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Show Millard County Progress, Fillmore, Utah 84631 Friday, July 17, 1981 - Page TO THE LETTERS EDITOR Dear Senator Hatch Honorable Orrin G. Hatch I'.S. Senate Washington. D.C. Sir: Tins the NO FISHING TRESPASSING. NO IOGGING. OR HIKING TE KEEP PROPERTY Irving to represent the people of Utah in Wash- mgton. If the people of Utah cer find out the truth about this phony "Sagebrush Rebellion" which is vour baby, I'm sure it will take more than $2 million and an army of politicians from outside the state to return you to the Senate. well-bein- g ! g 1 pri-va- am I OFF-PRIVA- letter concerns of All "Sagebrush compliments Orrin Hatch. Senator Rebellion" being proI observed State manmoted In ou and Repof Santini agement as a member of resentative force a USDA task Nevada. I trust vou will read charged with the developand evaluate this letter ment of "An Agriculpersonally and critically, tural Program for the because I assure you it Columbia River Basin in the early 1950s. The vour eoneerns as a dependable highest bidder gets the practically public servant and. more lease. With manimportantly, as an honest no supervision or agement criteria, there is man the outset. Senator, a great temptation to the resources-b- e vou probably know just MINE it grass or timber-f- or as well as I do that the greatest possible Rebellion" "Sagebrush benefit of the lease. is a cleverly conceived In the early 1950s, eluhe designed bv special interest groups to some States in the ColRiver Basin, make the people believe umbia is the principally Idaho, had no that "sagebrush proonly resource involved land management Their in this proposed hoax. gram whatsoever. s vou well know', nothing policy was to sell their could be farther from the land and invest the funds interest-bearinin setruth. You must know that a curities for the benefit Schools vast inland empire is of the State involved that includes Fund. "Utah is the worst forests, grazing, fishing, recreation. hunting, of the lot" said someone camping and picnicking, at one of the hearings. I doubt this is true, muling, all sorts of winter activities, and regu- even though Utah land lated streamflow. management may be far If you don't under- from perfect. A few stand. Senator, that reparagraphs inmentioned back. regof this vast sources as land empire, that you ulated streamflow one of the public benepropose to convey to fits camouflaged under ow nership via transfer to the States, repre- vour "Sagebrush Rebelsent a wav of life for lion" cliche. You cerour people, you have no tainly must have some business masquerading faint idea that precipitation that falls on the as a "public servant." At this point let me land as rain and snow emphasize that I would is converted to either stream-flobe the last to claim that well regulated or to the flood-typ- e some changes and imrunoff by vegetain public provements land are tion and soil that forms a management not needed-i- n fact, some thin skin over the rock masses of the earth. arc long overdue. Just one more of your The way to make the Rebellion change for the public Sagebrush Senator, good is not by transfer blockbusters. to the States and (God and I'm through. Here it forbid) not to private is: one "Mv bill is designed ownership where resource use" usually to RETURN CONTROL of is the rule-a- nd to Hell our destiny to the people with management of the of Utah by transferring of title to the unappropresources multiple these lands for the public riated lands to the state good. capital, and from there Improvement of pre- to the county authorities sent management is a and ultimately to private far safer way to correct citizens." em(My some apparent evils, phasis) rather than to junk 70 As schoolboy any years of experience of should know, Utah was Federal management, carved out of the Public for State and private Domain from land acmanagement that in most quired by purchase or instances has given lit- conquest. Your statement that tle or no thought to the "vour bill is designed to public good. As Bruce return control. ..of the Governor Babbitt of Arizona said unappropriated lands to in a press release: "States the state capital... can't manage land. They is just so much a life-lon- g Re- resent this phony "Sagebrush Rebellion" issue being saddled onto the party. Sincerely. A. Russell Croft 3921 So. 895 East Ogden. Utah publican. I 84-40- mx: Prescription For Disaster The MX missile system now on the drawing boards will be the largest construction project in history. It requires the placement of intercontinental ballistic