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Show Community Comments If a ball gets kicked around long enough, sooner or later it will probably land in your back yard. Colorado's new governor, govern-or, -John Vanderhoof didn't come out so well last week in his brief meeting in Salt Lake City over the possibility of moving deadly nerve gas belonging to the Army from a point near his capitol city to Dugway, near Tooele. Gov. Calvin Rampton, who has stayed firm in his determination not to have the gas moved to Utah, handled the negotiations nego-tiations briefly and in a very few words. Now, back home in Colorado, Col-orado, Gov. Vanderhoof is looking for other alternatives. al-ternatives. Certainly, he said Tuesday, a remote piece of desert somewhere some-where in Utah or New Mexico can be found to safely store the toxic gases, so that if some of the tanks do begin to leak, not many people will lose their nerve. Here it comes. Because Be-cause we in the Four Corners area have few people per square mile, we're viewed by the alternate-seekers of the world as a dumping ground for the things they don't want. The desert west is a great place to build dirty power plants to supply electricity to the populous popu-lous West Coast, they began. And it's taking years to begin the cleanup clean-up job on the first of those power plants. Now it's nerve gas and who knows what's next. What we can t figure to begin with, is why the Department of Defense deems it so necessary to maintain enough nerve gas to kill all the people of the world several times over. Detoxification Detoxifica-tion of those stockpiles where they now exist is the best answer. Several Sev-eral members of Congress Con-gress are now beginning to think this way, even though they find it a little difficult to gain the attention at-tention of the powerful defense establishment, --sjt-- It's hard to believe that the beginning of the new school year is coming com-ing soon, but details on the registration of students stu-dents are being published this week so that families planning post-Little League Lea-gue vacations can get the word before they depart. This has beena screwy summer. Here it is the middle of August, and one of my neighbors has apricots apri-cots that still aren't very ripe. --sjt-- |