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Show Letters To The Editor Dear Sam, There have been times before when I've had strong feelings about particular political poli-tical and social issues, but never have I felt such anger and sorrow as I do now. This afternoon I had a little free time and turned on my favorite radio station (Denver) preparing to relax to some nice tunes for a while. Instead, I was surprised to hear someone talking about, of all places, Moab and the surrounding area and plans for construction of a monster, coal-powered electrical generating plant in the Moab area. Needless to say, the man on the radio (Michael Murphey) had my undivided attention for the next half hour. He continued to illustrate the consequences of allowing such a large plant to be constructed in terms of environmental damage. Although Al-though Mr. Murphey has visited the Canyonlands area only once and was pretty naive in some of his concepts of the region, he was so impressed with it that he has become involved in the politics of the situation to the extent of co-sponsoring, with the wilderness wil-derness society, a concert and slide show (Utah's Canyon Country) in an effort to benefit environmental concerns that are trying to halt the project. I don't know what their chances of success are or w hat effect, if any, my letter of protest will have on your reading audience, audi-ence, but 1 hope something can be done to halt the industrial monster's invasion into God's country. I spent about fifteen years in and around Moab and feel that it was undoubtedly the best time of my life. I've not been there for any substantial length of time in the past five years, but I hope to be able to return permanently within the next five years. Since leaving Moab, I've seen nearly all of the United States and a substantial portion of Europe. I've seen what major industry has done to places like Baltimore, New York, Pittsburgh, London, Frankfurt, and (even closer to home) even the mile high Denver. The rape and ravage of mother earth and her skies and waters that I've seen have only served to reinforce my love for Moab. When I am able to return I want to see those clear blue skies free of any black clouds save thunder clouds. Thank you for letting me use your soap box. Sincerely, Robert McClellan Lakewood, Colorado Dear Sam, Our cut and run actions in Vietnam are emphasizing to the world that the Communist revolution is superior to the American revolution and Totalitarian To-talitarian "control the people" methods are far superior to freedom and individual rights. Total war, waged by our ruthless opponents in Vietnam, Viet-nam, war that includes random ran-dom terror and executions of women and children to achieve political ends, is being richly rewarded by our timid surrender. sur-render. It is incredible that people operating in a free society will allow politicians to meekly sacrifice 55.000 patriots pa-triots in a no win war. It would have been more just to execute these 55,000 men by firing squad, than to allow our present apathetic cut and run surrender in Vietnam. Obviously, Obvi-ously, we have exchanged a disasterous "no win" policy for a disgraceful and disasterous disas-terous policy of "cut and run". A parallel between the role of France in the "peace without honor" surrender of Czechoslovakia prior to WW2, and our role in Vietnam is drawn. France also thought she was a world power and also issued an "invitation of aggression" as we are doing in Vietnam. The result of our irresponsible action could be as tragic for us as it was for France. Mothers, fearful of their children going to war. can take no heart in our "run like hell" grand finale to the Vietnam " episode, s Disgusted, Joe Stocks r mother-daughter game of 3 points. Jean Radcliffe. chairman chair-man of the banquet, gave acknowledgements. Men of the church served , as waitors, and many others helped to make a very successful evening. |