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Howard H. Arnold and A.N. (Drew) Wiegner of Forsyth County built their own electric cars in January, 1974, during the height of the gasoline shortage. Arnold and Wiegner are engineers at Western Electric in Winston-Salem, and built their cars to run on batteries instead of fuel. The electric cars move at three miles per kilowatt hour.
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Carolina Country (NoCar HD 9688 N8 C38x), Vol. 8 Issue 4, Apr 1976, p8-9, il, por
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31617
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Farmers are facing one of the most unstable price situations in many decades, according to Dr. W.D. Toussaint, head of the Department of Economics and Business at North Carolina State University. Toussaint discusses how the current period of farm price instability dates back to 1972, when weather conditions were unusually bad. In addition, farming production has been hampered substantially in the past two years by energy problems and a heavier demand for food.
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Carolina Country (NoCar HD 9688 N8 C38x), Vol. 8 Issue 4, Apr 1976, p13, il
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31618
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The Halifax Resolves were adopted by North Carolina’s Fourth Provincial Congress in session at Halifax on April 12, 1776. Three months later in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress incorporated many of its ideas into the new nation’s Declaration of Independence. The birthplace of the first official State action for independence, Halifax continues to preserve much of its 18th century history.
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Carolina Country (NoCar HD 9688 N8 C38x), Vol. 8 Issue 4, Apr 1976, p14-15, il, por