Prisoner Wins Newspaper Writing Award in North Carolina
Vernon Rich, 33, serving life for murder at a Monroe prison camp, won $25 second place from the North Carolina Press Association for weekly newspaper columns titled Penal Colony. His adviser Tony Abbot submitted the work from Davidson College. the Mecklen burg Gazette published it, but the paper dropped the column last week and discontinued it last November after two years.
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Monroe
Vernon Rich
North Carolina Press Association
Chapel Hill
Rich
Tony Abbot
Davidson College
Mecklenburg Gazette
Company Moving To Triangle in Durham North Carolina
AP reports E R Squibb subsidiary Edward Weck & Co announces closing three northern sites to relocate headquarters and manufacturing to a 35 acre Durham County site near RTP. A 140000 square foot plant to be built at mid 1977 with 250 to 300 jobs, about 100 transfers from Long Island Mystic Seaport and Shelton.
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Durham
E.R. Squibb & Sons
Edward Weck & Co
Research Triangle Area
John W Brown
Brown
Week
Long Island
N.Y
Mystic Seaport
Shelton
Connecticut
North Carolina
Air Passengers Evacuate Plane After Threat
An Eastern Air Lines jet with 64 passengers evacuated by emergency chute on landing at Douglas Municipal Airport Charlotte after a telephoned bomb threat. Police and HAL searched the plane with no bomb found. Three passengers injured during the evacuation were hospitalized and released, including Virginia Norton of South Carolina who suffered a dislocated shoulder. The flight originated in Montreal with a stop at La Guardia and was bound for Atlanta Jacksonville and Miami.
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Charlotte
Eastern Air Lines
Douglas
HAL
Eastern’s
Virginia Norton
South Carolina
Montreal
la Guardia
New York City
Hearst Prosecution Psychiatrist Exam Promised Safeguards
Patricia Hearst allowed a prosecutor’s psychiatrist to examine her a second time after assurances of stringent safeguards. Albert Johnson said the four hour session occurred without incident with Dr Elizabeth Richard present, as Hearst’s defense pursues challenges to Kozol’s qualifications and seeks polygraph results as potential evidence in the bank robbery case.
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San Francisco
Patricia Hearst
Albert Johnson
Miss Hearst
Elizabeth Richard
Kozol
Johnson
Hearst
Hearst Testimony Highlights Unprecedented California Case
Miss Hearst testified last week that Kozol harassed her to hysteria during a short interview while F Lee Bailey, her attorney, argued for admission of such tests. Kozol denied the allegations. Hearst, 21, was captured here last Sept 18 and has been held at San Mateo County Jail.
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Miss Hearst
F. Lee Bailey
Kozol
Koxel
San Mateo County
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