Utilities panel weighs steep rate hikes for phone installs
In Raleigh AP a state utilities commission heard proposals from Southern Bell Carolina Telephone and General Telephone to raise installation and disconnection charges. Southern Bell seeks 7.50 and 12.50 for install and disconnect while others push higher. The commission estimates gains of about seven to eight million annually with broader increases in recurring charges.
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Raleigh
N.C
A/Guttery
Southern Bell
Deal
Southern Bell Tele- Guttery
Phone Co
North Carolina Utilities Co
Vuier Calliputes L Representee Missioner
Hugh Wells
Fion
Bitious
Boyd
Carolina Tele
An Harm Aran Tal
Mission
Southeast
Guttery
Laird Seeks Funds Over Soviet Electromagnetic Pulse Threat
Defense Secretary Melvin Laird urged Congress for a 254.8 million year request citing a Soviet electromagentic pulse risk capable of paralyzing U S missiles. He described plans to fund an airborne command post, EM pulse research, and a simulator in the supplemental package.
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Washington
Melvin R. Laird
Congress
Laird
House
Armed Services Committee
U.S
POW families push pressure on Nixon despite new peace plan
POW and MIA relatives vow to keep campaigning in presidential primaries to press for action, forming a nonpartisan committee to ask candidates about POW MIA stances while the Families for Immediate Release expands political activity for a no strings withdrawal. The push follows Nixon's eight point plan and a televised question that Nixon said proposed a withdrawal deadline that his critics say was not offered.
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Washington
White House
Nixon
Missing In Action
National League of Families of American Prisoners
Missing In
Southeast Asia
League
Evelyn Grubb
Colonial ‘Heights
Sheila Cronin
CBS
Dan Rather
Gerald A Gartley
Dunedin
Fla
Gartley
United States
Wilmington Body Tackles Race Issue
The Commission for Racial Justice will give Wilmington's reorganized Human Relations Commission time to address racial tensions. A planned weekend hearing in Wilmington was canceled after regional director Rev. Leon White cited city programs as a factor. The plan aimed to provide a forum for diverse views to sit down together.
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Raleigh
Commission For Racial Justice
Wilmington
Human Relations Commission
Commission
Leon White
White
New York
B. D Schwartz
Schwartz
Ku Klux Klan
Chamber of Commerce
Apollo 16 May Be Delayed Again
The Apollo 16 moon mission faces a possible second one month postponement due to a fuel system leak. NASA plans to repair the Saturn 5 rocket and transfer to an assembly building, aiming for an April 16 launch with a May 14 earliest launch window if delays occur.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Space Agency
Open NC races for labor and insurance posts emerge
The January primary opens two council of state contests as incumbents Frank Crane and Ed Lanier decline reelection. Candidates include John B. Wardell, William Creel, John Ingram, George Belk, and Russell Secrest among others, with filings ongoing and discussions by George Cherry Jr. Dewey Sheffield and Johnny Clark.
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Noel Yancey
Associated Press
Raleigh
North Carolina
Council of State
Insurance
Frank Crane
Edwin Lanier
Crane
John B. Wardell
Jamestown
High Point
Wardell
William Creel
State Department of Labor
Commissioner of Labor
Ingram
Fect
George Belk
Greensboro
Lanier
Russell Secrest
State Board of Elections
Secrest
Insurance Department
George Cherry Jr
Dewey Sheffield
Wilson
Johnny Clark
Morganton
Parents Sue After Son Dies In Jail
The Rev and Mrs Calvin Jones of Piedmont South Carolina sue Dade County for 1 million dollars over the death of their 17 year old son Cloyce Cooke who was found strangled in a crowded Miami jail cell. They say he had no prior criminal record and was placed with 19 inmates in a cell designed for 10. One cellmate, 18 year old Johnnie Jones, has been convicted in the strangling.
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Miami
Dade County
South Carolina
Calvin Jones
Piedmont
S.C
Cloyce Cooke
Johnnie Jones
Four Enemy Tanks Bagged In Viet War Thrust
South Vietnamese fighter bombers knocked out four North Vietnamese tanks along the central highlands western edge. Tanks were sighted inside South Vietnam with air units hitting them. The action marked a rare use of tanks in the country since 1969 and followed a broader Mekong Delta clash with casualties on multiple fronts.
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Saigon
Central Highlands
South Vietnam
Tri-Border
Laos
Cambodia
U.S
Nixon
Peking
Ben Het
Lang Vei
Khe Sanh
North Vietnam
Mekong Delta
Dong Hoi
Demilitarized Zone
Mekong
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Margaret Gentry
Don McLeod
Wilmington Body
Howard Benedict
AP Aerospace
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N.C. Insurance
Richard Pyle
Mileagemaker II
Fed
Orig
Jcpenney Auto Center
Auto Center
Alor
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