missiles, each equipped with ten in nuclear warheads, patconstantly shifting terns of underground deployment at sites that occupy vast tracts of land. This plan is a strat-egefor disaster. HerScoville bert argues. The scale of the MX deployment program almost defies comprehension. It can only be described by using the case-t- he superlative biggest, the most expensive. the most in everything except effectiveness." In this book. Scoville, who is President of The Arms Control Association and formerly a senior official in the Central Agency, Intelligence reveals the MX to be an unnecessary and extraordinarily expensive project that will not fulfill its original intent of Soviet the deterring Union. He points out d missiles the still be vulnerable to a Soviet attack and may actually increase the risk of such an attack since the MX will lead to a new and accelerated arms race. Scoville presents the complete history of the MX system from the Carter administration to the He describes present. security implications and the future of nuclear arms control; the cost in dollars, resources, and local social and environmental impact; and alternatives to the MX missile system through arms limitations or land-base- Some key facts about the MX project that from this study: Area of deployment. Of the potentially usable 20.000 square miles of flat land in eastern Nesell it off." I Or perhaps this When should vada and western Utah, occurs, about 12.000 square miles owners-t- he call "a spade a spade" the former be and substitute the three-lette- r will be needed for the people-w- ill mainconfronted with signs word LIE instead. missile shelters, and such as: If you don't know this tenance support NOCAMPING simple fact of history, bases, remote security and vou hac no business surveillance sites, NO HUNTING hog-wash- ." KANOSH class reunion Saturday, 40-ye- connecting roads. Air and water. The removal of 160,000 acres of topsoil will leave dust clouds hanging in such scenic areas as Zion National Park and Bryce Canyon for months on end. and construction needs will lower ground water levels in an area where the annual recharge capacity of most valleys is already fully appropriated. Large tracts of irrigated farm and grazing land could disappear forever, and the impact of scarce water will be felt far beyond the two states involved. People. The deployment area includes small stable communities that will be Faced with a boom and bust syndrome, as well as 16 reservations with hundreds of Native American ancestral and sacred sites that will be opened to exploitation anc vandalism unpar-wialleled in the past. ll Plans are underway at Summit. Promontory Utah for the 5th Annual Festival. Railroaders Hosted Saturday. August 8 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. bv the National Park Service at Golden Spike National Historic Site in with Southwest Parks and Monuments Association and the Golden Spike Em- pirc. The Promontory Festival brings together a wide array of railroad- related activities includ- ing music, a live steam exhibition, displays of railroad models and col- lections, authentic In- demon- dian dances. of historical strations a crafts. professional driving contest. reenact- and special nients of the driving of the Last Spike in Amer- first Transconti- - Hot Weather gation water is running short in some areas, just when demand is peaking. Alfalfa will be the crop most affected by a shortage of water, since it has the largest acreage, and since it demands water all summer. With a mediocre first crop just harvested, and with water supplies tightening, hay production will (no doubt) be below the last two years. Burns Ranges Unusually hut weather and very little rainfall have combined to dry livestock ranges. accord ing to the Utah Crop and Livestock Reporting Service. Crops have not been hurt vet. but irri Parade 9:30 & Stay All Day Auction 10:30 a.m. Once again our fantastic professional calling for bids on these Items: Call will be If Beautiful Painting Expensive Handmade Chaps Quilts and Afghans Personal Services work Meals prepared to your taste Chain Saw Garden Tools Mechanical tools Electrical Appliances Expensive Antiques House Plants & Containers Scouting Equipment Athletic Equipment Clothing Chicken Incubator Electric Massager Electric Cooler Fencing Equipment Furniture: Refrigerator, Washing Machine, Bed Oil Various Types of Livestock Livestock Feed Choice Oak Firewood Labor-Backho- e MANY, MANY, MORE SUNDRY ITEMS For Further Information Telephone Either: Max Call f 759-267- 8 Taft Watts 759-268- we 61.00. Large Frame 2 400-55lbs Holsteins 0 650-100- 0 lbs 49.00-55.0Feeder Heifers: Medium and Large Frame 200-30lbs 75.00-81.0300-40SAUNA lbs 60.00-65.0400-70lbs 52.00-58.0Friday, JulrW4981 lbs 52.00-54.0Slaughter Cows: High Salable at auction 600 KTVX kicked off its Cutter and Utility H.O.T. Car compared to 450 last 42.00-47.0public service Other Cutweek and 894 last year. June Tuesday. campaign Utilattendance. ter and 30. H.O.T. Car stands for Average 37.00-43.0Good to ity Demand moderate Hands Off This Car and heiferettes 52.00-55.0and Feeder steers is designed to make it good. Slaughter Bulls: Yield more difficult to steal a heifers most showing a lbs Grade I 1400-210- 0 lower. 