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Show FRIDAY, OCTOBER Page Four THE SALT LAKE TIMES UTAH'S Combined with The Salt Lake Mining & Legal New Published Every Friday at Salt Lake City, Utah Second Class Postage paid at Salt Lake City, Utah FEARLESS INDEPENDENT South West Temple Telephone 364-84NEWSPAPER Salt Lake City, Utah 84101 GLENN BJORNN, Publishes "This publication is not owned or controlled by My party, clan, clique, faction or corporation.' 71 64 1 Number 29 Volume 53. io U.S. Eating Habits Scored grains and soybean meal. We feed 80 per cent of all our com, barley and oats and grain sorghum and over 90 soybean crop to livestock. per cent of our We feed about 42 per cent as much wheat to animals in tliis country as we eat ourselves. In addition, our livestock gets large quantities of nutritious wheat germ and bran that are considered impurities in the milling pronon-export- ed cess. In addition to this vast amountof plant food which could be eaten with greater benefit by people, American livestock are fed hundreds of thousands of tons of fish meal and over a million tons of milk products each year. These foods contain proteins of as high or higher quality than the animals themselves can produce. Only a small fraction of these proteins are returned to humans the average protein conversion for U.S. livestock is 10 lbs. of feed to one pound of protein returned as edible meat. A meat centered diet is the most resource expensive of all diets. A steer in the U.S. eats 21 pounds of plant Central Utah Water Project is A $450 Million Development Utah Project, now say that because of delays it may take as much as $450 million in 1973 dollars to complete the Bonneville and the other five much smaller units of the gigantic water project. Gigantic is the word for this long range Utah water development. Designed to conserve, divert and regulate water which now flows off the south slopes of the Uintah Mountains into the Colorado River drainage, the CUP will deliver the water to the Uintah and Sevier basins, and to the Wasatch Front where it is presently needed. The Sierra Club, Trout Unlimited and other similar groups oppose the Central Utah Project, claiming that bringing water to the Wasatch Front is encouraging growth there. Water officials and Governor Calvin L. Ramp-to- n answer this charge, saying that limiting the water supply is not a proper way to limit growth if that is a desirable objective, and that growth will not stop simply because it is not planned for. Opponents to the CUP claim that several hundred miles of Utah trout streams will be destroyed by the dams, reservoirs and water release procedures to enable the project to deliver the water which is legally allocated to Utah to the parts of the state where it is most needed. Utah water officials claim the Sierra Clubs claims are exaggerated. When we talk about our environment we should talk about our total environment, not just trout streams, forested mountains sides, back packing and hiking, Lynn S. Ludlow, general manager of Central Utah Water Conservancy District, has Utah. We must strive to help our farmers provide more foodRussian purchase of American grain have given us stuffs for all of us on a more a taste of a new world of economic order in which other economical basis. The environmental trade offs nations make demands on our resources. This event, along by the 'Central Utah with climatically caused crop declines, made Americans required Projects Bonneville Unit have and also aware for the first time that cattle and people compete been studied, The studied potential for grain. This was not always so. Cattle used to be fed harm to again. Utahs environment is on and primarily miraculously synthesized high minimal even when considered grass itself, and it becomes small quality protein from cellulose. Rut the trend today is to by when compared to the total benfeed livestock greater and greater quantities of protein efits which will come to Utah as so that they will fatten more quickly and thus be more a result of the Central Project. The recently completed Jorprofitable. dan Aqueduct and $8.2 million re-studi- George llorgstrom, nutritionist and geographer, estimated that the rich import a net gain of one million tons of pure protein from poorer countries largely to be used as livestock feed. Rut how long can this go on? As poorer countries begin to demand a more equitable share of economic and political power, we in the rich west will not be able to use their agricultural resources to ed trict. It will also solve the summer low pressure problem on the west side of Salt Lake County, he said. The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) re- quires that environmental impact statements be prepared on all major reclamation projects involving federal funds. The . U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, re- sponsible for the construction of the CUP, has spent nearly two years preparing a CUP study which was submitted to Council on Environmental Qualty August 9, 1973. According to the law, no new construction could begin on the project until the environmental impact statement has been on file with the SEQ for 30 days. There is practically no construction presently under way on the CUP as a result of this requirement. Governor Calvin L. Rampton and members of Utahs Congressional delegates have met personally with Secretary Morton in recent days and urged fast action on the authorizations to move ahead with construction. The Central Utah Water Conservancy District is the governmental unit through with the Central Utah Project was authorized and is sponsored. The special tax