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Show iA DESERET NEWS, Friday, October 27. 1972 St' Woman Passenger in Crash 'Serious' Avalanche Control Issue Resolved This Year By ROGER PUSKY Deseret News Staff Writer v FARMINGTON The crisis and controversy with the U.S Forest Service concerning avalanche control and closing of campgrounds and picnic areas is over at least for one year This was the conclusion one reached Thursday afternoon following a meeting of the Wasatch Front Regional Council and Forest Service officials in the Davis County School Distinct Office Chandler P St. John, supervisor of Wasatch National Forest, said ski operators have deposited $40,000 to pay for ammunition to shoot the avalanches in Little Cottonwood Canyon. They deposited the money under protest and would receive it back if some other solution is found, but none appears Forester Vern Regional Hamre over said turning expenses of avalanche control to ski resort operators was a new national Forest Service. policy. He said a financial crisis in the Forest Service has resulted in attempts to save money whereever posssible. Alta Mayor William Leavitt outlined the problem to the council and said the services provided to the ski resorts have gradually been reduced in recent years. He said fees paid to the Forest Service, construction of a sewer in the canyon and other expenses are pressing the ski operators to stay in business. SI. controversy between the Tribe and the Uintah School District Board over length of hair male students may wear may be resolved at a meeting Wednesday A If a peaceable solution is not reached, however, Bruce G, Parry, state director of Indian affairs, said the matter may have to be taken to court He said several district courts have upheld similar dress codes specifying length of hair. But Indian tribal customs were not. involved in those cases, lie said. Uintah District adopted the present code about two years ago, he said. This was aimed at rebellious and antisocial students and not at Indians, he emphasized. Two Indians have been sent said old home because they were in violation of the dress code. Later five others were suspended for the same infrac- turn. Three years ago the Army began to charge the Forest Service about $4,000 per year to ship the ammunition and this year he was informed the Army would charge to fuse the shells which would be about $8 per shell or $40,000 for the entire winter season. St. John said when he con- tacted the ski operators about picking up the tab for the ammunition, he in no wav intend to abdicate the Forest Services responsibility for public three U.S. Army pro- vided the ammunition free to bring down potential avalanch-e- s since it had been declared Male Indian Hair Special Dilemma tie John years ago the surplus. The guns were loaned for the work. safety. But finamcial cutbacks have placed the forest in a difficult situation. On the suggestion of Salt Lake County Commissioner William E. Dunn, the council passed a resolution to send to Congress and Utah's Congressional representatives asking Congress to appropriate sufficient funds so the Forest Service can handle the entire avalanche control program. He said he didn't want the resolution to be construed as a plea to Congress for funds, but rather the statement of a problem that needs sol ing. Leavitt also charged the Forest Service was cutting b ack the number of snow rangat the ski ers stationed resoits. St. John said that originally was true, but now the Forest Service Regional Office in Ogden is scraping together some funds by cutting back programs elsewhere" to pay to keep the same number of snow rangers as last year. Leavitt said he also had heard that some campgrounds and picnic areas along the Front next Wasatch opened summer. would spring not be and St. John said 17 of 28 campgrounds and picnic areas were closed after Labor Day this year, and there was some doubt that some of them could be reopened next spring because of the financial situation. Even though some of the areas may have been closed for better management when the peak season was over, there always was an open area nearbv. 337 Mrs. Dorothy Ellison, 45, serious in was Oakland Ave., condition at Holy Cross Hospim tal today after being injured an auto accident Wednesday her daughnight which killed ter w ho was driving the car. Billie Jean Ellison Bohn, 30, same address, was killed forinstantly when the small two the car carrying eign women smashed into a brick wall on a dead end street. Police Officer Charles R. was Hickenlooper said the car traveling south on 2nd East and hit the wall where the street deadends about 15th South. 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