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Show L Our readers write and share opinions . . . To the people of Carbon, faery, and Grand Counties, After lunch on April 18, my husband, his assisting assist-ing and our healthy eight jear old Weimaraner dog made a geological traverse tra-verse into and out of Stub Canyon in Grand County, northeast of Green River. This was just another routine traverse of hundreds hun-dreds made in Montana, Arizona and Utah in many years. By five o'clock in lie afternoon, after a horrendous drive from Green River to Price, Dusty lay dead of strychnine strych-nine suffocation in the veterinarian's office in Price. At the end of this geologic field season we ihall return home heart-ack heart-ack and lonely without Dusty.-a happy, friendly, md loving animal. This letter is being mtten to inform the people of Carbon, Emery and Grand Counties who have children and pets to be aware of a very perilous situation in their areas and act upon it. We think Dusty died an accidental death when he found strycrinine poisoned bait in the canyon. Strychnine Strych-nine is a restricted chemical chemi-cal and its use is illegal except in grain bait for rodents, under the supervision super-vision of the State Department Depart-ment of Agriculture. Baited Bait-ed strychnine should not have been in Stub Canyon. Can-yon. Perhaps someone was trying to kill coyotes. But no animal should have to die in this horrible manner. However, in my conservations with pet owners in Green River, I learned of three poisonings poison-ings in town in March, and periodic poisonings during previous years. The week our dog died, the veterinarian confirmed confirm-ed two other deaths, one in Carbonville and one in Price. There were not accidental. These were planned dog deaths. I am alarmed at this inhumane behavior. Not only am I concerned for dogs, but I fear for the young children in the area. We lived with the people of Utah when my husband did the geology of the Abajo Mountains and we spent last summer in Ephraim when he studied the Wasatch Plateau. We liked the people and enjoyed the areas. But we shall never forget our unhappiness and what we learned about extreme cruelty to animals in our stay in the town of Green River in April of 1978. We'll continue to be disturbed knowing that in many places in Utah there are dog poisoners. Whose pet will be next? . Whose young child-might child-might be an accidental victim? Sincerely, Zelda K. Witkind Sam, Tuesday night, May 2, on T.V., I listened to a poor pitiful song, sung by a congressman who believes be-lieves himself to be underpaid and subject to abuse by his constituents. This is a very vital subject to the taxpayers of the country. All congressmen should be paid enough to allow them to have at least two yachts as well as a summer and winter home. They should have free lunches, free haircuts as well as taxpaid junkets to any foreign country they believe that they or their families are entitled to. Anything less is discimi-natory discimi-natory against them by the poverty stricken mass- es who sometimes wonder i where their next meal is ! coming from. These leeches who call 1 themselves public ser- vants, should be forced to 1 spend a month living in a j house of a welfare recipi-i recipi-i enta person who is 1 willing to work but unable i to do so maybe this will 1 teach he or her what the , struggle to survive is about, but I doubt it very ' seriously. " In my opinion the major f problem with the U.S. is , the predominant group of ' LAWYERS who not only 'j draft the laws but at the i same time see that their 1 own pockets are filled at the expense of the aver-i aver-i age tax-payer. ' These are the ones who i are allowed to increase 1 their own salaries without regard to the increased ' inflation it will cause but i who at the same time, ' speak out against a i minimum wage for the 1 worker claiming that i S2. 10 an hour would cause ' an inflation that would spiral into limbo. (The i minimum wages for Utah I is SI. 85). i Pity the poor congress-1 congress-1 man who cannot live on ! 548,000 a year. C W. D. McArthur |