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11193
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This article contains information on The Mountains at Lake Lure and The Country Club of the Mountains, areas which have taken their place among the most popular and prestigious of the resort communities being developed in North Carolina's mountain counties.
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11194
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Building resorts in North Carolina's mountains began in the 1920s. This article contains information on a number of them, including Bear Paw, Beech Mountain, Eseeola Lodge, Fontana Village, Hound Ears, and Sugar Mountain.
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11195
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James E. Harrington, Secretary of Natural and Economic Resources, is discussed in this ongoing series of brief profiles of major newly elected and appointed state officials.
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11196
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R. Dillard Teer is senior vice-president of the worldwide road building and construction that bears his father's name, Nello Teer Company. He is also executive vice-president of the Durham and Southern Railway and has served twenty-three years as chairman of the Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority. Teer is featured in this month's WE THE PEOPLE MAGAZINE's North Carolina Businessman in the News.
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11198
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The North Carolina Highway Commission, which had existed for fifty-eight years, ceased to be as of July 1, 1973, as the new State Board of Transportation took over. This article includes some of the major features of the new board, which came into existence as the result of the constitutional amendment mandating a reorganization of North Carolina government.
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11201
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Elbert Peters is coordinator of the Governor's Highway Safety Program. The program was formed as a result of the Highway Safety Act of 1966, and receives $4 million in annual funding - $2 million each from the federal and North Carolina Departments of Transportation. The article includes information on what is being done to promote highway safety.
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11202
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The Beaucatcher Mountain tunnel adequately served Asheville residents and area travelers for a number of years. However, with increasing population, together with a growth in tourism, the tunnel was becoming a bottleneck. In 1960, Asheville hired a consulting firm to develop an overall transportation plan for the metropolitan area. This article is a chronology of the Beaucatcher Mountain controversy over the last 13 years and helps to explain why roads take so long to build.
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We the People of North Carolina
(NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 31 Issue 7, July 1973,
p52-53, 127-129, 139, il
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8.Bruce A. Lentz by Norris, Jeannie Faris We the People of North Carolina Vol. 31 Issue 7, July 1973
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11203
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Bruce A. Lentz, Secretary of Transportation and Highway Safety, is discussed in this ongoing series of brief profiles of major newly elected and appointed state officials.
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11205
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Grace J. Rohrer, Secretary of Cultural Resources, is discussed in this ongoing series of brief profiles of major newly elected and appointed state officials. Rohrer is the second Secretary to head the department and the first woman.
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11206
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T. A. Upchurch, president and chief executive officer of Durham Life, the state's largest insurance company, is featured in this month's We The People Magazine's North Carolina Businessman in the News.
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11209
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The North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources has a small budget, around $8 million, and is small in manpower, about 300 employees, making it one of the state government's smaller departments. On the other hand, no other department oversees such a wide range of endeavors, with jurisdiction over such diverse assets, such as an art museum, a World War II battleship, and a symphony orchestra.
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11210
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After thirty-six years John Tolson retired from the United States Army in March 1973, with the rank of Lieutenant General. He is discussed in this ongoing series of brief profiles of major newly elected and appointed state officials.
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11211
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Claude Henson is chairman of the board and president of The First National Bank in Asheboro. He is featured in We the People of North Carolina magazine's Businessman in the News.
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11212
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In September 1973, 16,000 five-year-olds entered schools across North Carolina to start kindergarten, thus beginning a new era in the state's system of free public education. In 1968, North Carolina was one of only three states which maintained no state-supported public kindergartens of any sort. This article contains information on the development of the state's kindergarten program.
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11213
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In 1972, there were 266 private schools in operation in North Carolina. The schools served about 5 percent of the school-age population, or 51,298 K-12 students. These schools are overseen by the Office of Nonpublic Schools, making North Carolina one of the few states to have an official of a state agency overseeing them. This article presents information on the nonpublic school development in the state.
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