Reader Help Desk Answers Questions On Crawfish Marbles Ceramics And Jury Duty
A column answering readers questions covers catching crawfish by fumigation or salt in holes and warns about chemical use. It notes marble sourcing via tile contractors, renews cancer information from American Cancer Society, explains jury duty pay depends on employer policy, and provides UNC ticket and ceramics class details at Astor Dowdy Towers with instructor and registration info.
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Thomasville
Alfred Elder
J. B. Mathies
Zoology Department
NCSU
Dr. Mathies
Red Swamp
Parks and Recreation Department
Astor Dowdy Towers
Julian Jones
Brenda Hoover
Parks and Recreation Dept
Candidates Miss Vote On Busing Across Parties
Senate failure to pass busing limits marked by absent Democratic presidential contenders. Jackson opposed the compromise while Humphrey Muskie and McGovern planned support, Hartke welcomed the result as candidates campaigned nationwide in New Hampshire Florida Minnesota and Illinois.
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Senate
Henry M. Jackson
Washington
Hubert H. Humphrey
Minnesota
Edmund S. Muskie
Maine
George McGovern
South Dakota
Vance Hartke
Indiana
McGovern
Manchester
Santa Fe
N.M
Jackson
Humphrey
Florida
Minneapolis
Hubert III
Minnesota State Senate
Yorty
Los Angeles
Sam Yorty
Nixon
New Hampshire
Lindsay
New York
John V. Lindsay
California
Watts
Sacramento
San Francisco
Muskie
Cook County
Chicago
Illinois
Nixon Hosts 9 Course Banquet In Peking Reception
Premier Chou En Lai pledged to work un swervingly for normal relations with the United States after a nine course banquet in Beijing. Nixon hailed the long process of removing the wall between the two nations and noted shared interests over differences.
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Associated Press
Peking
Chou En-lai
China
United States
Nixon
People
Chou
People’s Republic of China
Mao Tse-tung
Nixon Tours Forbidden City in Snow Ironic Jokes Slide By
President Nixon toured Peking's Forbidden City in heavy snow and joked with guide Yeh Chien-ying while recalling a past arm injury. He quipped about women in royal getters and introduced Buckley to reporters. Mrs Nixon praised Chinese hospitality as they viewed thrones, relics, and Han bronzes.
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Frank Cormier
Associated Press
Peking
Nixon
Forbidden City
China
Yeh
William F. Buckley Jr
William P. Rogers
B.C
Nixons
Wholesale Prices Rise in January as Phase 2 Pressure Persists
The Labor Department reports wholesale prices rose eight tenths of one percent in January matching December. Seasonally adjusted, the gain was four tenths of one percent. Food and farm products rose 1.3 percent in January after 3.2 percent in December, contributing to the still-pressured index.
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Washington
Labor Department
Senate Bars Court Busing Power in School Desegregation
The Senate approved 43 to 40 a Griffin proposal to strip federal courts of busing order powers in desegregation cases. The plan would also bar federal funds from pressuring districts to adopt desegregation busing and limit court-ordered requests by officials. Opponents call it a de facto repeal of Civil Rights Act provisions and say it won’t stop existing busing orders. The Mansfield Scott compromise was approved in three parts to restrict federal influence while preserving some court authority.
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Washington
Senate
Robert P. Griffin
R-Mich
Griffin
Ly Mild Mansfield-Scott
Mike Mansfield
Hugh Scott
Charlotte
N.C
Supreme Court
Five Million Paid For Lufthansa Jet Hijack Release
West Germany paid 5 million dollars in ransom to secure the release of the Lufthansa 40 jet and its 14 crew members from hijackers calling themselves Victims of Zionist Occupation. The payment was delivered near Beirut after the 9 a.m. deadline, aided by a Lufthansa security official and a courier described in detail by Transport Minister Georg Leber.
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Georg Leber
Lufthansa
Leber
Popular Front For the Liberation of Palestine
Popular Front
India
Aden
Arabian Peninsula
Joseph P. Kennedy III
Robert F. Kennedy
Cologne
Beirut
Lgt
Newsweek
Athens
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