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Show mm mp MRS 4A F.mery County Progress mgmyfw a tfniimynm Tuesday, April 3, 1990 PEISIPECTHVE bulletin board forum 4 Comrades sought The 157th Infantry Association is making a concentrated effort to locate the 158th Field Artillery. These units were part of the 45th Infantry Division during an standing record of combat World War II and had out- while fighting in Sicily, Italy, France and Germany. The association conducts an annual reunion and a quarterly newsletter is sent to each member. The September 1990 ieunion will be held in San Diego, Calif. If you served, or know of anyone who served with either of these units, please contact Ralph W. Fink, 19 Williamsburg, Hershey, PA 17033; phone 2. Tax guides available Farmers tax guides are available (while they last) at the Extension Office, Room 114, Emery County Cour- thouse. The guides 12 Utah RusHigh School sian basketball game are on sale through Emery High basketball coach Todd Jeffs. Tickets are $9 and $7 for reserved seats and $4 for general admission. The game will be held at the U of Us Huntsman Center at 7:30 p.m. Playing in the game from Emery will be Shawn Bradley and Steven Gordon. All-St- ar Diabetes education program The CarbonEmery Area Chapter of the American Diabetes Association, Utah Affiliate, wishes to announce a special educational program on Wednesday, April 4, 1990, at 7 p.m. at the Castleview Hospital classroom. This will be a special program for the youth and their parents. This meeting will be conducted by the Diabetes Treatment Clinic of Primary Childrens Medical Center. For further information, please call the American Diabetes Association toll-fre- e in Salt Lake City at are designed to help farmers prepare their 1989 Income Tax returns. 1985 class reunion The class of 1985 will be having their class reunion on June 16, 1990. Letters will be sent out in May. To help the class officers contact everyone please write or phone: Trudy Johansen Webster, Box 427, Castle Dale, Utah 84513, Stacy Snow phone Mortensen, 1684 South 10th East, Salt Lake City, Utah or 84105, phone Box Sheri Lofgreen Vetere, 632, Green River, Utah 84525, phone 381-246- 564-822- 1; 7. Golf association Anyone interested in parti- cipating in the Ferron Millsite Mens Golf Association should contact one of the officers for information: Golf Shop, 384-221- Eric Luke, 5; 384-231- Kent Larsen, 9; 384-245- 7; 384-245- 7. or John Crawford, There will be a dinner meeting April 11, anyone interested should contact one of the officers by April 6. Golf league UP&L CarbonEmery Golf League Tournament will be played at the Carbon Country Club , Price , on April 2 1 , 8 a. m. and will be a scramble tournament. It is open to all UP&L League members. Cost is $15 per person, carts extra. For information on joining the league or for tournament information call Jeanne Ogden, OBryan, 748-654- or Karma 3, 748-654- 5. Poison prevention Take a moment to poison-prooThe Intermountain Regional Poison Control Center urges parents to make sure that household chemicals and medicines are stored safely out of sight and reach of children. Experts are available 24 hours a day by calling Write it down before a poison emergency happens. f. Spring cleaning? Have we got a deal for you. Project Emery Claus is accepting contributions of good used clothing, toys which have been cleaned and repaired, perhaps a Scout group would help, as well as dolls that RSVP volunteers will clean and dress. Call 9 Loralie at or Katherat ine 748-263- 687-938- 2. 581-215- Are you presently providing child care in your home or would you like to? Why not check out the bened fits of being a child daycare provider? Southeastern Utah Social Services is currently recruiting suitable homes in Castle d Dale to become child daycare providers. For state-license- state-license- more information call 381-238- 7. Daycare Are you tending children or know someone who is? The Child Daycare Nutrition Program at USU is a sponsor for the USDA Child Care Food Program, which has money available to reimburse you, the daycare provider, for nutritious meals served to children in your care. For more information call Kathy in-ho- at 748-215- 4. State retirement r The field representative for the Utah State Retirement Systems, Bonnie Sweat, will be in Price at the county office on Wednesday, April 4, from 1 until 5 p.m. You may stop by at your convenience, or make an appointment by calling The representative can essentially handle all functions of the main office. 1. Language workshop A Potpourri of Whole Language is the title given to workshops sponsored by the Emery Council ofInternational Association to be held Wednesday, March 21. Scheduled from 6 p.m. at Huntington Elementary, these presenta4-- tions will provide teachers and parents with practical ideas for implementing whole language practices at home and school. Teachers from both Carbon and Emery districts will present activities and lessons that work to involve and motivate readers and writers. In addition to the practical information to be gained, those in attendance will have an opportunity to win door prizes donated by Scholastic Books, Inc. Teachers, parents or anyone who is interested in the instruction of reading or writing is invited to attend this meeting. Reward offered Ferron city is offering a reward of $100 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of individuals responsible for the road sign vandalism in Ferron. Information may be submitted at the city hall in Feror at the Emery ron, 384-235- 0, County Sheriffs 381-240- 4. $63,375 annually To the editor: In Layne Millers article Environmental Groups Eve he