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FROM THE BRIEF encounters we’ve had with him in several area counties, Bill Whitehead seems like a very nice fellow. Serious, ^conscientious, dedicated. We’re sure he believes in his work as a promoter of emergency preparedness in Virginia.
But the Rappahannock County Supervisors were quite right in resisting his invitation to join another bureaucracy. In a small county like Rappahannock, people have a way of getting together to cope with disaster, when they have to, and if the ultimate of nuclear disaster ever occurs, we rather suspect that the best-laid plans of all the Bill Whiteheads everywhere will prove to be surpassingly inadequate.
Why hire a full-time “emergency coordinator,” indeed? Why not rely on an existing department such as that headed by the sheriff to deal with what is foreseeable? The Supervisors asked good questions, and citing more or less arbitrary, uniform standards laid down in Richmond or Washington is no answer. Rappahannock doesn’t need the governmental apparatus of a Roanoke, or Henrico County, and that’s another one of the reasons why we like Rappahannock County so much.D
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