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Move Timet
To the editor:
How many times are we going to read about Titanium Metals Corp. leaking chlorine into the atmosphere before we, as the residents of Henderson, stand up and say enough is enough?
Since October, Timet has reported leaks eight times. After the latest leak, Michael Cypers, a hazardous materials specialist for the fire department makes the statement, "The good news is the wind was blowing and we didn't get a single complaint." He finds good in 20 pounds of chlorine being dumped into the air? Let him breathe it and tell us the good news.
How many leaks went unreported? What's the real amount of "killer chlorine" being put out for everyone to breathe? Do you really think we, the ones breathing it, know the truth?
Pollution is one thing -- every city has it's share -- but killer toxic poison being pumped into the air we all breathe on a regular basis is going too far. What's it going to take? One of us, or maybe a thousand of us, or maybe all of us, poisoned or killed?
Time has come for the county to tell Timet to do the right thing. Pack up and get out of a heavily populated area before it's too late. We as the residents of Green Valley and Henderson need to wake up and speak up before one sunny morning we're not able to speak up or even wake up as the result of this obvious reckless and continuous invasion of the air we breathe.
TOM CALABRESE
Henderson
Great American
To the editor:
The most timely stories you have carried in the Review-Journal, for several days, about Jackie Robinson have brought back many memories of this splendid man.
Jackie Roosevelt Robinson and I were classmates in Officer Candidate School, Class #20, (U.S. Horse Cavalry) at Ft. Riley, Kan. We graduated, as second lieutenants, on Jan. 28, 1943. Although he was already a famous athlete from UCLA, his fame never "went to his head." He was friendly, courteous and well-liked by all the candidates.
Although we did stay in touch for years, the last time I saw him was in 1952. I was commander of a military detachment that was participating in a parade in New Rochelle, N.Y. Jackie and Dorothy Kilgallen were co-grand marshals of the parade. When their VIP car passed us, Jackie dismounted and ran back to where I was standing. I am proud to say two old friends embraced like brothers.
I am proud to have known, and served with, a great American. To have been a friend of Jack Roosevelt Robinson means a lot to me.
WILLIAM C. BYRNS
Col., U.S. Army (Ret.)
Pahrump
Lame effort
To the editor:
Only in Las Vegas can a steel structure with 2.5 million lights be
considered a park. Mayor Jan Jones' recent letter to the Review-Journal was a lame attempt to explain why taxpayer money is being channelled away from much-needed parks into the promotion of downtown casinos and a topless bar.
Did the mayor forget about the ice skating show that was closed to the public? How about the cover charge for admittance on New Year's Eve?
The acts of our officials give us plenty of reasons to bash big government (as Mayor Jones stated) without making this issue one of them.
Maybe we should all send our children to the Fremont Street Experience
to play. Or perhaps I can spread a blanket out and have a picnic there.
JOE D. RODAK
Las Vegas
Ellen's out
To the editor:
In response to the commentary by Bruce Mirken in the April 7 edition of the Review-Journal ("Honesty on TV show `Ellen' is only a start"):
There is a dangerous call being put forth by Mr. Mirken. He is assuming that honesty and truth have the same meaning. Mr. Mirken honestly believes in his heart that a 13-year-old boy "knows" that he is gay, and goes on to state, as fact, the existence of an "ordinary, well-adjusted gay person." He never gives any explanation whatsoever as to what defines an "ordinary, well-adjusted gay person."
Mr. Mirken further believes that "it would be nice" for poor little Jim to be saved from the terror of his life (which he imagines and then states as fact in back-to-back sentences) by a well-known homosexual, like Ellen DeGeneres, coming out of the closet to set a good example for him. Nice for whom? The arrogance that Mr. Mirken displays in honestly believing that Jim's parents are not only wrong-minded, but need to be given the end-around in order to save Jim, is immensely irresponsible. But I guess that's what ordinary, well-adjusted gay people do.
RAYMOND A. LeBOEUF JR.
Las Vegas
-- To the editor:
In your "Ellen comes out" editorial of April 14, you ask: Who gives a hoot if Ellen DeGeneres's character, on her Wednesday night sitcom, pops out of the closet and announces her lesbian sexual proclivities? Well, apparently you must, as you've so graciously devoted half of your editorial column to it. And how mature of you for not calling her Ellen "Degenerate," as that silly Rev. Jerry Falwell did, as reported in the April 14 Time magazine article, which you mention.
GARY JANIS
North Las Vegas
Not about hunting
To the editor:
In response to Garry Wills' April 8 column on guns:
Like most antigun advocates, Mr. Wills uses emotions and fear to promote his agenda. That agenda is to remove guns from the hands of all law-abiding citizens so that the scum of our society can prey on unarmed and innocent victims.
Those who promote the anti-gun agenda typically attack "gun nuts." I am not sure what a "gun nut" is. Is a car aficionado a "car nut," and is he out of control because he is always working on his car? Out of this type of "car nut" behavior new inventions and technologies have been born that bring better lives to American citizens.
Contrary to Mr. Wills' constitutional misinterpretation, our forefathers had a reason for why the Second Amendment follows the First Amendment. The Second Amendment is not about sports, hunting, target shooting or plinking -- it is about survival. And the fact that America's Constitution is unique, doesn't mean that it isn't worth defending. Rather, it makes that defense all the more important.
YALE H. CRANDALL
Las Vegas
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