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Show feller wants to change Moab into something it was never meant to be? | hear he’s going to build a big tower way up in the sky, kind of like the old Tower of Babel, up on a mesa there south of town. Is this true, Jim? Are you folks gonna let him? (YC: Uh-oh, sorry, I'm the one who repeated this rumor to the Rat--and I bet he runs with it.) Jim, you and I know the bliss of poverty, and we know about Moab Fever-it’s easy to survive, but hard to get rich. So if you have any brains you live like God meant you to live—enjoy life and go sit in the river clothed only in your voluntary. poverty. (YC: Well, he for sure walks the talk on this one.) But if this rumor is true, Jim, don’t you figger you Moab folk are the ones who'll get to go clean the toilets? Do you really think any of you will get rich from it? If I were you, I’d put an end to this bull manure here and now and run this feller outta town, symbolically at least, although | myself prefer the concrete and specific. (YC: I THE SOUTHERN UTAH WILDERNESS ALLIANCE Southe ness on Utab Wilder ne rT 94105-2423 tA pl ed can't make him stop, sorry, he likes to rant and rave.) Inaddition} wor ' You and I know the bliss of poverty, and we know about Moab Fever-it’s easy to survive, but hard to get rich. So if you have any brains, Just tell ‘em Ol' Jimbo Hansen sent you. 00 East, Salt Lake City. U dues pee” Here is my annuaal letter nS UWA. an it to t sf news 47\cin unt of: id like to make contribution” . oo g50 10 Name oo Addsess ee you live like God meant you to live--enjoy life and go sit in the river ib {ec to the extent allowed { ) ey aF© fax-dedue contributions at Aff dues and clothed only in your voluntary poverty. b : Jim, there you all sit, smack in the middle of country God created as a tribute to Himself. If those of you who live in the middle of God’s Cathedral can’t find it within yourselves to give a rats-ass about it, then who in heck will? Is Moab so wicked that SUWA gives citizens a voice in deciding the fate of one of - America’s most magnificent landscapes—the wild and it’ll condone (heck, even aid and abet) a dang money-changer right in the Temple?). (YC: How does the Rat expect me to write when he’s pounding on me?) Jim, I’m not much for religion, but why don’t you folks get busy and pray that God sends down his angel Macaroni (or whatever the good Mormon folk call him) to blast this blasphemy. And while he’s at it, have him shake up those Moab councilmen, your friends and elected representatives who are selling you all straight to h-e-doublehockeysticks. (YC: Now the Rat's wanting to know if I have any “dynomite,” some Dupont 50 or Hercules. I probably shouldn't be writing this down, but the Rat said to record every unspoiled Colorado Plateau. Across the nation, we are an alliance of concerned individuals and gctivists who treasure Utah's incomparable wilderness lands. BECOME A MEMBER OF SUWA 1471 SOUTH 1100 EAST, SALT LAKE CITY, UT 84105 precious word...) Anyway, Jim, my friend Packy was so upset about all this stuff that he went out and killed himself. Just went out in a big open place during a full moon—BAM, wasn’t but a minute till he was gone. Big-horn owl. Glad I wasn’t there to see it. (YC: He means a great horned owl. Note also that this story is of doubtful authenticity. I saw Packy just last night in Woody's.) Anyway, Jim, now that Moab’s gettin’ to be an "in place," as they say, it leaves me WWW.SUWA.ORG Catherine feelin’ kinda empty--I was hoping to retire there someday and spend my last days putterin’ in a little junkyard down by Pack Creek. (YC: That would certainly’ be appropriate for a packrat.) But now | don’t think I could afford it. 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