Senate backs Mecklenburg liquor by the drink referendum
The North Carolina Senate approved a local bill to allow a liquor by the drink referendum in Mecklenburg County. The vote was 26 to 14 with minimal debate and an unsuccessful amendment attempt. If approved, voters will decide on alcohol sales and whether to maintain the brown bagging system alongside liquor by the drink.
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Jytes Coggins
D-Wake
J. C. Crawford
D - Bunker
Wake
Coggins
Boots
Raleigh
Mecklenburg County
Senate
House
Eddie Knox
D - Meckilenburg
Knox
Moore County
General Assembly
Tidewater Community College Opens Virginia Beach Campus
Tidewater Community College announced a temporary Virginia Beach campus to start fall term, with 500 freshmen planned. A temporary office will open Friday across Gate 3 at Camp Pendleton to receive applications while the permanent site is built.
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Virginia Beach
Camphus
Tidewater Community City
Hamel
Camp Pen 1
Gate 3
Camp Pendleton
Poswell
William
William, the Community College
Stoore
Caroline County
Grecenihe
Princess Anne
Waisia
Wesa
J. Henry McCoy
Moore
Bal & Fial
College Board
WellsEar
Wistar
Dr. McCoy
Bel Moore
Wesiven
Weyberg
Weverhs
Dana B. Hamel
State
di Weyhr
Hiten
General Assembly
Whittaker
Will Ross
Williams
Akia
Viseipw
Lve Clai
VLNI
Earl Woolw Pian
Wilshire Vet
Jae
Zale Corp
Doug
KININ
Lisieeh
the Associates Press
Pendaia
York
Jons Lieste
Associated Press
Virginia
DCC Plans Night Courses This Summer
Danville Community College announced 20 summer courses and earmarked 3.75 million dollars for the Virginia Beach campus. Tidewater board members cited over 150 applications from prospective students and more than 100 for faculty as plans move to refurbish barracks into classrooms an administration building bookstore and snack bar. final approval from Governor Holton arrived after near two years of effort to establish a temporary campus at Camp Pendleton Barracks.
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Virginia Beach
R. Bradshaw Pulley
Tidewaters Board
Pulley
McCoy
Tidewater Board
Camp Pendleton Barracks
McCay
Norfolk Plans Major Cruise Promotion for Port
Norfolk commits 200000 over three years to promote the port as a cruise destination in a venture with the Norfolk Port and Industrial Authority and Cunard Lines. The package could reach about 1 million with other sources, aiming to attract Cunard's 26 weekly cruises next year and two calls by Queen Elizabeth I.
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Norfolk
Norfolk Port and Industrial Authority
Richard D. O'Leary
Morfolk Port and Industrial Authority
Norfolk Community Promotion Department
Cunard Steamship Lines
James Oliver
Denzil Skinner
O'Leary
Cunnard
Cunard Lines
Cunard Adventurer
Port Authority
Cunard
O’leary
W P Horner Dies At 59 In Memorial Hospital
William Pollock Horner age 59 died in Memorial Hospital after years of declining health. Born in Danville he was a World War I veteran, former Dan River Mills employee, and Mount Vernon United Methodist Church member. Survived by brother J Hughes Horner of Spokane. Funeral 4 pm at Townes Memorial Chapel with Dr. Theodore Landis. burial in Green Hill Cemetery.
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William Pollock Horner
Memorial Hospital
Danville
Eula Horner
Mount Vernon United Methodist Church
Dan River Mills
J. Hughes Horner
Spokane
Washington
Townes Memorial Chapel
Theodore Landis
Green Hill Cemetery
North Carolina Methodists vote to appoint black superintendent
Delegates in Raleigh backed a resolution urging Bishop Cannon to appoint a black district superintendent no later than 1972 as part of broader steps toward racial integration within the 56 county North Carolina United Methodist Conference. The vote followed years of progress since the church admitted black ministers into leadership roles in 1967.
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North Carolina
United Methodists
Paul Bunn
Raleigh
W. A. Scawell
Elizabeth
North Carolinas
United Methodist Conference
William R. Cannon
Board of Social Concerns
Arthur Phillips
Carthage
Stove
Fayetteville
L. c
Wilmington
Camsession
Toleron Weser
Terry
Dur- Sanford
Durham
Leo Jentam
Windskins
Greenville
Seaborn
Blair
Wallace
Gene Forehand
Elizabeth City
John Meares
Adolph R. Dial
Pembroke
Bruce Har
Cannan
Alamance County
Pee Dee River
North Carolina Senate Rejects Student Newspaper Fee Bill
A Senate Higher Education Committee vote defeated a bill allowing university students to opt out of paying fees for student newspapers. Four supported, about a dozen opposed. A minority report was prepared with senators Burney Coggins and White signing to push the bill to the Senate floor.
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Haleigh
Senate
North Carolina
Jones
John Burney
New Hanover
Burney
Sen
Jules Coggins
D-Wake
Vernon White
D-Pitt
Richmonder Electrocuted and Rescuer Dies
Richmonder Harold Smoky Gordon was electrocuted Thursday night after grabbing high tension lines. An unidentified man who tried to rescue Gordon fell from a roof and died, police reported. The 7,600 volt wires caused the fatalities.
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Richmond, Va
Harold
Smoky” Gordon
Richmond
Gordon
Walker J. Greer
Greer
Gordon Greer
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Linwood Holton
Norfolk Port
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Sylvania Color TV
Bill Sowers
Kelvinator
isiLans
Kelvinator Gas and Electric
Sowers & Son Furniture
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Grier Garrick
Jacksonville
James T. Patrick
Garrick
Atlanta
Lake Junaluska
Paul Carruth
Rocky Mount
John Cline
Burlington
S. G. Gillespie
H. Langill Watson
Chapel Hill
William K. Quick
N.C. Senate
Bil
Julian Allsbrook
Halifax
Senate Higher Education Committee
O'Neil Jones
D-Anson
Richmonder
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