Ed Lane reports on civic conventions and regional issues
Roaming the Piedmont July 1 notes new laws taxes and vacation spending as Americans take national holidays. It covers civic conventions Rotary Lions and Kiwanis exchanges, public enforcement, the Tuckertown dam delay and vocational school funding along with a High Point parking meter anecdote.
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Rotary International
Switzerland
Lions
San Francisco
Kiwanis
Atlantic City
Brooklyn grocer uses garbage pail as night deposit vault
Francisco Lopez closed his store and stuffed 1500 in receipts in a paper bag into a garbage pail. The next day he and 11 workers recovered the money as trash was set to be dumped. The scene involved a messy rescue from refuse near a tow yard.
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New York
Brooklyn
Francisco Lopez
Desarmee Pier
Cees
Vaccine cuts tuberculosis by eighty percent in trials
A global set of carefully controlled studies shows the BCG vaccine reducing tuberculosis incidence by about 80 percent among vaccinated groups compared with unvaccinated groups.
Park Opens In Davidson County
Davidson County officials announced Boone's Park area will be developed for public use as a picnic and vacation site. The funding was a small contribution aimed at cleaning up and arranging the area for residents and visitors.
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Son County
Wilson Hits Resolution on Girard Case Shocks Allies
A single shot by Specialist 3.C. William S. Girard in Japan sparks global repercussions. The incident strains anti-Communist alliances, raises constitutional questions, and prompts the U.S. Supreme Court to adjust its term while Japan weighs trials under its jurisdiction.
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Washington
Japan
Island
Empire
Wilson
Amery
Pacific
United States Supreme Court
3.C
William S. Girard
Ottawa
Girard
United States
Wis
HAZO
U.S
Congress
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Rep
Bow
Ohio
Eisenhower
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