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Show 7T Page 2. November 13. 19B5 'i Basin Standard iDiintah A chance to reconsider? j referendum vote for the Central . Utah Project repayment contract comes up next week, November 19. This is perhaps a chance for the voters who are already paying for the CUP to reconsider The a bit. We realize that ho matter the outcome of this vote, the two-mi- ll levy we will continue to be are currently paying paid by all residents of Duchesne County, because of the 1 965 vote. This repay-mer- it will take another 30 years. But for the CUP to come back so soon for such a sizeable increase in funding is, to say the least, interesting. ' The CUP is barely one-thir- d complete. What is to stop the cycle of returning for increases every 20 years for money to finish a one-ha-lf completed or a three-quartecompleted project? This time they are seeking $335 million plus. The jordanelle Dam, whether you ' ' ct ... ' consider it year. But that is still a lot of money for P.R., especially considering the source (tax money). q safe and necessary part of much again. CUP will have to come back asking for. further indebtedness, if that is built. . at the governing board of the known as CUP. Actually their group name is the Central Utah Water Conser' vancy District. This group is composed, for the most part, of ranchers and farmers. Yet, they have gotten actively involved in municipal and - industrial, water projects, like the Duchesne and Vernal water treatment plants. They have dramatically overbuilt them or have made them cost five times more than another plant in the same Look area. .. ' Reponse to by Defyee BcDoe staff reporter To you who have loot a loved Tha Uintah Basin Standard welcomes and sncoufQQflt opinions firovn rsadsn In ths form of Lsttars to Ihs Editor. All Isttora will bo published imlast lhay contain libalous andfor defamatory statements. Lofton must bo signed with a telephone number. Lofton should be typed or clearly hand printed, double spaced. They can then be submitted to the STANDARD Office, PXX Bax STOat 266 5. 200 E., Roosevelt, Utah 64066, before &00 p.m. Friday. All letten became Ihe' properly of the STANDARD and may be edited to fit Didn't like Bowling Alley t Cartoon slant Dear Editor: As a resident of Duchesne City I feel obligated to take exception to the cartoon printed far the Novathbar 6, issue of your paper. Even though you reproduced it from the Deseret News, I feel it is in poor taste and attempts to disparage the residents of Duchesne City. Ihe feet that you printed it as part of your would lead one to the conclusion that your paper supports not only the slur against the people of Ducheene, but also tiie thinly veiled attempt to discredit the Central Utah Project. If this is the case, then so state, instead of hiding under the skirts of sarcastic ridicule. I believe most of the people of Duchesne take pride in and support the Bowling Center. I would also like to point out that, per capita Ducheene City probably has the highest professional and college educated population in the Uintah Basin. Most of the people I have talked to did not find your cartoon the least bit humorous. In dosing, I feel that both Duchesne .ami Rooeevelt have gained much from the Central Utah Project.' I wonder if the Bowling Center had been built in Roosevelt if you would have printed that cartoon? se . Sincerely, Jim Rogers Dear Editor:'-,- . they are calling an endangered spedas because they havent found anymore like them. There are probably plenty of Ferrets with white feet but these have black feet. I also read in the paper that a Wildlife Biologist has found a weed growing on our oil shale lands ' which he aaya is an endangered species because he hasn't found any more like them so when we get ready to develops oil shale we can probably expect a lawsuit in- - These people also ' called Loco Weed an endangered species at one tfawe-Ihealso called the Prairie Dog endangered. They didn't do much looking around in .the Uintah are sentenced Dinosaur National Monument announced today the final outcome of ths Court case involving the illegal rafting trip lead by i It Bounds like I have stirred up a Sierra Club member in Mr. Hadden. His kind held up the building of the power plant near Rangely with thrir lawsuit over the squaw fish and held construction up long enough for the cost to double over what it could have been built for at the time. We will all pay for that every time we pay an 'electric power MIL The same people held up the Alaska Pipe Line for three years and tripled the cost of that project and we all pay for that every time we buy a gallon' of gas. I see the same old bunch is trying to Mock the drilling of an oil well near Yellowstone Park because they think it will be bad for the 200 Grimly Beers in the park, what they should do is send some of those Wildlife Biologists up there with guns to protect the ofl drillers. Tim woman who was killed by a Grizzley Bear last year in the park could sure have Used some protection. I have seen the work of bears when they killed cattle and I have also seen what they