Hunt Urges Local Bills Be Entered
RALEIGH AP Local politics focus this week on local bills as public tax hearings are set for March 28. House Speaker Hunt urges members to file local bills early. Budget hearings continue with money requests from Pembroke State, Winston-Salem Teachers, Elizabeth City Teachers, Fayetteville Teachers, and North Carolina College. A Wednesday hearing will consider making DC residents eligible to vote in Presidential elections.
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Joseph M. Hunt
Guilford
Joint Finance Committee
Gov. Sanford
Ed Kemp
Congressional Districts Committee
Kemp
Joint Appropriations Committee
Pembroke State College
Winston - Salem
Elizabeth City
Fayetteville
North Carolina College
Constitutional Amendments Committee
North Carolina
U.S
District of Columbia
Churchman accuses Birchers of smears in sermon
Eugene Carson Blake the United Presbyterian Church of America chief executive says the John Birch Society runs campaigns of falsehoods to smear church leaders and the National Council of Churches as pro communism. He urged Santa Barbara parishioners to defend a free church and nation. The Birch Society, naming Eisenhower Truman and Roosevelt among alleged Communist dupes, campaigns against perceived infiltration.
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Calif
United Presbyterian Church
U.S.A
John Birch Society
Eugene Carson Blake
Presbyterian Church
National Council of Churches
Blake
Los Angeles
Presbyterians
Presbyterian Church of Santa Barbara
Commpunists
U.S
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Harry S. Truman
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Bishops Oppose Death Sentence
The Episcopal Church bishops release a 30 page report denouncing capital punishment as brutalizing society and debasing law enforcement. They criticize FBI Chief J Edgar Hoover for backing the death penalty and argue it fails to deter crime and targets the underprivileged and minority groups. The document cites executions of innocent people and calls opponents non pacifist.
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New York
Episcopal Church
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Hoover
Missing World War II pension rules spark VA outreach
The Veterans Administration has opened a "missing persons" bureau to locate more than 200000 widows and children who may qualify for retroactive World War II pensions. After a last year change, survivors can claim monthly payments from 35 to 75 dollars based on income and relationship to the deceased veteran.
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Veterans Administration
Congress
Governor Sanford Pushes $70 Million School Plan Across State
Gov. Sanford tours Charlotte Greensboro Sanford Chapel Hill and Goldsboro to rally support for a $70 million school program and sales tax expansion. He will deliver a statewide TV report and speak to groups including the Future Farmers of America and a Robeson County School Masters Club as a radios broadcast covers the event.
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Gav
Sanford
Charlotte
Greensboro
Chapel Hill
Goldsboro
Wayne County
Samuel D. Proctor
A & T College
State Association of Certified Public Accountants
Tom Lambeth
Louisburg
North Carolina
Rowland
Robeson County
Future Farmers of America
Coats High School
North Carolina Weekend Violence Toll Reaches At Least 29
The Associated Press reports at least 29 people died from violence across North Carolina over the weekend. The toll includes a Danbury fire that killed Pauline Hawkins and her five children, along with multiple highway and gun deaths, a train collision in High Point, and other fatal incidents across several counties.
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Danbury
Pauline Hawkins
Gaillon
Larry
Teresa
Timothy
Danny
Leo Collins
Angier
James A. Mills
Marcell Mills King
Southern Railway
Greensboro
Floyd
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Clarence Edmondson
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la Jolla
John Robert Crawford Sr
Salisbury
Lewis Fay McEachin
Lewis Jordan
Daniel Kearnest
Tommy Thomas
Huntersville
M. W. Summerville
Mecklenburg County
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