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4430. Commissioner Dotterer reported on his investigation and inspection of the Agricultural building or the County Annex Building. After hearing the report, Commissioner Hancock moved that Commissioner Dotterer be authorized to have Pate-Mullins and Associates to inspect the building and making a report and recommendations for its repair and reno- vation. Commissioner Franklin D. Wicker seconded the motion and upon a vote it was unanimously adopted. The Chairman reported that the Armory building was now in good condition and urged all members to go by and inspect it. The Chairman advised the Board that there would be a program at the Institute of Government in Chapel Hill on school budget programs on January 9th, 1975. The Board then considered a resolution relating to the declaration of January 19th through the 25th, as Alcoholic'Awareness week. Upon motion made, duly seconded and unanimously adopted, the Board adopted the following resolution: WHEREAS, alcoholism has been recognized as a disease which ranks among the four major health threats, along with cancer, mental illness and heart disease; and WHEREAS, alcoholism afflicts directly 10, 000, 000 Americans; and indirectly affects many more; and . WHEREAS, the cost of alcoholism in human suffering, in disintegration of family life, in economic attrition to the individual and the community is incalculable; and NORTH CAROLINA, LEE COUNTY ftn. Presen ed for registration on the...... /....day 19..`x. Pt_SM, ~y -9 recorded in Book......4...----- o-e'-" Pattie W. MCGilvary, Register of Deeds WHEREAS, the National Council on Alcoholism has for twenty-eight years provided through its information centers and other resources a three-pronged program of education, community service and research to bring under- standing to our citizenry of the dangers of this destructive but treatable disease; and WHEREAS, the National Council on Alcoholism is conducting a national education program aimed at preventing alcoholism in this community by learning the early warning symptoms of alcoholism; and WHEREAS, the Lee County Council on Alcoholism has instituted in Lee County an Alcoholism Information Campaign to.focus public attention on one of America's gravest health threats, NOW, THEREFORE, be it resolved, that the week of January 19-25, 1975, be proclaimed "ALCOHOL AWARENESS WEEK" in Lee County, and urge the men and women of our community to join the Lee County Council on Alcoholism and the National Council on Alcoholism in this nation-wide campaign to alert our citizens to the early warning signals of alcoholism. There being no further business to come before the session, it