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I THE CASSLTCA TlEJ WTUR-AYAFniL 1 MS22 . ' - - - - '. , . ' - - . , . - ,' . ) . ' -. -1 v.. . , ; , - -; ,, , . . t . . . ' - .1 ..r: ' " . v ; r : V- ' " T r"""' 1 111 . . " . U 1 '''''' '"' ' I , . . . .. rj - - ' ; - - - , - ; -v ... , . : - . x , i ... . . . VI ! J i' 1 ' f.'-' , ' . 7 . t .ill.. : ' V.'V'' " m m m m a mmmm unme Will Eventually Get You If lacking Devices You Don 't Stop It First By Milton Jordan On the Vst End in Durham, a t sectary returned fidme from a night ut and found her apartment burglarized. She was burning mad, but helptfss. in a upper middle class neighborhood on the city's northern end, a traveling; salesman returned from out of town to find his home had been ripped off. He was angry, but resigned and helpless. Arid, in a new subdivi sion in southwestern Durham County, a housewife returned from a brief shopping trip to find that thieves had . found her home empty , of people and had empr tied it of virtually everything else. Almost no one and nothing is safe today from crime. Homes, apartments, stores, cars and practically anyplace or anyone. eJse,.not..pror tected is. fau game for crime; - - According to Harry Scarr, former director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics, "Within four' or five years every household in the country will be hit by crime." That means YOU. As the crime clocks tick away, your number i insanity and just general upheaval ill its victims' lives. . But more , than anything elsie, crime pro duces fear, mind numbing fear that stalks almost every waking hour and turns sleep into troubled turmoil. "It doein't matter where I am or who I'm extremely distressed and upset, in an emotional nosedive as a result of crime." i There have been cases when the, victim's reac tion to crime has been more devastating than the crime itself. For ex-! ample, last year, a young rape victim committed 5 ! J the year was $66.1 million, net 'investment income rose to $12 million in dividends to policyholders durinj: the year. . . ..' i "These gains are im pressive when viewed against the backdrop of the disarray of the na tion's economy and the million, and total income "economic setbacks or the: was $78 million, a $5.7 people" we traditionally million increase overt serve," Kennedy said. 1980 Trr addition, the vV "Perhaps no group of company paid $1.9; people has felt the sting of the administration's economic policies rpojc than the nation's black" communities," v where, he added, ''the govern ment cutbacks .have had a severe and devest at ing impact." ' ' " Kennedy also told jhc policyholders of fhc1 gains in operations of NCM's two insurance subsidiaries during 1980. and ol the success of the company's : . nias marketing program. The company's two radio stations in , Williamsburg, Va., were upgraded last year, Ken nedy told the group. "As a result," he said, "both slat ions' market 'position ; and revenues, increased, much earlier than our in itial projections in dicated." . ''- " Crime (Continued from Pag.- 6 because the first b?r tleline in the fight agam, crime is to makeitcsF: ficult as possible fpx ih crimi nal to activate'lfeiV or her desire. r ifl tfieC words, you must' take away or at least reduce', the opportunity. " L suicide rather than live: with," said one burglary i: with the crime's . victim, who asked not to memory. Crime had: be identified. "When brought about divorces, I'm outside, I see shotsun. . . . and trv to"' hadows inside. When I . rest." ave to leave home, I'm But though the fear of Imost too afraid to crime is real, and the ' ; probability of being vic . timized is definite and growing daily, there are still many people in ' Durham who have taken I almost no precaution i against crime. For example, ome back." Mrs. Linda Ellis, a vic timization counselor, ex plains: "Our homes are often seen as an exten sion of ourselves, and when our homes have been violated, so have we." V i Therefore, in light of' the growing-' probability "that all of us risk' criminal, victimization, what, if anything art we doing about it, and how many of us aro. doing nothing According to Ms. Keny, many of the vie tims she counsels had taken no previous precautions . 1 against crime, not even the simplest steps of self protection. "It seems to me that many, many people har- comrrutted every three seconds. A larceny is commit-, ted every four seconds. A burglary is corn emitted ever eight seconds.