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Show I - Letters to the editor Wall of China. Think about all those trailers! Benefits? Sure, you might get a couple dozen new subscriptions, but they will be transient subscriptions. In x-number of years, they will be gone, . and you will be.left with only the higher . j taxes to pay for new ( schools, crime , control-not to mention the' countless trailer pads, now empty. Is it any wonder that some of those involved in MX policy boards are leaning to the anti-side? They have studied the question; they have looked past the next five years and have pondered the consequences. Benefits? With the $70 billion estimated for the underground mode (and it gets higher every time an estimation is made, have you noticed?). We could turn western Iron County into another San Joaquin Valley-a breadbasket. Benefits? I've struggled for months to try and find one. Jay Wamsley Logan, UT Thanks for help Editor: . The purpose of this correspondence is to express my appreciation for the public service announcements that your newspaper makes on behalf of the Division of Continuing Education and Southern Utah State College. A week, does not go by without the mentioning of SUSC or some college-related function func-tion in your paper. In a time characterized charac-terized by annual budget cuts, the PSA approach to reaching prospective clients may become the only advertising ad-vertising alternative available for many public institutions. We wish to express our com-, mendation for the public service role your newspaper plays in our region. If we can attest to this role on your behalf with any regulatory agency, do not hesitate to ask. Again your efforts in informing the citizenry concerning college activities is appreciated. Pauline H. Nelson Assistant Vice President ' for Academic Affairs MX benefits Editor: A couple of remarks in your editorials of two weeks ago interested me. I hope you will let me get on my soapbox for a moment or two. First, you said (paraphrasing) that Governor Matheson's MX coordinators were slowly becoming merely opponents op-ponents to the system and were just promoting the governor's anti-MX ..stance. Secondly, you alluded to the (in ' fact used the' term) 'benefits ofi the f system . . ." to Iron County. Benefits? Just yesterday (March 10), a Senate subcommittee heard a report which indicated "The Mormon-saturated communities of Southern Utah Would have a difficult time assimilating the transient population (involved with MX construction and deployment) into the local fabric." (As reported by KSL News.) Take a moment and think of the recent technological advances in, say, computers, or medical technology (x-ray (x-ray equipment alone, in fact). Do you honestly believe that the MX underground un-derground railroad system will not be outdated before its implementation? Or that the Soviets will not have devised a detection system? We are talking about the largest single project ever undertaken by modern man, have you forgotten? Bigger than the Panama Canal, bigger than the pyramids of Egypt. A bigger project than the Great |