Permanent Revenue Act marks North Carolina tax shift
North Carolina's General Assembly enacted a permanent revenue act deeming the 3 percent sales tax a necessary evil and aiming to stabilize financing for about 155 million dollars in the next biennium. The measure includes compromises on intangible taxes, liquor taxes, and railroads, with new levies on federal employee incomes and a disputed expansion of the sales tax to basic building materials.
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Raleigh
General Assembly
North Carolina
Advisory Budget Commission
ABC
Supreme Court
Hoey
Senator Long
Halifax
Ursell
Rowan
Finance Committee
Long
Tzzell
House
Chungking City of Caves Western Stronghold of Courage
Chungking West China becomes a focal point as refugees head west through Yunnan and Szechwan. The city sits at the Yangtze gorge head, plans push a new subway, and a health drive battles cholera while Yale in China hospitals adapt to wartime shortages. Strong entities include Chungking, Yangtze, Szechwan, Yunnan, Burma, Yale in China, Dr James Shen, and the Central hospital.
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Chungking
China
George A. Fitch
War Area Service Corps
Nanking
Soochow
Fitch
Shanghais Rotary Club
West
Japan
Chunking
Yangtze Gorges
Szechwan
Yunan
Kweichow
Yunnan-Burma
West China
Germany
Chekiang
Burma
Health Administration
Mataria
Central Hospital
Kweiyang
James Shen
Far East
Kunming
Kweyang
Medical School of Yale
National Medical College
Guernsey Bull Masterpiece Hero's Prince Sold in High Point
A registered Guernsey bull named Master piece s Hero s Prince 265596 was sold by 8 R Clinard to W N Coltrane of Randallman North Carolina. The animal is registered with The American Guernsey Cattle Club. The Prague year 1665 notes tobacco was deemed a safeguard against infection and smoking was mandatory for all children.
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High Point
N. C
8. R. Clinard
W. N. Coltrane
Randleman
American Guernsey Cattle Club
Peterborough
N. H
Eighty Expected 10 Get Diplomas at Asheboro
Nearly eighty students will receive diplomas at Commencement in the Asheboro High School auditorium. Dr. P K Lindley of High Point College will deliver the principal address. Baccalaureate services are May 14, class day May 15, with a Sesquicentennial pageant in the evening.
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Asheboro
Asheboro High School
Reginald
P. KE. Lindley
High Point College
L. R. O'Brien
Asheboro Baptist Church
U. S
North Carolina Exhibit At New York Fair Presents Colorful State Story
North Carolina unveils a 125000 exhibit at the New York World's Fair featuring a graphic history of the state. The plan centers on opportunity with a circular hall, twelve mythic figures, a rotating kaleidoscopic panorama, and a Court of Tourism using a triorama.
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North Carolina
Booth
Raleigh
Coleman W. Roberts
Roberts
W. E. Fenner
Rocky Mount
J. W. Caffey
Greensboro
Edward Flannagan
Greenville
J. Q. Gilkey
Marion
Martin Jenter
Ridefield
N. J
Fenner
Court of Tourism
Wright Brothers
Kitty Hawk
New World
Roanoke Island
Blue Ridge Parkway
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
New York
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Assembly
NOBEL
Yancey
Cherry
Gaston
Johnston
Ashe
By George Fitch
NER Service
Mallard
Columbia
Underwood
Hertford
Guernsey
Coltrane
Turner
Tripoli
United States Navy
England
America
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