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...route to its record-tying sixth national title, the debate team bested challengers from a field of 72 different schools, before facing the third-ranked Redlands team in the finals in Carrollton...
This mail, however, was not intended for prompt delivery to any bank. An alert police officer in the suburb of Carrollton spotted one such sign at a local bank, and after a search, another was found. Officers patiently staked out one of the sites. There they arrested Joe Ben Hunsaker III just after he had loaded one of the mailboxes into a pickup truck and was taking down an OUT OF ORDER sign. Alleging that he had used the innovative scam to steal $10,000 since early August, Postal inspectors said they would charge him with theft of the mailboxes...
...company has laid off about 2,000 of its 85,000 employees since December. Mostek, the chipmaking division of United Technologies, lost more than $40 million in the first quarter. It said last week that it would furlough 1,600 of the 4,800 workers at its Carrollton, Texas, plant. National Semiconductor of Santa Clara, Calif., shut down most of its plants for two weeks in February and is currently imposing a six-month pay freeze and a four-day work week...
Both Ford and General Motors are experimenting with just-in-time production. At GM's truck assembly plant in West Carrollton, Ohio, Findlay Industries Inc., a local manufacturer of truck seats, makes daily deliveries of seats that are bolted into truck cabs within four hours of their arrival at the plant. The seats used to sit around in a plant warehouse for as long as two weeks waiting to be drawn from inventory and used. At GM's Linden, N.J., and Tarrytown, N.Y., assembly plants, similarly tight inventory management procedures are expected to save the company upwards...
Cambodia's exiled Prince Norodom Sihanouk, 57, has a palace in North Korea's capital, Pyongyang, a residence in Peking and now honorary citizenship in the Maryland town of New Carrollton (pop. 14,000). It was conferred during Sihanouk's visit to greet Cambodian refugees living there and pray with them in a service presided over by saffron-robed monks who later feted their former ruler with cakes and tea. The Prince, who is in the U.S. to generate support for a neutral Cambodia, is also visiting refugee groups to see how they fare in a faraway...