North Carolina Budget Proposes 348 Million for Biennium
The 1947 49 biennial budget totals 348 147 084 from general highway and agriculture funds with 44 5 million for a public building program not to be completed in the period. After the 44 5 million deduction 303 6 million funds for July 1 1947 to June 30 1949. General fund to 183 8 million with school system at 122 million and over 17 million for higher education and retirement system. Public education would reach about 76 percent of general fund spending leaving 24 percent for health law enforcement welfare and state departments. Highway fund calls for higher county road allocations.
Clark Says Lewis Insulted Nation in Supreme Court Plea
Attorney General Tom C. Clark argued in Washington that Jonh L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers defied a court order during last fall's coal strike, contending the contempt fines seek only to protect government functions. He warned that no person is above the law as the case tests Norris La Guardia act scope and government power to curb internal threats. Lewis' lawyers countered the act shields unions from injunctions against private employers and that Goldsborough's order was within rights.
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Washington
Tom C. Clark
Supreme Court Today
Jonh L. Lewis
United States
Iself
Lewis
United Mine Workers
Clark
Nationwide crisis in teacher pay and shortages voiced
Dr. Ed gar W. Knight of the University of North Carolina told a Charlotte audience that acute teacher shortages and protests over pay threaten American public education. He urged a permanent, adequate salary scale, better preparation, working conditions, tenure, and retirement plans to save schools from breakdown. He noted the need for nationwide reform beyond patchwork fixes.
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Charlotte
Edgar W. Knight
University of North Carolina
American Association of University Women
Knight
North Carolina
Dr. Knight
Guilford Man is Joined By Sen Parker
In Raleigh a debate over a proposed 25 to 30 percent pay raise for teachers and state employees unfolded in the senate. Senators Penny and Parker led opposition to Governor Cherry while Barber urged restraint, arguing the budget could not absorb the added cost. The session drew a crowded gallery of state workers and teachers, with contending demands to act now versus deferral for study.
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Raleigh, Jap
Senate
Penny
Guilford
Parker
Buncombe
Cherry
Barber
Chatham
Senate Ae Committee
Wade Barber
George T. Penny
John R. McLaughlin
Iredeil
Sen
D. L
Libby) Ward
Craven
Postent
R. S. Ferguson
Alexander
Willie Lee Lumpkin
1947 North Carolina Budget Highlights Ahead of Session
Raleigh January 14 The 1947 general appropriations bill totals 303 645 647 with anticipated revenue 289 218 500 leaving a 14 427 147 gap funded from surplus. Governor Cherry backs a 20 percent teacher and state employee pay raise and a broad increase in operating funds for all agencies and mental institutions. The plan also expands the states highway program with increased highway commission appropriations and rural road funding. A 44 501 437 permanent building fund and 10 million added to the 20 million reserve would absorb 54 501 437 surplus. The retirement fund would rise four to five percent and franchise and intangible tax rates would be cut about 700 thousand annually. Highway safety staffing would grow the motor vehicles department.
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Raleigh
Sen
Barr
Chatham
Rep
Allen
Wake
Cherry
Advisory Budget Commission
Highway Commission
Department of Motor Vehicles
Morse Breaks With Party Over Labor Policy
Republican Senator Morse of Oregon split with his party urging Congress to prioritize perfecting the Wagner Act. As a Senate labor committee member and former NLRB official, he warned that sound labor legislation requires refining the act and criticized GOP anti labor and fiscal isolation policies.
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Washington
Morse
Oregon
Congress
Senate Labor Committee
National Labor Relations Board
NLRB
White House
Cotton Queen of 1947 Overcome By Her Selection
MEMPHIS Tenn Jan 14 1947 Hilma Seay a 21 year old Southwestern senior was chosen 1947 maid of cotton for a national tour and Paris visit She will leave for New York to train in modeling and makeup then go to Miami for the tour prior to Paris with Am erican fashions Her alternates were Laura Averett and Barbara Gregg Hood.
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Memphis
Tenn
Hilma Seay
Southwestern
Maid of Cotton
Paris
Cotton
New York
New York Cotton Exchange
Miami
Fla
Miss Seay
Laura Averett
Ashburn
Wesleyan College
Macon
Another Wilmington Officer Arrested
Patrolman Roy Grissett the second Wilmington police officer arrested within 24 hours was held on 3000 bail charged with breaking into a local hardware store and taking an outboard motor valued at 130 dollars. Grissett arrested after tip from H L Gurley another officer arrested yesterday on robberies at a local market.
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Wilmington
Roy Grissett
Grissett
Weyl
H. L. Gurley
Girley
Big 4 Work On Austrian German Peace Pact
London report says deputy foreign ministers from Britain the United States the Soviet Union and France will draft the Austrian and German peace terms for Moscow talks in March. They will hear reparations claims and seek agreement on major issues including Soviet demands and the Saar question.
