Show Tt itra HOLMES ALEXANDER OGDEN UTAH FRIDAY EVENING AUGUST 2 1974 4A EDITORIALS Hearings on 15 Trillion Tons of Coal Hearings in four western cities this month will determine the future policy for mining of 15 trillion tons of coal — a major factor in the ability of the USA to meet its energy needs This enormous figure — 3000000000-00000- 0 pounds! — represents the estimated coal reserves that are beneath publicly-owne- d land throughout the country About of those reserves are in Utah and Wyoming The coal in these two states is of particularly high quality since it contains comparlively little sulphur and burns without producing great ash quantities of The Bureau of Land Management has called the four hearings to consider a voluminous environmental impact statement that has been drafted by the -- BLM staff in consultation with many pother federal and state agencies and private industry Paul L Howard BLM director for Utah reports the first hearing will be Conducted Aug 12 in the business lecture building at the University of Utah in Salt one-tent- h air-polluti- ng -- de-taile- d -- -- -- -- Lake City The other sessions will be Aug 14 in Billings Mont Aug 16 in Casper Wyo and Aug 17 in Denver The present draft of tne environmental statement to govern federal coal ' leasing was released for public review- last May and has been the subject of extensive examination by interested parties throughout the nation The statement draws ro specific conclusions so far as we can tell from examining it But it does set out in detail the extent of production and reserves describes the geology of the coal formations and warns of the environmental and social problems that extensive mining will bring It reports that more than 90 million tons of coal worth $374 million and - Vl --- Unsafe Raif Tracks The federal government has good reasons for cracking down on the financially-distresse- d Penn Central because it allowed its railroad tracks to deteriorate endangering the lives of passengers and crews V A drastic order was issued by the 'Federal Railroad Administration on Thursday It prohibits the use of 67 miles of Penn Central track after Friday morning unless they are brought up to US safety standards Examinations have shown defects on 1329 sections of tiack— ranging in length from 60 feet to nearly a mile These unsafe rails are specifically blamed for accidents in Indiana in April and June that injured 30 passengers on Amtrak-oper-atetrains "H d bringing federal royalties of $11 million have already been mined on US government lands in Utah Production on Wyoming federal lands through 1971 came to nearly 67 million tons worth nearly $220 million and bringing royalties of strategy — -- -- There are already 267000 acres of US land in Utah that have been leased for coal extraction Another 139000 acres are under lease for prospecting only They presumably will be leased for ming ing as soon as a current freeze is lifted with completion of this month’s hearings and establishment of new policies to provide stricter controls At least 3 million more acres of federal land in Utah have known coal deposits of commercial potential These are scattered along the Kaiparowits Plateau and the Alton area of southwestern Utah the Henry Mountains in southeastern Utah and the Book Cliffs and Wasatch Plateau in the central portion of the state centering on Price Lesser deposits are known to exist in Northern Utah — particularly in Summit County around Coalville site of pioneer mines now closed and extending into POOREST OF POOR Cranston had a plan He the upper chamber a debater would give only to “good” a nations withhold aid from the with the big bow-womember of Congress since 1935 dictatorships and get the money John McClellan 78 of Little to the people instead of their Rock Ark is probably serving rulers Humphrey answered his sixth and last Senate term that aid should go “to the His voice was not anxious but poorest of the poor” and not to accusatory when he told the governments which build jails Secretary of State that he’d long for dissidents but Cranston had some mind-hea- r supported postwar aid to some boggling figures Of the 94 57 were justification for the requested a d e d for the fiscal year “authoritarian” About 80 per n that began July 1 cent of the or was going to foreign answered by remarking on how much the governments wrhich “terrorize world had changed since the and sug their own Marshall Plan the first postwar people” By not spending the One result of the order will be to shut Indianapolis off from both passenger and freight rail service until repairs are made since most of the defects are between Chicago and Jefferronville Ind Amtrak’s and Chicago-Florid-a trains will be rerouted until the unsafe order is lifted The closure order is a victory for railroaders’ unions particularly the United Transportation Union which has campaigned for safer tracks because of many accidents this year in which crew members have been killed The action against the Penn Central should also serve as a warning to other carriers that tracks must he maintained safe condition or similar orders — arrying stiff penalties — will be issued against them Chicago-Washingto- n -- F the Now a possible strategy looms If on the eve of the vote President Nixon were to take once more to the airwaves and say something that would reduce as follows: “Tonight I am addressing myself to the Republican members of the House of Representatives Gentlemen the House is resolved that questions have been raised concerning my conduct of the Presidency and imvote will accordingly peachment “I am confident that as regards my own ethical conduct I shall in due course satisfy the Senate that I behaved