Black teachers groups clash over merger and losses
Raleigh AP report notes the predominantly black North Carolina Teachers Association has lost about 2,500 members in two years while the rival white-backed North Carolina Education Association gains black members amid a mandatory merger directed by the NEA. Tensions focus on desegregation policy and a proposed two thirds vote threshold for board decisions.
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Raleigh
North Carolina Teachers Association
E. B. Palmer
Palmer
North Carolina Education Association
NCTA
NCEA
National Education Association
NEA
Charlotte - Mecklenburg
Board of Directors
Representative Assembly
A. C. Dawson
Dawson
Great Debate Becomes Filibuster In Cambodian Vote Fight
The Senate's struggle over Cambodia turns into a prolonged filibuster with only three small votes so far. A Dole rider seeks to postpone funding cuts until Communist prisoners are freed, while Fulbright plans to table the measure and kill the amendment.
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Washington
Senate
U.S
Cambodia
Robert J. Dole
R-Kan
Dole
J. W. Fulbright
D-Ark
Pilot's Body Found After Mountain Search
A pilot from Columbus, Ohio, who vanished on February 12, 1969, during a flight from Knoxville to Asheville in a Cessna 189, was located by Evelyn Johnson of the Civil Air Patrol in the Great Smoky Mountains near the Tennessee North Carolina line. The wreckage lay about 300 feet below the mountain crest after days of ground and air searches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asheville
Great Smoky Mountains
Knoxville
Tenn
John Koppert
Columbus
Ohio
Evelyn Johnson
Tennessee Civil Air Patrol
Koppert
Civil Air
Racial Shootout Injures Three Near Benson
Early Sunday near Godwin Lake eight miles east of Benson a gun battle between whites and Negroes left three Negroes injured, one seriously. Seven white men were arrested on felonious assault and related charges with bonds set at 10,000 each.
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Benson
N.C
Godwin Lake
Johnston County
Highway Patrol
Edwin Guy
Smithfield
Guy
Charles Sellers
Rt. 2
Louis Robinson
Dunn
Sellers
Robinson
Voters Reject Plan in Mecklenburg School Board Runoff
In Charlotte Mecklenburg County voters rejected most of a $29.5 million bond issue. An anti-busing candidate Jane B Scott led the school board runoff with 23 504 votes while incumbent Rev Coleman W Kerry Jr trailed with 22 524. Only four of the seven items were approved including 4 5 million for college expansion 9 25 million for sewers 1 7 million for a county home and 725 000 for a center for mentally retarded children. The $11 3 million courthouse bond was rejected and overall turnout exceeded forecasts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scott
Central Piedmont Community College
Mecklenburg County
Peaches Dominate U.S. Share in Global Fruit Output
Britannica notes the United States produces almost half of the world’s peaches, ranking second to apples in importance. The statement highlights the U.S. lead in peach production and the fruit’s national economic value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Encyclopedia Britannica
Memorial Day Weekend Death Toll Rises in North Carolina
The State Highway Patrol reported 15 deaths over the holiday including Maryland couple Dr and Mrs Thomas Theis of Silver Spring who drowned when their camper overturned in Currituck County near Barco on US 158. Other fatalities include Henry Chavis 46 of Rowland and three family members in a pond crash near Robeson County, plus victims from Pinelevel Beulaville Statesville Reidsville Columbus Ohio Ft Bragg Thomasville Cove City and two pedestrians Katherine Renwick and Moses Allen. The toll for the year reached 615, up from 662 a year ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina
State Highway Patrol
Associated Press
Maryland
Thomas Theis
Silver Spring
Currituck County
U. S. 158
Barco
Rowland
Robeson County
Henry Chavis
Rt. 1
Gertrude Locklear
Rt. 2
Flora Ann
Hubert
Lloyd Sutton
Columbus, Ohio
Victor Martinez
Ft. Bragg
Katherine Renwick
Thomasville
Moses Allen
Cove City
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Connie Lee
John Jenkins
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the Peddler Steak House
Terry Southerland
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E. Parris Ave
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Guilford Optical CO
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Hoyt Wilson
EYE Odditiers
Jeyed
Guilford Oprical CO
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Piedmont
Cincinnati
High Point
Metta Braswell Summerlin
Pinelevel
Gail Fary Sandlin
Beulaville
George Howell
Rt. 7
Statesville
George Bottoms
James Bream
Rt. 4
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