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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1972
Page
5
The showers that soaked most of North Carolina will taper off tonight. Clearing starts in the mountains and spreads to the coast by Wednesday with partly cloudy skies and cooler highs in the mid 40s in the mountains to the 60s at the coast.
The forecast calls for occasional showers or thundershowers across North Carolina today tapering off tonight and Wednesday with decreasing clouds. Highs mainly in the 60s, cooler tonight and Wednesday. tonight's lows near 40 in mountains, near 50 at the coast. Rain chances 50 percent tonight, 30 percent Wednesday. Thursday expected mild with a chance of showers.
A small tornado collapsed a house where three workmen were employed in Columbia. Jess W. Sturkie said they moved downstairs as winds rose, then the structure fell. Another house lost its roof and a third suffered roof damage from uprooted trees. Hospitalized were Sturkie, Gene Rister, and Danny Wilkerson with leg hip and ankle injuries. A tree crushed another roof while no injuries occurred in a separate dwelling.
U S District Judge Robert L Taylor ordered TVA to stop dam construction on the Tellico project along the Little Tennessee River while an environmental impact case proceeds The stay allows continued roadwork but halts dam activity as EDF presses for a final EPA review and potential project termination.
The North Carolina Highway Commission defends the planned Fayetteville I 95 bypass as having only slight environmental impact while spurring development along its 15 mile route. The draft statement notes displacement of 29 families and argues the U.S. 301 alternative cannot handle 20 year traffic unless urban speeds.
Detroit AP report quotes Sid Terry of Chrysler and Fred Bowditch of Ford Musk seeking a one year extension under the Clean Air Act. They say 1975 76 standards are technically out of reach and costly to achieve, with Ford projects and engine tests still under development.
Durham County health director Dr. O L Ader says the county is in the first stages of a possible influenza epidemic. He cites rising flu like illness last week, with 350 of 1300 Carrington Junior High pupils absent and several teachers. Northern High reports about 200 absences.
Fayetteville North Carolina AP two men arrested within an hour after a branch robbery at Southern National Bank. Enlisted man Sidney L. Stephens 20 of Fort Bragg and Warren George Brown 28 of Fayetteville held at a house two miles from the bank. About 2500 dollars stolen returned. One suspect entered with a .22 pistol. the other waited outside.
The body of Larry C. Baker, 33, engineer from Danville Virginia, on the ill fated tug Maryland, was recovered from Durants Island in Albemarle Sound and identified by tattooed initials. A second presumed Maryland crewman was seen in Tyrrell County waters as fog hampered recovery efforts. The Maryland sank December 18 in 65 mph winds with one survivor among seven crew members.
Hong Kong fire chief says no evidence supports sabotage theories in the Queen Elizabeth fire as inquiries cite multiple sites with fire. Officials debate cause while the 83,000 ton liner sinks near Tsing Yi Island after spreading flames and a nonworking sprinkler system.
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