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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1973
Page
3
North Carolina State University finds little progress in extending life expectancy across all groups since 1950 despite medical gains and rising living standards. White males born in 1970 average 66.9 years, white females 76, non white males 58.9, and non white females 68.2, with modest declines noted for middle aged non white men.
Pilot Freight Carriers of Kearnersville announced W. Gerald Malone as terminal manager and Edward N. Beck as director of transportation. Peerless Inc. distributors Tom Hayworth and Jack Ling attended the annual Armstrong Cork convention in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Lane Company of Altavista Virginia declared a year end dividend of 14 cents per common share payable January 4 to shareholders of record December 24 and a quarterly dividend of 25 cents per preferred share payable April 2, 1974 to holders of record March 15.
A computer aboard a ship bridge can receive signals from orbiting satellites and compute the vessel’s position to within 300 feet, making the science spotter more accurate than a sex tant.
North Carolina faces winter storm warnings with gale coastal conditions. Snow ends this morning tapering to flurries. highs in the 20s to 30s, widespread clarifications for Tuesday with sun and cold. minimal additional snow chances and a forecast of continued cold with highs in the 30s inland to near 50 along the coast through Wednesday to Friday.
Several hundred Black protesters marched from Princeville to the Edgecombe County Courthouse in Tarboro to denounce death sentences for three Black men convicted of raping a white girl. Rainy weather, crowd control, and placards calling for freedom marked the march.
In Cleveland the federal government begins selecting a 23 member grand jury to probe the Kent State University gunfire that killed four students in May 1970. Assistant Attorney General J Stanley Pottinger says witnesses will be called. no indictments promised.
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