Battle Creek Enquirer from Battle Creek, Michigan • Page 7

OpjnjonCommcntarv Simple, human changes mark onset of autumn days SCRABBLE. Va. The nrnres- and gentle, and summer rain is hard and angry. Autumn rain is melan- LA James J. Kilpatri the same patterns of life everywhere.

We have our share of adultery and divorce. A few of the high school kids are sneaking marijuana. Two of the most loved members of the Trinity congregation are down with cancer; we say a prayer for them at the 8 o'clock service every Sunday. A couple of town drunks periodically get their names in the Rappahannock News in the chronicle of court proceedings. Jimmy Falls sold his country store in Woodville to Wilson Burke.

News values are different here. Recently our county court spent a week on a case involving a contested will. The case wouldn't have made a line in The Washington Post, but it had us at once divided and enthral mistress racks up the mail. Now they're all back inside, and soon Lacey Orange will fire up the potbellied stove and we'll know that autumn has indeed arrived. September means apple-picking time in these mountains.

Virginia ranks sixth among the apple-producing states, with an annual crop of more than 10 million bushels. Now our trees are heavy with fruit Jon-ations, Red Delicious, Golden Delicious and the vanguard of professional pickers from Jamaica has arrived. For the next six weeks they will move steadily north and then, like migratory birds, will fly south again. The rain is different now. and thp doctor shouldn't have inherited; others said the colonel's sister's companion had no right to the estate either.

It was a lawsuit to rank with Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce in "Bleak House." We still have no smog, no industry, no pizza parlors and no crime to speak of, but we do have acts of violence: One of Rick Johnson's roosters couldn't make it to a tree in time, and a red fox got him. But except when a hungry bear comes foraging down from the national park, things are generally peaceful here. Comes now the equinox, when the hours of dark and light pass evenly, and soon we will have the smells of wood smoke and cider and the glow of embers on an open hearth. Enter, autumn! The mountains are waitina sion of the equinoxes proceeds according to precedent, but here in the Blue Ridge Mountains we need no heavenly charts to tell us that autumn approaches.

Other events move as surely as the planets. We are done with the summer carnivals, (or one thing. Starting just after the Fourth of July and running through August, we have a carnival somewhere almost every weekend. The main idea is to raise funds for the local rescue squads and volunteer fire departments, but these things are the summer's social events. They are attended chiefly by little boys with chocolate ice cream on their T-shirts, and they seem to be financed mostly by young parents with babies in backpacks.

tuuiy ram, gray as me laaea curtains in some abandoned house. In our vegetable gardens, the tomato vines that two weeks ago were standing straight as forest rangers are old soldiers now, clad in torn fatigues. But the pantry gleams with amber chutney and topaz jam. From time to time we say that nothing ever happens in Rappahannock County, but this isn't so. Our population soared to 6,093 in the 1980 census, a dismaying gain of almost 900 over the census of 1970.

This has given us a population density of 23 to the square mile, but so far the overcrowding has produced few disastrous consequences. Things do haDDen here. Within A second equinoctial sign arrives at the Woodville Post Office, when the Every Morning Men's Club moves inside. The club convenes about 7:30, and all summer long the senior members sit outside on the steps watching, the cars go by. There's Clifton Clark, who raises foxhounds; and Lacey Orange, who farms; and H.B.

Wood, one of our county supervisors. The three John son brothers are there. Half a dozen others come and go while our post gardens are gone. Spring rain is soft led. People took sides.

Some said the old colonel was non compos and his our small community we see some of ia universal rress syndicate The Reader's View Canfield should resign post 4s, Editor, Enquirer and News: Letters Vote 'yes' on 'Initiative E' Editor, Enquirer and News: The trouble with this community is that there have been too manv people living in it like you. You are probably one who does your shopping away from Battle Creek. I don't think Kellogg Co. is blackmailing the community, like manv people think. They are just announcing the plain fact.

Because Mr. Wentworth doesn't think as you do, you say he should re- This letter is addressed to Stanley Canfield, a trustee of Battle Creek Township. I thought this country was a democracy, but because Supervisor Richard Wentworth of Battle Creek Township has a different viewpoint on the annexation of the city of Battle Creek and the township, you want him to resign. I have been a resident of the town- The Enquirer and News welcomes comment from readers. Letters should be addressed to "The Reader's View," 155 W.

