Big Push Looms For North Carolina Congress Races
In the Raleigh area labor day signals kickoff for NC congressional campaigns. Incumbents lead in most districts while the 8th and 10th races show potential upsets. Key themes include economics and school integration with right wing candidates Leggett and Bullock in eastern and 6th districts.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Gene Leggett
New Bern
Linwood Bullock
Greensboro
UNC boards set to review campus disruptions policy
UNC trustees' executive committee plans to consider revisions to the campus disruptions policy, including shifting discipline of faculty to normal faculty courts, and to discuss personnel matters and budget requests for 1971 73. Special committees have studied the proposals since July.
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Raleigh
University of North Carolina Board of Trustees
UNC
William C. Friday
Board of Inquiry
Hearings
Sumter Still Leads WCL As Rain Halts Anderson Game
Sumter maintains pole position in the Western Carolinas League despite a rainout at Anderson. Greenville’s Lefthander Mike Neal earned his sixth win by blanking Spartanburg in seven innings as the Red Sox won 7-3. Gastonia beat Greenwood 2-1 while Spartanburg defeated Sumter 40.
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Associated Press
Sumter
Anderson
Greenville
Mike Neal
Red Sox
Spartanburg Philies
Neal
Gastonia
Greenwood
Spartanburg
Eclipse of Moon Due Aug 16 17
Morehead Planetarium in Chapel Hill reports a partial lunar eclipse on August 16 17 visible across the United States except the northwest. The eclipse begins at 9 06 p m with penumbral dimming and reaches maximum at 11 23 p m with 41 percent of the moon in umbra, ending at 1 40 a m on August 17 1970.
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Morehead Planetarium
Chapel Hill
United States
Umbra
Best Helps CL Pitcher Dominates in Rocky Mount Win
Dan Bootcheck pitched a seven hit shutout for Rocky Mount to edge Burlington in the Carolina League. Gene Spatz scored on Smokey Robinsons single after a walk and steal in the first. Raleigh Durham topped Salem 3-2 with Ben Farrell driving in the go ahead run in the seventh. Rain postponed Peninsula at Lynchburg and Kinston at Winston-Salem with several games next on the schedule.
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Alabama
George Wallace
Walter B. Jones
Farmville
R. Frank Everett
Hamilton
Leggett
Jones
L. H. Fountain
David N. Henderson
Wallace
Herbert H. Howell
Montgomery
Rocky Mount
Dan Bootcheck
Gene Spatz
Smokey Robinsons
Raleigh Durham
Salem Rebels
Durham
Ben Farrell
Mike McFarland
Salem
Peninsula
Lynchburg
Kinston
Burlington
Rocky 1
Kinston A
Mountains Floods Prompt Wide Road Closures and Reservoir Upsurge
Heavy rains closed secondary roads across Caldwell Wilkes Yadkin and Surry counties with mud and rock slides reported. James Mason of the US Corps of Engineers noted 10 inches of rain in 48 hours ending today near W Kerr Scott Reservoir which may have averted major flood damage. Flooding in North Wilkesboro closed Wilkesboro Avenue and Reddies River high water forced some businesses to move stock. A golf course nearly flooded and Caldwell County deputies reported stranded motorists.
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SHC
James Mason
US Corps of Engineers
W. Kerr Scott Reservoir
Yadkin River
North
Wilkesboro
Wilkesboro Avenue
Reddies
Caldwell County
Four-vehicle crash near Old Fort claims Richmond man
A four-vehicle collision on U.S. 70 three miles west of Old Fort McDowell County killed Elias D. Poe of Richmond Indiana. Reports say three cars were stopped when a tractor trailer struck the last car, crushing Poe between the second and third vehicles.
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Canmel
Elias D. Poe
Richmond
Ind
McDowell County
Old Fort
U.S. 70
Poe
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