Legislation North Carolina

North Carolina threatened to ban bourbon in a mountain feud with Tennessee over dirty branch water. Irate legislators filed bills calling for the ban on Tennessee whiskey in retaliation for Tennessee's refusal to let a North Carolina paper mill keep polluting the Pigeon River, which flows through the two states in the Smoky Mountains.

North Carolina threatened to ban bourbon in a mountain feud with Tennessee over dirty branch water. Irate legislators filed bills calling for the ban on Tennessee whiskey in retaliation for Tennessee's refusal to let a North Carolina paper mill keep polluting the Pigeon River, which flows through the two states in the Smoky Mountains.

The public relations firm for Victory Memorial Hospital had done its job well: Banners were stretched across the amphitheater, balloons filled the air and buttons pinned to pinstriped lapels proclaimed "Victory Is Ours." With that recent pep rally, the frightened community hospital in Waukegan, Ill., began a campaign to keep Humana Inc., a for-profit hospital corporation, from building a new, $40-million teaching hospital nearby.