Show dMOHilMfairioMlinT sr"r ' 4— Tilt HtraM Journal Ltm Utah Saaday October SI 1971 the ‘great water witch — continues to rest in peace while the fanners and cattlemen down on catching and holding the the river Just f buck’ that has been passed on down Bear Farmers in 'I Trenton are fighting mad i s - River” Said Wood: “I used to be able to raise hay and grain on my land but it was flooded so much that I put it Into pasture Now I don’t even have that Just cockleburrs” ' Silted river channel from page 1 ) going to harvest It fixed that” said Vaughn’s brother James Spackman “I have about 100 acres and the river fills the low places and subs file high ones so I can’t do anything with it The last 10 years I haven’t been able to raise anything bid burrs I used to get three good crops of alfalfa off there every year We don’t even get enough off that laid to pay the taxes” The situation has worsened in the past 10 years Wood said as silt filled the river channel “There’s no real channel now to carry the water and silt out” Prior to that he said it was only a few occasions that the river overflowed its bantu But now it is a regular occurence the river bed is much higher than it used to be Commented Theron Hansen "About all I’ve got now is cockleburrs I’ve been flooded so much that it kills the pasture out” to say that UP&L should dredge the river It’s true that the river channel silts up aim this reduces its capacity to carry water Haight said “But you can’t dredge a natural water- way without an act' of Congress It wouldn’t work anyway because it would fill right up again There is down the river” Farmers being Mused?” Not company’s fault "That’s a deal” he said “They Besides he said it is not UP&L’s operation r (UP&L) use jmur land for storage and make which puts the silt in the river It comes he money out of it and you suffer” paid primarily from irrigation water (braining UP&L he claimed can’t see the problem as back into the river and an extra large load the farmers see it If the utility is aamaged it came into the river last year when a large can go to the power commission and get a raise landslide along the West Cache Canal spanned In rates to customers the river with debris “But I can’t raise the rates on my cattle after The Trenton area is a natual flood plain for I lose my ground” he said “I can only raise the Bear River said Haight “Farmers are half as many cattle as I did 10 years ago But I taking a calculated risk by fanning on these can’t say these cattle will now cost twice as flood plains” reporter on a tour of his ground by the Bear River Wood further ex- plained the problem from his and the farmers’ point of view As he took this ( Continued ditional water storage above Cutler Dam The sloughs and oxbows formed over the years as changed course hold a lot of water he said that it taka three days of high water noting them and three days to empty them But the oxbows are also used for farmland or were until all grass and crops mi them were destroyed by the flooding he said much" light has to control the the river for the highest benefit to everyone he said noting that Trenton suffered some flooding last year as Bear Lake was drawn down to make room for flood waters “Otherwise there would have been flooding all over the place” he said Utah Power and All he wants from the potential lawsuit Wood said is to get Utah Power and Light Co to dredge the river and stop file flooding He posed the question: “Should we lose all our land and Just sit around and grin about it?” Contacted for the power utility’s view of the issue Pendleton and J Golden H&ight supervisor of the plants on the river who came to Trenton to inspect damage the flooding two weeks ago said it is unrealistic The river not only damages crops in the fall In a letter to the editor of The Herald Journal he said but it covers the fields with ice in the Beth SUdmore wrote “So Just where does the winter further damaging the crops tearing out ’buck’ stop? It appears that again it stops back fences and displacing feed areas He has had to move a corral setup where he once fed his cm the landowner We still have to pay the bill for fertiliser applied fuel and seed used in cattle Wood said He accused UP&L of flooding the fanners’ planting and the hours spent preparing the soil That unnamed unknown nonexistent entity — land deliberately as a means of gaining ad- - hydo-electr-ic : water in The flooding some two weeks ago developed as water was drained from Oneida Reservoir and those above it to make inspections and repairs on the dams The flow was sustained a not be dose