Government Reorganization Plan Clears House Vote
President Truman seeks permanent power to reshape the executive branch as the House approves the plan by 356 to 9. The measure, now headed to the Senate, would allow broad agency reorganizations with congress veto power and includes special treatment for seven agencies. Former President Hoover urges a sweeping reform agenda with projected savings of 3 billion dollars and possible new cabinet level department in welfare.
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Truman
Senate
House
Congress
Herbert Hoover
Executive Expenditures Committee
Hoover
Commission
Department of Public Welfare
Federal Security Agency
Oscar Ewing
Interior Department
House Committee Backs North Carolina Port Development Bill
RALEIGH Feb 8 The House Conservation and Development Committee approved a bill to allocate 7.5 million dollars to develop state ports. The measure funds 2.3 million for Morehead City and 5.2 million for Wilmington, with a companion Senate bill introduced with 37 sponsors.
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Raleigh
House Committee On Conservation and Development
Tom Cooper
New Hanover
State Highway Commission
Cape Fear
Carolina Beach
Appropriations Committee
Morehead City
Wilmington
Senate
Rollback of Black Market Rents Proposed by New Bill
The administration seeks powers to roll back illegal rents with penalties including fines up to 1000 dollars or one year in jail. Housing expert Tighe Woods told the House Banking Committee that tenants face eviction threats and pay overcharges. Rep. Patman supports strong remedies and predicts Congress will act, while real estate interests urge ending rent control to stabilize housing prices.
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Washington
Congress
Tighe E. Woods
House Banking Committee
Woods
Wood
Banking Committee
Realtors’ Washington Committee
The
National Association of Real Estate Boards
Pension Bill Debated In House Veterans Committee
Rankin leads testimony on a multi billion dollar plan to pension 60 year old veterans of the last two world wars at sixty dollars monthly with early next week as a deadline for final action. Administration opposition remains strong. First year costs around two billion dollars with increases later under the bill.
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Washington
United States
House Veterans Committee
Rankin
Dmiss
Major General Claire Chennault Becomes Father in Canton
Retired U S Air Force Major General Claire Chennault aged 59 fathered a baby girl in Canton. The child is named Claire Anna and weighed seven and a half pounds. The mother, Anna Chan a Chinese newspaper woman, was reported doing fine.
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Claire Chennault
Canton
Claire Anna
Anna Chan
Blizzard Henries Heavy Snow Strands Trains in West
Strong winds pile fresh snow across the western states halting relief work. About 25 Union Pacific trains were snowbound in Wyoming, trapping over 4,000 travelers. Idaho declares emergency as vast storm regions suffer cattle and sheep losses and livestock feared wiped out without weather relief. Governor Robins says state lacks equipment for snow removal. President Truman orders federal aid, with $1,000,000 already spent to clear 20,000 miles of roads.
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Wyo
Rockies
Nebraska
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Plains
Rocky Mountain
California
Pacific Northwest
Air Force
Nevada
Ely
Nev
George Swallow
United Stockmen’s Association
Washington
Truman
Interior Department
Philip B. Fleming
Federal Works
Broken Bow
Neb
Campbell County
Chester P. Seeley
Bureau of Land Management
Utah
Oregon
Arizona
C. A. Robins
Big Time Drug Dealer Taken In New York Tenement
New York authorities seized a narcotics cache worth an estimated 2.63 million dollars at retail in an upper East Side tenement after arresting Joseph Basile, 39, described as a leading drug dealer and central figure in the eastern narcotics trade. Federal agents had learned of a large heroin and cocaine shipment en route, and, acting on a tip, trailed Basile for weeks to the tenement.
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New York
Upper East Side
Joseph Basile
Basile
United States
Tenement
Raleigh faces school funding wrangle and governor’s message
In Raleigh on February 8 the general assembly moves to hear Governor Scott on school appropriations. A joint session is invited for his special message on schools as lawmakers debate state aid in construction and higher teacher salaries. Scott also urges a $200 million bond for rural road building and calls for public input at a February hearing.
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General Assembly
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Senate
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Budget Commission
State Board of Education
Senate Roads Committee
Dr. Humphreys Plans Retirement From High Point Presidency
Dr. Gideon Ireland Humphreys, 19 years president of High Point College, submitted retirement to the board with guidance to end administrative duties by June 1. His departure coincides with the college 25th anniversary observance as a successor is sought. He praises the college’s progress from debt to near accreditation and an almost half-million endowment.
