Tobacco Petitions Under Fire in North Carolina
RALEIGH AP The Susie Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Office criticizes petitions circulating to change tobacco allotment laws. Old Belt interests around Winston Salem seek 100,000 signatures to keep forfeited allotments in county, arguing losses from Brewers with small, unprofitable allotments. The ASC warns petitions could harm the tobacco program and urges informed farmer participation.
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Raleigh
Susie Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Office
North Carolina
Old Belt
Winston- Salem
ASC
Tar Heel Convicts Come Home
A trio of escaped North Carolina prisoners who shot a Florida highway patrolman are being returned to serve terms in NC. Circuit Judge Grayson ordered the men Cecil Hollars Rufus Gainey and Harry Williams returned to Florida afterward to face possible 20 year maximums for assault with intent to kill.
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Tampa
Fla
North Carolina
Florida
L. A. Grayson
Cecil Hollars
Boone
N.C
Rufus Gdiney
Laurinburg
Harry Williams
Greensboro
John Cheshire
Hollars
Williams
Gainey
Peace Pleas Stressed By Methodists Conference
Peace pleas linked to the Chain of Prayer will be stressed at a nine state Methodist Conference in Lake Junaluska North Carolina July 7 10. The event titled A decade of dynamic discipleship and prayer targets pastors and local church leaders and is sponsored by the Methodist Committee on Evangelism and the Prayer Life Movement Department. Rev Dr D Trigg James, program director, says the conference is for those who expect action in our time.
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Lake Junaluska
N.C
Methodist Committee On Evangelism
Southeastern Jurisdictional Council
Prayer Life Movement Department
Methodist Board of Evangelism
Nashville
Tenn
D. Trigg James
Methodist
Taylor Becomes New NC 12th District Congressman
Roy A. Taylor Democrat of Black Mountain North Carolina was sworn in Saturday as a new House member from North Carolina 12th District to fill the unexpired term of the late David McKee Hall. His election certification is pending and he plans to seek seniority by serving the remainder of the term. He names Interior and Insular Affairs as his first committee preference.
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Washington
Roy A
Taylor
Black Mountain
House
North Carolina
David McKee Hall
Heinz Rollman
Waynesville
Charles A. Hallck
Indiana
Harold D. Cooley
North Carolinas House
Federal Court Clerk Henry Reynolds Dies at 83
GREENSBORO AP Henry Reynolds longtime clerk of the U S Middle District Court died Saturday at Moses Cone Hospital aged 83. Death attributed to a heart attack. He had declined health but was active until about an hour before his death. Reynolds retired as clerk in 1956 after appointment in 1933.
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Greensboro
Henry Reynolds
U.S. Middle District Court
Moses Cone Hospital
Reynolds
Middle District Court
Three Men Charged After Robbery at Marsh Supermarket
In Gastonia North Carolina three men Bear Akens 32 Douglas Williams 23 and Mason King 20 plus Betty Lou Williams allegedly planned a store robbery after the Marsh Supermarket closed. They used a hostage a 17 year old to force receipt recovery and were stopped outside the store with loot including tomato juice and groceries. A pregnant girl was found and authorities say the trio planned to flee in a car. Separate report from Washington notes Sen Sam Ervin calls for a new probe into tariff and textile import issues urging full Senate investigation of alleged administrative circumvention and potential domestic textile protections.
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N.C
Bear
King
T. A. Harper
Washington
Sam. Ervin
D-Nc
Commission
Congress
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