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Show Page Two-Ma- 22, rch Southern The South! Utah Nm uu n It published tvory Thursday at 40 East Center Street In Kanab. Utah 84741. The New proudly serves Kane County. Utah, and the Arizona Strip. Address all communications to P 0. Box 90, . Kanab. Utah. 84741. or telephone (801) Advertising rates available upon request. Second class postage paid at Kanab. Utah 84741. Newsstand price 15 cents per copy Yearly subscriptions available. Rates to managed as LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ISSN NO. 0049-165- 9 Morris Family Donates Land to BYU Wilderness since it has been made a wilderness area, he noted, and everyone forced out but the backpackers, it is the trashiest place in the area. Most of the public support for range management under the wilderness concept came from representatives of the recently formed County Association of People Concerned with the Environment. Some who spoke from that group indicated that cattle operations were Brigham Young University has recieved 246 acres of undeveloped land located near Grants Pass, Oregon, according to Donald T. Nelson, director of The Development office for the LDS Church. The land was given to BYU by Elgin H. Morris, Kanab, Utah; Dr. David A. and Leona Morris, Pleasanton, Calif., and Dr. Merle E. and Pearl C. Morris, Orinda, Calif. "We are very grateful to the Morris family for their generous gift to BYU, Nelson satisfactory use but that said. "Their gift will be put to mining operations would not good use. be. Proceeds from the sale of The nearly one hundred the land are to be divided citizens who attended the equally between the J. Reumeeting in the courtroom of ben Clark Law School and the the Washington County College of Business. Courthouse appeared to be Merle Elgin Morris, son of mostly local residents and Merle and Pearl Morris, much of the comment was graduated from the J. Reuben made by people living in this Gark Law School. Ken McCarty, regional dearea. velopment officer for the Idaho area, worked with the Morris on the gift. 1171 il v0? &(J$ Thursday, Friday, Saturday - March 2224 Donnie and Marie at their nutty best In a y set In beautiful Hawaii. -- fast-pac- ed ... think about comedy-myster- it! FOR MORE INFO: (801) They really lei it on: Lots of action, laughs, songs and suspense. All amid palms, 533-736- 4 01 beaches and shiney white teeth. KANAB THEATER The Birch Log Big Business Takes A Dive by John F. McManus A common misconBelmont, Massachusetts ception in America today involves the relationship between government and business. Somehow, Americans have been led to believe that government's purpose is to promote business and to be a partner of the productive sector. Nothing could be further from the truth. Government, by nature, always stifles business and is everywhere the enemy of productivity. George Washington was only one of countless numbers of realists who recognized this truism when he said: Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Our first President labored along with others to restrict government force to its proper place by means of a Constitution. The American way, envisioned by our forefathers and practiced for many decades, meant that every man had the right to live, produce, and prosper in freedom. Government was to be no more than the protector of rights. Today, however, we find that government virtually dominates and controls Americas productive sector. Certainly the small businessman sees what is happening. He finds more evidence every day to demonstrate that government is no friend, no partner, and not even an idle bystander. Government, in fact, has become his deadly enemy. God-give- n Big Business Sees Differently If the small businessman can understand the horrible truth about government, Jie has a right to expect that Americas giants in industry would be his allies. But the most impressive d collection of businessmen in America, The Business Roundtable, sees things in a much different light. In the organization's published material, former Roundtable Chairman Irving S. Shapiro (DuPont) pointedly takes issue with the fact that so many organize--ion- s have been formed to promote business, de says that the Roundtable does not consider tovemment an adversary, and that it will work high-powere- hs hrch Log h a iformotion about The kly fcirch to foster more cooperation and less antago nism between government and business. The Business Roundtable Presently chaired by Thomas A. Murphy of General Motors, the Roundtable enlists only chief executives of large corporations. Among the 190 current members can be found such names as Cary (IBM), Connor (Allied Chemical), Garvin (Exxon), Jones (General Electric), Pilliod (Goodyear), Lazarus (Federated Department Stores), Morgan (Caterpillar Tractor), Rockefeller (Chase Manhattan), and Warner (Mobil). The Business Roundtable accepts the fraudulent notion that business and labor must also share the blame for inflation. This same attitude is being widely peddled by Alfred Kahn, President Carters supposed inflation fighter. Such obfuscation ignores the fact that inflation is an increase in the quantity of currency caused by government. In the Roundtables 