Chapel Hill Professor to Head ECU Medical School
UNC Chapel Hill professor Dr. William Cromartie will lead East Carolina University Medical School, reporting to UNC Dean Christopher Fordham. The plan bypasses ECU administrators amid jurisdictional disputes and opposition from ECU supporters. Fordham has not yet filled a permanent post and contests expansion timelines and control over teaching facilities.
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Hill
EQU Medical School
Fordham
Wooles
Annessor
Pharma
ECU
Greenville
Chapel i
Medical
UNC
William Friday
Cromartie
Jenkins
Chasan
Edwin Monroe
Chapel Hill
Pitt County Hospital
HKCU
Robert J. Jones
Robert Morgan
Chapelton
Unc-Chapel Hill
Friday
Highway Patrol Adopts Tough Tactics To Curb Speed
North Carolina highway deaths rise, Col. E W Jones outlines steps to slow traffic. A pair of patrolmen will pace 55 mph on interstates, a trooper per 10 miles will use speed timing devices, bolted reflector signs warn zones, and tracers will monitor speeds for 26 miles. A traffic safety information coordinator and sergeant will oversee public guidance at eight troop headquarters.
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Raleigh
Col
E. W. Jones
State Highway Patrol
Jones
North Carolina
Highway Patrol
Would-Be Researchers Steal Rare Documents
Two young men posing as researchers stole historically valuable documents from the North Carolina state Archives and History Building in Raleigh on June 4. The items include a Jefferson Davis signed document, two about Davis, two by Andrew Johnson, and five from the Revolutionary War. value about $2,000 with high historical significance.
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Raleigh
N.C
State Archives and History
Paul Hoffman
Division of Archives and History
Jefferson Davis
Davis
Andrew Johnson
Hoffman
Archives and History Building
Funeral services for Mrs Irma Kate Stultz Green
Funeral services for Mrs Irma Kate Stultz Green, 66, of Danville Rt 4, will be held at 2 p.m. today conducted by Rev R B Williams of Wrenn Yeatts Funeral Chapel. Interment in Highland Burial Park. She died Monday morning after a 14 month illness. Born October 19, 1909 in Henry County she was the daughter of the late Jack and Sallie Aycock Stultz. She married Daniel W Green on September 9, 1961 who survives. She lived in Rock Hill, Washington DC, and Danville where she worked for Dan River Inc until her 1961 retirement. She was a Baptist.
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Irma Kate Stultz Green
R. B. Williams
Wrenn- Yeatts
Highland Burial Park
Green
Danville Rt
Henry County
Jack and
Sallie Aycock Stultz
Rites Tomorrow for R C Garner
Funeral services for Rowert Garner, former Danville resident, will be held at 4:30 p m tomorrow at Enwood Funeral Home with interment in Rose Hill Cemetery. Born November 1 1888 in Nelson he lived in Nelson and Danville before moving to California thirty years ago. Survived by wife Opal Garner and two daughters Mrs Lawrence Rt Lillared and Mrs Joe P Bryant, all of Lynwood California.
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Nelson
Danville
California
Amis Chapel Baptist
State of Virginia Highway Department
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Opal Garner
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Joe P. Bryant
Lynwood
Bennie E Land Dies Yesterday in Burwood Md
Bennie Elmo Land 81 died yesterday at a veterans hospital in Washington DC. Born January 28 1893 in Danville Virginia he was a World War I veteran. Survived by son Charles E Land of Durwood three grandchildren and two sisters Mrs J A Pascucci and Mrs J P Worsham of Danville Va Funeral Friday in Durwood with burial at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Bennie Elmo Land
Veterans Hospital
Washington, D.C
Danville
James Franklin
Clara Ragland Land
Charles E. Land
Dyurwood
J. A. Pascucci
J. P. Worsham
Durwood
Arlington National Cemetery
Hinton Dies in Jackson Brother of Danville Residents
Clarence E Hinton 2 of Jackson died yesterday morning in Jackson He was son of the late William and Ladie Elizabeth Hinton and a First Baptist Church member He was married to Mary Nell Atwood and survived by his wife a daughter and brothers and sisters Claude Hinton Mrs Clara Jacks Mrs Pauline Reynolds Miss Rose Hinton all of Danville and Mrs Elizabeth Bradshaw of Roanoke Funeral services will be held in Jackson.
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Tenn
Clarence BE. Hinton
Danville
Wiliam
Ladie Elizabeth Hinton
First Baptist Church
Mary Nell Atwood
Claude Hinton
Clara Jacks
Pauline Reynolds
Rose Hinton
Cunningham Funeral Today for Infant Angela Marie Cunningham
Angela Marie Cunningham infant daughter of Charles Jameson and Barbara Sue Cunningham of Danville died yesterday in Memorial Hospital. Survived by one brother and grandparents. services at 3 p.m. today at Highland Burial Park conducted by Rev Adolf Oterson Jr. Body at Wrenn Yeatts Funeral Home before services.
