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Show "TV LuMlllAi HHE Volume XVI, No. 3 r Im. i. . i J70 No Substitute forearming, Rampton Tells Utah County Governor Calvin L. Rampton told the nearly 500 people attending the annual Utah County 'Farm Bureau winter convention, that there will be an need for food as the worlds population increases. The meeting, held February 19th, brought a large number f Utah County Farm Bureau members and guests together. Also in atendance were Elmo W. Hamilton, ' UFB president, V. Allen Olsen, UFB Executive Secretary. Eldon Money, Palmyra, conducted the afternoon session, while Glade Gillman, Orem, conducted the morning session. ever-increasi- ng Governor Calvin L Rampton told a Utah County audience that his office is working to avoid a flood on the shores of Utah Lake. He also told a Utah Farm Bureau seminar on water rights and pollution, that farmers will have to assume much responsibility in avoidin our landlocked state. ing water pollution "build-up- " Reclamation Official Challenges Critics t A special Utah Farm Bureau Seminar on. Water Rights and Water Pollution was held in Salt Lake City, February 9th and 10th for water users, irri- gation company officials and other interested Farm Bureau members. Keynote speaker was to have been Ellis Armstrong, U.S. Commissioner of Reclamation. He was called to Washington at the last minute and the speech he had prepared was delivered by David L. Crandall, Bureau of Reclamation, Region Four Director. In his prepared speech, Mr. Armstrong said, In 1969 the gross value of .crcps produced on federal reclamation projects was $1.8 billion. Only $287 million or 16 percent of this value was from the production of wheat, feed grains and cotton, generally the price supported crops other than tobacco, none of which is grown on reclamation lands. Noting that 65 percent of. the gross crop value on reclamation lands was from the production of fruits, nuts, nursery crops, seeds and forage, he said, Less than two percent of the United States Feed grains and wheat produced were attributable to federal reclamation projection. And keep in mind; these projects are entirely located in the Western States which are mostly feed grain deficit areas. Mr. Armstrong said he was especially concerned about thinking in some areas that anything man does in the management of his environment is harmful. Utah was not a land of milk and honey until man put water on the land and it would soon revert to desert If your efforts and our he said. efforts were stayed, The United States has about 50 million acres of reserved cropland, he said, but the country has been losing cropland at the rate of a million acres a year since 1930, primarily through urban en- croachment. many resource prohe grams, said, "reclamation own its way. pays "The federal investment to date is approximately 90 percent reim'Unlike bursable. The present total return to the treasury, cash on the barrelhead, from reclamation operations is running about $240 million annually. Our total allotment in the Presidents budget this year is only $295 million.' ' Stressing that Farm Bureau members should not take reclamation accomplishments for granted, Mr. Armstrong said, "Many of these things I have been telling you here are not particularly news to you. 'I have told them because I want to name all of you missionaries to carry the gospel of reclamation to high places in youx organization and elsewhere and Jordan River four or five miles north of the lake cannot carry off the water as rapidly as the Provo River carries it into the lake. He said that the outlet known as Indian Ford is on solid rock and deepening the outlet would be extremely difficult. He indicated that using electric pumps would cost at least $6,000 per month. He said that negotiations are now underway between Utah Power and Light and the Deer Creek water officials in an effort to decrease the flow of the Provo River so that the level of the Utah Lake would he maintained at two inches below compromise. The Lake shore. danger of flooding becomes crucial when the level is six Inches He Indicated that it was a comabove compromise and it is near plex problem and pointed out the fact that the slow flow of the that now, he said. Calling on the farmers to make would cripple the project. "Utah more intensive efforts at farmneeds that water, he said. ing, Governor Rampton said he can Asking for a show of hands to see new horizons for agriculture. Indicate those who lived on the The need for food is becoming more shores of Utah Lake, Governor acute, he said, and there is no Rampton assured the 30 or 40 substitute for agriculture. Utah who responded that flooding of Utah will see a time, he said, when we Lake will be prevented. He said will need the latest technology to that the prospect of runoff is as produce the largest yield possible great this year as it was last per food of water. Water still Is year and should be within six the key to everything, he said, inches of compromise level in and added that Utih has enough May. But he said that talks are water for Industrial and culinary underway to try to hold lack the use until the turn of the century. water in Deer Creek with a trade to the Central Utah agreement to release it out in the Turning Project, the governor'' indicated dryer months to avoid flooding. He that he and a group of other said the treaty will 1 tween water Wesrern governors had. met with users in Salt Lake and the Utah Vice President Agnew and Agriculture Secretary Hardin, in an effort to convince them not to cut its funding to the point where it : highlydflcerned water users and irrigation company officials gathered February 9th and for a Farm Bureau water seminar, which focused on water rights and water pollution. to give your, congressional deletodays water contains pollutants giving them unnecessary help. In full the which are not as obvious visibly, "When people who ought to know gation support doing same job in Congress. but hold a great deal more threat. better give these people comfort Other speakers on the seminar "We live in a large bowl here as well as their money, I think included Governor where wind is lower than the rest were battling over the wrong kind Rampagenda of the country generally, there is of pollution in this country right ton, Hubert Lambert, state enginAsslstantDlr-ector, eer; Lynn Thatcher, lower,, emission per square mile now. What these young men and and the concentration buildup beBureau of Disease Prevenwomen represent is a cause tion and Environmental Control; comes heavier, Rampton said. which has declared It will destroy Dan Lawrence, Director of the The Governor recalled a trip all those institutions which now Utah Division of Water Resourhe had taken by air last Autumn provide them with the forums they in which he had observed a layer use to such advantage." ces; Dr. Howard Petersen, Agriculture Engineering Department, a layer of smoky air extending ar.d U.S. U.; from Brigham City down through Mclntire, N AFBF Director of Natural Rethe various canyons and valleys, o sources. to Kanab. Governor Rampton stressed that "The problem is extensive and CO agriculture has a major role in requires the work of everyone to CD the battle against pollution. He get it solved," the Governor said. 3 htr4 said that, pollutants from cattle 4 The seminars concluding Pii) drain into streams in some areas speaker was Clifford Mclntire, who o one in Utah. "At one, he said, pointed out that there are more 401 H 03 "Mother Nature could take care of than one kind of pollution. Pointthe problem, but the growth of the to a ing speech by Jerry Rubin, one of the "Chicago Seven", given industry has outstripped natures at the University of Utah shortly ability to cope with it, he coma & mented. a after the famous Chicago trial to citizens 4 urged Mr. Mclntire that Rampton said "keep ended, this a sensible and reasonable attitude mans activities reminded him code) of the quotation by Edmund Burke, toward pollution. Emotional reactfsk c Q a D 4 tion wont help much." at even a rat dike, "By gnawing H While it Is true that. the water may drown a nation. 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