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Show Sun Advocate Nuclear colossus looms over tiny Green River The State of Utah should proceed with extreme caution in the proposed $10 billion Nuclear Power Park which the U.S. Department of Energy is con- templating near Green River. Federal and state planners are proceeding with feasibility and preliminary impact studies on the gigantic power complex, even though there are some serious public doubts and concerns over the future of atomic energy in America. Utahns in particular should be suspicious of such a colossal nuclear giant located right in our midst. After all, didnt we serve as guinea pigs for the Atomic Energy Commission during Nevada nuclear testing in the late 1950s and early 1960s? Didnt the AEC regularly shower us with radioactive fallout and then spend years trying to assure us of how safe such exposure low-lev- was to our health? The truth of the matter is, the AEC also spent much of its time covering up scientific data about the testing, and until recent disclosures, the people of Utah were never informed about the size, scope and extent of fallout accumulation in Utah. And now, University of Utah researchers tell us in creased incidences of cancer in Southern Utah can probably be linked to the fallout showers of the past. that sheep in southwestern Utah dropped like flies after being irradiated, that the AEC scientists were gagged, their reports labeled "top secret," and the data locked away from public scrutiny... at least until Freedom of Information laws forced the government to bring them out into the We also learn light of day. terest." Frankly, we have a hard time understanding who would express such Mile Island and the even more an interest, particularly in the wake of Three Utah. subtle victims of the nuclear age in southern don't get your hopes or dander up, depending on your in 1981, Congress leanings on nuclear power. After the studies are completed could scrap the whole nuclear power park concept. It is doubtful Utah could a colossus anyway. And provide the vast quantities of water needed for such stampeded by the even if the lawmakers should give the nuclear 10 or of nine the power plants could not be complex energy crisis, we may know the comthen completed until after the turn of the century. By radiation on the population. effects of plete facts about the to care. around of us still there are some Lets hope Well, Green River, the AEC's successor, the Department of talizing $500,000 appropriation to study the feasibility Now comes Energy, with a tanof a nuclear power Green River, a complex that would "incomplex near "sparsely-populate- d crease the assessed valuation of the entire state by nearly two thirds and create a construction city of 20,000 or more." This latter tid bit was thrown in, no doubt, to whet the economic taste buds of the local chambers of commerce. We should remember that the government once did some testing near "sparsely-populated- and South Carolina were chosen for the studies, as one government two states to display any inspokesman put it, "because they were the only Utah St. George. " low-lev- long-ter- GUHIPSIE of the Past 75 YEARS AGO Down to Two. Big Decrease In the Jail Population. Eighty - Nine Go At Once. Other Bound Over to the District Court Give Bonds and are Now at Liberty. for the murder of James Papacostas, pronounce the words which mean that the prisoner must spend the remainder of his life behind prison walls. Martin sat unmoved while the jury was polled at the request of Defense counsel Wallace B. Kelly, and then with a half sigh turned to Sheriff Warren S. who with Sheriff S.M. Peacock, last weeks Advocate the eighty nine Italian strikers that were held here for rioting and inciting a riot in connection with the liberation of Mother Jones from quarantine at Helper were discharged last Deputy Justice Ward. They are now at liberty, the most of them retur- The jury received the case at five oclock p.m. at the conclusion of the argument by District Attorney Fred W. Keller, and returned with a conviction of first degree murder with a recom- As foreshadowed in - Thursday when brought ning to the Half - before Way House. During the week Sylvester Tedesco, in jail for holding up at the point of a gun with six others Mark P. Braffet, was released. He gave bonds in the sum of a thousand dollars for, his appearance in district court. There is another case for rioting against Tedesco and under which he furnished $800 bonds for his appearance in district court. Ten of the rioters committed jail after having hearings before Justice Ward have since given bonds for appearance at district court, leaving but two prisoners now in the county jail. These are Warren Jones, who killed Roe Bliss was waiting to return the prisoner to his cell in the Carbon county jail where he has spend the last four months. immendation of life hours three prisonment, just later. During this time more than an hour was spent in dinner, as the jury had the case less than two hours. Judge George Christensen set the date for at judgment pronouncing Saturday, May 18, at 2 oclock p.m. to Furguson, and William Giffin, the negro, who is held as a witness. Jones has as yet been unable to get bondsmen. His bail is fixed at a thousand dollars. Last Saturday Suicide Bill Scavo, one of the rioters since released, tried to butt his brains out all the same Frank Bell from Sunnyside, against the edge of the steel cages. Dr. Fish was called and dressed the fellows injuries. Scavo has a habit of attempting his own life about every change of the moon, but somehow is never successful. During the week numerous of the Italisns have been here reclaiming the guns, pistols, knives and other implements of warfare in custody of the officers and taken from them at the time of the raid and arrests at the Half - Way House. 50 YEARS AGO John Martin Found Guilty of Helper Murder; Life in Prison Recommended. His face as implacable as that of a Cigar store Indian, Martin, John alias Jack Blackie Gibson, sat in district court of the Seventh Judicial district at Price, Monday night, and listened to Charles Larsen, foreman of the murder trial jury, trying Gibson Well it was all I could expect, Martin said following his conviction. It was the thirteenth of the month, there were thirteen jurors, and the judge wrote twenty - six instructions which is just two times thirteen. 