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Show Hearings conducted up north do little good for southerners Once again hearings concerning southern Utah are being conducted in northern Utah, hundreds of miles from the people the hearings concern and whom the outcome will affect. Once again it is time to wright letters. The hearings on the Radiation Exposure Compensation Com-pensation Act are being conducted today in Salt Lake City. The invitation and news releases sent out indicated in-dicated that the public is invited, and certainly that is true. However, what good does it do to invite the public when most of those concerned live 300 miles away? How many of southern Utah's residents, who are going to be vitally affected by these hearings, are going to have the time and money available to attend these hearings? We suppose that Senator Orrin Hatch thinks that by bringing the committee to Salt Lake City he is doing a great service to southern Utah. But, as we have asked so many times before, Do our politicians and government bureaucrats really even know if southern Utah exists? Sometimes, bv their actions, it becomes somewhat evident that they don't. However, we don't think that we need to sit en tirely still and iust watch the hearings happen without our input. Letters can help. If nothing else we think that Senator Hatch should know how w feel; and we feel that we have been slighted on a matter of extreme importance to those of us wh( don't i live along the mightly Wasatch Front. So write. It can do some good. |
