County Considering Sales Tax Move Without Vote
Guilford County commissioners weigh removing the June 8 referendum on a one percent local sales tax. Supporters say the tax could fund a $30 million jail and GTI projects and cover debt service, easing property tax burdens. Voters might embrace bonds if debt service is tax funded, with Wake and others already using this authority.
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Guilford County
Jail
GTI
Wake
General Assembly
Guilford
Evolution of man in the age of biology and brain science
The piece surveys rapid advances in biology and neuroscience shaping human life from conception to old age. It cites Eckhart and Wheeler on biology's revolution, Delgado on brain mechanisms, and Watson’s forecast of outside fertilization. It notes ethical questions, senatorial action, and cautious optimism about future capabilities.
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Walter Eckhart
Salk Institute For Biological Science
San Diego
Harvey Wheeler
Center For the Study of
Jose M. R. Delgado
Yale University School of Medicine
James D. Watson
Watson
House
Science and Astronautics Committee
United States
Dr. Strangelove
Mark 48 torpedo delays cripple Navy arms program
Report outlines costly Mark 48 torpedo delays with production snag ov erruns from 100000 to 750000 per unit. First new units due January 1972 after three year slip. total cost projected at 3 billion. Navy crews repurpose tubes and convert decks to living space as retrieval and security flaws surface.
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Washington
U.S
Navy
Nathan Sowenshein
Westinghouse
Dabob Bay
Bahamas
Florida
Look magazine questions if Hughes took Bahamas flight
The piece debates whether Howard Hughes staged a Bahamas trip citing Look magazine claims of a double and a withdrawn Hughes. It notes Look's sketches and health rumors, while asserting the real Hughes remained reclusive and cautious about flying since 1946.
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Bahamas
Hughes
Look
Hosiery chant and civic pleas echo at industry event
At the National Association of Hosiery Manufacturers convention a humorous poem jolts readers with a moral on machine powered production. The piece contrasts profits with social costs while urging support for recreational and educational programs and a North Carolina zoological park project in Randolph County.
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National Association of Hosiery Manufacturers
Purgatory Mountain
Randolph County
Randolph
Asheboro
North Carolina
Army Leader Seeks Draft to Back Transition to Volunteers
Selective Service Director Curtiss W. Tarr argues the armed forces have been made a scapegoat for Vietnam and urges extending the draft as a standby authority to support a transition to an all volunteer army. He warns Congress wants to end the draft and stresses the need to ensure enough troops while the switch is tested.
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Vietnam
Selective Service
Curtiss W. Tarr
Tarr
Congress
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D-Minn
National Commission
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By Jack Anderson
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Suez Canal
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Eheimer 2
Ood
Chamber of Commerce Coffee Club
Atlantic Beach
Wade Lucas
High Point
Carlton Clinard
Harold Ritch
Long Ocean
Lucas
Ralph E. Miller
Mars Hill College
Chapel Hill
Mars Hill
New “College
UNC
Maxine Dover
National Association of American Business Clubs
National Association of Legal Secretaries
George A. Covington
Chamber of Commerce
Chicago
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