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31376
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For the first time, North Carolina state sales tax will be applied to the sales of electric, gas and intrastate telephone service. Beginning January 1, 1985, electric bills will include a calculation for three percent in state sales tax, which can be deducted from federal income taxes. The legislature’s intent was to carve the sales tax out of the six percent gross receipts tax that consumers were already paying.
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Old Salem is a historic area of Winston-Salem founded by a group of Moravians in 1776. The founding Moravians and those that followed gave a distinctive flavor to their town, leaving a legacy rich in traditions, especially those associated with Christmas. Some of the Moravian Yuletide traditions include thin ginger cookies, handmade beeswax candles, and lovefeasts.
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For the past ten years, Georgia Bonesteel of Hendersonville has been practicing and teaching lap quilting, a method of making a quilt in small sections and assembling them for the finished product. Bonesteel says the method offers people a way of hanging on to an important part of our heritage and adapt it to today’s lifestyle. This article discusses Bonesteel’s lap quilting technique, and provides a sample of instructions.
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The Herford County town of Murfreesboro was a center of Revolutionary War events. The history of Murfreesboro is marked year-round with tours of restored buildings, activities, and celebrations, such as the Historic Murfreesboro Heritage Festival and LaFayette Ball.
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North Carolina native L.A. (Speed) Riggs was the American Tobacco Company auctioneer who became the “Voice of Lucky Strike” cigarettes on radio and television commercials for more than three decades. The Tobacco History Corporation and Duke Homestead recently sponsored an event in honor of Riggs and had a display of Riggs’ lifetime collection of auctioneering memorabilia. Now 75 years old, Riggs stays busy with his charity work and nationwide tours.
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The Governor’s Task Force on Drunken Driving spent a year studying North Carolina laws and developing recommendations for stiff new penalties for driving under the influence (DUI). Since North Carolina ranked third in the nation in DUI arrests in 1980, a package of proposed legislation would make the state’s drunk driving laws among the toughest in the nation.
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North Carolinians Against Drunk Driving is one of many anti-drunk driving organizations that are working to change public attitudes, as well as legal penalties, affecting drunk driving. In addition to communication efforts, they are also monitoring to see how lenient drunk drivers are treated by the courts.
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31387
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A demonstration “micro” hydroelectric plant in Watauga County, which is now smoothly generating enough electricity for several homes, is the product of a federal grant and work by two college students. The students applied what they learned in class to erect the small-scale plant on Laurel Creek.
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The toll is still being counted from the massive winter storm that spread ice and snow across large areas of the North Carolina mountains January 21-22, but the damage will undoubtedly be millions of dollars. Rutherford EMC was by far the hardest hit of the cooperatives having 20,000 homes lose power at the outset.
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31390
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North Carolina has reached a population of six million, ranking as the tenth most populous state. While North Carolina has always been thought of as a heavily rural state, its population density is rather high. The average population per square mile is 120, making the Tar Heel state almost twice as “crowded” as the entire nation.
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In an effort to help lessen the federal deficit, President Reagan has embarked on a farm program of acreage control. The “crop swap” program would give farmers grain from government stockpiles in exchange for the grain they would have grown on the acres they decide not to plant. This article discusses the program and how it would affect North Carolina farmers and agriculture.
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A new concept in water management may lead to improved water usage on millions of acres of cropland in North Carolina. A research project is testing to see if the Mitchell Swamp Canal of the Conetoe Creek Water District can be made to double as a water reservoir. The project will install a new inflatable dam called Fabridam to control the water level in the canal.
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During the first few years of the twentieth-century, a little one-room log schoolhouse stood on top of Eutaw Mountain in Haywood County. Selena Sanders of Roanoke Rapids tells a story describing a typical school day and life growing up in the mountains.
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North Carolina Agriculture Commissioner Jim Graham has called for swift action to prevent abandonment of over 250 miles of branch line railroad system tracks across the state. These smaller lines run from mainland railroads, and are located in rural areas. Railroad abandonment could seriously hurt the economic viability of rural communities who use the lines to transport crops and materials.
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Storage of nuclear waste is becoming a serious problem in North Carolina. A new bill sets a timetable for establishing a permanent underground storage facility for high-level nuclear waste by the mid-1990s, and provides for temporary federal storage of nuclear waste in the meantime. Plans will also be developed to construct man-made “monitored, retrievable storage” (MRS) sites.
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