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. Thuraday. May 20. 1962 A Possible Nuclear Holocaust Is Threatening Mankind - Get Involved Cantinuad Fran Pag* 1-B darkness in which no nation, no society, no ideology, no '■'dvilizatkm, will remain; in ~ which never again will a child be born; in which " never again will human '- beings appear on the earth, " and there will be no one to remember that they ever i did. This threat of self-' destruction and planetary destruction is not something that we will face one day in the future, if we fail to take certain precautions; it is here now, hanging over the heads of all of us at every moment. The machinery of destruction is complete, poised on a hair trigger, waiting for the “button” to be “pushed” by some misguided or deranged human being or for some faulty computer chip to send out the instruction to fire. The most fateful of the possible consequences of a full-scale nuclear holocaust would be the extinction of mankind which could come about not because every human being would be killed For Sale Mobile Home ..It7B Champion Doubiewide 56 X 24. Brick underpinned on corner lot, 166 x 256 size. Completely set up. Home Realt|| ban *B* 2153 Night 382 2375 ***************** ; Hollowell’s Electrical Service } Edenton , Alvin Hollo well 1 Owner ’ (Licensed Electrician) > Phone 482-2608 For Free Estimates Call After 3:30 i , New Work Contractor FORBES HOMES SALES - SERVICE MOBILE-MODULAR-DOUBLE WIDES COMPLETE PARTS DEPT. * U. S. 17 NORTH ELIZABETH CITY, N. C. PHONE 338-8758 or 338-8759 Will Be Moving To New Location June Ist, Jusi 3 Miles North - U. S. 17 y ■ -...... . MOVING SPECIALS - PARTS DEPT. - DOORS • WINDOWS • ANCHORS • AIR CONDITIONERS ALUMINUM ROOF COATING • SKIRTING N SPECIAL SAVINGS REGULAR SPECIAL 3 BEDROOM MODULAR - $27,000.00 $ 24,000.00 3 BEDROOM DOUBLEWIDE - 26.900.00 24,000.00 3 BEDROOM DOUBLEWIDE - 31,000.00 29,000.06 2 BEDROOM 14’ WIDE • 13,900.00 12,900.00 2 BEDROOM 12’ WIDE - 9,900.00 8,950.00 3 BEDROOM 12* WIDE • 10.500.00 9.450.00 by bombs directly but because the holocaust would destroy the global ecosphere on which human and other life depends. We have been warned that this could be the consquence by, among others, Einstein Eisenhower, Kissinger and, more recently, by Dr. Fred Ode, Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency under Presidents Nixon and Ford and now Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. A 1961 Soviet government publication reached the same con clusion. Bearing in mind that the possible consequences of the detonations of thousands of megatons of nuclear ex plosives include the blinding of insects, birds, and beasts all over the world; the ex tinction of many ocean species, among them some at the base of the food chain; the temporary or per manent aleration of the climate of the globe, with the outside chance of “dramatic” and “major” alterations in the structure of the atmosphere; the pollution of the whole ecosphere with oxides of nitrogen; the in capacitation in ten minutes of unprotected people who go out into the sunlight; the blinding of people who go out into the sunlight; a significant decrease in photosyntheses in plants around the world; the scalding and killing of many crops; the increase in rates of cancer and mutation around the world, but especially in the targeted zones, and the attendant risk of global epidemics; the possible poisoning of all vertebrates by sharply increased levels of Vitamin D in their skin as a result of increased ultraviolet light; and the outright slaughter on all targeted continents of most human beings and other living things by the initial nuclear radiation, the fireballs, the thermal pulses, the blast waves, the mass fires, and the fallout from the explosions; and, considering that these consequences will all in teract with raie another in unguessable ways and, furthermore, are in all likelihood an incomplete list, which will be added to as our knowledge of the earth increases, one must conclude that a full-scale nuclear holocaust could lead to the extinction of mankind. We are uncertain whether or not a holocaust would bring about human ex tinction, and this un certainty cannot be remedied. We cannot run ex periments with the earth, because we have only one earth; we are not in possession of any spare earths that we might blow up in some universal laboratory in order to discover their tolerance of nuclear holocausts. While we cannot know for certain whether or not our species will be extinguished in a holocaust, the mere possibility of it imposes -unprecedented on our generation. The risk of extinction has a significance that is categorically different from, and immeasurably greater than, that of any other risk. Up to now, every risk has been contained within the frame of life; extinction would shatter the frame. It represents not the defeat of some purpose but an abyss in which all human purposes would be drowned for all time. Once we learn that a holocaust might