Tow charges and orchid care questions from a newspaper advice column
Insurance adjusters seek city code limits on tow bills and storage for wrecked cars. The columnist notes private towing firms set rates, urges preloss price checks, and describes police role in on‑scene selections. A reader asks about orchid care, repotting media, humidity, and brown spotting. the answer recommends humid, shaded culture and terrarium options.
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Police Department
How to Correct a Wages Tax Statement Error
The reader should approach the employer or business office to fix a mistaken tax statement. Consult the personnel officer or payroll department to request corrections and ensure proper documentation is updated.
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Requirements for Nurses Aide at High Point Memorial Hospital
The hospital seeks aides aged at least 18 with neat appearance and a high school education or equivalent, though 10th grade may be considered. Under RN supervision, aides provide direct patient care and should show responsibility, attention to detail, and enjoyment of helping people. Applications accepted at the personnel office.
Readers respond to Action Line requests
Dear Readers Action Line notes it reads every call letter and request but cannot acknowledge or answer all due to overwhelming volume.
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Action Line
Grenade Attack on Israeli Passengers in Munich
Terrorists assault Israeli airliner passengers at Munich Reim airport. One dead and 11 wounded including two attackers, the pilot, and a policeman. Assaph Dayan, son of Moshe Dayan, survived uninjured as a 24-year-old actor traveling to London. Authorities condemn Arab terrorism.
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Munich
Germany
Reim
Assaph Dayan
Moshe Dayan
Tel Aviv
Dayan
London
Conrad Ahlers
Bonn
Eal
Nixon proposes broad pollution control standards and funding
President Nixon sent Congress a comprehensive environmental plan to fight water and air pollution with tougher standards and enforcement, a national air quality framework, and authority to regulate navigable waters. The package seeks $4 billion in grants for municipal waste treatment, a $6 billion matching fund, an environmental financing authority, and user fees for industries. It also calls for emission standards, gasoline composition rules, land conservation funding, and a recycling and scrapping incentive program.
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Washington
Nixon
Congress
Federal Treasury
Land and Water Conservation Fund
Avalanche kills 42 in French Alps resort
An avalanche in Val d Isere France from one of the Alps worst blizzards swept 800 yards down Mt Solaise at 8 10 am burying a vacation center 50 to 100 yard wide path with cars. Forty two dead and over 50 injured including many youths from France Belgium and West Germany. Rescue continues in near zero visibility as winds reach 60 mph.
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Val D’isere
France
Geneva
Europe
Austria
Mt. Solaise
Jean-Claude Killy
Marielle
Christine Goit- Sschel
Union Des Centres de Plein Air
Senate Leaders Agree North Bad As South
Senate leaders say North segregation is as bad as the South but with no commitment to back Southern amendments to the federal education aid bill. Mansfield and Scott praise Ribicoff for calling out hypocrisy as they weigh a North versus South desegregation stance and freedom of choice proposals.
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Senate
North
South
Washington
Mike Mansfield
D-Mont
Hugh Scott
Pennsylvania
Abraham A. Ribicoff
D-Conn
Scott
Ribicoff
John Stennis
D-Miss
Stennis
Mansfield
Sam J. Ervin Jr
D-N.c
Draft Lottery Target Of Suit
Seven young Californians sued to block the December draft lottery and seek a new lottery plus a temporary restraining order on inductions under the old method. They claim physical mixing biased results against those with numbers 122 or below born September through December. Defendants include SSS director Lt. Gen. Hershey and California director Ogden. Judge Harris set arguments for Wednesday.
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San Francisco
U.S
Nixon
Stanford University
Charles Stein
Ingram Olkin
Bradley Efron
National Selective Service
Lewis B. Hershey
California
Carlos C. Ogden
George B. Harris
Swiss Bankers Aided U.S. Government Fraud Case
Federal prosecutors present evidence that two Swiss bankers aided a multimillion dollar fraud by supplying hundreds of false documents to a shadow company network. Americans Francis Rosenbaum Andrew Stone Evelyn Price Robert Bregman and firms Chromcraft Alsco faced sentencing. Swiss bankers named as co conspirators. The fraud involved channeling over 4 million dollars into secret Swiss accounts before exposure.
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Washington
U.S
Four Get Maximum Prison Sentences In Navy Fraud Case
Four Americans pleaded guilty to a multiyear Navy defense fraud and received maximum terms from Judge Oliver Gasch. Francis Rosenbaum and Andrew Stone led the scheme with nine counts each, two dummies and fake subcontractors. sentences run five years per count, with eight concurrent and one consecutive for a 10 year total. Eve lyn Price and Robert Bregman each drew five years after pleading guilty to one count of fraud and tax evasion.
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Washington
U.S
U.S. D'strict
Oliver Gasch
Navy
Francis N. Rosen
Evelyn Price
St. Louis
Stone
Robert B. Bregman
Bregman Electronics Inc
New York
Medical Mysteries Mark Flight
AP reports Apollo 12 astronauts faced unseen medical phenomena during 5 600 hours in space. Dr Charles Berry cites eye flashes from closed lids caused by solar or cosmic particles, lunar dust triggering congestion, facial swelling from fluid shifts, and skin bacteria increasing aboard.
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San Antonio
Tex
Charles Berry
Charles A. Conrad Jr
Richard F. Gordon Jr
Alan L. Bean
Berry
Earth
Conrad
Pacific
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Job Book
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National
Industrial Pollution Control Council
Alps
Union of Fresh Air Centers
Les Lessieres
Francis N. Rosenbaum
Andrew L. Stone
Bregman Electronics, Inc
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Chromcraft Corp
Alsco Inc
Akron
Ohio
Stone and Rosenbaum
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