Money and Money: North Carolina Legislature Faces Budget Battles
Legislative week centered on money issues including highway fund diversion duplication in agricultural work and budget cuts. Meetings drew big crowds and heated exchanges as the ABC board funding, tax measures, and estate code revisions sparked stiff debate and calls for joint committees.
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Lynn Nisbet
Enterprise Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh
Capitol
Appropriations Committee
Budget Commission
North Carolina
Highway Commission
Hoey
State Department
House
Eagles
ABC
Agriultural
ABC Board
Victor S. Bryant
Durham
Bryant
Finance Committee
Raleigh lawmakers clash over absentee voting and other laws
Capital Short Shots reviews tense House election law committee session. Debates cover absentee voting in primaries, dual supervision in elections, hospital funds from tag fees, and possible compulsory insurance. The session also examines the Senate indecent exposure bill and a Pisgah National Forest deer sale prohibition.
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Henry Averill
Lynn Nisbet
Enterprise Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh
Election Law Committee of the
House
Wayne
Frank Taylor
Pisgah National Forest
Conservation Committee
Clegg
Moore County
Friends
Pat Kimzey
Pickens cites dual control as theory in absentee voting
Rupert Pickens of Guilford argues that dual control is theoretical since the Democratic registrar handles every step of absentee voting except counting ballots. Dr. Tom Long of Roanoke Rapids may not push his idea into the Senate bill hopper but sparked discussion with a suggestion.
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Rupert Pickens
Guilford
Tom Long
Roanoke Rapids
Senate
Bill Hopper
Budget committees favor status quo as week ends
Finance and appropriations panels keep revenue plan intact with little change expected next week. Debate over royalties on phonograph music could reshape markets as Separk’s repeal bill faces the hopper amid memorials for Capt. Ashe and graves of Nathaniel Macon and Anne Carter Lee.
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Finance Committee
Finance and
Appropriations
Separk
Murphy
Rowan
Samuel Ashe
Kerr
Warren
Nathaniel Macon
Anne Carter Lee
Warren County
Lutheran Conference Set for Granite Quarry in Feb
The sixth semi annual meeting of the Northern conference of the North Carolina Lutheran Synod will be held at Granite Quarry on Friday and Saturday. Rev. C. E. Ridenhour of China Grove, president, will deliver the opening sermon.
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Lutheran Conference
Salisbury
Northern Conference
The
North Carolina Lutheran Synod
Granite Quarry
C. E. Ridenhour
China Grove
China builds new interior nation with $25 million credit
China uses a $25 million export import loan to recreate industry in the hinterland away from Japanese forces. Native crews move machinery to new factories and plan to buy more from the United States, including trucks, fabrics, and communications gear as engineers direct the effort from Chunking.
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Washington
China
New York
Manu
United States
Chunking
Rangoon
Burma
Nelson T. Johnson
Fire damages Hamlet drug store and insurance office
A fire in Hamlet caused about 2000 dollars in damage to a drug store and an adjoining insurance office. Fumes from burning drugs hindered firefighters and the cause of the blaze was not determined.
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Hamlet
O Daniel Defends Texas Reprieve Amid Capital Punishment Debate
Governor W Lee O Daniel defended delaying the execution of Winzell Williams arguing the reprieve gave the prisoner 30 days of life amid public outcry. He spoke in a Sabbath broadcast urging abolition of capital punishment and said lawmakers never dared to speak plainly about the policy. A separate NC official noted a wide open field for certified seed production.
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Austin
Tex
W. Lee O’daniel
Winzell Williams
O’daniel
A. D. Stuart
State College
The
North Carolina Crop Improvement Association
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