Rising Cost Of Living Strains North Carolina Welfare
Commissioner Ellen Winston notes 1947 welfare costs rose as aged aid grew to 42 301 recipients with $1.04 monthly, and dependent children aid jumped to 8 434 families. State appropriation rose to 1.85 million, with county and federal matching funds, while food costs erode grants and counties shoulder unemployment relief.
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Ellen Winston
North Carolina
General Assembly
Council of State
State Board of Public Welfare
State Association of Clerks of Superior Court
Juvenile Cout
Jude
Clerks’ Association
Wake
Warren
Transylvania
Dail
Medical Care Commission
Plans Changed By Atomic Energy Body
The atomic energy commission reverses last September plan and concentrates most research at Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago. The University of Chicago will direct the expanded program and uranium chain reactors at Argonne, with Clinton National Laboratory Oak Ridge no longer leading those efforts.
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Oak Ridge, Tenn
Atomic Energy Commission
Argonne National Laboratory
Chicago
University of Chicago
Argonne
Clinton National Laboratory
Oak Ridge
Justice to Be Done In Killing Says Attorney
Dunn Jan 1. Solicitor Jack Hooks vows to seek justice in the slaying of Charlie Smith a 50 year old Negro of Angier. Smith was shot November 23 apparently from a moving car. Daniel Lee Brassford a wounded Negro companion joined in Angier. Hooks returned from Angier after studying the case and said there is evidence of brutal murder but proof and witnesses out of county require further investigation before indictment.
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Aea
Income Tax Estimate Rules For 1947 Filings
NEA correspondent explains who must file a tax estimate for 1947 and deadlines. Rules vary by filing status and income sources with special farmer rules and penalties for under or overestimates. Farmers have different due dates and thresholds, and a final return may be required by March 15 if income exceeds $500.
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Burton Heath
NEA
Washington
Withinlangs
Internal Revenue
Non Essential Traffic Ban On NYC Streets In Snow
New York City lifts non essential traffic as milder weather aids snow removal from a 25.8 inch record storm. Police Commissioner Wallander extends embargo to private and many commercial vehicles except taxis and emergency responders. essential goods such as fuel oil coal gasoline foods milk medicines remain allowed.
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New York
New York City
Arthur W. Wallander
Weather Bureau
Chicago
Department of Sanitation
One Lynching Listed By Institute
Tuskegee Institute lists one lynching and six border line cases for 1947. President F D Patterson says 39 lives were saved in at least 31 preventions, with 27 in southern states and four outside. The lynching victim was Willie Earle, 24, in South Carolina. Fourteen other figures and cases are noted along with indictments and releases.
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Tuskegee
Ala
Anp
Tuskegee Institute Today
F. D. Patterson
Institute
South
Willie Earle
South Carolina
Five Prisoners Paroled By Governor Cher ry
Five inmates granted parole include Walter Leaks for second degree murder in Cleveland 1935 with 20 to 30 year sentence and Walter Jr Gay Reuben Jenkins Arthur Medlin and Earl F Williams. Each offender faced charges from North Carolina across 1945 to 1946 with varied term lengths. An unrelated note mentions a new airplane navigator aimed to ease airport traffic and broaden air lanes.
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Walter Leaks
Cleveland
Beatrice Johnson
Wilbur Junior Gay
Pitt
Reuben Jenkins
Gaston
Arthur Medlin
Nash
Earl F. Williams
Durham
AFL Chief Sees Blowoff Risk in 1948 Labor Relations
AFL President William Green warned of a looming blowoff in labor management relations due to the Taft Hartley act. He argued 1947 saw a breakdown in peaceful labor relations and that many contracts signed before the law take effect may delay impact until 1948. Green, with CIO President Philip Murray, urged early action on inflation and supported possible government price controls.
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Washington
AFL
William Green
Green
CIO
Philip Murray
Lewis B. Schwellenbach
Death by exposure ruled in Mary Ruth Wilson case
A coroner's jury found 20 year old Mary Ruth Wilson from Galax Va died of exposure. The body was found in a panel truck on a Blue Ridge highway with escort James B Patton unconscious nearby. Patton posted bond and faced release after state lab results showed no poison.
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Winston-Salem
Mary Ruth Wilson
Galax
Blue Ridge Mountain
James B. Patton
Patton
Low Gap
Coreoner
J. L. Woltz
Miners End Strike Return To Work With Hard Hats
About 1,700 soft coal miners will return to work at the Jones & Laughlin Vesta No. 4 mine in California Pennsylvania wearing safety hard hats after agreeing to implement federal safety measures. Union leader John P Busarello and a company spokesman confirmed the decision and return plan. The piece also notes the University of Minnesota nursing school as the nation’s largest.
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California
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation
Vesta No. 4
John P. Busarello
District 5
United Mine Workers
Man Triumphs In Fight For Citizenship
P. Andrew Gogal of Pennsylvania won a decade long court battle confirming his American birth status. Born in Walston Jefferson County, he was taken to Czechoslovakia as a child and later drafted into the Czech army. A U S District Judge ruled Gogal is an American citizen by birth and permissible to bring his wife and two children to Pittsburgh.
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Pittsburgh
Andrew Gogal
Czechoslovakia
Gogal
Walston
Jefferson County
U. S
Army of Foreign Power
Wallace S. Gourley
Marshall Is Named Man of the Year
Time magazine selects Secretary of State George Marshall as Man of the Year. The 1947 choice honors his rise in prominence and symbolizing U S leadership as the American people took responsibility for global action in the postwar year.
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Marshall
Man
New York
George Marshall
Time
Hng
Great
U. S
Tugboat Workers Strike Averted In New York Harbor
A threatened New York harbor strike by 3500 tugboat workers was averted as operators and AFL union representatives reached a contract providing a 10 cent hourly wage increase.
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New York
New York Harbor
AFL
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