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31356
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The year of 1984 marks the 400th year since a small English exploratory mission sent by Sir Walter Raleigh landed on the Outer Banks, as well as the arrival of the Lost Colony and birth of Virginia Dare. The anniversary celebration will begin in July with a flotilla of boats at Manteo, led by one of America’s best-loved sailors, Walter Cronkite. The parade of boats will sail from Elizabeth City, down the Pasquotank River, through the Albemarle Sound to Roanoke Island.
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31357
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This special section is the second of two parts, exploring how North Carolinians will be affected by the fallout from the AT&T break-up and telephone industry deregulation. Among the recent changes are telephone company revenues, access charges, and billing for individual local calls.
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31358
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Grace Freeman is a renown, award-winning poet who, for the last eight years, has worked as a poetry therapist at Gaston-Lincoln Mental Health Center in Gastonia. Freeman helps patients to reduce their anxiety and to express their true feelings through poetry. Her work has helped make poetry therapy as acceptable to health care institutions as alternative therapy techniques involving the creative and fine arts.
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31359
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An amendment has been proposed to establish the North Carolina Agricultural Financing Agency, which would issue revenue bonds to finance capital growth in agriculture. The measure would give farmers a tax-exempt financing source for improvements in production, processing, marketing and distribution of any farm products. More efficient and productive farms would ultimately translate into more economical food prices for the consumer.
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31360
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Voting for the primary elections begin May 8, 1984, and there are fifty-three candidates seeking nominations for fourteen major posts. This special primary election section presents brief biological profiles of the candidates for United States Senate, United States House of Representatives, North Carolina Governor and Lieutenant Governor.
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31361
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In this article, the 1984 candidates for the United States Senate and the United States House of Representative discuss their views on a proposal for shoring up the rural electric program’s financing mechanism. They also discuss their priorities for services to rural areas in North Carolina.
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31362
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A task force at North Carolina State University has identified more than a dozen ways in which science education can help citizens stretch and protect water supplies. They urged that more consideration be given to irrigating crops with wastewater, and that continued efforts be made to reduce water usage in the pulp, paper and food processing industries.
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31364
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The Catawba Nuclear Station, which is partially owned by North Carolina’s Electric Membership Corporations, passed another milestone July 20 on its way to commercial operation sometime in 1985. The milestone was successful fuel-loading prior to low-power testing. The fuel rods will increase the utility’s ability to generate electricity by sixteen-percent.
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31365
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Birds of prey serve an important role in the ecology of their environments by keeping in check rodent, rabbit and snake populations. Students at the Raptor Rehabilitation and Research Center at North Carolina State University School of Veterinarian Medicine rescue and rehabilitate injured birds so that they can be released back into the wild.
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31367
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Rural electrification helped to create a whole new way of life for rural people. North Carolina’s rural electric cooperatives have launched a statewide oral history project to preserve the personal recollections of early co-op organizers and the first generation of Tar Heel co-op consumer-members. About fifty volunteers will be tape recording interviews with members and pioneer co-op directors and employees as part of the project.
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31368
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Hurricane Diana brought damaging winds and rains to several southeastern North Carolina counties in mid-September. Thousands of homes and businesses served by Electric Membership Corporations lost power for as long as five days. This article describes the impacts of the storm, and the efforts to repair and restore power.
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31369
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Balloting for the 1984 election campaign begins on November 6. North Carolina voters will cast ballots in the race for president while choosing their representatives to serve in the Governor’s Mansion, the United States Senate and various state and local government posts. This article presents biographical profiles of the candidates, and their views on legislation for rural electric cooperatives.
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31372
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North Carolina’s Electric Membership spent the past two years conducting feasibility studies of several highly-rated potential hydroelectric power sites across the state. The studies concluded that no hydro projects were worthy of development because the benefit-to-cost ratios were too small. Several issues involved high interest rates, technical difficulties and environmental concerns.
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31373
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Thurman F. Nance of Lee County is known as the “admiral” of Jordan Lake, where he operates a lakeside boat rental service. Nance was active in efforts to develop the New Hope Dam and helped create the reservoir during the 1950s. Since the opening of Jordan Lake Rentals in 1982, Nance’s business has grown steadily into a year-round operation.
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31374
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Jane Long of Cary has won the blue ribbon for best quilt in the show at the North Carolina State Fair for the fourth year in a row. Her latest winning entry, an original design, shows an Amish influence, with quilting done in black thread. This article discusses Long’s quilting techniques, patterns, and materials.
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