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Show FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1975 Page Eight House Braces for Big Work Load Processing Bills Filed on Deadline i ME 5 ALT LAKE TIMES BLM in Utah Activities Are Economic Conditions Influenced by Energy Crisis Compared to the Nation in 1 The energy crisis and national Oil Co. for the first Utah oil general the economic outlook in Utah over the next six months emphasis on environmental pro- - shale lease offered by BLM. In is accord tection greatly influenced the April, a second prototype oil . considerably brighter, activities of the Bureau of Land shale tract lease was issued by ,Utan Bankers .8 10 re,ctA Management in Utah during BLM to the White River Shale .Asiation (UBA' survey. Oil Corp. for more than 45 milaverage 1974. were There increased efforts lion dollars. The two Utah economic picture will include to Bureau enertracts the are by located develop the employment scene over the approximatenext few months, the bankers gy resources in harmony with ly 40 miles southeast of Vernal Predicted in the recently re- the various other uses of the with 5,120 acres in each tract. national resource lands, stated The oil companies are proceedeec survey L. Howard, BLM state di- ing with baseline environmenForty-eigper cent of the Paul rector for Utah. tal data collection and monitorbankers surveyed said that in steam first The j unto geothermal ing studies before development relation the national rate, on leases of the oil shale resource. employment in Utah over the energy islands in Utah were During 1974, the Utah State next six months will be lower. ' comA sued the e during year. Thirty-onTreasury received $5,003,279 per cent said it will lease from BLM. netitive in sale resulted This represented be higher with the remaining 21 12 bids bonus of on share Utahs of income from $877,188 be will per cent predicting it tracts. on Leases were issued lands within about the same as the national 23,350 acres in the Roosevelt the State. Mineral activities rate. Unemployment in this state Hot Springs known geothermal- contributed the major portion will not be too severe because resource area northeast of Mil- of this amount, There was increased emphasis housing and construction will ford, which is one of the more on areas in Utah. the condition of grazing lands not p promising pick-usubstantially in the In March coal lease first the too distant future, said one throughout the West stated Mr. Public comment was State- offered by the BLM in Utah Howard. northern Utah banker. is- - solicited since was 1970, September, wide resource development projby the Bureau to help to sued Com the Plateau Mining in assessing range conditions cn ects should soon be at a hiring of New lands in pany too. Albuquerque, stage Mexico. The involved an lease is Utah. statePublic The respondents in the participation acres and is located in the important part of the Bureau's wide survey, questioning bankers from throughout the state Wasatch Plateau Coal Field planning process, stated Mr. on current conomic issues fac- south of Price. The lease was Howard. More than 61,000 acres of Department of ing the Nation and in particu- issued under theshort-tercrinever-befor- e the Interiors states the surveyed land on lar Utah, discussed is coal that teria the Kaiparowits Plateau in apparent immunity to many of needed involving for production in the southern Utah was surveyed by the Nations economic problems BLM in connection with a proimmediate future. in essay form. interMr. added electric generHoward that posed coal-fire- d Although a few of the respondents said that Utahs current est in leasing oil and gas on ation station to be located in the economic problems will intensi- federal lands increased during area. Also, an initial rough draft fy within the not too distant fu- the year. A total of 5,870 leases were issued and total the environmental economic the impact statement ture and duplicate on oil lease under the and of the gas (EIS) acreage proposed Kaiparwoes facing the majority owits complex was prepared by United States, most of the bank-ier- s increased to 14,800,000 acres. Early in the year more than BLM. The draft EIS is anticindicated that economically, un75 million dollars was bid by ipated to be available for public Utah would remain partially scathed from the economic prob- Phillips Petroleum Co. and Sun review in April. tial performance as Zerlina in lems facing the Nation. Don Giovanni, on two hours According to the bankers, rea dif37 was of the first notice, sons for this immunity includferent roles she has assumed at ed: a low percentage of labor the Metropolitan. problems, large number of FedHer appearance eral employees, a