lead to extinction we have no right THE CHOWAN HERALD to gamble, because if we lose, the game will be over, and neither we nor anyone else will ever get another chance. We have no choice but to address the issue of nuclear weapons as though we knew for a certainty that theiruse would put an end to our species. That so much should be balanced on so fine a point - that the fruit of four and a half billion years can be undone in a careless moment - is a fact against which belief rebels. We have found it much easier to dig out own grave than to think about the fact that we are doing so. Almost everyone has acknowledged on some level that the peril exists, but the knowledge has been without con sequences in our feelings and our actions, and the. superpowers have proceeded with their nuclear buildups. The use of nuclear arms was contemplated in past crises and will continue to be contemplated in future ones. The sequence of events once hostilities begin lies open. The state of mind of the decision-makers might be one of calm rationality, of hatred, of shock, of hvsteria. or even of outright insanity. In the theoretically 7KasuU*Q *7ourtA, *?MC. A*r»TLf M. « THOMAS K. PRITCHARD A. ? 615 £. Main flreel *£Jb* J- P.O. Box 385 Elizabeth City. N.C. 27909 V ™ PHONE 33N-6879 World's Fair Dales: June 20-26 ; Juno 28-July l ; July 12-15; Aug. 9-12; Aug. 9-16; Sept 22-28; Oct 6-9; Oct 11-17 Only Ist class transportation ('Trailways Bus) and accomodations (in Knoxville, just 7 miles from fair site) w/// be used/ SPACES ARE BECOMING LIMITED ON AU WORLD'S FAIR TRIPS. HURRY & CALL OR WRITE' MANNING TOURS, INC. SO YOU WILL BE ASSURED OF A DATE AND TRIP OF YOUR CHOICE. COMPLETELY LICENSED, BONDED l INSURED FOR YOUR PROTECTION "NOTICE TO“ALL ~ VOTERS OF CHOWAN COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY FOR U. S. SENATOR, MEMBER OF CONGRESS, STATE ASSOCIATE JUSTICE, JUDGE OF COURT OF APPEALS, STATE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. ELECTION (NON-PARTISAN) BOARD OF EDUCATION. ELECTION DAY: JUNE 29,1982 Voting will be at the following placesi EAST KDENTOW—------- ■■— -■ ■ .... ... County Office Building Mrs. Patricia Whitson-----' Mrs. W. E. Mills Judge Mrs. Rudolph Dale— - Jixige WEST EDEN TON " ■ '- - ■ ------ ■- ■ Edenton Municipal Building Mrs. Carroll Wood Jones- - - —— .■ -Registrar Mrs. Rosa Rountree-————- ———— ---Judge Mrs. David Wright - Judge ROCKY HOCK---- ' ------■-■■ ■■ ......... .. '■Rescue Squad Building Mr. Stanley Hege Registrar Mrs. Faye Harrell——— Juige Mr. Paul Ober Judge CENTER HILL——- —, ——Center Hill Community Building Mrs. Margueritte Jones —— ——Registrar Mrs. Glorious Elliott—— . . . .juige Mr. Glenn Rogers on— —... —-■■. Judge WARDVILLB-- -■■" ———..———————— Wards Community Building Mrs. Peggy Boyce Registrar Mr. W. Jennings Bunch— Judge Mrs. Faye Lane Judge YEOPIM———— ■ - -Edenton Municipal Airport Mrs. Gene Nixon- 11 --- ■■■■■ ... —.. ■ -- - ----- - - - ■ Registrar Miss Sarah M. Harrell— -■■ Judge Mrs. Paaela Bock—-- - BOOKS WILL CLOSE FOR REGISTERING AND TRANSFERRING FOR THIS ELECTION ON TUESDAY , June 1, 1982, at 5:00 P.M. Any person who has been a resident of the State and precinct for 30 days is eligible to register and vote. He Bust be 18 years old by the General Election in November and aay vote in the primary. Any person who has noved froa one precinct to another within the county should transfer to the precinct in which he now lives. (See Deadline above.) ABSBITSE VOTING WILL SE ALLOWED. First Dey to Applyi laaediately Inst Day to Apply: Thursday, June 2h, 1982, at 5:00 P.M. REGISTRATION HOURS: Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 9:00 A.M. Until 1:00 P.M. PLACES TO REGISTER■ Election Offioe in the Old Chowan County Courthouse, King Street, Edenton, N.C. Tax Listing Office with Mrs. Myrtle Hare At hones of Registrars and Judges listed above by appointment With any etaber of the Election Board DEMOCRATS WILL BE ALLOWED TO VOTE OE THE DEMOCRATS RUNNING FOR NOMINATION AND SCHOOL BOARD. REPUBLICANS AID UNAFF ILIA TED WILL M ALLOWS) TO VOTE FOR THE BOARD OF EDUCATION ORLY. CURBSIDE VOTING WILL EE ALLOWED FROM 9:00 A.M. UNTIL 5:00 P.M. POLLS WILL BE OPEN AT 6:30 A.M. AND CLOSE AT 7<30 P.M. Chairman Chowan County Board of Elections sophisticated but often humanly deficient world of nuclear strategic theory, it is likely to be overlooked that the outbreak of nuclear hostilities in itself assumes the collapse of every usual restraint of reason and humanity. Once the mass killing of a nuclear holocaust has begun, the scruples, and even the reckonings of self-interest, that normally keep the actions of nations within certain bounds will by definition have been trampled down, and will probably offer little further protection for anybody. In the unimaginable mental and spiritual climate of the world at that point it is hard to imagine what force could be counted on to hold the world back from all-out destruction. Predictions about the size and form of a nuclear holocaust are