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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1974 Page Boyden Explains Owens' Defeated Indian Bill THE SALT LAKE TIMES Combined with The Salt Lake Mining & Legal News Published Every Friday at Salt Lake City, Utah Second Class Postage paid at Salt Lake Gty, Utah 1 1 South West Temple Telephone Salt Lake Gty, Utah 84101 364-846- 4 GLENN BJORNN, Publisher or corporation. Number LEASED GRflPEVIIVk 'This publication is not owned or controlled by any party, clan, clique, faction Volume 53 the 51 f Tourism is up in Weber, Davis and Box Elder Counties, say of- Clean Air Costs Money ficials. Robert N. Barry, executive director of the Golden Spike Empire, Inc., said that the (Continued from page one) for a power plant in the U.S. Within weeks after installation, cracks appeared in the stainless steel blades of the six 12 ton induced draft fans associated with the scrubbers. During the ensuing months attempts were made to the repair the original fans while output of power at shortplants was reduced, leading to a threat of power constructed ages. Finally, the fans were redesigned and of str onger material. By the time the scrubbers were operating at design efficiency, their cost liad soared to $30 million. The staggering increase from the original $7 million was due chiefly to rising costs of labor and materials and premeium prices paid for those items in order to expedite the installation of the scrubbers. This is a story of a side of pollution control that the public rarely hears. It helps explain why clean air costs in the years money and why the cost of energy will rise ahead, and remember, it is the story of the expenditures of just one company on a single project. jump in visitors was reflected in a rise in transient room tax revenue. Revenue derived from the room tax which is charged each person staying at area hotels or motels was up about 12 percent in the final quarter of 1973 compared to a year ago. A large portion of the cost of the second phase of planning Rep. Wayne Owens John Boyden This article is an answer to one by Donald Holbrook carried our citizens, would Mr. by The Salt Lake Times March against shed crocodile tears Holbrook 21, 1974. for the aggressor or would he With a strained effort to draw be less generous with Utah land issue in a party nomination cam- than he is with the property of paign, Donald Holbrook charged the Hopi Indians? The Owens Bill would provide Representative Wayne Owens o with sponsoring paymen tfor the hogan or house legislation without fully consid- of every Navajo required to of the ering the human element in- move over to his one-ha- lf volved. This superficial conclu- land, it would pay for the movsion appears to those who are ing, and would add additional more intimately acquainted with sums to improve the Navajos the facts as political expediency new home. The bill provides rather than compassion for the S29, 000, 000.00 for this purpose. Indians. Where else in American history Does Mr. Holbrook know that have trespassers been treated so the rights the Owens Bill seeks generously? to protect have been fully litiNavajo bills with various disgated and twice sustained by guises have been introduced to the Supreme Court of the United take the Hopi land from the Hopi States? After trial and airing of people, give it to the Navajos the pleas of both sides, the Court and have the government pay for held that the failure of the Hopi it. This land is not for sale. The to continue to occupy the area Lujan,. Meeds and Montoya Bills from which they were evicted are all woves in Cotswold, was due to fear of the encircling and Southdown pelts. to and Arizona Goldwater and Senators cope Navajos inability with Navajo pressure. There are Fannnin, Arizona Representative aout 1,000 Hopis, but well over Steiger and Utah Representative 100,000 Navajo Indians. The Owens have exhibited the couCourts also held that exclusion rage necessary to fight for what of the Hopi has at all times been is right without regard for political consequences. illegal. Is it any wonder that the The Courts have further held of seek their that the Nevajos overgrazed the Hopis partition Joint Use Lands when you con- Joint Use Area in 1968 by 400 sider what the Courts have of its capacity and that the land found concerning mutiliation of is now in poorer condition. The Hopi livestock by cutting off the lands will soon be worthless to ears or the tails or by shooting anyone. Navajos will either move out of the area or disappear with the Hopi cattle? Mr. Holbrook expresses great the dying grass roots os needless concern for the Navajo who has erosion destroys the earths poencroached upon and taken pos- tential. session of Hopi lands. Has not Eleven years of negotiations a Hopi eyes to witness the have failed to budge the Navajo Has not a Hopi ears position Navajo take all. If to hear the bellowing of tortured neither Congressional action nor cattle and the cries of their Court proceedings is necessary, neighbors beaten and molested Mr. Holbrook, what is the anby their professed friendly swer? Off the cuff opinions are neighbors? If a trespassing Nava- not indicative of true jo splits open the head of a Hopi policeman with a 4 x 4, as was the case, does the policeman not bleed? There are human eleFREEZONE ments Mr. Holbrook has overHopi-Navaj- Nuclear Safeguards The growing numbers of nuclear power plants in of safely storing operation accentuates the importance fissionable material. The possibility that such material could be stolen and transformed into crude nuclear weapons is a real one. In a recent issue of Science Magazine, writer Robert Gillett discusses a report of the General Accounting Office (GAO) on safeguarding of fissionable material. The GAO examined three of nearly 100 organizations that process nuclear materials under contracts or licenses from the AEC. Investigators found, he said, that all fissionable material was stored in portable containers about the size of a small coffee can. 