Death Penalty Questionnaires Show Mixed North Carolina View
A Raleigh AP report states 49 percent of responding NC legislative candidates favor abolition of capital punishment. Of 392 candidates, 93 replied, with 46 for abolition, seven for retention, and 40 undecided. Responses cover House and Senate candidates across counties from Haywood to Wake.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Marie Hill
State House
Senate
Edna Richards
House
Bill Cuts Textile Imports to One-Third Drop
Commerce official Stanley Nehmer says a new bill may cut manmade fiber textile and apparel imports by one third from 1969 levels. Hearings start next month as Rep. Wilbur Mills introduces the measure. Nehmer notes a record 205 million yards imported last month and cites prior 1968 1969 surge as too high.
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New York
Congress
Commerce Department
Stanley Nehmer
National Knitted Outerwear Association
Wilbur D. Mills
Dirk
Nehmer
Farmer Freed In Slaying In Enfield Case
A Halifax Superior Court jury acquitted Peyton Randolph a 70 year old white farmer of murder in the slaying of Wilburt Lee Frederick a 17 year old Black youth. Frederick died at Duke Hospital after a Sept. 13 gunshot wound while Randolph said he shot the pair as they attempted to escape from a house he owned in Enfield. The girl was wounded in the leg.
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Rocky Mount
N. C. General Assembly
Halifax
N. C
Superior Court
Peyton Randolph
Wilburt Lee Frederick
Duke Hospital
Randolph
Enfield
Ambitious NC National Guard Budget Request Planned
North Carolina adjutant general Ford Davis says the 1971 General Assembly will be asked for a somewhat ambitious budget to add armories expand personnel and improve equipment. He also plans a study on why African Americans are underrepresented in the guard and a June drive to gather petitions for U S prisoners in North Vietnam.
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Raleigh
Adj
Ford Davis
General Assembly
North Carolina National Guard
Davis
Guard
U. S
North Vietnam
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Haywood County
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Pitt Counties
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Guilford
Alamance
Orange
Wake
Buncombe
Piedmont
Italy
Aenes
Apt
Pic-Way Shoe Mart
SIR Pizza
Spaghett
Southgate
Worth Main ST
Clifton T
Ted) Hunt, JR
National Guard
Vietnam
Herbert Vance Pegram
Foukong
Guilford County
Summerfield Methodist Church
Greensboro
High Point College
U.N.C
High Point
Schoo Board
L. P. McLendon, Jr
Democrat
Guilford and
Randolph Counties
L. P
Mac" McLendon
N. C. State Senate
UNC
North Carolina Constitution Study Commission
Commission On Study of University
Governor's Aviation Advisory Commission
Durham
University of North Carolina
8Th Air Force
England
Greensboro Chamber of Commerce
Children's Home Society of North Carolina
Greensboro Community Council
Friends of the Library
Greensboro Board of Education
First Presbyterian Church
L. BP. McLendon, Jr
American Day Nursery
Greensboro Road
the Creative School For Children
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