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Show Page Four THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1971 Girl Scouts Chart Council Concludes 1971 Annual Meeting 71 Cookie Sale THE SALT LAKE TIMES Combined with The Salt Lakt Miming & Ltgal Nam Published Every Friday at Salt Labe City, Utah Secretary of Interiors national board council concludadvisory Entered at the postoffice at Salt Lake City as second ed 1971 its annual meeting in class matter August 23, 1923 under the act of March 8, Arizona after significant Yuma, 1879 discussions relating to the envi711 South West Temple Telephone 3648464 ronment and other issues conSalt Lake City, Utah 84101 cerning lands managed by the GLENN BJORNN, Publisher Bureau of Land Management. "This publication is not owned or controlled by any party, clan, clique, faction The meeting was held Februor corporation." ary 21-2- 3 and included a tour of Volume 50 Number 45 lands along the Lower Colorado River to review the impact of heavy recreational use on the river and surrounding -desert lands. The council serves in an advisory capacity to Secre(Continued from Page One) tary of Interior Rogers C. B. and the Bureau of Land benefit from the new rate, so millions who have been Morton Management on protection and buying bonds for some time need have no regrets nor management of public land reconcerns about redeeming their old bonds and buying sources. discussed during the new ones. U. S. Savings Bonds are not subject to market twoSubjects and one-ha- lf day session intwo-mon- th fluctuations. After a holding period, they cluded problems brought on by can be redeemed at any time without loss and, if held intensive public use, management of predators, adequate safesix months or longer, with some interest added. guards against hazards on public offer than more automatic however, bonds, lands, use of pesticides, adequate Savings funds for management, recreaand safe accumulation of money through Payroll Savand other user fees, and Plans. The interest is not tion ings and Bond-A-Mon- th rights-of-wa- y and problems cresubject to state or local income or personal property ated by mining operations. taxes. In effect, bond owners earn more than the stated A list of recommendations and resolutions on these matters will rate, and the Treasury guaranteees free of charge re- be presented to the Secretary of Interior. placement of lost, stolen, damaged or destroyed bonds. Gene Etchart, Glasgow, MonFor information on the Payroll Savings and Bond-A-Mon- tana was reelected chairman of contact bank or Plans, the national advisory board your employer, your council, and Clarance Quinlan, savings and loan association. Antonito, Colorado was elected vice chairman. Boyd L. Rasmussen, director of BLM, serves as BLM-manag- Bonded Safety - Tips for Savers ed 42-mem- th Space and Progress an. The national advisory board Numerous scientists, businessmen, and government council was created in 1940 and leaders have warned against excessive cutbacks in the meets at least once each year.. Its nations space efforts. None has uttered this warning with members represent wildlife, outdoor recreation, livestock grazwarning with greater sincerity nor with greater author- ing, local government, mining, ity, based on experience than Willard F. Rockwell, Jr., head of a major space and commercial manufacturing ' concern. Mr. Rockwell declares, We must have a continuing high level of space activity, not for the benefit of any one country alone, but for the benefit of the entire world. To do otherwise would be to ignore our responsibilities to our children and the future of mankind Mr. Rockwell points out that space achievements holds the key to the future by unlocking new resources in the seas, extending the life of valuable forests and the developing of a new science of agricultural control. Cutbacks ip the space program not only threatens the nations technological future but its capabilities to cope with environmental problems, in the opinion of Mr. Rockwell. He also sees exploration of space as the key to international cooperation. The involvement of foreign countries in National Aeronautics and Space Administration programs to date has centered primarily on unmanned research programs. Some 74 nations have participated in NASA efforts. At the moment, one of the programs holding the greatest promise for international participation is the development of a space shuttle vehicle a vehicle that will transport men and cargo from earth to a space station and back. It is unthinkable that these great efforts and the promise they hold for the future should be terminated and the shades drawn on such unlimited potential for human progress. Rule by Emotion have the tools to communicate : press, satellites and the public is saturadio, TV and even rated with information, there seems to be more confusion and misunderstanding on many basic issues than ever before. The consequence is that the country is threatened with rule by emotion. Particularly is this true in environmental areas, where the very life of basic industries and the health and well being of millions of people are at AVhile we stake. The Countdown has started for the 1971 Annual