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Show a n if mffif ai a j r 9 The SunNews. Wednesday. Oct. 30. 1991 Hunters urged to careful with fire be it. Hunters arc asked to be especially careful with campfires and cigarettes. Sparks and heat from vehicles and equipment can also start fires. "Please dont leave campfires unattended, says Klason, and be sure your campfires out before breaking camp. Lets have a safe and fire-fre- e deer hunt." fee won't Hike in grazing be coming after all 4 ;' $ i ness of the current fee structure when all the facts and costs were considered, Wallcntine concluded. An agreement to strike down language in the appropriations bill which would hike fees for public land grazers, has been praised by the Utah Farm Bureau Federation. UFB Executive Vice President C. Booth Wallcntinc says House and Senate conferences on the committee, by a 2 vote, have agreed to adopt the Senates position to not change the formula charged livestock producers utilizing federal lands for grazing. The formula has governed the costs stockmen pay for grazing these lands, based on livestock prices and forage quality. The agreement was reached when the Senate offered to drop a provision concerning funding for the National Endowment for the Arts, sough to Senator Jesse Helms, Carolina. This is a tremendous victory for Utahs public lands users, said Wallcntine, and a victory for the rural communities of Utah and the west which would have been devastated by passage of the tremendous fee hikes which had been planned. tJk ,Jteil I Four grants for Snow live fire before we could control Wildland fire agencies are asking deer hunters to be very careful with fire in Utahs back country. The fire danger is moderate to high over most of the state. Recent warm weather with no precipitation has created dangerous fire conditions, warns State Forester Dick Klason. In addition, because weve lost most of our seasonal firefighters, a small fire could become a large, dcstruc- - .iTri'MiiMai'miiirrni t College Students in Central Utah will benefit directly from four separate grants awarded to various programs and projects at Snow College. It may take several months to realize some of the benefits, but, all of the money is directed to helping students receive a better education. The college is going to receive close to a quarter of a million dollars this year to continue its Upward Bound program. The program is designed to help high school students in danger of abandoning their education. Another $198,000 has been granted to the school to conduct a Talent Search program. This pro7th gram helps find students from to 12th grade and dropouts up to age 27. Once the young people are found they can be helped in a similar fashion to the Upward Bound program. The U.S. West foundation has given the college $4,000 to implement a Supplemental Instruction program to help students succeed in classes which have as traditionally high failure rate. And, the Marriner S. Eccles foundation has given Snow College S5.000 to purchase photo communications lab equipment. The lab will be located in the new Humanities and Fine Arts Building. This is the third year for the Upward Bound program at Snow, and the program is showing remarkable success. Weve had 16 students for 2 full years and 15 of them graduated this year, said Five of Director Ken Jackson. those kids arc still making a decision about college, and the other ten have already began college this fall. Its really exciting to see their advancement over time. Students arc selected for the program because of low income levels, lack of a completed college education by either of their parents, or poor performance on their part in school. Norma Shore, Executive Secretary of Upward Bound, said, so many people think these kids arc dumb - but they arent. A lot of them just need some motivation and some social experiences to help them grow. Students come to the Snow College campus for six weeks during the summer and then receive four to five hours a week of counseling or some type of contact during the school year. They go on trips to lour the slate capitol, attend the Nutcracker Ballet, sec Utah Jazz games, and more. We try to give these kids experiences they wouldnt otherwise have, Jackson said. The Talent Search program is an attempt to reach out to kids -- headed for trouble or dropping out. If they arc found they can be offered tutoring, counseling and any help that may inspire them to continue with their education. Principals of schools throughout the area are ax(x: rating by offering the space for the program at each individual school and federal funding will provide for the leaching resources. The talent search program will also try to reach young people up to age 27 who dropped out of school. If they can be found and arc willing to be brought back into the education process they will be assisted in any way possible. The photo journalism program at Snow will benefit from the $5 ,000 gift from the Eccles Foundation. The new darkroom in the Fine Ans building is partially funded by the gift. Students utilizing the new darkroom will be bcncfitling the college newspaper and yearbook, and even more importantly, they will be preparing for interesting careers in communications. 7-- th i I l.-t- I ? U lah farmers and ranchers owe a debt of gratitude to our states delegation which of rural people over the dictates of the environmental and preservationist lobbies, Wallcntine added. They attempted to make their case by unfairly indicting farmers and ranchers of misusing public lands, while we simply made our case on the fair- congressional stood up for the rights S' r. t G f Ji!iilV6y::iait!!!!l! ' OWJ bill Ivtiju If':-?- ft J ; f .1 .. Fax It At the Salina Sun Office i' t Our Fax Number: 5297727 Payments are crucial to rural West f- - N Congressman Jim Hansen urged of legislation designed to adjust and update the Payment-In-Lieu-Taxes (PILT) program, at a recent hearing by the National Parks and Public Lands Subcommittee of the House Interior Committee. PILT payments were enacted to recognize that counties and other local government entities with substantial Federal land acreage couldnt collect taxes sufficient to provide needed services, or alternately would have to tax residents at higher rates to provide those services. Payments are made for BLM administered lands; for national forests, parks and wildlife refuges; for land used for Federal water projects; and some military installations. When PILT legislation was passed in 1976, it contained no language to deal with erosion of those paymen ts due to the effect of inflation. The new bill would counteract that erosion and tie future PILT payments to changes in the Consumer Price Index. Additionally, legislation has been introduced which would correct a loophole in PILT ACT by repealing the prohibition of payments for lands that have been swapped from states to the federal government. Hansen noted that The economy of the rural west is under increasing pressure. The traditional bases of the western economy face continual challenges. Mining, grazing, logging and farming are all on the decline - which necessitates a fair adjustment in the yearly PILT payment. 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