Department through third and fourth in the C of Defense; and one from irresponsible nuclear weaDivision. pons testing, it appears that representatives of the DeTacki Retreads of Aztec, partment of Health and some more definitive method N.M., placed first in the A of identifying those so Division, followed by Oliger print on about any subject. injured must be found than of Durango, Cals Gals of Those who have been quick what Sen. Hatch proposes. Provo and First State Bank of Under his proposal, comto accuse us of advocacy Panoia. The Wildcats of should have availed them- pensation would be based on Logan took top honors in the the B Division. selves of the opportunity to "attributable risk, Energy Drilling reply in print. We would probability that an individual of Huntington placed fourth. a as cancer result have been happy to accomdeveloped Second place in the C modate. of prior exposure to a given Division went to Wards 4x4 The temptation to join the level of radiation. The of Huntington. heated debate and partic- experts say the issue needs Proceeds from the event ipate in accusations and more study, and I agree. went to purchase two name-callin-g is great. But we However, it's an election volleyball nets for the high will do our best to resist the year, and Sen. Hatchs seat school and flip cards for the temptation. Health care for is up for election. You can be Middle School. the citizens of Grand County sure hes going to make as is too important an issue to much political hay as he can IN HOSPITAL Beula Caillet of be decided on the basis of with this very far reaching emotion. Hospital Board technical and emotionally recently had surgery at LDS Hospital and will be taking members, Grand County sensitive issue. radium treatments for six A hearing on his proposed Commissioners, community weeks. She is 'medical practitioners, and legislation will also be held ,and one-haothers involved would be in Salt Lake City April 8 at getting along well and will be well advised to conduct 9:30 a.m. in the Salt Palace, staying at the home of ther themselves with adult pro- and those testifying will grandson Tyronne Good-spee- d and wife in Layton, fessionalism as they decide include victims of the 1950s our health care future, and radiation fallout. What politUtah, 1493 Kayscreek St 84041, leave the emotion out of it. ical hay that should be. lf best long-ter- m economic securities, that of agriculture. It doesnt look like much now, but with millions ot acres going under development in this country every year, (and much of it prime agricultural land), combined with a burgeoning world diminishing population, aquafer levels and possible dust-boconditions in much of the nations breadbasket heartlands, any country with will provide transportation, ted persons of our pre-scho- ol pre-scho- Grand County as annual deficits grew larger each year. In an effort to decrease the burden on taxpayers, Grand County Commissioners decided two years ago to contract management of the facility to a private corporation, Advanced Health Systems. The firm lifted the burden of picking up deficits from the backs of Grand County taxpayers, but to do so it increased rates for those who utilized the facility in some cases by quite a large margin. officials telling us which mesas and canyons are off pre-scho- ol 6-1- 2 . numerous stories about the operation. For our efforts, we have been accused of advertising for Advanced Health Systems and the local hospital board. This, despite the fact that we have never Subscribe Now to . . . upcoming weekends that From left , Rose Mary Evans, Connie R. Johnson, annually mark Moabs awakening from winter. It would Lynn Ruder, Tammy Daniels and Terri Zook, juniors be easy to address a lot of at Grand County High School, were interviewed and subjects. The one I choose to selected to attend Girls State in Cedar City June comment on, however, is not by members of the American Legion Auxiliary an easy subject to address, on March 22. Moab's quota this year was four girls, because it is filled with however State President Letitia Green Thompson, emotion, anger and concern. River, approved sending all five girls who had applied. I speak, of course, about the current local debate raging community, to keep our readers informed about the operation. We have run Keep Abreast of Activities iri This Rapidly Growing Visitor Mecca Going to Girls State ol Dear Sam, I think there are a few considerations regarding the Nuclear Waste Facility that have not been adequately expressed. In the first place, with four train-load- s of high-lev- el waste passing by daily, we had better be prepared for a complete fencing of the rail loads of Federal line, there is a limited number of known handicapped children in the Moab area, but there are probably many more that are unknown. West stated that the object of the proposed school is to permit various types of therapy several days a week, which would provide better coverage than can be provided in the home alone. He added that federal financial support is available reviewed ages at which, through the state, but local parents should observe their support with financial