'These containers were steel or cinderblock kept in storage sheds made of sheet and were surrounded by fences, wired with alarms, and watched by guards, and protected by locks. At two plants the GAO found unlocked locks, alarms that failed to work or were easily failed, and the could not see large guards that neglected to patrol or sections of the facilities. Since that investigation, the AEC has tightened the of nuclear security on both transportation and storage s material. The AEC proposed stringent security meas-ureacalling for armed guards, active intrusion alarms, searches of persons and vehicles entering or leaving the communication storage and processing areas, redundant fissionable mawith police, and careful inventories of terial. Strong protests from the nucelar industry, however, resulted in softening many rules, he wrote. The civilian power reactor business is not yet large enriched uraenough to deal in amount of plutonium or 1 nium that coulo be used to make a weapon. he writer concludes, however, that the U.S. must prepare now for looked. The nomadic Navajo have no a time in the future when there will be large quantities of in and stockpiled difficulty in moving onto the weapons usable material transported Hopi land, but their tribal wagon the country. no reverse. They move in i dep-radation- Ram-bouill- et s? today and tomorrow cry ancestral home. The Navajos, like a octupus, have taken In this computerized age, it is well to remember the creeping most of the Hopi lands that will I John Prof. to brain. of j. mans never be returned. This is a last According superiority is by ditch stand for the Hopi to reMeier, there is little doubt that the human brain tain the land, the legal title to far the most perfect computer. It has several billion wThich has been quieted in the a of the on hours four mans white the Tribe can it energy by Hopi operate circuits; courts. single peanut; it is completely mobile: it occupies less than If Navajos were taking 1,000,-00- 0 a cubic foot of space, and probably best of all. it is proacres of Utah land in San labor. or Grand County by force Juan unskilled duced by IS FOR CORNS THAT HURT. arcund with painful corns, when Freszone can help you remove them. Try it. Youll see. In just days, the corn will be gone... the hurt will be goi.e. Painterly. No dangerous cutting. No ugly pads or plasters. Drop or, Freezone off coins. Why fool ta-.- fi n.r- 'j - CT... I ..I.-w.-.- l-t . - (s', ' t for the Salt Lake International Airport expansion program will be paid by the federal government. The Federal Aviation has approved the to grant pay for the planning costs. Airport Manager Murray Bywater said that this will pay about two thirds of the total planning cost. The remaining $41,000 must be paid by the city. Airport Commissioner Conrad Harrison recently reported that $21 million worth of improvements at the airport will get under way soon. Ad-ministrta- The Salt Lake County Commission will make available to the public later this spring the copies of the Salt Lake County Government Study Report. The county commission has asked the county purchasing department to determine how much should be charged per copy. The repor will be issued ne t month from the commissioners offices. The study from an 11 member citizen commission first issued the report last month after a year long study of how to improve and change the county form of government. The report recommends switching to a community council mayor government from the present three man commission system. Utahs Governor Calvin Ramp-to- n has scheduled a conference to announce plans for the Western Governors Conference on Agriculture here next month. Gov. Rampton and the Federation of Rocky Mountain States will conduct a four day meeting involving 16 western states. The conference will conclude with a U. S. Senate Agriculture Committee hearing on recommendation for new and aggressive U. S. domestic and international agricultural policy for the Western United States. Utahs Congressman Wayne Owens said that money should not be provided for the Army development of a new so called binary nerve gas. Ren. Owens asked the House Armed Services Committee to hold off authorizing work on the reported safer binary gas because there arc inconsistencies in the military posture in chemical warfare and stated U. S. policies at the Geneva Arms Limitation negotiations. The binary gas has been sought byl the Defense Department because it consists of two substances that are relatively harmless until mixed together. Their use would allow the U.S. to dispose of the toxic old style gas in storages in Utah and else where around the nation. |