Advocate Amendment To Eliminate Local Legislation Pressure
Asheville meeting heard J Maxwell of the League of Municipalities urge a constitutional amendment to curb state overreach and expand municipal home rule. Johnson urged broad discretionary powers for municipalities, distinguishing local versus state-wide laws and advocating direct home rule for form and function of government.
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Asheville
Aus
Charles M. John
League of Municipals
General Assembly
A. J. Ll
Arolina
Johnson
McKenney on Bridge Ruffs Triumph in Delta Tournament
J Skinner of Jackson Mississippi in the Mississippi Delta Tournament at Hollandale played a three suited hand to a successful contract by conserving trumps until opponents Aces were driven out. He began with a ruff on the opening lead and, after careful timing of trump drawing, established side suits and ran two rounds of trumps to fulfill the contract. East cashed the lone trump but Skinner still completed the task.
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Hollandale
Miss
Skinner
East
South
West
Commission Studies Projects To Be Recommended For Loans
The North Carolina State Advisory Budget Commission opened hearings on requests totaling 14.69 million dollars for state building projects. Frank L. Dunlap, highway commission chair, cited a 40.01 million modernization need for roads. Governor Hoey aims to join the Public Works Administration program and anticipates completing selection by Saturday.
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Commission
Raleigh
State Advisory Budget Commission
Hoey
General Assembly
North Carolina
Public Works Administration
Frank L. Dunlap
Ilap
Wesleyan Group to Meet August 9 at Colfax
Rev. L. F. Lance announces the 59th annual North Carolina Wesleyan Methodist conference to convene August 9 at 9 a.m. on Shady Grove camp grounds Colfax with Rev. B. L. Henderson presiding. Women’s Missionary societies join the event for several days of reports and sermons. Tobacco farmers in Forsyth and Guilford report good curing and expected satisfactory poundage.
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Kernersville
L. F. Lance
Colfax
North Carolina
Wesleyan Methodist Church
Shady Grove
Lance
B. L. Henderson
High Point
Conference of Ministers
Forsyth
Guilford
North Carolina Leader Sees End to Freight Rate Discrimination
Maxwell notes a shift as southern rail lines back equal rate bases and argues the ICC should not arbitrate private industry. He recalls NC as an early challenger to discriminatory weights and logs his long service from revenue to railroad regulation.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
North Carolina
Maxwell
Old Corporation Commission
Polkton Woman Killed in Auto Collision Near Polkton
Miss Winnon Bennett 18 of Polkton was killed instantly when an automobile collided with a truck near Polkton. State Patrolman L. W. Hunt and Sheriff B. M. Gaddy said they would hold J. B. Moore of near Wadesboro the car driver and Henry Davis of Charlotte the Negro truck driver after investigation.
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Wadesboro
N. C
Winnon Bennett
Polkton
L. W. Hunt
8. M. Gaddy
J. B. Moore
Henry Davis
Charlotte
Rally Day at Kernersville Methodist Church
Kernersville church and Sunday school plan Rally Day with special choir performances and a solo by Mary Jiden of Charleston. Rev T R Wolfe will preach at 11 am, and two local business upgrades are noted as Vance Ballard Coal adds office space and Edison’s Cafe expands dining room capacity.
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Kernersville
Mary Jiiden
Charleston
W. Va
T. R. Wolfe
Vance- Ballard Coal Company
Edison's
North Main Street
Tuberculosis death rate drops to fifty per hundred thousand
The report notes that the U S death rate from tuberculosis now stands at 50 per 100 000 population, a marked decline from 180 per 100 000 reported in 1900.
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League of Municipalities
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EB. F. Baker
Atlanta
H. A. Glenn
Mr. Baker
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Chicago
Jogolo Quality Film Service
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Alkaseltzer
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Stanback
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Rave
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