district was created in 1964 by Utahs Fourth District Court and is made up by the 12 counties covered by the project. These counties are Duchesne, Garfield, Juab, Millard,' Piute, Salt Lake, Sanpete, Sevier, Summit, Uintah, Utah and Wasatch. Funds for the CUP come from Congressional appropriations or a 1.5 mill tax levied in the 12 participating counties. A major portion of the federal moneys will be repaid from water and power revenue generated by the project. The portion, that will not be repaid represent the cost of benefit of the CUP which will accrue to the general public. These general benefits are in the areas of recreation and flood control. ' Use variety in your mid-da- y lunch. Split freshly baked corn-brea- d squares, spread with cran sauce and add sliced chickberry en or ham. Make a safety check of your home. Most accidents in the home can be prevented if periodic checks are made of loose Wires, small rugs and other home dial fatten our diets. Given the worlds growing population and changing economic relationships, two responses are possible. One is to attemptt o preserve the American Way of Eating by increasing feed production and limiting feed exports. An example of this is the 1973 embargo of soybean exports to Japan. The other response is to realize that a meat centered diet is not a requisite for good health or gastronomic pleasure. the The cost of the Bonneville unit Jordan Treatment Plant will deof the Central Utah Water Proj- liver water to Salt Lake County ect was estimated at $324 million where 50,000 residents are now in 1963, but times have changed. living on borrowed water, acOfficials of the Central Utah cording to Robert Hilbert, genWater Conservancy District, au- eral manager of the Salt Lake thorizing sponsor of the Central County Water Conservancy Dis- protein to produce only one pound of protein in steak for our plate. Thus to supply each person with a meat diet for a year requires almost one ton of grain. To raise this much grain requires from two to three and one-haacres per person; yet the world contains only one acre of agricultural land per person. These figures prove the American diet will never be the diet for all mankind, and mostprobably, is not the diet for our own future. Even today vegetarians and those experimenting with nonmeat centered diets are considered mitfits. Yet in fact the American diet is an oddity, the result of agricultural, economic and political factors unique to this country. Throughout history the staff of life has been a predominantly carbohydrate food such as bread, rice, yams, said. As a part of our environment with animal protein playing only a supplementary role. must also talk about providwe Americans have turned mans traditional diet on its head. ing enough water so that our Meat is central and carbohydrate foods have become children can continue to live in lf THE SALT LAKE TIMES 26, 1973 Where thousands of listeners enjoy concert music and news every day ! LEASED GRDPEVm v Utahs Governor Calvin L. Rampton has said that he will seek authorization to proceed with planning of a police officers training building. He asked the legislature for that authority, but legislators declined, apparently because of a dispute over where it should be located. The governor favors the building adjacent to Weber State College, but has met with opposition from the Peace Officers Training Council and several groups of police officers. A Utahn has been appointed chief of the division of Water and Land by the Bureau of Reclamation. Clifford Barrett of Salt Lake City will begin his new job immediately. Mr. Barrett has been assistant chief of the division since April 1972. There is a possibility that the Model Cities program could be funded for an additional year, but that the chances were less than according to Mel Darton Agency, Director of the Salt Lake City Model Cities Agency. The program is now scheduled for termination in June, 1974 because of new concepts in the revenue sharing programs. The 0 chance is that the revenue sharing monies are allocated with less strings attached so communities can set their own priorities for funding. 50-5- 0, 50-5- Employees in the Secretary of States office are watching the out of state travel requests from state employees with a close tab on who requests it. The Secre- tary of States office is watching the records so that there are not so many employees attending the same meetings. Last week the Governor trimmed nearly $150,000 from out of state travel budgets of many state agencies, including his own. . A law permitting more local control in land use planning and regulations was endorsed this week by the board of governors of the Salt Lake Area Chamber of Commerce. The board in its semi monthly meeting also voted to support low income housing legislation passed by the October special session of the legislature and agreed to assist the Utah Community Progress program, and accepted a proposed retirement plan for chamber employes. A new program is being im- plemented with the Salt Lake County Sheriffs Office which acts to replace handwritten reports with cassette tape recorders has been started. Sheriff Larson said that about a third of his deputies now have casette tap recorders into which they dictate reports rather than go through the long process of writing them. The cassettes are then given to a typist for transcribing. Rep. Samuel Taylor, a Utah State Legislator, has questioned the need for a $314,000 study for environmental impact on the southeast quadrant of the I 215 belt route. In a letter to the Gov-nMr. Taylor pointed to a national trend to stop urban free way construction. or |