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Show Page Four FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1971 THE SALT LAKE TIMES Combiaad with Tba Salt Laka Miaiar & Lagal News Pablisbad Ertrj Friday at Salt Laat City , Utah Land Management Celebrates 25 years There will be 25 candles on Bureau of Land Managements Second Pass Postage paid at Salt Lake Gty, Utah birthday cake Friday. BLM was 4 created July 16, 1946 by merger 711 South West Temple Tclcphooc Salt Lake Gty, Utah 84101 of the General Land Office and the Grazing Service. Since then GLENN BJORNN, Publisher under leader'Tbu pagination is act owaad or soatroUai by aay party, dam, digma, factioa it hasoffunctioned five presidents of the ship "UOipHOitOt SO Unietd States and seven secretaNumber 12 Volume 51 ries of Interior. Today it administers about 451 million acres, mostly in 11 western states (including Alaska). In Utah BLM administers 21 million acres, or 43 per cent of (Continued from page 1) the states total land area. This be all to careful caution with is fire, everyone nearly three million acres less They BLM administered in Utah than matches and cigarets, as well as fireworks. If anyone sees 25 years ago, according to R. D. a wildfire he should contact the nearest law enforcement Nielson, BLM state director for or fire fighting agency. Utah. Those three million acres have been transferred to private, state and local government ownership or placed under administration of some other federal 364-846- Careful of Fireworks on 24th Happenings That Affect the Future of Every Individual Sometime in the next year or so, the U.S. economy will reach the trillion dollar level. As the magazine Business Week comments, No nation or combination of nations ever before operated on such a scale. No group of people ever has produced and consumed such quantities of goods and services, moved about so restlessly, created such a stir on the face of the earth. In the process of creating the trillion dollar economy, the United States lias accomplished, under capitalism in actual practice, what communism has, without success hoped to attain by revolution a vast dispersal of wealth. More people enjoy more comforts and luxuries of life in the U.S. than anywhere else in the world. With each step toward attaining wide distribution of abundance, the American capitalistic system has found itself under increasingly intensive attack from the revolutionists, who now resent the abundance for the masses that they formerly sought so avidly. A small but violent minority of young people are now dedicated to overthrowing the system that has given the people so much. Georgie Anne Geyer and Keyes Beech, in a lengthy feature on young American revolutionaries, many of whom have gone to Cuba for indoctrination in the ways of communism and revolution, describe how these young militants liave gone full circle. For all practical purposes, they are now against the very things that Karl Marx set as goals under communism. Meanwhile, as the economy reaches closer to the trillion dollar level, the good and bad of superabundance are making themselves felt in ways that were never understood or envisioned in the communist philosophy. On the good side, the Wall Street Journal reports on the progress of the trend toward a four day work week. Currently the four day wreek . . . a dream of the future for most workers in the words of the Journal, is a fact of life for some 7000 workers at nearly two score corporations. Authorities feel the four day week will become widespread before too long. One expert predicts, it will sweep the country and much faster than the five day week replaced the six day week. Although the shorter week, in many instances, requires longer hours during the remaining hours of w'ork, most employees favor it, and most of them apparently make good use of their leisure time. On tthe less happy side of the trillion dollar economy is the specter of pollution and a deteriorating environment. Again, in the words of Business Week in its analysis of the trillion dollar economy, The most obvious of the problems is the impact of a $1 trillion worth of economic activity on the physical environment. Air and wTater pollution emerged as local problems before 1900, but it was not until the 1950s that they became a threat to the nation as a whole. Then, the U.S. belatedly realized that an economy approaching the 10 digit level generates refuse, scrap and noxious by products on a scale that the earth, the air and the streams cannot absorb. Another problem, says Business Week, is keeping 87 million workers employed to the full, without generating uncon- - agency. land From in Utah receipts in fiscal year 1971 totaled more than $10 million, of which $3,409,833 was paid to the state treasury. Mineral production from the BLM administered lands in Utah increased greatly between 1946 and 1947, except for coal production which is about the same now as it was 25 years ago. Increased minerals activity is reflected in number of leases and permits issued by BLM, which are outstanding. In 1946 there were 17 mineral permits and 307 leases in force, over nearly 300,000 acres of the state. Not all activity on BLM administered lands in Utah has increased during the 25 years, Mr. Nileson noted. He mentioned homesteading as an example. All land suitable for homesteading has been acquired by individuals over the past century BLM-administere- d and