lack of dephysical matches a voice that critics call pendence on outside economic ineffably beautiful, and she help better government, high .People are not generally aware should have the opportunity to has appeared on television more level of thrift and an immense of the desperate pj light the men- live in small family type homes, often than any other opera star energy potential. tally retarded face in regards to whether they reside at the in history. is Famed for her our economy "Essentially, proper living situations. We have Training School or in the comknowledge of and sensitivity to more basic and less volatile than seen great strides in program- munity, she said. opera, Miss Peters also embraces the Nation as a whole, one ming for the retarded in Utah. The Training School currentmusicals like The King and I, Utah Bankers Association mem- However, in the past eight or ly operates 14 group homes and for which she won praise in ber said. and litOur agriculture 10 years we have seen very seven day activity centers in Washington, D. C. in 1972, and mineral base has remained quite tle, if any, money appropriated Utah and is requesting funding Noel Cowards Bittersweet, stable and our manufacturing, for housing for the mentally re- to establish six additional group which earned her raves in St. in addition has been the topping tarded said Mrs. Elaine S. homes and four more day acLouis last August. on the cake. Director of the tivity centers throughout the Executive Sharp, Ravels music provides a fitMental Retardation Association state. This would be a step forthe for Utah (MRAU). tingly emotive setting ward but it still falls short of Of Law of The Association recently sent the demand for similar homes in provocative Miss Peters. A mu- U of U College sical impressionist he colors his Receives Grant For to legislators a special report other locations in the state. This work with the sights and sounds and policy statement, support- need to build group homes is our of dances and natural images. Summer Institute ing the budget requests of the number one legislative priority, La Valse is one of his later Utah State Training School in and will be until the retarded in 1) from page (Continued American works, composed in 1920, and Fork, community Utah are living in adequate chronicles the lavish era that tional deficiencies, she says. based programs for the retard- housing, which is not the case interThe mentally retarded and the Associations posi- now. produced the waltz and its Participants will receive free ed, Ma Mere of lOve 12 items on tion human legislation are preters. beings. They deserve room and board as well as a a Goose issues Suite) paints (Mother facing to live in homes in a more norsmall living stipend. Upon com- and appropriations Mrs. canvas of famous childrens said session. pletion of the institute, they will lawmakers this which was also malized setting, stories in coloristic sound The report, Sharp. be enrolled at one of the five Le law schools involved in the pro- sent to parents of retarded chilThe Frenchman wrote Tombtau de Couperin in 1917 gram and will receive a SI, 000 dren, said its main priorities Cadet Judd Werner, son of as a suite of six Seventeenth stipend each year they are in were: the construcion of group on and Mrs. George J. Werner Mr. and homes in the community Century forms and dances for school. the piano, and transcribed it as Director of the U. institute the campus of the Utah State of 1203 Carousel St., Salt Lake four movements for the orches- will be C. Benjamin Moya, as- Training School; the approval City, Utah, has been named to tra in 1920. Here, too, he shows sociate professor of law. Par- of adequate funding for the the Commandants List for his the evocative powers of his com- ticipating law schools include School, and community services outstanding military performposition, which according to the the U. of U., Brigham Young provided by the School and the ance at the U. S. Air Force late critic Milton Cross, can University, University of New Division of Family Services; and Academy. Cadet Werner a member of bring forth birds deep in a for- Mexico, Arizona State Univer- language changes to remedy imest or waves on a shore or the sity and the University of Ariz- proper terminology in the state the class of 1978, will wear a music of fountains, cascades and ona. statutes relating to the mentally silver wreath designating the honor accorded him by the treams. Application deadline for the retarded and other handicapped of Cadets. Tickets for the Ogden concert summer institute is March 31. people. 