assistance will be needed to start children for possible hearthe or vision operation. walking ing, Organizers hope to begin handicaps. She went on to state that this June. Mrs. Hoffman said that statistically, some children with handicaps, even psyparents and other volunteers chological, are more prone to are needed to assist with Samuel J. and Adrien F. Taylor Publishers and Editors William P. Davis Hazel Bradley Dorothy Anderson Ron Drake. . . ol Mrs. Vickie Hoffman was guest speaker at a meeting of the Moab Rotary Club, Monday, March 22. Mrs. Hoffman, a Moab resident, is involved in an attempt to for organize a children. handicapped Mrs. Hoffman commented that children born prematurely are often the victims of handicaps. She added that early detection of handicaps is very important. She Published each Thursday at 35 East Center Street Letters to the Editor idea at Rotary New explained fertile and land water enough to grow food will be wise to protect these resourby Ron Drake ces which, once spent, can never be regained. part of the country, it didnt Respectfully, take long to discover that as Bob Dudek a husband, father and friend, Sam: Dear Andy was indeed "just Based on their letters right. Robert Higgins Movie Nite Friday Another Castle Valley and Mary Rees apparently Friday night at the movies did not completely read or will be presented at the LDS understand the San Juan chapel at 7:30 p.m. Friday, County position on the March 26. proposed nuclear waste facilThis weeks Disney favority. This position is also ite will be No, Deposit, No shared by the officials of Return starring Don Monticello, Blanding, and Knotts. Admission is 50 Grand County. We support continued cents for under 12 and $1 for adults. Refreshments will study of the Gibsom Dome for sale. Branch activities chairman invites everyone to come and the movie in their new comfortable building. also be available site, including the sinking of a shaft if that is necessary to y determine the geologic ability. If the studies and Cont. on next pagej suit-enjo- Enough Rope . . . by Bill Davis We sure do live in a beautiful state. That point was brought home once again when I took a trip to the Capitol Reef area over the weekend. What magnificent country! Those folks who believe only that Utah is somewhere between Denver and Las Vegas, isnt it? are sure missing a bet. Earlier this week I had the pleasure of being visited by a couple of old friends from college. The reunions sparked some thoughts over the roads taken and decisions made during the intervening years. Most of the people I knew in college have scattered to various areas of the country since we left Utah State. stint in During a five-yethe Denver area, I found that I couldnt get Utah out of my mind, particularly the canyon country that I visited so often during school breaks. Several friends have asked how I enjoy living in a small isolated community, wondering if I might be happier working for a big city daily. Thanks, but no thanks. The fanciest top floor ar penthouse in Manhattan doesnt have a view of the Waterpocket Fold. The view from that penthouse (in my admitedly biased opinion) couldnt even rival the view from the Moab dump. During my nine years in Utah, Ive traveled around to most areas of the state, from swimming in Bear Lake to hiking down the Escalante River Canyon. Starting from pretty much anywhere in the state, you can pick a direction and start driving. No matter which way you head, youre bound to end up in some mighty pretty and uncrowded country. Almost endless examples come to mind - following the Pony Express route across the Great Salt Lake Desert, backpacking in the High Uintas, rock climbing in Little Cottonwood Canyon, fishing in Logan Canyon or sitting on a rock at Grandview Point. I cant agree with those who feel that Utah has too many parks. Without getting into the arguments of who can best control the land, special places deserve spe- cial consideration. Having been raised in Southern California during the 50 s, I am with the results of unbridled and unplanned growth. The fields and orchards I remem- ber as a child are long buried under housing developments. Even in Colorado, there was a plethora of "no trespassing signs in the mountains, and finding a jeep trail to drive or a footpath to hike was a major problem on the Eastern Slope. There might be some more excitement in San Francisco or Chicago, but that doesnt seem any loss at all compared to the beautiful scenery and friendly folks Ive met in Southeastern Utah. It wouldnt break my heart if I never again had the "excitement of driving the Los Angeles freeway system, at rush hour on a Friday night. I may be a cultural slob, but Ill leave the opera and gourmet dining to others. A sandy steak on the banks of the Colorado River will do just fine. I might grouse about local government from time to time (and will continue to do so, when necessary), but once in a while you need to pull back and examine the situation from a fresh, perspective. Moab Valley sure looked nice after being away for a couple of days. Did I make the right decision? The answer is right outside the window. |