1978 task fence report about reducing inflation, we find urging for business to improve productivity, eliminate waste, avoid needless expense, and undertake systematic programs. The real need is to stop the government from flooding the country with increasingly worthless paper money. Here we have the men who should lead the inflation charge against government-cause- d covering up for the most subtle form of thievery and destruction ever devised. How convenient for government that Americas top businessmen are so confused. Either enough Americans will wise up to what government is really doing to our nation and soon or America will find itself with a totally planned economy and worthless currency. Obviously, help in the much-neede- d awakening process cannot be expected from The Business Roundtable. This organization, and all those it influences, are a big part of the problem. C 1979 The John Birch Society Features produced ond tyndicotod by Th John Birch Society. For tog, or The John Birch Society, please direct inquiries, in person or by moil, to: newpopr cofom THE JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY Belmont, Mossochusetts 02178 Son M01..10, Californio 91108 1979-P- age Two - Kane County addresses and Fredonla and Moccasin, Arizona, $6 00; others, $7 00. The New reserves the right to edit or reject any advertisement or submitted hems. Deadline lor display ads and news copy is NOON MONDAY, Classified ads, 10 a m. Tuesday. Marlin B Brown, publisher and editor. Member Utah Press Association and National Newspaper Association. Discussed at Meeting Policies for Aris. Strip During a meeting in St. George recently local representatives of the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management asked for public comment after explaining the Interim Management Policy and Guidelines for Wilderness Study Areas" on the Arizona Strip. About 12 persons made comments after the presentation. Most of those were local citizens and the comments seemed to be equally divided between those who thought the land should be managed as wilderness until a permanent designation for its use is made and tho.e who favored the multiple use concept now in use. One Katie County cattleman A.D. Findlay, of Kanab, noted that one of the trashiest, worst kept areas along the strip at the present time was the Paria Primitive Area now being Murrh 22. SOUTHERN UTAH NEWS 1979 Dear Editor: The private, competitive free enterprise system was in existence before the Continental Convention was convened or the U.S. Constitution drafted. People were already competing in the market place for the sale of their goods. Those who produced the highest quality at the lowest price were the ones who sold their products and this is what regulated the prices. Simply the law of supply and demand. External pressures became so great it was necessary to establish a national government to protect the people from external forces. Since most of the immigrants had escaped totalitarian forms of government, they were extremely jealous of their new found liberty to govern themselves and were rightly very skeptical of investing power over themselves in any body of men. Since it had to be done to some degree in the interest of self and entity preservation, wise men drafted the U. S. Constitution specifically stating limits and extent of the power vested in the body of men thus created, and establishing a uniform rate of taxation to support these men and the legitimate functions they were authorized to perform under the authority of the Constitution. More simply, but still just as true, these men are hired by the people of the United States of America to conduct the affairs of our nation with foreign powers, and what little they are authorized to do domestically. They and everyone else on the Federal payroll are the peoples employees, not visa versa, and any act they commit or agreement they make in any case is in the name of the American people, whether right or wrong. If our public school were not derelict in their responsibility, every student who graduated from high school would have a profound understanding of these basic simple facts. Now, in answer to your letter of Tanya W. Christian, the atomic blasts set off in the Marshall Island by our government were in the name of the American people. Since we, the people, are responsible for our government, not our government responsible to us, the Marshallese people have a legitimate claim against us, the people for any ill effects they suffered as a result of said blasts. When these same tests are conducted within our borders and our own people suffer from them and sue the federal government in relation to them, they are not suing the people who conducted the tests, they are suing their next door neighbors or some other Americans next door neighbor. More specifically we are suing one another for the actions of our government and every time we succeed in this sort of thing we increase the power of government over us and decrease our power of the government. This, my dear lady, is what I mean by ignorance of the people regarding these simple basic facts. Now, anyone who understands these simple Water Year Already Above Normal Mar. KANAB WEATHER High Low