Help with local inquiries printed in The Enterprise
Readers ask for school address and town histories. The Murdock Center is in Butner North Carolina. Local histories give High Point charter May 26 1859 and Greensboro origins in 1808 with Greensborough renamed Greensboro in 1870. Advice on valuing used furniture includes market refs and buyer willingness, suggesting appraisal for a fee and setting a minimum price based on comparable cost, original price, usage, and condition.
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Candles Sought for Jamestown Yard Glow Traditions
The writer asks where to buy 300 five inch candles for a Christmas street display in Jamestown. Old Salem offered 300 beeswax candles at 15 cents each, but warns they burn fast and aren’t suitable.
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Old Salem
Three room home at risk as creek blocked by warehouse plan
A 76-year-old man fears flooding after a warehouse plan blocks a creek on his three room property. Public Works and a 85 acre site cleared trees and deepened the channel to improve flow, removing obstructions and junk upstream. Residents urge action before further rain worsens damage.
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Davis
Big Man
Little Man
Old Candle Tea at Salem Dates Announced
The Home Moravian Church presents the Old Candle Tea at the Single Brothers House with events on December 3 to 5 and December 19 to 21 from 2 to 6 p.m. For details contact Mrs. Thomas W. Williams Jr., 3301 Pennington Lane, Winston-Salem.
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Home Moravian Church
Single Brothers
Thomas W. Williams Jr
Pennington Lane
Winston-Salem
Americans Help Less Fortunate During Thanksgiving Reach
A nationwide effort to aid the needy marks Thanksgiving with turkey gifts in Muskogee Oklahoma and food drives in Chicago Glendale Community College in Arizona and several states. Prisoner releases in Georgia and Navy and Army personnel abroad join charity events including a White House meal for hospitalized servicemen and a Vietnam service tally.
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Hickel fired as Interior secretary amid White House clash
President Nixon dismissed Walter J. Hickel after a half hour meeting citing lack of mutual confidence. Hickel said he could not play the White House game and asserted he did his job his way, amid prior oil spill and leasing actions shaping federal policy. Morton named as successor and set for Senate confirmation next year.
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Walter J. Hickel
Nixon
White House
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Congress
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Rmd
Republican National Committee
Morton
Senate
Ronald L. Ziegler
War toll rises as 65 Americans killed in Indochina
The U S Command reports 65 Americans killed in Indochina last week the highest in 2% months with 23 deaths from non hostile causes and 335 wounded in action. A helicopter crash near Da Nang killed 15 Marines and over a dozen booby trap and mine deaths were included in the tally.
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Congress Debates POW Raid And Tonkin Gulf Links
Congress weighs the purpose and impact of the Son Tay POW raid and the resumed bombing of North Vietnam. Secretary Rogers questions any Paris Talks effect while McGovern considers blocking Indochina funding. Melvin Laird cites public disclosure needs and Dole drafts a heroism resolution blocked by Fulbright.
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Tonkin Gulf
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House
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Son Tay
William P. Rogers
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Paris
George McGovern
Indochina
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Melvin
Volunteer Army Air Force
Robert J. Dole
R-Kan
J. W. Fulbright
Fulbright Sees Echoes of Tonkin in Raid Debate
Fulbright, Arkansas Democrat and Foreign Relations chair, compared the raid to Tonkin Gulf era events while arguing the rescue mission may be peculiar but not contrived. He urged waiting for full Senate review before action. Rogers weighed impact on Paris talks and protective reaction bombings.
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Foreign Relations Committee
Tonkin Gulf
Maddox
Cole
Rogers
Paris
Congress
Ex-GIs Face Tough Economy
Washington AP reports veterans returning from Vietnam face high unemployment and civilian readjustment struggles. Assistant Labor Secretary Lovell cites at least 7 percent jobless rate among ex servicemen, with some months discharging 80 000 into a tight economy.
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Washington
GI Joe
Vietnam
Senate
Malcolm R. Lovell Jr
Senators
Sen
Alan Cranston
Nixon fires Walter Hickel amid Interior shakeup
Washington reports Nixon abruptly dismisses Interior Secretary Walter Hickel after months of rumors. Hickel, unmoved by Mitchell talks, was told by John Ehrlichman that he had been terminated for lack of mutual confidence. Clinton-era context not applicable.
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Washington
Nixon
Walter 4. Hickel
Hickel
White House
Atty
John N. Mitchell
Mitchell
Weapons Official Dies In Lake Mead Plane Crash
Atomic Energy Commissioner Theos Thompson died when a National Park Service plane crashed in 300 feet of water at Lake Mead. Pilot Chuck Roland survived. two other passengers perished. Witness Bing Dowdy described the dive as a sudden nosedive into the lake.
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Lake Mead
Atomic Energy
Theos Thompson
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National Park Service
Bing Dowdy
the Park Service
Lake Mead National Recreation Area
Thom
Nevada Nuclear Test Site
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