Betty Hutton Honors Old Friends at Riverboat Party
Betty Hutton, once Hollywood’s Blonde Bombshell, toasted show business friends at the Empire State Building Riverboat Restaurant and vowed to return to Portsmouth to work as a housekeeper cook at St. Anthony’s rectory. Father Peter McGuire praised her, and Hutton recalled her rise and stumbles before she accepted his rectory job years ago.
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New York
Show Biz
St. Anthony’s
Partsmouth
R.I1
Betty Hutton
Portsmouth
Empire State Building
Peter McGuire
Betty
George Jessel
Eddie Bracken
Hollywood
Bracken
Father McGuire
Duke rate plan criticized as subsidy to all electric customers
Economics professor Dr Edward W Erickson told the North Carolina Utilities Commission on Monday that Duke Power Co rate structure makes some sales lose money while others cover the losses and that all electric customers have enjoyed a subsidy from other customers.
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Raleigh, N.C
Duke Power Co
Edward W. Erickson
North Carolina Utilities Commission
Duke
CP&L Cuts Construction Program Across 1974 76
RALEIGH AP Carolina Power and Light Co plans to reduce its construction program by 87 million in 1974 and 410 million for 1974 76 The cut reflects slower forecasted growth in customer usage and a change in reserve generating capacity criteria tied to investor reluctance for new capital The revised plan calls for about 380 million in 1974 and 1 195 billion for 1974 76 The article also cites NC State expert Erickson criticizing Duke Power Co rate design and notes a state utility staff proposal favoring higher charges for large industrial customers while easing residential burdens.
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Raleigh
Carolina Power & Light Co
Shearon Harris
Cp&l
Erickson
North Carolina State University
Duke Power Co
Duke
Utility Commission
Senators Oppose Tax Bill in Senate Vote
North Carolina lawmakers Senator Sam Ervin Jr and Senator Jesse Helms opposed a proposed income tax cut of 6.6 billion and corporate tax rise of 7 billion. The measure failed 64 to 33. In a separate vote they joined the minority against an emergency credit program for livestock producers, which passed 82 to 9.
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North Carolina
Sam Ervin Jr
Jesse Helms
Senate
Ervin
Helms
Panel Report Says Nixon Men Powerful
A Senate Watergate committee report warns that presidential advisers across three administrations gained power as de facto assistants presidents. They act as a government within a government, often without the president’s knowledge, and are not subject to judicial review. The report calls for congressional study and potential changes to executive office oversight.
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Washington
Senate Watergate Committee
Arthur Miller
Senate
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Patrolman Trial Jury Selected in Murder Case
In Jacksonville Craven County jurors are being summoned for the murder trial of Thurmond L. Strickland a 30 year old former state highway patrolman from Goldsboro. He is charged with suffocating his grandmother Mrs Addie Letson and shooting his mother Thelma Strickland at her home on February 20.
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Jacksonville
N. C
Craven County
Onslow County
Craven
Thurmond L. Strickland
Goldsboro
Addie Letson
Thelma Strickland
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