Governor's NC Pay Question Mentioned in Inquiry
A reader asks about the governor of North Carolina’s pay, stating a figure of 35000 dollars. The inquiry appears in a fragmented note attributed to the Enterprise and ACTION LINE.
23 Dec 1969
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1969
Page
1
A reader asks about the governor of North Carolina’s pay, stating a figure of 35000 dollars. The inquiry appears in a fragmented note attributed to the Enterprise and ACTION LINE.
A fragmented letter references welfare guidance for mothers and children, urging contact with the Department of Social Services at 883-7136. It also discusses genetic kinship terms like first to third cousins, notes errors in a solution, and humorously vows to disinherit third cousins.
Washington AP reports the tax reform bill cleared the Senate and House, heading to President Nixon for signature. The package totals about 9.1 billion in tax cuts offset by 6.5 billion in revenue, with debates over civil rights provisions and spending authority unresolved as Congress adjourns for Christmas.
The Soviet Communist Party published its new theses, a sweeping restatement of policy spanning 13,000 words and three pages in major newspapers. It tightens foreign policy language, lightly critiques Czechoslovakia’s liberal period, names the United States and West Germany in milder terms, and endorses peaceful coexistence with broad room for armed struggle by oppressed peoples.
An editorial urges readers to write to Governor Robert Scott of Raleigh asking him to take steps to prevent welfare benefits for the poor from being cut next year. It notes 124,000 affected, many children and mothers, and calls for action or a special session of the General Assembly to restore or protect payments.
A Raleigh welfare rally planned with Clifton Craig to oppose a 20 per cent reduction in welfare payments. Durham activists also planned a march to Raleigh. Gov. Scott sought extra state funds and urged counties to cover the state share, noting the three way federal state and county partnership. Guilford County social services staff protested the cuts with a letter to Scott calling the action regressive.
Washington AP officials in the Nixon administration largely agree with southern critics that federal law does too little about northern and western school segregation. Leon Panetta notes the idea of de facto versus de jure segregation, urging federal action while acknowledging residential patterns often drive segregation.
Panetta questions which came first the race based schooling or school boundaries as HEW Secretary Finch notes Sen. Stennis argues federal law condemns segregation in the South while not addressing de facto segregation in the North and West. Finch says the Supreme Court focuses on de jure segregation and would consider de facto segregation illegal only if government action follows.
Stephen Dennison, 60, an unemployed janitor from Glens Falls New York, appeals to the Supreme Court for 115000 arguing compensation for four years in prison after stealing five dollars worth of chocolate bars and marshmallows. Courts previously set aside the award, citing mental deficiency and lack of liability by the state. Dennison spent 34 years in reformatories and state hospitals before release in 1960.
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