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London
Austria
Moscow
Ernest Bevin
United States
Russia
France
Britain
Germany
Saar
Textile workers slain then suicide report in Gastonia
Paul Childs and his wife, both about 45, textile workers, were found shot in a Gastonia street. Police say the bodies and a nearby gun indicate Childs killed his wife and then killed himself. No witnesses. They lived at a hotel a block away and were due at a mill shift shortly after 5 30 a.m.
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Gastonia
Paul Childs
Childs
Separate Air Safety Board Proposed Amid Flight Crashes
Senate commerce panel urged CAB review of the air safety crisis as public fear grows. Lawmakers floated creating a standalone government air safety board to take crash investigations away from the CAB, while noting 1946 passenger deaths rose and crew fatalities fell from 1945.
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John B. Owen Washington
Senate Commerce Committee
Civil Aeronautics Board
Congress
Brewster
R-Me
Senator Capehart
R-Ind
Rep. Rivers
DSC
Ignang
Hinshaw
Calif
John L Lewis Spends Stop in St. Petersburg Florida
John L. Lewis head of the United Mine Workers makes a brief Florida stop in St. Petersburg after a hurried visit to his family physician at Viney Park hotel. He calls the trip a drive through and plans to depart soon, declining to reveal his next destination.
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ST. Petersburg
Fla
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Florida
Viney Park Hotel
Charles Compton
Springfield
Ill
Lewis
CIO Organizers Leave Tennessee Town Under Pressure
A band of 159 men accompanied by their wives escorted to workers at the Henry Siegel shirt factory in Bruceton Tennessee. CIO organizers Fula McGill and May Morgan agreed to depart by noon after a town escort demanded their exit. The women led organizing efforts at the plant and indicated the CIO would continue efforts elsewhere.
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Bruceton
Tenn. Dan
CIO
West
Tennessee
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
Fula McGill
Birmingham
May Morgan
Knoxville
Henry I. Siegel
Lindel Cole
Union
Miss McGill
Byrnes Scored By Argentine Diplomat
Buenos Aires reports Argentine Foreign Minister Bramuglia condemns U S Secretary Byrnes as unjust and intolerant after Byrnes urged moving toward a Rio de Janeiro pact while Argentina must still meet Chapultepec commitments Bramuglia cites Nazi purge and cites George Messersmith as witness in written reply
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Buenos Aires
U. S
James F. Byrnes
Juan Bramuglia
Cleveland
Byrnes
Rio de Janeiro
Argentina
State Department
Chapultepec
Bramuglia
George Messersmith
Byrd Expedition Presses Toward Little America in Ice
The central force led by Mt Olympus presses through 8 to 10 foot floes in the Ross Sea toward Little America while the Pine Island contends with the rescue of airmen. Survivors recount the New Year's Eve meal and grim days after the crash as Captain Caldwell guides efforts and Cruzen lauds divine providence.
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U.S.S. MT. Olympus
Ross Sea
Little America
Pine Island
Mt. Olympus
Richard H. Cruzen
J. Lecompte
Joliet
Ill
Ellsworth
James Robbins
San Diego
Calif
Henry H. Cladwell
Caldwell
Admiral Byrd
Belling - Shausen Sea
Cape Horn
Balleny Islands
Dock Workers Debate London Strike Action
London dock workers voted to join a nationwide walkout protesting troop use to move food amid a nine day truck drivers’ strike. Soldiers and vehicles resumed meat and food deliveries to London retailers as emergency talks seek a quick settlement and a voluntary joint industrial council to bypass the wages board.
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London
England
George Isaacs
Transport and General Workers Union
British Press Association
Bedlam in Georgia Legislature Over Governor Succession
A joint Georgia Senate House session to choose Eugene Talmadge's successor sparked chaos. Senators rushed in, seats were scarce, and President William Dean ordered the chamber cleared before adjourning for a 2 p.m. recess. Herman Talmadge and Lt. Gov. M. E. Thompson were in contention.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Eugene Talmadge
Bedlam
Senate
House
Talmadge
Herman
M. E. Thompson
William Dean
Dean
Weather Outlook for Carolinas Warm Through Saturday
The extended forecast shows rising temperatures from tonight through Saturday with five to ten degrees above normal. Scattered showers are expected Wednesday mainly in the mountains and again across the area Saturday. Readings shown for cities include Charlotte 54 to 60, Asheville 58, Atlanta 31, New York 87, with varied rainfall amounts in the 24 hours ending 8:30 a.m. Thursday.
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Muntain
Charlotte
Jan
Official Weather Bureau
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Chicago
Columbia Ana
Denver
Detroit
Evansville
Galveston
Hi Point
Jacksonville
Little Rock
Los Angelles
Memphis
Ts Meridien
Miami
Minn
Mobile
New Orleans
New York
Asheville
Atlanta
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Northfield
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