House Approves Auto Insurance Plan After Age-Based Rates Debate
North Carolina lawmakers backed a plan to let the state set equitable auto liability rate classifications under a 260 Plan. The House defeated bills to prohibit age discrimination in rates, while Rep Ingram urged ending disparities that charge youths more despite safe driving records.
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Raleigh
House
John Ingram
Randolph
Ingram
Vietnam
Dan Lilley
D-Lenoir
Senate
Governor’s Study Commission
Jack Rhyne
D-Gaston
Lilley
Repeal of North Carolina Soft Drink Tax Clears Committee
The House Finance Committee narrowly approved a bill to repeal the 1 cent soft drink tax by 1973. Supporters faced strong resistance on the House floor and in the Senate, with opponents calling the move fiscally dangerous and a tax shift to cigarettes.
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Raleigh
House Finance Committee
North Carolina
House
Senate Finance Committee
Sam Johnson
Wake
Perry Martin
Northampton
General Assembly
Bob Scott
Martin
Scott
Johnson
Liston Ramsey
D-Madison
Herschel Harkins
D-Buncombe
Harkins
Ramsey
Sneed High
D-Cumberland
William R. Robertson
D-Beaufort
Link Between Tunnel Blast and Quake Probable
A California mining official suggests the February earthquake may have disturbed underground formations and triggered methane seepage that ignited in an underground tunnel, killing workers. Seven bodies recovered with 10 missing. one survivor described two explosions amid a 14 hour fire near Sylmar.
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Los Angeles
Gordon B. Oakeshott
California Division of Mines and Geology
Sylmar
Ralph Brisette
California
Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Co
Aerospace Giant
Billboard Regulations Adopted In North Carolina
North Carolina Highway Commission approved billboard and junkyard rules under federal pressure. Rules cover signs within 660 feet of interstates and primaries, with exemptions for business premises and post 1968 signs. New signs capped at 1200 square feet and spaced 500 feet on interstates, 300 feet on primaries.
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Raleigh
North Carolina Highway Commission
Commission
Bill Ingram
State Department of Archives and History
Fayetteville Arsenal
Archives and History
Central Business District
Heroin Detection Test Proves Effective For Returning GIs
The FRAT method developed by Washington lab claims 100 times more sensitive detection of heroin than older tests. It screens over 2500 urine samples daily and aims to identify users among troops leaving Vietnam. The Pentagon adopted the system after a 22 day, nine nation study on drug trafficking and addiction among service members.
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Washington
Vietnam
Vicilian
Washington Reference Laboratory
WRL
Bette Hamman
South Vietnam
United
States
Lawrence H. Vineburgh
Army
Defense Department
Robert H. Steele
R-Conn
Steele
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Morgan F. Murphy
D-Il
U.S
Long Binh
Cam Ranh Bay
Syva Research Institute of
Palo Alto
Calif
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Frank Carey
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