1.50 to Persons car. steady simply 52.00-58.0Yield grade fill out a H.O.T. Car appliSlaughter cows and bulls 2 and feeder gulls cation and drop it in the Supply mostly steady. lbs 46.00-53.065 about mail. Within four to six slaughter Slaughter Steers: Few weeks, thev receive a cows. Good and few Choice Feeder Steers: Medium FREE H.O.T. Car kit Holsteins 1100-130lbs 200-301 and Large Frame containing tapered door 57.00-62.7300-40- 0 lbs 76.00-1.02- ; lock buttons, bumper and Few Slaughter Heifers 70.00-72.0window stickers, an inlbs. Good and Choice 700-95400-50lbs 63.00-69.0struction booklet with lbs 59.00-63.0500-80lbs 58.00-65.0:heft tips, a 55.00- H.O.T Car ID with a lbs toll free hot line number, vehicle identification number tags, reward a and $1,000 minof law the and it was the Excerpts of the utes of the meeting of feeling of the Council offered for information the Fillmore City Council that this variance should leading to the arrest and conviction of anyone not be granted. held July 1. 1981. . Mr. James Schneider stealing a H.O.T. Car. Attorney Day reviewed receive Persons may the subdivision ordinance had requested a license a H.O.T. Car application pointing out what consti- to sell beer at his mini- bv sending a tutes a subdivider, what market at Wagons West stamped business a subdi- Trailer Park. Motion by requirements to H.O.T. vider must meet and the Councilman Cox. sec- sie envelope KTVX-TV- . 1760 Car. penalty that may be im- onded by Councilwoman Fremont Drive. Salt Lake Rasmussen to approve Citv. Utah 84014. posed for violation of license. Carried the laws. Attorney Day the briefed the Council on unanimously. Mr. Robert Edison exthe requirements and procedures for granting vari- plained his need for an OACHING HELP ances to the zoning or- easement for telephone dinance. This review of line to his property in and vari- the industrial park. After CAU. subdividing i coot MMIS? ances was the result of some discussion it was a request from Mr. Joe agreed thaf Councilman Sirrinc and the matter of Cox. Councilwoman Rasa variance waiving the mussen and Administraminimum lot width for tor Day get together with Mr. Lvnn Kidman. The Mr. Edison and the alert residents and businesses along the street Council requested that telephone company to and work out any parking Attorney Day write a see if an easement can or access problems with letter to Mr. Sirrine ex- be worked out. It was noted that the them for the time the plaining the legal requirements of a subdivider and State Board of Health street is closed. The Council discussed the City's position. The will meet with the City Motion holiday Council repolicy. 5 on variance tentatively apAugust that if a legal holiday a in the garding discharge proved previous falls on Saturmeeting for the Kidmans permit for the sewer holiday day. City employees take was discussed in view lagoons. Mr. and Mrs. Don Friday off and if the holiof the attorney's review Fuller requested that the day conics on Sunday, City street from Main employees will be given pioneers who left us a Street to 100 West be Monday as the day off hcr.tnge worthy of our the morning of ca rried u n a n i mou sly . appreciation. Saturday, July 18 for a deepest Certificate Cemetery Our Pioneer Musem is motorcycle safety cduca- - 487 to Ashby and Maropen daily from 8 a.m. to (ion program. The request jorie Robison for S'j 7 p.m. lor your enjoy- was granted with the Lot 3. Block 317. Plat mem. was approved. that the Fullers provision Hot Car 1 0 Campaign 0 0 700-80- 0 2-- 3 0 Exodus Or Extermination 0 0 us. Into the wilderness they went journeying day after day on toward the setting sun. the hearts their sinews buoyant, strengthened by a power not of this world. What cared they for wind and for comfortless rain, couches or aching limbs? The kingdom of God was with them, the power of the spirit, their guide, an envisioned utopia on the horizon, a goal worth the price. What cared they for