Dutch Immigrants Named N C Farm Family Of Year
The Boerema family, Dutch immigrants who arrived in 1949 with $100, were named North Carolina Farm Family of the Year by the Farmers Home Administration. Gerritt Boerema runs a modern Hyde County dairy, turning marshland into cropland, with four children and a new four bedroom home.
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Washington, N. C
United States
North Carolinas
Gerritt Boerema
Grassy Ridge
Hyde County
North Carolina
Atlantic
Boerema
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Farmers Home Administration
Washington
N. C
Boereme
Missouri
Minnesota
Boeremas
FHA
Boerma
James V. Smith
Washingdon
D. C
Smith
Pantego
Women Demand Equal Shake From Colleges Over Sex Bias
Bernice Sandler, leader of a national women’s rights group, files charges under presidential executive orders against colleges and universities for sex discrimination. She says 43 institutions have been targeted for hiring, promotion, tenure, and salary inequities, urging action to protect women in academia at all levels. Rep Martha Griffiths notes these protections are not covered by civil rights or fair labor laws.
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Washington
Federa
Women’s Equal Education Rights Group
Bernice Sandler
Silver Spring
Martha W. Griffiths
D-Mich
Barragan Named By Association
Frank Barragan president of North Carolina Natural Gas Corp. Fayetteville NC named second vice president of the Southern Gas Association. Also elected at the meeting Donald W. Weir executive VP of Arkansas Louisiana Gas Co. Shreveport LA as president. First vice president James B. Henderson Houston president of Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp.
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Houston, Tex
Frank Barragan
North Carolina Natural Gas Corp
Fayetteville
N. C
Southern Gas Association
Donald W. Weir
Arkansas-Louisiana Gas Co
Shreveport
James B. Henderson
Houston
Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp
Carolina
North Carona
Escapee Shootout After Jail Break at New Bern Roadblock
Four Craven County jail escapees fled an hour and a half after escape, prompting a deputy to fire a shot at one man named Lawrence Stepney, 28, as they ran toward woods near U.S. 70 East of New Bern. Hampton, Trask, and Galloway surrendered. Stepney was treated at a hospital. The group previously assaulted jailer Fred A. McRoy to steal keys. two others faced theft and grenade theft charges, with rearing legal proceedings ongoing.
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New Bern
N. C
Craven County
Lawrence Stepney
E. E. Rowe
U.S. 70
Rowe
McRoy
Hampton
Stepney
Western Union
Israel charges Soviet pilots aid Egypt air force
Israel claims Soviet pilots fly missions for Egypt’s air force west of the Suez combat zone. Three Israeli soldiers killed and 18 wounded in canal clashes, highest two day toll this year. Israel says Moscow denies any information. Egypt did not comment. Premier Meir seeks more U.S. warplanes.
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Jerusalem
Nile Delta
Egypt
Delta
Nile
Cairo
Port Said
Israel
Soviet Union
Golda Meir
United States
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Raleigh
Asheville
Highway Department
Blythe Bros
Charlotte
Cove Creek
Clyde
Blue Ridge Mountains
Haywood County
Wayne County
Snow Hill Road
Goldsboro
Barrus Construction Co
Kinston
Crowder Construction Co
Beaufort - Craven County
U.S
Edgecombe County
Howard Avenue
Tarboro
St. Andrews St
U. S. 64
Barnhill Contracting Co
Cumberland
Mrs. Boerema
Barragan
Charles Hampton
Leonard Trask
Ronald Galloway
Fred A. McRoy
Trask and
Galloway
Camp Lejeune
Moscow
la Et Aes
Sears and
SAVE
Walker
Sears
Wrenn High Point
Sears, Roebuck and CO
High Point
Herman E. Flynt
Guilford County
Greensboro Chamber of Commerce
Flynt
Parent-Teachers Association
Guilford
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