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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1947
Page
3
A preliminary draft to avert national paralysis strikes would ban closed shops and outlaw jurisdictional strikes and secondary boycotts. It allows temporary government injunctions, continued mediation, and presidential emergency action if talks fail, with Congress to tailor responses to each emergency.
Senators Reed and McKellar urged raising air mail charges to six or seven cents per ounce to cover costs. Reed told post office officials the current five-cent rate was pushed through last year by Gael Sullivan, now executive director of the Democratic National Committee, after a campaign with airline support. Sullivan previously served as assistant postmaster general.
Russell Eugene Koons. executed last night in Ohio peniten tiary's electric chair for the hatchet slaying of his mother. corneas to be used in New York to restore sight to two blind war veterans. Koons, a 23 year old Springfield navy veteran, bequeathed the corneas to the eye bank as he faced death. He said his gift was inspired by sight of blinded veterans on Guadalcanal.
Corneas removed from Koons' eyes were sealed in a special container and dispatched to New York City by air, according to the report.
The 1947 North Carolina General Assembly ends a historic session with over 360 million dollars appropriated for 1947 49. It enacts highway safety laws taxes alcohol reforms and creates a Wildlife Resources Commission while handling education health and public works funding.
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