Lawmaker Proposes 10 Month School Year Shift
Rep. George Uzzell and Sen. Ernest Ross push bills to drop 12th grade and extend the year from nine to 10 months. They argue fewer teachers and supplies would cut costs while boosting teacher pay from 3900 to 4300 dollars per extra month, with an estimated seven million dollars yearly impact. State Superintendent Carroll has not commented. Ross says Carroll favors exploring the idea.
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Branch Named Head of Baptist Group in North Carolina
Dr. Douglas M. Branch of Rocky Mount will become general secretary of the Baptist State Convention on July 1 succeeding Dr. M. A. Huggins. Elected by 2,100 messengers with about 80 percent support, Branch is a former convention president and Wake Forest graduate. He previously led churches in Scotland Neck and Kannapolis before Rocky Mount.
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Branch
Raleigh
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Greensboro
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Lenoir
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Owens
Wake Forest College
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Scotland Neck
Kannapolis
First Baptist Church
Spaniard Pioneered Eiffel Tower Public Visit
Seventy years ago a Spanish nobleman became the first public visitor to the Eiffel Tower. Since then about 35 million people have visited France’s top tourist site. The tower, built to mark the 1789 Revolution, cost 1.5 million dollars and weighs 7,000 tons. Gustave Eiffel, who died in 1923 at 91, designed its 18,036 iron girders and a private top penthouse remains.
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New York City
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Catholic unity meeting in Lisle to foster Christian charity
Catholics will gather in Lisle for a unionist meeting aimed at raising awareness among Catholics and Orthodox of the need for greater Christian charity in approaching reunion.
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Lisle, Ill
Stamps Fund Drives Seattle church aid program
About five years ago Andrea Olsen, librarian at the Seattle Council of Churches, began selling stamps to support Christian work. The venture draws stamps from across the country, earning about $184 a month and totaling $5,075 to date for Church World Service, the Protestant overseas relief agency.
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Seattle, Wash
Andrea Olsen
Seattle Council of Churches
Church World Service
Protestant Overseas Relief Agency
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