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Show Utah P.o. Salt By John Serfustini Sun Advocate Editor Matheson proposes fund for area aid Democratic gubernatorial candidate Scott Matheson Wednesday night restated his proposal for a special impact fund for the strained public economies of Southeastern Utah. Matheson also lashed out against the budget ceiling initiative in a speech to about 200 party faithful at the Carbon Country Club. Weve got to have the solution at the front end for he solving the problems associated with growth, declared. The energy industry is attracting thousands of new people to the area, but roads, schools and utilities lag far behind this population growth, he said. Matheson suggested using the recent 13 percent increase in federal land lease kickbacks to finance the impact fund. He proposed a permanent panel to coordinate the service development. In an interview with the Sun Advocate after the speech, he said this increase in federal payments will supply an $3 million. additional $2-t- o - 7 - - ., " v.. .Qr ,y UWw - wiV TV ' : V In the interview after his remarks, Matheson reaffirmed economic stability of the area. his belief in the He said the safety and environmental problems plaguing nuclear power plant construction will keep that energy source from threatening the coal industry. long-ter- m A balanced energy program would use all sources of power, including Utah coal, he said. Such an energy policy would prevent a replay of the 1950 to 1970 depression which hit this area when the coal market slumped. Its coals turn now, Matheson stated. cofield. 4- 1 City, Ut. 84110 It is the greatest fiscal straightjacket I can possibly imagine, he stressed. Matheson said cutting out the 3800 million Utah receives from federal coffers would destroy school, highway and social services budgets. Some 90 percent of highway money comes from the national level, he said. t " Lake L ,a , ... U ljeT Will it be V By Douglas Tullis Sun Journal News Editor Scofield Reservoir will be a dead lake in 10 or 12 years if nothing is done to change the deterioration, according to Courtney Brewer, 208 water quality study project manager. By dead, I mean as a trout fishery, he said. dead lake in 10 years? Brewer and several other governmental bodies, including Carbon County, a have been working with the Scofield town board and the local coal companies to find a way to keep the lake from dying. The eventual death of the lake could be put off for 50 years or so if something is done now, he noted. -- The Spanish Speaking Organization for Cultural Integrity and Opportunity (SOCIO) has rejected $500 given to them by the Community Action Program (CAP). , SOCIO president Richard Cordova declined to comment on the reasons for the rejection, but said he was acting on a vote of the organization. The uncashed check has been been returned to CAP, he said. Mary Slama, chairperson of the the trucks and many of the cars crossing the bridge. Since December 1975, the bridge has been restricted in speed and weight for the trucks. Most of the trucks . had to go through Indian Canyon to US 40 or through Salina to just to travel east. The new bridge allows overweight permits to be issued for trucks traveling over the bridge. The old bridge, built in 1932, will be torn down as part of the construction. 208 Board says Most pollution caused by ma nature Omar, along with other members of the 208 Technical and Advisory committee, reported on the progress of the water sampling program in the southeastern Utah area. The sampling of streams is nearly complete and the findings of the study will be compiled early in January, project director Courtney Brewer said. It will be printed in June. The problem of many Transportation board says no crash record The National Safety and Transportation Board, the federal agency which determines the causes of airplane crashes, told the Sun Advocate it has no record of the wreck of a light plane which killed three men in Sunnyside Canyon Aug. 25. Paul King, one of the five members of the National Safety and Transportation Board in Washington, D.C., said the only plane crashes it has on record in this area for that time period are one in Escalante and another in Glen Canyon. Kings remarks came in response to a letter the Sun Advocate sent to the federal agency inquiring into the official cause of the crash. Several days after the accident Wilbur Parker of the Federal A.iation Administration in Denver said that investigations were complete, data had been sent to the National Safety and Transportation Board and that body would issue a statement on the cause of the crash in 30 days. money-raisin- Slama said she did not know why SOCIO refused the money, but that the federal government requires CAP to specify what their donations are to be used for. Cordova said the situation would be explained at the regular SOCIO meeting on Oct. 31. - There is a significantly higher percentage of pollutants coming from streams feeding Scofield Reservoir than are flowing from streams into Joes Valley reservoir, Welsh said. The streams that feed Joes Valley do not have the nutrient and bacteria load of those flowing into Scofield, he said. The loss of oxygen in a lake which results in the lake becoming polluted and stagnant is a