City weighs water sourcing and school funding options
City council weighs sedating pelvete pens at Abbotts Creek or Brushy Fork Creek as emergency water sources amid drought fears. Estimates of site costs for a city water project loom large, while school funding remains unresolved as county officials meet with Thomasville and Lexington boards to discuss consolidation and new priorities.
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Abbotts Creek
Brushy Fork Creek
Schadt
Thomasville
Lexington
Ships Rescued From Hatteras Graveyard of the Atlantic
OCRACOKE residents recall multiple vessels saved from the Graveyard of the Atlantic including the British tramp steamer Glennen and the City of Jacksonville and the Charlie Mason. The Glennen, later floated, was valued at 125000 and was the area’s largest salvage before WW II era recoveries.
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Hatteras
Atlantic
Ocracoke
Rae
Rave
Rabun
Ocracoke Island
Glennen
Charlie Mason
Omar Babun
Glenaen
Arena
Wallace Springer
South Creek
Springers Point
S. S. Glennen
Norfolk
Brunswick
Taylor
Mambo Gains Rapidly Sweeps Global Dance Rooms
400 dance instructors in Sydney report mambo replacing the quick step and slow fox in city studios. Craig Christen notes the trend from a Miami Beach seminar as dancers from Manhattan to Mexico City join the global fad.
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Miami Beach
Manhattan
Mexico City
San Francisco
Sydney
Craig Christen
Australia
Visitor Arrested in River Oaks Police Building
A 21 year old man was arrested at River Oaks Police Headquarters after attempting to break through a barrier. He was charged with carrying an illegal weapon described as a hunting tie.
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River Oaks
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High Point
This
Stenbean
Yin Mixmaster
CNV Et Ag
S. Main ST
Hassel
Hoyle Sink
Min- Deerial Association
Pont Ae
Te Gon
Eli Ea
Eran
Whitby
New York
Thurston
Mrs. W. &. Chappell
Hazel’s
Fthadi
McGregor
DuPont
S. Main Street
Lindale Dairy
General Motors
Beeson Hardware CO
Fred Bryant
Doug Bryant
N. Main ST
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