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DEAR MR. PUBLISHER, J * by PARSON JONES Dear Mr. Publisher: My mama always told me everything had a purpose. God didn't make anything that didn't have a purpose. I always believed that til I took a good look at the modern family. Now Pm not too sure. When I war. a youngun the family had a purpose. My mans taught me how to cook and my daddy taught me how to work. The home was a place where I ate, slept, played, and tamed a little bit about everything - even sex. Over the years so ciety has either got smarter or else the family has got dumb er. Now-a-days we let the state provide the education and the play for our kids. They eat at the hamburger places,and live in their cars. Now there's a move on to teach 'em about sex in the schools. So, Mr. Publisher, Pm wondering what's left for the family to do, except to foot the bill. It lools like we may make the same ole mistake with sex that we made with arithmetic. We thought by teaching kids to add and subtract it would make a better world. But we forgot to teach 'em how to be honest with their figgering. Now we're gonna teach sex like arithmetic, believing that as they know what to call everything and what it does, every thing will be fine. Only problem is sex ain't arithmetic. It's emotional and it's moral. Sex involves love and you don't learn love out of a book. A ldd is equipped for sex when he is equipped with love. And, I don't know of a much better place to get it than in the home. Mr. Publisher, I gotta sign off far now and take my youxg uns on a picnic. Believe it or not, that may just help 'em out in their sex life some day. Who knows, they may even notice the birds and the bees. Parson Jones Letters To The Editor Dear Editor; I don't know if this is the proper place to put thir in the paper, but I feel that a "Letter to the Editor" is read by every one so I hope you will publish this. I wonder if the people in Yancey County are aware of their blessings- and in this case lam referring to "man made blessings." We had a fire at our place on Bolens Creek Sunday after noon which I think you are mm tioning in your paper and this is what I am referring to. Have you ever stood in the middle cf a field and watched a fire rage in every direction and not be able to put it out? This was our experience. There are four adults and a 14 year old boy in our family and all of us were fighting this fire within seconds after it started, and we could not stop it. The smoke was spotted al most immediately from the fire tower above Burnsville eviden tly, because a truck with th»e men from the N.C. Forest Sen vice was at our house just min utes after the fire started. Be fore they arrived we reali zed that we were unable to control it; the fire was coming very close to a vacant house which we own and store some family antiques in, so we called the Burnsville Volunteer Fire Dept. Although our home is two miles from Burnsville, and this was at 1:45 p.m. on a Sunday afternoon, the men came, ten of them, in less than ten min utes from the time we placed our call. Thanks to both groups the fire was out in a very short tins They saved the little old home and prevented a forest fire that would have taken many hours to put out. This letter has a two- f o Id purpose: A very sincere "Thank you" to the Burnsville Fire Ftepc and the N.C.Forest Service tor their exceptionally fast service; and secondly, reminding the people of Yancey County that we should be very thankful for these two organizations. They are like insurance. We don't think much about them until we need them and then where would we be without them? Sincerely, Mrs. Grace Banks Add Victory To Vocabulary There's one part of the world where the word "victory 1 is still med. 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To say that Asians art* a special breed who do not desire this price - less though hard-won com - modity ]s the height of insani ty. -Indianapolis (Ind)Star. Dayton L SPORT BELTED MARCH 12, 1970 WommPast2l WITH BUDMR IMITATION Suffer Many Troubles After 21, common Kidney or Bladder Irritations adect twice as many women as men and may make you tense and nervous from too frequent, burning or itching urination both day and night. Secondarily, you may lose sleep and sutler from Headaches. Backache and fecj old, tired, depressed. In such irri tation, CYSTEX usually brings fast, relaxing comfort by curbing irritating terms in strong, acid urine and by anal gesic pain relief. Get CYSTEX at drug gists. See how fast it can help you. I I ' Wl'eTißgiTJa nM.iwUl,| 'SmSSM Dayton | ATIRES KSiiliiHi PAGE 3
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