Public health chief urges shift to treatment over prevention
Dr. Maurice Kamp, retiring director of the Charlotte Mecklenburg Health Department, argues that public health must move beyond preventive work to include treatment. He cites gaps in access to primary care, calls for neighborhood clinics, and notes rising deaths from heart disease and cancer linked to lifestyle and emotional health.
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Maurice Kamp
Charlotte Mecklenburg Health Department
Kamp
Mecklenburg County
First Ward
Piedmont Courts
Carter
Carter aides weigh abolishing LEAA to overhaul federal government
The Carter transition team weighs a major overhaul of the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration arguing abolition could signal new fiscal discipline. LEAA spending about 1 billion annually with little crime impact per studies, while court and corrections systems offer potentially stronger reform leverage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jimmy Carter
Law Enforcement Assistance Administration
Mr. Carter
LEAA
Carter
Twentieth Century Fund
Center For National Security Studies
SEAA
Griffin B. Bell
Bell
Hominy Defended Against Colonial Mockery by Virginian Writer
The Raleigh News and Observer defends hominy against a Virginian writer who mocked the staple. The piece asserts hominy as a versatile, palatable corn dish usable fried or baked, and credits it as an important pioneer food that helped tame the wilderness and shape America.
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South
Virginian-Pilot
Guy Friddell
Friddell
America
Are Moonshine Stills Fading In North Carolina
A Sanford Herald report notes 137 illicit whiskey stills captured in North Carolina last year the highest in the nation yet far fewer than past decades. Wilkes County long led moonshine, now Harnett and Johnston Counties claim that title as illegal distilling shifts with economics and legal liquor competition.
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Charlotte
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
North Carolina
Wilkes County
Harnett
Johnston Counties
Dustry
Wilkes
ABC
Origins of Guilford and Duke Tied to Trinity Area History
The article traces early education in Trinity Randolph County linking Guilford College and Duke University to the Trinity community and the Quaker and Methodist branches. It notes Bruce Craven’s account and A A Walls Randolph Story, detailing settlement around 1790 to 1800 with families like Mendenhall establishing homes near Trinity as roads and buildings formed.
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Guilford College
Duke University
Trinity
Randolph County
High Point
Bruce Craven
Braxton Craven
Trinity College
A. A. Wall
Randolph
Mendenhalls
James Leach
Margaret Mendenhall
Joseph Mendenhall
Margaret Mendenhall Leach
Methodist Church College
Church College
Union Institute
Nathan Hunt
Ahi Robbins
Alexander Gray
Hugh, Lewis
Jabez
Absalom
Martin
J.M.B
Julian Leach
William English
Benjamin Ball
Riddick Mendenhall
Henry Ellison
Zebedee Johnson
Emslet Burress
Allen A. Tomlinson
Thomas English
English Blair
Kelly Johnson
Alexander Elliott
Eli C. Kearns
Pleasant Reddick
Enos A. Blair
Edwin W. Lineberry
Lindsay Lamar
John Brown
John W. Thomas
Trinity College origins traced from early Quaker to Methodist schools
The article outlines how Trinity College emerged from a series of early schools started by Quakers and Methodists around 1815 to 1859. It details local builders of school sites, notable families like the Leaches and Mendenhalls, and Braxton Craven’s role in transforming Trinity into a church college that relocated to Durham and evolved into Duke University.
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Lohr
Joseph Johnson
John Leach
Browns
Allen Frazier
Brown Place
College
Trinity
Union
Trinity College
Brantley York
Braxton Craven
New Garden
Guilford College
Mendenhalls
Normal College
North Carolina
State Normal College
New Methodist Church College
Durham
Duke University
Church College
Oil Companies Eye Arctic Wildlife Range for Drilling
Alaska exploration plans spark battle as oil firms push Interior Dept to open Arctic Wildlife Range while environmentalists vow protection for caribou, polar bears, and wildfowl. Officials weigh wilderness status as Cecil Andrus takes the helm.
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Washington
America
Alaska
Arctic Wildlife Range
Interior Dept
Wildlife Range
Arctic
Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4
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Joe Brown
THE
Charlotte Observer
Wall Street Journal
Raleigh News & Observer
Hominy
Sanford Herald
Holt McPherson
Leaches
Carrs, Steeds, Cravens
Peacocks
Pegrams
Jack Anderson
Marvin Resnikoff
Buffalo
New York
Public Interest Research Group
Nuclear Remedies Commission
NRC
Resnikoff
Panama
U.S
Canal Zone
State Dept
Omar Torrijos
Department
John Jackley
Col
Lawrence Jackley
Pentagon
Office of Internal Security Affairs
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