N C Legislators May Vote Themselves More Money
Raleigh report notes that the 1963 General Assembly may again raise subsistence for lawmakers as sessions rise beyond 120 days. The $12 per day allowance covers hotel meals and incidentals, with no constitutional bar to increases, while per diem remains capped at 120 days. Budgeted state costs for the session are projected to exceed $1 million.
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Joyce Williams Raleigh
General Assembly
Raleigh
Tive
Work On Cotton Bill Advances In House Subcommittee
A House agriculture subcommittee pressed a bill to end the two price cotton system by giving mills a subsidy. It would let U S mills buy U S cotton at world prices 82 cents per pound below the domestic price using CCC payment in kind certificates. The plan runs four years and allows excess cotton acreage up to 30 percent with a lower price. cash payments were dropped. President Kennedy urged some form of domestic subsidy to help mills compete with foreign producers. Southeast farmers seek smaller allotments and higher supports.
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Washington
House Agriculture
Commodity Credit Corporation
E. C. Gathings
D-Ark
Kennedy
U.S
Opposition to Winston-Salem Forsyth Schools Merger
A legal move seeks a temporary injunction in Superior Court to block the consolidation of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County school systems. The county board plans to petition to pursue the merger with the State Board of Education after a countywide referendum approved a 38 cent tax increase.
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Winston-Salem
Forsyth County
County
State Board of Education
Frank C. Ausband
Kernersville
Harvey FE. Benfield
Louisville
Ausband
Police Search Jagan Secretary’s Georgetown Apartment
Police raided the private secretary to Premier Cheddi Jagan in Georgetown British Guiana looking for guns but found none. The Friday night operation reportedly occurred without Jagan’s knowledge or consent.
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Georgetown
British Guiana
Cheddi Jagan
Jack Kelshall
Japan
French Turn Down N C Art Request
French officials refused to lend Whistler's Mother to the North Carolina Art Museum. The Louvre painting will stay in Atlanta for a March exhibit honoring local victims of a plane crash, then return to France. Roger London cited potential harm to Atlanta's showing and a French ambassador's decision.
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Raleigh
Whistler
North Carolina Art Museum
Atlanta
Wilmington
North Carolina
Louvre
Paris
Europe
Roger London
Washington
London
Justus Bier
France
Plan Allows Islanders To Remain
The plan authorizes continued residence on Portsmouth Island and Core Banks while the state buys remaining land. It proposes retaining title and leasing to existing club and camp owners long term, with rules preventing interference with a dike project and allowing Portsmouth citizens to live out their lives there.
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Beaufort, N.C
Portsmouth Island
Island
North Carolina Outer Banks Seashore Park
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DeTamble
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Richmond
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Sparta
Salem Cemetery
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St. Andrews College
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Portsmouth
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