writes San Rafael-Parwith the usual wilderness rhetoric, highly polished propaganda; only telling the half-trutnot the whole and complete story, using nothing k, specific, just vague generalities. Miller writes that the park would include the San Rafael Reef (59,170 acres), Sids Mountain (80,530 acres), Sids Cabin (440 acres) and Mexican Mountain (59,600 acres); a total of 199,700 acres, which is 100,300 acres short of the 300,000 acres Miller writes about in his article. Why doesnt Miller tell us where these other 100,300 acres are to come from and complete his story, or are these proposed park boundaries, like those marking out the wilderness study areas, imaginary or floating? Whichever topographic elevation line satisfies the fanatical wilderness zealots. Locking up the San Rafael Reef, Sids Mountain and Mexican Mountain alone will economically have a devastating impact on Emery County in the following years to come. All figures quoted are taken from the BLM Environmental Impact Statement, Volume 6 East Central Region. San Rafael Reef (59,170 acres) has nine school sections inside and 18 school sections on the imaginary boundary line outside the study area. Of 11,800 acres, which generate annually and have done for years, $34,560 goes to the state school trust fund. Whether it goes into a national park or wilderness, this revenue will be foregone. The existing oil and gas leases on 42,250 acres at $3 per acre generate $126,750 annually to the BLM, of which the state of Utah receives Office, those leases will be phased out and the revenue foregone. Oil and gas in place 10 mil- lion barrels of oil, 60 billion cubic feet natural gas, tar sand, 10 million barrels of oil in place; one million tons of potash, 500 tons of uranium oxide, 50,000 tons of copper, 100.000 tons of manganese, 5 to 100 million tons of gypsum. Grazing permits of 1,344 AUMs will bring in $1,882. Sids Mountain (80,530 acres) and Sids Cabin (440 acres) have 18 school sections: nine within the proposed area, and nine next to the boundary. A total of 11,520 acres generate $35,560 annually which goes to the state school trust fund; grazing permits 2,374 AUMs $3,324; oil and gas leases 28,320 acres generating $42,480 annually to the BLM, of which the state of Utah receives $21,240 and Emery County receives $10,260. Oil and gas on 28,320 acres had 10 million barrels, 60 billion cubic feet natural gas, in place tar sands, and 445-54- 5 million barrels of oil in place. Red Canyon 60 to 75 million barrels of oil in place, one million tons of potash, 500 to 1.000 tons of uranium vanaduim oxides, with associated minerals copper, lead, zinc, cobalt, chromium, nickel, molybdenum, strontium and silver, 100,000 tons of manganese, 50,000 tons of copper, 5 million tons of gypof a few at f sum for the rip-of- $10,250 annually in recreation. Mexican Mountain (59,600 inside acres) has sections and 10 outside and adjacent to the WSA 8,960 four Utah receives $52,908, and Emery County receives $26,454. Three billion barrels of oil and gas, 18 billion cubic feet of natural gas, 150 million barrels in place of tar sand, 750.000 tons of potash, 500 to 1.000 tons of uranium, 50,000 tons of copper, 100,000 tons of manganese. Twenty miles of roads will be .closed. This will all be exchanged for a paltry amount of $6,150 from recreation. Once these areas are locked away, be it a national park or designated wilderness, the oil and gas leases will be canceled out and the revenue they are now generating, and have been generating for years to the state school trust fund to the state of Utah and Emery County, will be foregone and lost, and Miller and all the other wilderness fanatics have yet to tell us or anyone else just exactly how they propose to make up this loss. Miller and his kind have not offered to come up with a source of supply to offset the loss of oil, gas and minerals they want to lock away and the billions of dollars of their value. What Miller intentionally left out is that there is an excess of over a million acres in the San Rafael area that does not meet the wilderness qualification. By capturing these extra million acres within the five wilderness study areas, the wilderness zealots have captured another parcel of land under the pretext of a national park for their own personal gain. Paul L. Young Western Association of Land Users Wolves transplant school acres which generates $26,880 to the state school trust fund annually. Grazing permits 1,809 AUMs for $2,533. Oil and gas leases on 35,272 acres bring $105,816 to the BLM, of which the state of To the editor: In July of 1989, environmentalist groups (who call themselves conservationists but are not) stood in line to testify on behalf of Rep. Wayne Owens bill forcing wolf in Yellowstone Park. At first, Owens and rein-troducti- others denied the forced aspect, but hard questions from opponents revealed that the bill thwarted the law just so wolves could be transplanted in Yellowstone. Owens is not the only one who has tried such a move. William Mott, former park service director, made statements about getting the EIS done so that wolves could be dumped in the park. Obviously, the EIS was only a formality. Now those same environmentalist groups who supported Mott and Owens are confessing that they tried to break the law in support of their agenda. Theyre now calling for the lf EIS. With so many our advocates in government, wouldnt an EIS still be a pro-wo- formality? Before any talk of a wolf transplant and in order to show good faith of these animal rights activists, some other inconsistencies should be cleared up like: 1. Delist the wolf completely from the Endangered Species Act. There are 50,000-60,00- 0 wolves in Canada alone. 