naturally occurring thing, Welsh said. Lakes may take hundreds or thousands of years to die, but it is a natural occurrence, he said. The lake becomes filled with nutrients, or decomposed plants and eventually Continued on page 2 Tom L, state fair plan to coal schedules Happy day for truckers The opening of the new Colton Bridge Wednesday provided plenty of smiles on the faces of drivers of all Carbon County CAP Advisory Board, said the money was donated as seed money. She said SOCIO was to have used the funds to promote their g activities. The town borad, along with the county commission, said they believe part of the problem of pollution in the reservoir is the fish which were killed in 1959 and not removed. Dr. Keith Welsh, a consultant for the 208 water quality study, said the fish kill in the lake would contribute very, very little pollution. SOCIO rejects CAP aid Most of the land which can or does dump minerals and pollution to the water of Carbon and Emery County area comes from land owned and controlled by the federal government, Dr. William Omar told the Southeastern Utah Association of Governments 208 Water Quality meeting Wednesday. Assn. The Democratic contender sharply criticized the proposal to limit State spending to its present $915 million level and phase out federal funding. T 'y 4, state Press Box 1327 of the streams in southeastern Utah is the amount of trace minerals and salts that occur naturally, Dr. Keith Welsh told the meeting. This area is an old salt water lake bed and the water has been washing the salt and minerals into the water system. There are still minerals and salts being leached into the water system, he said. Welsh noted there are some conditions researchers have yet to explain. There are several places on the San Rafael river where the water is better further downstream than it is upstream. The only reason for this is fresh water springs flowing into the river, he said. Omar said the researchers in the project will be able to determine the best use of every acre of land in this area. federally-funde- d Welsh said this means the scientists will be able to determine how the land can be used most productively. He said the research Omar is doing is to determine the amount of salts and tract minerals which are dissolved in streams and rivers. Irrigation run-of- f contributes some of the salts and minerals, he said, because irrigation helps wash the salts out of the soil. Welsh said man is a factor in the pollution of some streams, but in many ways they are keeping the rivers from becoming too salty. He explained that when water is used in generating power, it is not recycled back into the streams and where it can be used for irrigation. By Joe Rolando Sun Journal Staff Writer A Helper man knows first-han- d the meaning of what he calls his favorite saying, If you can put it on paper, I can build it. Thomas Lewandowski, traffic supervisor for Braztah Corporation, supervised the planning, designing and construction of the $18.5 million California State Fair at Sacramento, Calif. He later served as the fairs director of operations. In his small office in the Trico building on South Main Street, Lewandowski told the story. The California legislature fair at Sacramento. It also decided to appoint a organization to design and known as build the fair. non-prof- Cal-Exp- it o o was under the jurisdiction of the California Department of Cal-Exp- General Services which employed Lewandowski. With private architects and engineers, he completed work on the fair before the July 1, 1968 deadline. The project was $500,000 below the budget. Lewandowski said, Because very few people believed the fair would be constructed on time, no talent had been planned. It was a flop. But that did not end the fair. It did not take long for officials to recognize Lewandowskis organizational talents. He was appointed director of operations for the 1969 fair. Lewandowski planned horse races, top music shows including the Monkees, Mickie Finn Revue, the Turtles and the Strawberry Alarm Clock, Browning Bryant, the De Castro Sisters, the Ike and Tina Turner Revue, the Rascals, Buck Owens and Merle Haggard and several exhibits including the Aerospace fair NASA On Display, Show and Theads of History. Afro-Amerci- Continued on page 2 ap- proved construction in 1963 of a state N. y if1 Thomas Lewandowski reads fair brochure. Lewandowski said, However, being primarily engaged in construction, the idea of operating a state fair was not to my liking so I resigned. He worked for Ancorp, a New York construction firm, before joining Braztah in Helper in January, 1974. I have always liked diversity in jobs. That is why Ive enjoyed moving around the country. If I had to build houses all my life I would have quit construction work a long time ago, Lewandowski said. Some of his construction jobs have included work for the federal government, a dam and power house, a steel plant and a state college. About his entrance into the coal industry, Lewandowski said, Ive never had anything to do with coal, so I figured, why not try it? His Job now consists of scheduling the loading and shipping of coal for Braztah at Castle Gate. When he first came to Helper, Lewandowski served as resident construction supervisor for the Castle Gate subdivision. |