Heating tips from Carolina Oil Fuel Institute cut fuel use
The Carolina Oil Fuel Institute urges homeowners to follow 11 cost-saving heating tips as winter begins. Suggestions include thermostat setbacks, closing unused rooms, insulating attics, sealing drafts, and maintaining systems to improve heat distribution and reduce fuel waste.
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Piedmont
Carolina Oil Fuel Institute
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Woman with lupus home for Christmas after years of fight
Stephanie Smith, 22, who has battled lupus erythematosus since age 15, returns to Manhattan for Christmas with her parents as hundreds of letters and goodwill from strangers lift her spirits by sharing hope and support from around the world. Her doctors say the disease is now controllable with proper medicines.
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New York
Stephanie Smith
Rockefeller Uni
Miss Smith
Associated Press
Bob Hacker
West Germany
Army
Bation
Stephanie
Dolores Touzet
New Orleans
Illinois
Arthur Slawski
Baltimore
Manhattan
Antonia
Chinery
Paul Wallace
Montgomery
Randolph
Thomas Bennett
Carteret
Paul Roberson
Martin
Transylvania County
Ralph Ramsey Jr
Roberson
Halifax
Washington
Tyrrell
Dare
Beaufort
Hyde
Bennett
Craven
Pamlico
Realignment Plan Changes Rejected in North Carolina
A Raleigh special study committee rejected pleas for reapportionment changes for the North Carolina House. The panel endorses a plan creating 49 districts for 120 seats, shifting representation toward the Piedmont and signaling possible election law tweaks.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
House of Representatives
Pat Taylor
Ageee
Taylor
House
Senate
Piedmont
Mother and Sons Die in Lowell Tenement Fire
A mother Augusta Douglas aged 23 and her three sons Quentin 2 Derek 4 and Andre 6 perished in a general alarm blaze that engulfed two Lowell tenement houses Monday night. Firemen rescued 50 to 60 evacuees and several others were led to safety as crews fought treacherous conditions.
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Lowell
Mass
Augusta Douglas
Quentin
Derek
Andre
Shelby
N.C
Walter J. Kane
Woman Struck as Elevator Door Catches Leg in Philadelphia
In Philadelphia an elderly woman, Ida Herman aged 66, had her leg caught in an automatic elevator door as she entered it. She was carried up 12 floors while screaming in pain. Firemen freed her and she was taken to Graduate Hospital where her condition was later listed as satisfactory. Her husband Morris Herman, 72, was outside when the door closed and followed the screams up stairs.
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Philadelphia
Ida Herman
Graduate Hospital
Morris Herman
Central Medical Building
Rocks of which mountains composed of silicon and aluminum compounds
The rocks of which mountains are made up of silicon and aluminum compounds.
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Silicon
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