at all here if the students are right' They voted 439 to 235 for Hatch Only in the race between incumbent Democrat Gunn McKay and Joe Ferguson for the 1st District seat in the UJS House of Representatives did a democrat come out on top McKay held his seat over the GOP challenger by a slim count of 400 to staff writer very lik what Cache Valley voters will do at the polls Tuesday students at Logan High School have voted overwhelmingly for President Ford and nearly every other GOP candidate on the ballot Republicans won by comfortable margins of or more over Democratic and American Party candidates in all but one race during a mock election conducted Friday by teacher Richard Jensen’s American Government i two-to-o- ' 344 In other races the voting ended as follows: —Romney beat Matheson to governor 429 to " - ne 265 — Monson race class Nearly all of the high school’s 880 students voted to give Ford the election 568 votes to 132 for Carter Jensen says he thinks parents of Logan High students in this Republican stronghold will vote on Tuesday the way their sons and aauf voted Friday Although it’s a dose race elsewhere in the state the Orrin Hatch — Frank Moss senate race may f FUf the second 3wcut! ive year ' beat Duncan in the Secretary of State ' 515 to 183 —Charles Bullen retained his state senate seat over Keith Binford 497 to 138 —Kenneth CUthbert and Thad Carlson both won their dty school board races —GOP challenger Verl Buxton unseated in- -' cumbent Robert Chambers to a term on the Cache County Commission Results were no surprise but the margins were says Jensen The mock election was part of time day or night and a recorded message will change in the weather” Darling said “we update review: the present the recorded message 'been installed in the weather and highway residents hear on the Idispatcher’s room in the phone Also every time Cache County Sheriff’s ' He said that many one of our men or the Office according to times people' hesitate to highway patrol reports a Sheriff's Sgt’rj John?" png because it'is-- a change in highway conditions we update the Sparling Ills not up to date' i Darfini said recording”: Cache County ' citizens not the case:--'- ? 'V Darling said - that can call 7520045 any “Every time there is a residents are requested 4 con- - a “weather phone” has r WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST I 7 PM phone” Darling said i “and if we had to take those calls ' over our regular - lines: itcould create1 some problems” - v real v- - : MONTREAL (UPI) -An East German scientist Saturday challenged current ideas on the origins of homosexuality by suggesting it may be caused by an excess or deficiency of certain hormones which affect brain development In a paper submitted at the 4th international Congress of Sexology Prof Gunter Domer said research at the Institute of Experimental Endocrinology in Berlin showed that a decrease of the female hormone androgen during a critical period in the th brain development of a vestigation has found' Downs JBs : Restaurant POLICE BLOTTER Cache County Sheriff has manager reported to that the suspect authorities Friday that since left town The - an employee ARREST David S Hortin 22 Salt Lake was charged City had investigation ap- parently left town with three days worth of receipts from the j of He was restaurants Downs said reJeaaedon tfaOOtMil approximately 84375 in ? — cadi was missing after he sent the employee to a THEFT local bank to deposit the money Further in- - 'with Rollover m canyon claims one is con- tinuing i ' ' ACCIDENT —A 4 pm accident Saturday at the intersection of 6th North and 5th East resulted in Roxann Smith 19 395 East 5th North being charged with improper backing after ho- 1976 Toyota struck a 1965 Volkswagon driven by Louis Wetmore 620 East 6th North The sustained Volkswagon $600 damage and the Toyota $100 ate v - (Continued from page 1) Pollster George Gallup compiling his final survey to release on Monday told UPI that in the past three LOGAN -weeks “There has been a shift of opinion to Ford" Carter led by six points in the last Gallup poll The Utah man was poll released Friday also showed a and an Ogden woman ACCIDENT Each shift to Ford with Carter only one point ahead after seriously injured Friday vehicle sustained $350 when their four night leading by two-ca- r vehicle went damage in a straw poll showed Ford The Chicago accident mi the Saturday ahead of Carter in Illinois to the first time out of control and rolled USU campus Cited to in Logan Canyon the New York state poll commissioned by The Utah Highway Newaday and