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Show Ktle Creek After many long years of observation, ob-servation, I have come to this solid conclusion: The three cardinal sins of high governmental govern-mental agencies and elected high governmental officials are stupidity, waste and greed. Take the U. S. Atomic Energy En-ergy Commission, for instance. The members know from previous pre-vious above ground and under ground explosions, the strength of a hydrogen bomb. They know that when one is detonated at the base of an underground silo, it blasts a huge cave and fuses all the adjacent materials into a molten mol-ten mass. They know also, that when they double the size of the . bomb, they increase by 100 per cent the destructive force of the mechanism. They are fully aware that heads of the proposed Anti-Ballistic Missiles. In the opinion of this column the current AEC testing program pro-gram is a stupid waste of the country's money and resources. On top of that, it is a highly dangerous venture into the unknown. un-known. Just one sizeable slip in the rocks of either of the known geologic faults would kill thousands thou-sands of people and destroy billions bil-lions of dollars worth of property. prop-erty. In final analysis, 1 suppose the AEC is no different than many another governmental agency: It has the money and so the cash must be spent. Now as to the matter of the greed of elected high public officails: In a recent news report, re-port, datelined Washington, D. C, the U.S. Senate by a resounding, re-sounding, unrecorded voice vote approved legislation last Friday that would raise the maximum yearly pension for members of Congress to $28,725 in 1970 and to $31,875 a year after 1971. Similar legislation has also previously pre-viously passed the House, the report declares. The definition of "greed" according ac-cording to Webster is "Selfish and grasping desire for possession, posses-sion, especially for wealth." And so, when we consider that members of Congress had the first of this year, raised their own yearly salaries by 43 per cent, it seems that the term "greedy" could be aply applied to them. And all this in the face of the fact that they are all professing profess-ing that they are advocating ways to reduce taxes and halt inflation. Reminds us of what the errant small boy said to his Sunday School teacher: "How can I remember what you say, when what you do thunders in my ears." So long 'til Thursday. I underground atomic detonations detona-tions set up movements in the earth's crust which radiate in all directions. Thy know that these earth shocks are recorded record-ed as earthquakes on seismographs, seismo-graphs, hundreds of miles from the point of explosion. The AEA scientists know of the Andreas Fault, the Alaskan Fault and the Wasatch Fault, where a slip in the earth's crust would trigger destructive and devastating earthquakes. The San Francisco earthquake of years ago and the recent Alaskan Alas-kan earthquake are prime examples ex-amples of what can happen. With all of these facts at hand, why do they continue to increase the power of the under ground blasts? I am positive that the recent, largest of all, detonation in the Aleutian Is-ands Is-ands did not reveal one single important new fact. The only excuse the AEC has to offer for continuing the tests is to learn how to load the war- |