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...Swift Creek Township, near Raleigh, N.C., doctors urged Oscar Maynard, 67, to go to a nursing home after he suffered a stroke several months ago. Maynard refused, saying: "I'll be on my own, and I'll go where I want to go." Where Maynard wanted to go was to the simple brick home that he shares with his wife Essie, 63, on 25 acres of land. Says Maynard: "I'd rather be here than anyplace else in the world...
...indeed have nothing to hide-although critics question how some $5 million in federal funds have been used on the project. But Soul City, which now consists of a few roads, some mobile homes and a nearly completed industrial building on a 5,180-acre tract 50 miles from Raleigh, may have something to fear. If it follows the pattern of most other Government-aided new towns scattered across the nation, it faces deep financial troubles...
After a 24-hour weekend with Wife Maureene and their children, Dees was off again last week to Raleigh, N.C.-this time by plane. He was on his way to consult with attorneys working on the case of Joan Little, 20, who escaped from a jail in Washington, N.C., after stabbing the county jailer to death. Little claims that she was defending herself against rape, and Dees was helping to organize a search for evidence to bolster her argument. Many guards in the jail, he contends, regularly extorted sexual favors from women prisoners...
Died. David M. ("Carbine") Williams, 74, inventor of the M-l rifle used by U.S. troops in World War II; of bronchial pneumonia; in Raleigh, N.C. Williams designed the gun in the tool shop of a North Carolina camp for incorrigibles where he was imprisoned after pleading guilty to killing a deputy sheriff. His inventions eventually made him a millionaire and the subject of a 1952 movie starring James Stewart...
...hair." Despite its name, BHMA is open to both sexes; all one needs to qualify is a bald spot. So many are applying that Capp is considering holding a national convention of baldies next summer. In the meantime, members like Roy A. Palmer, 41, of Raleigh, N.C., hope to further the bald cause. Says he: "We're a minority. Every business ought to have a bald-headed man." Members also share news and a little ribald humor via BHMA'S quarterly publication Chrome Dome. Sample: "Baldies were the original streakers. We just started from...