properly “But I consider that the events of the past month have grave questions crystallized Conthe unanswered by stitution As you know I took a position different from that of the Supreme Court on Executive privilege As you know I acted on my own initiative to defend the national security when I thought it was threatened during the years 1969 ’70 and ’71 OPEN QUESTION “It is the feeling of the majority of this body that I exceeded the authority granted to me by the Constitution Naturally I do not feel that I did But quite obviously it is now an open question whether I did or whether I did not And w wanted $75-billi- this is not a question that can be settled by the Supreme Court The only effective instrument for settling it is the impeachment process “The vote will then be cast by the Senate of the United States which will in a sense be acting as a Constitutional convention called to refine points left unclear by the Constitution itself “I see nothing at this point to be gained by bringing these questions to the Supreme Court under factional auspices Though my personal fate is Senate’s involved in the decision I share with you a curiosity as to what the determination will be: because after that determination is made the republic will need to continue with a refined idea of the authority of the Chief Executive “I shall vigorously defend my own position in the Senate but this is not the time to put forward those arguments UNANIMOUS VOTE “But meanwhile I urge you to join me in the effort to elevate the spirit of this proceeding to genuine Constitutional inquiry — by voting unanimously for impeachment on the first count I do not believe that any such vote commits any Representative to more than agreeing that the majority of his colleagues are resolved to take the matter to the Senate and that under the circumstances in order to make the Senate’s mandate clearer the House will vote — with my blessing — unanimously” If the Senate taking up the first series of charges proceeds to vote against Nixon he stops being President as of that moment And the other articles of the impeachment go untransacted which is not to the the disadvantage of Nixon Republican party or history But meanwhile the November election will be freed of the incubus of and one would of both Americans that hope honor the if they truly parties w'ould ideal democratic welcome this turn in American political preoccupation nations j on $75-billio- $51-billi- m on Kissinger jugate till he slipped Ole John wuz runnin7 rea! good head-firinto th7 Milkgafe! st Cranston declared giveaway Interdependence for $5 raw materials gaps between “Congress could in a single among stroke balance the federal to make it appear that he had haves and have-not- s directed Magruder's operations "Snsr'Jeg°tiali°nS iftead!J budgeL : ' He said he’d asxed Kissinger Clifford The com- - countries able and not against to unwilling explain that aid to “bad” promising reference to Haig to chip in— these were reasons nations and Kissinger shortly wras also deleted from the why Foreign Aid must continue afterwards was the giving told McClellan to comanother Kissinger explanation doctored memo g right-winmittee aid The two old men Young the Why hauled before V To prevent them McClellan and the dictatorships? Republican tbe Water0aie prosecutors eny from overrun Democrat one a being by Red last January for questioning skeptic and the other perennial an early dictatorships to “sustain an about the memo He quickly believer made very good open global economy” and of Senate opinion on because in many instances the indications that it samplings had spotted altered He obtained ac- - f°r8’‘Sn aid A new element of situation was “fluid” Greece is the gleaming halo that very day Portugal a few the w nouse mes of opinion peace-makthat Henry weeks previous had moved from ound several and of his Kissinger brings when he comes dictatorship to approximate 1970 to memos missing January plead What man in con- democracy Senators have doubts say our sources including the science would gainsay the that the has answers and the opinion secretary’s Kissinger doctored memo money is necessary to finding American taxpayer will have KEPT COPIES the substitute for foreign aid for as long as there But unknown to the White war? is a foreign crisis House Butterfield had kept copies of some of his papers and a them he PAUL HARVEY 8 memo he as had January This originally written it proved the tampering beyond any doubt But the big mystery is still unsolved: who altered the During debate over im- - clout muscle or money to Memo? be a Haig might peachment we are hearing over protect the distinguished former suspect because the memo was and over again that the law Gov Otto Kemer from going to changed to shift blame from must apply alike to every in- - prison him to Butterfield But cur dividual that there must be no go hQre is a city in which the sources doubt this because the deference tohe 'is highland justice ikdy to discrimimlte two men are close nprsorml government insures “liberty a§ainst boh tie poor and the friends and prominent ly” iuftiae ort all-e- qual The strange gaps in the latest But let s not spoof ourselves Some will argn that leaders 54 taties meanwhile will aid in witb sucb rhetoric the frustration of the Watergate that The law does not treat noblesse oblige implies a higher 5ndividuas equally so long as been''able who 0tto Kerner goes to Prison and degree of responsibility for men e cause d the famoii in high places I happen to go free gap in an earlier tape This rapists Now let’s not let th tarring agree The more obliterated Holdeman’s crucial people put and feathering of Richard Nixon trus jn y0U first report to the President