North Carolina House Defeats Greensboro ABC Liquor Bill
The North Carolina House defeated 55 to 33 a bill to allow a Greensboro election on legalizing ABC liquor stores amid a heated debate. Other cities and counties may vote on liquor store elections and racing or gambling measures as committees approved related bills.
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Raleigh
House
Greensboro
ABC
Guilford
Clyde A. Shreve
Walter E Crissman
Shelley B. Caveness
Arthur Kirkman
Senate
Salisbury
Spencer
East Spencer
Hertford
Winston-Salem
Forsyth County
Pasquotank County
New Hanover
Dare County
Jackson County
House Judiciary Committee
Wayne County
R. J Hester, Jr
Bladen
Roy Rowe
Pender
Hester
Hospital Fire Toll in Effingham Estimated at 74
Effingham officials and Catholic chancery report 69 bodies recovered with seven missing after St. Anthony's hospital blaze. Plans outline a new 150 bed facility costing about 2.5 million dollars with state federal aid and a 325 thousand dollar pledge from the Order of St Francis.
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Florida
Richard H. Crowe
New York
Tampa
Fla
William J. Barker
Crowe
Broadway
National City Bank
FBI
Daytona Beach
Effingham
St. Anthony's Hospital
Catholic Chancery Office
Ayor H. B. Rinehart
Illinois
Order of St. Francis
St. Anthony's
Cook Blackard Nominated For College Presidency
Nominating committee at High Point college plans to present two or three names to the trustees. Dr. Dennis Cook and Dr. Embree H. Blackard are the leading candidates, with Walter K. Green no longer favored. Final choice rests with the executive committee and board.
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Cook
Blackard
High Point College
Sheraton Hotel
Dennis Cook
Eastern Carolina Teachers College
Department of Education
Woman's College of the University of North Carolina
Greensboro
Embree H. Blackard
Wesley Memorial Methodist Church
High Point
Methodist Church
Gastonia
Wesley Memorial Church
Walter K. Green
Wofford College
Dr. Cook
Dr. Blackard
Economy-Minded Senators Drop Fight On European Aid Authorization
A group of economy minded senators dropped their bid to cut the five point six billion dollar authorization for fifteen more months of aid to western Europe. The measure faces a final Senate vote as debates wrap on the economic cooperation act, with 34 amendments filed and the bloc expected to push further fights over the actual appropriation.
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Washington
Senate
Wherry
R-Neb
Lucas
Connally
D-Tex
Europe
House
Senate Appropriations Committees
Stock Market Scrambled With Small Gains and Losses
The New York trade session saw mixed results as stocks drifted with gains for General Motors Packard Goodrich Caterpillar Douglas Aircraft International Nickels Southern California Edison American Can Johns Manville Union Pacific Twentieth Century Fox and Alaska Juneau while declines hit U S Steel Bethlehem Steel U S Rubber Montgomery Ward J I Case Lockheed Consolidated Edison American Smelting Du Pont Philip Morris U S Gypsum N Y Central Chesapeake & Ohio and American Airlines.
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New York
General Motors
Packard
Goodrich
Caterpillar
Douglas Aircraft
International Nickels
Southern California Edison
American Can
Johns Manville
Union Pacific
Twentieth Century-Fox
Alaska Juneau
U. S. Steel
Bethlehem Steel
U. S. Rubber
Montgomery Ward
J. I. Case
Lockheed
Consolidated Edison
American Smelting
du Pont
Philip Morris
U. S. Gypsum
N. Y. Central
Chesapeake & Ohio
American Air Lines
Graham’s Work Praised by Senate Colleagues
Senator Frank P. Graham, newly sworn in and hospitalized with pneumonia, sent a 69 page report on the Dutch Indonesian controversy. Senators Vandenberg and Brewster praised his first detailed legislative work and termed him a profound scholar.
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Washington
Frank P. Graham
Congress
Michigan
Brewster
Mainepublican
Vandenberg
North Carolina
Graham
Senate
Economic Cooperation Administration
Labor gains a token wage bill vote in committee
The House committee on manufactures and labor gives a favorable report to a minimum wage bill for women workers, though amendments exempt florists and count tips as wages. A tie vote was broken by Chairman Harry Greene, with tips reform debated as a public pay issue.
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House Committee On Manufactures and Labor
Evel
Harry Greene
Backfire topic stirs Capitol chatter on Wednesday
Lawmakers and aides discuss a potential policy misstep as debate spills into the capitol corridor. The room buzzes over unintended consequences and mounting questions about the plan’s viability and political impact.
Sixth Record Wheat Crop Is In the Making
Kansas City reports a record wheat gamble as growers plant aggressively for a June July harvest. A W Erickson of Minneapolis says prospects in southwest Kansas look very good with conditions above normal due to a late spring aiding growth and reducing freeze risk.
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Kansas City
A. W. Erickson
Minneapolis
Minn
Kansas
Russia Loses First Round In UN Committee Debates
At Lake Success the United Nations steering committee approved a broad general assembly debate on trials of Cardinal Mindszenty in Hungary and 15 Bulgarian Protestant clerics. The vote was 11 to 2 with Iran abstaining, Russia and Poland voting no as the U S supported the Australian Bolivian proposal. Soviet deputy Jakob Malik argued Hungary and Bulgaria acted properly and urged UN non involvement.
