UNC Declines Duke Offer To Use Wallace Wade Stadium
UNC officials refused Duke Universitys offer to host the weekend football game at Wallace Wade Stadium in Durham due to water shortages in Chapel Hill and surrounding areas. UNC opens its season at Kenan Stadium against Miami of Ohio. Local water restrictions and conservation efforts eased Raleighs supply slightly, with Sanford inviting residents to conserve while offering car washing and laundry services with abundant water supplies.
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Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina
Duke University
Wallace Wade
Durham
UNC
Duke
North Carolina
Kenan
Miami
Ohio
Ferebee Taylor
Carrboro
Sanford
Sanford Chamber of Commerce
Raleigh
Upper
Neuse River
Cary
Garner
Apex
Final Causes To Be Ruled In Death
Charlotte AP Dr Hobart Wood Mecklenburg County medical examiner said Miller Melvin Jr 24 fell from a hotel ballroom on the 14th floor in what is a possible accident tests showed a high blood alcohol level 24 Miller had moved to Charlotte from Columbia DC a week before and no final ruling was made on the cause of death
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Charlotte
Hobart Wood
Mecklenburg County Medical Examiner
Melvin Miller Jr
Columbia
D.C
Wood
Miller
North Carolina
Jailed Man and Girlfriend Wed in Fayetteville Jail
Richard Paul 90 day jail inmate married Connie Hendrix in the jail chapel on Saturday. Chaplain Rev Claude Carter officiated. Paul, jailed for driving without a license, said the ceremony gives him something to look forward to after release on September 13. The couple, aged 16, began dating in sixth grade and planned the marriage for about a year. Paul plans a new life and a honeymoon that begins behind bars.
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Fayetteville
Richard Paul
Paul
Connie Hendrix
State Department of Corrections
Claude Carter
Florida
On the Line and Life's Like That Sayings
A compact column presents two aphorisms on respect and blessings. It asserts respect must be earned rather than inherited or borrowed and notes blessings arrive in disguise, with most people getting what they deserve without recognizing it.
SBA official suspended amid minority program probe
Raleigh AP report states SBA employee John T. Scruggs is suspended from awarding minority contracts as FBI investigates his ties to Lenoir Construction in Kinston North Carolina. The firm, tied to Fred C. Gardner and Reece B. Gardner, had 37 federal contracts worth about 3.6 million since 1971, the largest in the region.
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Raleigh
FBI
Small Business Administration
SBA
John T. Scruggs
Kinston, N.C
Lenoir Construction Co
Scruggs
Wiley Messick
Atlanta
Lenoir
Messick
Gardners
the Herald
John Skinner
Police Leader Resigns Over Destruction of Confiscated Guns
Worth S. Russell, 39, a Charlotte patrolman and fraternal order of police leader, resigned after admitting he failed to destroy confiscated guns under his watch. He says he did not break the law, noting the guns were kept for ballistics testing and that other discrepancies were investigated as records showed more than 20 guns marked destroyed were found in the property control vault. Russell remains FOP president until at least October while continuing work in the property control room.
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Charlotte
Fraternal Order of Police
FOP
Worth S. Russell
Department
Russell
Police Department
Queen joins Rudy Hinnant Insurance Agency as broker
John S. Queen known as Skip joins Rudy Hinnant Insurance Agency Inc. at 665 N. Main St as an agent and broker of all types of property casualty life and health coverages. He is a Logan West Virginia native and former Bray Oakley agent with past work at Massachusetts Mutual Life. He holds a Wake Forest University BBA and studied at the University of Miami and Inter-American University. He resides at 614 Gatewood Ave with wife Fran and son Nathan.
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Queen
Logan
W. Va
Bray & Oakley Insurance Agency
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co
Wake Forest University
University of Miami
Florida
Inter-American University
Fajardo
Puerto Rico
Gatewood Avenue
Fran
Nathan
Pentagon Eyes Funds for Binary Nerve Gas Weapon
Scientists fear the Pentagon seeks funds to develop a binary nerve gas weapon that would mix two relatively harmless chemicals in flight to form a highly toxic agent. experts warn such weapons could become politically acceptable, accelerating chemical arms proliferation and complicating Geneva disarmament talks.
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San Francisco
Pentagon
R.J. Rutman
University of Pennsylvania
American Chemical Society
Rutan
Defense Department
Chemical Society
Department
Congress
Army
Pinehurst Arsenal
Arkansas
Bertes
U.S
Geneva
Batman
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carson + MUSIC CO
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D Eyty
John S
Skip
Rudy Hinnant Insurance Agency Inc
N. Main Street
Louisville
Reliance Universal Inc
ASU
Boone
Appalachian State University
John A. Walker
North Wilkesboro
J. Howard Coble
Walker
Lowe's Companies Inc
Fort Worth
Tandy Corp
Radio Shack
Tandy
Uscar
Rocky Mount — Guardian Corp
John Queen
Baldwin Pianos
Baldwin
Eastern Music Festival
Morrow
Piano & Organ CO
W. Market St
N.C
G.R. Berdes
House Committee On International Relations
Rutman
Etiam
Rniture
Maine
Bill’s Seafood
Green Drive
Nderson’s
ReXal
Piedmont
Qual Housing Lender
North Main
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