Vote Trading Keeps Anti-Porn Bill Alive
In North Carolina a liquor by the drink bill passed the Senate on Wednesday in a trade for support on the anti pornography measure. Sen. I Beverly Lake and Sen. Carolyn Mathis brokered the deal with one yes vote each, sending Lake's bill to the floor after Mathis urged committee reconsideration. The bill would allow civil suits to close adult book stores or movie houses deemed public nuisances and redirect fines to local governments. Lake amended the bill to ease the pact, replacing a one-year padlock with a reopening option. Church groups support the measure, while opponents say it could harass legitimate businesses showing controversial films.
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Beverly Lake
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Carolyn Mathis
D-Mecklenburg
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Judiciary Committee
Sen. Mathis
Mecklenburg County
State
Charlotte
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Court Used To Resolve Worst Ills
Asheville AP report quotes Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Clement C. Torbert Jr saying courts are used for hard social decisions left by government and private sectors. NC Bar Association meets as board approves mutual malpractice insurer for attorneys amid insurer shortage concerns.
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Board of Governors
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Two Trent River Bridges Open Ahead of Schedule
Gov. Jim Hunt cut a red ribbon to open two U.S. 70 Bypass bridges over the Trent River in New Bern five months early. The ceremony praised faster access roads and reduced river crossing congestion on the beach route as state officials accelerated completion to prevent summer traffic jams and delays in deliveries.
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N. C
Jim Hunt
U. S. 70
Trent River
Hunt
Teenager Finds Huge Ruby in North Carolina Mine
Seventeen year old Kim Jones of Scotland Pennsylvania unearthed a 456 carat ruby from a 25 cent gravel bucket near Franklin North Carolina. The stone is 85 percent ruby and could be worth over 100000 dollars when cut into a star.
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Scotland
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Franklin
Cowee Valley
Caler Fork
Mary Benton
Gregory Ruby Mine
Claremont Black Family Files Anti-Discrimination Action
The Shuford family of Claremont, the town’s only black property owners, sue the town in U S Western District Court claiming denial of water sewer lines street paving and other municipal services while 2 000 white residents receive them The suit seeks service provision and could threaten 24 715 in revenue sharing funds with 20 days for response. The case follows a 1937 land ownership and tax dispute and a 1960s re evaluation.
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Claremont
James C. Fuller Jr
Charlotte
Shuford
U.S. Western District Court
Tle
Russell Shuford
U.S. Office of Revenue Sharing
104-Year-Old Remembers First Cars And Airplanes
Annie Futrell, 104, along with memories of childhood in Ahoskie NC, recalls the first cars and early airplanes that frightened neighbors. She lives in a Durham convalescent home, longs to return to Northampton County, and has outlived two husbands while caring for four daughters.
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Annie Futrell
Ahoskie
Northhampton County
North Carolina
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