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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1959
Page
5
Henderson North Carolina AP reports another quiet day amid ongoing strike tension at Harriet Henderson Cotton Mills. Picket lines remained active with jeers as workers entered and left, while the company planned a second shift 3 to 11 p.m. starting Monday.
Granville County Home superintendent Lee B. Newton admits whipping two inmates a white woman and a Negro man saying discipline required it. He struck Paul Jones about 28 with a small plow rope and Mary Frances Tuck 38 with a belt.
AP reports ongoing prosecutions in Charlotte following 12 convictions from a police crackdown on prostitution. Recorder's Court Judge Basil Boyd imposed active terms of 12 to 24 months on Albert Wolfe Willie Doc Fulk Wallace Gist Hazel Cooper and Margaret Wilson Green with others receiving suspended sentences fines or both.
Doan's Pills promise quick relief from nagging headaches and tired restless feelings caused by stress and improper diet. They claim three actions including reducing pain and bladder irritation and providing mild diuretic effects for smoother relief. The ad highlights savings and urges purchase today.
Raleigh AP says the Joint Appropriations Committee tentatively approved eight million dollars in appropriations, with a $27,000 increase over the Advisory Budget Commission plan. The panel debated whether the Department of Administration should fund architectural planning, debating a $40,000 line for advanced development of building plans. Some members urged delaying a state move into architecture, while others argued the funding would aid capital improvements via preliminary sketches for proposed buildings.
Spokesmen for farm groups and tobacco warehousemen told the Joint Finance Committee that a proposed tobacco tax would cripple the industry and discriminate against tobacco. They warned the bill would spur other jurisdictions to tax, create chaotic conditions for 165000 Tar Heel farmers and 40000 industrial workers, reduce retail purchases by transients seeking cheaper North Carolina cigarettes, and amount to class legislation. The measure would tax 3 cents per pack of cigarettes to 1% cents on cigars and 1% cents on each 10 cents of tobacco. The bill, co sponsored by Rep John McLaughlin, drew hundreds to oppose the proposal, but the committee took no action.
Raleigh AP reports the House plans fuller days with Friday sessions advancing to 11 a.m. for the next week to clear backlog. Three women representatives Rachel Davis Grace Rodenbough and JG Cover filed bills totaling 1 282 million for nursing education cancer programs and detection efforts. Senate panel backed a bill allowing tobacco growers to raise self assessment from 10 cents to 1 dollar per acre. Aldous Huxley noted as novelist born in 1894.
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