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Show Editorials SALT FLAT NEWS JANUARY 1971 THE SALT FLAT NEWS is published twelve times a year by the Salt Flats Publishing Corporation, a Utah corporation. O Editor Richard Nahum Goldberger Feature Editor Richard Menzies Special Assistant Summer Hymas Will Lucas Don Young Paul Taylor Laura Heiner Contributors 'SALT SUCH A WONDERFUL you product, CAN EAT IT ON IT! CHEM1GAU-- Business Manager Marlon U. Stones E. Paul Wood Advertising Director Y PROCESS IT AND SHOT-PU- T INTO Business Office: 344 East First South, Salt Lake City, Utah Editorial offices: Wendover and Salt Lake City, Utah IT! Editorial assignments or contributions are directed only through the managing editor. The SALT FLAT NEWS is not responsible for unsolicited or unassigned material. UNNATURAL DISASTER Time was when mankind stood in awe of the ungovernable forces of nature and hoped for the best. These days we are expected to greet with equal reverence those unnatural or manmade disasters that seem to befall us with ever greater frequency. THIS IS THE PLACE... BESIDES IF Y3ti OVER StMoT, SALT LAKE HAS WIDE STREETS .. Last month, as a radioactive cloud the result of a surprise venting from an underground thermonuclear test-flo- ated over Wendover and other relatively unpopulated areas, the Atomic Energy Commission urged bystanders to take no alarm. The radiation fallout, the AEC assured, will probably have no more effect than an The difference, however, and one which we think is worthy of note, is that one voluntarily submits to an But in the shadow of a radioactive cloud, he appears quite X-ra- y. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Inquiring Dear Editor: Photographer THE QUESTION WHAT BAD HABIT DO YOU INTEND TO DROP THIS YEAR. X-ra- y. helpless. e. WHERE ASKED The governments attitude toward inhabitants of marginal land is not new. When in 1966 a nerve gas leak at nearby Dugway Proving Ground destroyed 4,000 sheep and Wendoverites and other survivors went without so much as a consolatory .oops from their government. A person living on the west Utah desert is sometimes like an actor playing the part of a supernumerary in a science fiction film; he is the hermit who discovers the invading evil in his backyard, or whose townspeople mysteriously vanish overnight. Lest such a nightmare Dbwntown Wendover THE ANSWERS NEWS Photo by R. Goldberger -- I read with a great deal of interest and amusement Volume 1 Number 4 of the Salt Flat News and would like to congratulate you on an interesting endeavor. However, 1 hope you know your newspaper business better than farm machinery or you are in for some rough going. i.e. page 9. The old rusty harrow pictured in the upper right hand corner must be a horse drawn bull-rakI suppose if the one makes is not mistake only rake from a harrow, a knowing are still on you pretty firm ground. I would like to wish you success at your Journalism venture. Sincerely, John Mark Sorensen Associate Librarian for Materials Selection Utah State University Betty Rodgers, 1610 Yale Drive, Garland, Texas: CHASING MEN. 'tt L occur, and the probability of chance dictates that it can, the News urges its readers to make their relatively unpopulated voices heard before it does. FIVE LAYER DINNER Mining the Great Salt Lake for valuable minerals is not unlike sitting down to partake ot a five layer dinner. Before one is served steak, a hedge of greens and associated fillers need to be confronted, so that when the steak is served, the eater is a trifle disillusioned if not plain tired from pushing away the greenery. Extracting minerals from the Great Salt Lake could be compared to eating such a dinner. The salad and other bulkery is replaced with sodium chloride well known to many as common table salt. Five, million tons of this white wonder will be extracted annually by Great Salt Lake Chemical Companies plant at Little Mountain, Utah, in their attempt to process potassium and magnesium. Over four fifths of this salt will be recycled back into the southern arm of Great Salt Lake where a serious salt deficiency exists. Ironically, conservationists are praising Great Salt Lake Chemical Corporation in their rigid attempt to preserve the ecological balance of Utah's inland sea. A prevailing question is whether or 'not there exists an easier method to extract the more valuable minerals of the Lake but at ' the same time bypass the sodium chloride. Great Salt Lake Chemical Company has put on stream a thirty million dollar plant that utilizes the evaporitory system of mineral recovery. To take note of the future one must anticipate the constant use of technology as a tool to solve problems. Technology does not just appear out of some magical laboratory but is relative to the attachment of human minds to solve problems given the necessary definitions of what you want to solve. Is the ponding and evaporatory system the only way to mine the lake? The answer would indeed seem to confirm this concept however, research should be increased rather than take a back seat to production as costs bear a direct relationship to objectives and research is the only way to streamline objectives; or, better phrased, get the most of your moneys worth. Just how much is the most? Only research will tell and research never ends. For that matter, a smart youngster will find a way to the dessert without eating the vegetables or the steak. . XW Old Man Mac Donald, Mobile Service Station, Wendover, Utah: No you to try to break the ones I broke last year. Been in Wendover eleven years and the ones I broke last year 1 broke the year before and before that I June Thirkil, Oakland, California: Bad habits like egg once broke, cant be put back together John Lombcrt, Lunenburg, Mass.: again. Thats a bad question. SHERIFF EMERITUS Where is Fay Gillette going? The word retirement is a bad word and like a lot of bad words should be literally junked from the English language. One may hear that a steam engine or trolley car was retired to live a peaceful life of rust however the implication that a man need go the same way is absurd. This absurdity is probably realized only too well by Sheriff Gillette who like the wise professor, decided to do a little less writing and more teaching. A fallacy of age implies one climbs a ladder or no return. At the end of this mythical ladder lies the Legend, an Ozian creature that literally does nothing though is credited with having done everything. Age is all but for a state of mind. Just ask Fay Gillette heading into the Sheriffs Office. Lyle L. Mallory, Salt City, Utah: What I cannot I do not make. What I do make I cannot keep. 1 i |
