North Carolina Expands State Control Over Schools Roads Prisons
North Carolina rewrote local government financing during the 1930s, moving to state funding for schools and prisons, taking over road maintenance, and enacting a broad tax program including sales tax. The 1939 40 general fund and highway budgets show large increases to support expanded services.
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W. Jaynes MacFarlan
Raleigh
North Carolina
Ebringhaus
State School Commission
Gardner
Local Government Commission
Hoey
Ehringhaus
Thirty-Five Die Violently Luring Holidays In State
CHARLOTTE, Dec. 27. The Christmas holiday season toll rose to 35 dead in North Carolina. Fifteen died in highway crashes, five in other causes including train accident and exposure, three by suicide, and five by firearms homicides. Victims include Fred Cauble, Eva Windburn, Edwin Shaw, John Powell, and others across Salisbury Laurinburg Elkton Thomasville Booneville Greensboro and more.
Asheboro Reports Holiday Week No Fatal Highway Accidents
Asheboro escaped fatal highway tragedies during the holiday weekend. Dillard Chisholm of Ramseur and Charlotte sustained severe bruises from a Christmas Eve crash two miles east of the city, taken to Randolph Hospital. The car was badly damaged as he lost control on a curve noted for past wrecks. Also, two High Point girls, Nell Turpin and Pat Turpin, riding with George Bouldin of Asheboro, received minor cuts in a separate Christmas Eve incident in North Asheboro.
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Asheboro
Dillard Chisholm
Ramseur
Charlotte
Dillard
Randolph Hospital
Chisholm
North
High Point
Nell Turpin
Pat Turpin
George Bouldin
Joint Peace Fight Urged
Rome reports a journalist close to Foreign Minister Ciano urged collaboration between the Italian government and the Holy See to promote peace and oppose Communism. The suggestion followed Pope Pius XII’s planned visit to King Vittorio Emanuele and Queen Elena, marking the first papal visit to an Italian ruler in 69 years.
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Rome
Holy See
Galeazzo Ciano
Giovanni Ansaldo
Avvenire
Peppe Pius XII
Vittorio Emanuele
Elena
Ansaldo
Europe
Death of Mrs Mar tha Cranford near Denton
Mrs Martha Luella Cranford 73 widow of John M Crawford died at her Randolph County home near Denton after a ten day illness following a stroke. She was a member of Chapel Hill Methodist Church. Surviving are sisters Mrs M F Crawford and Mrs S A Crawford of Denton. Funeral at Chapel Hill Methodist Church at 2 PM conducted by Rev R H Kennington. Burial in church cemetery after viewing at Hoover Walker Funeral Home.
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Matha Cranford
Denton
Martha Luella Cranford
John M. Crawford
Randolph County
Chapel Hill Methodist Church
M. F. Crawford
A Crawford
James J. Britt Rites Held in Asheville
Funeral services were held today for James J. Britt 78 a former Republican Congressman from the Tenth North Carolina District and once editor of the Asheville Times and chief counsel for the Prohibition Bureau.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ames J. Britt
Asheville
James J. Britt
North Carolina
Prohibition Bureau
E L Smith Dies in Greensboro at 59
E L Smith age 59 vice president of Philadelphia Dying Machine Company died last night of a heart attack. He moved to Greensboro in September from Boston.
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E. L. Smith
Greensboro
Philadelphia Dying Machine Company
Boston
Japanese Cabinet Receives Feeler On Resignation
Tokyo December 27. Prime Minister Nobuyuke Abe faces a 250 member House of Representatives letter urging serious cabinet reflection on remaining in power. The nonbinding resolution, backed by younger MPs, signals possible fall if U S reaction to Yangtze reopening toward Nanking falters and notes need for a new regime before river trade resumes.
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Tokyo
Nobuyuke Abe
House of Representatives
United States
Yangtze River
Nanking
Japan
Gime
China
Suma
Glyptodont Used Tail as Club in Ancient Attacks
The glyptodont an ancient animal used its tail as a club to fend off predators. It drew its head and legs into its shell for protection before swinging its tail at the enemy.
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Columbian Stock Farm
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Thomas J.nolan
Bronx
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Barbee
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Earl Forward
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R. C. Sayers
Gatewood Ave
G. Curtis Smithdeal
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Ed Pleasants
NEW Fairmont Lunch
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