Marketwide decline widens as investors hold for direction
The Dow Jones industrial average fell to 880.07 as trading remained active and U S markets showed more losers than gainers. The Associated Press 60-stock average slipped to 308.1 while rail stocks stayed mixed and utilities declined amid a broad drop in stock prices.
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NEW York
New York Stock Exchange
Associated Press
Chrysler
Litton Industries
Eastman Kodak
RCA
Tax Bill Restores Local Sales Tax Revenues
The North Carolina House quickly passed a measure to return 4.1 million dollars from the local option one cent sales tax to 25 counties and their municipalities. Debate questioned constitutionality. Senate action pending a minor amendment. The funds cover October through December collections relied on in local budgets.
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Raleigh
House
Senate
Jim Johnson
Cabarrus
Rep
Sneed High
D-Cumberland
Johnson
Cumberland
Herschel Harkins
D-Buncombe
High
State Supreme Court
NC education crisis urged $219 million restoration
North Carolina's state superintendent A. Craig Phillips told the Senate House Joint Appropriations Committee that public schools face the toughest period of time and urged restoring $219 million over two years. The request includes about $61 million to extend teachers' employment.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
A. Craig Phillips
Senate House Joint Appropriations Committee
North Carolina lawmakers push 30 percent teacher pay hike
Legislation in the House and Senate seeks 140 million over the next two years to raise teacher pay to the national average. Sen. David Flaherty and Rep. Jimmy Love sponsor the measure, while Gov. Scott and the Budget Commission favor a 60 million plan for a 10 percent raise.
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House
Senate
North Carolina
David Flaherty
R-Caldwell
Jimmy Love
D . Lee
Bob Scott
Advisory Budget Commission
Flaherty
North Carolina Association of Educators
Love
NC Senate offers three part liquor by the drink referendum
Sen Norman Joyner a Baptist minister in Iredell introduced a bill in Raleigh proposing a statewide three question referendum on liquor by the drink. The options would be state wide, only in areas with legal liquor stores, or local option elections in counties and towns with stores. Joyner said the mechanics mirror Rep Claude DeBruhl's prior proposal and that the public should decide. He noted substantial mail opposition to selling liquor by the drink.
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Raleigh
Senate
North Carolina
Norman H. Joyner
Airedell
Oyner
Claude DeBruhl
Dbuncombe
DeBruhl
Sen. Joyner
Joyner
Earth Tremors Hit Coast of North Carolina
A sequence of short earth tremors spread along the southeastern North Carolina coast in New Hanover County from Kure Beach to Wrightsville Beach. Residents reported multiple shocks, with one Carolina Beach woman counting at least a dozen. Weather service officials called them common dish and door rattlers and experts suggested a continental shelf shift in the Gulf Stream offshore as a probable cause.
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N.C
North Carolina
New Hanover County
Kure
Carolina Beaches
Wrightsville Beach
Carolina Beach
al Thomas
National Weather Service
Geology
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill
Gulf Stream
Police Capture Suspect in Dallas Deputies Slayings
In East Dallas police surrounded an apartment house and captured Rene Guzman, 33, an ex-convict, in connection with the murder of three sheriff's deputies. His brother Mosses Guzman, 35, is jailed without bond after being charged in the same case. Deputy Sheriff A. D. McCurley escaped gunfire during the shooting.
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Tex
B. L. Senkel
Rene Guzman
Trinity River Bottoms
Mosses Guzman
A. D. McCurley
Duke Power Offers 105 Million in New Stock
Duke Power Co. places 105 million dollars of common stock on the market to fund construction. An underwriting syndicate sold four million shares at 26.25 dollars each. The company plans to offer up to 100 million dollars of debt securities next month, mortgage bonds or unsecured debentures.
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State Board urges 19 million upgrade for public kindergarten
The State Board of Education recommends about 19 million dollars to expand the fledgling public kindergarten program. Dr. Ben Fountain, head of the state community college system, urged lawmakers to restore 96 million dollars cut from his program by the Advisory Budget Commission.
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State Board of Education
Ben Fountain
State Community College System
Advisory Budget Commission
Testimony of psychiatrist for Calley struck from record
The judge ordered Dr. Albert LaVerne’s testimony stricken in Lt. William Calley Jr.’s My Lai murder trial after deeming parts possibly false. LaVerne claimed Calley appeared robotic and lacked free will during the raid. The jurors were cautioned to disregard the testimony entirely.
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William Calley Jr
Reid Kennedy
Albert LaVerne
Calley
My Lai
LaVerne
George Latimer
Dr. LaVerne
Latimer
Salt Lake City
New York
Bellevue Hospital
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