insults and injustice when the worst this world COuld do was to hasten heaven to them? So on toward the west their long train of wagons rolled, leaving each day farther and farther behind what they believed to be the old, cold, fanatical east, with its hard. senseless dogmas, and its merciless civilization, without niurmurings. without discord, the man above any other on earth, Brigham Young, whom ihcy most loved and feared riding at their head, or standing with uplifted arms and exe tended hands as his pc passed by. blessing and comforting them, "We arc happy and contented." says John Taylor, and the songs of Zion resound from wa- gon to wagon, reverberat-Spik- c jng through the woods w hile the ciho resounded from the distant hills as though a holy choir were returning the chor- - 0 Slowly and laboriously at disappeared they length over the horizon in pursuit once more of the phantom of home. They sought refuge in the Rocky Mountains where they hoped to find freedom from oppression and the opportunity to worship God according to the dictates of their own conscience. Many were left by the wayside in lonely graves where the mournful wail of coyotes stressed the One gloom. pioneer journal records, "Tues11 day June miles. A six year old fell out of a wagon and was instantly killed. On June 28, Wednesday. however, an incident that could have been just as serious invoked a sigh of relief to onlookers. "The child of Mr. fell out of a wagon and the wheels ran over her arm and leg, but wonderful news to tell, it broke neither." The exodus from Nau-voto Salt Lake City has received world-wid- e for its endurance, sorrow, perseverance, heartbreak, tragedy and above all its total unacceptance of defeat. Thus. Utah became a refuge from religious persecution for the Mormon people and so in Utah we celebrate July 24 as a token of due respect to a nation of dedicated ever-mockin- g Con-nove- o peo-spik- anti-aut- 0 cant save you money City Council minutes R & R Services Yahama is sponsoring a COURSE on Goodyear tSIDEWALK SALE COUPON ini, i9. 1 RIDING SAFETY OBSTACLE tires we dont expect your business. r xnio o 800-100- 0 encourages your shopping Sports AUCTION 53.00-60.0- Johns Husky Service Dinner 12:30 Auctioneer-M- ax LIVESTOCK 900-150- 0 24th of July Celebration Come Farnesworth, Mildred Prows Harding, Marva Penney Faunce, Ellen Hep worth Pope, and LaVon Johnson Brunson. Back row, left to right, are: Bertha Davies Tart, Virginia Russell DeLauro, Lorraine Hunter Hare, Don Iverson, Dwayne Anderson, Thora Whatcott McDonnell, Garn Whatcott, Clifford Dobson, Carl Bennett, Donald Lawson, Merlin Dimmick, Cecil Stephenson, Virge Christensen, Ward Phelps, Jr., Beth Sorenson Curtis, Estell Robison Bennett, Lois Watts Redding, and Pearl Baker Topham. Any class member desiring a reunion class picture can get one by sending S5.50 to Beth Whatcott, Fillmore, Utah 84631. Stewart, Arlene Probert Memmott, and Blair Johnson. Center row, left to right, are Charles Whitaker, Joy Bennett Greenwood, June Bennett Johnson, Ruth Stewart Rappleyc, Phil Robison, June Chesley ncntal Railroad. The staff at Golden N.H.S. feel that this is to he the best fes- tival yet. Refreshments will be available. And the w hole day is free! Annual!!! held its July 4, 1981. The Wildlife Park created a beautiful setting for the classmates Those not attending were greatly missed. Attending the reunion, pictured above, are: front row, left to right John Arlo Shaw, Clee Johnson, Glade Johnson, Anna Laura Phelps Shaw, Reed Whitaker, Beth Bartholomew Whatcott, LaRue Stephenson Brockbank, Flora Stephenson iea s Big!!! Class of 41" Millard High School's i9i Any cycle, any age may enter... Judged on time and ability to handle machine R & R Services, with the help of local law enforcement officers, Is sponsoring a Safety Challenge. A course will be set up from Main Street to 100 West on 100 South ncxt to the pool. The goal Is to control your bike through the obstacles set up. Register at R & R Services, or at the course. Some bikes will be Come test your skills at SAFE riding. pi ov ided for entries without machines. A GT80 Description. Motorcycle, completely legal, w ill be the t GRAND PRIZE Wed like to thank our parade riders. The bikes In the parade arc all available Services. Stop In and be amazed at the variety and economy, and performance we have to offer. at Bring this coupon to John Husky for Goodyear tire price quote and FREE Mini-ca- r 550 North Main Fillmore - 743-939- R & R Register at: R & R Services sNe 188 N. 400 VV. Fillmore, Utah - 743 - 5720 H r 3 N, YAHAMA - THE WAY IT SHOULD BE 5 I |