Racial unrest prompts early closure of Charlotte high schools
Charlotte area officials suspend the remainder of the school year for all 10 high schools amid fears of races related unrest. Examinations had already finished and the move aims to curb unruly behavior seen in past years. A Thursday fight at Albemarle Road Junior High left a police officer and two students injured.
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Charlotte
Charlotte- Mecklenburg County
Chris Folk
Folk
Albemarle Road
GOP Convention Dates Set for Charlotte in 1971
RALEIGH AP The 1971 North Carolina Republican State Convention will be held in Charlotte on November 19 and 20. State GOP Chairman Jim Holshouser said the Central Committee chose Charlotte as the site and expects more than 3000 delegates alternates and guests. Delegates will elect a state chairman and vice chairmen review party organization changes and draft the 1972 platform.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Charlotte
GOP
Jim Holshouser
Party Central Committee
Holshouser
Dr. Janeway Named Dean of Bowman Gray Medical School
Dr. Richard Janeway, professor of neurology at Bowman Gray, named dean of the Wake Forest medical school effective July 1. The appointment, approved by the Wake Forest trustees, marks him as the sixth dean since 1902. Janeway previously served as acting chair of neurology and program director of the cerebral vascular clinical research center.
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Winston-Salem
Richard Janeway
Bowman Gray School of Medicine
Wake Forest University
Manson Meads
Wake County
Markle
Bowman Gray
Department of Neurology
James F. Toole
North Carolina to revise highway signs toward international system
Raleigh AP report says North Carolina will gradually adopt a modified international sign system for highways. Traffic official Jimmy Litchford explains the change aims to improve recognition while keeping familiar elements, with signs doubled during transition and pavement markings simplified across roughly 44 000 miles of two lane roads and 3 000 miles of city streets.
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Raleigh
North
Carolina
Jimmy Litchford
Litchford
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