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Dear editor:
According to the people who're
in favor of a nuclear freeze, Russia
and the United States each has
enough nuclear missiles to destroy
the other, therefore why build any
more?
As I understand it, that's true on
paper. Russia has its missiles in
P place and aimed at every major
target in the United States, and the
United States has its aimed at every
Russian target. Both have reached
the point in civilization where each
can wipe the other out in a
moment's notice.
But there's a slight flaw in this.
How does anybody know a missile
will hit where it's aimed when its
target is half-way around the
I world?
' You've seen TV shots of a new
weapon being tried out. It's sup
posed to emerge from a submarine
and hit a flying target. Sometimes
it hits but sometimes it takes a
nose-dive back into the ocean or
goes over the horizon in the wrong
direction.
You don't get to see such
Russian experiments because not
k even the Russian population gets to
see such things. Only the Com
munist big-shots are let in on it.
How does the rest of the world
know, if Russia and the U.S.
started firing at each other, a
missile aimed at Washington or
Moscow may take off in the wrong
direction and hit South Borneo or
the North Pole or some un-bomb
worthy place around here? Be the
worst mess you ever saw.
| Therefore what the world needs
is an International Marksmanship
Try-Out. Let's find out how good
everybody's aim is before we get
serious about destroying civiliza
tion.
Draw a big circle in some
isolated spot in the United States
and one in an isolated spot in
Russia, remove the nuclear war
heads in the missiles and substitute
|!*' flour, and see just how close our
marksmen can come to hitting their
circle and their marksmen to
hitting ours.
If the trial shooting results in
people in South Borneo or bears at
the North Pole getting covered with
flour, obviously the world isn't
ready for a nuclear war.
Yours faithfully,
J. A.
VD Hotline
Established
The National Venereal Disease
(VD) Hotline Information and
Referral Service, a toll-free con
fidencial telephone service, is
available to people in North
Carolina and throughout the
United States.
"The hotline provides confiden
tial information to callers about
any aspect of sexually transmitted
diseases," said Frankie Barnes,
VD education specialist with the
N.C. Department of Human
Resources' Division of Health Ser
vices.
"It will also refer callers to their
local health departments where
they can get free venereal disease
diagnosis and treatment," he said.
The hotline also gives sugges
tions for preventive health prac
tices that help minimize the risk of
VD infection, and provides factual
information to help eliminate the
two greatest barriers to the control
of venereal disease -- misinforma
tion and fear.
Barnes said many people choose
to call the national hotline for in
formation because of the confiden
tiality of the consultation.
The latest available statistics in
dicate approximately 600 North
Carolinians called the hotline in
the past year.
The VD Hotline operates seven
days a week. North Carolina
residents may call 1-800-227-8922
toll free between 11 a.m. and 11
p.m., Monday through Friday,
and from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. on
Saturday and Sunday.
During off-hours, the service
provides taped announcements.
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COMING DOWN ? The First Baptist Church 's old steeple is shown being
prepared for removal from the top of the church 's present sanctuary Oc
tober 27 and on the ground after removal. The bell is being placed in the
church 's large garden on the Edinborough A venue side. The new sanc
tuary building next to the older building facing North Main Street is so
designed that the old steeple was not needed. Since the present sanctuary
will be used for educational purposes, the steeple is no longer appropriate
for it as a steeple graces only a sanctuary building. The old steeple was
hauled away.
New Church Addition To Be
Dedicated Nov. 14
The new addition to First Baptist
? Church of Raeford will be dedi
cated November 14.
The service of dedication will be
I held at 11 a.m. following Sunday
school, which will start at 9:45. The
public is invited.
Dinner will be held on the
1 grounds following the service.
The new building contains a
sanctuary which can seat up to 437
people; and administrative and
music rooms.
Ground was broken May 2 for
the new building, which, like the
older building, faces North Main
Street. It is on the west side of the
street and near the south side of the
other building, which is at the
intersection of West Edinborough
Avenue.
The older building will be used
for educational purposes.
The Rev. Billy Beaver is pastor.
K. McFadden
Wins At Fair
Luck was with Karen McFadden
of Rt. 4 Raeford when she attended
the State Fair in October.
While visiting the "North Caro
lina ... Naturally" exhibit spon
sored by the North Carolina De
partment of Natural Resources and
Community Development, Mc
Fadden entered her name in the
drawing for prizes.
This week she received a letter
from NRCD Secretary Joe Grimsley
saying that he/she had won a set of
North Carolina Zoo Posters.
McFadden was one of over
100,000 fair goers who toured
through "North Carolina ... Nat
urally" during the nine-day fair.
The exhibit, which was housed in
an 80' geodesic dome, gave fair
visitors a chance to see, touch and
hear about the state's rich natural
heritage and the work being done
by NRCD to assist communities
across the state in growth and
development.
The exhibit received the Com
missioner of Agriculture's Award
for Education.
Among the prizes given away
were subscriptions to Wildlife
magazine, Wildlife prints, Out
doors North Carolina tee shirts.
North Carolina Zoo posters and
free family admissions to the
Outdoors North Carolina Expo at
the Raleigh Civic Center, March
24-27.
The Grand Prize was a cabin for
a one week's vacation at Hanging
Rock State Park or Morrow
Mountain.
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