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Page 10 THE BATTALION THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1981 National Maintenance to decrease Parks may cut services United Press International WASHINGTON — Visitors to the national parks and forests this summer may find the amenities provided a little leaner than past years because of budget cuts. Federal allocations that have not kept up with inflation and deep cuts in the funds avail able for seasonal workers may translate into less frequent garbage collection, fewer ranger patrols and a little less fresh paint splashed about in some areas. Except for the elimination of some remote campsites, however, officials of the National Park Service and the National Forest Service stress that service cutbacks will be minimal and little felt by the hundreds of millions of visitors to the great outdoors. The 300 million people touring the more than 330 National Park areas can expect “slight difference in service provided,” according to Jay Sahd of the park service budget office. While the Park Service 1981 budget was fattened to $494.6 million, inflation has under cut much of the increase. Today’s thinner dol lars, Sahd said, “buy less supplies and mate rials . to continue the same amount of services. You must curtail some place. ” Maintenance cutbacks will bear much of the burden, Sahd said. Cuts will also be felt in fewer patrolls of the service’s 31,129 camp sites, and tours and craft demonstrations for tourists may be scantier. “It is hoped this will not inconvenience visi tors; that is not the intent,” Sahd said. Those planning to enter one of the 154 na tional forestcan “expect a lower quality recrea tion experience because of reduced services, lower quality facilities and lack of adequate amenities,” according to Bob Gordon, Forest Service budget office. maintenance. The YCC and YACC, funded by the depart ments of Interior and Labor, provide about 6 percent of the service’s manpower require ments, mostly in the eastern half of the country. While the service recreation budget tops $111.5 million this year, it is only $5.1 million more than last year and a “net decrease in real terms,” Gordon said. In addition, the $1.93 billion Forest Service budget was slashed from the $2.17 billion 1980 allocation. As a result, while most of the forest service’s 91,000 campsites will be open, some “low use, remote sites” may not open or close early in the autumn. Amenities, such as garbage col lection, will also be reduced, according to Gordon. Manpower will also be reduced. Fewer summer-only seasonal employees, used to pat rol trails, assist visitors and enforce the Forest Service regulations, will be hired than in past years, he said. “Basic human services that involve health or human safety, we re trying to maintain as we always have,” said Edward Therrien, informa tion officer at the White Mountain National Forest, spread over 747,400 acres in New Hampshire and Maine. “We’ve managed to open everything this year,” Therrien said. Back country patrols in the forest, which last year was visited by 6 million people, will be reduced, he said, be cause of fewer seasonal employees, but the cuts “will not be obvious to the average person coming here. ” Officials at the Superior Nation al Forest in Minnesota anticipate no major service reductions at their 25 developed fee- required campgounds, according to spokes man Allan Wolter. The congressional decision to eliminate the Youth Conservation Corps and the Young Adult Conservation Corps over the next two years will also cut into the muscle available to the service for tasks like trail construction and The three million acre forest has a “bigger budget and more flexibility” than some other parts of the Forest Service, Wolter said. He said forest administrators will also rely upon campers to haul their own garbage to central sites to “take up the slack” caused by staff reductions. Reagan committed to new tax cut proposal United Press International WASHINGTON — President Reagan says he is “fully committed” to the new version of his tax cut proposal — one he claims offers “true tax relief and a new economic beginning. ” Administration officials today planned to ex plain the latest revisions — including about $20 billion in concessions to the business community — to the Senate Finance Committee. Later, the House tax-writing committee was to begin discussions on a tax cut bill, but is not expected to get down to specifics until next week. Last week the administration unveiled a re vised tax plan calling for a 25 percent cut in indi vidual tax rates over 33 months, an accelerated depreciation schedule for business investments and a laundry list of “sweeteners” to attract bipar tisan support in Congress. But to pay for the sweeteners — such as a modified marriage penalty and larger estate tax exemptions — the president was forced to scale back his business tax cut. The business community was incensed at the change, which cut its tax relief by $50 billion over six years — from the first proposal of $173 billion to $123 billion. After completing some last-minute changes to satisfy business groups Tuesday, Treasury De partment officials hand-delivered a copy of the administration’s revised proposal to Rep. Barber Conable, the senior Republican tax writen; House. Conable immediately introduced the Itj tion with Rep. Kent Hance, D-ffxas,attheij nistration’s request. Conable, who had noth chance to read the hurriedly compiled bill,s he supports the general outline but reserved; right to make technical changes. The revisions focus on improved depi allowances for business equipment in 1$ 1986 and would cost about $20 bill revenues. Promptly after the legislation was i the White House issued a statement byRe saying his administration “is fully commill(j| this bill,” and adding it offers “true tax relief! new economic beginning.” Conable told reporters he would havepr* red the administration’s initial business ti proposal, “but we want to win this issuefc president.” He said the latest changes “have beenw out with the business community, and have appeal in Congress.” The New York Republican said he had w: to see a compromise worked out with the cratic leadership in the bipartisan traditional Ways and Means Committee, but 'TheDfs cratic leadership has not been forthcoming we’ve got to move along.” NewYor Baltimo) Milwaul Boston Clevelai Detroit Toronto Oakland Texas Jhicago laliforn Kansas < Seattle Wcclnt 'Texas 12, ansas Ci altiinorc hicago 6 Jetroil 4, alifornia astou 4, m t r INTRODUCING A NEW FLAVOR IN PIZZA FROM Western Style — With A Zesty, Smokey Bar-B-Que Flavor! Now you have a choice. Ask for either One of Our Delicious Regular Recipes or Our New Western Style! 