Persons and groups with evidence and opinions relevant to the proposed Four Seasons Project have an official opportunity now to be heard. They will receive that opportunity at hearings on the preliminary environmental statement; and during a po’st – hearing period extending possibly into the early days of July. The hearings for receiving public input on the preliminary environmental statement, for inclusion ih the final impact statement, will be held Friday of this week at 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. at the Provo City Commission Chambers. The 300page preliminary statement was released early in April by the Uinta National Forest supervisor. It describes impacts for a number of alternatives considered for the ski resort proposed for the mountains east of Provo, Forest Service officials stress that this is not a decision document. The preliminary report will be circulated 90 days from the date of its release (about April 8) and anyone can provide input during that time. Such input, along with evidence and comments taken at the two public hearings Friday, will be evaluated. summerized, and placed into the final impact statement to be considered in the decision – making relative to the petition of the developer, Wilderness Associates. It is understood the Forest Service has the option of approving the proposal of the developers, of allowing limited development, or of rejecting use of the lands for the resort, depending on the ‘ evidence. The proposed Four Seasons Project has been in the public eye for a long time. It has received both strong support and stout opposition. As the environmental aspects move into an official stage, it is hoped that those who have significant input to offer will step forward. One of the musts for anyone serious about the project, pro or con, should be to read the preliminary environmental statement. Those unable to do so may at least gain some significant highlights from the series of three articles on the report published in the Herald April 25, 26, and 27. In any event, the hearings Friday at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. at the City Center are being held for an official and important purpose and it is hoped they will be well attended. So They Soy “If those young people are willing to forget the role he played in the war, he ought to forget their opposition to the war. I say that as a friend of Humphrey’s.” – Sen. George McGovern (D-S.D.i, urging Sen. Hubert Humphrey to support total amnesty for Vietnam War resisters. “If one thing has troubled the American public about detente, it is the sense that it is a one-way street in favor of the Soviet Union, that American leadership does not hold the Soviet Union to commitments solemnly undertaken, particularly where human rights and Soviet Jews are concerned.” -Sen. Frank Church 1DIdaho) addressing the World Council on Soviet Jewry.