Color Country Spectrum (Newspaper) - June 10, 1976, Saint George, Utah CORP. Finishing touches applied Concert structure readied By ton The Zion Performing Arts Bowl located on Dixie College north of here by Zion National Park is almost ready for a joint concert Friday evening which will feature and the Mormon Tabernacle According to Milton construction foreman for Hall Brothers Construction of who was BUSY with touches Wednesday will have the bowl by Friday and there Kill be a concert for Six weeks ago ould have guessed it would be completed on time but Channel 7 portable television vans were rolling in to be set up as Hall's comments were Workmen were also busy with finishing touches such as painting and It was that toe installation of necessary power cables and other futures will require a massive effort to be ready on While the problems of construction itself will be parking is another A paved road runs up to the stage but public parking is located a quarter to a half mite Off trials in charge of the concert have already publicly requested cooperation from those attending and have announced that shuttle bus service will be available between the parking area and the amphitheatre for those not desiring to Tbe structure in its near completed state is nearly as impressive as is the setting They certainly complement each other and the visitors will be the winners in the Foreman Hall expressed his feelings regarding the bowl and is too nice to become unused and uncared It must have use to have full It would be well to have someone living here permanently for maintenance and protective Dice College and teachers who long ago dreamed of this use for the school property in its striking setting are as insistent now it has keen built that it have constant use and mat part of that use is training in the forming Friday evening when the strains of the music will echo against red cliff background from the throats and instruments of some of the world's most honored the dreams of many in southern Utah will be especially those from Dixie College who gave birth to the dream and worked to make it FuB capacity of the modem and large has been our for many weeks now and the hillside is steep and rocky for overflow but eves under these con- ditions local community business men and leaders expect it to be a in the life of their are making every possible community effort to make it just that The finishing touches are being applied to the Springdale to ready the structure for ths Bicentennial concert scheduled Friday featuring the Utah Symphony and ths Mormon Tabernacle Zion Park provides the setting for the conert to be held In the newly completed amphitheater just outside the boundaries of the Local forecast Cedar City Variable cloudiness and cooler through thunderstorms this afternoon and decreasing on locally gusty highs today in the upper 70s, lows tonight in the mid 40s. St. Partly and cooler through Friday highs today near 90; lows tonight in the mid 50s. Color Country Spectrum Volume 13 Number 79 The printed voice of Utah's booming June 10, 1976 Cease-fire efforts flounder Lebanon fighting pressure eases Leftists and Palestinian guerrillas Inspect the hulks of two Syrian tanks they destroyed in an ambush In the center ol this Biblical port Massive cleanup continues IDAHO Idaho Federal and state officials mobilized all available earth moving equipment today to help clear irrigation ditches clogged with silt and debris by waters which poured from breached Teton Dam last Steve Wade of the Bureau of Reclamation said an urgent cleanup of the irrigation system was needed to save acres of crops untouched by the waters that surged down the Upper Snake Valley when the dam broke or will be an even bigger disaster to fanners who have crops growing is of the w ade said estimate eight to ten to get water back onto the crops which were undamaged or partially damaged Five persons drowned in the flood and five other deaths officially have been listed as flood There also were persons treated for injuries and released and 10 more hospitalized two in senous condition Estimates on the number missing stood at between 40 Uncle Sam won't pick up yet IDAHO undersecretary cf Agriculture spiked that Uncle Sam is going to for all the damages caused by the SI billion Teton Dam disaster John Knebel told a news conference that such rumors are He said the government is working as fast at it to make loans for major construction projects and grants for animal and Any money given out will be by Knebel said he if it later is determined the federal goverment has responsibility and liability for failure of the dam and the resultant flood then loans will be written off. He met with Gov. Cecil D. Andrus in Boise Wednesday morning before coming to Idaho Falls and touring the agricultural area affected by the flood Andrus later telephoned the White House and asked that the president voluntarily declare federal liability for the flood Knebel estimated it will take five days to get loans through the Small Business Administration and said he his personnel m Farmers Home Administration to beat that time if and 60. Damage has been estimated at more than Si billion A disaster relief spokesman said homes were destroyed by flood waters and 32.000 National guardsmen buried dead animals and restored utilities in the widespread flood area Guard helicopters lifted in poles for electricity Undersecretary of Agriculture John inspecting the disaster spiked rumors the federal government would pay for all flood damage He said the government is working as as it can to make loans for major construction projects and grants for animal feeding and In the U S. Geological survey said one of its geologists was so uncertain of the safety of the Teton Dam that he suggested four ago setting up movie cameras to record the from a The 1972 suggestion by David Schleicher was never sent to the Interior Department Bureau of which was in charge of the dam project But it prompted a ev report to the bureau a ear later expressing concern geological faults near the earth and rock Lebanon 10 between Syria and its tinian and