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attlemen, tortoise fight
over control of Utah land
United Press International
JBALT LAKE CITY — It’s
cattlemen vs. the tortoise
■he latest version of the old
asluoned range war of the
l' West.
jThe cattle ranchers are
4iWti up against preserva-
lists in the battle for sparse
letation in southwest Utah,
ighting over the question of
C lich is more threatened —
le Desert Tortoise or the
rattle industry.
.■The land where the battle
G Han is a 35-square-mile de-
p •, grt known as the Beaver
• 51 ei> Bin Slope where, since 1980,
the tortoise as a federally des-
w , ’Bated threatened species,
. . a f B been guaranteed its share
in stress thtfr i 8
i,ncSsskills |preservationists
i UnUy » l - |on g tortoise
n inembe jBh-dome brown shell, gray
' we f*es and yellow limb sock-
ime diing ets j las become an unfamiliar
say
with
the
its
eryone else
sight amid the sagebrush
1 15 where it has lived for more
is Out ISM* 12,000 years.
other sodttBg ecause l j ie tortoise is
threatened, cattlemen each
»ar must pull their herds off
onew iwbBo federally owned range in
MeschKiuBjch to leave behind spring
torol p vegetation that is critical nou-
was unusiLyj s | irnenl {- or tortoises emerg-
i new chap j n g wea k from hibernation
■ 10 ’ afid preparing to breed. The
•aid. “Whan®
mester will;
mbership
; a year
cattle cannot graze the land
again until October.
Ranchers say they grud
gingly have accepted the Bu
reau of Land Management
dictum so far, but they fear
any further push to revive the
tortoise population could
force them off the land alto
gether and threaten them
with financial extinction.
“There’s a chance that 30
“It's mostly a lot of
mis understanding
and a lot of hype, ” —
Wildlife Resources
spokesman.
cattlemen could be knocked
out of business who have car
ried on fine operations for
generations,” said Rep. James
Hansen, R-Utah, whose dis
trict encompasses the range-
land.
“The Desert Tortoise and
the cattlemen have lived com
patibly since the 1880s,” he
said, “and I doubt the cattle
men are any threat to them
now. My guess is that a bigger
threat is that every kid in the
county has a string tied
around one’s neck.”
Wildlife Service Director
Robert Jantzen has agreed to
review the process by which
the Desert Tortoise joined a
growing list of animals con
sidered threatened.
Wildlife Service spokeswo
man Megan Durham said
Jantzen agreed to the review
at the request of Hansen.
Hansen is concerned about
the influence of the Desert
Tortoise Council, a preserva
tionist group dedicated to the
tortoise’s survival.
“The thing that ticked me
off is that the Fish and Wild
life Service gave the Desert
Tortoise Council the contract
to study whether the Desert
Tortoise should be placed on
the threatened species list,”
Hansen said. “It raises suspi
cion about the impartiality of
the decision.”
Durham confirmed that
the Desert Tortoise Council
studied the tortoise popula
tion, but she said the Fish and
Wildlife Service also solicited
and received information
from cattlemen, university bi
ologists, zoologists and oth
ers.
“We want to be responsive
to the congressman and see if
there is a conflict of inter
ests,” she said. “The listing of
the species has been contro
versial all the way along.
Many people feel that eco
nomics is more important
than the survival of the spe
cies.”
Mike Coffeen of the Utah
Division of Wildlife Re
sources said listing the tor
toise as a threatened species
has not interfered with cattle
grazing.
“The cattlemen protest,
but they pull their cattle off
the range early,”he said. “It’s
“There’s a chance
that 30 cattlemen
could be knocked
out of business who
have carried on fine
operations for gen
erations,” — Rep.
James Hen sen.
mostly a lot of misunder
standing and a lot of hype.”
Robert Benton, a biologist
for the Fish and Wildlife
Service, said the proposed
plan to revive the tortoise
population would not forbid
or further limit cattle grazing.
The draft has yet to be sent to
Washington for approval.
Louisiana wants to bring
Lucas to trial for killings
United Press International
BENTON, La. — Confessed
mass killer Henry Lee Lucas
was indicted Tuesday in the
strangulation of a northwest
Louisiana woman and the stab
bing death of an unidentified
female hitchhiker.
A Busier Parish grand jury
indicted Lucas, 48, after hear
ing evidence from interviews
with the condemned killer last
week. Lucas reportedly con
fessed to the slayings and con
firmed information investiga
tors had gathered in the crimes,
said Bossier-Webster District
Attorney Henry Brown.