on be he predicated on the Watergate break-i- n on June have to obligation you behave premise 20 1972 home yourself a base for of a third My One key source believes if has been That’s logical and I think it’s w’here century Chicago w as that the it’s been said significant can you “buy theological President himself listened to into out of or way your But it further refutes the this tape on Sept 29 1973 at anything” David His Camp secretary presupposition of equality with HOODLUMS RUN LOOSE Mary'’ Woods testified which our society recently has before the grand jury that the That saying was substantiated been What our preoccupied President donned earphones and by known major league courd- records reveal m fact is pushed buttons listening to hoodlums running around loose 20 of that the the June crooked is while more And by bush league street parts tape cop she was transcribing it She with likely to do time for the same getting away Se crime than is the crooked crook President had altered the tape But there We may contend that is we but must not “justice” pretend that it is “equal in WASHINGTON If these deposits are mined wisely with minimum disruption of the environment and with proper planning to meet social challenges they can assure the United States of adequate coal to meet our growing energy demands for hundreds of years D-Ca- lif DRAMATIC FIGURE Always a dramatic figure in anti-leasin- Morgan County compelling Kissinger Secretary sub-bitumino- Republican share the dissenters They spotlight with the Republicans who will vote impeachment and return to their constituents to try to survive the Coventry into which they will be put by the Nixon loyalists Y voice highly-desirabl- Richard Nixon Could Unify Nation Party in Crisis hours and still there is no apRepublican strategy parent Strategy in the best sense: directed at the following objectives listed in the order of their importance: 1) Spare the American people a reversal of the 1972 Presidential election by an overwhelming to Democrats of election Assist 2) Republican Congress running for candidates Teelection and torn by conand by practical science considerations by the political to vote for of having necessity or against impeachment 3) Give Richard Nixon while he still has the opportunity to efthe opfect arrangements to give precedent not portunity to such grubby matters as whether he feathered his own nest but whether he took Executive power beyond the lengths contemplated by the founders cf the Constitution REVERSE ORDER You see in the next few days Congress will be agreed on a I chronology As things rMw 'stand up front are the personal "derelictions of Richard Nixon allegedly eight times at last 'Count) Now it would not be a t great matter to reverse the "order to these two major il divisions so that what the Sen--t- e would be given to discuss "would be in the first instance 'the Constitutional points rather points than the chicken-thie- f tit having been established to ihe satisfaction of all realists that the House of Representatives will indeed vote for ment attention is impeach directed toward the dissenters f3'' Utah’s total reserves — on federal lands only not counting deposits on lands already under private ownership — are estimated at 237 billion tons most e bituminous coal of it Wyoming’s federal lands have reserves of 1206 billion tons— 127 billion bituminous coal and 1079 billion tons in coals softer BUCKLEY JR It is a matter of days and in particular - Never a But the older opinion-makin- g WASHINGTON also are there matinee idol of the Senate elements tl'’rJnier ’car seldom accepting a role with What as a temporary any dialogue but continuously emergency measure with the in public office without a defeat Marshall 'Plan has become a since 1924 Milton Young of La regular and increasing levy Moure N Dak 77 is listed as upon the American taxpayer a probable Republican loser in and his lawmakers In another hearing on the November This could explain the anxiety in Senator Young’s same subject but without the as he questioned presence of Alan Senators Henry Kissinger Cranston and Hubert about foreign affairs were “I think I’ve voted against Humphrey off their paces like every one of these bills down showing in a horses show ring the years I want to ask you— gaited on themselves They aid pride how important are these inliberal which in to principles you your peaceprograms eludes the cheerful giveaway of making?” ‘‘They make the difference public funds But in the fiscal between failure and success” year °f 197 the Foreign Aid Bill declared the Secretary of State came to a lot of dollars $73 million WILLIAM 1 - Old Members of the Senate Learn Need of Foreign Aid MERRY-GO-ROUN- D Did White House Alter New Tapes Documents? By JACK ANDERSON WASHINGTON — There no longer can be any doubt that the White House has tampered with Watergate evidence Not only tapes but documents have been altered by someone inside the White House Furthermore White our House sources tell us that the Butterfield It dealt with the tapped of conversation telephone a former Morton Halperin national security aide who spoke on the phone about of Defense helping Clark Clifford prepare a series of articles for Life magazine against the Vietnam War 64 additional conversations The tapped conversation was which the Supreme Court reported to the White House by unanimously ordered President the late FBI chief J Edgar Nixon to turn over to Special Hoover on Dec 29 1969 H R Leon Prosecutor Jaworski Haldeman then the White contain gaps distortions and House staff chief passed Hoover’s wiretap report to Jeb unintelligible passages Many of the distortions are Magruder with instructions to caused by extraneous sounds