Girl Scout Cookie Sale in Utah and eastern Nevada. Mrs. R. H. Nickerson, president of the Utah Girl Scout Council, announced. More than 5,000 Girl Scouts, in the traditional green uniform, will sell cookies from March Their goal is to maintain their No. One place as salesmen among all the Councils in the nation selling Girl Scout cookies baked by the Burry Biscuit Company. Mrs. Sterling E. Larson, of Salt Lake City, 1971 Cookie Chairman, who has guided the Utah Council successful sales for the last several years, said that retention of the top place in Cookie sales will enable Girl Scouts in 6-1- 3. the It A SED (IIPEVINE V The State Board of Examiners this week said it will take necessary steps to beef up security as required at the State Capitol in view of the Monday bombing of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. Atty. Gen. Vernon B. Romney raised the matter at an' examiners meeting, noting concern over the incident in Washington. this area to continue enjoying an Romney said the state should extensive camping program. take all precautions necessary Proceeds from the sale of to secure the to proand Capitol cookies maintains and improves tect the lives of state employees. the three permanent camps operated by the Council, keeps the A city, town or county may cost of camping to the individual obtain Girl Scouts exceedingly low, proprior right to purchase vides camperships for those who historical areas and sites but they need financial assistance; as well apparently cannot accomplish as buying milk for the Girl this purpose by zoning. Scouts attending the many Day Assistant State Attorney Gen. Council over the all held Homer Holmgren gave this opinCamps area. ion to Milton L .Weilenmann, In addition, 20 percent of the executive director, Development money earned by cookie sales Services Department. goes back to the troops for their Mr. cited the 1967 own programs. Cookies will be HistoricHolmgren District Act. delivered from April 16-2- 4. timber and other uses of the pub- lic lands. Utahs representatives on the NABC are Kumen S. Gardner, Cedar City; Newell Johnson, Provo; Lyman Merkley, Vernal; and L. Robert Anderson, Monticello. If itTs printiag ... dial 364-846- 4 An engineering feasibility report indicated the cheapest and best way for residents of Emigration Canyon to obtain water and sewer services would be by annexation to Salt Lake City. The report was submitted to nearly 150 canyon residents during a mass meeting. A plea for at least one more city prosecutor was made this week by Public Safety Commischemicals, commonly known sioner James L. Barker Jr,, and there is danger that the voice approved by the City Commis- For years, there has been an emotional campaign against certain agricultural as pesticides. In the tumult of reason will be totally obscured. John J. Durkin, extension entomologist at New Mexico State University, is a member of the growing force of scientists and agricultural experts that fear the result of continued public misunderstanding of the pesticide issue. He says, The American public in general is so well fed and we have so few disease problems that people are inclined to think farmers are using pesticides just for the sake of using them, that they dont have any real need. The role of pesticides in maintaining life, as we know it, is truly incalcuable. Writes Dr. Thomas H. Jukes, professor of Medical Physics at the University of California, without pesticides, we cant produce the food and the public health measures that are necessary to maintain a large human population. Without pesticides, millions of lives would again be lost to such diseases as malaria, typhus and yellow fever, and large areas of land reclaimed for human habitation through the use of chemicals would have to be abandoned in many parts of the world. We need communication, but not the kind that breeds rule by emotion. sion. The commission directed the auditor and city attorney to determine if there are funds to increase the staff now composed of two city prosecutors and two assistants. The Utah state retirement system is sound and has enough money to make improvements without additional contribution, the Utah Retirement Board has been told. Robert Drisk, actuary with the firm of Coates, Henfurth and England, San Francisco, said the Utah retirement program ranks No. 1 among the states in the sound approach to provide the funding before benefit increases. The board should continue to keep the membership group as a whole in mind when making changes, however, Mr. Drisko advised. Dr. James C. Fletcher, president of the University of Utah, has been granted a leave of absence effective May 1, to become administrator of the National dial 860 Where thousands of listeners enjoy concert music and news every day! Aeronautics and Space Administration. The appointment was announced last week by President Nixon. Dr. Fletcher became president of the university in 1964. During his time in office the university has grown considerably. Provisions for total consolidation may be removed from a bill outling possible combinations for a more flexible county government in a move to gain broader support for the measure supporters said Tuesday. |