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residents should be kept better informed of what is going on at the missile bases, especially when there is a problem.Kathryn Hastings said the Air Force should plan evacuation routes and announce them prior to a problem. She also said the Air Force should set up town meetings to infom residents what to expect.All residents were asked if they had sat down and planned what they would do if an evacuation became necessary Theyall answered, No.”base However, all favored the installation of some kind of community warning device at the silos in case of problems oran enemy attackThey were questioned after an Air Force sergeant was killed and 21 people were injured in a Sept. 19 missile silo explosion near DamascusThere are six missile silos inBy RANDY KEMP Searcy Daily CitizenSEARCY, Ark (AP) - White County residents who live near Titan II missile silos are mostly unconcerned about their powerful but unobtrusive neighbors, a survey shows.Onlv four of 30 people ques tioned expressed fear or concern about living close to a missilewish they’d close 'em all down.”We re kinda afraid of it, but we own our home here, and did long before the base came here — and we re old,” said Mrs Strayhorn He’s 85 and I’m 77.Most of the people questioned either thought the missiles are valuable for the country’s defense or didn’t have an opinionIf the other countries are going to have them, I think we should, too, said Mrs, Ricky Roberson of the Clay area. And if we are going to have them, they have to be located somewhere.”Glodean Snowden of near Clay said she thinks it is good that they are there. . . they’re good for defense I’m more against bringing in all these refugees than I am against all these warheads and things I think they need to do awaywith 'em all and get a bigarmy,” Strayhorn said There are a lot of these boys running up and down the road without jobs and they could be put in theArmy.”About half of those surveyed volunteered that they think localWhite County and all residents questioned live within one mile of a silo.Living one-quarter mile from a nuclear warhead-armed missile doesn’t bother me at all, said Mrs. Arnold Chaney of near Clay, echoing the feelings ofmany residentsHer daughter, who lives nearby, gave the same response,adding, “1 don't think we needthe missiles for defense. God will step in before they ever need to use them If you sil and think about it, and dwell on it, it could drive you insane, batty, but I don’t think there’s any need to worry about it.Joyce Bowren, who lives by the Judsonia silo, said the incident at Damascus “got us to thinking.”It’s pretty scary, she said I'd hate to think of it happening here . . . hopefully it won’t happen here, or anywhere else I never thought about living close to one until this happened What scares us most is tha something as simple as a wrench can cause that big a deal.”1 feel it is quite dangerous to the community, but people keep moving in and building houses around it, said Mrs. Bill Hastings of near Judsonia.A small, third group feels differently — not scared, not total ly unconcerned — but a little belligerent.We don’t like it, but there's just nothing we can do about it, 1 don't guess,” said Roy Strayhorn of the Judsonia area “1NEW YORK (AP) - The government’s estimate that itwill cost parents $65,000 to support a child until age 18 is ridiculously low and the figure is more likely to reach $254,000 — not counting college — says Parents MagazineThe magazine said the gov eminent failed to include inflation as a factor An estimate of $85,000. which included four years of college, released earlier this month by the private Population Reference Bureau also was underestimated, the magazine contended in its issue released MondayThomas Tilling, a contributing editor of the magazine, said the magazine arrived at the $250.000-plus figure by using federal figures issued by the Agriculture Department as a starting point Adding 10 percent inflation yearly, the government's cost of raising a child goes from $65,000 to $175,000. Figuring another 10Crcent to that total to make up • underestimates boosts the figure to $193,000, said the magazine.Then another $61,000 is added in by figuring annual earnings, based on a $10,000-a-year salary plus inflation, lost to the motherfrom the time of the child's birth to the time the child enters school.Other government estimates considered low were estimates that it costs only $22 a week to feed a teen-age boy and $115 a year to clothe a newborn baby during its first year.Our least costly way to clothe the baby’s bottom (diaper service) comes to$7.30 a week, Tilling wrote, That's $380 a year.In comparing various federal estimates, the magazine at oneCint said it questioned whether leral estimators had any chil dren of their own.•Citric Leader •Church Leader •Family Man •Censervatifi •Small BusinessmanH fcvMv Tnct
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Fayetteville Northwest Arkansas Times
Fayetteville, Arkansas, US
Tue, Oct 21, 1980
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