Lesson on state spending and teachers pay in North Carolina
The joint appropriations committee report favors maintaining current teacher pay for 1951-52 and 1952-53 but rejects a cost of living raise. The piece urges prioritizing education funding and sticking to first principles, noting educators deserve better amid rising living costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joint
House and
Senate Appropriations Committee
Advisory Budget Commission
Commission
North Carolina
Legislature
Hopkins Case Highlights Police Leadership and Solvability Concerns
The piece critiques High Point Police Department administration amid ongoing criticism of leadership and factionalism while stressing the unresolved murder of a Hopkins woman. It notes reporters view the case as a major challenge and questions whether investigators are doing all they can, urging decisive action to restore public confidence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point
Department
Hopkins
Stoker
Terry Sanford
Walter Lippmann
Korea
38Th Parallelel
Commie N
Manchuria
China
Cral MacArthur
U.N
U. S. High Command
Damon Runyon
Miami
Virginia Hill
Legislature’s bid to curb governor sparks warning in North Carolina
A sub committee rewrites the appropriation act to shift control of the contingency fund and highway surplus from the governor to an anti‑Scott advisory budget commission. The piece warns such action risks permanent damage to the governor’s office and calls for restraint from Governor Kerr Scott and Rep. John Umstead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kerr Scott
North Carolina
Scott
Joint
Senate
House
Advisory Budget Commission
Highway Commission
John Umstead
Orange
Umstead
Veteran Journalist Andrew Joyner Remembered in Greensboro Tribute
The Greensboro News memorializes Andrew Joyner, a veteran journalist who died at 94 in a Rocky Mount hospital on Easter Sunday. Joyner, called Col Andy by friends, lived a full life as lawyer, AP aide, and Raleigh correspondent, later serving in the Dominican Republic and Raleighs State Department of Insurance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greensboro
the Sun
Andrew Joyner
North Carolina
Rocky Mount Hospital
Associated Press
The
Atlanta Constitution
Raleigh News and Observer
Winston-Salem Sentinel
Greensboro Reflector
Greensboro Daily News
Raleigh
Dominican Republic
State Department of Insurance
Sun
Col
Andy
W.A.B
Voice of America mocks its own jokes and repeats
A columnist savages the Voice of America for airing stale jokes and repetitive news around the clock. He cites revived Abe and Jake style gags renamed in Budapest and Dresden, notes a dubious Amvets booklet, and mocks a report of a giraffe cow hybrid as propaganda humor.
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Amvets
Budapest
Franz Joseph Boulevard
Queen Elizabeth Street
M—Nial
Occupied
MVD
Dresden
Russia
Commentary on Cleveland loyalty and court rights in 1884 politics
The piece cites Edward S. Bragg praising Grover Cleveland at the 1884 Democratic National Convention and warns against sacrificing principle for political gain. It discusses U S Supreme Court power over North Carolina school desegregation, law school access for Negro students, and wartime diplomacy in Korea. It ends with a humorous domestic exchange about finances and a rain coat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward S. Bragg
Grover Cleveland
Chicago
Cates
Johnson J. Hayes
University of North Carolina Law School
North Carolina College For
Durham
Diaamond
Gray
U. S. Supreme Court
Chapel Hill
Richmond Court
University of Texas
U.S. Supreme Court
United States
South
Publicity for Sinful Life Highlights Kefauver Hearings
The Kefauver Committee exposes underworld ties in a sweeping critique of crime and corruption. It contrasts Costello and Virginia Hill with everyday Americans, arguing gambling and bribery erode public life and urge reform despite sensationalism and political theater.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kefauver Committee
Senate
Frank Costello
Sins of the Fathers Return to Our Time on Kefauver
The speaker links 1920s bootlegger crime to modern corruption, arguing prohibition bred lies and social decay. Virginia Hill’s testimony is cited to show money from exploits funds political influence. The Kefauver committee is urged to broaden its investigation to expose a nationwide criminal underworld influencing government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Adonis
Frank Costello
Virginia Hill
Kefauver Committee
al Capone
Waxey Gordon
Legs Diamond
Senator Tobey
Committee
United States
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Voice of America
Washington
Voice of
America
Ir Voice
George Dixon
Joe Millers
Abe
Jake
Pat
Mike
Hans
Fritz
Janos Kovacs
Kovacs
Petof Street
Stalin Street
Rakocz Street
Rakocz
Pusta Square
Marx Square
Roeen
Danube
Presidency
Orient
W. A. Bivins
James J. Metcalfe
Tee
Peter Edson
Costello
Kefauvey
Virginia Mi
Miami Beach
Underworld
Betting America
Cabenagins
U. S
Kentucky
Laurel
Mr . America
Specua
George Sokolsky
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