25 Royal Youth Killed After Touching High Tension Line. A seven - year - old boy was fatally burned at Royal Monday night when he grabbed a wire lead on a transformer carrying 44,000 volts of electricity. The victim, Richard Lawrence of Frederick son Gullon, Lawrence and Ruth Scholbe Gullon, died at 3:30 a.m. Tuesday in the Price City - County hospital from bums covering some 90 per cent of his body. According to investigation officers who talked with neighbors who witnessed the mishap, the boy evidently crawled under a fence surrounding the Royal substation and was playing around the concrete building. Hearing the screams of his son and seeing flashes of sparks from the short circuit, Mr. Gullon rushed from his nearby home and pulled the child from the wire with some difficulty. The youths body short - circuited the line and blew a fuse which doused the lights throughout the community. Heat from the electrical contact burned the clothes completely from the boys body. Editor Reader says save Amtrak editor: President Carters plan to Amtrak service by 43 be halted. must percent Passenger trains are energy efficient. Planes, autos and buses are energy wasteful. reduce SOMETIMES CLEAN UPf YEARS AGO LETTERS to the To the TAKE Energy accounting is more important than dollar accounting. We need active media support for a sensible transportation policy. C.S. Williams Needles, Cal. i - WASHINGTON The world will not soon forget the mass suicide of 900 men, women and children in Jonestonw, Guyana, last November. They drank poisoned punch after some members of the cult killed Rep. Leo Ryan, f., in cold blood. Immediately afterward, we reported that the State Department had been forewarned about the dangers in Jonestown and had failed to warn Congressman Ryan. House The International Relations Committee ordered an investigation, which has now been completed. A draft report has been written in strict secrecy. All copies are locked in a safe each night, but our sources have told us what the report reveals. that the State received advance warnings of mass suicide. In fact, the department was bombarded with complaints about the terrors of Jonestown. The complaints came from American citizens who were pleading for help, but the department never bothered to investigate their allegations. It confirms Department The House report will also accuse the State Department of failing to warn Ryan of the Jonestown danger, just as we reported six months ago. The document will spell out in tragic detail how much the State knew Department about Jonestown and how little they told Ryan. Faulty Arsenal; The taxpayers spend appalling sums of money on military weapons and the . Pentagon likes to boast they are the best that money can buy. But occasionally, the brass hats have rushed ahead with new weapons before they have been proven. 6 The Air Forces fighter plane, for example, has had serious problems with its engines. Its loss rate has been three times what officials expected. F-1- The Navys 4 has an even worse record: 38 crashes since testing was begun several years ago. Test pilots have told us its performance is marginal at best. F-1- The admirals also agitated for an gun for their warships. Not until it had been purchased did they realize it couldnt hit onshore targets. By law, the Pentagon provides Congress with the classified testing results. We have learned, however, that the reports have sometimes been doctored. Government auditors discovered the armed services have purposely omitted adverse testing information from their statements to Congress. The accountants spot - checked 15 weapons systems and found them all to be incomplete, misleading or outdated. Our sources say the millitary chiefs lie to Congress to prevent having their pet armaments cut. Several congressmen are now aware that the Pentagon has deceived them. But they cant raise Cain in public, because the details are classified. There have been private protests, of course, which the Pentagon has ignored. Some of them came after one of the latest reports showed a good performance by the Navys newest electronic plane, the EA6-B- . Some of the important details, it turns out, were deleted. We Coke Confrontation: to Israel recently spoke Marquez, a labor leader who is battling a Coca - Cola franchise in Guatemala. He has had three narrow escapes from hired assassins and his name is still at the top of a death list drawn up by anti - union forces. week ago, Marquez dramatically confronted officials A - Cola company at its annual shareholders meeting. The company has denied any part in the violence in Guatemala. But the franchise in Guatemala City is controlled by a bottling company that is fighting Marquez of the Coca union. The bottling company, in turn, - owned and it distributes roughly half of the cola products sold in Guatemala City. It employs 150 workers, 90 percent of whom belong to the is American union. The unions financial secretary was shot down last December. Another union official barely escaped an assassination attempt and fled the country. Just last month, two men on a motorcycle ran down a union organizer. They beat ' him with an iron pipe, stabbed him 15 times and slit his throat from ear to ear. Other union organizers and their sympathizers have also been marked for murder. A Coca - Cola spokesman contended the parent firm could do nothing and that the labor trouble should be settled by the bottling company and the union. Headlines and Footnotes: A bureaucrat at the Health, Education and Welfare Department recently quit is job when his superiors told him he had to accept a $1,200 pay raise ... An archaic Navy ration $40,000 - a - year law dictates that sailors and Marines must be fed real butter instad of margarine. A change to margarine would save the taxpayers about 7 cents a pound . . . Last November, the Pentagon sent a team of 15 Boston University journalism instructors to Frankfurt, Germany to teach a post - graduate course to military journalists. Costs to the taxpayers: $250,000 . . . Maps and pamphlets designed to explain the workings of Washington and the federal government to tourists are on sale at the Government Printing Office. Around the corner at the National Visitor Center, they are distributed free . . . Vehicles used by postmen to deliver the neighborhood mails get an average of eight miles of gallon per gas . . Argentina may be a dictatorship, but its embassy in Washington is egalitarian. On a given day, diplomats in business suits can be seen watering the . lawn. l |