really predictions about human decisions, and these are notoriously incalculable in advance - especially when the decisions in question are going to be made in the midst of unimaginable mayhem. No generation before ours has ever held the life and death of the species in its hands. But if we hardly know how to comprehend i the possible deaths in a holocaust of the billions of people who are already in life how are we to com ’ prehend the life or death of the infinite number of possible people who do not yet exist at all? How are we, who are a part of human life, to step back from life and see it whole, in ordcir to assess the meaning of its disappearance? To kill a human being is murder, and there are those who believe that to abort a fetus is also murder, but what crime is it to cancel the numberless multitude of unconceived people? In what court is stfch a crime to be judged? Against whom is it com mitted? We and our adversaries have so far had no better idea than to heap up more and more warheads,' ap parently in the hope of so thoroughly paralyzing ourselves with terror that we will hold back from taking the final, absurd step. Considering the wealth of our achievements as a species, this response is unworthy of us. While the events that might trigger a holocaust would probably be political, the consequences would be deeper than any politics or political aims, bringing ruin to the hopes and plans of capitalists and socialists, rightists and leftists, con servatives and liberals alike. If a lasting political solution seems almost beyond human power, it may give us confidence to remember that what challenges us is sum ply our extraordinary success in another field of activity - the scientific. We have only to learn to live politically in the world in which we already live scientifically. At present, most of us do nothing. We look away. We remain calm. We are silent. We take refuge in the hope that the holocaust won’t happen, and turn back to our individual concerns. We deny the truth that is all CHICKEN MANURE For Sale—Bag or bulk. Will consider delivery. Call Emmett Winborne - 221- 4204. \\ HERITAGE (I I REALTY \\ 1/ 482-2645 106 E. KING ST. rv . • * • * * •>.<■!• h-tv. lit 6UUU. lu ii ic Ivy NEW LISTINGS PRICE REDUCED -y Log Cabin, beautiful inside and out,, Large fireplace, 2 Bedrooms and , Loft, Maintenance free, energy efficient $38,000. ACREAGE Three,Lovely acres in a choice Location, privacy. 12 per cent owner financing. SIO,OOO. 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Large MOBILE HOME LOT Just outside city limits, owner financing at 12 percent APR WATERFRONT Elegant home in a spectacular setting on the Albemarle Sound, featuring: foyer, great room, 3 or 4 bedrooms, Florida room, 2 full baths and 2 half baths. Plus 3 bdrm. guest house. 1.1 acres with sandy beach. 12 per cent owner financing. COMMERCIAL BUILDING On 2.6 acres with 365’ of highway frontage -12 per cent owner finan cing $65,000 APARTMENT HOUSE For Sale $38,000 COMMERCIAL BUILDING Highway frontage on 2.8 acres $39,500. HISTORIC DlSTßlCT—Charming 4 BR home with 2 full baths, eat-in kitchen, formal dining room. LR. den. and utility room. Beautiful yard. Price reduced to $52,000. CAPE COLONY Charming 2 bedroom home, l l * baths, eat-in kitchen, LR, Florida rm, carport, large utility rm. Beautiful, wooded setting. Many extra features $39,000 CAPE COLONY Unique, custom built home on dbl. lot, 3 bdrm, 2V4 bath, rec. rm., LR, cathedral ceiling - balconies - decks, fireplace, 2 bay carport, workshop, beach and much more $60,000 MOBILE HOME 1974 Double-wide, 3 bdrm. 2 baths. Excellent condition Reduced to SII,BOO WATERFRONT HOME Arrowhead Beach - 3 bedroom home, 2 baths, LR with fireplace, kit., DR, utility rm, 1 car garage on beautiful extra large lot. Bulkheading and pier with spectacular view of the Chowan River (Owner financing at 12 per cent). Reduced to $48,000. VALHALLA Owner Must SeU Now! Eight year old spacious country home with over 1750 sq. ft in cluding 3 bdrms., LR, DR. kit., \Vt baths, utility room and studio. Situated on two acres north of Edenton Price Reduced s34.slf« 162 ACRES with large lake, timber and cleared lafl4 Excellent for development. Negotiable. 12 per ce*« owner financing. Waterfront Lots - Snug Harbor and Arrowhead. Other LoU and Acreage For Sale. Page 9-B around us. Such imponderables as the sum of human life, the integrity of the terrestrial creation, and the meaning of time, of history, and the development of life on earth, which were once left to' contemplation and spiritual’ understanding, are now at stake in the political realm and demand a political response from every person. As political actors, we must, like the contemplatives before us, delve to the bottom of the world, and Atlaslike, we must take the world on our shoulders. Psychologists say no person should keep too much to himself. We’re sure the Internal Revenue Service is of the same opinion.
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