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PAGE 2, HUDSPETH COUNTY HERALD-Dell Valley Review, MARCH 2, 1984
NUCLEAR
PAUL HARVEY
LETTERS
HOMEWORK
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LETTERS
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MEMBER 1984
RADIOACTIVE WASTE PROGRAMS
PLAGUED BY ONE FAILURE
James Evans
1
I would like to take this time
to say how honored I am to
have been chosen the 1983
Citizen of the Year for Dell
City.
'The beaten path is the
safest." Latin Proverb
i
February 27, 1984
TO THE PEOPLE OF OUR
COMMUNITY:
TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION
J-TZTTrl JIUI
i TRY
■
During the construction of
the Hoover Dam, con-
crete had to be poured
continually for two years.
Baily's Beads are the bril-
liant points of light seen just
as the sun disappears behind
the moon during an eclipse.
I would like to take the oppor-
tunity at this time to express
my feelings on Dell City. Our
great little town is in dire need
of so many things, it’s hard to
find a place to start, but I think
the beginning is for us all to
stop throwing rocks at each
other. There are many ways to
settle our differences of opinion
and keep our differences here
in the valley. We have taken
so much out of the Valley and
town, now it’s time for each
one of us to work together to
start putting it back in one
growing beautiful place to live.
I believe that each person that
lives here is living here be-
cause they do feel this is the
best place for their family.
SO LET’S ROLL UP OUR SLEEV
SLEEVES AND WORK FOR THE
BETTERMENT OF OUR VAL-
LEY, NOT TO DESTROY OUR
NEIGHBOR. DIVIDED WE
FALL, BUT TOGETHER WE
GROW!
Thank you,
FOR ANNOYING
COUGH AND
STUFFY NOSE
TRIAMINIC-Dir
COUGH FORMULA
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(From FOREVERMORE: Philadelphia Inquirer's Pulitzer Prize-
Winning Reporters, Donald L. Barlett and James P. Steele ,
Nov. 13-20, 1983)
February 24, 1984
To: The Concerned Ci-
tizens of Dell Valley
Dear Folks from Dell
Valley:
We appreciate your note
of thanks that you sent us
on February 21st of this year.
Rest assured that we will
continue to work cooperative-
ly with the people in your area
to make sure that the radio-
active nuclear waste dump,
that has been talked about in
Hudspeth County near Dell
City, does not come to pass.
That no action is taken by
the State to endanger either
our current health or the fu-
ture health and welfare of
our children and their very
precious supply of water.
Sincerely,
Pat, F. O’Rourke
County Judge
County of Paso
"LOW-LEVEL”
WASTE PRIMER
Government agencies have failed to keep adequate re-
cords on where nuclear materials are handled and where the waste
from them is put
Administrative responsibility for regulating the nuclear-waste
industry has been scattered among scores of federal and state
agencies.
Indifference to radioactive waste has become so deeply en-
trenched in government that the nature of this waste has never
been explicitly defined, and no meaningful standards have been
set for its management.
As the years have passed, government and private failures in
waste management have been buried in official secrecy, or ob-
scured by a lack of public or political understanding of their im-
plications.
Meanwhile, as nuclear knowledge has grown and as more infor-
mation on waste management and radiation hazards has been
accumulated, the scientific community has become deeply di-
vided.
In fact, perhaps no other modern-day technological issue has split
scientists so sharply - reassuring reports from the National Aca-
demy of Sciences notwithstanding - as what to do with radioactive
waste and the potential health effects of radiation.
WASTE IN THE WATER
A National Academy of Sciences com-
mittee, in a report to the Atomic Energy Commission nearly three
decades ago, warned that the practice of burying low-level waste
above the water table pose "unacceptable long-term risks. " The
report cautioned:
The committee thinks that the current practice of disposing of
solid wastes directly into the ground above or in fresh-
water zones, although momentarily safe, will lead in the the
long run to a serious fouling of man’s environment. "
The government ignored the panel's advice and continued to
bury waste above the water table. Since then, at three of six
commercial dumps, radioactive materials have drained off the
sites and contaminated neighboring properties. The three dumps
are now closed.
Nonetheless, the Nuclear R egulatory Commission in 1982 for-
mally approved the burial of radioactive waste above the water
table.
"A wide range of locations are potentially available for use as
a near-surface disposal facility, "the NRC said, defining near-
surface in its regulations as "the uppermost_15 to 20 meters of
the earth. "
That means that in new nuclear cemeteries to be established
across the country in the future, radioactive waste will be buried
at depths ranging from 49 feet to 66 feet - generally above or
near the water table.
(c) 1984, Los Angeles Times Syndicate
Individuals are mentally unbalanced when they flirt with var-
ious ways and means of destroying themselves.
Could this be true of nations too?
In a single day on Capitol Hill one congressional committee was
hearing expert testimony that our nation faces bankruptcy....
While another congressional committee was hearing an appeal
for billions more of our dollars for Central America.
Or take our nation's 8 percent unemployment.
There are presently Americans who are networking because
they live in rural areas where employment is hard to find or they
are female heads of families of small children.
These women are willing to employ themselves by doing home-
work; perhaps sewing.
But the law says they can't do that!
Forty years ago our nation adopted a Fair Labor Standards Act,
forbidding American women to work at home making clothing.
The transparent objective was to protect certain unions and in-
dustries from this competition.
A woman at home — unless she is an invalid — may not knit
women's garments, do embroidery, make handkerchiefs, jewelry,
buttons, buckles, gloves or mittens.
In 1981 Labor Secretary Donovan decreed that such restraint was
foolish. Homework could remove many people from welfare rolls,
elderly could thus supplement retirement incomes.
He removed the Labor Department regulation and in the years
since in hundreds of homes in Vermont, for example, women
have been knitting ski caps and sweaters for sale in nearby stores
or at ski resorts.
Now the U. S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia, has over-
ruled the labor secretary -- has decreed that homework is illegal.
The administration's hands are tied.
ith computers now capable of linking any home with anywhere
it is easy to envision 15 million additional jobs over the next
dozen years for homeworkers.
Already, however, unions are mobilizing an effort to expand the
legal restraints to cover telecommunications.
Unions say homeworkers would work below the minimum wage:
homeworkers say they can afford to work for less because their
expenses are less -- for baby-sitters, commuting and because of
flexible work schedules.
Besides, the homeworkers say, a government that dictates what
any person may or may not do in his own home is too much
government.
(c) 1984, Los Angeles Times Syndicate
AFTER ANOTHER
As the scientific debate has grown, radioactive-waste programs
have been plagued by one failure after another - from the demise
of reprocessing, long considered the linchpin of a nuclear socie-
ty, to the breaching of low-level burial grounds, in theory the
easiest of all nuclear waste to manage.
These failures, coupled with the conflicts in the scientific
community, have led to confusion and uncertainty among govern-
ment bureaucrats and lawmakers.
They have responded with a dizzying series of shifts in govern-
ment waste-management programs. They have initiated projects
and then scrapped them. They have charted courses and then
abandoned them.
They have imposed double standards to protect the interest of
government but not the public. They have conceived plans in
ignorance. And time and again, they have based their policies on
faulty assumptions.
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