Lucas claims to have killed
360 people while drifting
around the country. He has
been sentenced to death and
prison terms of 75 years and life
for slayings in Texas, and has
been charged with slayings in
several states.
Lucas, 48, was indicted for
First-degree murder in the 1978
death of Dolly Dement, 48, of
Coushatta. He was accused of
picking her up in a Bossier City
bar and later stabbing her 11
times, strangling and sexually
assaulting her, then dumping
her body near railroad tracks.
He also was indicted for first-
degree murder in the 1981
death of a hitchhiker, whose de
composed body was found by a
hunter along a highway near
Bellevue. She had been stabbed,
and a kitchen knife was found
embedded in the ground near
her body.
Lucas could not identify tfie
woman, but told authorities she
had a southern accent and he
believed he picked her up while
she was hitchhiking near Dallas,
Brown said.
Brown said he would try to
have Lucas brought to Loui
siana for trial.
“I don’t think we’ll get him
until they get through in Texas,
and there are some other states
who want him,” Brown said.
“We will eventually get him
back here for trial, it just may be
a little while.”
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iioux FALLS, S.D. — Gov.
■ ill Janklow announced Tues-
I flljay ihat a Texas bank plans to
■'Jiovc its credit card operation
_ ) South Dakota, providing 300
^l^|Uewjobs in the first year.
UlUy J'<t"klow said First City Ban-
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trao increase
American
corporation in the United
States.
South Dakota has been rec
ognized as a leader in a move to
relax banking industry regula
tions. The out-of-state influx of
national banking companies be
gan in 1980, when Citibank
moved its credit card operation
to Sioux Falls after limits on in
terest rates were abolished.
The new bank will be called
First City Bank of Sioux Falls.
The Sioux Falls operation will
handle the company’s credit
card operation, the 15th largest
of its kind in the nation.
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be headed by President E. Mi
chael Gatewood. Gatewood is
currently a senior vice president
for First City.
Gatewood said First City
Bancorporation would file its
national charter Thursday with
federal banking authorities in
Dallas. The South Dakota
Banking Commission also must
approve the charter.
The Federal Reserve has pul
on hold consideration of three
requests for state charters by na
tional banks that want to oper
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cans to #HICAGO — American Air-
nes began service to three new
mirna/c myisyns Tuesday to kick off an
ememoer,« ans j on l j ial w j|j near |y dou-
mh you j e |j )e airline’s flights out of
each "nlucago by 1988.
;ases are j n w j )al w j|| he American’s
ghtly. trgesl expansion, the Dallas-
ruges sll jiasecl company will spend $188
tes hrst, j)j||j on m enlarge its terminal at
i’Hare International Airport,
r 600 stjm,, if, U) 30 gates, add 1,500
inmates jgikers to its Chicago force, fly
ed up P™15 new locations and nearly
'X theni';oub| e j ls departures from
were aW I’Hare, said Robert L. Crandall
nt vaC ‘ l! pokesman for the airlines.
jin five years, American
'ould become one of Chicago’s
irgesi employers, with a staff
©,750, he said.
American’s announcement
ffiows by one week an an-
ouncemeriL that the top do-
tesiie carrier, United Airlines,
ill add 67 flights and begin
prvice to 10 additional cities
une 1.
_ jjAmerican, the No. 2 do-
airline, began flights to
3||^»^pree new locations Tuesday —
•nvidence, R.I., Ontario,
and Bermuda. In the
months, the airline will
! 49 daily flights to its
fare operations and hire 650
ployees.
Pyjuly 2, American will add
Irvice from Chicago to Des
foines, Iowa; Omaha, Neb.;
m Wayne, Ind.; Grand Rap
's Mich.; Wichita, Kan.; Reno,
J|.; Pittsburgh; Burbank and
^kland, Calif.; Portland, Ore.;
"d Harrisburg, Pa.
,, I Crandall said the expansion
] made possible by a recent
‘ j^bor agreement and the deci-
»on to purchase 167 new air-
Ph over the next five years,
pie federal government also is
sening controls on landing
is at O’Hare.
I'American annually pumps an
istiniated $284 million into Chi-
ftr Jgo’s economy in wages, taxes
^ ^ pd other expenditures, Cran-
Fw|6 la H said. That amount will in-
'''• ff’ease to $558 million in five
Imyears, he said.
American is planning a sys-
' Rnwide expansion over the
( IBxt five years that will include
•■velopmenl of a third hub in
b /fpver by 1987 and additional
, Pnscontinental flights.
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