South Dakota Health

Dr. Carl J. Johnson, an early and outspoken critic of the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant, has died of complications from heart surgery. He was 59. Johnson died Thursday at the Lutheran Medical Center in Wheat Ridge, said his son, Frederick. Johnson was forced to resign as Jefferson County health director in May, 1981, after his publication of studies showing a higher incidence of cancer in areas of Jefferson and Denver counties close to the Rocky Flats plant 16 miles northwest of Denver.

First came the flood. Now come the mosquitoes. The standing water across the Midwest has become a breeding ground for mosquitoes, sending people scurrying indoors--or to the store for bug spray. Jason Bishop went to rescue his boat from the Skunk River near Mt. Pleasant and was overwhelmed. "As soon as we pulled in they were all over the windshield of the truck--I mean all over the truck," he said. "They chowed like crazy. We came out with a lot of bites."

In New York, the showdown came last spring on a bridge southeast of Buffalo. When state crews tried to inspect a proposed site for a low-level nuclear waste dump, they were met by a mob that included a column of wheelchair-bound retirees and 10 men on horseback, who charged. In Nebraska, promoters of that state's planned radioactive dump were greeted by ranchers toting buckets of feathers and hot tar.