846-7785 00 Off Any Size Pizza With Two or More Items Name. Phone | ONE COUPON PER PIZZA Expires July 1, 1981 FREE ICE-COLD PEPSI WITH ANY PIZZA. Qii in i n 111111 mmi rrr Illinois city is first to outlaw handguns United Press International MORTON GROVE, Ill. — The 24,000 residents of Morton Grove have until Sept. 6 to get rid of their handguns, making their town the first in the United States to ban both sale and possession of handguns. has not passed.” A village handgun owner, attorney Vic tor Quilici, immediately filed suit in Cook County Circuit Court challenging the con stitutionality of the new anti-gun law and seeking to bar its enforcement. Village trustees, despite almost certain opposition and court battles, voted 5-1 Monday to ban the sale of handguns and 4-2 to ban possession of handguns. Residents have 90 days to conform to the new ordinances. “As far as we know, it’s the first village in the United States to ban both the sale and possession of handguns,” village trustee Neil Cashman, who sponsored the ordi nances, said Tuesday. “I’m talking about any municipality. Many have tried, but it Community anger over lack of handgun control peaked recently when a young man wanted to open a store selling handguns in a small shopping mall in a residential area of the northwest Chicago suburb. Cashman said the young man said he would sell only to policemen. “Well, policemen don’t buy that many guns. We’ve only got 40 policemen in town,” Cashman said. “We decided it was time to do something about handguns, and the first thing was to ban the sale of them. Village officials expect a fight from the National Rifle Association and the Illinois Rifle Association. Police said the ordinances will be hard to enforce because the village had only volun tary handgun registration — making it im possible for officers to identify gun owners. “I don t know what’s going to happen, ” Cashman conceded. “I’m sure the opposi tion— the NRA and the IRA, which has lots of money — is going to fight us on this. But we ll fight right back.” Opponents of handgun control showed up en masse at the village meeting carrying NRA handouts. But Cashman said between 60 and 70 percent of the residents are against handguns. ; DA LI A ago Bob 1 Son of at! |rn Meth || full w ■ about "I think that the American e®'k v(Te N( with handguns has been a dismal®?‘Yes~” said village- trustee GreggpryYoufeWmcw \ I think the majority of the Ameriraim n gut t believe that, even though the |»^ that ha may not.” Bted o "We are simply saying let itk® s this us, ” he added. “We may be wrong® f be ; Supreme Court ofthe United States® We c; cate at that point.” ®> but' Private citizens owning gons ^ clays to put them in a gunclubon® ... sell them outside Morton Grove T L , W1 lie long r SMU jdeyer. In Exempted from the law are [ ity personnel, licensed gun a antique firearms owners. ses selling guns have 90 daystoie;| inventories. M >C as ►TTATTE O Prescriptions Filled Glasses Repaired 216 N. 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College Ave. • 846-1738 (5 Blocks North of Skaggs) [111] I Owner Lonny Scasta His optimism in jojoba (pro nounced ho-HO-buh) is matched by Wall Street Digest, an invest ment advisory service, that re cently placed the bean, after real estate and rare coins, as one of the TO best places to put your money now.” The oil is said to have most of the properties of that produced from the sperm whale, an en dangered species protected by U.S. law. Most important, sources agree, is its ability to stand up under high-pressure, high- temperature industrial uses. “It’s the only plant among 10,(XX) surveyed by the depart ment that produced an oil that has the structure of liquid wax, says Dr. Thomas Miwa, who runs the Tempe, Ariz., laboratory of Jojoba Plantation Products and previous ly spent 22 years as a research chemist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. So far, the largest application of jojoba has been in cosmetics. Roots Jojoba Products Inc., of Beverly Hills, Calif., sells jojoba shampoos, conditioners, hand and body moisturizers. Other applications being tested include use in drugs, plastics, in dustrial lubricants, detergents, chewing gum, carbon ribbons and waxes. The nut meal, after oil ex traction, also has potential as acat- lodking oi § lf TTiis if Beyer. “' I The N( ivestigat jtball nesd ■ear pro! is appl tie feed and a fertilizer, pftlie pro But the current cost is tgames tel ing. “It’s so scarce now ^ll p rev , charging $125 a gallon an; taking pa; had to limit sales to five-®MU \\ cans, " says B.J. Bianco,safe® favori ager at Janca’s Jojoba. Hiferen The problem is jojoba! Many <; commercially grown. Miw sidered n little over 10,000 acres!standards throughout the Soutlnves j n g ex ci parts of Mexico are ibf athletes \ source of jojoba beans. toUallas This year's yield is expK®boostt he about 125 to250tonst(jEBut he oil, squeezed from the sen the NCA ratio of 20 pounds toagaljhis is th Efforts are underway todr'school — commercially grown cask; was nece 1 lowever, the plant takesahj' “Althoi years to mature. A furtbei .ognizes i hack is lack of start-up fat dent, clii part clue to jojoba’s limited! head foot hility, thus unproven naW'dated wi “From the informatioi time pre seen in the press, fromo»4 studies, there are toomanvk not yet determined," sanl Faraoni, a Phoenix loan oil Valley National Bank's ness department. Another problem, says I Dennis, of the University^] na Plant Sciences D _ the lack of irrigated land h| growing. Dennis also says, “The I procedure has yet tobe»' out. 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