Show Pye Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday Decamber 111988 32-- The are killing wild hor§e§ in Nevada BvTomTIndn AUSTIN Nav (NEA) Earijr ia October HteUl from tto United States Bareaa of Land ' Baaagemeat happened oa a riuehofr Irene fa the sagebrush sad ptovon hills of central Nevada Tlwy the remains of 140 wild hones that were shot whOo grazing oa either side of a loody road fa the Shoshone Mountain Range The officials wen shocked hat not altogether surprised The BLM has been through this sort of thing too many times as of late The agency has discovered dead mustangs ia the same area on three occasions sineo summer Bones and carcasses have also been recovered at other nmote locations in the state Someone is killing the wild horses of Nevada The BLM says it has come across at least 450 dead animals in the last two years and "it’s very distressing" Many of the creatures have been found with their legs folded under them an indication that they have been picked off on the run and dropped in thdr traekz s officials say thi suspects And the culprits may be acting in accordance with the frontier spirit that still £ thrives in this part of die nation Many people Kcarry guns ia their vehicles here and fnr target practice they shoot anything that has not been — tad ' Gontnertbrn mustangs or a year in the lockup BLM administrators claim mat the law has domesticated mustangs included brought about a new proliferation in the herds Besides this there are the ranchers They They say there are now about 15000 wild horses claim correctly that the wild horses compete in 10 states plus 5000 wild burros and at least with their livestock for the scarce desert growth 27000 of the animals are in Nevada They are on Nevada's open ranges Thus some of them permitted to roam over 34 million acres in more try to keep the mustangs in check with rifles than 2S0 herd areas The BLM thinks the 1171 act has therefore The ranchers are said to organise hunts on ed very wriL UntU the recent trouble occasion and kin the horses en masse ay The killings here in Lander County (110 No one knows if the ranchers are guilty this east of Reno) are bring described as time or not The question is a sensitive one where the worst range massacres since amongthe deer and the antelope play The cattle set almost extermihuntsmen and the industry has significant political and economic nated the buffalo a sporting eenturyaga standing As far as The wild horses have been found in various concerned the BLM of decomposition In some cases only the stages trying to find out who is A few of the hones may have bones remain The BLM insists that it is investigating without shot been for purposes say fear or favor And indeed it is required to do so to But moat have cattle from draw away eoyotes killing of mustangs is prohibited by killed in grows come from within shooting law The animals used to be fair game in been of a state highway distance most of the country until the herds were BLM spokeswoman Maxine Shane says the decimated and Congress was persuaded to step conducted more than 200 investigahas in to save the species agency tions the butchery It has also Wild enacted the and regarding Congress Horse and Burro Act in 1171 The act requires the established a hotline telephone number to try to BLM to manage the animals as components of get information from the public Finally Shane public lands That means they are not supposed jponthwodfrempagell Und to a large extent our property I suppose medical care will sbenexL Jr I fear we are becoming a foxy politically ignorant d Godless nation History has shown that most Helf-eentere- ! -- -J - range-manageme- i Free-Roami- St Louis Post-Dispat- ch Carlos Salinas de Gortari Mexico's new president has Ms work cut out for him Tlw country faces a staggering $104 billion debt The democracies last about 200 years before they are destroyed domestic foreign is economy flagging Cthrough moral decay and socialistic ideas under its weight By every C To quote the Indianapolis Star: “In the end more than they measure' Mexicans' standard h wanted freedom they wanted security a comfortable life and of living has fallen prefcthey lost aU security comfort and freedom' — and nothing on the cipitously W I believe it's quite clear that we too are at this point and horizon suggests a reversal of Cunless our freedom begins to mean more to us thsn the security that trend Cof a government check or program we will soon lose all Even the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) for 00 Carmie Gilbert years the guarantor of political t Logan t Radar detectors K To the editor: ' £ r £ t 1: £ I f could not! The malpractice of the radar gun is costing the patient (driver) millions Radar guns are not accurate Remember the Florida £ 1 t Speeding is a communicable disease which is shared by 70 percent of us Only 11 percent of us own radar detectors bile 70 percent intentionally speed The real virus spreading the disease is the automobile The new Corvette produces 400 horsepower and will operate at 200 mph Have you seen a TV commercial saying “Buy this car it only goes S3 mph"? ' No diagnostic proof exists linking radar detectors to speeding Blood pressures boiled when GEICO Insurance Co announced that they would reject prospective clients if they owned a radar detector When Maryland’s insurance commissioner asked GEICO to prove that radar detectors encourage speeding they Veto stability has been shaken Mr Salinas won a scant 507 percent of the vote — and critics say he would not have won that much