CP&L Dispute With Housing Authorities Is Settled
The Carolina Power and Light Co and its public housing authority customers reach a settlement. CP&L allows full use of check meters while housing authorities agree not to resell power for profit. The change in rate schedules prompted protests from multiple authorities. CP&L withdraws the increase but keeps a rider to adjust tenant rates. Authorities may not sell electricity.
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Raleigh
Carolina Power & Light Co
Public Housing Authority
The
Utilities Commission
Cp&l
Asheville
Lumberton
Goldsboro
Wilmington
Eastern Carolina
Power Company
Marine's Murder Trial Opens in Wilmington NC
Federal court jurors hear opening in the murder trial of Sgt Edward Oram at Camp Lejeune charged with beating stabbing death of wife Barbara last May 30. Oram, 24, sobs during questioning as defense probes venire views on insanity plea and verdicts in homicide cases.
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Wilmington
N.C. U
Edward Oram
Camp Lejeune
Barbara
Oram
Kenilworth
N. J
Robert Farris
Wilson
Cameron Weeks
Tarboro
Midway Park
State Dock Tonnage Rises in November at Wilmington
Cargo movement at the North Carolina state docks through November reached 217,599 tons, up 50.4 percent from the prior year. Col. Richard S. Marr reports 18 ships served in November, the busiest month to date, with imports including Philippine mahogany guano and steel products and exports led by scrap wood pulp and dried milk.
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Wilmington
N.C
North Carolina State Docks
Richard S. Marr
State Ports Authority
Death Toll To Be Discussed At State Traffic Council Meet
The second annual meeting of the governor’s Traffic Safety Council convenes this afternoon in Raleigh with about 400 delegates expected. Speakers include Gov Hodges Motor Vehicles Commissioner Edward Scheidt National Safety Council representative George E Grotz Cornell crash injury chief John O Moore and Whitaker of Winston Salem Reynolds Tobacco chairman.
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Raleigh
Governor’s Traffic Safety Council
Gov. Hodges
Edward Scheidt
National Safety Council
George E. Grotz
John O. Moore
Cornell University
John C. Whitaker
Winston- Salem
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co
Plant Repairs Begin After Fire Hits Hazelwood Unit
Asheville executives map restart for Augusta Manufacturing Plant No 1 after blaze damaged Plant No 2. Disaster fund kickoff aims to raise 25000 for fire victims as 400 workers face layoffs while plans consider a larger No 2 facility and veneer sourcing for self sufficiency.
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Asheville
Firestricken Anagusta Manufacturing Co
Hazelwood
Waynesville-Hazlewood
Dime Board
Waynesville
Anagusta
R. L. Prevost Sr
Divorce Sues Filed by Mrs Virginia P Longden
Mrs Virginia P Longden of Los Angeles sues horse racing trainer Vance J Longden for divorce alleging cruelty. Vance J Longden is the son of famed jockey Johnny Longden.
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Los Angeles
Virginia P. Longden
Vance J. Longden
Longden
Johnny Longden
Honor Loss Ties North on a Bridge Hand
In a Jacoby on Bridge problem the question of an honor play costs North the hand. The auction runs North passes and South opens with a bid sequence culminating in 4 hearts. Opening lead is the jack of spades. North must decide whether to honor with a lead or to duck, while the final contract rests on the defense’s arrangement and the play of the trump suit.
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NBA
West
South
Soe
Declarer
Cover an honor with an honor in bridge defense
Oswald Jacoby explains a hand where West overuses the honor cover, allowing declarer to draw trumps and win. He argues West should avoid covering when it helps dummy or East and considers South holding many spades. The piece covers signaling, distribution, and tactical possibilities from the defender’s perspective.
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Declarer
West
South
Dummy
East
Mayview Manor sale funds Baptist institutions in North Carolina
The will of Thomas Hamilton Broyhill provides that one fifth of proceeds from selling Mayview Manor at Blowing Rock goes to his estate, two fifths to Wake Forest College, and two fifths to Baptist organizations including the Baptist Orphanage, Edgar Tufts Memorial Assn, Mars Hill College, and several churches. First Baptist Church of Lenoir receives three ninths. Proceeds support several Baptist entities with provisions on sale timing and widow and children sharing. The estate probate is filed in Caldwell County. a full inventory is pending.
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Lenoir
N. C
Mayview Main
Thomas Hamilton Broyhill
Marshall E. Cline
Blowing Rock
Wake Forest College
Mayview Manor
Broyhill
Charlotte Hospital
G. W. Sullivan
Caldwell County
Thomasville
Edgar Tufts
Mae Powell
R. Ted Broy
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Sunshine
D. & H. Gospel Book Store
East Commerce
Balke
Jacoby
North
Raqe &Kes
North East South West
By Oswald Jacoby
Detment
Belk-Beck CO
High Point
Baptists
Lester
Lester's Jewelers
New York
Hans Wagner
Woodrow Wilson
General Electric
Zett
N. Main ST
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