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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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11197
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Among the topics Governor Holshouser discusses are the new North Carolina Department of Transportation and his transportation policy for the State, mass transit, state port facilities, and small airport development.
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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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11199
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Material for this article is drawn from the two-volume work, North Carolina Roads and Their Builders, by Waynick and Harden, and covers the commission's history from the Craig Administration, 1915-1917, to the Holshouser Administration, 1973.
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We the People of North Carolina
(NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 31 Issue 7, July 1973,
p39-40, 42, 122-124, il
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11200
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With the abolition of the State Highway Commission and the post of Highway Chairman, Billy Rose is now the ranking officer in the Office of Highways of the Department of Transportation, and he reports to the Secretary of Transportation and State Board of Transportation. Rose discusses new changes in the department.
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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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9.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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11204
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Bruce A. Lentz, Secretary of Transportation and Highway Safety, discusses goals for the department, mass transit, primary and secondary roads, and airports.
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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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11207
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In 1970, the Diamondhead Corporation purchased the Pinehurst Resort from the Tufts family for $9.6 million. Over the past three years Diamondhead has spent between $15 million and $20 million making changes to the revered golfing resort. One is an update to the seventy-three-year-old Carolina Hotel, the second largest wood-frame hotel in the world.
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11208
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For most of a hundred years, relations between the owners of the Pinehurst Resort and local citizens remained amicable. However, when the Diamondhead Corporation purchased the resort from the Tufts family in 1970, differences arose between local citizens and the new owners over development changes in the way things had been.
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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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