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Charles Jameson
Barbara S Ue Cunningham
Danville
Memorial Hospital
Charles J. Cunningham
Gainsville
Fla
Es Turner
Mocksville
Highland
Highland, Burial Park By the Rev. Adolf Oterson Jr
Wrenn- Yeatts Funeral Home
First Woman Chaplain Commissioned in Air Force Reserve
In Fort Worth Jeanette Zachry age 24 was sworn in as the first woman chaplain in the Air Force Chaplaincy Reserve. She is commissioned as a second lieutenant and will become a captain when she goes on active duty after completing her seminary degree in July.
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Fort Worth
Pomponio Brothers Default On Arlington Land Contract
The Pomponio brothers, long troubled by legal troubles and convicted of mail fraud, reportedly defaulted on a $100000 down payment for a $1 million Arlington County property known as the Hessick tract in Roslyn. Settlement was set for July 5 after site plan approval, but the brothers failed to appear, prompting the county to note local tax implications and delays. The family once built a vast Arlington real estate network that helped transform Roslyn into a modern area of high rises.
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Pomponia Brothers
Arlington County
Pomponio Brothers Realty and Construction Co., Inc
Joseph
Hessick Tract
Roslyn
Bennie L. Fletcher
Pomponies
Wheley
Jerry K. Emerich
Louis Pomponio Sr
Arlington
Inmates Escape Unscheduled Holidays Across Southwest Virginia
Four inmates at Bland Correctional Farm and one more at Corburn unit fled briefly on Tuesday and another escaped Monday. Blanders J C Hatcher 20 of Mount Airy North Carolina and Thomas Stearns Borrer 23 of Radford led an eight hour hike before recapture. Others were William Allen Akers Speedwell and Douglas Wayne Alderman Wytheville. Larry Wayne Whitaker 18 Smyth County escaped Monday near Virginia 6 and was later caught near Dungannon.
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Virginia
Bland Correctional Farm
Bland
J. C. Hatcher
Mount Airy
N.C
Thomas Stearns
Borrer
Radford
Corburn
Norton
William Allen Akers
Speedwall
Douglas Wayne Alderman
Wytheville
Scott County
Larry Wayne Whitaker
Smyth County
Coeburn
Whitaker
Dungannon
Settlement Seen For Chadbourn Stockholders Case
Chadbourn Inc announces a settlement agreement in a stockholders class action filed in Knoxville on Oct 12 1972 involving Chadbourn and Standard Knitting Mills. Hearings set for Aug 28 in Knoxville to seek court approval and resolve related matters.
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Charlotte, N.C
Thomas N. Roboz
Chadbourn Inc
Charlotte
Robot
Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co
U. S
George H. Boldt
Knoxville
Tenn
Chadbourn
Standard Knitting Mills Inc
Permanent Damage To Corn Crop From Drought
Washington AP reports severe drought in the Midwest causing major and permanent damage to this year's corn crop. Congress heard agricultural economists warn of higher food prices, with 1974 harvest forecasts trimmed. The Agriculture Department also reduced grain predictions, noting hot, dry conditions and uneven precipitation across Illinois Iowa Nebraska Kansas and other states, while some areas show minor rainfall relief and soil moisture remains scarce.
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Midwest
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Gary Seeger
Council of Economic Advisory
Joint Economic Committee
Seever
Agriculture Department
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Nebraska
Kansas
Illinois
Michigan
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Ohio
State election laws challenged in U S court
Charlottesville attorney F Guthrie Gordon III filed in U S District Court on behalf of Frank J Kuhn Jr a retired Army officer who planned to run as an independent for the 8th District seat. The suit challenges Virginia signature requirements stating Kuhn failed to meet the 890 needed while only 77 were qualified.
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U.S
Richmond
Virginia
U. S
Kuhn
State Elections Board
Republican Senate hopeful urges focus on campaign issues
Republican candidate William Stevens called for dropping talk of political skullduggery and urged Morgan to debate publicly on television. He named real issues such as inflation government spending crime cigarette smuggling and health care and criticized Morgan for lack of stance on cigarette smuggling in 1969.
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Raleigh, N.C
Senate
William Stevens
Robert Morgan
Stevens
Morgan
Jim Holshouser
Politi
GOP
North Carolina Senate
North Carolina House
Wetmore Trial Starts With Mother's Words
In Rowan Superior Court Roger Wetmore, 17, is tried for first degree murder after allegedly stabbing his father Edwin Wetmore, 57, 43 times and decapitating him last February. His mother Dorothy Wetmore, 55, faces an accessory after the fact charge for helping move the body and admitting she may have suggested the decapitation. The testimony describes the son fighting “like karate” and the mother’s statement alleging she helped drag the body to a pickup and move it to Salisbury’s Kelsey Park.
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Dorothy Wetmore
State Bureau of Investigation
Jack Richardson
Mon
Hong Kong Exports To Be Limited On Wool Cotton
Washington reports Hong Kong will cap exports of all cotton and wool textiles to the United States at 835 million square yards under a three year agreement starting October 1. Signed July 25 in Hong Kong, the pact sets growth at 6.25 percent annually and targets specific textile groups.
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Hong Kong
United States
State Department
Japan
Taiwan
Kore
New Plan Sets Desegregation in Charlotte Schools
U S District Judge James B McMillan approved a new pupil assignment plan for Charlotte and Mecklenburg schools, signaling a potential end to five years of court control if followed. In a six page order he described the plan as a clean break from a reluctant past and credited a positive attitude and political changes with driving approval.
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McMillan
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