leftist opponents died down on Lebanon's four but Arab efforts to arrange a formal cease-fire foundered on the key issue oi a Syrian is a de facto a Palestinian officer said a shot has been fired in anger all day But there's no word of any actual cease-fire Syria has agreed to accept a arranged through Algerian and Arab League Damascus radio But truce talks between leftist leaders and Libyan Premier Maj. Abdel Salam broke down in angry arguments over whether the more than Syrian troops in Lebanon should be forced to leave Christian leaders flatly rejected mediation saving other Arab countries were in Lebanese is about time Lebanon withdrew from the Arab the right-wing Cedars Guard group declared Syrian tanks and troops remained halted in their tracks by a combination of surprisingly tough leftist resistance and diplomatic pressure from other Arab states Clashes in the rugged central tains 12 miles east of the around the ancient southern port of Sidon and on the outskirts of northern Tripoli eased after a day of deadly artillery duels between Syrian and leftist gunners In rightist and leftist heavy guns thundered overnight m what local newspapers were now calling the the 14 month battle between Lebanese Moslems and tians adding to the 24hour toll of more than 220 dead and 550 wounded before the guns fell Western diplomats said the Soviet Union's off warning was its toughest yet on the situation there but they declined to characterize it as or saber-rattling The Sonets in the warning issued called for a cease-fire and for the first time condemned the Syrian intervention m a Syrian government spokesman said today his country will take and measures to deal with Iraqi troop movements along their joint The spokesman said the Iraqi which was officially announced by the Baghdad endangered the Palestinian revolution and not help Arab proposals aimed at helping Middle East News agency said the Iraqi troop move was an apparent attempt to divert some of the Syrian troops in With the threat of a Syrian advance on Beirut at least temporarily held off by international Arab clashes between Syrian troops and Palestinians in the central mountains 12 miles east of the capital and around the southern port of Sidon died down after a day of deadly artillery duels Abortion law upheld LAKE CITY The Attorney General's Office has an- that the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver has upheld a ruling which keeps Utah's statute intact and in force The state's legal office announced a decision Wednesday which the circuit court made June 4. upholding an action by a federal panel a vote of 2-1, had abstained from deciding the merits of a case brought a 17 v w oman who sought to hav e a section of Utah's abortion law v The w oman filed the original action in 1974 She said she wanted an abortion without her estranged husband being told about it because the was not his The law savs notification of abortion must be made to the parents or guardian of the woman on whom it is to be performed if she is a or to her husband if she is mamed Federal Judges Anderson of the U S. District Court for and David Lewis of the a from involving the federal court in the case on the theory the state courts should decide the Willis Hitter chief judge of Utah's federal court felt the panel should rule on the merits of the case The 10th Circuit Court the abstention was not improper nor was dismissal oi the action improper The case had previously been dis- missed in a district court Energy highlights region meet CEDAR CITY Energy development was the dominant theme rf discussion as Governor Calvin Hampton met with public officials from Southwestern Utah here Representatives of the Five County Association of county and city officials went over a wide variety of concerns with the Governor as they met with him in The Governor has been holding such meetings for the past five years throughout the Officials of the Five Counties organization expressed concern about the creation of state-level energy groups such as the state Blue Ribbon Commission and the Seminars on energy They were interested mainly in where local policy-making was to fit in with these The Governor emphasized the fact that the main role of the Blue Ribbon Commission was to study the issues involved in energy management prior to the meeting of the Such questions as the imposition of a should be geared into the work of thers the Governor The group was invited to submit a policy statement to the Blue Ribbon Com- mission before outlining local sentiments and summarizing work already done m the area of energy development The group also reported progress being made on solving the problem of culinary water for the town of A from the Department of Education and Welfare is being used to create a locally arrived for the town's problems Energy development in Iron and Beaver Counties was one concern talked about by the Iron County Commission as members met with Governor The Governor assured commissioners tht the State would be ready to help with road building and other needs created by the possible alunite development in the He urged Iron and Beaver Counties to get together for joint planning for future and promised from his office for such planning efforts Other Iron County concerns dealt with county A and B roads and with the feeder system Commissioner Ivan Matheson suggested variable standards for roads of toe feeder determined not state-wide but bv local usage and weather Some disappointment was expressed by Commission Chairman Graham McDonald with the quality and cost of health services administered through the district health Commissioner Matheson suggested the services might be Cedar City Mayor Kerry Jones gave the Governor information on current planning for a water storage reservoir at the head of the Zion The water impounded there would be made available to Water from Kolob now used by would then be diverted to Cedar City for culinary usa This is the substance of a long-standing agreement Governor Rampton suggested that the which he estimated would cost might be at least in by the state through the water Resources
