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Show Page 30—THE HERALD. Provo, Utah, Thursday, January 31, 1980 MX Missile Program FUNNY BUSINESS by RogerBollen TM SORRY, Si lp 00 092900000000 2 NO ONE CAN BE ADMITTED UNLESS ACCOMPaN IET> CAPTAIN EASY WELL. OF CORSE. Citizens’ Panel To Handle Local Concerns In Wyoming 7 MUST VE BEEN SN-NOK KALE ONS 1 SEE THANK OF Public RAD NO. NEED TO RPPRANC! -8TS WOT DOO ANYTHING MABTY! BY A CHILD ” CHEYENNE, Wyo. (UPI) — One of the prime responsibilities of a 12member citizens’ panel on the Air Force's MX missile system, parts of which could be located in Wyoming will be to take the concems of local residents to the federal government, Gov. Ed Herschler says. Herschler announced Wednesday the appointment of an ad hoc citizens” panel to provide liason between the Air Force, governmental agencies and Wyoming residents on the possible construction of portions of the MX missile system in the state. MY TEACHER THINKS IM DUMB... EVERYBODY THINKS I’M DUMB. “This committee will not only be able to provide to the public informa- By Frank Hill HES ATTL BAyNGANEW STAI VI By Ernie Bushmiller WATCH THIS ---THE FASTEST DRAW nN Town SAARUAR: LOOKS LIKE THE ie) DRAWERS IN Town © 1000 Unies Feature Syndicate, ie BURY By Heimdah! & Stoffel! tion concerning the possible placement of the MX project in Wyoming,” Herschler said, ‘‘but will also be charged with the ibility of transmitting the concerns of localresidents to the appropriate agenciesatall levels of government.” Wyomingisstill being considered as a construction site for the $33 billion mobile missile system, although the preferred sites are in Utah and Nevada, a Pentagon spokesman said earlier this month. Federalofficials once ruled out construction in Wyoming because ofa lack of what the Air Force called ‘geotechnically” suitable land. Since then. however, the Air Force has agreed to Herschler’s request that it reconsider building portions of the system in Wyoming. Two regions, Laramie County and the Great Divide Basin northwest of Rawlins, have been mentioned as areas for potentialsites. “We anticipate that when the Air Force is ready to come back and Teevaluate certain technical questions such as engineering, water, or geology, we (the committee) can steer them to the right people,”’ said Dick Skinner, a Herschler-administrative assistant and a memberof the panel. Retired Air Force Col. James E. Cowan, the chairman of the ad hoc committee, said he understood the Carter Administration would make a decision on where construction would occur in September. No specific plots of Wyomingland have been discussed, he said. Appointed to the committee along with Cowan and Skinner were former Gov. Stan Hathaway; Harry Smith, owner of a local motel and convention cculers Lrg aahes ii y rancher; Highway ent Chief Engineer Leno Menghini; State Engineer George Christopulos; Laramie County Commissioner Winifred Hickey; Keith Hanson, chairman of the Cheyenne-Laramie County Planning Commission; and Cheyenne attorneys Byron Hirst, Dean Borthwick, arid James Applegate. Air Forceofficials have said the MX would take up 10,000 - 12,000 square miles and would call for 200 nuclear missiles traveling on looped, aboveground roads, each with a 30-milecircumference. Each loop would have 23 shelters from which the missile could launched. An Air Force spokesman has said criteria for land selection include: a water table at least 50 feet below the surface, bedrockatleast150 feet down and a grade of 10 percentorless. * OH, WHITEY / ZEEK WAS HURT! 4D/ From their hidi Seminenor Glorious... ae ; ZEEK'S BEEN CUT! Hl OF COURSE NOT, MOM...IT HAS TO BE PLUGGED INTO ELECTRICITY AND WE DON'T HAVE ELECTRICITY Self-Reliant Patients Said To Fare Best NO MATTER WHAT }}Ou DO NOW, RABBIT, J YOURE UNDERARREST, ST. PETERSBURG BEACH, Fla. (UPI) — Tough,self-reliant patients who don’t worry about themselves seem to fare bestin thefirst year after a heart attack. Psychiatrist Melvin J. Stern said in a report released today that most heart attack survivors do well socially and psychologically, but the most successful are those who see their physical problems as only temporary interruptions in their normalwayoflife. Those patients who don’t do as well after a heart attack are morelikely to be obsessed with physical symptoms. Stern said these people are frequently depressed, discouraged and feel unable to controllife's events. Stern, an associate professor at the George Washington University Medical Center in Washington, based his observations on two separate studies of 63 and 68 predominately middle-class, white patients. He said more than three quarters were able to return to work and previous levels of sexual functioning. More than 80 percent did not experiencethe anxiety or depression that can disruptlives in thefirst year after their heart attack. Stern told an American Heart Association seminar that although only oneof everyfive patients studied was a woman, half of the depressed patients were women. Most were hospitalized again with a cardiovascular complication and more thanhalffailed to return to workor previouslevels of sexual activity. “Marrried women suffered a further complication in that they were frequently overprotected by zealous husbands who forbade them to do even light housework as well as denying them sex in the mistaken belief that they were thereby staving off serious medical problems,” Stern said. One of the studies also showed that spouses of heart attack victims reported significant psychological disee in the yearfollowing the heart attack. UKE SARA, TLL TEACH UNTIL THE END OF THE SEMESTER, MR. GIBBS! +**THEN I’M LEAVING! ARENT YOU GETTING ALITTLE LONG IN THE HOLY TOLEDO:1y.THAT VOICE! + IT a TOOTH TO BE STILL CHASING YOUNG GIRLS ,JOKERt 4 Ae THE SWAMP OF REMEMBER ¢ YOU JILTED ME FOR A MUSCLE- THE DEAD! THAT MUSCLE-NUT LEFT ME A RICH WOMAN: ( Ama |