Vitamins and triple sec questions answered in local column
Readers submit queries on Golden Fifty vitamins safety, triple sec in a strawberry mousse, ice skating in Greensboro, jury duty chances for a police officer's wife, and differences between orchestras and bands. Answers explain that vitamins may be unnecessary with a balanced diet, triple sec is a dry liqueur, Greensboro Coliseum offers irregular skating times, jury duty chances are random, and orchestras differ from bands in key usage and instrument roles.
Sweat Under Brick Veneer Prompts Foundation Advice
The writer advises drilling weep holes in brick below sills about every four feet and adding insulation around the foundation along the floor line to reduce moisture on the wood foundation pillars. The note also references a January item about obtaining bell bottom pants and mod boots through a navy recruiter for four years of service.
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California Battles Pacific Oil Slick
California faces major pollution risk as an offshore Union Oil well leaks 21,000 gallons daily, slick covering 200 square miles of Pacific waters. Washington and state officials dispatch experts to seal the well, assess dispersant damage, and consider tighter offshore drilling rules.
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Washington, D.C
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Nixon proposes crackdown with 1000 more cops in capital
President Nixon's advisers drafted a crime package for Washington featuring perhaps an additional 1,000 police, more judges, and preventive detention. FBI patrols target bank robberies as city see record crime rises. several robberies, shootings, and assaults have rattled residents and White House personnel.
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Nixon
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John Mitchell
America
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Airliner hijacked to Havana. crew and passengers aboard
National Airlines Flight 44 with 63 aboard diverted from the Louisiana coast to Havana after a hijacker with a pistol grabbed a stewardess near Miami. Captain Leeds reported a gun at the stewardess’s neck as the plane, the 11th hijacked to Cuba this year, landed in Cuba’s capital at 6:58 a.m. EST.
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Grand Isle
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Draft Endings Plan Ordered By Nixon
President Nixon asked Secretary Laird to form a special commission to craft a plan to end the draft as part of steps to fulfill campaign promises. He plans to address Congress on crime in Washington with a message and a Pentagon briefing, while weighing a shift to an all volunteer armed force after Vietnam costs fall.
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Associated Press
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American held in Iraq may be released in days
Baghdad radio said American engineer Paul Bail was arrested in Iraq for spying related actions and may be released within the next few days. The broadcast noted the government will be tolerant toward him and confirmed reports of a spy case connected to Iraq. The Information Minister announced the Bail development and the execution of 14 Traqis, nine Jews among them, is affecting confessions and upcoming trials. A Brezhnev message to Nasser on the Middle East was reported from Cairo.
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Bail
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Samarrai
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Scott Expected To Ask Liquor Tax Increase
Gov. Bob Scott’s budget message to the North Carolina General Assembly is expected to include a sharp increase in the state liquor tax and possibly a 1 percent boost to the 3 percent statewide sales tax. He may also consider a tobacco tax if more revenue is needed. Scott has studied costs from each proposal and met with aides to project revenue, aiming to fund new and enlarged programs while avoiding excessive tax burden on drinkers. The move could affect eastern lawmakers and the tobacco industry, with details to be clarified on the budget’s final form.
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Associated Press
Raleigh {Ap
Bob Scott
North Carolina General Assembly
Scott
North Carolina
Watts Residents Aid Mud-Besieged Neighbors
Watts Labor Community Action Committee volunteers lend hands in a hillside Watts neighborhood after nine days of heavy rain and mudslides. Neva Patterson admires the arrival of the all black volunteer crew which brings shovels and grit to dig out homes along Mandeville Canyon Road.
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Neva Patterson
Watts Labor Community Action Committee
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Mandeville Canyon Road
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Sunset Boulevard
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Ellsworth Freeman
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