Store owners gun guard at door legality concerns
Reader asks if a store owner may legally stand at the door with a gun during power outages. Expert says a gun on premises is legal if no threat is made, but such guarding is frightening and can deter customers. Also asks about city power outages, insurance coverage for appliance damage, and liquor license details for College Village Shopping Center.
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Dairy Bar
Boxing Day origins and Fleet car discount questions
The Q and A discuss Boxing Day as a charitable practice from medieval times and the tradition of alms boxes in ships. A reader asks why taxpayers can’t get big discounts on fleet cars from Pilot Life Insurance or Ford, and the answer notes discounts favor big buyers. a football question notes fans sometimes keep the ball if it goes into the stands.
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England
Pilot Life Insurance Company
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Ford Company
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Pilot Life
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Lynwood Smith Named Man Of Year In High Point
Lynwood Smith named Man of the Year for 1969 by The Enterprise staff. Smith, High Point highway commissioner for the Seventh Division since 1969, announced four major road projects for the area and has decades of service in business and civic affairs. Native of Maxton, resident since 1945, Smith is general counsel and executive vice president of Adams-Millis Corp and active in Democratic politics in Guilford County.
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Robert Marks Enterprise
T. Lynwood
Smith
High Point
High Portier
State Highway Commission
the Enterprise
P. Hunter Dalton Jr
Redevelopment Commission
James H.millis
High Point Memorial Hospital
Leo J. Heer
Manaittg
Southern’ Furniture Exposition
Dalton
Millis
Heer
Pointer
Capus Waynick
Home Loan Interest Up Increases Resist Mortgage Funds Supply
Washington AP reports George Romney announced an 8 percent cap on FHA and VA insured or guaranteed home loan rates, up from 7.5. He said market conditions forced the action to prevent further drying of mortgage funds. Rep. Wright and Rep. Patman criticized the move and urged Federal Reserve mortgage purchases. The change, effective soon, follows a year of another rate rise and higher discount points as lenders demand more.
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Wright
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George Romney
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Veterans Administration
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Patman
House Banking Committee
Federal Reserve
Federal Housing Administration and Veterans Administration
Nursing Homes Threaten To Refuse Welfare Patients
In Raleigh a state official warned that if nursing homes carry through on a pledge to reject welfare patients under the Medicaid program, other arrangements must be made for those patients. Ninety operators met in Greensboro to oppose the federal formula for reimbursements, threatening to evict current welfare patients unless costs allow profit. Ward said Commissioner Craig sought a different federal payment method but could not obtain one.
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Raleigh
Robert H. Ward
Clifton Craig
Greensboro
Ward
Craig
Wholesale Prices Rise Steeply Amid Inflation Debate
The article reports a sharp 5.5 percent rise in the 1989 Consumer Price Index as Living costs surge, tying it to tax reform revenue losses. It cites statements by George Shultz and President Nixon on budget cuts, wage price controls, and anti inflation strategy. AFL-CIO leader Meany calls for broad controls.
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Nixon
Labor Department
Wef
Goldfinger
Labor Federation
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Shuttz
Scott Views Soft Drink Tax and Prices
RALEIGH AP Governor Bob Scott said he would not oppose repealing the one cent tax on soft drinks if the industry cut prices as much as they rose when the tax was imposed. He noted other taxes and discussed his first year in office, education funding, road programs, and calls to reduce aged citizens taxes, with comments on national guard use amid racial disturbances.
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Raleigh
Bob Scott
Scott
General Assembly
National Guard
Sergeant Ordered To Trial
Sgt. David Mitchell faces court martial on charges of assault with intent to murder over alleged My Lai actions in Vietnam in March 1968. The case, to be decided by Maj. Gen. John K. Boles Jr., follows extensive investigations and will determine dates and spectators. Mitchell, 29, from Saint Francisville Iowa, maintains his innocence while serving as a company noncommissioned officer at Fort Hood Texas.
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S. Sgt
David Mitchell
My Lai
Vietnam
Mitchell
Deen
Pentagon
William L. Calley Jr
John K. Boles Jr
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St. Francisville
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St Battalion
Sth Infantry
1St Armored Division
Ft. Hood
My Lay
Son My Village
Quang Ngai Province
Republic of Vietnam
Silent French gunboats reach Haifa amid oil drill aid plan
Five French built gunboats sailed from Cherbourg to Haifa amid gale forces and a government embargo, docking as Israeli jet fighters saluted. They will support an Israeli American off shore oil drilling operation with Israeli crews aboard. French officials faced questions over delays and sales of the vessels.
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Haifa
France
Mediterranean
Oil Company
Melivei Mext Co
Cherbourg
Israel
Jerusalem
Mingic Abba ‘Eban
Francois Hure
Torrents Force Hundreds From Mountain Homes in Floods
Torrents of rain and snowmelt sent streams and rivers overbanks forcing hundreds of mountain residents from Virginia West Virginia Tennessee and Kentucky. Three deaths reported in Tennessee as National Guardsmen evacuated about 200 along the Cumberland River in Kentucky with widespread evacuations and road isolation in Lee County Virginia.
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Virginia
West Virginia
Tennessee
Kentucky
Lee
Wise
Cumberland River
Lee County
Pennington Gap
National
Civil Defense
Virginia Mountains
Clinch River
Clinchport
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