North Carolina will fight poverty cycle with $14 million
Gov. Terry Sanford leads a $14 million drive with the Ford Foundation to reform first grade in North Carolina. The program creates the North Carolina Fund, funds 10 community projects and a statewide reading and arithmetic push in 20 schools next January, expanding to 400 in four years.
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North Carolina
Terry Sanford
Tar Heel
Raleigh, N.C
Sanford
Ford Foundation
North Carolina Fund
George Esser
Flames Deadly During Holiday
The Associated Press reports a Charleston South Carolina house fire killed 12 children of the Walter Johnson family in the city’s worst Christmas blaze. An exploding oil heater caused the fatalities in one upstairs bedroom while Johnson 51 and a friend attempted rescue. Mrs. Johnson 47 and a son escaped. In Michigan a Spring Lake family of six perished in a separate fire and in Indiana a Muncie home fire killed two sisters aged five and 3.
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Associated Press
Walter Johnson
Charleston
S.C
Spring Lake
Mich
Muncie
Ind
Michelle Johnson
Joretta
Johnson
Nathaniel
Quiet Christmas For The Kennedy Family
Mrs John F Kennedy kept Christmas for her children then went by car to the home of her father in law for private Mass said by Rev John Cavanaugh. Caroline six and John Jr three did not come out with their mother as photographers gathered at the Joseph P Kennedy home. The children exchanged gifts in the morning and again in the afternoon.
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Palm Beach
Fla
John F. Kennedy
John Cavanaugh
Caroline
John Jr
Joseph P. Kennedy
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