Grandfather Mountain Hosts Large Bluegrass Festival
Grandfather Mountain in Linville North Carolina drew crowds toward a 50 000 target as the three day Grandfather Mountain Music Festival kicked off. The event featured acts like the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Earl Scruggs Revue Doc and Merle Watson Lester Platt and the Nashville Grass and Arthur Smith.
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Linville
N.C
State Highway Patrol
Earl Scruggs
Doc and
Merle Watson
Lester Platt
Nashville Grass
Arthur Smith
Exum and Ervin Urged for Fourth Circuit Seat
U S Senator Jesse Helms backed state Supreme Court Justice James Exum and Superior Court Judge Sam J Ervin III for a vacant seat on the Fourth U S Circuit Court of Appeals. He criticized the five names on a nominating committee list and urged airing at Senate confirmation hearings before final decisions.
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Winston-Salem
U.S
Jesse Helms
R-N.c
Supreme Court
James Exum
Superior Court
Sam J. Ervin Iil
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Helms
Senate
Court of Appeals
J. Braxton Craven
Carter
White House
U.S. District Court
James B. McMillan
Charlotte
Duke University
Kenneth Pye
UNC Law School
J. Dickson Phillips
Duke Law
William van Alstyne
Julius Chambers
TV For The Deaf To Be Discussed
Secretary Califano announces an October meeting with TV network presidents to plan captions for news and entertainment. Readable via inexpensive decoders, the plan aims to open television to deaf Americans and extend captioning beyond news to broader programming.
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Washington (Ap
Joseph A. Califano
Health, Education and Welfare
Califano
National Rehabilitation Association
America
Public Broadcasting System
ABC Evening News
Suspected Bomb Found On Pan American Jetliner
A Pan Am jetliner carrying 314 people diverted to Shannon Airport after a package resembling a bomb was found in a toilet by Flight Engineer Thomas Olson. The bomb squad removed the device and failed to detonate it. authorities said it contained powder with no known explosive odor.
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Shannon
Ireland
Pan American
New York
Pan Am
Thomas Olson
Kennedy
Jim Sheenan
Army
Patrick Regan
Irish Ordnance Corps
Piedmont Airlines Executive William McGruder Dies at 54
William McGruder former executive vice president of Piedmont Airlines died at age 54 from an apparent heart attack. He collapsed while playing golf at Old Town Golf Course and was pronounced dead at Forsyth Memorial Hospital at 3 p.m. Funeral arrangements were not yet available.
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Winston-Salem
William McGruder
Piedmont Airlines
McGruder
Old Town
Forsyth Memorial Hospital
Billy Graham ends bridge-building visit to Soviet bloc
Billy Graham concluded a week in Hungary after preaching to about 28 000 people in Budapest Debrecen and Pecs and an outdoor rally described as the largest Protestant gathering since Communist takeover. He said the trip met his five aims including observing socialist life and building religious bridges.
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Hungary
Billy Graham
Soviet Bloc
Graham
U.S
Europe
Council of Free Churches
Debrecen
Pecs
Communist Party
Tober
Sandor Palatoy
Tahi
Christ
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