Gubernatorial Candidates Debate on Live TV in NC
Democratic candidates Edward O Herron Jim Hunt Andrew Barker Jr Thomas Strickland George Wood faced five way live TV debate in Raleigh NC. They highlighted broad agreement on attracting high wage industry and fair Utilities Commission leadership while Wood urged tax reform and opposed executions. Hunt blamed tax and food sales issues. Strickland warned revenues fall short. Barker and O Herron pledged no new tax increases. Republican candidates to hold their telecast Thursday night.
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Robert B. Cullen
Associated Press
Raleigh
Edward O'Herron
O'Herron
North Carolina
Richard Hatch
University of North Carolina Television Network
Jim Hunt
Hunt
Andrew Barker Jr
State Utilities Commission
George Wood
Camden County
General Assembly
Wood
Thomas
Strickland
Coy Privette
David Flaherty
Jacob Alexander
Residents Fear Drugs In Fairview Housing Project
In Charlotte's Fairview housing project residents report needles, drug use, and crime near homes. Seventy six year old Mrs B says she hides doors with a steel pipe and nails downstairs, fearing dealers who stash drugs around yards and roofs. Police monitor patrols as officials consider cutting apartments by 20 percent with HUD to curb crime.
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Charlotte
Scuffle Between Couple Triggers Fatal Greensboro Crash
Greensboro AP report: A man and wife scuffled in a pickup on North Carolina 1150 eight miles north of Greensboro. The vehicle overturned after the husband tried to steer left, pinning and fatally injuring Chestina Joyce, 65, of Route 2 Greensboro. Highway Patrolman L R Hall documented the incident.
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Greensboro
Gladys and Charles Neese One-Name Pair in Haw River
In Haw River, Gladys Teeter Neese, 70, and Charles Agnes Neese, 69, recount a fifty year marriage born from childhood friendship in Cone Mills retirement era. Both worked at Cone Mills, sharing a playful confusion over gendered names. They never named a child after themselves and have a granddaughter named Gladys.
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Saxapahaw
Neese
Gladys
Charles
Haw River
Cone Mills
Mrs. Neese
Charles Agnes Teeter
Agnes
Mecklenburg County
Cecil Gladys Neese
Neeses
Six Men Indicted For Fraud In Durham Area
A federal grand jury indicted six Durham men on charges tied to nearly 3 million dollars siphoned from savings and loan funds. Named are A. Biggs, C. Thomas Biggs, Thomas C. Upchurch, John S. Stewart, C. Paul Roberts, and Walter J. Dozier. Indictments cover conspiracy misapplication falsification and loan schemes from 1972 to 1975. The men face arraignment in Winston-Salem next Monday. Stewart is a former city councilman and the younger Biggs chalirman of the Durham United Fund.
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Charlotte
Durham
FBI
Edgar N. Best
Winston Salem
Waiter A. Biggs
Durham‘s
Home Savings and Loan Association
C. Thomas Biggs
Thomas C. Upchurch
John S. Stewart
Mutual Savings and Loan Association
C. Paul Roberts
Empire Properties Inc
Walter J. Dozier
Gregory Real Estate
Roberts
Home Savngs and Loan Association
Biggs
Durham United Fund
Stewart
Durham City
Teacher challenges Privette on school size figures
Winston-Salem AP report outlines a dispute over class size data in Privette's NC governor bid. Logemann, Atkins High School teacher and NC Educators director, contends Privette's 19 to 1 secondary ratio is false, citing about 30 to 1. He also defends tenure and due process under North Carolina law.
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Winston-Salem
Coy Privette
North Carolina
Privette
North Kannapolis
Ernest Logemann
Winston- Salem
Atkins High School
Logemann
The
North Carolina Association
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Fairview
Jack Sloop
Charlotte Housing Authority
Federal Housing and Urban Development
Chestina Joyce
Rt. 2
L. R. Hall
U.S. District Court
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Democrat
John Yeattes
Champaign Committee
Ridge Academy
Southern Association of College and Schools
NC State Dept. of Public Instruction
OAK Ridge Academy
Oak Ridge
Funeral Service Provide
High Point
Harald C. Davis
Harold C. Davis
Flavors North Main
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