2. Delist the grizzly bear completely as it has achieved its numbers and territory range years ago. 3. Address current predator problems now facing our livestock industry by poison and allowing predators to be trappedshot by land owners, particularly in Minnesota where wolf depredations on livestock occur. 4. Use of effective management tools to control wolves where they are now, i.e. aerial hunting and poison in order to retain viable wildlife populations and quality hunting. Readers, if you agree with any, or all or not at all, would you write CMI, Box 729, Gillette, WY 82717, and tell us your opinion. Troy R. Mader president Common Man Institute Emery folks say, Not one acre By MONTELL SEELY Guest column Rep. Wayne Ownes introduced a bill in Congress asking for 5.1 million acres to be given wilderness status. Rep. Child care and Emery County receives $31,690 annually. Under a National Park or designated wilderness National park or wilderness h, 485-455- Hoop tickets Tickets for the May ! Jim Hansen intro- duced a bill asking for 1.9 million acres in wilderness status. Jims people were thinking that 5.1 million is too much, but since the proponents for wilderness status wont be satisfied until they get something, his bill would be a compromise, and it would pass. Rep. Howard Nielson has not introduced a bill as of this writing, but he has one in his hind pocket for 800,000 acres of wilderness status. His reasoning was that he would have this compromise bill ready. Then, when it looked like one of these other bills was going to pass, he would propose a compromise of 800,000 acres. His camp is of the philosophy that well have to give the wilderness status people something, so well compromise at 800,000 acres. Sen. Jake Gam and Sen. Orrin Hatch have not proposed a wilderness status bill. And now I want to make it plain what my position is, and this is also the position of the Western Association of Land Users, and, I suppose, all of us folks in Emery County, for that matter. We do not want any acreage (not even 1 acre) in Emery County designated with wil- derness status. For that matter, we dont want any acreage in Utah to have wilderness status. I dont think I have said it strongly enough. How about this? We are ADAMANTLY OPPOSED to any acreage in Utah being given wilderness status. We have fire in our eyes. We will not compromise. Whoever heard of going into war with the attitude of compromise? Who would say to the enemy, We dont want you to kill 5.1 million men, women and children, but well compromise and let you kill 1.9 million and consider ourselves diplomats.? The trouble is, we live in an era when folks, especially politicians, think they can compromise their principles and win. Do you remember those fiercely patriotic sayings we learned in school? You know, Patrick Henrys Give me liberty or give me death! I say, give me land unshackled by wilderness status, or give me death! Or, C.C. Pinckneys Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute. I say, millions of acres in multiple use, and not one acre for tribute. Edmund Burkes All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. And I say, all that is necessary for Wayne Owens and his cronies to win is for good men to do nothing and politicians to compromise. I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my cou- was Nathan Hales immortal utterance. And I regret that I have but one life- ntry, time to give to my Emery County, its land, and its people, past and present. Well, I was right about one thing. Remember in my article last week where I said that no one in Emery County wants our wilderness land managed under the rules of congres-sionall- y designated wilderness status? Well, I half expected to get a phone call or two, or at least a letter to the editor from someone saying that they want some wilder- ness status land in the county, but no one came forth from that camp. So, either there is no one in the county on that side of the fence, or they are not willing to make their colors known, or they cant read. So I say again. It is unanimous in Emery County that we want our wilderness lands managed under the multiple use concept and we are adamantly opposed to having said lands designated with wilderness status and ruled over by a tyrannical wilderness dictator. U of U to host wilderness forum The Natural Resources Law Forum is pleased to announce the Seventh Annual Spring Symposium on Energy, Natural Resources and Envir- onmental Law at 7 p.m., Wednesday, April 11 in the Moot Courtroom at the University of Utah College of Law. yearss topic is Wilderness How Much Does Utah Need? A panel This debate will feature Congressman Wayne Owens, U.S. for the Second District of Utah; Brant Calkin, executive director of the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance; Bill Howell, director rep-resenti- ve of the Southeastern Utah Association of Governments; Louise Liston, county commissioner for Garfield County; and Jim Parker, director of the Utah state office of the United States Bureau of Land Management. It will be moderated by Professor Don University of Utah Col- Zill-ma- n, lege of Law. As a result of the Wilderness Act of 1964 and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, Congress is currently, considering wilderness designation for federal lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management. Although some of the controversy surrounds the adequacy of specific lands for wilderness designation, a more fun- damental debate underlies the various proposals: do the benefits of wilderness outweigh its costs to Utah? This question will be the focus of the panel debate. |