Ridgecrest Streets Patch Plan Delayed By Water and Sewer Cuts
Public plea to Mayor and High Point officials cites two years of payments for paving in Ridgecrest, now torn up with dusty streets and dangerous holes. Wills promises patching before finishing street cuts, with no resurfacing for a year. If the brook remains blocked, residents may request street division forms to schedule debris removal.
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Ridgecrest
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Wills
Grimes Avenue
Help for dying goldfish from tap water chlorine issue
A reader asks why goldfish die overnight after being kept in a bowl with tap water. The filter plant official notes chlorine in the water likely harms fish and advises letting water sit in the sun for several hours or half a day to dissipate chlorine before placing fish back in the bowl.
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Anon
Arts Council schedules fall painting sculpture classes for youth
The Arts Council begins a six week program the week of October 18 with school age painting and drawing and school age sculpture options. Workshops run by instructors Tom Dilling Sara Lyon Kitty Ring and others with classes limited to 15 and fees to be announced. For info call 882 0710.
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All Arts Council
Tom Dilling
Sara Lyon
Withdrawal Campaign Is Renewed
Washington Senator Mansfield renews a six month withdrawal deadline for U S forces in Vietnam. Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott defends presidential control of troop withdrawal timing as commander in chief. Mansfield says the amendment would set a fixed date while ensuring POW release. The measure seeks to pressure funding and timing amid Pentagon hearings.
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Senate
Hugh Scott
Congress
Nixon
U.S
South Vietnam
Scott
Mike Mansfield
Southeast Asia
Mansfield
House
White House
Indochina
South Viet Nam Protests Erupt Ahead of Election
In Saigon and Da Nang South Vietnamese students and disabled veterans clash with police with firebombs and tear gas as protests escalate against President Nguyen Van Thieu's unopposed bid. A progovernment parade proceeds in Saigon with 200 participants as authorities arrest about 60. Thieu delays public appearances five days before polling while citing achievements for war victims.
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da Nang
Tinh Hoi
Nuyyen van Thieu
Thieu
Independence Palace
Ginger Could Hit N. C. Coast
The U S Weather Service said Ginger likely to swing west toward the U S mainland tonight. The storm was about 600 miles east of Daytona Beach drifting north with winds near 90 mph and gales up to 250 miles across.
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Ginger
U.S
South Carolina
North Carolina
Georgia
Navy
Otona Beach
Fla
Atlantic
National Hurricane Center
Lieb
Debby
Robert Simpson
Hurricane Center
Barber Proposes Global Monetary System Based on SDRs
Britain's Chancellor Anthony Barber unleashes a long term plan to shift the world toward a system where the dollar and other currencies are defined in SDR units. Central banks would hold new SDR reserves while national currencies remain for ordinary trade. Canada’s Edgar Benson criticizes Nixon’s program as undermining world trade.
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Washington
Anthony Barber
Britain
Barber
International Monetary Fund
IMF
United States
Edgar J. Benson
Canada
Nixon
Mindszenty Returns to Rome After Long Asylum
Cardinal Mindszenty, 79, free at last, flies from Vienna to Rome to rejoin the Church after 15 years at the U.S. mission in Budapest. The Vatican says Pope Paul VI urged an honorable exile solution amid tensions with the Hungarian government. He calls the move his heaviest cross yet and vows a life of prayer and penitence.
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Rome
Josef Cardinal Mindszenty
Hungary
U.S
Budapest
Vienna
Vatican
Paul VI
Cardinal Mindszenty
Mamie Honored At Dinner Party
Washington AP reports former first lady Mamie Eisenhower received praise and gifts at a diamond jubilee dinner. President Nixon played Happy Birthday as about 800 guests saluted her. the event funded a Mamie Doud Eisenhower Scholarship Fund for Eisenhower College in Seneca Falls, New York. Nixon and Mrs. Nixon attended after a Alaska trip, staying 90 minutes.
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Mamie Eisenhower
Nixon
Eisenhower
Alaska
Mamie Doud Eisenhower
Eisenhower College
Seneca Falls
N.Y
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Mrs. Eisenhower
Lady Fleming Sentenced to Sixteen Months in Greek Plot
Athens AP reported Lady Amalia Fleming convicted and given 16 months for aiding a would be assassin’s jailbreak. Four co defendants including two Americans received 7 to 15 month terms, while the Greek soldier got 15 months and John Skelton 7 months suspended.
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Amalia Fleming
Constantine Androutsopoulos
Athena Psychogios
Minneapolis
Minn
Constantine Bekakos
John Skelton
Yardsley
Lady Fleming
Skelton
Pearson Defends Newsmen Right to Protect Sources
Senate hearings on freedom of the press opened with Sen. James B. Pearson arguing that protecting confidential sources is essential to unfettered news. He cited state laws and warned against government interference, while subcommittee chair Sam Ervin outlined major issues to be explored.
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Washington
James B. Pearson
Senate
Pearson
Supreme Court
Charles W. Whalen Jr
Ohio
Harding Bancroft
The
New York Times
Whalen
Subcommittee
Sam J. Ervin Jr
D-N.c
Ender
Ervin
Pentagon
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