Budget cuts slash North Carolina Health Department program
The North Carolina State Board of Health announces a 30 percent budget cut for 1929-31, totaling 120 433 dollars. Reductions affect field personnel, maternity and infancy services, school medical inspections, vital statistics, health education, and laboratory operations, with many functions merged or discontinued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles O’h. Laughinghouse
Budget Bureau
State Board of Health
North Carolina
Ex Sergeant Major Boulter Calls London Husbands to Resist Spring Cleaning
Under the alias Down trodden Husband Ex-Sergeant-Major Boulter of the Royal Air Force appeals for concerted action by London husbands to resist the spring house cleaning and throw off feminine dominance.
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Boulter
Royal Air Force
London
Platform Notes Rural Farm Aid and Tax Reform
A 1920s political platform criticizes property taxation and supports state income tax removal of property tax, rural aid, and capital labor rights. It denounces the Harding Coolidge Hoover era, calls for enforcement of Prohibition, sanitation, disease elimination, support for Great Smoky Mountain park, and equal freight rates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank
Harding
Coolidge
Hoover
General Assemblies
Great Smoky Mountain Park
North Carolina Platform Drops Sales Tax Issue
Raleigh July 4. After days of debate the platform committee removed all mention of a sales tax striking a blow to tax reform questions. The convention approved the plank leaving the sales tax question to the 1931 general assembly and signaling focus on public school funding and ad valorem tax relief. The public schools plank pledges faith in education and reduces current tax burdens while passing school policy decisions to lawmakers.
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J. C. Baskervill Raleigh
Platform Committee
North Carolina
General Assembly
Williard Dowell
North Carolina Merchants ‘Association
Hallet Ward
Washington
Democratic Party
Prohi
Holiday Sports Card Features Wide Range of Events
Holiday programs offered varied entertainment for Carolinas sports fans with morning and afternoon baseball in the Piedmont and Sally Leagues, boxing shows in several cities, the Carolina Derby at Maple Grove near Salisbury, and the Sedgefield horse show. Golf matches, airplane races, and boxing headliners in Asheville, Winston Salem, and Durham complemented the day’s lineup.
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Charlotte
Carolinas
Carolina
Raleigh
Henderson
Winston-Salem
High Point
Greensboro
Durham
Greenville
Augusta
Macon
Asheville
Columbia
Maple Grove Track
Salisbury
Sedgefield
Greensdoro
South
Jack League
Pat Freeman
Louisville
Buster Newberry
Jarvis Smothers
Jakie Denning
Champain
Herman Weiner
Baltimore
Retrenchment tightens state departments amid staffing cuts
The State Highway Commission reduces its force as road construction wanes. Only the Board of Conservation and Development adds staff to guard fish and game in summer, funded by licenses. The State Board of Health trims $16,715 in county aid and drops divisional directors. The maternity and infancy bureau loses its head and all personnel as the vacancy from Dr. Collins remains unfilled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. M. Cooper
Health Bulletin
Laboratory of Hygiene
Vita Statisticon
State Highway Commission
State Department
Board of Conservation and Development
State Board of Health
Charles O’h. Laughinghouse
Health Department
Frank M. Register
Division of Vital Statistics
A. B. McCreary
Bureau of Epidemiology
George Collins
Prohibition Enforcement Debate Shapes North Carolina Democratic Platform
Convention attendees debated a Prohibition plank, omitting a former pledge to enforce all federal laws and the Eighteenth Amendment. The platform broadly supports enforcement, touts North Carolina's concurrent enforcement, and signals openness to a luxury sales tax debated by the forthcoming general assembly, with many delegates favoring some tax option.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Democratic Party
United States
Democraticc General Assembly
North Carolina
Harding
Coolidge
Hoover
General Assembly
Baseball Spreads as American Sport in Many Nations
In every country where American baseball has been introduced, the sport has become popular now growing among locals and spreading through clubs and youth programs.
Lawmakers End Session With Holiday Jubilation and Deficiency Bills
The nation’s lawmakers closed the first session of the seventy-second congress on Independence Day with a mix of relief and partisan bustle. The Senate approved the World War veterans pension conference report and both houses finalized the deficiency and District of Columbia appropriation bills. The armed crime study group received a $250,000 funding request, and adjournment followed after a record vote.
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Herbert Hoover
Wilbur J. Carr
House
Senate
Hoover
Hoover Law Enforcement Commission
District of Columbia
Law Enforcement Commission
Watson
Indiana
LaFolette
Wisconsin
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