Ambulance Talk Sought By County
Guilford County officials plan negotiations with Ambulance Service of Guilford to keep ambulances operating while seeking improved service. A Friday meeting with county leaders, mayors, and attorneys aims to discuss past due accounts and the firm’s request for the county to buy them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim Hawkins
Greensboro
Guilford County
Ambulance Service of Guilford, Inc
Vulegl Otticer
Percy Sears
Roddy A. Brandes
Charlotte
Commission
Dale Montgomery
Montgomery
Brandes
Guilford
Ambulance Service of
Grandes
Weather forecast of cool, overcast weekend and coastal warnings
Cool, overcast weekend with below normal temperatures and variable clouds. Highs in upper 70s to low 80s today and Sunday, slight 2 percent rain chance, Monday partly cloudy. Coastal small craft advisories in effect for NE winds 15 to 25 knots with showers and thunderstorms.
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North
South Carolina
Blaze Destroys Vacant Courtesy Road Warehouse
A vacant one story frame warehouse on Courtesy Road owned by National Food Stores burned Friday at 2 30 p m. The cause is undetermined. The building stored old business records and was of little value. Fire crews fought the flames for about 40 minutes and remained two hours at the scene as the blaze, visible city wide, completely involved the structure.
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Courtesy Road
National Food Stores
Hard-Boiled Delays in Kentucky Road Oddities
In Hard-Boiled style a Ky traveler finds odd place names near Eighty Bird’s Nest and Paradise while a wheat harvest slows on KY 90. Clyneth Shusky from Stafford removes a round radiator blockage caused by a bird’s nest protecting a peculiar find of 1,500 calories from hard boiled eggs and a comparison to a pound of steak.
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Nsfort
Kentucky
Oddville
Fearsville
Paradise
Sweden
Stafford
Kan
Clyneth Shusky
Staffords
Asheboro Pageant Finals Set With Nine Contestants
Asheboro prepares for the Queen of Randolph Pageant finals tonight at 8 in Asheboro High School auditorium. Miss Pat Yates and Miss Debralyn Perkins lead after round wins with Yates winning swimsuit and Perkins the talent segment performing Old Black Magic. Nine contestants compete for the crown, including Beverly Jean Wilson, Donna Kay Cook, and Mary Jane Hollingsworth, among others. judges include Miss North Carolina 1961 Walter Cotton and DJ Charlie Gaddy as emcee.
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Asheboro
North Carolina
Sally Stedman
Asheboro High School
Judy Klipfel Spivey
Walter Cotton
Randleman
Mary Jane Hollingsworth
Sandra Armstrong
Terry Hudson
Betty Louise Allen
Seagrove
Is It A Spacecraft Naw A Breadcraft
In the Piedmont triangle sky last night a glittering craft with red and green lights and revolving white bands drew long looks from High Pointers. Many believed it was a flying saucer until FAA at Friendship Airport confirmed it was just an airplane with Holsum Bread gimmick.
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Piedmont Triangle
Madison Avenue
FAA
Friendship
Airper
Armed Man Foils Burglary Attempt on Loflin Street
A resident on Loflin Street held an intruder at gunpoint with a 12 gauge shotgun at 2 30 a m until police arrived. The intruder James Wilson McManus faces first degree burglary charges and is jailed without bond. Police report he entered through a window. A municipal court hearing is scheduled. Also noted are two traffic injuries at city intersections and a burglary probe at Byrum s Cleaners on English Road.
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Loflin Street
James Wilson McManus
Rufus Wall
Wall
McManus
Ruth Hilton
Thomasville
Ruth Snyder
Agnes Rowe
Snyder
Byrum’s Cleaners
English Road
Winston-Salem
Howard Miller
Miller
Strip city forecast by 2000 by Bowling Green sociologist
Bowling Green Ohio AP reports sociologist Dr H Theodore Groat of Bowling Green State University predicts by 2000 the East Coast and Great Lakes southern shore and West Coast will be sprawling strip cities. He says population trends show five of every Americans will live in these urban chains by 2000 only three years away.
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Bowling Green, Ohio
Great Lakes
H. Theodore Groat
Bowling Green State University
Two Charged In Break In In Thomasville Case
Two men face charges of breaking and entering larceny and receiving after police say 251 cartons of cigarettes and $3.12 were stolen from Slate Oil Co on Salem Street early today. Suspects are Johnny Marshall Holcombs 26 of Rt. 2 and Bobby Franklin Childress 24 of Rt. 3 Thomasville.
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Thomasville
Slate Oil Co
Salem Street
Johnny Marshall Holcombs
Rt. 2
Bobby Franklin Childress
Rt. 3
Coronation site of English rulers at Westminster Abbey
All English rulers from William the Conqueror to present, except Edward V and Edward VIII, were crowned in Westminster Abbey according to the record.
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William the Conqueror
Edward V
Edward VIII
Westminister Abbey
Friends Urge Family Values at North Carolina Quaker Meeting
North Carolina Quakers closed their yearly meeting in Greensboro adopting a minute of advice stressing home life and marriage sanctity. They urged monthly meetings to strengthen family life amid decay, foster love for children, and work to ease world problems like war hunger and oppression. A Vietnam War statement from the World Conference of Friends was also adopted.
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Greensboro
North Carolina
Friends
Lorton Heusel
World Conference of Friends
Duke Power denies plant license charges as mislead
Duke Power Company called the accusation by 11 North Carolina towns “completely untrue” and said it filed under existing Atomic Energy Act provisions to seek a construction permit and operating license for the Oconee Nuclear Station. The company argued the towns seek favorable treatment and warned delays would harm over 3,000,000 residents in the Piedmont Carolinas.
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Duke Power Company
North Carolina
Duke Power
Atomic Energy Commission
Oconee
AEC
Power
Duke
W. B. McGuire
United States
McGuire
Duke’s
Piedmont Carolinas
Federal Power Commission
Duke Powerte
North Carolina Utilities Commission
Public Service Commission of
South Carolina
Carolinas
Bond Plans Likely For Greensboro Governmental Center Vote
Guilford County and Greensboro may decide in the week of Aug 21 to pursue a November bond election to finance a new governmental center. Architect Eduardo Catalano returns with cost estimates and space plans for a four story courts building, law enforcement wing, and administration block near the current courthouse.
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Greensboro
Guilford County
Eduardo Catalano
Catalano
Massachusetts
Courthhouse
Lindsay Cox
Cox
City of Greensboro
Guilford
Greensboro Police
Register of Deeds
Man Discovers Wife At His Own Wedding Near Giza
A villager at a wedding near Giza cried stop when he learned the bride was his wife. Police said the wife had left her husband for months without divorce. The attempted second marriage was ruled false and she faces bigamy charges.
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Giza
Egypt
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