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He said 20 percent of San Juan County is in lands which national produce nothing national recreation areas, wilderness, etc. Black contends it is not an issue of preserve it or lose it, as many people would have us believe. It is rather an issue of managing the land properly so it can be productive forever. Bunnell said he agrees with parks, Utah Senator Omar Bunnell speaks his piece of at a Chamber Commerce luncheon Wednesday. Black on the issue and said he will work to that end. However, Bunnell said schools, not use of public land, are the biggest issue facing Utahns today. He said 60 percent of the states money is spent on schools and they must be maintained at the highest caliber possible. Bunnell said over the 24 years he has been in the Utah Legislature he has accomplished much for this area. He was instrumental in developing the Board, lease money for distribution to communities. During the past 10 years, Bunnell said, $54 million has been returned to Carbon Community Impact which administers oil County by the CIB. Bunnell said one of his biggest accomplishments was preserving the Intermountain Power Project, then fighting off an effort by the owner to use Wyoming coal. Black said he was in the mining business almost his entire life until he closed his mine in 1981. He said he understands the needs of miners and will work for the industry. Black said his biggest accomplishment was setting up a trust fund in San Juan County when mining was going well. Today the county has a trust of $7.5 million. The interest on that money exceeds all property tax paid to the county. He said all counties, and the state, need to work toward a similar situation to see them through the bad (Continued on Page 2) Utah Senate candidate Calvin Black told Chamber of Commerce members Wednesday he is the man to elect. Congressman says Amtrak must stop dumping sewage WASHINGTON, D.C. -C- ongressman Howard Nielson says he may have to introduce legislation to force Amtrak to stop dumping raw human sewage along railroad rights of way because he doesnt trust the rail comgovernment-owne- d to pany stop dumping on its own. Nielson said that despite Amtraks promises to follow a number of his suggestions to the problem, the dumping persists. He charged alleviate Amtrak officials with being insensitive to the unsanitary conditions the dumping creates for rail workers, their families and communities. If Amtrak would take the steps it has said it would, a lot of the problem could be solved without spending a dime, But during Nielson said. yesterdays hearing it became more and more apparent that we may have to introduce legislation to require Amtrak to retrofit their cars with holding tanks. Nielson, the ranking member of the Government Activities and Transportation Sub- heard testimony committee, from railroad workers who have with been sprayed the macerated mixture of human urine, feces and toilet paper and from Amtrak officials who claim a congressional exemp tion from laws that required all other passenger and freight trains to retrofit. I cant believe that Amtrak doesnt recognize that spraying people with untreated waste, and dumping it into culinary drinking water presents a health risk. Its amazing they continue to dump. Yet as late as August, George Jones, general chairman of the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen said he witnessed an incident where a sick passenger was taken from an Amtrak train at the Helper station while four rail cars dumped waste at the feet of paramedics and onlookers. Amtrak officials are insensitive to the problem their dumping poses to the rail workers and they do not seem sincere in their efforts to stop, and the Clean Water Act. The purpose of these pieces of legislation was to prevent exactly the same kind of Nielson Monday is Columbus Day blasted. Already Amtrak has publicly stated it will defy a recently-passe- d state law which problem Amtrak is posing. I think its only reasonable to expect Amtrak to comply as well. prohibits dumping. Nielson said legislation would have to include at least $34 million to retrofit Amtraks biggest offending cars. While thats a lot of money to spend, Nielson said Congress has forced communities all across the country to spend millions of dollars to comply with laws such as the Safe Drinking Water Act Monday, Oct. 10, is a national holiday, the day Congress designated for the observance of Columbus Day. While most businesses in the county will be open for business as usual and schools will be in session, all city, county, state and federal offices as well as banks will be closed for the day. All post offices will be closed and there will be no mail delivery service on the routes out of the Helper and Price post offices. Post office lobbies in most cases will be open for access to post office boxes rented by postal customers, but the stamp windows and counters will be closed. g mail will be dispatched from the Helper and Price post offices to the Provo mail processing center Monday. Wendi DeFriez DeFriez is a sophomore from Castle Dale. She came to CEU because she got a scholarship. Thats why everyone comes here. Lee Brown Brown, from Huntington, is a sophomore planning a career in respiratory therapy. He said he wanted to stay home while taking the general education classes. Ken Olson is a freshman from Page, Arizona. He came to CEU because he owns a house in Huntington and because the school has a good computer Oregon Out-goin- It's back to school at CEU. . . 'SF?prjs ' 1 ipwTSPWr 1 ' Don McCourt McCourt is a city councilman In East Carbon. He returned to school after 20 years, to get out He is of the coal mines. education. studying elementary 4 4 n i - - Daren Cortez Cortez is a sophomore from Salt Lake City. He attended CEU last year because of a cheerleading scholarship. He is head yell leader this year. 1 it 4 Julie Anne Gilbert Gilbert is a freshman from Oklahoma. She came to CEU on a singing scholarship. Her mother was a counselor at CEU, a long time ago. I Olson program. |