Opposing Sides State Case: To Spray or Not to Spray?
The politics of Medfly poisoning is simply outrageous! City attorneys questioned why Disneyland was left out of the spray area when “one could hypothesize that the source of Medflies is more likely to be visitors to Disneyland who bring fruit with them than the permanent and less-traveled residents of the spray area.” Deputy Atty. Gen. Charles W. Getz IV countered that “Disneyland was simply farther away from the Medfly find than the 1 1/2-mile radius set by scientific advisers for malathion applications.”
It’s obvious that Getz is no Boy Scout--he’s unable to accurately measure distances on a map! We live in the back yard of Little Saigon, near the southwest edge of the 36-square-mile “dead zone,” approximately three miles farther from the pregnant Medfly find at Harbor and Garden Grove boulevards than Disneyland is from the same point. Disneyland was not bombed with the poisoned bait, but we were.
Let’s call a spade a spade. What we’re suffering is the politics of poison. Them that got money and influence, get spared. Them that don’t, get bombed with malathion poison.
B. J. GARTEN
Garden Grove
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