TO THE EDITOR:

It has become quite apparent that there are some [people] in the city of Washington that are hell bent on dragging the city's African-American communities down into the bottom of the barrel where they live and turn all the neighborhoods into ghettoes. The people who chain-up dogs to trees, stakes, or place them in cages near their neighbor's property and allow the dogs to bark and howl at all hours of the day and night are not very neighborly. Some of them seem to be non-communal, anti-social, and very territorial aggressive. Some dog owners seem to think that they have some special right to invade and violate their neighbor's property with the annoying and irritating barking and howling noise of their tick infested, flea ridden, mangy dogs. The dogs are caked in mud and filthy. They are never washed and the foul stench of urine and feces permeates the whole

neighborhood. This is outrageous! The only way to alleviate this grievous problem is to ban all dogs from the city of Washington that live outside the homes of the owners. The only dogs that should be allowed inside the city limits are dogs that live inside the home of the owners at all times.

The next complaint is about the people who park junk cars and pickup trucks in their front yards and leave them there for years and years, even decades. Some of these rusting hulks are sitting on cinder blocks. When these people are ordered by the city to remove the junk vehicles, they react with anger, stubbiness, and obstinate behavior. Some of these violators vehemently refuse to remove the junk vehicles. The city should hire a towing service to tow the vehicles away at the owners expense. There are at least two hundred junk vehicles parked in the front yards and on the property of [some residents] in Washington Ga. There are at least five hundred junk vehicles parked in the yards of [some residents] in Wilkes County and indeed every county in the State of Georgia and in every Southern State. It should be obvious to everyone that the people who chain-up dogs to trees and park junk vehicles in their front yards have some serious emotional, psychology, and intellectual problems. They are crying out for help by perpetrating this aberrant behavior. They need long term, deep, psychiatric therapy. Washingtonians have an obligation and a responsibility to help these people obtain the psychiatric therapy they so desperately need. Thank you.