One Bond Issue Ready Another On The Way
North Carolina leaders advance bond plans as voters head to November. Senate approves a $300 million road bond and a $230 million water/sewer bond while lawmakers set schedules for debates on an $8 billion appropriations bill for 1977–79. A bill to close adult venues moves forward, with critics calling it unconstitutional.
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Raleigh
Senate
House Appropriations Committee
Ways and Means Committee
Edward Holmes
D.chatham
House
Jim Hunt
House Judiciary Committee
Birth Defects Linked to Alcohol in Pregnancy
UNC researchers confirm in a two year dog study that heavy alcohol exposure during pregnancy raises stillbirths early death and birth defects. Findings echo warnings from national health groups about abstaining or limiting intake during pregnancy.
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Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina
Fred. W. Ellis
James R. Pick
National Institute On Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Ernest P. Noble
George Dimas
National Council On Alcoholism
Ellis
Unc-Ch School of Medicine
UNC
United States
Weekend weather outlook for North and South Carolina
The forecast calls for warm humid conditions across the region with variable cloudiness. Ontario includes chances of thundershowers today and Sunday in North Carolina and widespread warmth with showers or thundershowers across South Carolina through Wednesday.
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High Point
North Carolina
South Carolina
Weather Bureau
Former Boxer Wade Overcash Shot to Death in Salisbury
Salisbury police hunted two men after they shot and killed former professional boxer Wade Overcash and seriously wounded another man during a grocery store incident. The event occurred in Salisbury and involved an armed confrontation inside the store. Investigators urged anyone with information to contact authorities.
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Salisbury
Wade Overcash
Smokers Lose Another Battle
RALEIGH AP Eastern Airlines plans to reserve 65 percent of seats for non smokers drawing criticism from tobacco groups. Billy Yeargin of the Tobacco Growers Information Committee denounced the action as an assault on choice. The report also details a grocery store shooting in Salisbury where dynamite nickname holder Overcash was found dead and Myron Goodman wounded, with two suspects sought.
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Raleigh
Eastern Airlines
Billy Yeargin
Tobacco Growers Information Committee
CIA
Tasttene
Civil Aeronautics Board
Yeorgin
Overcash
Myron Goodman
Goodman
Baptist Hospital
Winston-Salem
Salisbury
State Bureau of Investigation
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General Assembly
Stanford White
D-Dare
Daniel Lilley
D-Lenoir
David Bumgardner
D-Gaston
McNeill Smith
Douilford
Huntsville
Big Spring Park Lagoon
Eric Kammerrud
Eric
Vedude
Eer
Asheville
Augusta
Charleston
Charlotte
Columbia
Greensboro
Gvile S C
Savannah
P.c
Trindale Fellowship
South Main St
CB Radio
Associated Press
Teaneck
N.J
Marsh Kitchens, Inc
Floral Garden Park Cemetery
English Rd
High Point, N.C
Kentuck Hed Chicken
Harland Sanders
America
English Road
Randolph Thomasville
Lexington Ave
Main St
Asheboro
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