European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 27, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Magazine t  freeway construction in the desert near fears of a Boomer society towns that would be missile system service by Wayne King new York times Richard Moodys family and spiritual roots go deep into the Sandy desert soil of mormon he is a third generation resident of the Little town of his Middle name is for Brigham his who 133 years ago led 148 pilgrims of the persecuted Church of Jesus Christ of Latte Day saints into the Valley of the great Salt Ive lived All Over the he said in measured tones As he sat in his Busy office on main Street in from in his Job As a clinical he directs the Millard county Metal health five years in Hong Southeast i came Back Here because of the Quality of its a place to raise my six 4 to 13 years but he he will have to think of of moving to another Small the reason is the impending installation of the my missile and the Prospect that with 90 percent of whom Are will become a Boomers a playground for hordes of construction in in favor of a defensive Moody reflecting a common sentiment in a bastion of a town normally eager to Host the but this will destroy this this the mormon Church will go but As a place to raise kids deployment of the Mobile missile system is the great est concern in but it is Only one wave in the flood of development that Many fear will engulf the state and its Way or the air Force plan is to deploy the missile system Over an area roughly the size of Michigan in the desert great Basin area of Utah and the system would consist of 200 missiles and with the missiles to be shuttled among the Shel ters in an endless Shell game designed to thwart at tempts by the soviet Union to effectively target the mis the idea is that if the russians did not know which shelters housed they would have to attack All a measure the Pentagon considers so unlikely that the system would be an effective deterrent to nuclear Many like see it noting Early statements referring to the shelters As aim Points for enemy and suggestions that the sys tem would act As a sponge for a nuclear they told us we Are going to absorb the Impact of the said my Hometown is going to absorb Why Doest absorb missiles the Prospect alarms one Day last month after the air Force had released an environmental Impact statement on the Spencer the president of the mormon issued a message deploring the unrestricted building of arsenals of including huge and threatening nuclear without specifically mentioning the my he said nuclear when unleashed on a scale for which the nations Are spares no living thing within the perimeter of its initial destructive and Sears and maims and kills wherever its pervasive Cloud reach perhaps even More than the threat of nuclear people to Delta worry about the far More imminent threat of Sharp alteration in their stable and deeply religious Way of besides the pending missile the worlds largest Coa fired generating the inter Mountain Power will be built a few Miles from a huge Martin Marietta corporation Cement Plant and a new Limestone Plant have already been Oil and Gas exploration has increased dramatically in the and Energy development is said to be just so Are the weve already had two rapes in the county last said weve never had that the number of assaults has gone weve thumped most of them Nice but they get and that the who is chairman of the Millard county social Impact a planning group that is trying to ameliorate the growth fears the worst is yet to our estimates Are that with the Power project he people will come in at the rate of 163 new people a with you at least double you get a Boomer unmarried men making Good he went they buy All the toys they can four wheeled drive trucks with Coyote lights on dirt then All the other Guys look at think there hav ing a great emulate the divorce rate goes you get a lot of Well heeled Young Guys and single Wom they go on these Guys Are High living and they dont accept any you get trailer with every pad jammed with their crowded a lot of in the isolated Man Camps you begin to have homosexual problems you never heard h youve never been out of the desert at its frightening coyotes an unusual blues earned Susan the editor and pub Lisher of the Millard county the town weekly that was founded by her prints bumper stickers that say things my May the farce be with there Are not Many of us actively she con its in to fight the government and the people think its i could sell my paper and but i like it she i dont even have keys to lock my that How it is but now were going to have to reprogram our teach them the ugliness of said John a Cook at the rancher Motel and cafe in i dont like but ill concede it if its Good for the but nobody is really sure it will that the big the air Force dont care about the Environ the the but what the hell difference does it make what we think it just makes a difference what the air Force it will be 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