Western North Carolina hit by light quake tremors
Brief report from the Associated Press notes earth tremors across four Southern states including North Carolina. Tremors at 2 48 a.m. lasted about 15 seconds with no injuries or major damage. Residents in Buncombe Haywood and Henderson counties and Spartanburg Grenville and Pickens counties reported shaking.
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Irving Wins Valentine Day Parole for Hughes Biography Fraud
The U S Parole Board grants Clifford Irving parole on February 14 after serving about 18 months of a 22 year sentence. He is at Danbury Federal Prison in Connecticut, having been moved from Allenwood in 1973, and was convicted in New York in 1972 for conspiring to defraud McGraw Hill with a fake Howard Hughes biography.
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Kibbutz Industries Grow to 197 Million in Output
Kibbutz Industries coordinator Dan Karmon reports Israeli kibbutz settlements run 232 factories producing over 197 million dollars in goods last year. About 170 kibbutzim operate industrial plants with most income from both agriculture and manufacturing.
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Hepatitis Cause Found Inspire Hope for Better Relief
Government scientists report the discovery of and form of virus-like particles linked to infectious hepatitis. The finding could improve diagnosis and pave the way for vaccines, with efforts under way to isolate particles from prisoner stool samples and test-tube cultures for vaccine development.
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Bills Expand Local Zoning Authority in North Carolina
A Raleigh AP report says a joint legislative committee amended the Coastal and Mountain Area Management Acts to shift power from a proposed state commission to local governments. Local bodies would draft land use plans with state review and issue development permits in environmentally sensitive coastal marshes and western mountain areas.
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Skylab 3 Astronauts Adjusting to Weightless Life
Space center reports Skylab 3 crews adjust to weightless life but slower than Skylab 1 and 2. Mission Control cites heavy early workload as reason. Astronauts Gerald Carr William Pogue and Edward Gibson face tougher schedule but expected to catch up within days.
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Odrinex Plan Promises Weight Loss Guarantee
The ad touts Odrinex as a tiny tablet aiding fat loss with no drugs, dieting, or exercise. It claims a 15 year track record and guarantees money back if the buyer does not lose ugly fat, with prices listed at $3.25 and $5.25 for economy size.
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Plane wreckage found with doctor dead near Hayesville
Wreckage of a missing plane was found in a remote North Carolina mountain area near Hayesville. Dr. M. S. Riddell, recently moved to Cary from Mississippi, was identified as the body. The missing five aboard were reported near Hagerstown to Roanoke and possibly bound for Atlanta. Civil Air Patrol crews searched in heavy overcast and drizzle as a ground party reached the 5,000 foot site between Standing Indian Peak and Chatuge Lake on the NC-Georgia line.
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