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Russia
Poland
United States
U. S
Jakob A. Malik
Hungary
Bulgaria
U. N
U S Ambassador Douglas Evaluated by Royal Surgeon
In Southampton on April 7, U S Ambassador Lewis Douglas was examined by Sir Stewart Duke-Elder, King George VIs surgeon-oculist. Hospital officials say the envoy remains in serious condition.
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Southampton
Eng
U. S
Lewis Douglas
Stewart Duke-Elder
Southampton Free Eye Hospital
Budget May Absorb New Arms Outlay
President Truman plans to absorb about 1.25 billion in new arms aid within the 41.9 billion budget by reallocating funds from the armed services for Europe defense. A strategic plan aims to shift military power toward Western Europe under the North Atlantic pact, with full realignment possibly taking three to four years.
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Washington
Truman
Army
Navy
Air Force
United States
Defense Department
Europe
Atlantic
Senate
Britain
France
State Department
Mystery Ship Not Located By Patrols
Charleston reports the Flying Dutchman schooner sought 300 miles east of Charleston remains unlocated. The derelict, unreported, was found drifting in the gulf stream by SS Richard J. Cleveland with no sign of life. Coast guard cutters and planes scoured the area amid heavy seas while relatives identify the vessel as Keewatin.
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Charleston
S. C
Nassau
Bahamas
Donald Parrot
Baltimore
Charleston Evening Post
Gulf Stream
Richard J. Cleveland
Cleveland
Hadley Parrot
Keewatin
Coast Guard
Travis
Elizabeth City
N. C
New Farm Plan Seeks Real Break On Food Prices
The Truman administration proposed a new farm program to lower retail prices for meat dairy eggs and poultry while keeping farmer income stable. It replaces the Aiken act by ending price floors on most farm foods and uses government payments to support farmer earnings.
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Washington
Truman Administration
Agricuilute Diannan
House
Senate Agriculture Committees
North Wilkesboro Man Killed In Auto Crash
North Wilkesboro April 4 Charlie Jarvis 22 son of Mrs Dealy Jarvis was killed when his car left Highway 421, plunged into a field and overturned about five miles west of town. Jarvis suffered a broken neck. Edward Green 20 of Reddies River and Mrs Dixie Gregory Myers suffered only superficial injuries. Myers was later released from the hospital.
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North Wilkesboro
Charlie Jarvis
Dealy Jarvis
D. G. Poindexter
Jarvis
Here
Poindexter
Edward Green
Reddies River
Dixie Gregory Myers
Price support chart compares new plan and current law
Washington April 7. The 1950 farm price supports would differ under the new administration plan and the present law next year. Rates shown include wheat 1.88 versus 1.85, corn 1.46 versus 1.35, cotton 27.98 versus 26.08 cents, and rice 2.26 versus 1.97 per unit, with various crops and livestock listed above them.
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Washington
Cross Burned At Site of Proposed Negro Housing
A 15 foot cross was burned last night near the planned Negro housing area in a white-dominated section of Nashville Tennessee, as authorities investigated the incident and possible motives.
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Nashville
Tenn
Measure Is Virtually Unchained
In Raleigh on April 7, the senate rejected by 29 to 18 the House amendments to rural roads legislation. A conference committee will seek a compromise on the bill which would raise the gasoline tax by one cent and authorize $200,000,000 in bonds for secondary roads. The senate favors voter decision on both tax and bond proposal.
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Raleigh
Senate
House
R. Grady Rankin
Gastc
Scott
H. P. Taylor
North Carolina Appropriations Bill Passes House 70 to 35
The North Carolina house approved the mammoth biennial appropriations measure on third reading 70 to 35. The bill would spend about 417 million dollars in the next two years to operate state agencies and schools, with debate over a 13 million dollar school cut and a 700 thousand dollar contingent match for counties.
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Raleigh
House
Senate
Rep
R. L. Harris
Advisory Budget Commission
North Carolina Symphony Orchestra
Fewer Accidents In Furniture Factories Reported
Raleigh April 7 A 29 percent drop in accidents in North Carolina furniture factories last year was reported by the state labor department Commissioner Forrest H Shuford said yesterday The 1948 rate was 15.80 incidents per 1 000 000 man hours worked and the 1947 rate was 22.32
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Raleigh
State Labor Department
Forrest H. Shuford
Friction in North Carolina Agriculture Department Surfaces
A NC agriculture department feud erupts over a livestock market regulation bill. Commissioner Ballentine opposes a Coltrane substitute. Morris’s bill passes after amendments. Longstanding rifts between agricultural leaders, including Kerr Scott era tensions, surface as Coltrane eyes the commissioner post and Ballentine pursues the race.
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Harvey Morris
North Carolina
State Department
State College
Dave Coltrane
Kerr Scott
Scott
Coltrane
Ballentine
Cherry More
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N.C
Martin
Horace Haworth
King
Renee Duffy
London
Senators
Capitol Square
By Lynn Nisbet
I House
Capitol
Fiery Cross
N.C. Agriculture Department
Seattle
L. Y
Stag) Ballentine
Senate-House Committee
David S. Colrane
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