Revenue battle looms as new assembly convenes in Raleigh
In Raleigh on December 26 J C Baskerwll reports the coming General Assembly faces a crisis: securing additional revenue to fund schools colleges and state departments. Estimates range from 6 to 8 million dollars annually for two years with debates over sales tax highway fund diversion and relief appropriations anticipated and battles likely between diversionists and anti diversionists.
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Enterprise Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
J. C. Baskerwill
Raleigh
General Assembly
James A Hartness Former Secretary of State Dies
James A Hartness, longtime public servant and former North Carolina secretary of state, passed away after a career spanning politics and law. He supported temperance education and good roads, authored the fellow servant act, and served in the state legislature and as county Democratic chairman. He leaves eight children from his first marriage and later remarried.
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Grover Cleveland
Hartness
Iredell
Hartpess
Democratic Primarios
J. Bryan Grimes
Grimes
Stacey W. Wade
Statesville
Everett
Cameron Morrison
McLean
Orrison
Mise Jennie Henderson
Rowan County
Mise Annie Sloan
Winston-Salem
Associated Reform Presby
Violent Deaths Reported Across Two Carolinas
The article lists multiple fatalities across North and South Carolina. Cases include Sam D. Snowden Jr. aged 17 who died in an accidental gun discharge while duck hunting in Williamsburg county D O, Willie Leon Meetse a 24 year old farmer killed by a shotgun misfire in Lexington county, Mary Lou Rykard 15 the sister in law who discharged the gun, Osby Howard 86 killed when his car overturned near Morrisville, Edward Brantley 28 struck by a car near Wilson and Luther Walser 56 fatally injured in a car crash near Lexington. A Neuse river drowning near New Bern is cited as well.
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Neuse
New Bern
Sam D. Snowden, Jr
Williamsburg County
D. O
Willie Leon Meetse
Lexington County
South Carolina
Mary Lou Rykard
Osby Howard
Cedar Fork
Morrisville
Edward Brantley
Wilson
Luther Walser
Lexington
N. C
Sedalia
Joplin
Chicago
San Diego
Calif
Madison
Minn
Albany
N. Y
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Port
R. L
Belding
Mich
Rex Pyle
Fred Feiner
Shreveport
Louisiana
Evarta
Alabama
Nebraska
Mississippi
Missouri
Mia
Loretta Wilson
Port Jefferson
Rene Kats
Little Rock
Ark
Sylvia Stredman
Preston
Ida
Blue River
Crete
Neb
Leroy Maple
Brownsville
Ohio
Metropolie
15 Bodies Recovered From Canadian Train Wreck
A stationary train was shoved along the tracks for several hundred feet after a collision with a speeding express. A crew using axes by torchlight freed a man pinned beneath the rear car after a two hour effort. Doctors from Hamilton and nearby towns tended to the injured man.
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Dundas Valley
Hamilton
Government study backs large Mississippi water project
A government committee proposes a $100 million rural electrification push and a 20 year, billion dollar program for power, flood control, navigation aids and water resource development in the Mississippi valley. It urges interlinked transmission, a national water plan, and unified transport while warning over irrigation expansion amid surpluses.
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Mittee
Mississippi Valley
Ickes
United States
Mississippi
Great Lakes
Ohio
Missouri
Southwest
Kansas City
Christmas tragedy toll across the nation rises
Reports detail numerous deaths from fires accidents and violence on and around Christmas. Victims include a Sedalia family burned in Missouri and other mothers and children across states, plus drownings shootings and a note declaring Christmas as motive in one metropolis suicide.
Two Men Jailed In Death Probe In Wilmington
Two men are jailed on assault charges as coroner prepares to inquest into the death of Cole G Pridgen a local linotype operator who died Christmas from a skull fracture after an incident outside a driving club. James B Lewis and Luther Hargrave were sought for an attack on Pridgen after he fell in blood in front of the club. Autopsy confirms skull fracture and death after loss of consciousness. Funeral for Pridgen a Charlotte native is tomorrow at noon. he leaves a widow and one child.
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Wilmington
Cole G Pridgen
Linotype Opera
James B. le
Luther Hargrave
P Gen
Lewis
Grave
Ear
Outeco
Recorder’s
Pridgen
Wilson Allender
Prid
Charlotte
President weighs message on unemployment and social reform
President Roosevelt prepared a message focusing on unemployment relief and social welfare. A federal state unemployment insurance plan is to be recommended. Some expect emphasis on old age pensions before final approval. Congress faces bills on taxes and currency expansion plus the Pat to pay the bonus and Lemke refinancing loan.
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Roosevelt
House
Senate
White House
Afinson
Arkansas
Little Rock
Congress
J. ‘Lawrence Lea
NRA
Reconstruction Fi Corporation
Emery Relief Administration
Pat
Texas
DeMolay Meeting Tonight at Masonic Temple
The High Point Chapter of DeMolay will hold a regip meeting tonight at 7:30 at the Masonic Temple. The oatory degree will be conferred and officers for the next term elected. All members are urged to attend and the Majo Members and Masons are invited.
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Demolay Menting
High Point
DeMolay
Masonic Temple
Majo
Lawyer To Serve Time For Whipping Incident
Fayet teville December 26. City lawyer to serve a 606 sentence in Cumberland County jail for whipping a Pasquet county bar member. The former state highway commissioner, given privilege of choosing his jail, selected Berland County Prison with Sheriff H McGeachey to expect January 2.
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Fayetteville
Walter L., Cahoon
Pasquet County
Cumberland City
Elizabeth City
State
H Way Commission
Berland County
H. Randall
Cahoon
H. McGeachey
Annual meeting notice for High Point Perpetual & Loan Assoc
Stockholders of the High Point Perpetual and Loan Association will hold a meeting at 265 Main Street High Point North Carolina at 7 P M on January 24 1995. The agenda includes election of a Board of Directors for the coming year receipt and report of the Secretary and any other business.
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Tockholders M Sr
Ers
High Point Perpetual &Ing and Loan Association
Main Street
High Point
N. C
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