1974 on the The graduate of West Many of the buildings ire sold in the Bertha Eccles and interested persons must take Arl Center, and those for the the standard Law School Ad- gfrounds are old, three story High School will be commisarc mission Test by Feb. 8. Further buildings which were construc- sioned a second lieutenant and Tabernacle performance available at the Utah Symphony information about the program ted in the 1930s and are fire awarded a B. S. degree upon office, 55 West First South, Salt may be obtained from the U. hazards for those residing in his graduation from the them. We feel all the retarded Lakc City, telephone College of Law. Processing an avalanche of ing process. new bills filed on the Feb. 11th In other action, the House deadline for new measures, the gave its stamp of approval to Utah House of Representatives House Bill 21, The Safe Walk- began the second half of the ways Act, which extends State 41st Legislature facing some 600 aid to construct sidewalks for unfinished Legislative packages. school children who must walk Hailing a spirit of cooperation to school along hazardous high- and dedication during 12 to 16 ways hour workdays, House Speaker Additionally, the House pass- Ronald U. Rencher congratulat- ed HB 112, which creates a sys- ed the House lawmakers for tern of uniform fiscal and pertheir efforts to approve land- formance budgeting and acHouse mark legislation specifying the counting for counties. tax-fre- e dolrate a Bill of 135, allowing utility orderly process check-off for increases. Utah lar taxpayHard work of the Legislat- ers who wish to support public ors is best exemplified by House financing of the political process Bill 227, continued Speaker was also passed and sent to the , Rencher, which enhances the Senate. On of the Public Feb. 18th, the Utility Tuesday, ability Commission to process utility House will debate the controrate increase requests with versial Equal Rights Amendgreater speed and thoroughness ment in what is expected to be to serve both the utilities and ithe most intense and emotional the public. Earlier utility rate- of issues this year. In order to meet their responmaking bills which were ap17 SB to consider all 600 rethe and sibilities Senate, proved by unacto be SB 43, were found maining bills in a fair, deliberto House members. ate and exhaustive manner, ceptable cf the vulnerability Recognizing Speaker Rencher expects that public utilities unable to seek Legislators will soon begin swift relief from cost ining and weekend sessions. Its increases, the Representatives a 24 hour-a-da- y job if Repre-spearriv-meet hours of hard work ; sentatives are to the needs 30 HB at iof the Utah in 227, compromise remaining ing which allcw for speedier rate de- days of the Legislature, concisions by the Public Utilities cluded Speaker Rencher. For further information, Commission, partial emergency rate increases for utilities, and please call, toll free, (800) House of Representatives yet maintains continued public rate-maover the public information desk. supervision 1 ht BLM-admin-ister- ed ; ! - j j BLM-administer- ed j i j j BLM-administer- 1,-3- ed 60 eve-reasona- nt 662-535- k- Opera and Romance Shimmer m 0, j I ! In Utah Symphony Salute The gold and silver of moonlit romance will color the Utah Symphonys next concert, as Metropolitan Opera soprano Roberta Peteri and musical impressionist Maurice Ravel spin their satiny sounds Feb. 27 in Ogden and March 1 in Salt Lake City. Maurice Abravanel and the Symphony will salute Ravel, the French-bor- n contemporary of Debussy, with three of his most famous works: Le Tom-bea- u Ma Mere de Couperin. Goose Suite), lOye (Mother and La Valse. Miss Peters will include two Ravel vocal works Five Greek Folk Songs and Piece en forme de Habanera in her program of songs and arias. The coloratura soprano also will sing works from operas like Mozarts Don Giovanni (Batti, batti), Donizettis Linda di Chamounix (O luce di quest Rigoletto anima), Verdis La Puccinis and nome) (Caro Boheme (Mi Chiamano Mimi). The Symphony will add historical perspective with a work of another Ravel contemporary, Satie: Les aventures de Mcr-cure. The Ovden concert Thursday. Feb. 27 in the Weber College Fine Arts Auditorium, and the Salt Lake concert Saturday, March 1 in the Tabernacle, both start at 8 o.m. The second concert falls four days short of 1h:: 100th birth. The anniversary of Ravc1' almost-legcndn- ry Ms Peters began voice lessons at age 13 as part of her studies in language and dramatics, and was signed to a contract by impresario Sol Hurok before she ever had appeared professionally. Her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1956 came earlier than anywhen she filled one expected in only two months after heraudition. The coloralura's ini- Housing for Mental! Retarded Greatly Needed in Utah Com-mande- 328-640- 7. nt |