the Gannett Newspaper Syndicate showed Carter’s lead cut from 8 to 3 percentage Patrol said Dan Madsen 23 Roy died instantly in x -points Ford who has been on the stump nonstop for nine the 9:15 pan crash when the vehicle he waste days and campaigned as much as 20 hours a day weekend in with a driving rolled over on the rally opened preelection UJS 91 approximately Houston in a final bid to Texas’ pivotal 26 : five miles west of He was also scheduled to wheel his campaign north Garden City heading for Philadelphia and upstate New York Carter flew through a rainstorm from St Louis to Injured seriously in the Tulsa Okla on the first stop of a daylong Journey crash was Janis Mahas She was through Louisiana — the one state where Ford ap- - 20 Ogden parently has cracked the Georgian's southern : treated at the Logan v and then Hospital stronghold — and into Texas The final UPI 54etate survey showed that neither transfered to the McKay '' Dee Hospital in Ford nor Carter has the election won ABC-Harr- - is - 300C Sun-Tim- - Oneida Reservoir Pendlton said He confirmed that a UP&L employe in Smithfield erred when he told The Herald Journal that a government agency controls the release Wood acknowledged that it is not UP&L which puts silt in the river “I know they didn’t put the silt in” he said ‘‘But if they’re going to use a ditch — and the river now is nothing but a big ditch — they should keep the water in the confines of the ditch It doesn’t give them the right to flood us “A farmer can’t help it if his ditch fills up with sediment but he’s responsible to dean it out If your irrigation water is flooding a neighbor you’ll soon hear about it” “We’re getting pushed around pretty good” he concluded male fetus may lead to homosexuality in ' later life Conversely he said an increase in either an drogen or estrogen in a female fetus during development of the brain may lead to female homosexuality Four arrested here kidnaping is charge 7 045 s LOGAN — Four Logan men were arrested over the weekend by Cache County Sheriff’s deputies and charged with kidnaping A fifth man was expected to be arrested shortly authorities said The arrests resulted from an investigation by deputies into a report that a man was taken up Logan Canyon last week and threatened Arrested on bench warrents Friday and Saturday were: Dara Maleki-Sadaba- d Nader Zare 24 20 Khosrow Jafar 28 and Darioush Sotudehmia 20 All four were released on 81000 bail News of record neck and heck E ST It was a normal operation he said and the farmers were not given any special notification It’s true he admitted that the farmers are often not expecting the sudden rush of water from the Oneida Reservoir The Incident he said is not unusual and ft will not compel UP&L to change its practices along the Bear River It is Utah Power and Light Co which is solely water from the responsible for the releasing of i Jensen’s unit on political parties Most of the students who participated in the mock election are not old enough to vote but Jensen reports that interest in the election is running high at the school Students have come away from the experience saying they don’t like the Electoral College system to electing a president says Jensen Moreover he reports that many students fed Utah’s voting Tuesday is not important in the national race Some students he added are writing congressmen to complain about the system Students were also baffled by third party candidates who have little or no chance of being elected says Jensen Issues mattered more than party affiliation in tiie presidential race the teacher says He explained that students have learned to rely mi position papers instead of TV commercials and campaign rhetoric “Most of these kids have a more understanding of the issues than their parents do” Jensen remarked F orcl Carter Notion's weather NATIONAl to use the weather phone rather than the regular sheriff’s number “We sometimes have more than 60 calls an hour on the weather Not unusual German scientists pose theory on homosexuals vote GOP By Paul Carter little longer than usual Haight said but it was not longer than is frequently done He said he could see no real damage from the brief flooding es ' ' lookout pjn two men responded to a small trash and leaves accident was Valerie fire Saturday at 250 18 1094 North Blanchard 3rd East North 16 East after her Authorities said the 3:19 1967 Oldsmobile Delta a jn fire was set by struck a 1969 Pontiac persons unknown ' Leman T driven' "by improper following the 4:57 Columbus Agbor' USU 3QE? 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