Greensboro man offers to swap with POW in North Vietnam
Haber dasher Ralph Johns reports strong public response to his plan to surrender to North Vietnam in exchange for an American POW. He says 30 to 50 sympathetic calls and several volunteers, with Johns noting his age and desire to help a young prisoner. He consulted a State Department official who said entry is almost nil but not impossible.
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Greensboro
Ralph Johns
Johns
State Department
Washington
Ho Chi Min
North
Viet Nam
Bomb Scare Forces Jet To Land
A Northeast Airlines Boeing 727 en route from Miami to New York made an emergency landing in Wilmington after a woman passenger claimed a bomb was aboard. FBI agents and local police searched the plane for about three hours. no device was found and the flight resumed at 5:35 p.m. The 95 passengers and six crew members continued after the all clear. The woman, identified as Mrs. D. Sylvester of New York City, reported the bomb over Ft Lauderdale.
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Wilmington
N.C
Northeast Airlines
Miami
New York
FBI
Northeast
D. Sylvester
New York City
Ft. Lauderdale
Fla
Medical Records Ordered Released in NARCOTICS Probe
Alamance Superior Court judge ordered surrender of UNC Chapel Hill medical records to District Solicitor T D Cooper Jr for narcotics investigation. The records involve three students and the treatment of a patient at the university infirmary. Barry Winston appealed to the State Supreme Court.
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University Infirmary
Cooper
Aay
John William Baluss
Joseph Dewalt
Chapel Hill
Baluss
Marshall Haye
Richard Lee Anthony
Haye
Anthony
Dewalt
Winston
Latham
Bombing Victims Offered Help by City Committee
The Mayor's Community Relations Committee offered to cover uninsured property damage from Wednesday's bombing of the James Ervin household on the Charlotte outskirts. Dr. Warner Hall said the attack targets the whole community and mirrors the 1965 bombings of four Negro homes in Charlotte. No injuries or arrests were reported in either incident.
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Charlotte
Mecklenburg County
Warner Hall
Hall
James Ervin
Ervin
Hospitals Win Quick Medicare Certification Lead in South
Dr. Jacob Kooman Jr. announced that 162 of North Carolina's 172 general hospitals have applied for federal Medicare certification and 147 have been approved, placing the state first in the South Atlantic region. South Carolina follows with 80 percent. Mississippi trails at about 25 percent.
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Charlotte
North Carolina
Jacob Kooman Jr
State Health Department
South Atlantic
Gram
Kooman
American College of Physicians
North Carolina Society of Internal Medicine
South Carolina
Mississippi
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