Mailbox Post Moved Off Highway Property After Safety Concern
Readers questioned a brick mailbox post near a road as a safety hazard. State officials investigated, coordinating with the postmaster and owner. By January 24, 1972 the mailbox and support were moved from state property to private land with agreement from all parties.
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High Point
Horneytown Road
Postal Service
Highway Patrol
Anon
K. L. Horton, Jr
Highway Commission
Winston-Salem
C. D. Rentz
Horton
Ivan Crissman
Crissman
Petition for Apex Place paving resurfaces after return
City Engineer Jim Oliver reports a man who circulated the original Apex Place petition moved away and did not submit it or notify signers. Residents sign anew as they push for paving behind Brentwood School amid poor winter conditions and no sidewalks.
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Apex Place
Brentwood School
Jim Oliver
Unemployment when laid off and separation pay
A reader asks about eligibility after a layoff and six weeks of separation pay. The expert answers that monthly vs weekly pay does not affect claims, and benefits cannot start for periods you were paid. If annual earnings are 10000, the weekly benefit is 56, the maximum. you may file the day after the last day worked if no further pay is received.
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Anon. A
William Hollar
Employment Security Commission
Hollar
Blood donation age rule clarified
Answer states you must be eighteen years old and in good health to donate blood.
Information on supporting American Indian foster children
You can contact the Christian Children's Fund at Box 511 Richmond Virginia 23204 Attn Verent J Mills Executive Director or Foster Parents Plan Inc at 352 Park Avenue South New York NY 10010 for information and assistance.
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B.O. A
Christian Children’s Fund
Richmond
Virginia
Verent J. Mills
Foster Parents Plan, Inc
Park Avenue South
New York
N.Y
Vietnam Offered U.S. Aid in Postwar Reconstruction Plan
Washington reports reveal North Vietnam was told last year it could receive up to 2.5 billion dollars of a potential 7.5 billion five year U S reconstruction program for Indochina after a peace settlement. Officials say Hanoi questioned Nixon's eight point peace offer as talks proceed.
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Washington
North Vietnam
U.S
Indochina
Nixon Administration
Hanoi
Nixon
South Vietnam
United States
William P. Rogers
Paris
Rogers
Saigon
Henry A. Kissinger
Peace Plan Scrutinized Closely by Hanoi Leaders
Pravda reports Hanoi leaders attentively analyze Nixon peace plan and note hidden motives. They see six-month US troop withdrawal as inadequate and criticize the cease-fire as preserving pro American regimes while denying self-determination. Elections in South Vietnam are mocked as replicating Veena’s past presidential vote.
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Moscow
Pravda
Hanoi
Nixon
A. Serbin
U.S
Serbia
Indochina
South Vietnam
Veena
Serbin
New Tet Offensive Rumors Drive Saigon Battle Near Bien Hoa
The Saigon radio reports heavy fighting 10 miles from Saigon as two battalions of South Vietnamese rangers clash with enemy forces for seven hours near Quang Trung Training Center. Intelligence points to a second Tet offensive next month, prompting alert at Bien Hoa and troop movements in the central highlands.
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George Esper
Associated Press
Saigon
U.S
Bien Hoa
Quang Trung
Equipment readiness ordered across South Vietnam for Tet threat
American forces in South Vietnam to raise readiness as rockets mortars sapper and terror attacks loom during Tet. North Vietnam air strikes total 20 this year with two US aircraft lost to mechanical failures. A Shrike fired from an F105 at a radar site near the Ho Chi Minh trail had unknown results. One A7 crashed after takeoff from a 7th Fleet carrier January 22. a Huey helicopter crash nearby caused no casualties. General Vien reviewed border defenses around Ben Het and Fire Base 5 as North Vietnamese attempted to encircle the base amid Western frontier activity. B52s continued attacks along the western border with Saigon under threat from new assaults north and southwest of the capital.
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South Vietnam
North Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Laos
Cao van Vien
Joint General Staff
Central Highlands
Triborder
Cambodia
Saigon
Secret Service plan could exclude McGovern and Jackson from protection
A proposed Candidate Protection Advisors Commission plan would grant Secret Service protection only to leading polling contenders. McGovern and Jackson would miss protection if the March 20 start date and 5 percent threshold hold, while Kennedy could receive protection as the top noncandidate. The schedule could affect campaigning through the March 7 New Hampshire and March 14 Florida primaries.
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Washington
George S. McGovern
Henry M. Jackson
Secretary of the Treasury
John B. Connally
Edward M. Kennedy
New Hampshire
Florida
Secret Service
Commission
Harris
Gallup
Edmund S. Muskie
Black Caucus Expands As Demand For Aid Grows
The congressional Black Caucus rapid growth strains offices and funds while pursuing non profit status and tax exempt status. It sponsors conferences on black power health and business and plans to pressure networks for free S U T V time to respond to the State of the Union.
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Nashville
Baltimore
Jesse Jackson
Martin Luther King Jr
Federal Communications Commission
Nixon
FCC
Public Confused By Wage Price Controls
Nixon administration insists controls will work though public questions persist. IRS reports over one million inquiries about rules, with rents dominant. Exemptions cover about 21 percent of living costs. price rules limit increases to 2.5 percent for year, wages to 5.5 percent with exceptions. Major agencies include Cost of Living Council, Price Commission, Pay Board, and IRS.
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Brooks Jackson
Associated Press
Washington
Internal Revenue Service
Nixon
Cost of Living Council
Treasury
John Connally
Price Commission
IRS
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Vietnam
Ben Hoa
McGovern
Jackson
Hubert H. Humphrey
Eugene J. McCarthy
John V. Lindsay
George C. Wallace
Alabama
Los Angeles
Samuel F. Yorty
Indiana
Vance Hartke
Shirley Chisholm
Black Caucus
Congressional Black Caucus
House
John Conyers Jr
D-Mich
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