had the election been honest Whether Mr Salinas can hold his country together for the six years of his presidency is anyone's guess The post of president Is the first elective office he has ever held — a fact that has set many of Ms party's old pels against Mm Those who might nave been seeking in Mr Salinas someone willing Continued from page II NswspspsrEntsrprlst Association PRI's tradi- tional machine politics corruption and casual regard for dril liberties must be disappointed as well following his decision to name as interior secretary the man who ordered police to fire on student protesters in born of no real wrongdoing" He could find no serious pro- blems in former members seeking to influence current members What damages the image of Congress laid Bosco is that in order to make ends meet many members “have to resort to taking honoraria a thousand dollars here two thousand dollars there These are the For Life insurance check with state Farm Permanent Life Term Life Universal Life BILL RICH No 2nd East Suite 1 Logan Utah 1250 The cynical thought will not go away that acceis is being bought The whole business smeus Tlw aroma could be dispelled by raising members' pay on the condition that they forgo honoraria 752-04- 44 The vetoed Uktagaoanmghbar SMe Farm Mere bill would not & have become operative until next August There is abundant ' time to put together a fairer more evenhanded measure put reasonable it fltet w J t' non-existe- nt See VIEWS on page 22 associations by the National Buraau of Standards confirmed the Exactly so ReeenUy deficiencies of police radar Local communities are getting well transpired that 10 members of ’ from radar aims In 1127 Patton Village Texas gained 00 tt House accented more Activities Backto the drafting than $300000 in emitribufions to board! ' y percent of their entire city budget from radar citations O IMS Universal Press The city officials of Valley Brook Okla knowingly used a sick their Syndicate campaigns radar gun to ticket 730 motorists and obtain $31000 The best insurance against radar malpractice is a radar detector! Congress has said no to a radar detector quarantine Forty-eigh- t states have said no! Radar detectors have been in existence for 11 years Why ban them now? The cure for speeding is police visibility People slow down when police are seen Radar is the microwave warning sign of the highways We can “see" this sign miles ahead with a radar detector When police leave on their radar guns at an accident we can “hear" it becoming part of the mishap Congress recognised the safety aspects of radar detectors by in Kentucky not to give placing phantom radar guns along tickets but to warn drivers with detectors of impending dangerous driving conditions If radar detecta are quarantined CB radios must be sedated t Radio stations which broadcast radar location! must be L INSHMNCI t v ' if II resn loeas m beta Bankm Free At Sandia anesthetized Who pays the hospital bill? More citations will be written if radar detectors are banned You the patient will pay the increased insurance premiums due to misdiagnosed radar tickets The banning of radar detectors as a cribed-curfor speeding eould be worse than the disease If Remember swine flu shots? medical bill with At Sandia Federal we realize it takes a lot to ' please a customer And often times it’s the little things Carl Fore 'j vice president-marketin- g Snooper radar detectors r Dallas Texas Editor ! note: This totter was £ submitted to Tht ttorakt Journal in rebuttal to a news articto concerning radar dotectors which waa published in November SILVER REED you do that can make q PORTABLE TYPEWRITER SPECIALS 1 to depart from the I They had no opposition in the November elections Scores of members annually report thousands of dollars in honoraria for speeches to trade real abuses" V nt several groups) in the effort to solve the crimes Yet the BLM admits the effort may not be enough Not if history and custom prevafl saysNevada is still a Place where the Old West eoUldes with the new One of the tenets of the Old West is that a man on a ranch has a right to do whatever he necessary to secure his investment In short there are those who fed the mustangs are expendable And federal law aside the sentiment carries considerable weight The BLM says it has never caught very many horse kMtas offenders Into in Nevada and when it dore court they are rarely punished to the full extent of the statutes The BLM does not think those circumstances areigoing to change very soon either And that is one reason whythe agency advocates what It calls "further protection" The BLM says it wants to round up about a third of the horses on the public lands and either give them away or place them in smaller sanctuaries And that may only be the beginning The BLM says the people who are shooting the wild horses in Nevada miy also be killing a portion of their heritage as wriL One day all the mustangs may have to be put behind fences very much Bke the buffalo If mat happens both the old and the new West will regret it the biggest difference So when you walk into one of our brandies you’ll quickly discover a few extra personal touches available absolutely free of charge Like The Wall Street Journal EZ22 990 Sit through this fine paper If you get a bit thirsty or a tad bit hungry pour yourself a cup of piping hot coffee and dip in a fresh t donut How about free iMcMusMEI'IOONckufU Auto Correction Auto Underline Bold Face Yeor Warranty Made in USA 1 banking services you ask? 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