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Show Lcitcr from the Editor off the Record Utah State tax representatives, in San Juan County Friday to hear protests from taxpayers on reassessed property, created quite a stir when they parked their three state for each man in a row at the courthouse. A couple of taxpayers called and wondered if a picture of what looked like bureaucratic cars--on- e vaste might not be in order. It turns out that each of the three men is charged with separate duties for the department, and one of them had to go from Monticello to Saint George. The two men who were working San Juan County debated the wisdom of coming in one car, but that would have meant wasting each others time, by both going everywhere only one was supposed to be. We commend the tax folks for thinking it out, and alert citizens for watching government efficiency. MWT Local government officials take a back seat to no one, and Blanding City Manager Bud Nielson has got right into the spirit of how they do it at Alongside a t paragraph in an item this week, Bud had written: This is not an exple tive; delete it anyway. the top. stricken-ou- MWT friend of mine in the banking business says that our problem is we dont think A far enough down the years. The question we should ask about the big moves, he says, is what will be the effect 200 years from now. Hes right. We have got ourselves in the habit of seekanswers. Or ing short-ter- m would be more accurmaybe it to ate say we tend to avoid the required for solutions. Appalachia is a lovely example of short-ter- m profit at the cost of long-tersocial destruction. And there are signs of some of that in this hard-thinki- ng long-ter- m m area now. HUD (U.S. Dept, of Housing and Urban Development) has sent an information kit on flood insurance for the benefit of flood prone communities such as those in your area the cover letter says. Local folks will be surprised to learn that Dover Creek (thats right, Dover) is on the list, as is Blanding, of those areas with flooding andor mud slide hazards which had not qualified for flood insurance as of March 31, 1974. To be honest, hadnt realized that floods and mudslides were that big I a problem hereabouts. The release says its up to the communities, as entities, to take steps to participate in the federally-subsidiz- gram. certainly hope it the next muddone before gets slide. I MWT grant from LaSal rancher Charles Redd has made possible the publication of Charles Redd Monographs in Western History by Brigham Young Hardy University Press. Redd, who now heads the LaSal operation, has kindly sent a copy along, and local folks will be interested in San Juan American in Controversy: Livestock Frontier vs. Mormon Cattle Pool, one of the articles in the first volume. A If youre interested MWT We received a copy of Congressman Wayne Owens sche- dule for the week of June 3 to 7. It is intriguing. Theres the usual round of subcommittee meetings, but the list also includes the information that Marlene and Teddy were to leave for Utah on UA 277 at 11:15 Wednesday. The entry for 5 p.m. the day before is even more cryptic, reading simply Bernie Nash. Ah, Washington. MWT Will everyone please go to the BLM meeting on use planning, June 12. It is for your own good, and if you keep not going, they might decide you dont care what they do with your land. MWT the San Juan Record Miles Entered in the Post Office at Utah, as Second Monticello, Utah, 84535 Phone 801587-227- 7 Church 13 Bring your lunch and bring your friends. vjy shers Subscription Rates: $6.00 a year in San Juan $7.00 a year everywhere else Post Office Box 428 a,m. - 2:30 p.m. June 24 - 28 vJU JJU Pub 1 i Monticello, Utah. 9 5-- Jane Turnbull1 Class matter. Published every Thursday at VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL Ages & Monticello, Community Church at the in a copy, write BYU, Marketing (University Press), 205 UPB, Provo, Utah 84602. 3? San Juan pro- ed vJV vjw vj Wp JjW vjv vv wp MEMBER OF THE Dear Cal: Thanks for the gift of Chicago, but I cant accept it. In referring to it as your I guess you Chicago area either meant to give it to me, or identify me with it, and neither will work. Nor did I ever expect that, even at the zenith of economic growth, this area would suffer from the Chicago degree So I guess all of poUution. those tpd statistics will be helpful for people who worried about that, but I wasnt one of them. As for the points I ignored in your first letter, I had to do that or put out a special edition. I will try to cover them briefly here. Yes, I realize how vast this area is; No, I still cant see a small part of the Kaiparo-wi- ts swallowing up the Chiarea (although The Placago teau that Ate Chicago would make a great movie); Yes, I realize that Canyonlands National Park is big, but I dont understand the rest of that question; No, I havent seen the one unit at Page generating power, but I cant see how it would improve the looks of it; I dont know whether I was in the Kaiparowits area while traveling between Page and Kanab, but