Outgrown Representative A I L Ferree Calls for Statewide Reform
Randolph Republican A I L Ferree urges major restructuring of government to reduce local and county control. He argues state laws should govern counties and municipalities and that officials be accountable to local majorities, criticizing how riders affect High Point and Guilford County. He cites the need to curb party entanglement and questions a skip-a-year tax plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. I L. Ferree
Randolph
General Assembly
Ferree
Graham County
General Assembly of
North Caroll
High Point
Oil Service
Legisla
North Carolina
Polk and Pasquotank
Guilford County
Board of County Commissioners
Debate Over Ruml Plan Divides Tax Opinion
The country splits over the Ruml plan for income tax reform as experts dispute the merits of a skip-a-year transition. Doughton's group favors withholding and rejects a one-year tax elimination while supporters argue the practical effects justify eliminating a year of taxes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. C
Doughton
House
Ways and Means Committee
Tribute to Prof Koch and the Carolina Playmakers on 25th birthday
An appreciation notes that North Carolina owes more to Frederick H. Koch and the Carolina Playmakers than to big time football. The writer honors Koch, praises the Playmakers as a long lasting cultural gift, and marks the group’s 25th anniversary with admiration from fans and supporters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wallace Wade
Carl Snavely
Bare” Wolfe
North Carolina
Frederick H. Koch
University of North Carolina
North Dakota
Prof. Koch
Carolina Playmakers
Prof
United Steelworkers Report Shows Audited Finances
The United Steelworkers CIO publish an independently audited financial report detailing 725,625 members and a net worth of 1,774,905. Of 5,552,542 collected, 947,139 went to locals and 2,504,015 funded district and international operations. The release stresses public accountability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Steelworkers
CIO
Community blackout debate links concerts to wartime duty
Local officials and citizens discuss blackout regulations and enforcement while praising the Community Concert Course. Leaders urge compliance, rail against violators, and emphasize cultural programs as wartime morale boosts amid traffic and bus issues and aviation cadet recruitment notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point
Excell Ozzell
Dues Power Sparks Kaiser Yards Labor Battle in Portland
The Kaiser shipyards dispute centers on which union will collect dues from 80,000 workers as the AFL and CIO clash over representation. Tommy Ray built a 55,000 member boilermakers union with a costly office, a nearly open shop at Kaiser yards, and a disputed election.
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Oregon
Henry Kaiser
Portland
National Labor Relations Board
A. F. of L
C.I.O. Marine and
Kaiser Yards
Tommy Ray
Brooklyn
East
Northwest
Kaiser
Tommy
Kaiser Yard
Carol Bruce
Reuben
Mark Plant
Rogers Corner
Broadway Notes and Rumors Sail the Coast
A sprawling Broadway roundup cites the Arsenic and Old Lace troupe touring coast to coast. It mentions Rita Hayworth with Victor Mature and a George Raft Betty Grable flare up tied to a sailor named Jack Stark, plus shifts in nightclub acts and looming shortages affecting venues and menus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rita Hayworth
Victor Mature
George Raft
Betty Grable
Jack Stark
H'n Canteen
Paul Henried
Lis
Boris Karloff
Seattle
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High Point Enterprise
J. P. Rawley
R. B. Terry
H. A. Cecil
Mgr
D. A. Rawley
Robert Thompson
Associated Press
John Buddire
N. Y
Audit Bureau OF Circulation
Ture
Cerin
Enterprise
High Point, North Carolina
Charles F. Carroll
Army
New York City
Arthur Kirkman
Silas B. Casey
John Myers
R. E. Betts
B. H. Newby
Eld
T. Atkinson
Veterans of Foreign Wars
H. H. Arnold
Treasury Department
Pittsburgh
Luther Smith
America
R. F. J. Johnson, Sr
Vitya Vronsky
Victor Babin
Victor Rabin
A. P. Jones
C. F. Tomlinson
R. T. Amos
Gurney Briggs
Peter Edson
Broadway
Spike Jones
Bronx
der Fuehrer
Biog
Satevepost
Jack Jenney
Bobby Byrne
Byrne
Havana-Madrid
April Cope
George Sanders
Berlin
Cugat
Starlight Roof
W. 16Th Street
Kenneth Later
Horace Schmidlapp
Victor Borge
Sweden
la Raye
Raye & Naldi
Morton Downey
H. *. Phillips
Puerto Rico
Betty Bruce
Hanna
Cleveland
Cedric Hardwicke
Canada
Stanley Melba
Singer Sewing Machine Firm
Mickey Rooney
Paramount
Katherine Booth
Bing Crosby
Wallace Beery
Gloria Bristol
Hollywood
Joe
MGM
Sky
the Waldorf
War Labor Board
Harry Langdon
Cathy Adam
Ringside
Lady Macbeth
Buddy Ebsen
Marlene Dietrich
Chicago
Hays Office
Merle Oberon
Lulu McConnell
Comedienne
WOR
Max Baers
Isak Dinesen
Random House
Hugh Herbert
Columbia
Bobby Sherwood
Roseland
Dean Meegan
The
Elsa Huston
Jane Froman
Lisbon
M’toto
Kate Smith
Great Lakes
Quantico
Frisco
Jane Russell
Duke Ellington
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