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Editor:
Two issues that should be of crucial concern to all residents of Rappahannock County may soon be coming to a head with re-, suits that can be detrimental or beneficial to our county and adjoining counties for many generations to come. Some of us may be more immediately affected than others by these results, but in the end environmental pollution, whether visual, or in our air or water, is not very selective and involves us all, and therefore it is to be hoped that all of ms will become involved In fighting it. To paraphrase Hemingway’s memorable line in “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” so very apt in our present hard-pressed position, “ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”
You may not be presently in the path of a monstrous new powerlih^ program and you may not yet be suffering from the noxious stench of a viscose plant, but chances are your time will come unless you are willing, here and now, to help stop such despoliation of our scenic lands and of the very air we breathe. Why wait until it is too late?
What confronts us might be called the Double V Menace—VEPCO with its projected 500,000 k.v. high power tension line slicing ,#cross some of the most •*_, ’ historic and picturesque lands in the entire state, and the Viscose plant of the FMC Corporation in adjoining Warren County, whose nauseous and healthendangering fumes have
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