prepare " such as clanking cups thum- - counter the Clifford articles ping feet and even martial SQUARED AWAY music filtering into the oval Magruder sought suggestions office from the White House his Butterfield who from But our sources grounds say views in the Jan 8 1970gave memo that some of the unexplained He stressed tat “A1 Haig can gaps appear to have been caused by deliberate tampering get you squared away on at least a preliminary scheme We PERSONAL CUSTODY can build from there” Haig The suppressed tapes had was then Henry Kissinger’s been in the President’s personal deputy but is now Haldeman’s custody until the Supreme Court successor as staff chief order Then they were entrusted This memo is significant to the Secret Service to trail- - because it proves that the scribe wiretaps were used for political Our sources have also fur- - purposes All along the White nished us with the astonishing House has been claiming that slxjut clearly was doctored by the strictly to protect the national White House This was written security on Jan 8 1970 by former The Butterfield memo was aide Alexander mysteriously altered however presidential i-— 7!“ er long-soug- ft? ht Justice Doesn't Treat All Individuals Same - ip W I’"' ' TsS-minuf- fi-ie- jr TO LETTERS E D Chuck Story Missed Editor Standard-Examine- r TOR : Editor Standard-ExaminPeople are different Especial- ly me But common stupidity mus he stopped t a respectable drive- in restaurant around 3nd and Harrison Our establishment is quite busy weekendsTlrt 'alone weekdays ®ne me afternoon I started 10 SWeep the debris and straw WTappers into a neat littie pile as is my responsibility It had been swept two hours earlier but tbere was plenty 1 started sweeping an empty parking stall and had a pile of trash a foot high W'hen a car pulled in over it Being cour- teous I said nothing but crawled underneath with a dust- p?n ° PlckuP the paper and above all cigarette butts j had gy pie swept up whe a middle aged lady dropped her cigarette on my back thinking she hit the parking lot I jumped up in a flash with my shirt smoking and my back burned I could have told her off for lit- tenng and especially for burn- ing my back but it is our policy to be courteous and friendly so I didn’t- find customers like that all over Ogden Trying to make a friendly impression is tough but you gotta do it But where do you draw the line As it says in the Amencal pavillion at the World’s Fair in Spokane “the earth does not belong to any man but any man belongs to the earth” James Florence er sa- - lute to a very special person in Weber County and to his wife and family who suppoit him so diligently This man was stricken with a heart attack a few weeks ago and is recuperating at this He was orelv misled time during the Pioneer Days cele- bration but his family carried on the responsibilities so that we all might enjoy a better holiday He has with all of the celebration for 4) phases His children were raised years to know that it takes blood sweat and tears to put over a successful Pioneer Days Thanks Chuck Story Erma Chuck (son) Brent Doug Charlene and hubby Don Todd Thanks too to their children who are old enough to "pitch m” now A few individuals like always air their gripes to this family after the plans for jamborees the hangings m the park and the parades are all finished Most of us would say “Can it” and quit but this family goes on trying to please all of the people all of the time And most of us do appreciate it Storys Hang in there Chuck for a speedy recovery! K and J Russell Ogden I Careless Customer : This letter is written as a assisted T H E Ogden - S ONLY YESTERDAY paul c McFeeters pastor of Ad- the Ogden Seventh-Daventist Church has accepted a pastor in d meeting the traveling public were invited by President Ernest H Balch of the Ogden Chamber of Commerce to at- tend a free tourist host school or th e teatunng Jonn utail Transit Promotion Dept Martin LeWis w° st Johnso as 0f cr arrested in known 0gden ’ was with and charged federal law violations as the alleged head of the Communist in Utah py Lt 34 Col William J Gibson formerly of Ogden has arrived at Chanute AFB 111 to com-mand the new 3505th USAF Group justice” Impassioned speeches during debate by the House Judiciary Committee repeated over and over that in a govern J F Dumpke was elected ment of all men must be president and R S Farnsworth equal fce fore Ihe" barof justice named secretary-treasurPHONY PREMLE when Weber County Progres- And since as members of sives formed “LaFollette for President Club” About 75 per- - Congress and others gravitate sons attended toward cameras and microphones they proclaim Phillip Howard Thackwell 18 with pomp that phony premise son of Mr and Mrs Fred W when each of these men— most Thackwell of Ogden and a of them lawyers— knows member of the national cham- - the disparities in our judicial 0gden Hlgh P0TC system plf°1nshp died suddenIy m The man most likely to commit crime and get away is the Pro- - Again the Herman gmjth 22 ’ transient American who is best able to ’Mo from confessec iato out cf to Chief of Detectives Robert trouble the one ls who makes a Burk that he killed th unidentified man found dying fo Business out of it Any newsman in Chicago Las the hobo jungles near Ogden can He clubbed him during an Vegas or Newark NJ a list of give you to names on argument money matters document that audit But the poor guy who can’t residents have joined the afford a shifty mouthpiece gets “Wattis for Governor Club” in locked up pronto And the big shot caught once Ogden promoting the guber- natorial candidacy of business with his pants down is then leader William H Wattis rayed by the limelight er pal 1 4 m |