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Show seers rock rims, "Last Chance" designation may prove to be little more anybody left who gives a damn about Glen Canyon, that gives a than an epitaph. In addition, last month The Nature Conservancy and Utah ExComm’s damn about the Utah Chapter. And that may very well be the strategy. State University County Extension hosted a workshop called "Farms and Ranches for the Future." The purpose was to "explore available options and benefits for keeping farms and ranches in families, or simply maintaining them as farms and ranches in the future." The idea for the workshop came from the Conservancy's And that is also all I think I’ll devote to ruminating on this very frustrating topic. For now. I think there will be a lot more to say in March about the ExComm. I hope, by late January, it has Anne Wilson and Mike Johnson from the Extension and it’s a Moab P.D...Chew on THIS. Last summer a handful of kids broke into my office while I was out of town and made a mess of the place. By extreme good fortune, my buddy John Hartley just happened to drive by my house, stopped to retrieve my morning Tribune, and spotted the intruders. They tried to make a run for it (the oldest was eight!) good start. But again it needs the support of local government to really be effective. All this is possible. Maybe not probable. But worth a try. And if you are shrugging (likeI am prone to do) and saying, "Look...everything’s screwed up anyway. It’s too late now," don’t forget that you probably said the same thing five years ago, when Moab was only going to have one tram. LOOSE ENDS... As is the tradition here, the February/March issue of The Zephyr is printed before Christmas, but is not distributed until late January. As a result, it is often a dangerous proposition to commit words to type when there is a six week gap between press day and distribution day. Events can turn words on their ears and make monkeys out of all of us. And so I always include this disclaimer: If there is anything inappropriate or in bad taste in this issue because of events that occurred it went to press, it is not my fault. Still there are an issue or two that I don’t think will go away in the near future, so here is a quick update. The Glen Canyon Group/Utah Chapter Melodrama: With the six week distribution delay, I should take my own advice here and be as brief as possible. Things may change, but I doubt it. In a nutshell, some members of the so-called "Glen Canyon Group" decided that perhaps it was better NOT to fight the Utah Chapter and that some kind of peace could be made with its ExComm. Some members thought they could tolerate the restrictive gag order resolution for now and work to change it from within, once the group was approved. changed its position, but I’m not holding my breath. but John grabbed one of them and the police were called. Among the items recovered and turned over to the Moab P.D., according to Hartley, were 12 quarters, a key, and several packages of Chiclets gum. My old friend Herb Ringer, who died more than a year ago, used to special-order that brand of gum and left his allotment to me. And I know that much of the gum was chewed by the little burglars, but not all of it. But, months later, when the police finally returned the "evidence," there was no gum! I asked the officer where my Chiclets were and he said he knew nothing of any missing gum. I told him I'd been watching carefully for telltale signs of chewing by patrol officers and he pleaded ignorance to any illicit Chiclet chewing. I know the Moab P.D. cringes at the thought of public scrutiny, but I really want to know who chewed my gum. Maybe they can get the West Valley Police to do an investigation—it did such a good job on the Dinsmore case. 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PAGE 16 TIMES CHANGE: 1920-1939 The way in was, in pictures...what Moab and America was like more than half a century ago, from Melvin Purvis to King World PAGE I8 NED CHAFFIN: Leaving His Soul Under the Ledge By Barry Scholl E 22 AROUND THE BEND AGAIN: By Ken Sleight Ken remembers life in the 1930s PAGE 24 A TIME WIRTH REMEMBERING: Craig Worth prefers to live in the past..and maybe he did. By Alexandra L. Woodruff PAGE 27 PRESIDENT CLINTON'S LATEST ENVIRONMENTAL INITIATIVE: By Denise Boggs of the Utah Environmental Congress AGE 30 FEEDBACK: A rebuttal to Matthew Gross's essay in the October/November issue...a press release from the "World Crane Congress" Mary Sojourner hoists her own petard... The Amazing Headless Chicken in Fruita, Colorado i ee es www.canyoncountryzephyr.com good Utah wilderness bill," and since the ExComm has expressed no interest (so far) in removing or revising the resolutions, I removed myself from actively participating in the group’s organizational efforts. A "good Utah wilderness bill" is a decade POINTBLANK: ee The Zephyr may still make you ill, but it’s still not the ink. support Glen Canyon restoration until the Congress "passes a a chapter meeting in Salt Lake City. Ken Sleight insisted that the ExComm vote, one way or the other, to approve or disapprove the "Glen Canyon Group." Once again the chapter ExComm delayed the vote. If it waits long enough, there may not be SUBSCRIBE TO THE ZEPHYR ee Did you miss something from a past issue? It may be on our web site, which now includes an expanded archive and color versions of Herb Ringer's outstanding photopraphs of the old West. Since the chapter’s own resolution says it will not publicly | ¢ ee |