Emerald fir dltO rill 1 Leave Dead alone to perfomi for fans Well, the (baleful Dead are dm* back in Kugeno in lain |til\ for two shows, and as they say themselves. "Wherever we go the people all complain Right after the shows were announced (the Dead's first visit since 19BH) members of the city government began to express concerns about having the Dead and their seemingly limitless number of followers grat ing the streets of our sweet town In recruit years the (.rateful Dead have been blocked from numerous concert balls around the na lion due to an inc reasingU negative reputation The usual t omplaints range from badly behaved t out ertgo ers. to vending that t annul be taxed, to people urinat mg on lawns, and excessive arrests While some ol these com erns are valid sin h as the arrests, that can tost a cits a great deal ol money to process, others are found at most rock concerts t'nlor Innately for the Dead, tin v have had more than 20 years to develop then renow nod reputation Over lilt; past leu years the Dead have made ex tensive efforts to curb th»*s»- problems Uluru concert Ik kets .iic sold through tlit* mail, (hr Dead send letteis with tin; tu kets asking people not to sell ( lollies. jew i'lr\ rU at tom rits. to behave themselves anti to re member lh- -j’hoiie a^dn.asking h>v s^^rty advfc‘.c on 14 ir Unification of* his < juni ■■ r? X Field burning measure needs support I! Oregon SI,tie Sen (irattan kerans has his wa\ . Held limning w ill he no mure The topic has a sper nil plai t- in kerans’ platform It is a subjer I he kept in the pnh lii \ eve din ing the 1IIH9 Legislature and has i ontmned to plug awa\ at ever sim e field horning is the practice in which grass seed tanners ton h then fields to i lear them attei a harvest It is cheap, effective and iiim k I he tanners lobbying group, the Oregon Seed (iouncil. has worked overtime to prevent am sort of anti-field burning bill from being passed Although the ()st i stvmied kerans’ el forts in 111 HO he has organized a signature campaign to put a measure on the November ballot whir h would phase out and eventual 1\ ban field burning II passed, the bill would start a five-year proi rss B\ 1‘ffil the number of acres burned would he reduced bv 50 percent In 1995 glass seed farmers would he reipiired to ei ther stop burning altogether, or find a more at i eptahle method, sm h as burning with propane kerans measure deserves full support. Right now. 225.000 acres of grass seed are burned in the W illamette Valley every year Over 20.000 tuns of pollution are released annually into the atmosphere Hverybodv re members the tragi( August 10HK ,ti ( ident in which seven people died when smoke hum an out-of-control grass seed lire blew over Interstate "> Such an accident should not have happened and should he prevented from net un ing in the future Despite what the OS(! and other critics would have you believe, Reruns is not out to "get" the grass seed industry. He is trving to stop a major form of air pollution Field burning is not the onlv wav to dear fields The alternatives may not he as financially at tractive. hut they are better for the env iron ment. The proposed measure will not ruin the industry (Irass seed is important to the state, which is why Reruns' measure has tax i redits and breaks for farmers who svviti h to cleaner methods of field-clearing. Also, grass seed i haft (the part farmers burn) can be used for livestock feed, as is now done in lapan and other countries. Hither way the grass seed industry will survive. Reruns' ballot measure has fewer than hall of the 0,400 needed signatures. Find .1 copy of the measure and sign it Then sup port it in the November election. Otherwise, tons of pollution will continue to he dumped into our atmosphere. Letters Performance \\ 111 iii 111 Moore s i oinmen larv ((Ml/- May I i <>■ based on tun unproven premises l ust th.il '(.oil exists us something other than a "tutional reality (like Batman") Se< oml that the Dei alogue ant) the Bible are the rev ealeil law ol (aid Moore erroneously assumes we will make the " leap ol tail ll with him Ilis argument makes many false i laims Hat h soi iety and i ulture evolves its own moral and ethi i al i ode based on its i m uui stain es and needs Then- are no moral absolutes! The (’.olden Rule "Do not do unto others that which you would not have them do unto you" is the most universal "natural" under standing assuring maximum soi lal peai e and progress Some passages ol the Bible t ontain beauts .mil u isdom (liven die horrors ignorant zeal ots inspired b\ tile Bible have committed. it merits i idii tile ( Ileal 1\ die Bible has bad ar tistii and si ientifie impai t \b salom's rooftop i opulation s\ ilb his fatliei s i oik ubines ill Samuel lb -II) (I u bile i ei tainls not an original perlor mance. was doubtless an earh production ol wh.it became Fiddler on the Foot Si lentists should ask the de void to arrange a musical audi lion tin "(aid as suggested Wherefore mv bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab and mine inward parts tor Kir haresfi " (Isaiah In It) While prudence recommends an outdooi performance it is possible the devout would in sisl on tin' Hull ('enter Scien tists w ill recogni/.e possibilities tor investigation ol hydraulic laws and chemical phenomena provided by a "forte" exerted from an "all powerful, all pres out. supernatural being" m a closed building If Oregon's di vinelv anointed were required to attend this command perfor mance in full regalia, one sup poses the loss of the Unit ('en ter would he a small price to pay ( diemists and health proles sionals could obtain valuable experimental data studying the (Idol of Sanctity" (rernotelv. of i nurse] which would imbue the devout m attendance The pros pet t that some "si ientists" on stall might also he lost should not be considered triage One could fondly, but philosophic ally bid them