Legislators Provide Biggest State Budget in History
RALEIGH AP The 1974 General Assembly passed a 3 billion dollar budget for the next fiscal year July 1. It funds state agencies schools and institutions with about 90 million in capital improvements and includes a 742 percent pay raise for teachers and state workers totaling over 105 million. It also reserves 15 million for ECU medical school expansion and directs UNC board requests to push ECU toward a two year expansion as soon as practicable.
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Raleigh
N.C
General Assembly
North Carolina
General Fund
Transportation Department
East Carolina University Medical School
University of North Carolina Board of Governors
ECU
Coast region housing, elections and crime policy debated
Impact housing experts pressed for a stronger program than the 1969 act as coastal land protections face heavy amendments. Gov Holfhouser to appoint three coastal commission members from 118 nominees while public financing reforms move through the House, amid Watergate concerns and a broadened crime bill including a death penalty reduction and a new first degree rape category.
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Coastal Resources Commission
Jim Holfhouser
Holfhauser
State Board of Elections
Wake County Prosecutor’s Office
High Point Enterprise subscription rates and office address
The High Point Enterprise details its office at 210 Church Avenue High Point NC 27261 and lists subscription rates by mail and by carrier. Rates include Tyr. & Mo 3 Mo 1 Mo Daily and Sunday 36.40, Sunday only 13.00, and weekly carrier options, with NC mail subject to 4% sales tax.
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High Point Enterprise
High Point Enterprise, Inc
Church Avenue
High Point
N.C
Associated Press
Tyr. & Mo
Wkly
Enterprise, Inc
Weard-Griffith Company
National Advertising Representatives
Nixon greeted at Easter service with decorated egg
President Nixon his wife Pat Tricia Cox and C G Rebozo attended Easter services at a community church near the Florida White House. The Rev J A Geschwind wished them a happy Easter and the First Family received applause as they left. A 10 year old girl presented the President with a decorated purple egg.
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Martha Hutcheson
Mississippi Floods Kill Seven and Displace Thousands
Western to eastern Mississippi floods from Friday through Sunday killed seven people and left thousands homeless across a 150 mile area. Torrential rains flooded roads and bridges, with the Bowie River predicted to reach a record 32 feet. National Guard assisted evacuations in Columbia and Hattiesburg. about 3,000 expected to be evacuated. At least 500 housed in Red Cross and Salvation Army centers in Hattiesburg.
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Hattiesburg
Miss
Mississippi
Mississippi River
Alabama
Jackson
National Guard
Columbia
Forrest County Civil Defense
Harold Hill
Bowie
Greene County
McLain
Red Cross
Salvation Army
Retired Radio Man Deming Dies at 72 in Kingsport
Charles Preston Deming, long time WKPT radio host in Kingsport, Tennessee, died Sunday at age 72 after a long illness. He began in broadcasting from loud boarding calls and had earlier worked as a Greyhound bus dispatcher. A native of Wallingford, Connecticut, Deming also spent years in Connecticut theater before moving to Asheville, North Carolina for dispatch work.
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Kingsport
Tenn
Greyhound
Charles Preston Deming
WKPT
Deming
Wallingford
Conn
Connecticut
Asheville
N.C
Attack Leaves 2 Hurt in San Francisco Shootings
Two teenaged boys were shot and critically wounded Sunday night in San Francisco as police investigate a series of apparently terrorist shootings. A gunman in a car fired at a pedestrian at Fourth and Howard streets, missing him, while authorities link the attacks to a Zebra killings pattern with black suspects and white victims across the city.
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Bill Petrie
Fourth
Howard Streets
Hayes
Fillmore
Mission Emergency Hospital
Petrie
Salvation Army
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