Community questions on sanitation and local wildlife
Residents ask who cleans back properties with snakes and rats near Edgeworth and Lawndale avenues. Officials note Edgeworth cleared and urge Public Works contact for law violations while Clyde Weeks enforces sanitation. Nearby zoos house deer, bears, a monkey and its baby, plus a cougar, bobcat and dingo at designated centers.
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Edgeworth
English Street Baptist Church
Anon
Lawndale Avenue
Clyde Weeks
Lawndale Caller
Guiltord Battleground
Greensboro
Natural Science Center
Greensboro Country Park
D. C. Thompson
Circle M Ranch
Stuart
Channel 8 lacks Little Rascals rights for now
WGHP TV states it owned the broadcast rights to the Little Rascals for years and aired them on Limbo's Cartoon Circus. After completing the contract terms, they currently do not have access to the series for future airings.
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Channel 8
H. A
Wghp-Tv
Medical Advancements and Their Practical Uses
The note requests printing recent medical advances for study covering medical, physical and mechanical progress. It suggests resources like The Readers Guide to Periodical Literature at the library and expresses a humorous pushback about heavy assignments.
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P.S
Contact path for Harlem Globetrotters
The Harlem Globetrotters are reachable via Jim Crockett who schedules their appearances at the Charlotte Coliseum.
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Harlem Globetrotters
Jim Crockett
Charlotte Coliseum
Prom venue choice sparks student voice at Central High
Readers discuss why Central High prom moved from the gym to the Top of the Mart location. Parents question costs and accessibility while students claim a representative vote guided the decision to a larger venue, prioritizing fun and crowd size. An unrelated note about catalpa trees follows a local reader query.
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Central High School
A.B.C. A
Shaver
Halls of Learning
Senate Panel Passes Two Year Deferment Extension
The Senate Armed Services Committee rejected one and four year deferment options while approving a two year extension. It also backed a larger pay raise package, voting to increase the administration request from 987 million to about 1.7 billion dollars in immediate effect for Pentagon raised pay in upcoming years.
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House
Senate
Stuart Symington
D-Mo
Harold E. Hughes
D- Iown
Richard
Schwelker
R-Pa
John C. Stennis
D-Miss
Saxbe
Ohio
Pentagon
Banks Lift Prime Rate After Fed Fallout
The article reports a broad move by major banks to raise the prime rate to 5 percent from 4.75 amid post crisis pressure. Bank executives including Connally criticize prior communications while others like Chase Manhattan and Bank of New York follow the hike.
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Ee Banka
Con
New York
Connally
Chase Manhattan
First National City
Bank of New York and
Manufacturers Hanover of
National Bank of Detroit
Cleveland Trust
First Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
First National
Northern Trust of
Chicago
David E
Brumley
Push Your Clock Ahead On Sunday
The Associated Press notes the nation prepares for Daylight Saving Time this Sunday as clocks move ahead one hour in 46 states. Hawaii Michigan and several Indiana counties Arizona and the Navajo Hopi reservations vary by exemption and local law. Georgia Rep Dorsey Matthews opposes DST calling it un Godly and for airlines and golfers.
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Associated Press
Michigan
Hawaii
Arizona
Indiana
Georgia
Dorsey Matthews
Moultrie
Big Spring Mart Opens Southern Furniture Market in High Point
The Southern Furniture Exposition Buildings host a spring market expected to draw thousands of buyers from across the United States. Leo Heer and Paul Fine forecast strong attendance and improved confidence among manufacturers and retailers in High Point and nearby cities. Early shipments to the Southern Exposition Building are ahead, signaling robust business this season.
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High Point
Piedmont
North Carolina
Leo Heer
Heer
United States
Paul Fine
High Point National Furniture Mart
Fine
Thomasville
Lexington
Cox
Orbiting Russians Plan Linkup
MOSCOW three So viet cosmonauts edged Soyuz 10 toward the unmanned Salute satellite in parallel orbit and aimed for a rendezvous. If docking occurs it would advance the plan for an orbiting space laboratory and mark a major Soviet space milestone. Sir Bernard Lovell of Jodrell Bank predicted a transfer attempt to Salute, debating space walk or docking.
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Moscow
Orbiting Space Laboratory
Jodrell Bank
England
Bernard Lovell
Russia
Lovell
Agnew's political future in doubt after China policy rift
Vice President Spiro T. Agnew faces uncertainty over his stance on President Nixon's outreach to China. White House confidence clashes with reports that Agnew questioned the shift, while Secretary Rogers and Sen. Dole urge context, noting no clear rift amid talks on a table tennis team visit.
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Washington
Spiro T. Agnew
Nixon
China
White House
Agnew
Adees New
United States
William P. Rogers
Robert J. Dole
Kansas
Dole
Philadelphia
Springfield
Williamsburg
Agnew’s
Veterans protest at Capitol over Vietnam War
Several hundred Vietnam Veterans Against the War gathered on the U S Capitol steps amid a four day Washington campaign. Phillip Lavoie of North Adams Mass and other veterans, some wounded, joined a candlelight march to the White House after a tumultuous legal battle over a sleeping ban.
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Washington
U.S
Phillip Lavoie
North
Kion
Mass
Lavoie
Vietnam
U.S. District Court
SS i
Ofin
Asst
L. Patrick Gray II
Hart
Gray
Nate Snes
Justice Department
Supreme Court
Pennsylvania Avenue
White House
Democrats Favor Withdrawal Date in Nixon Address Response
Democratic National Committee chair Lawrence F. O Brien summarized six Senate contenders support for a firm withdrawal date and negotiated end to Vietnam war. Sen Henry M Jackson opposed a legislated deadline urging full diplomacy and public accounting of the war. Respondents included Humphrey Bayh McGovern Hughes and Muskie.
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Washington
Democratic Party
Nixon
U.S
Lawrence
F. O'Brien
Henry M. Jackson
Congress
Jackson
ABC
Vietnam
Hubert H. Humphrey
Minnesota
Birch Bayh
Indiana
George McGovern
South Dakota
Harold E. Hughes
Iowa
Edmund
Muskie
Maine
Humphrey
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Catalpa
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House Armed Services Committee
Eben
Capitol
Big Spring Mart
Hickory, Lenoir and
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