Assembly Moves to New Terms Amid Salary Increases
The 1953 General Assembly adopted a joint resolution declaring readiness for business. Behind the scenes, caucuses settled key posts including reading clerk and sergeant at arms, with the Senate approving an executive salary bill raising pay for governor and others, while House deliberations stretched.
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General Assembly of
Senate
State Democratic Committee
Sir Walter
J. M. White, Jr
House
Roger Kiser
Scotland
Council of State
Hamilton Hobgood
Army's Top Psychiatrist Says Mrs Smith Without Control
Tokyo reports say Brig Gen Rawley Chambers testified Mrs Dorothy Kreger Smith was completely without restraint the night she fatally stabbed her husband Col Aubrey D Smith with a 13 inch knife. Defense contends intoxication and loss of control negate premeditation in the Oct 3 murder.
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Tokyo
U.S. Army
Dorothy Kreger Smith
Aubrey D. Smith
Washington
Chambers
Umstead Urges Bond to Fund Mental Hospitals and Schools
Governor William B. Umstead called for a large state bond issue to finance mental hospitals and training facilities for the feebleminded. He urged funds for both white and Negro children and for adults, criticizing Caswell Training School as a detention home rather than a true training school.
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Raleigh
William B. Umstead
Umstead
General Assembly
Caswell Training School
Kinston
Wheeler Demands Death Penalty In Washington Protest
Wheeler, 25, who lives in Washington and formerly resided in Mt. Vernon Illinois, joined by Gene Wheel er wearing a misspelled sign demanding the death penalty in a foreground protest.
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Gene Wheeler
Wheeler
Washington
Mt. Vernon, Ill
Call Reveals Money Hideout In Rail Station
Anonymous call led to recovery of $890 stolen from the railway express office at Herkimer station. The cash was found within 40 feet of the office in a public locker in the waiting room. John Davis of York, Pennsylvania, won the world heavyweight weight lifting championship in 1951 with a combined 1,062 pounds.
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Herkimer
N. Y
John Davis
York
Soldier narrowly misses plane that vanished with Korean veterans
Pfe Ernest Kinsey of Madison Florida called it luck to have missed the C46 transport that disappeared yesterday with 37 Korean veterans aboard en route from Fort Lawton to Fort Jackson. Kinsey was next in line on the loading list behind Pfc John F King of Goldsboro North Carolina. Cpl John W Kinard Jr Monticello Georgia and Cpl Thomas H Lee Elizabeth City North Carolina remained on standby as the second transport landed for an oil line repair before continuing the flight.
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Salt Lake City
Pfe
Ernest Kinsey
Madison
Fla
Kinsey
Army
Ft. Lawton
Wash
Pfc
John F. King
Goldsboro
N. C
Idaho
Wyoming
Ft. Jackson
Cpl
John W. Kinard Jr
Monticello
Kinard
Thomas H. Lee
Elizabeth City
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