State Employees Begin Holidays in Raleigh
State departments close at 1 p m to give a four and a half day weekend the longest holiday yet. Governor Gardner plans work on his Christmas message while officials and tax staff stay busy with the Tax Commission Report. Automobiles license bureau staff also enjoy the four day break as license sales are ahead.
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O. Max Gardner
General Assembly
Executive Mansion
Fred W. Morrison
State Tax Commission
Tax Commission
Morrison
Automobile License Bureau
Sprague Silver
State licenses sales rise as offices extend weekend hours
About 55 000 licenses were sold by noon today, compared with 30 000 by the same date last year. More than 40 branch offices, many at Carolina Motor Club branches, will open Friday and Saturday while the Raleigh office closes those days. Other state departments stay closed until Monday.
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Carolina Motor Club
Raleigh
Henninger Sends Out Relief Plans for North Carolina
The Enterprise Bureau reports R W Henninger executive secretary of the governor s council on unemployment and relief mails complete plans to organize unemployment and relief units in every city and county in North Carolina He notes the plan aims to coordinate actions without dictating methods and urges rapid formation before the anticipated post Christmas relief surge. A central committee of employers chambers of commerce bankers civic and charitable groups and a labor representative would oversee local units with an executive committee and secretary and a central office at a courthouse or city hall.
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Reduced Output Expected To Aid Copper Industry
A New York report notes 1930 oversupply in copper and non ferrous metals, with copper industry curtailment planned for 1931 to stabilize stocks. Lead and zinc declined. nickel was the only exception. Silver collapsed to about 32 cents an ounce before stabilizing near 11 cents as year ended.
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New York
London porter speaks many tongues in court
Robert Last, a Charing Cross porter for 30 years, could interpret many languages and was summoned to testify for a Spanish pickpocket. In court the roof of Charing Cross collapsed, killing eight people, including the man who had temporarily filled his job.
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Robert Last
Charing Cross Station
Charing Cross
Last
Jacobes Accepts Health Board Job in North Carolina
Dr. William Pickard Pacocks has accepted the post of state health officer of North Carolina after assurances of tenure and freedom to develop the program. He is currently with the Rockefeller Foundation in India and notified board president Dr. A J Crowell in a letter. The board confirms full latitude in program development and notes the term ends in April 1932.
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William Pickard Pacocks
North Carolina
Dr. Jacobs
Rockefeller Foundation
India
State Board of Health
A. J. Crowell
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Laughinghouse
Negro Held In 20 Years Old Slaying
Ashe-ville dispatch reports a suspected murderer from 1911 being held by Bakersville officers. Authorities believe the arrested man may be John Huff rather than Laurence Boyd, the wanted figure linked to the killing of Asheville policeman E. C. McConnell after a suspected cow theft.
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E. C. McConnell
Test Farm Opened At Statesville
STATESVILLE December 24 W H Hendricks is ready to begin duties as superintendent of the Piedmont test farm. He was appointed yesterday by Commissioner William A Graham to succeed T F Meacham who died last summer. Hendricks has served as Catawba county farm agent.
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W. H. Hendricks
Piedmont
Mr. Hendricks
William A. Graham
T. F. Meacham
Catawba County
Brummitt urges rewriting school and election laws
Raleigh Dec 24 The North Carolina attorney general urges the 1931 general assembly to entirely rewrite the school and election laws citing need for clarification after recent amendments He offers to aid committees and notes taxation will be a top issue with machinery and revenue acts to be rewritten He stresses retaining old statute language where it has favorable court interpretations.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
General Assembly
Dennis G. Brummitt
Senate
House
Slackened Market Lets Car Makers Prepare For 1931
Detroit dispatch notes the automobile industry faced severe disorganization in 1930, especially in retail, as manufacturers acknowledge the reckless push for new production records in 1929 led to a large surplus of cars and trucks. The piece discusses preparations for 1931 amid the slackened market conditions.
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Henry Devin Displays Three Year Model Railway
London feature reports Henry Devin proudly showing a three year effort: a model railway with a hundred yards of track a lake a perfected bridge six electric engines and a control board to operate the layout.
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London
Henry Devin
Devin
Canadian Inventor Creates Speed Warning Buzz Device
A Canadian inventor develops an electric device that emits a buzzing alert to warn a pilot when an airplane is losing speed and at risk of a tailspin.
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