Upside-Down Dollar Bills Excite Collectors in Philadelphia
A batch of misprinted $1 bills with serial numbers and seals upside down surfaced in the Philadelphia area. Officials say 400 to several thousand may exist, with values up to 125 dollars each. Normal production process cause cited. dealers prize the large find as a major error in years.
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Philadelphia
Sam
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Washington
Federal Reserve Bank
Treasury Department
U.S
Norman Pullen
Robbinsville
N.J
H.T. Krisak
Bureau
Washington Mint
Federal Reserve Banks
Atlanta
Chicago
Kansas City
Krisak
False alarm at Raleigh bank triggers large police response
A North Carolina National Bank branch in Raleigh faced a false alarm that led police to surround the building. A teller, Mrs Charlotte Jacobs, reported seeing a shotgun bearer at the door, mistaken for a robbery, while eight police units and shotguns responded after a silent alarm failed to reach staff.
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Raleigh
North Carolina National Bank
Charlotte Jacobs
Progress
Bank
Seven Literary Awards Given at North Carolina Society Meeting
At the 76th annual meeting of the North Carolina Literary and Historical Society during Culture Week seven literary prizes were announced. Reynolds Price of Durham won the Sir Walter Raleigh Award for fiction for The Surface of Earth, while his A Long and Happy Life earned the 1962 Sir Walter Raleigh Award. Eleanor Godfrey of Chapel Hill received the Mayflower Society Award for The Development of a Glass Making 1560 to 1860. Other honors included the North Carolina juvenile literature prize to Glen Rounds for Mr Yonder and the Lion Boar Capsules, the Roanoke-Chowan Cup for poetry to Fred Chappell for River, and the Christopher Crittenden Memorial Award to Joyce Jordan for service to North Carolina history. Roberta Sue Alexander of Nashville won the Connor Award for an article on Black education, and Steve Benjamin of East Carolina University took the undergraduate award for his paper on the North Carolina Seaboard Ban Controversy.
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The
American Assn. of University Women
Glen Rounds
Mr. Yonder
Fred Chappell
Greensboro
River
Joyce Jordan
Christopher Crittenden
North Carolina
Division of Archives and History
State Dept. of Cultural Resources
Roberta Sue Alexander
Nashville, Tenn
University of Dayton
Steve Benjamin
East Carolina University
Sunny Skies Over Piedmont Weekend Weather Report
Sunny skies should dominate Piedmont for most of the weekend with near zero precipitation Sunday. Saturday highs near 50, Sunday upper 40s to 50s, coastal areas partly cloudy and warmer today, with night lows in the 20s to 30s. Winds light and variable today, then west around 10 mph. Also: a note that over 70 percent of adults over 65 cannot drive, many unable to walk to the grocery.
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North Carolina
Autopsy release appeal following trooper killing
A Raleigh judge refused to release an autopsy report in the killing of Virginia state trooper Garland Fisher. The News and Observer seeks access. the report remains sealed pending appeal in the appropriate district court.
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Raleigh
Superior Court
Donald Smith
Virginia
The
News and Observer of
Smith
Carter Names Bert Lance as Budget Director in Transition
President-elect Carter announced Atlanta banker Bert Lance, 45, as director of the Office of Management and Budget at his Plains news conference. He said he will not seek standby authority for wage and price controls and urged steel producers to hold price hikes as unemployment rose to 8.1 percent in November while wholesale prices climbed six-tenths of 1 percent.
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Plains
Carter
Atlanta
Thomas Bertram
Bert’ Lance
Office of Management and Budget
Lance
Congress
Labor Dept
North Carolina State boss says arena won’t pay for itself
NC State Athletic Director Willis Casey told a Raleigh legislative study committee that the proposed sports arena would not be financially viable unless fully financed in advance. He warned there is no path to payoff if debt remains.
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Raleigh
Willis Casey
North Carolina State University
Casey
Elvis Pressley
Elvis Presley
Greensboro
William Cobey
University of North Carolina Athletic
Legislative Research Commission
Jake Froelich
High Point
Greensboro-High Point
Winston-Salem
Julian Allsbrop
Halifax
Allsbrook
Eye Lost When Rocket Explodes in Charlotte
A 13-year-old Charlotte boy, Finley Herman Jones III, lost his left eye when a home made rocket exploded during a test in northeast Charlotte. He is in satisfactory condition at a hospital.
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Charlotte
CB Directories Grow Across Philadelphia Area
Six CB radio directories are planned for the Philadelphia region led by a Bucks County book expected to list about 12 000 citizens. Farmers rely on base stations and mobile rigs to coordinate fuel seed and fertilizer deliveries and truck runs tying operations together. Comments are invited with mail to Volume Enterprise Box 1009 High Point North Carolina 27261.
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Philadelphia
Bucks County
U. S
Cbs
Enterprise
High Point
N.C
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State Court of Appeals
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Durham
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Sports Arena
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Childrens Church
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