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PAGE 2, HUDSPETH COUNTY HERALD-Dell Valley Review, JAN. 3, 1986
PAUL HARVEY NEWS
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Because of the political and potential financial liabilities of
becoming a regional dump, more and more states have consid-
ered “going it alone.” Although the 1980 act does not bar
independent state action, Congress intended to encourage a
handful of nuclear cemeteries, geographically positioned to
serve all regions. As the act states, “Low-level radioactive waste
can be most safely and efficiently managed on a regional basis.”
Furthermore, while going it alone has a certain political appeal,
the idea may be fraught with risks. The policy act was so
vaguely worded that it is not clear whether a state can also
constitute a “region,” and thus exclude waste from outside its
borders.
Texas, which wants to open its own dump and avoid re-
gional entanglements, has been wrestling with this ambiguity.
Texas officials felt that their state, the natiori’s fifteenth-largest
waste producer, had a sufficient volume of it to justify its own
burial ground. As other states began negotiations, the legisla-
ture created the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal
Authority to build and operate a dump for Texas waste. The
authority contracted for a “conceptual design” of a burial plot
and began to evaluate possible sites. But if the 1980 act is found
to deny individual states the same authority that regional com-
pacts have, Texas could pay a price for its independence. Tom
Blackbum, director of special projects for the Texas authority,
described the dilemma as follows: “We would hate to develop
a site with the intention it was only for Texas and then have a
higher court determine that was not legal and that we would
Jiave to accept out of state waste.”
Dell Valley -Due to increases
in postage and printing costs,
the Herald’s rates will change
as follows as of January 1, 1986:
Subscriptions $9.46 per year
in County; $10.51 per year out
of County; $10.00 (no tax) out
of State.
Advertising - National Display
Rate, $2.50 per column inch.
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TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION
Disposable Texas?
After a four-year search, the Site
Consideration Committee of the
Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste
Disposal Authority (LLRWDA) has
officially recommended three tracts
of land in far West Texas as suitable
for a nuclear waste disposal facility.
The sites include a 1,800-acre tract
of land in northeast Culberson
County and a 1,000-acre tract north-
east of Fort Hancock in Hudspeth
County, both owned by the General
Land Office, and a 30,000-acre tract
in western Culberson County, owned
by the University of Texas. The
committee also approved a $300,000
contract with the University of Texas
to conduct further studies on the
suitability of the chosen sites.
The agency’s six-member board of
directors began discussion of the
recommendations at a November 17
meeting, although it is not planning
to select a final site before July 1987.
The facility is expected to open in
1991.
In February 1985 the staff of the
Low-Level Radioactive Waste Dis-
posal Authority proposed sites on
several tracts of land in South Texas
(TO,3/8/85) offered for sale by
private owners. One tract belonged
to L.L. Graham of McMullen
County, the other to Asa Hearne of
Dimmitt County. Local opposition
quickly coalesced, and it is rumored
that former Governor Dolph Briscoe,
who owns land just two miles from
Hearne’s property, played no small
part in the protest. In May, the
legislature passed House Bill 449,
sponsored by Sen. John Traeger of
Seguin and House Speaker Pro Tern
Hugo Berlanga, which recommended
the use of state-owned land for the
new facility, sending the staff of
LLRWDA back to West Texas.
the electricity in our homes, the food
we eat — these and so many more
are available to us due, in part, to the
useful applications of radioactive
materials.
The patronizing tone demonstrates
an agency’s commitment to lowbrow
propaganda rather than to serious
public debate about the uses and
dangers of radioactive materials. The
brochure also sidesteps the major
producer of nuclear waste, the nu-
clear generators which create an
estimated 80 percent of low-level
radioactive waste. It spends an inor-
dinate amount of space describing the
medical uses of radioactive materials,
which contribute less than 15 percent
of low-level waste but, obviously, a
great deal to the positive image of
radiation.
Low-level waste includes all radio-
active materials except liquid waste
and fuel rods, the most highly
radioactive materials created by nu-
clear fission. The land in Hudspeth
and Culberson counties may prove
less suitable than other areas in the
state because it contains fractured
limestone deposits and underground
caves, undesirable characteristics for
landfill facilities. Also, the presence
of the water basin creates a health
risk. After repeatedly denying that
there were plans to store plutonium
at the low-level facility, the staff of
the LLRWDA admitted, in a town
meeting in Dell City in Hudspeth
County in 1983, that plutonium
would, in fact, be dumped at the new
site. Bonnie-Lynch, spokesperson of
the Hudspeth environmental group,
Alert Citizens for Environmental
Safety, believes that the three tracts
of land in far West Texas were
chosen out of political expediency.
“Political opposition is less easily
coordinated in the sparsely populated
areas of the state,” she noted.
J. R.
She has developed words ot
wisdom in raising her family
and doing so much good in
her corner of the state of
Texas: “I learned long ago
to be happy. I could never
understand how people can
waste their lives in hatred and
misery when there is so much
love in the world that is
theirs if they will look for it
and give some in return.”
Governor White’s proclama-
tion noted, “Few of us will
have the opportunity to live
a life such as Mary’s....But we
all can learn from her. if onlv
through her basic philosophy
-‘You’ve got to do the best
you can with what you’ve
got.’ ”He designated Decem-
ber 28 as Mary Neely Day in
honor of this pioneer Texas
woman “whose life epitomi-
zes the greatness that is our
heritage.”