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High Point College
Board of Trustees
Humphreys
Logan Porter
Dr. Humphreys
Southern Association of Colleges
Florida
High Point
Coble Sworn In As Highway Commissioner
George S. Coble of Lexington was sworn in as a member of the North Carolina state highway commission by Associate Justice A A F Sea well in Raleigh. The ceremony included remarks by Governor Scott and Davidson County leaders including Mayor H Cloyd Philpott who pledged support for the road bond program. Coble heads Cable Dairy Products Inc a firm he built from a bankrupt dairy to a seven state operation with five plants twenty receiving stations and sales branches in seven states.
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George S. Coble
Lexington
State Highway Commission
A. A. F. Seawell
Scott
Cobl
Davidson County
H. Cloyd Philpott
Cable Dairy Products, Inc
Piedmont Dairy
North Carolina
South Carolina
Virginia
Florida
Georgia
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Coble
Randolph County
E. Samuel and
Georgiana Stanley Coble
Guilford College
N. C. State College
Mae Coltrane
Guilford County
Georgeanne
Edgar
Mackenzie on world affairs and the red menace
DEWITT MACKENZIE notes a postwar rise in public knowledge of world events among adults and students. He links this education to concern over bolshevik aggression, the cold war, and U N involvement, noting impacts from defense spending and aid to allies.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
United States
China
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Greece
Europe
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United Nations
Oklahoma House Passes Anti Red Oath Bill for Teachers
The Oklahoma House voted 102 to 7 to require an anti Red oath from all school teachers and college students in state supported schools. The measure moves to the senate amid debates noting alleged Communist activity at the University of Oklahoma and Norman campus.
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Oklahoma House of Representatives
University of Oklahoma
Norman
Slight Gains Registered Today On Stock Market
Faint signs of revival in buying interest appeared in the New York stock market as gains emerged after mixed early trading. Major movers included Bethlehem Steel, Chrysler, U S Rubber, Montgomery Ward, Caterpillar Tractor, Electric Power and Light, Kennecott Copper, Phelps Dodge, Dow Chemical, Radio Corp, Santa Fe, and Standard Oil NJ with gains. losses appeared for Goodyear, Farnsworth Television, American Telephone, International Nickel, American Can, Eastman Kodak, Southern Pacific, Nickel Plate, Texas and Pacific Railway, Gulf Oil, and Barnes dall Oil.
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Gen. Motors
Bethlehem Steel
Chrysler
U. S. Rubber
Montgomery Ward
Caterpillar Tractor
Electric Power and Light
Kennecott Copper
Phelps Dodge
Dow Chemical
Radio Corp
Santa Fe
Standard Oil (Nj
Goodyear
Farnsworth Television
American Telephone
International Nickel
American Can
Eastman Kodak
Southern Pacific
Nickel Plate
Texas and Pacific Railway
Gulf Oil and
Barnsdall Oil
Negroes Confess Robbery and Murder of Taxi Driver
Sheriff Ruel Tyson said two Black men, cousins Bennie Daniel 18 and Lloyd Ray Daniel 19, confessed to beating, stabbing, and stamping taxi driver William Benjamin O Nea l 29 to death near Greenville. He noted robbery was the motive after taking $3. O Ne al, a German WWII prisoner, was buried yesterday.
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Ruel W. Tyson
William Benjamin O'Neal
Tyson
Pitt County
Bennie Daniel
Lloyd Ray Daniel
O'Neal
Mindszenty Convicted of Treason in Hungarian Trial
Cardinal Mindszenty and six co defendants were found guilty in a swift three day trial. Mindszenty received life imprisonment for treason and attempting to overthrow the government while others got sentences from three years to life for treason and foreign currency speculation. All co defendants lost jobs and political rights.
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Budapest
Hungary
Josef Cardinal Mindszenty
Gyula Elapi
Paul Esterhazy
Ondras Zakar
Miklos Nagy
Catholic Action
Bela Ispenky
Father Nagy
Justin Barangay
Budapé University
Laszlo Toth
Nemzeti
Vilmos Olthys
Arpad Szakasits
Cardinal Mindszenty
Catholic Church
Sacred College of Cardinals
Hoffman And Acheson Back Marshall Plan
Secretary of State Dean Acheson and Paul Hoffman presented to Congress the administration plan for 5.58 billion dollars to fund the Marshall Plan through its second year. Hearings opened as joint foreign relations committees review the request to extend aid through June 1950 with 1.15 billion for April 3 to June 30 and 4.28 billion for the following year. A portion includes 150 million for long term contracts, and the measure is described as enabling action by Congress.
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Dean Acheson
Paul G. Hoffman
Hoffman
United States
Europe
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House
Worten
ECA
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