have done to. sheep beards where they killed from 30 to 40 at a time, not because they needed all of them to eat but just for. the pleasure of killing them ao they euro dont need protection. Over the yeare we have lost a number of colts to cougars. One of the beet Quarter Horae colts we have ever raised was killed by one of them last summer. Bears, Cougars and Coyotes are working on livestock and .also Mr. Haddens Deer, Elk and Game Birda all of the time eo you would think he would help us get rid of them. As for Passenger Pigeons Hadden talks about Creation, if he thinks some of our onhwolo, pests and weeds were created for our benefit he ia all wet, they were put here as a cures on mankind after Eve stole that "dam" apple out of the Garden of Eden and we have all been paying for it ever since and thanho to Haddens kind it looks like we " always wifi. I have always thought that Noah waa a little soft in the heed .whan he loaded same of the animals and varminta he did on the ark, he sure had a good phance to get rid of them by letting them drown. I sure hate to spoil your fen Hadden but I dont have a forest permit and dont run cows on the forest The shoe is on the other foot, your wildlife is eating my grass which wouldnt be eo bad but they have aquired a taste for my alfalfa and grain and are in it in hards every night so it would aura be nice if you would come around and pay your pasture bflL We also have to rebuild our fences that they have tom up and knocked down every year ao I could sure use soma of your help each spring. We could sure have uaed your help when we built a 10 foot high stackyard to keep your wildlife from eating up our hay. Hadden says that multiple use ; means the greatest use of Resources for the largest number of people over the longest period of time. Hadden the things that honefit. the most people are lumber for our home and factories, water to drink, power for homes and industry, irrigation for food, gasoline, natural gas, beef, lamb Wool leather, metals and all nonet products. Coddling a bunch of wild vicious killers, useless anhnsle benefits no one. , Sincerely, A.C. Wflkeraon Stuart Bray and Eric Leaper, July 6. Five of the defendants . were sentenced before Magistrate Clifton, October 24, in Denver, Colorado. Stuart Bray eras sentenced on October 25, before District Court Judge Richard. Matach in Denver. Mrs. Mary McCurdy, Mr. Don McCurdy and Ms. Elizabeth Nichol all received sentences of one year probation, and a fine of $200 or 40 hours of community service. Ms. Collyn Bray was sentenced to one year probation, three days confinement in jafl, a fine of $200 and she must do 40 hours of community service. Mr. Eric Leaper was sentenced to two years probation, a fine of $500, five days confinement in jail and he must complete 200 home of community service. Mr. Stuart Bray waa sentenced to one year probation, a fine of $500 and is' barred from entering any National Park Service area or facility for one year. All six defendants are from the Colorado Jill Basin. of the plan. a response Illegal rafters dollars saving the Black Ferret in Wyoming which y . Letters My heart aches tor you. Of. course, my aching does not your heartache. I wish I could take this pain from you and bring back yeeterday-wh- en everything was fine. I wish I could offer you some eoothing words that would make you fed better, but there are no magic words to take away the pain. Some eay time will heal the wounds. Its true, over time, the day will come when you will get up in the morning without thlwlriwg of the one who is gone. In fact you will even be able to get- - through the day without aching. But you will never forget; that person will always be a put of your life. He's in the things you do, your traditions, the way you act, talk and think. Everything you do has been partly determined by the actions of the person you have lost. And so he fives on in you. And you will hurt anew whan graduation comes and goes without your child, when then is no grandchild, or no grandfather. For, not only is a life lost, but a future. All the tomorrows an gone; all the hopes, and dreams, and dans died with him. You wonder how you'll get through it, but morning comes and you get up another day and live, until that day ia past and a week a month, and you get through them all, one day at a time. And so we ache for you, knowing one day well understand your grief, because death will come to ua aa it has to you, and Will again. And, like you, well get up each morning and get through the day somehow, because theres nothing else we can do. ,. hs First time observer mflllnn Footed , Duchesne County. Perhaps we should all take this time to vote for or against the CUP as a chance to reconsider the options, cost and future There seems to be some very shady areas of conflict of interest on that board. One member of the governing board is involved with other water ' perhaps the most annoying point about the whole CUP repayment plan for the Uintah Basin residents is the idea that we get to pay tor the project that will take five-sixtof the Basin's water to the Wasatch Front. If the