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Manning The Phone at his Christian Distress Clinic, Bruce Doney offers spiritual comfrot and practical help to anyone who calls in distress. He started the clinic 3 1/2 years ago and now he and a staff of 11 volunteers handle an average of 18-19 calls a day.
Manning The Phone at his Christian Distress Clinic, Bruce Doney offers spiritual comfrot and practical help to anyone who calls in distress. He started the clinic 3 1/2 years ago and now he and a staff of 11 volunteers handle an average of 18-19 calls a day.

Manning The Phone at his Christian Distress Clinic, Bruce Doney offers spiritual comfrot and practical help to anyone who calls in distress. He started the clinic 3 1/2 years ago and now he and a staff of 11 volunteers handle an average of 18-19 calls a day.

Date6/29/1978
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Hot lines: Carl Ellioff (seated) and Oscar Rechtshaffen of Teletalk Ltd. check the automated electronic equipment that handles an average 100,000 paid calls a month made to the firm.
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The volunteer's active service manual, or, Internal economy and standing orders for volunteers when on active service, with bugle calls and forms of a(...)
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