Skirmishes at DMZ yield limited gains as clashes persist
U S and South Vietnamese forces clash with North Vietnamese troops along the DMZ for a third day as enemy gunners shell bases below the zone. Two Americans were killed and four wounded two miles southeast of the DMZ. Hanoi losses include at least one killed in a second engagement. Saigon reports 22 NVA killed with four weapons captured, no South Vietnamese casualties.
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George Esper
Associated Press
Saigon
Demilitarized Zone
Dmz
U.S
Charlie 2
Namese
Phu Quoc
Cambodia
Saigon Command Yard
Kompong Trabek
Ronger
Russians Propose Moon Peace Treaty With No Territorial Claims
Moscow reports the Soviet government has submitted a draft moon treaty to the United Nations. The draft bans the use of force and hostile actions on the moon, prohibits military bases and weapons tests, and requires peaceful exploration. It asserts access for all signatories, prevents lunar pollution, protects human life, and rejects sovereignty claims while urging cooperation and aid to distressed personnel on the moon.
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Moscow
United Nations
Tass
Andrei Gromyko
U Thant
General Assembly
Shoplifting Law Clarified At North Carolina Meeting
Thompson Greenwood urged NC merchants to apply the new detainment provisions cautiously as misapplication could drive away customers and hurt families. Attorney Thomas Bunn called the 1971 reform the same core law with the key change of shield from lawsuits if detention is justified and based on reasonable grounds.
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Pinehurst
N.C
North Carolina
Thompson Greenwood
Raleigh
North Carolina Merchants Association
Association
Thomas Bunn
Robbers Nabbed After Holdup Try Wadesboro North Carolina
Two masked gunmen forced 69 year old Baxter T McRae mayor elect of Peachland to withdraw 27000 from a Wadesboro bank. A five mile chase ended with Roy Rogers Hubbard 20 and John Earl Sturdivant captured after Hubbard dropped a pistol and surrendered. McRae, released unharmed, led authorities to the suspects with the money recovered near Oakboro and Peachland woman Mrs McRae unharmed.
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Wadesboro
N. C
Peachland
Baxter T. McRae
Charlotte
Roy Rogers Hubbard
IM. G. Hayes
Oakboro
John Earl Sturdivant
Hubbard
Hayes
Manila
Changes For Migrants Opposed
RALEIGH AP Proposed changes in migrant farm labor housing standards would be too big a bite at one time says Sen George Wood D Camden He fears the bill by Sen Zeb Alley D Haywood would raise costs and force camps to be leased to leaders to evade regulations Wood supports gradual upgrades to spread expenses and cites declining camp numbers due to more machinery reducing labor demand.
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Raleigh
George Wood
Camden
Zeb Alley
Haywood
Wood
New York
North Carolina Sees Warm Weather Through Midweek
Heat persists with highs in the upper 80s to mid 90s across the state. A Canadian cool air mass may reach NC by late Wednesday but not cool things off much. Rain chances hover 40 percent tonight and 30 percent Wednesday with mostly sunny to partly cloudy skies ahead.
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North Carolina
Canada
Bermuda
High Point
Friendship
North and South Carolina Weather Forecast Brief
Forecast for North Carolina calls for partly cloudy skies with scattered thundershowers today and Wednesday. Highs near 90s with Outer Banks in the mid 80s, lows in the 60s. cooler Wednesday. South Carolina sees considerable cloudiness and showers tapering tonight, then sunny and hot Wednesday with highs around 90 central and upper 80s to 90s elsewhere. Lows near 70 southeast, mid 60s elsewhere.
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North Carolina
South Carolina
Rat Milker Patent Aimed at Drug Testing
Two Philadelphia based workers at a drug firm patented a rat milking machine. The device uses tiny cups to draw milk from lactating rats to determine if drugs administered to rats appear in their milk.
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Philadelphia
Winston Denies Bias In Schools
The Winston-Salem and Forsyth County school board defends a unitary system claiming no racial discrimination and progress under court orders. Negro plaintiffs’ attorneys urge immediate full desegregation, arguing many black students remain in racially identifiable schools despite years of orders and appeals.
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Richmond, Va
Winston-Salem and
Forsyth County
N.C
U.S. 4Th Circuit Court of Appeals
U.S. District Court
State Board of Education
Forsyth County Commissioners
Tthe
Mental Case Admits Slaying Girl in North Carolina
Wayne County deputies say a 15 year old mental patient at O Berry Center admitted beating 8 year old Patricia Williams of Raleigh to death and stuffing her body in a garbage dumpster. The boy faces possible charges as investigators weigh charges. The girl was walking to church when attacked.
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Goldsboro
N.C
Wayne County
O’berry Center
F. Ogden Parker
Patricia Williams
Raleigh
Vernon Mangum
James Sasser
Sasser
O’berry
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