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Jesse Helms, North Carolina's newly elected Republican United States Senator, is profiled in this Guillory article.
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5857
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During the winter and spring of 1971, Wilmington dealt with a racially tense situation. One Afro-American and one white person were killed; firemen were shot at when responding to fires. Sikes describes how Wilmington handled the situation.
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35521
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Jimmy Hunter proved home’s importance extends beyond a dwelling. At home was defined by excelling in many sports, inside and outside of an arena: fishing, hunting, baseball, and football. He was down home still, remaining humble and down to earth despite his minor celebrity status.
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Shellfish—their lives, the industry’s livelihood—looked bleak when Red Tide rolled in. The future became brighter with its causes’ discovery: inadequate treatment of human and animal wastes. It also brightened with the solutions: improvement of septic tank surveillance and testing procedures. A chart reiterated the need for improvement, with counties ranging from Dare to New Hanover, waterways from Hyde County’s Kitty Creek to Harkers Island’s Back Sound.
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This industry was booming because of nearby waterways, plentiful workers, temperate climate, and better transportation facilities. On hand to help perpetuate the economic upswing were the financially salvaged Grady-White and Norfolk based Merrimack Marine.
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35524
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Turmoil had been generated by racial tensions. The transient calm’s causes: moderation, facilitated by constructive progressiveness; restraint, created by the number of whites and blacks who wanted peace; reason, manifested in the recent election of a black man to the City Council.
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35525
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Ragan examined an artistic expression array manifested on canvases literal and figurative. It was revealed in Edenton and Tryon Palace’s restorations. The State Library’s film service expansion and ECU’s summer drama program’s production of “The Lost Colony” displayed it. Poetry and prose were showcased in Atlantic Christian’s Crucible and ECU’s Poet-in-Residence program.
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35526
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Leo Jenkins intuited eight factors stunted the growth of education, the arts, and individuals. Jenkins posited an origin was public schools’ inadequate development of English language skills. Chancellor Jenkins perceived impediment’s continuation in universities’ dearth of privatization. A yield of such, to Jenkins’ estimation, was the struggle to personally progress throughout life.
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35527
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Progress for its county and seat could be perceived as inevitable. The county named for the last Royal Governor considerably contributed to Revolutionary and Confederate War efforts. Its development was continually impacted by the Roanoke River, which spurred the establishment of a Weyerhaeuser company plant. As for recent progress, education’s advancement beyond the public education level was assured in a community college opening in the early 1970s.
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35528
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Spotlighted was the election of a senator renowned during his tenure in Washington DC: Jesse Helms. Included were his conservative stance’s influences, personal and professional, formative and recent. Appended was his pre-Senate stint in the Capital Broadcasting Company, which operated WRAL. Featured were glimpses of his family life, which includes a son Helms was inspired to adopt from reading a newspaper story containing a quote from the then nine year old.
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