if I was then I have been. No, it is not reasonable to expect other industries to cut us off if we say no to power plants here. We would get all our imported items, because there is always somebody, somewhere, who will put up with anything for money. No, I do not advocate existing power plants be shutdown. Lets expand em if more power is needed and slurry our great coal, and pipe our great surpluses of water, right on over there. No, I dont think it is inconsistent to oppose power plants in the middle of the worlds greatest scenery while continuing to use electricity. I the same token, By wouldn t adc you to stop breathing all this nice air around here just because it doesnt have any significant amount of fly ash in it. Just to make sure I am not avoiding anything this time, too, let me try and answer the same question, as put in (See pg 15, col. 4) --- Better Winner of 1973-7- 4 Awards: Contest Newspaper Letters To The Editor Dear Miles: the Kaiparowitz power and other development plant and utilization of our resources would create the pollution, congestion, and social problems you envision that do in fact exist in the Chicago area as you define and describe it, or that which' exists in the New York and Los Angeles regions, or even to the extent it is in the Wasatch Front, most of us in Southern Utah, in my opinion, would be in agreement with you in opposing power plants. Therefore, the major debate should be, can it happen? Considering area, amount of IF development, limits of num- bers of people who could live in the area, geography, and meteorology, etc., it would be impossible with proper standards to even come close to the pollution in emmissions defined in parts per million of air or any other criteria as exist in your Chicago area. You disputed my assertion that a small part of the Kaiparowitz would swallow up the entire Chicago area, and you said that is going to be some mouthful." Well Miles, open wide and get ready for your first bite! Using your description of 70 miles long by 10 to 20 miles wide, and averaging to 15 would make 1050 square miles in size in which you say 7 million people live. The area generally referred to as the Kaiparowitz" is roughly 5 times that size, with virtually no one living therein and surrounded by an area many, many times that size with just a few thousand residents. San Juan County alone is over 7 times the size of the Chicago area as you described. If the 7 million people in your Chicago area have the same number of cars as is the average in this Country, and using the figure o f 8,000 tons per hour that is said to be the pollution emmitted by cars in this Country, and if my mathmatics are correct, just the cars belonging to the people in your congested Chi-(Spg 15, col. 1) ee Dear Miles, I hope that all of the residents of the Four Corners healthy economic future for this special part of the world without the exploitation of our air resources will come to the defense of your editorial of two weeks ago. I for one am a native of the Four Corners Country, one who is not in favor of the power plants and one who has spent enough time in the so called developed regions of the U.S. to have outgrown the 19th century growth ethic that would lead us to burn the last gallon of oil, the last pound of coal or harvest the last trees, without sight of their replacements. Records of energy consumption in America, as kept by the energy producing companies, document the fact that our consumption of energy has been doubling every ten years. The records of these same companies, up until the time of the EPA enforced standards, show also that their advertising expenditures were greater than their pollution abatement The expenses. short time that we can expect our fixed fossil fuel supply to last at this staggering rate of increased consumption should be obvious, even to the casual observer. It seems to me imperative that we at least level out our rate of fossil fuel energy consumption to make it last longer, perhaps until that indefinate time in the future when we can harness the suns energy, geothermal energy, tidal energy or nuclear fussion reactions any or all of which would be a stable source of pollution free energy. Sincerely, sDuane Keown P.S.: Maybe it was about two years and three months ago that some of your ad- vertisers threatened to aban- don your paper because of your environmental position. It was two years and three months ago, a period of time (See pg 15, col. 3) wishes to thank the Monticello Fire Department and the many people, both family and friends, who assisted us during and after our recent fire. The Fire Department responded quickly and its members did far more than could be reasonably expected, often at great personal risk, to bring the fire under control. relatives friends put in many hours of hard labor in the clean-uenabling us to reopen much sooner than expected. to live in Its gratifying a community where so many people help in time of need. p, 1974 Country who can envision a Monticello Dairy Queen Our w and 6, June Record Juan San The |