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Show SALT FLAT NEWS, JULY, 1971 Editorials 3 mm hik wf All good things seem to come to an end and the Wen-dovDump is no exception according to The State of Nevada. Present plans call for the dump to be returned to' its original arid condition minus the mark of man. While a new dumping site is planned on the Utah side, it is not todays object of the NEWS to ponder on, though there seems to be a certain air about that particular decier sion. An object worthy of note is that a dump is really an investment in recycling and the business of garbage starts at the bottom. A suggestion to Nevada might be to resalvage via a contractual route, the components, be they various and sundry, that constitute the dump. Utilizing the present location of the dump as a pilot project for this research in recycling. A matter, too, of secondary importance would be the status of Floyd Eaton, Guardian of Garbage and other treasures. Initiation of such a project as proposed here would encourage Mr. Eaton to stay on in Nevada rather than to leave Wendover in search of new frontiers. You can sure bank on the saying that there will always be garbage notwithstanding life, death, and taxes. PERFORMANCE Letters to the Editor Dear Editor: My husband and I live in Castro Valley, California; however, we own some acres of Utahs Salt Flats near the Ludn cutoff in Box Elder County. We do hope that Utahs spaceport will go through. We had a friend who was visiting in Salt Lake bring us some newspapers and we enjoyed reading Wendover s picture paper, The Salt Flat News. I have ensubclosed a check for a one-yeisPlease send back any scription. sues you may have. ar Thank you, Capt. and Mrs. O. B. Lundgren P.O.Box 2224 Castro Valley, California for the benefit of Judy Wheeler In your April issue of the Salt Flat News you have pictured a rock formation on the southern shore of the Great Salt Lake near Lake Point, Utah. You have referred to the rock as The De Gaulle Stone and as Agnew Rock. Ve got just I do not want to be disagree-ablbut I was born and raised in Lake Point, as were my father and mother. For all their lives and mine the rock has been known as "Burmeisters Nose. It may not make too much difference to anyone, but it bothered me to have it referred to as something else in our day. I do not know the history of ej how it got the name of Burmeisters Nose but would like to find out. Thank you, Mrs. Marlene Goodenaugh 8894 W. Helen Drive Magna, Utah 84044 scientific knowledge and economic management? SEN. MOSS: I would welcome such a study. The Great Salt Lake is unique. Its the only thing like it in the Western Hemisphere and I guess the only other lake similar to it is the Dead Sea in Israel. I would like to see a full and complete scientific study of the lake and all of the ecologic and geologic circumstances that surround that body of water. Were beginning to exploit the brines of the lake to quite a high degree and we ought to be able to project to know what this is going to bring to the lake. Are we really going to dry it up or will the lake stabilize at some point? All of these things we dont know and we ought to know if we can find them out. Dear Editor: ' It has been brought to my attention that a recent article in your January, National Edition, focused attention to NEWS photo by R. Mcnzin Dear Editor: UTAH HIST. IOC. Charles Kelly - Utah Scribe Words are created with the hope that they will outlast the author. Unfortunately, most authors tend to outlast their literary creations. But when words do outlast their creator, the greatest tribute a person can pay is to read his works. Charles Kelly left Utah at after the age of eighty-tw- o and books six authoring the on articles hundreds of history of Utah. Unlike many historical writers, Mr. Kellys works had a personal sparkle, allowing the reader the privilege of creating his own verbal television while either exploring the Hasting Cutoff (Salt Desert Trails) or riding along with Butch Cassidy (Outlaw-Trail)- . Mourning the departure of Mr. Kelly is a temporary thing; more lasting' are his works and the pleasure of reading them, which is the zenith of tribute one can pay to such an author as Charles Kelly. the one ! (Reprint from January Issue) : The Great Salt Lake untO recently has been considered a geologic white elephant in the eyes of researchers. Would you favor a research task force set up similar to the International Geophysical Year (IGY) with a mission to study the Great Salt Lake too. Dear Editor:' I NEWS Dear Editor: I have read your paper and I especially like the stories called Queen of Blood. It is great western writing. My dad likes it 5th Avenue New York, N.Y. ! I am looking through the Salt Flat News this morning before leaving for school. I see here on the cover a picture of a girl looking up. It says Adastra A harbinger to the heavens screams into Salt Lake City while pretty Maretta Ann Hatch awaits the future of winged things to ome. I would like a question answered. Why in heavens name do you have her pose like that ! with dress clear up to her If she were out in the wilds, as the picture portrays, surely she could wear slacks. Just what is she supposed to be looking for? In that position and that dress it could be other than winged things ! Thanks, Worried about our times jSunset, Utah remarks made by Senator Frank E. Moss, concerning insight to 'Salt Flats, page 5. In particular, those comments concerning the Great Salt Lake and the research task force with a mission to study the Lake for the benefit of scientific knowledge The Utah Geological and Survey was created and funded by the legislature as set forth in Utah Code It operates under the advice and ... Min-eralogic- saaar al NEWS photo by H. Laugfwwr guidance of an Advisory Board whose members are selected from organizations specified by law. Currently UGMS activities are concentrated in three general areas: (1) Utahs energy resources with special emphasis on coal and sandstones; (2) Great Salt Lake; (3) Urban and engineering geology wherever geologic hazards exist in Utah but with emphasis on the problems of the Wasatch Front. The Great Salt Lake represents the greatest untapped potential source of revenue for the state, the UGMS, therefore, has been attempting to learn everything posed sible concerning the Lakes e nature of future, the the Lakes mineral reserve, and e the Lakes equilibrium. The urgency of this project calls for expansion of studies of Great Salt Lake with emphasis on the effect of pollutants on brine and on shores and bottom sediments of the lake. long-tim- long-tim- (Continued on page 7) mt sss THE SALT FLAT NEWS is published twelve times a year by the Salt Flats Publishing Corporation, a Utah Corpora- tion. EDITOR Richard Nahum Goldberger GENERAL MANAGER Jess Green - P.O. BOX 11717 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 84111 |