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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

Election experts are predicting that voting in November may fall to a new national low in the percentage of eligible voters who trek to the polls. Let’s hope that doesn’t happen – and especially here in Utah – a state which has taken pride through the years in respectable voter turnouts. President Carter. noting “an… Continue reading New Low in Voting? Don’t
Let It Happen on Nov. 7th

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. How do you stand on the proposal to increase congressional salaries again? On the… Continue reading Sounding Board for Public

If you read the Herald comics land who doesn’t’?) you probably observed an interesting bit of political philosophy contained in a recent Sunday installment of ”Berry’s World” by Jim Berry. The script for ha f a dozen panels portraying an interview with a “Congressman Rodomontade” read as follows: “Congressman Rodomontade, what is your philosophy about… Continue reading Whot’s Your Opinion?

The Utah Highway Safety Division, in analyzing traffic fatalities for 1978, has come up with some telling figures on the devastating influence of speed and alcohol on the highway. Dur ng the year there were 315 fatal crashes which killed 376 persons. Of these accidents, alcohol was a contributing factor in two out of every… Continue reading Speed ond Alcohol Kill

Administration of justice in our judicial system sometimes is impeded or made more costly by challenge through ”technicality.” Conviction or acquittal too often hinges on one technicality or another – the police officer erred, the suspect wasn’t properly advised of his rights, court procedure didn’t go according to Hoyle. Sometimes, it almost seems, technicalities are… Continue reading Techniculities cmd Justice

Productivity, one of the factors vital to the nation’s economic health, once again figures in the news, with: 1. A Labor Department report that output per hour worked at the nation’s businesses (excluding famis) fell at a seasonallyadjusted 8.9 percent annual rate for the second quarter. 2. Release of the Joint Congressional Economic Committee’s midyear… Continue reading We Must Strive to Reverse Productivity Slump