Remember Christmas In Cairo Parade Lights Up Downtown
Cairo hosts the Remember Christmas In Cairo festival with a 49 unit lighted parade at 7 p.m. featuring five high school bands eight floats and Santa, plus downtown shopping, caroling and side events. The event opens with a parachute drop by a Tallahassee skydiving club at 4 45 p.m and runs until 10 p.m with streets closed to traffic.
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Santa Claus
Tallahassee
Cntists
Thomasville
Cairo
Sylvester
Tyson Decorating Co
Yale
Santa
Commissioner backs legalization of prostitution in Mecklenburg
Seventy three year old W M Pete Peterson outgoing Mecklenburg County Board chair says he favors legalizing prostitution and gambling on horse and dog racing in Charlotte and the county He plans to retire next Monday after six years in office and argues legalized prostitution could control venereal disease and crime while racing would provide tax revenue and recreation He cites a trip to Amsterdam as proof of effective control and compares prostitution to liquor as a regulated vice.
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Charlotte
N.C
W.M
Pete” Peterson
Mecklenburg County Board of Commissioners
Mecklenburg County
Peterson
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Nixon to Visit Egypt and Israel Next Spring
AP reports President Nixon plans trips to Egypt and Israel next spring to seek peace in the Middle East and secure Arab oil. A White House timetable places the visit as a key step amid regional tensions and shifting foreign aid concerns.
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Beirut
Nixon
Egypt
Israel
An Nahar
Washington
Middle East
Vietnam
U.S
White House
Golan Heights
Suez Canal
Syria
Roses and wine tax eyed in Thomasville budget talks
The city weighs a wine excise tax to boost revenue along with a sweeping business license ordinance. Commissioners debate timing while bids for roses prompt beautification concerns and calls for citizen input. The council considers alternate plantings and long term plans as officials note live oaks and traffic safety.
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Jackson St
Arian
J.A. Bracey
Bracey
Times-Enterprise
City Commission
Thomasville
W. Fred Scott Jr
Texas
Scott
Faircloth
Dekle
McRae
Tallahassee Rd
November rainfall above normal at Cairo station and varied weather notes
Cairo and St Paul reports show November rainfall above normal with a year to date excess despite drought affected crops in Grady County. The St Paul police end their take-home squad car experiment after 19 months with limited crime impact though some officers made off duty arrests. In California a man jailed for damaging a public phone booth after his wife left him. Temperatures remain below normal with frosty conditions and a mid November cold snap.
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Cairo
Grady County
ST. Paul, Minn
St. Paul
Richard Rowan
Rowan
Federal Law Enforcement Assistance Administration
Tallahassee
San Rafael
Calif
San Francisco
Marin County
Wyman Tong
Walter Preston Harper
Tong
Harper
Los Angeles
Griner Family Chooses Cairo Home for Retirement
Mr and Mrs John F Griner move to Hadley Ferry road Cairo after his Washington retirement as national president of the American Federation of Government Employees AFL CIO. Griner led a campaign to extend wage grade benefits to over 700000 federal workers. He is a native of Mitchell County and his wife Clara Nell Nicholson hails from Cairo.
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Cairo
John F. Griner
Chicago
Hadley Ferry Road
Washington
American Federation of Government Employes
Afl-Cio
Mitchell County
Clara Nell Nicholson
Cornbread Ring With Creamed Ham and Vegetable Filling
A Sunday supper idea describes baking cornbread in a ring pan and filling it with a vegetable and creamed meat mixture such as ham turkey or seafood. It notes vodka is typically made from wheat rye or corn, rarely potatoes, and mentions gas-range grates used as cake racks on a counter.
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Gene Sampson
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Olympia
J.N. Rosolio
S. Broad Street
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Remington
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South Broad Street
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