Dover uses interim budget as auditor reviews four years
Auditor sorting Dover finances a month into the new fiscal year leaves the town operating on an interim budget while an auditor investigates four years of missing audits and unrecorded transfers. Former accountant Clifton Campbell West faced penalties and possible license surrender after failures to file with the state.
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Dover
North Carolina Board of Certified Public Accountant Examiners
Clifton Campbell West
West
Gener
Opening Day Frustration Hits Kinston Tobacco Market
On opening day in Kinston, farmers reacted with frustration as bids fell short of expectations. About 27 percent of sales went to the federal stabilization program, with 127000 pounds purchased for government warehouses. Total sales reached 776745 pounds for 1.2 million dollars, average price 156.60 per hundred, down from last year. Community farmer Clifton Boyette, 59, lamented costs and taxes while hoping for stability.
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Kinston
Paul Tilghman
Kinston Tobacco Board of Trade
Kinston Eastern Belt
Tilghman
Vanceboro
Boyette
Howdy
Boyelle
Market fears linger as tobacco prices rise in NC sales belt
Farmers voice worries at the opening of North Carolina tobacco sales, despite Governor Hunt’s pep talk. Mike Langdon of Benson says farmers feel stripped of rights while Hunt proclaims tobacco still king. Congress members oppose any large federal tax hike as health care debates continue.
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Mike Langdon
Benson
Langdon
Jim Hunt
Smithfield
North Carolina
Hunt
Wilson County
Exum to leave North Carolina Supreme Court this year
Chief Justice James E. Exum announces plans to retire after seven years as head of the state Supreme Court and 27 years on the bench. The liberal jurist, 58, says he will relax, read, travel, and ride his motorcycle, with no concrete plans yet beyond stepping down at year-end.
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Bill Herring
Herring
Jones County
Clifton Boyette
Ames Exum Jr
State Supreme Court
Exum
Supreme Court
Burley Mitchell
Jim Martin
Rhoda Billings
Billings
North Carolina
Adam Stein
Chapel Hill
North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers
North Carolina Judicial Conference
General Assembly
Courts Commission
North Carolina Supreme Court Historical Society
Commission On the Future of Justice
Wachovia
John Medlin
State Correction
Franklin Freeman
Cour of Appeals
World 4 refugee camps open near Goma to ease cholera death toll
Relief officials opened four new refugee camps north of Goma, raising sites to eight to house 1.2 million Rwandan Hutu refugees fleeing rebels. Deaths from cholera and disease surge as sanitation fails. U.N. and U.S. Army teams struggle to deliver clean water amid shortages and logistics challenges.
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Goma
Ray Wilkinson
U.N. High Commissioner For Refugees
Zaire
Rwanda
U.S. Army
U.N
Uganda
Croatia
John Crosthwaite
Britain
Overseas Development Administration
Maj
Eric Hanson
Army
Lake Kivu
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Power Fund
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Riggs
Sandra Hammond
United States Department of Agriculture
Ston
Charlie Peek
Sun Journal
Ken Fisher
George Perry
Central Warehouse
The
Associated Press
Clinton
High
Liberal
Ann Landers
Reginald Frazier
Williams
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