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Show Dear S ir: Thank ycu for the subscription sub-scription to the T-I. I am delighted to 'learn that ycu sup pert ycur servicemen in this way. As mentioned in ycur Letters Let-ters column, I am "hooked" en the Canycnlar.ds and the DM. The reason is simple. While stationed near Boston, Bos-ton, and while I attended law echec! in Connecticut, the mean'ng of too many people snd too much trash has ccme heme to me. Someone has called it "pcpullution." People are more grim and less ccurtecus when faced Mrth a sea of faces and irr.cuntairs cf garbage, with rivers cf pcison and forests (If concrete. And in the cities, ci-ties, like free animals ccn-f ccn-f r.sd to a zoo, they turn up-cn up-cn cne anc'.her. Lacking the chance to exporter: ex-porter: the v,.tderness and c'j'do:r berxi'.y, sc.t.s take trips cn drugs. Lacking i challenge to e'ther physical or economic survival, st me turn their energies into violence against again-st scciety. No lc.'gcr acquainted with '.heir ncijhbcrs, seme feel free to make a living frcm cr'me. An article in today's New Ycrk T mes is head-lined: head-lined: "Cutwi'.'.l'irS Burglars Is New Universal Pastime." It telis cf cn? woman . with eight leeks cn her door, of pocket sirens, and says "never "ne-ver to open the d?or to a etrarger, except the police." Even in the suburbs: "Ten years ago we left cur doers un'ccked," lamented a housewife. house-wife. ''We were very prcud. All that has changed now." The newspaper concludes that "this trend ... is to seme degree a prcduct of the tremendous population grewth, which in itself breeds crime." As discussion goes on V'Ut bringing mone. tourists tour-ists to the Canycnlands, mere people and industries to Grand County, we should remember what overpopulation overpopula-tion ihas done to the East: "Never open the doer to a s' ranger, except the police." Sincerely, Lt. John E. Bonine Fort Devens, Massachusetts (GreeiX River, Utah) Dear Sir: Cn cur heme Sunday cbrut 2) seme m les from Moab we came across a big dog stand'ng beside the h:gh-way. h:gh-way. After we passed him he started ccming down the highway after us and in lcrk'.-g back we saw a car a'mcst li t h'm so we turned turn-ed arcund and went bick for h'm and he jumped right in the car. If he is semeene's lost pet we would like to find his owners. We thought the best way wculd be to run an ad or s'.oiy in your p::per to the effect that hi-: owners, should they turn up would pay for the ad and if nobody no-body claims the dog we will pty for it and keep the dog We can be contacted at 1149 White, Grand Junction, Colo. Phone 243-1977. Sincerely, Lee S. Hunt 1C49 White Grand Junction, Colo. |