project was halted right now, all of the benefits and none of the losses would be felt by the Basin. The CUP, so far, has built water storage projects that will only help keep the Basin water right here, for now. The projects so far have made it possible for water to flow in a circle, from Duchesne County to 'eastern Wasatch ' County, down the Strawberry River to the. Duchesne River to the Green River in But the project or not, will cost almost that dam . full-colo- rs ; boards. The legal counsel for the district is also counsel for other water groups which have to negotiate with the district for rates, allocations, projects etc. This definitely sounds like conflict of interest to us and there are others. , The tactics of the district are a bit suspect also. They' have told municipal officials to support the repayment con-traor they will not get their particular portion of the project. These parts have become bargaining chips for support, or else a type of blackmail, almost. This group has allocated $300,000 of taxpayers mono for public relation materials. Over $90,000 went for a 62 page coloring book on water. They have .multi-pag- e r, brochures fancy the of the hyping glories project. They set-u-p tours of the CUP projects twice a , r Springe area of Colorado. Mr. Stuart Bray, his com- -' panions and member ; of the National Organization of River Sports planned in June to Ille- gally run the Green River from Lodore to Echo Park to challenge the Monuments river use permit system. On July 6, Park Rangers interdicted the .planned illegal river run and arrested all of the participants . who violated a ranger's command not to proceed past the Lodore boat ramp. On September' 26, UJS. District Court Judge Matsch upheld the ' legality of the Monuments River Management Plan. Judge Matsch ruled that the Monument's ' permit system was not ar bitary and capricious. The' Judge went on to say that the management of the Monuments river corridors falls within the guidelines established by Congress. Judge Matach also . stated that the Monument's River Management.. Plan executes Congress mandate to protect the natural and historic resources of the Monument far the enjoyment of present and future generations. - . Mailbox vandals on increase in area , People who have vandalized local mailboxes could be h fed tor stiff fines and even prison According to Rooeevelt Postmaster Ray McQuivey, at least ten mailboxes have hem vandalized ; in recent wumtbx In many cases it appeared the boxes were run over by cars. I think in most faxtmfy the . . vandals are young people who fed damaging mailboxes is a prank,"- he said. But its no joke. Its a serious offense. Postmaster McQuivey said - that people Who mail- - Himip boxes and mail can receive fines of up to $1000 and prison sentences of up to three years. People who steal mail, or who pones mail stolen by someone else, can be fined up to $2000 or imprisoned for as long as five or both. yean, ' I hope all parents ' will tell their children that', mail is personal and private, and that serious consequences can result from damaging mail and mailboxes, said this postmaster. He also asked that anyone with information on the vandalism contact him at . 1 , 722-323- 1. . IRS looking for a few good volunteers The Internal Revenue Service is looking tor volunteers to help with the tax aide counselor program in their ana of the Basin. A tax aide counselor is a volunteer, trained in cooperation with the IRS, who gives free assistance to older taxpayers. Training is available in December from Lee Kaschmitter, the Utah He can be reached ' . NEWS ITEMS DEADLINE FRIDAYS p.m. being extinct, there are still plenty of other Pigeons to I think we can do without them. The Dinosaur and Saber Tooth Tiger are extinct also but I sure dont see anyone grieving for them. I see on TV that the wildlife service is going to spend a few ' by calling or - by writing to the IRS at 2453 East .2100 South in Salt' TjVf city, 84109. t, 'A Counselors an needed in tha following telephone prafixea: 548, 848, 738, 646, 247, 645, 789 and 781. All community counselors will be listed - in ; an IRS publication available for next tax . ,v. filing. Prospective counselors become . . - . .'a -- acquainted with the problems of older adults tax returns, is provided with detailed guides and must be able to mmmnwlret.e , ' effectively with the persons they serve. To qualify an individual should' have an interest in and ' aptitude for volunteer tax work, as well as experience in filing v, personal returns. A minimum committment of four hours per wreak between February 1 and April 15 ia recommended. Although, some continue their assistance after ' ; April 15, counseling older persons on special state forme such as property tax rebates. Volunteers assist older persons with state or local tax returns in addition to c' the federal returns. The counselor usually prepares the forma from information gfyan but assumes no liability for it or responsibility for fbrvrarding it to the IRS. The counselor does not .' sign tha return. - -- . . "t ! 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