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Show Ci"h't worth trip to in. 6Ofq" SUDEfVD LUNCHES ANt) Cr DINNERS a vev hw . (aoi)73-MU For Fast ! Efficient Service -Call Doug Urie 586-3585 at AKALA Metal Works Cedar City, Utah JotuL TWPARKE (STOVE I SH0PPE 586-8528 FOR SALE: Greenhouse tomatoes; Canning, cooking, freezing - $6.00 per lug. Table, salad, cherry -$10.00 per lug Call or write Caliente Greenhouse, PO Box 525, Caliente, Nev. 89008. Phone 702-726-3667. Ap. 21," '28, May 5, 12 B '" ' The Birch Log NRA Being Subverted? by John F. McManus page fee to publish information Helmnnt. Massachusetts The in NRA's American Kifleman. existeiuT in our country of a Next rame the news that nimpiiign to outlaw the private NRA would build a World Sports ownership of guns is hardly a Center to house non-gun related secret. Equally obvious is the groups and organizations. While determined effort of many to heads were still reeling with preserve the Second Amendment' shock, the NRA announced that right to keep and bear arms. it also intends to build a $30 For years during this on-going million National Outdoor ("en-struggle, ("en-struggle, gun owners with good ter, originally planned as an reason have looked to the Wash- "NRA 'Outdoor Center." The ington -based National Rifle As- change in the name is itself social ion lor leadership. The un- highly significant, compromising NRA, with its In-slilute In-slilute lor Legislative Action Oram Report lll.A). bus always been equal to Behind the drive radically to the challenge and so has earned alter NRA looms Mr. Harold the special wrath of those who Oram, chairman of Oram lnter-wouki lnter-wouki disarm Americans. national Corporation, and author au-thor of the Oram Report. In a NRA Going Under? letter transmitting his "confi- Ai a lime when the citizen's dential" report to NRA leaders right to own a gun is gravely on June 23, 1976, Mr. Oram threatened by the openly hostile identified former NRA pres-Carler pres-Carler Administration, the NRA ident ('. R. Gutermuth as believ-is believ-is being scuttled. More precisely, ing that "a large number of it looks as though NRA leader- NRA members . . . have little ship is pulling the plug, on itself, .sympathy with present legisla-and legisla-and causing the flagship of tive policies but will be quite Second Amendment rights to willing to support a major con-disappear. con-disappear. The situation is seri- servation program . . . ." The mis enough to have prompted fix was in at the very top. dene ("rum. a member of the The Oram Report went fur-NRA fur-NRA board and associate editor then ". . . the NRA must pro-' of dun Wrvk magazine, to ques- vide an image of an organization lion "whether there will even le equally concerned with other en-an en-an organization called the Na- vironmentalconservalion orga-lional orga-lional Rifle Association" by nizations .... Disagreement on )78. the 'gun control issue' must not The events prompting Mr. $e permitted to frustrate coop-Crum's coop-Crum's sobering speculation eration and respect in the con-have con-have been chronicled by R. I), servation field." Later, the Re-I'ntrick Re-I'ntrick Mahoney in the April 13 port bemoaned the fact that the issue ol the newsweekly The Kv- current media image of the view Of The News. Mahoney NRA d' ".troys its ability to raise lists as indicators of trouble the money from the Rockefeller. sudden announcement that the Ford, and Mellon foundations, NRA is moving its headquarters all militant anti-gun backers. A from the center of its vital lob- study of Mr. Oram's report in-bying in-bying activities in Washington to dicates that his recommenda-lar-olf Colorado Springs, and tions are being implemented, the equally sudden firing or re- Rumblings among NRA tiring ol seventy-five members members ore threatening to of the headquarters staff. break out into open revolt. But In addition, the important whether the rank and file can ILA, the legislative arm of the successfully rescue their organi NRA. has been cast adrift, af- zation from the last moving r ter its good name was used to conversion remains to be seen. "' raise a war chest to fight gun Preserving the right to keep and control. The ILA now finds it- bear arms will tie gTeatly aided sell without a parent, even be- by preserving NRA's integrity. j" ing forced to pay a $48M)-per- ii77Th. -.hhn H,r, h ni, is h.aiun. FOR INFORMATION CONCERNING THE BIRCH LOG, CALL: BILL REAGAN 586-6226 y ' Utah tourism. Whatf $ it to you? Part of your paycheck may come from Chances are that tourists in Utah help pay your paycheck. The Utah tourist industry is significant to maintaining jobs for 30.500 people, with an annual payroll in excess of $92-million. This year, tell the visitors you meet about everything Utah has to offer. Invite them to stay an extra day. It'll pay! iA public service message of this newspaper and the Utah Travel Council.) MAGIC MILL WHEAT GRINDERS BOSCH BREAD MIXERS Package Deals Available toward Arns 586-6378 FISHER WOOD STOVE Cut fuel bills with the most fficient. durable stove made, olds an all night fire heats the ntire hiHise Cse as a cook stove r converts to a fireplace Call Id R180 13 tf |