Anti-Spanking Bills Highlight North Carolina Legislature
Raleigh AP report notes Senate Education Committee opposed an anti-spanking bill and approved funding for 568 new school buses worth nearly five million dollars. Other measures include restricting corporal punishment, expanding Paroles Board membership, banning nonconsensual sterilization, and redrawing single member districts for elections. Additional House bills address tax credits for inventories, church sales tax exemptions, and penalties for public disorder with drugs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Noel Yancey
Associated Press
Raleigh
Senate Education Committee
Dallas Alford
D-Nash
Joint Appropriations Committee
Sen
A. B. Coleman
D-Orange
Ralph Scott
D-Alamance
A. C. Dawson
North Carolina Association of Educators
EB. F. Johnson
State Principals’ Association
Margaret Keesee
Guilford
Paroles Board
Coleman
North Carolina
Senate
House
Herbert Hyde
D-Buncombe
Hyde
New House
Joy Johnson
D-Robeson
Roy Spoon
R-Mecklenburg
Hunting Bait Ban Upheld by 4th Circuit Court
The 4th U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a federal law banning hunting over baited areas for 10 days after bait removal. North Carolina hunters Graham Jarman Jr. Carol Robertson and Leroy Wheeler were convicted and fined $500 each. they claimed ignorance of baiting. A warden testified grain was visible days before arrests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
North Carolina
W. P. Morris
Northampton County
Graham F. Jarman Jr
Carol B. Robertson
Leroy W. Wheeler
Ray seeks former lawyer to testify in King assassination case
James Earl Ray, after a hearing on withdrawing his guilty plea, says he wants his former lawyers Percy Foreman and Arthur Hanes Sr. to testify under oath. The Sixth Circuit remanded the case to district court for a new hearing into allegations the attorneys pressured him to plead guilty. Foreman disputes coercion and notes a $9,000 book deal. Hanes supports Ray’s claim of conspiracy. Ray, 41, was sentenced to 99 years for Dr. King’s 1968 assassination in Memphis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christopher Cabot
Associated Press
Nashville, Tenn
James Earl Ray
Martin Luther King Jr
Ray
U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals
Cincinnati
U.S. District Court
Nashville
Percy Foreman
Houston
Tex
Arthur Hanes Sr
Birmingham
Ala
Memphis
Tennessee State Prison
Foreman
Hanes
Robert Livingston
King
Teamsters Union
Oil Firms Report Higher 1973 Earnings
Three more oil companies Phillips Petroleum Sun Oil and Marathon Oil disclosed sharply higher profits for the fourth quarter and full year 1973. Phillips fourth quarter up 128 percent to 86.7 million, full year 230.4 million, Sun fourth quarter up 59 percent to 75 million with full year 230 million, Marathon full year up 62 percent to 129.4 million and Q4 up 93 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Phillips Petroleum Co
Sun Oil Co
Marathon Oil Co
Phillips
Sun Oil
Marathon Oil
Marathon
U S Steel Posts Record Profits Amid Costs and Controls
U S Steel reports 1973 earnings of 325.8 million on sales over 7 billion, a 4.6 percent return, more than doubling 1972 as inflation and price controls squeeze margins. Bethlehem Steel expected to call for price controls end. Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel also posts a 27 percent rise to 19.3 million.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gary W. Graham
Associated Press
Pittsburgh, Pa
Speer
Bethlehem Steel Corp
U.S. Steel
Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel
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Alka-S Seltzer
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YM10
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