FBI Recovers Stolen Audubon Prints In North Carolina
FBI agents recovered three of four 50 pound Audubon print sets stolen May 27 from Key West and brought to North Carolina to cool off before sale. Two men were questioned at the Marion, North Carolina site. no arrests yet. The sets valued at about 1.2 million by museum officials, with recent auctions around 350 thousand.
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Charlotte
Florida
North Carolina
FBI
Edgar N. Best
Audubon House Museum
Key West
Fla
Gerald Whaley
Whaley
Marion
North Carolina Mountains
Best
Miami
Elizabeth
N.J
Roy Louis Morrell Jr
New York City
Francis Dee Forrest van Zandt
Late Juror Sent To Jail In Gastonia
Gastonia man Robert E. Brown, 34, was dragged from bed for contempt of court after missing jury duty in an armed robbery trial. A substitute juror sat, the trial ended in a mistrial after four hours, and Brown spent the weekend in jail awaiting a new trial.
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Gastonia
N.C
Robert E. Brown
Brown
Paul Williams and wife oppose Anita Bryant crusade
Composer Paul Williams and his wife Katy invest 675 in a Daily Variety ad to protest Anita Bryant and her anti gay rights stance. The couple, lyricist of Evergreen, say they quit drinking screwdrivers to show their concern for human rights.
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Los Angeles
Paul Williams
Anita Bryant
Daily Variety
Miss Bryant
Florida
Assa
Williams
Katy
Missing Wolfe letters case ends with curator surrender
Former Wolfe collection curator James J. Meehan surrendered on embezzlement charges for four missing letters from Thomas Wolfe's collection in Asheville North Carolina. The FBI continues the probe with possible federal charges while some letters were recovered or traced to galleries in New York Boston and Richmond.
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Asheville
Thomas Wolfe
Wolfe
North Carolina
Buncombe County
Robert Fisher
James J. Meehan
Meehan
New York
Boston
Mass
Richmond
Fisher
FBI
Margaret Wallace
New York Times Book Review
Wallace
Hamilton Galleries
Jelliffe
Grand Jury
State budget proposal seen as largely unchanged by leaders
North Carolina lawmakers review a $5 billion biennial budget plan with general spending of $2.2 billion in 1977 78 and $2.3 billion in 1978 79. The measure includes a 6.5 percent teacher and state employee pay raise, tuition hikes for UNC system students, and reductions in Medicaid benefits while funding prison upgrades and new facilities.
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Raleigh
Joint
House and
Senate Appropriations Committee
Supt. of Public Instruction
Craig Phillips
University of North Carolina
Hunt
Holmes
Central Prison
Asheboro
Advisory Budget Commission
School of Veterinary Medicine
N.C. State University
Commission
North Carolina House and Senate Back Tough Robbery Penalties
The NC Senate and House give tentative approvals to bills increasing penalties for armed robbery and vending machine tampering. A five year minimum prison term without parole passes the House 97-8, while a separate vending machine bill would make theft attempts a felony. Also approved are a minor treatment consent measure on second reading, bicycle traffic law updates, and a balanced budget requirement to go to voters.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Senate
House
R.C. Soles
Dcolumbus
James Ezzell
D-Nash
James Garrison
D-Stanly
Albemarle
Sen
McNeill Smith
Guilford
Jerry Popkin
Donslow
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High Point Enterprise
Paul
Wolfe Collection
Pack Memorial Library
Virginia
Ed Holmes
Chatham
Harold Hardison
D-Lenoir
Phillips
General Assembly
Rufus Edmisten
Edmisten
Appeals Court
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Soles
Jamestown
N. C
Floral Garden Park Cemetery
English Rd
High Point, N.C
Om Teh Ae Shah
Vernon Equipment
New St. Joff Kivett Dr
Valleydale Chunk
Bologna
Franks
Archdale Meat Center
South Main Street
High Point N.C
High Point
Harold C. Davis
Plowers North Main
Farriss Avenue
PFDI
William Aaron Harold C. Davis
Evelyn Davis
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