Second class postage paid in Dell City, Texas 79837
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Hudspeth County, Texas, third largest county.
Notices of church, entertainments where a charge of
admission is made, card of thanks, resolutions of
respect, and all matter not news, will be charged at
the regular rates.
$8.41 In County
$9.46 Out of County in Texas
$9.00 Out of State
Adv. Rates $1.50 pci in County - $2.00 pci Out of County
LLRWDA spokesperson Tom
Blackburn describes Hudspeth
County as “basically grazing land.
None of it is productive at all.”
Statistics provided..by the Texas
Department of Agriculture state,
however, that in 1983 Hudspeth
County had 39,000 acres of irrigated
land. The county produces significant
crops of sorghum, wheat, barley, and
hay..According to James Lynch, a
farmer and rancher from Hudspeth
County, LLRWDA has searched
extensively for suitable sites in far
West Texas. He believes that the
danger of exposing the underground
water basin to radioactive materials,
a basin which stretches from West
Texas to Albuquerque, New Mexico,
has been ignored by the authorities.
“It strikes me as strange,” said
Lynch, “that the government, and
especially Governor ■ White, would
campaign so heavily for a state water
plan while, at the same time, ignoring
the dangers of widespread contamina-
tion of our water supply. West Texas
cannot survive without its water.”
LLRWDA, by now aware of the
potential for local opposition to its
plans, has taken great pains to
distribute brochures on radioactive
waste to residents of Hudspeth
County, stuffing mailboxes with such
titles as Low-Level Radioactive Waste
Disposal in Texas: Questions and
Answers or Uses of Radioactive
Material. The latter, a brochure of
six pages with over 75 percent of the
space devoted to useless drawings,
has page headings on: “The Discov-
ery of Radiation,” “Radium,”
“Medical Applications,” “Industrial
Applications,” “Household Uses,”
and “Agriculture.” The summary
states:
... the quality of life we enjoy today
has been greatly improved in many
ways thanks to the use of radioactive
materials. The gasoline in our cars,
(Editor’s Note: Repeatedly Hudspeth County, and others, have
been told by representatives of the Texas Low Level Radioac-
tive Waste Authority that a proposed nuclear dump in Texas
would accept only waste from Texas however, in Bartlett
and Steele’s book FOREVERMORE Nucelar Waste in America,
casts a shadow of doubt to this effect, as well as a quote from
the Waste Authority’s Tom Blackbum )
The Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago once tried using
one-way glass in the monkey house, so that people
could see in but the animals couldn't see out. The
monkeys became despondent, but regained their
lively spirits when the glass was removed.
PMA — THE BULLET- PROOF VEST
(PART 1 OF 2)
On the night of December 22, 1980, the emergency room at
UCLA School of Medicine awaited the arrival of an ambulance.
Paramedics had radioed they had a heart-attack victim aboard.
The patient was coughing blood, an ominous indication of con-
gestion.
The swinging doors of the emergency room open -- the rolling
stretcher comes through -- and the patient sits up, waves and
grins and announces, “Gentlemen, I want you to know that you
are looking at the darndest healing machine that was ever
wheeled into this hospital!”
That was Norman Cousins.
His heart attack and his counter-attack are detailed in a book
called “The Healing Heart.”
From Cousins’ response to two killer illnesses the science of
medicine has learned much about the “unscientific” triumph of
“mind over matter,” of how humans can “think their way” into
sickness -- or out of it.
One day in 1979 a man named Harry Brink was escorted into the
the Pain Control Center at UCLA insisting that he could control
pain and bleeding while lying on a bed of nails.
Well, now -- the distinguished physicians present had seen yoga
and vaudeville demonstrations where the bed of nails was so
densely forested and the nails so blunt that no flesh was punc-
tured and nothing of any scientific value demonstrated.
But Harry Brink insisted that he could demonstrate the ability
of humans to preside over their own autonomic nervous systems.
Harry produced a board two feet by three feet studded with
about 50 irregularly spaced sharp nails.
Each extended perhaps an inch and three-quarters above the
board.
Harry asked for silence, then proceeeded to lie down on the
board. All present could hear the sickening pop of the flesh as
the nails penetrated the skin. Witnesses, bending down, could see
little daylight between Harry’s back and the board. The nails had
penetrated at least an inch.
He lay there for about four minutes with no apparent pain or
discomfort.
His eyes closed, he breathed deeply and rhythmically.
Then he rolled off the board and all present could see that his
back was peppered with red puncture sites; no bleeding except for
one spot on the shoulder where blood was spurting. When this was
called to his attention he said, “Thank you” and instantly the
blood flow from that wound ceased.
Men of science had seen a man punctured in 50 places not
bleeding except in one place and, when reminded, able instantly
to arrest the flow in that place.
Norman Cousins was among the scholars witnessing this demon-
stration, reaffirming his own conviction that the life processes
which go on inside the human body are, at least to a measure, con-
trollable -- for hurting or healing.
Further proof during our next visit.
(c) 1985, Los Angeles Times Syndicate.
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