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Preceding a major hunt – big game, waterfowl, pheasant, or whatnot – it’s customary to warn would-be nimrods of the hazards and urge they exercise every safety precaution. Certainly the warning. is appropriate. Everybody w 0 takes gun in hand and goes hunting isn’t a hunter insofar as experience and skills are concerned. Many of… Continue reading Respect Property Rights

The Herald considers letters to the editor a vital part of the newspaper, fulfilling one purpose of the free press by providing a “sounding board” for public opimon. We respect viewpoints of the readers – and you can choose your subject. I-low do you stand on the proposal to increase congressional salaries again’? On the… Continue reading Sounding Board for Public

If you’re tempted, because of the threatened gasoline shortage, to hoard some of the precious liquid in containers at your home, you’d better give the matter a second thought and get some advice from the fire inspector. Barring certain conditionssuch as having an underwriter approved container buried in the ground-the answer will be: Don’t do… Continue reading Don’t Store Gasoline

Cancer brought misery to humans long before man began. fouling of his environment, it has been a leading cause of death and has brought untold suffering through the years. Now, we’re confronted with an interesting and encouraging paradox. Although cancer death rates are continuing to rise, more patients than ever are being cured of the… Continue reading Progress in Cancer Fight

The death of a teen-age rabbit himter in Wyoming Saturday is a tragic reminder of the potential dangers of being stranded in the mountains, deserts, or byways by snow and cold weather. The youth, from the Riverton, Wyo. area, was a member of a party in two vehicles stuck in snow in a Wyoming cold… Continue reading Winter Peril on Byrocids

Since members of Congress received a $13.500 salary increase in 1977. the red flag goes up at the mention of further increases in pay for senators and congressmen. Taxpayers traditionally are quite sensitive when raises are mentioned for public officials, particularly when salaries already are high and Washington pay boosts seem to have such a… Continue reading Congressional Puy Issue

The Forest Service’s RARE II wilderness area recommendations are in – but it may be quite awhile before Congress acts on them. In Utah, Gov. Scott Matheson doesn’t favor accepting Agriculture Bob Bergland’s recommendation for some 492,008 acreas for wilderness just yet. He wants to wait until the state’s wilderness committee recommends a “comprehensive wilderness… Continue reading The RARE Il Proposals

“A fair is a fair,” as one observer said after viewing the fourth annual in the revived series of Utah County fairs which ended Saturday night at Spanish Fork. Maybe, in the sense that each year there are home arts exhibits, livestock, handicrafts, horticultural and floricultural displays, and what have you. But the 1979 edition… Continue reading County Fair in Retrospect

lt was a tremendous search and rescue effort, with numerous people wanting to help, a great deal of sophistication in the use of devices and equipment, and a display of human concern and courage under difficult circumstances. In the end, the missing airplane – carrying four members of the Dr. Arden Kitchen family of Pleasant… Continue reading Air Crush Sudclens Valley

In numbers there could turn out to be speed as well as strength. Opposition to the nationwide 55 mile-an-hour speed limit has moved from the highways, where millions of drivers have been ige noring it when patrol cars aren’t in sight, into legislatures. Wyoming’s is already well advanced with legislation to raise the limit to… Continue reading The Speed Limit Debate