Cigarette Sales Up Despite Ad Ban
Raleigh report shows cigarette sales rose 2.9 percent in the first nine months of the year despite the radio and television advertising ban. Curtis H. Judge of Lorillard praised the industry’s vitality while Joseph Williams noted shifts toward low tar products and foreign tobacco. Carl Hicks was re elected president of the Tobacco Growers Information Committee.
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Raleigh
Curtis H. Judge
P. Lorillard
Loews Corp
Joseph R. Williams
U.S. Foreign Agricultural Service
Ards
Williams
Tobacco Associates Inc
John D. Palmer
Carl T. Hicks
Tobacco Growers Information Committee
Tobacco Interests
North Carolina Weather Outlook with Warm Temperatures
Warm humid southerly winds bring summer like weather to North Carolina for the second day. Cooler air arrives by Thursday with variable cloudiness and a 50 percent precipitation chance today dropping to 30 percent Wednesday. Highs near 80 today, 70s Wednesday, lows around 60s. South Carolina shows showers today with a cooling trend by late Wednesday. Extended Thursday to Saturday fair but cooler, with mountain highs in 50s and 60s and coastal highs in the 60s.
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North Carolina
South Carolina
Eighth Grade Pupils Set for Trial in Boone Shooting
Three eighth grade pupils were to be tried in Boone on charges they fired at teacher Mickey Powers at Parkway Elementary. A preliminary hearing in Watauga District Court led to appointed attorneys for each juvenile. Powers reported a bullet shattered a glass door and he sustained a minor cut from flying glass.
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Boone, N.C
Boone
Watauga District Court
J. Ray Braswell
Mickey Powers
Powers
Parkway
Court Nominees Get Support for Supreme Court
Senate Judiciary Committee hears broad support for Nixon picks Lewis Powell Jr and William Rehnquist. Rehnquist faces civil liberties questions while Powell, a Richmond lawyer and ABA former president, draws less opposition. Arizona figures and judges back Rehnquist. hearings begin soon.
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Senate Judiciary Committee
Nixon
Supreme Court
Lewis F. Powell Jr
William H. Rehnquist
Rehnquist
Phoenix
Powell
Richmond
American Bar Association
ABA
Committee On the
Federal Judiciary
Senate
Walter E. Craig
Herbert L. Ely
Democratic
Arizona
American Civil Liberties Union
Ely
James O. Eastland
D-Miss
William Rehnquist
Paul N. McCloskey Jr
Rcalif
Court of Appeals
Queen Elizabeth Security Expanded After Twin London Bombings
London awaited Parliament's opening as four thousand extra police guarded the route for Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip. Helicopters and river patrols protected the royal progress amid two weekend bombings, with investigators unsure of the attackers. An anonymous warning targeted the Queen Victoria tower, prompting steel netting around Parliament. IRA and Angry Brigade claims surfaced but were denied by IRA leaders in Dublin.
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London
Toiday
Elizabeth II
Scotland Yard
Prince Philip
Prince Charles
Thames River
Parliament
Guy Fawkes
James I
Lon
Don
Westminster
Queen Victoria Tower
Houses of Parliament
Irish Republican Army
Northern Ireland
Dock Walkouts Endanger Alabama Soybean Harvest
A record soybean harvest in Alabama faces losses of millions as dock walkouts by the International Longshoremen's Association halt ship movements at East and Gulf Coast ports. Alabama shipping and agricultural interests urge President Nixon to intervene after 32 days of strike with no talks in New York and limited progress in Tampa and Washington.
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Nixon
International Longshoremen’s Association
East
Gulf Coast
New York
ILA
South Atlantic
Tampa
Fla
Washington
Charlotte Sets School Conference
Charlotte Mecklen burg School Board plans a meeting with community leaders principals and police to discuss racial disturbances and possible measures. Police issued warrants against 26 Myers Park pupils for riot offenses with potential penalties up to five years and $10 000 fine.
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Myers Park
Two More American Helicopters Lost in Vietnam War
The U S Command announced eight thousand four American aircraft losses in Indochina after two more U S helicopters were downed in the central highlands. An OH6 was shot down near Pleiku with one wounded, and a UH1 Huey went down near Kontum as ground fighting continued. Air strikes targeted the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos and depots in Cambodia while artillery hit North Vietnamese positions in Cambodia and the southern DMZ.
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Saigon
U.S
Central Highlands
U. S
Pleiku
Kontum
Mekong Delta
Laos
Cambodia
South Vietnam
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