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Show September, 1968 Page 3 UTAH FARM BUREAU Farm Bureau policies are the result of the combined thinking and action of thousands of farm people. FARM BUREAU STATE COUNTY "AMERICAN" RESOLUTIONS RESOLUTIONS RESOLUTIONS MEMBERS START HERE BECOME BECOME ARE . . .TO HELP BUILD PROGRAMS FOR 5bT EARNING HIGH SEE mf L.wj.iiiiau.iVMuy NET INCOME RECOMMENDATIONS RECOMMENDATIONS POLICIES FOR DEALING at peace Utah Air Quality Hearings The State Division of Health is proposing WITH) with greater freedom in sound dollars POLICIES FOR DEALING WITH a Code of Regulations Relating to Ambient Air Quality, Open Burning. Hearings will be held at different parts of the state beginning at Salt Lake City on September 10 at the auditorium in the new office building in the State CapitoL These proposed regulations will apply to burning in d agricultural areas. The proposed regulations are below. Farm Bureau members and leaders are urged to study them and make statements at the hearings if they feel that there are proposals that will be important to agriculture. For the convenience of all interested persons, hearings for the above purpose are to be held in seven locations as follows: Salt Lake City, Utah 10 a.m., September 10, 1968, Auditorium, State Office Building. Cedar City, Utah - 10 a.m., September 24, 1968, Court Room, City and County Building Richfield, Utah - 10 a.m., September 28, 1968, Court Room, Sevier County Court House Moab, Utah - 10 a.m., October 1, 1968, City and County Building Price, Utah - 10 a.m., October 2, 1968, City Auditorium, Price Municipal Building Vernal, Utah - 10 a.m., October 3, 1968, Court Room, Uintah County Court House Logan, Utah - 10 a.m., October 15, 1968, Union Building, Utah State University. Representatives of political subdivisions, governmental agencies, agriculture, industry, recreation, sports, conservation and planning or civic groups, and all other persons within or outside the State of Utah having an interest in said proceedings are invited to appear and present their views relevant to the proposed regulations on open burning. Opportunity will be afforded to any and all having a desire to participate. Oral statements will be accepted at the time of hearing, but for accuracy of the record, written statements are encouraged and will be accepted at the time of hearing, or prior thereto and until October 15, 1968. Mailed statements should be addressed to: Executive Secretary, Utah Air Committee, 44 Medical Drive, Salt Lake City, Utah 84113. Copies of the proposed regulaton are being mailed to the chief executive of each political subdivision in the state and to other persons thought to be affected thereby. Copies also may be obtained upon request to the Executive Secretary. UTAH STATE DIVISION OF HEALTH pub-ishe- -- PROPOSED CODE OF REGULATIONS RELATING TO AMBIENT AIR QUALITY OPEN BURNING 1. No open burning shall be done at sites used for disposal of community trash, refuse, garbage, and other waste except upon application and when specifically authorized by the Air Conservaton Committee after appropriate hearing. 2. No person shall burn any refuse, trash, garbage, COUNTY STATE NATIONAL ISSUES ISSUES issues or other waste in any open fire except in conformity with the provisions of Regulations 3 and 4 below. 3. When not prohibited or otherwise regulated by local ordinances or regulations, the following types of open burning are permissible, without the necessity of securing a permit, at any location in the state. FOR BETTER RURAL LIVINC! If Chavez Says Boycott Is Ultimate Weapon (Continued from Page 1) strangle hold to the union In negotiations with farmers as to leave the farmers utterly prostrate. Wliat can you do if your crop Is ready to harvest and your workers walk off the job. Its not like a steel plant or some other kind of an operation that can bank the furnaces and pick up where they left off. In the case of the farmer, if thp product isnt handled when it is ready to harvest, often the whole years crop can be lost in a short tiuw. IIow do you negotiate when its time to pick ripe fruit and you are faced with a demand for Or how do you higher wages? kind of an equal from any bargain basis when its time to pick the tomatoes and someone calls a In devices for the primary purpose of food preparation such as outdoor grills and lire places provided that they are not used for burning of refuse, trash, garbage, or other waste. B. Campfires and fires used solely for recreation purposes where such fires are controlled by a responsible party and no nuisance is created. C. Indoor fire places provided that they are not used for burning of refuse, trash, garbage, or other wastes. D. Properly operated industrial flares for combustion of flamable gases. E. Orchard heating provided that tires, heavy fuel oils, or other materials which can cause severe air pollution are not used. F. Burning on the premises of readily combustible refuse and trash originating on the premises and fires for the open burning of plant life grown on the premises at dwellings of four family units is allowed in those areas only where local trash collection is not available and no nuisance is created. A. strike? Allan Grant, president of the California Farm Bureau met with some of the labor leaders and asked What would we them, have to do to get you off our backs? The answer was, Legislation that would require farmers to bargains with the unions, and that legislation must not contain a no strike clause. 4. When not prohibited by local ordinances or reguUnder these circumstances B D C A have no choice but to refarmers listed as of the lations, open burning types as as possible the efsist and E below are permissible; (1) under the terms of forts tolong force unionization of individual permits issued by authorized local authority the workers. Actually, the farmers are not the under a "clearing index" system approved and coordinones to resist Ceasars efated by the Utah State Division of Health, or (2) only forts to force workers into his orupon application from any source when specifically ganization. An organization of authorized by the Air Conservation Committee after ap- farm laborers has been established called the Agricultural Workers Freedom to Work Organization which has the announced objective of preventing the union from harassing workers on the job and demonstrations at workers homes at night by union representatives. propriate hearing. Agricultural burning, including tree trimmings derived from agriculture operations tree and the burning of cuttings and slash in forest areas where the cuttings accrue from pulping, lumbering, and similar operations, when no nuisance is created. B. Open burning of trees and .brush within highway y provided that dirt is removed from stumps before burning, and that tires, heavy fuel oil or similar materials which can cause severe air pollution are not used to start fires or to keep fires burning. C. Burning of solid or liquid fuel on structures when conducted under the direct control and supervision of local fire departments. D. Open burning in remote areas, of highly explosive or other dangerous materials, for which there is no other known method of disposal, or for special purposes or under circumstances when approved by the Division following formal A. on-premis- es In retaliating right-of-wa- request therefore. E. Open burning of junk automobile bodies, exclusive of tires and readily removable upholstery and other materials which can cause extreme air pollution provided that tires, heavy fuel oil and materials which can cause extreme air pollution are not used to start or maintain the fires. against the boy- cott in New York the farmers have sought relief through the courts. A New York firm of labor lawyers was engaged and an Injunction sought to stop the As of now California boycott. Bureau Farm President Grant says that the chances of marketing a normal crop of California grapes are good. The unions and the chain stores have agreed not to continue the boycott and there is hope that legal remedies can stop the strangling of the grape form- ers sales. In the meantime, the chain stores and the unions are facing a $25 million suit for participating in an unlawful secondary boycott. BOTTLES. While the Agency for International Development (AID) Mission in Laos had on hand 800 water bottles bought for $1.85 each, the U.S. Embassy and U.S. Information Service in Laos were buying similar bottles in Bangkok for $12.50, the State Dept. five-gall- ' on recently disclosed. |