Van Buren Battle Creek, 49016. They should include a return address and be signed, although in exceptional circumstances the name of the author may not be published. Letters are subject to condensation if necessary to fit the space available for their Vote 'yes' on weapons freeze Editor, Enquirer and News: catch up with the Russians. It is interesting that the Reagan Defense Department Annual Fiscal Year 1982 Report states, "While the era of U.S. superiority is long past, parity not U.S.

inferiority has replaced it. The United States and the Soviet Union are roughly equal in strategic nuclear power." A mere 400 bombs could destroy either country. Why add to the 26,000 nuclear weapons that the U.S. already has in existence? How many people feel more secure by adding the MX missile and the cruise missile to our nuclear weapons arsenal while the Russians add the SS-20 missile to theirs? I plan to vote for the Michigan Nuclear Weapons Freeze, Initiative on election day, and I urge anyone who is concerned about the future of our state, our nation and us as a species, to do the same. Kerry Travers 1 am extremely alarmed by our federal government's policy to spend $1.5 trillion dollars over the next five years in order to expand our already lethal nuclear weapons arsenal.

These increases are largely for research, development and deployment of new nuclear weapons and deployment systems adding to the already nuclear weapons in existence. I believe that the addition of such new generation nuclear weapons as the MX missile, the cruise missile, and the B-l bomber makes the possibility of nuclear war more likely and thus decreases our national security. In addition, this robs the people of Michigan of much needed jobs, keeps interest rates high and raises our federal deficit to an all-time high. Our federal government justifies this buildup publicly by stating that these increases are necessary to ship for 55 years and I have seen the sign. I don't know either of you per-city of Battle Creek degenerate over sonally, but maybe you are the one those years.

First, Advance-Rum- who should resign, and not Mr. Went-bley pulled out, then industry after worth. I will go along with him. industry did the same thing; along I am 84 years old, and I think I with that went the population and our have seen enough changes in this good stores. country to have some pretty good Kellogg Co.

has been the main- ideas myself. I don't want to see stay of the whole community and now more people leaving the area and you would take the chance of having more schools having to close and 1 its headquarters move out. 1 think that is what would happen if What do you think property would your negative attitude wins out, Mr. be worth in the area if that hap- Canfield. pened? Edward F.

Degenhardt I would like to address a few important questions many voters ask regarding the Nuclear Weapons Freeze 'Initiative E' which will be on the ballot in November. Q.What is the freeze? A. The Nuclear Weapons Freeze Initiative says that the United States should propose to the Soviet Union a mutual and verifiable halt to the testing, production and deployment of nuclear weapons. Q. Would the freeze affect the use of nuclear power? A.

No. The initiative concerns weapons only. Q. Would the Soviets agree to a nuclear weapons freeze? A. The Soviets have actually proposed some form of freeze several times.

We won't know if they are serious about a freeze unless we propose to negotiate one in good faith. Q. Can the Soviets be trusted? A. We don't have to trust the be verified by satellites, radiation detectors and other reconnaissance technology. Former CIA Director William Colby, who endorses the freeze, emphasizes that no violation large enough to be a threat would be concealable.

Q. Is the Soviet Union currently ahead of the United States in the arms race? A. No. The Reagan Defense Department Annual Report for Fiscal Year 1982 says: "While the era of U.S. superiority is long past, parity not U.S.

inferiority has replaced it. The United States and the Soviet Union are roughly equal in strategic nuclear power." Truly, neither side can be ahead when each side has the power to destroy the other many times over. The freeze would be the first step towards reversing the arms race preventing both sides from building up their arsenals during arms reduction talks. Please vote "yes" on Initiative on Nov. 2.

Swap our votes for their jobs fCriitnr F.nnitiror anI Vawc. Editor. Enauirer and News Don't let dog terrorize nature On May 27, Kellogg Co. announced its "merger of equals" and its three options. Kellogg would like me to vote for the "merger of equals" and, in return, my taxes will be raised.

How am I going to pay for the extra taxes? I would like to announce my "one-job, one-family vote" proposal. Why not give a percentage of jobs in Kel-loeg's to the DeoDle in the townshin employed at Kellogg? The people who cannot get past the personnel office at Kellogg or the Michigan Employment Security Commission office. A lot of people are qualified for the jobs at Kellogg and are willing to work. Give me a job at Kellogg and 1 will deliver my vote and my family vote in November for your "merger of Editor, Enquirer and News In the Level Park area Sept. 10, 1 stood by the kitchen window and a little fawn ran by.

The poor little thing was running its heart out and disappeared in the woods back of my house. Then along came a big black dog running just as hard. I rushed out thinking I could distract him, but he, too, disappeared in the woods. I've worried ever since about the little fawn. Did he collapse from exhaustion or did the big black dog do his dirty work? If you (the dog's owner, whoever you are) could have seen that scared little fawn running for its life, you never again would let your dog run loose.

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