Hunt Tops North Carolina Vote Totals in Certification
Governor Jim Hunt and seven other Democratic statewide winners each surpassed one million votes in the November election, with Hunt at 1,081,293. The state Board of Elections certified results showing Carter leading the presidential race and strong showings for other statewide offices across districts.
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Raleigh
Jim Hunt
Board of Elections
Hunt
David Flaherty
H. F. Seawell Jr
Arlan K. Andrews
Rufus Edmisten
Edward L. Powell
Jimmy Carter
Gerald Ford
John Brooks
Avery Nye
Jimmy Green
William S. Hiatt
Arlis Pettyjohn
John Ingram
Edwin Tenney
Jim Graham
Kenneth Rober
Edwin B. Drury
Harlan Boyles
An Howard Cobl
Thad Eure
Asa Spaudling Jr
Henry Bridges
Michael Godfrey
Supt. of Public Instruction
A. Craig Phillips
Rey Evelyn S. Tyler
Walter Jones
Joseph M. Ward
Michael Parker
L.H. Fountain
Charles Whitley
Willard J. Blanchard
Ike Andrews
Johnny L. Gallemore Jr
Thanksgiving Weather Outlook For Carolinas
The National Weather Service forecasts warmer temperatures for Thanksgiving across North and South Carolina. Partly cloudy to mostly sunny skies with milder highs in the 50s to 60s, some rain chances late weekend, and cooler nights in the 20s to 40s.
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National Weather Service
North Carolina
Piedmont
South Carolina
Furniture Worker Dies Of Burns In North Carolina Plant
Clifton Woody 27 of Lenoir died from burns suffered Monday in a drum of used motor oil explosion at the Earnhardt furniture plant in Lenoir. He had third degree burns on 90 percent of his body and died at Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem. Another Earnhardt worker, Bobby Bumgarner 44 of Morganton, remained in critical condition in the same hospital.
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Lenoir
N.C
Clifton Woody
Earnhardt Furniture
Baptist Hospital
Winston-Salem
Earnhardt
Bobby Bumgarner
Rt. 3
Morganton
Wilderness mining proposal meets Forest Service opposition
The U S Forest Service disapproves of Framco uranium prospecting in Pisgah National Forest south of Grandfather Mountain North Carolina. A 10 year plan aims to preserve wilderness qualities while Sierra Club seeks wilderness designation. Framco estimates 11 000 tons of uranium in the 17 000 acre area potentially worth 660 million dollars.
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Marion
N.C
U.S. Forest Service
Pisgah National Forest
Cao Mee
John P
Sierra Club
Grandfather Mountain
North Carolina
U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration
French American Metals Corp
Framco
Colorado
Chris Metzer
Utilities Commission lowers projected peak electric load
Raleigh report shows the North Carolina Utilities Commission staff finds future peak load growth for Duke Power Co and Carolina Power & Light Co will be smaller than company estimates. 10 year forecasts to 1986 set CP&L at about 9.9 million kilowatts and Duke at 16.7 million. CP&L 1968 forecast around 1.2 million kilowatts, with 1986 projection near 10.2 million kilowatts, slightly above staff.
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Raleigh
State Utilities Commission
Duke Power Co
Carolina Power & Light Co
Heav
Cp&l
Duke
Commission
Woman Buried Year And A Half After Death
In Morganton NC a 41 year old woman Ruby Catherine Self Smith was buried a year and a half after her body was found and over four years after her disappearance. Her body was dug from a shallow grave near Casar Burke County on May 7 1975 after she vanished Sept 5 1972. The case involved SBI and Burke County investigators who found bullets and shell casings at the mobile home. The body rested in the North Carolina Medical Examiner's morgue in Chapel Hill until burial. A Central Prison Raleigh inmate earlier pled guilty to second degree murder in the case.
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Morganton
Ruby Catherine Self Smith
Casar
Burke County
Sheriff's Deputies
North Carolina Medical Examiner's Office
Chapel Hill
Central Prison
Raleigh
Burke Superior Court
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Charleston
Charlotte
Columbia
Greensboro
G'vile S.C
Savannah
Wilmington
ABC
Archdale
S. Main
Lyanks
Namebrands
Vallet
T & Female
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Bank Americard & Mastercharge
Asheboro Northgate Plaza
John Cotton
Lexington Ave
SBI
Belk Beck
High Point
P.M
South Main
Russel
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