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Show POWER PEOPLE WILL BE OLfSTED Injunctions Against Utah Hydro-Electric Plants on Federal Reservations Sustained. I WASHINGTON. March 19. In sustaining sus-taining injunctions ousting I'tah hy-. hy-. dro electric power companies from fd-i fd-i eral forest reservations the supreme 'court today upheld federal and limited state sovereignty in developing resources re-sources in western "public land" slates. Regulations of the agriculture and! I interior departments conservation policy pol-icy and decrees requiring the Utah power companies to remove their property prop-erty from the public lands, unless they secure federal permits, were BUSt&lm 'i The court maintained power of congress con-gress to regulate all public lands and denied that its authority was limited to lands actually used for federal purposes. pur-poses. All government regulations 1 were not specifically upheld, but the court refused to disturb any of them. It also held the government entitled to reasonable compensation from the Utah power concerns for use of lands occupied. |