State Highway Cutback Possibility Raised in North Carolina
Raleigh Highway Administrator Billy Rose warned that NC highway programs may be cut back due to energy crisis related revenue declines. Possible actions include project delays, maintenance policy changes, staff layoffs, abandoning snow clearance, and revising the 850 million arterial road plan. Budget impacts could become clear by February or March.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Billy Rose
Rose
State Transportation Board
Death Row Appeal Faces NC Supreme Court Decision
North Carolina Supreme Court weighs Henry Jarrette’s appeal of a death sentence for raping a Charlotte woman and killing an 18 year old. The case could set precedent affecting 17 other inmates on death row after the January ruling mandating death for certain murders.
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Raleigh
N.C
North Carolina Supreme Court
Henry Jarrette
Monroe
Charlotte
Jarrette
North Carolina
State Supreme Court
Central Prison
Thomas Maddox
High Court
Maddox
Tar Heel Farmers Seek Fuel
The North Carolina Farm Bureau urged farmers receive high fuel priority at its 38th annual convention in Durham. Sen. Jesse Helms vowed to push for adequate farm fuel. Gov. Jim Holfhouser praised farmers as world’s great producers. A free lunch for public school children was approved while a workers’ compensation measure for farm workers failed 119 to 115. B. C. Mangrum won his 16th term as federation president.
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Jesse Helms
R-N.c
Jim Holfhouser
B. C. Mangrum
Durham
Alcoholic's Role Fits Actor's Life
Dick Van Dyke discusses his struggle with alcoholism in the ABC Movie of the Week The Morning After. He says he stopped drinking in August 1972 and that alcoholism is lifelong. The film portrays an executive whose drinking destroys his marriage and career with a final resolve to quit. He hopes youths see the issues.
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Los Angeles
Dick van Dyke
van Dyke
Carrier Fire Kills Six Men Aboard Kitty Hawk
The Navy reports six sailors killed and 38 injured in an engine room fire on the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk as it neared Subic Bay Philippines. Fire lasted about an hour. cause and damage remain undetermined. Ship, 2062 feet, carried 5500 crew and about 100 aircraft. will be repaired at Subic Bay.
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San Diego
Calif
Navy
Subic Bay Naval Station
Philippines
Subic Bay
Robert FE. Kirkset
FBI Faces Court and Senate Scrutiny Over Counterintelligence
The FBI moves to disclose details of a secret three year counterintelligence program against the New Left as Detroit 15 activists and Philadelphia demonstrators prepare civil suits. Lawyers seek access to memos dated May 10, 1968 and April 28, 1971. Senators Hart Nelson Jackson weigh congressional review. Damages potentially run into millions.
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Margaret Gentry
Associated Press
Washington
FBI
Senate
Detroit 15
Philadelphia
Philip A. Hart
D-Mich
Gaylord Nelson
Dwis
Henry M. Jackson
D-Wash
Federal District Court
John Shattuck
Porcupine Armed With 30000 Quills
A porcupine is described as carrying about 30 000 quills from above its eyes to the tail tip, each quill bearing 20 to 30 barbs. The detail emphasizes the animal’s defensive weaponry in its fur invested configuration.
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High Point Enterprise
Death Row
Jaycee
Charles Griffin
Union County Court
Supreme Court
North Carolina Farm Bureau
Jose
Lowe
Santa
Perel
Lowe’s
Skilshop
Ee Aes Ae Ue
Uae
Lowe's
High Point
Prospect ST
Rankamericard
New Left
American Civil Liberties Union
Gerald Lefcourt
New York
Justice Department
Lefcourt
High Paint
Grace Flower Shop
Daniel Fuji
Japan
Buck Bowen
Welcom
Shady Grove Baptist Church
Glenview Road
Glenola
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