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: pOUt** ffe THE RIGHT STUFF . . . Letters to the editor ?tm ?1983 Copter New Seme* % (Continued from page 2B) you will do your Christmas shop ping with the Hoke/Raeford Humane Society. Not only will you be getting ^ some delightful gifts, but you will be helping support us in our efforts to help the animals. We will let everyone know the exact date of this craft and bake sale as soon as everyone's schedules are coor dinated. If you would like to help in any way, either by baking something or donating an item to sell, please contact any member of the humane society or call me at the ) number listed below. Again, thanks to everyone who helped us. Sincerely, Sheryl McGirmis, Sec./Treas. Hoke/Raeford Humane Society 875-5746 r Minor problems must be addressed Dear editor: When there are mammoth pro blems facing a country, problems nobody has the answer to, you might as well take time out and think about a little problem. Consequently, I have practically nothing to say about Lebanon, ex cept that it seems to be the wrong country to send a peace-keeping force of 1,200 to, where there are nine different fanatical factions shooting at each other, an in herited trait 1 suppose because it's been going on for a couple of thou sand years. Switzerland would have been a better place to send a peace-keeping force. That country hasn't had a war in 100 years. I have no answers to that pro blem and don't know anybody who does, therefore I will concen trate on professional football. The question there is how do fans, when they settle down before their TV sets on Sunday afternoon or Monday night, decide which team to pull for? If a team from your own area is playing, it's natural to pull for that team. But what if two teams, neither of which you're for or against, are playing? What if you're from Idaho and the Washington Redskins are playing the Los Angeles Raiders? You've got to pull for one to get the max imum fun out of the game. I have done some research on this. For example, one guy I know would be against Washington because the Redskins and Congress live in the same town. Another guy I know would be against Los Angeles because he was stationed at a miserable camp in California during World War II. He's opposed to everything from California, except maybe the A-Team and seedless grapes. Others of course pull for a team Opinions We're slaves to ringing phones By Laden Coleman 1 had waited longer than I really wanted to. It was already 20 minutes past the time of my ap pointment. So I was more than a little grateful when the receptionist finally beckoned me over to her desk. The moment I began to state my business, the telephone rang, and, of course, she answered it. As I waited for her to finish that 10 minute phone conversation, I wondered, "Why is that person on the other end of the line receiving preferential treatment?" He had made no appointment. He hadn't driven 12 miles across town to get to the office, as I had. I had arriv ed before his call had come in. Yet, here I was waiting on him to finish his business. How come? But I knew the answer, already. In our society, we make a fetish of the telephone. Our one in violable rule in that the phone they've got a bet on. They are con trasted to those who bet on the score per quarter. They don't care who wins. They are somewhat like the Houston Oilers and the Tampa Bay Bucaneers. There is a parallel between world problems and professional foot ball. Even when a world problem is solved and the football champion ship decided, you know a new series will start over again next year. Yours faithfully, J. A. Letters Polk) Letters to the editor are encouraged and welcomed. Writers should keep letters as short as possible. Names, ad dresses and telephone numbers should be included and all letters must be signed. 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The phone must be answered at all costs. Even in those torrid bedroom scenes on TV dramas, no embrace is too passionate to be interrupted by the telephone. The telephone must be answered, no matter what. But why? What's so special about the telephone that it takes precedence over everything else? Why should someone who has gone to the trouble of making an appointment with a busy man sit and wait while he handles an unscheduled phone call? Why should an electronic communica tion device take precedence over face to face conversation? Why will a person step out of the shower and parade through the house dripping wet in order to answer a ringing telephone? "It might be important," we tell ourselves. But, really now, how many of your calls turn out to be all that urgent? The real problem, 1 suspect, is that we are conditioned to jump at the sound of a phone, just as a trained dog reflexively obeys the command of his master. Maybe we ought to try kicking the habit. Maybe we need to organize a ' "Telephonies Anonymous." Law provides penalty for convicted felons By Charles C. Lewis Assoc. Prof. Law Campbell Univ. Criminal acts are divided into misdemeanors and felonies. The felony is the more serious of the two and generally brings a stiffer punishment. In North Carolina, a felony is defined as a crime which was a felony at common law, or a crime which is or may be punishable by death, or a crime which is or may be punishable by imprisonment in the State's prison, or a crime which is termed a felony by statute. All other crimes are misde meanors. Some examples of felonies are murder, rape, kidnapping, arson, incest, bigamy, perjury, felonious assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, malicious use of ex plosives or incendiaries, larceny of property exceeding $400 in value, and bribery of officials. There are many other felonies than these mentioned, and most of these are broken down into various other types of felonies. Most people know that a convic tion for a felony usually brings a stiff punishment. Indeed, although the punish ment for a felony may be a mere fine, punishment for some felonies may be death or life imprisonment. Besides death, imprisonment or a fine, a person convicted of a felony in North Carolina also loses some rights of citizenship. General Statutes ? 163.55, which sets out the qualifications for voting in North Carolina, provides that any person found guilty of a felony against the State or the United States or found guilty of a felony in another state that would be a felony if it had been commit Law For Laypersons ted in North Carolina may not be allowed either to register or to vote. Article VI, ? 2(3) of the North Carolina Constitution also provides that a person's right to vote may be taken away as a result of a felony conviction. In addition, Article VI, ? 8 of the North Carolina Constitution provides that a felony conviction will result in a person's being dis qualified for election to office. The reason sometimes given for the loss of citizenship rights upon conviction of a felony is that the electoral process will be protected from those who have not been responsible citizens. Also the loss of citizenship rights may serve as an additional punishment for the commission of a felony. North Carolina's statutory and constitutional provisions depriving convicted felons of the right to vote were attacked in the case of Fincher v. Scott, 352 F. Supp. 1 17 (1972). The Federal District Court which heard the case, however, decided that these provisions in North Carolina were not un constitutional, either under the United States Constitution's Equal Protection Clause or the clause prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment. Editor's Note: This article is written as a matter of general in terest only. 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