- . A violent crime is ' committed every 24 seconds. , ' A motor vehicle is . stolen every 28 seconds. ; 5 An aggravated assault is committed every 48 seconds. I . A forcible rape is. committed " every six' minutes. t A murder is commit ted eveiV 24 minutes. Those are national , crime1 dock figures, but Durham is comparative- V Jy representative of the ; national trend. Accor ding; lo 1981 figures,, stealing ranked as the d-1 ty's npst frequent crime. 4 This Includes robberies,' residential : V burglaries, petty larceny and motor vehicle theft. There were more than 10,000 of-; fenses, and stolen pro-, perty was valued at more . ' than $4 million. So if crime hasn't hit you directly yet, just wait. It's coming. And while you wait to be rob bed, burglarized, raped, vandalized or killed, you are paying through the nose for the opportunity to be victimized. According to, the Na- said Ms. Keny, it happens to is bound to come un A crime is commit bor a feeling that crime is ted every two seconds; something that always A property crime is happens to someone eise," "until Ms. Portia Wilson, a local receptionist, falls into, that category, "1 don't own a gun, and I don't have all these elaborate locks. I'm -just not going to let crime scare me like. that. Buf these "fearless"; souls are exceptions to rule. According to a privately financed na tional crime study: "The fear of crime is slowly paralyzing . American , society." ' In a recent magazine ar ticle on . violent crime, Houston - Police Chief B.K. Johnson said: "We have allowed ourselves ' to degenerate :, to the ! point where we're living ; like animals. We live' behind burglar bars and throw a collection of door locks at night and set - an alarm and Uy down with a loaded justice system, is but a . minor impact of crime -when one considers the full range of trauma that often accompanies vie-; timization., - ' ' "Some crime victims are , extremely angry," ! says Jan Keny, A crime; victimization counselor, i "Other victims are very fearful, and oftea people who can cope with about sixty per cent . of ; Durham's population, just a little over 60,000 people are not involved in the Public Safety frefvar t m e n t ' - ' neighborhood watch and property identification programs. And the crime prevention bureau of the! , County Sheriffs Depart- ment has only about 200- , of the neighborhoods ouisiac uiq cuy umus in-c volved in similar pro grams. "There's a lot of apathy out there," says Caot. Allen of the city's crime prevention bureau. "We really wish more, people would get involv-: ed with helping to fight crime. , We can't do iti without full citizen par-, N.C. Mutual Announces l Recent Gains . Significant gains in some key areas of opera tions at North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company were announc ed. Wednesday by W.J. Kennedy III, NCM chairman, president and chief executive officer. Kennedy made the an nouncement in his report at the company's 83rd annual policyholders meeting at the NCM Home- . Office, auditorium. Among the gains Ken : nedy ; reported, .were ' a $1.04 billon increase in '. insurance in force, a $7.8 million increase in assets and a $4.1 million in crease in premium in come. The company's assets; how stand at $198.7 million and insurance in force reached $6.58 . billion, up from the $5.58 billion reported at ' the end of 1980. This in- tional Crime Prevention f .almost Institute in Louisville,! plight aimost 17 cents or every constmer ; dollar h' directly attributable to , crime. The izsenLce Industry says that i significant ( percentage of premium -increased can be traced j to crime's surge in thej country." t But the money that crime costs, including the escalating cost of a gaowing and over burdened criminal 1. V- . Ii i crease was the largest : single year increase in ,ttt (tutiMnu Sa fit rtm anvthusi else. ul.. find, tncossclves, . premium income for FH3.CONCENTRATED Qj h-ll DEODORIZER l -'J - is so effective that 2 L7.CPS CCC:."JZE Jual Uuu oi tt odor : m v un few yaw . . . Mtwooai, pmt. coakjnQ. mtd. (mmIi wmmn ennn tmr 21ltUU POSTPAID - f ' . ".'Ml,; miiiiim U to erdtf Mnd chMk or ww ordw to ICMMIO MOOUCTS CO . 0t o SCHMtO lAttOMATOWES, INC.. to. A. 46 WMI. LiIM fli. HI 07424 i itii t i in in 1 . ii ii un ii i - : ?Hr rn7 mum s l- i n'y" :-:"-'v .n' v?.r: :::v-y. t. s0:;.y-t-,::r. ?yyy-.y : - f f, "'-' y - . : . . !...' . .y , - Warning: The-Surgeon General Has OetencM That Cigarette Smoking Is Dangerous to Your Heafth. - . . 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