lands still administered by BLM do not meet requirements of for homesteading. In the year were BLMs organization there homepatents issued for nineland ensteads and one desert no new try. There have been entries land homestead or desert in Utah since 1967. Although numbers of domestic admin- grazing BLM istered lands in Utah have had to be reduced in a cooperative sou program between stockmen stabilibeen BLM the result has zation and, in some cases, even improvement in range forage. The long history of overstocking the range with attendant deterioration of forage has been controlled by management and stockmen agreements to improve range for livestock grazing, wild life habitat, watershed protection and other values, he said. One of the more significant increases in use of BLM administered lands has been in recreation. A more affluent society with more leisure time resulted in many kinds of recreational activities almost unknown 25 years ago. To accommodate this demand, BLM become involved, as much as funds allow, in recreation site development, visitor protection, regulation of undesirable activities and interpretive f- all AS ED GRAPEVINE livestock programs. Another major change in em- The Mayor of Salt Lake a commissioner and the City Countv that thJ Sheriff have agreed Salt Lake jan should be run entirely by the Sheriff. In the event the total take over of running the jail by the sheriff, it would release 12 men from the jail for regular police duties. The City also claims that they paid for a complete 50 per cent share of the jail and because of double taxation they also paid 40 per cent of the countys share and are claiming that the county should reimburse the city for one half of the cost of construction of the jail. City-Coun- city-coun- ty ty Mountain Bell is installing the first electronic telephone switching system in the state and will go into service at the University of Utah. The new system will replace the switchboards and the personnel operating the boards. The new sysetm is faster and far more reliable computer system can be programmed to remember up to 30 separate numbers dialed, can handle 20,000 directory numbers of 10,752 separate lines. By the end of the decade Mountain Bell hopes to have incorporaetd picture telephone service into the $4.8 million switching center. phasis since BLM was organized is concern in recent years about the environment. BLM became actively involved in the environmental movement several years ago with its nationwide Johnny Horizon program, which now is being sponsored by the entire Department of Interior. The message of the mythical Johnny Horizon to all Americans is, This is your land. He appeals to them to keep the environment John A. Klas, outgoing naclean and to respect and care tional chairman of the Univerfor public lands. of Utah Alumni Fund, was sity honored Tuesday for campaign trollable illation and without permitting wide swings from boom to bust in the economy. No doubt it is largely these and related problems that have motivated the young revolutionaries who would like to see the system go down the drain. As they flock to Cuba, mouthing vituperation against their own kind and country, countless millions of U.S. citizens in government and in private life have turned to the task of solving the problems created by success they are work ing to strike a balance between the needs of man and the environment. There are differences of opinion as to how this should be done. Some advocate zero population growth. Some advocate a reduction of energy not a very feasible alternative and some look to breakthroughs in technology" for the answer. No matter what course is chosen in the future, no matter what the revolutionaries may do or say and no matter how much fault is found with the American system, there is one hard fact that no one can deny. It has turned the dream of mankind into reality. The main question now is, how to learn to live with the reality a trillion dollar economy. dial 860 Where thousands of listeners enjoy concert music and news every day! 1 i i J i b S a ( I i j ? 4 I 4 I efforts which saw fund contributions increased by 97 per cent in the past year. Dr. John Dixon, executive vice president, said that under Mr. Klas the alumni fund increased from just under $82,000 to more than $147,000. City Commission members rejected a request for travel expenses of $300.00 each for City Judges Melvin Morris and Robert C. Gibson to attend the North American Judges Assn, conven-toi- n Nov. 8 in Tucson. 15-1- Total mortgage loans made in the Salt Lake County area during the first six months of 1971 have increased more than 100 per cent compared to the same period last year. This year 7,514 loans have ben made while for the same period in 1970, 5,350 loans were made thus an increase of loans of 2,164. Simple goals for everyone clean water and clean air. These goals are the ones set forth for the interest of every person to fight but the person cannot keep up with the problem. A solution sponsored by the Utah League of Women Voters, Uintah chapter of the Sierra Club and the Wasatch Mountain Club and of now individual contributions have established a place for interested citizens to find where hearings will be, who the decision makers are and the other information about the issues. The Utah Environment Center has been established in Sugar House. Life may be a battle of wits but lots of people are poorly armed. I |