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PRESTO HEAT DISH PARABOLIC ELECTRIC HEATER Has a Temperature Light r - HEAT DIRECTOR 3 Heat Setting 500 1000 1500 Watts Heavy Duty Webbing Strap Drop Fringe Self Lock Hooks - SALE Reg $H $999 (KL RV ANTIFREEZE Protects recreational vehicles summer cottages from watej system freeze up to 50 Prefect for all water & -- plumbing systems SALE $f99 U Rea $1999 Kiim Quid Wtiofe Room Convection Heat 3 Heat Setting 600 900 1 1500 Watts Comfort Control Thermoctat Auto Safety Shut OFF Nootoxlc SALE $4999 SMITHFIELD sZVVf 99a i uV ) 5 : Iran"- ' v J ' ' f “He came here as a refugee and worked his way up from a janitor" Bishop said “I think some people think he should still be a janitor” v “Thae’s no chain of ' Rep Jim Matheson D-money” Bishop said just days Utah on Tuesday asked conafter a town hall meeting at gressional leaders to remove which opponents shouted1 the provision from the energy ' for him and called bill interrupted his resignation “I’m not firm-l- y tied to Envirocare or any-- v'-- - s s money from them” be saicL Bishop backs an amend-ment to the energy tall that would allow commercial waste companies — such as Envirocare — r to take uranium ' mill tailings now stored at the Enerr Department’s former Fern plant in Ohio Without a reclassification of die concentrated radioactive waste it would have to be shipped to the Nevada Tfest : Site -district whose Bishop ’ includes die Envirocare site said it would be cheaper and safer for a commercial company to take it by rail rather than have it trucked to Nevada K- vr The Herald Journal Logan Utah Monday October 27 2003 — A7 - ' - ::m 'v-- vv-- 47 7'- |