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Show I Sorry, Wayne, You Just Won't Do-- The adulation that was accorded to Mr. Wayne Owens at Pangultch was understand able: being a home town boy and all. The cold fact still remains that he is the aide of Frank E. (call me Ted) Moss, Utah's junior senator, and has been for some yean. If Mr. Owens Is sincere in working to help the people of Garfield County no one will be happier than L However, this is not the case. Mr. Owens' drive for congress is funded by the people who have been trying to set aside several hundred thousand acres in Southern Utah as a sort of super-secret rich man's reserve which would exclude you and I and the other plain people who cannot afford to hire a guide to hike or ride horseback into their wilderness. Moss and his crew, and thereby Mr. Owens, would like to eliminate entirely the people live in the disputed, or nearby areas, people who developed the land and have lived and raised families here for the past hundred years. Moss and his backing of loud-mouth "con-sternatlonlsts" would set aside this land as Paid Advertisement thelr own private park. Land from which no taxes would be derived to help support the ncccssay functions of local government. Land from which no taxes would be derived to help employ instructors for our young. Instructors would simply have to be discharged to go find employment elsewhere. Congressman Sherman P. Lloyd in a letter to the Escalante Chamber of Commerce commending them on their stand against this massive steal of their livelihood pointed out that Moss and his preservationists and constcrna-tlonists think nothing of maliciously blackguarding any opponent as a dcspoiler and a scavanger. Their entire stand is made up of full lies, half lies and semi-truths. Do we want yet another ally of this crew representing us? The answer to that is a most emphatic "NO" II Sorry Wayne, but we of Escalante do not rec how you, with your political background, c?n be anything but a detriment to Southern Utah. (signed by 50 Republicans and 25 Democrats of Escalante, Utah.) |