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HILL and KNOWLTON, Inc. he Bayshore Sun HURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1978 Editor dust almost settled, the hear facility complies with every Bayshore Sun I liked what Jack Lnckridge j had to >ay about lnvit- ing examiner recommended to the TACB that the permit they had Issued be upheld. No evi existing environmental quality regulation. Arent yon glad we have a tag responsible Industrie! i growth to our area, and I *d! mire your stance In comment| tag editorially on what he had dence was presented in this lengthy hearing to suggest that the environmental engineers Texas Air Control Board that operates on the tacts rather than the whimsy of n few who l to aay. He may lose a few bank r customers, and you may lose a l few subscribers, but you will both gain, as will all of us who \ live here, as taduatry invests. and experts employed by the TACB had erred in any way in issuing this permit. The TACB has yet to rule on the Issue eventhough their own would decide far all of us that we must halt all development? 1 am. Signed T.E. Westergren Jr. ? Our civic responsibility is to. experts have satisfied them 431S. Third I be vigilant, vocal and deter- selves that the proposed ABC La Porte : mined In keeping this area an ; attractive and safe place to : Hv*. It does not require or even --.r-rvined 'tie'; s gainst 'nduWHol growth, ft seems to me that a handful of - i*u4u .wr? tne Texas ' \r Contro ?:ro believv that . It is the community desire to ; stop industrial development. : This is falae. We should not let * so few decide the economic destiny tar so many. [ James R. Faucette is one id > the few who would have the regulatory agencies behave he speaks i or all of us. He doesn't speak for me, and I don't like the manner in which he speaks for those he may represent. It is correct to write that the "health and well-being of the people who live hi this area can be seriously damaged by ill-determined and misiocated chemical plants." But itU very mtaleadtag, and a ; tar reach to introduce Henrik Owen and Us UQ classic "Enemy of the People" on tbs side of Us argument, as he did . in this column last week. Let's look at the simple tacts. Faucette and company have appeared In lengthy argument before the Texas Aft Control Board in a marathon bearing right here in this community. They attacked every aspect of the American Hoecfast facility as they are now fighting the proposed Goodrich plant. After the bearing was over and the BFG16915 rT riT ri-^ Y n ' Z1873001