Warmer, clearer forecast after ice storm lingers in trees
The High Point area enjoys clearing skies and warming temps with highs near 50 as ice fades from roads. Southern coastal plain and Sandhills bore the brunt with power outages up to 12 hours in Harnett Johnston and Cumberland counties. Two traffic deaths were reported as a Black Mountain driver and a Mount Holly trucker perished on icy roads and bridges.
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High Point
Friendship Airport
Coastal Plain
Sandhills
Harnett
Johnston
Cumberland County
Black Mountain
U. S. 25
Asheville
Mount Holly
Charlotte
North Carolina
Wadesboro
Laurinburg
Lumberton
Goldsboro
Dunn
Zebulon
Raleigh
North Carolina debate over ECU medical school funding
North Carolina House Minority Leader Charles Taylor questions large funding for a two year East Carolina University medical school. He argues the cost would greatly exceed the state's public kindergarten appropriation and could worsen public school salaries.
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Raleigh
N.C
North Carolina
Charles Taylor
East Carolina University
Taylor
Brevard
Environmental Deterioration Vacation Home Problems Faced
UNC research warns vacation homes on few rural reservoirs pose serious public problems. Five North Carolina lakes surveyed show landowners with little development experience causing environmental harm. Planning by agencies could remedy, but rural communities resist.
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Chapel Hill
N.C
University of North Carolina
The
Water Resources Institute of the
University
United States
North Carolina
Carolina Power
Lake Gaston
High Rock Lake
Kerr Lake
Lake Norman
Davidson senior writes birth control manual for Charlotte students
Davidson College senior James Trussell 21 wrote The Loving Book a 42-page birth control guide for college students in the Charlotte area Planned Parenthood of Greater Charlotte underwrites the project and copies will be distributed free at five schools. The manual lists local abortion and testing services and explains options with advantages and disadvantages of different birth controls.
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Davidson
N.C
Davidson College
Charlotte Area
James Trussell
Planned Parenthood of
Greater Charlotte
Trussell
Free University
Charlotte
Gilligan Receives Five Dollar Shoe Shine in Columbus
Gov elect John J. Gilligan sent his shoes to Ralph Kaufman a Cleveland International Airport shine parlor for a deluxe five dollar shine before the inauguration in Columbus. Kaufman called Gilligan an old customer noting the visit.
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Cleveland, Ohio
John J. Gilligan
Ralph Kaufman
Columbus
Kaufman
Cleveland International
Gilligan
Jails Hold Unconvicted Tar Heels
The Census Bureau reports about 75 percent of North Carolina jail inmates have not been convicted. Nationwide, 52 percent of 161000 inmates were awaiting trial or arraignment as of March. NC jails held 2410 men 124 women and 37 juveniles with 713 held for other authorities 1170 arraigned but not tried and 100 convicted but held.
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Washington
Census Bureau
North Carolina
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Guilford County
Numa F. Reid Lodge
Richard E. Cranford
E.G. Updegrove
Jarrett
Southland Supply CO
Greensboro RD
DIAL
Professional Dry Cleaners
High Point Stores
W. Green
Holiday Inn
Eastgate Shopping Center
Muscogee County
Nguressanorome Davis Patrol & Watchman
Central
A.P.R
Central Savings
North Main
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