Free. J basic facts and still persists in bringing suit against their neighbor through their gov- ernment is morally bankrupt, and 1 have no reason to repent of this statement. d I am not so that I do not sympathize with everyone who has cancer. I lost a nephew via leukemia right here in this town which may have been caused by the Nevada tests. I have cancer myself though its a different kind and not so deadly that may be the result of the Nevada tests, as 1 have lived here since 1952. So much for Governor Scott Matheson Utah State Capitol Salt Lake City, Utah 84114 hard-hearte- that. Why do 1 keep harping on Socialism and what it consists of? The fact that it is diametrically the opposite of individual freedom and the free agency of every last individual to make the very most of his life according to his personal capabilities under the competitive free enter' prise system we, inherited from our forefathers., Now, this is what 1 hope to leave for this freedom of self determination is what I hope to leave for the beautiful children (who are probably yOurs) who pass my house daily. If Socialism is allowed to mature, they will be reduced to the status of barnyard animals, who are told where to work, what to do, where to live, how many hours to work, and in return for this they will receive the bare necessities of life. Their initiative and creative abilities will be destroyed, and the American dream will recede into extinction. At this point please look up the definitions of Socialism and Communism and see if you can distinguish between the two. Dear Governor Matheson: It was recently announced by the Departments of Energy and Interior that the Bureau of Reclamation is planning to study the feasibility of constructing a 100 to 300 Mw. Solar Generating Station to work in conjunction with an existing Hydroelectric Gen- erating Station in the lower Colorado River area. It appears that the Kaiparo-wit- s area of Kane County would be ideally suited for this operation. It contains large, open, fiat areas with very sparse vegetation, is at a high elevation, has a maximum of sunny days and is close to an existing Hydroelectric generating Station and the Southwestern Power Grid. This should also be an ideal project for our area in that it is can be isolated from view and should not require the large numbers of g, construction and operation people which have been proposed by the other power projects. A complete Environmental Impact Statement has already been prepared, in- cluding power line routes, which could be easily modified at a great savings in time and money. Please use your influence with the Federal Administration to have a Kane County site included in the Burerus Feasibility Study. This project could have a very beneficial effect on Utah and our county. Very truly yours, John F. Nelson, P.E. Wilfred Edwards ... . J Survey Made Of National Emblem , Eagle In an effort to get ajnetter years, and Wagner points out NWF survey handle on the number of bald that the January means of a will offer good 48 states in lower the eagles methods. two the this winter, the National comparing The bald eagle, once more Wildlife Federation (NWF) has organized a national bald common across the United is now endangered in eagle census. Federal state States, 43 of the lower 48 states. Utah This is the first year that is among them. Although the such an effort has been DWR has counted over 600 undertaken. bald eagles in Utah in each of According to Phil Wagner, a the last two years, these are raptor biologist with the migrating birds. Utah has no Division of Wildlife Resources and Utah coordinator for thej nesting population. Most bald eagles nest in survey, several federal agen- - areas to the north which are cies the Forest Service, the1 free of environment-- , National Park Service, the relatively al contaminants. Wagner Bureau of Land Management, however, that pollutants the Fish and Wildlife Service says, in wintering grounds like Utah state agencies and some can affect nesting success the private organizations may following year. become involved iq the count. Since they feed mostly on1 Wagner says that planning bald eagles can be fish, will be crucial in order to near many bodies of spotted eliminate duplicate counts and water around the state. still get adequate coverage. Utah has conducted monthlong state surveys for several wintuk 2 Ib.TAYLOR BOND 99 QUILT BATS inrsplair IDatoM stfaufl aft FARE FUR DENIM ASSORTED COLORS H49 COLORS BLACK AND WHITE yd om IT NEW SHOES JUST ARRIVED BIG SELECTION MEN'S & LADIES V2PRICE .Jeans jfp Courtesy of Sterling Johnson The drought is probably over. Looking at the water report for this reporting period would seems to indicate that our precipitation is in good shape so far this year. Tbe reporting period started Oct. 1, 1978 and monthly totals look like this: October 1.19 November - 4.68 December - 2.93 January - 3.94 February 1.17 -- YARN j j Miss Ifileoa ami MEM'S SHIRTS 488 fl BIG SELECTION MEM'S PflMTS Vz PRICE -- Add to this 1.15 inches reported for March as of the 20th and we have had a total of 15.06 inches of life giving precipitation through the winter months. Great Year! Long Sleeved Chamtiray Western Work Shirt Permanent Press QBB 9 J |