Busy Week for New Governor Sanford
The new North Carolina governor Sanford keeps a packed schedule. He plans flights to Chicago for a Mahogany Association address, orders meetings with the State Board of Conservation and Development, the UNC Board of Trustees, and the State Board of Water Resources, and swears in Hargrove Bowles Jr. at noon. He will spend evenings hosting officials at the Executive Mansion and attend dedications in Greensboro and Durham.
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Saunders
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Methodist College Board of Trustees
W. F. Fancourt Co
Durham
Sanford Takes Honorary Chair in Conservation Board Session
Gov. Terry Sanford presides as honorary chair of the State Board of Conservation and Development in Raleigh. He invites board members to a Sunday dinner at the Executive Mansion to honor outgoing director William Saunders as Skipper Bowles is named to replace him. Saunders plans retirement in Southern Pines after Monday’s session.
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C&d
Sanford
Executive Mansion
William Saunders
Saunders
Southern Pines
Planning for Drive by North Carolina Cerebral Palsy group
Frances Cathey leads the local North Carolina United Cerebral Palsy appeal planning session. She sits with Tom Elder residential chair Paul Collins and Benny Braica Jr. in a furniture store sponsored by the Furnitureland Kiwanis Club as publicity chair Frank Hardy outlines details.
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North Carolina United Cerebral Palsy Appeal
Tom Elder
Paul Collins
Benny Braica Jr
Frank Hardy
New Furnitureland Kiwanis Club
Bookmobile schedule for Jan 9 to 13 at High Point Library
High Point Public Library announces a weekly bookmobile route schedule. Daily stops include Rolling Road Rockford Road and Rotary Drive Westwood on Monday and additional locations on Tuesday Wednesday Thursday and Friday with 9:30 to 4:45 time blocks.
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Emery Road
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Officer Says Burned Ship Still Sound
A naval survey of the air craft carrier Constellation after the December fire found the vessel structurally sound. Capt. Donald Furlong reported to the naval court of inquiry that the 60,000 ton ship remains intact despite the blaze that killed 50 and caused about 48 million dollars in damage. Completion now targeted for December instead of May, with construction ongoing since 1957.
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Constellation
Donald Furlong
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Naval Court of Inquiry
Thomasville Scene and Local Happenings
A Thomasville tobacco curer now heats a store near Fair Grove. Sheriff probes a quilt dispute as freezing nights press residents. Downtown rail work snarls traffic while crews replace ties to smooth rough tracks and Fisher Ferry crossing work continues through the night.
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72 year old man who lived 32 years in hospital dies
Samuel Craig Little, 72, who had been an inmate at Mary Black Hospital in Spartanburg for 32 years, died Friday night. He was paralyzed from the waist down but remained alert and read widely, prompting letters to newspapers and shut-ins.
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Samuel Craig Little
Mary Black Hospital
Sam Orr Black
Little
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