Wage and tax fights outline North Carolina Assembly week
The North Carolina General Assembly plans hearings and votes on minimum wage bills tax and spending measures and liquor and auto inspection questions. The Charlotte city limits expansion plan faces a local government committee battle as Rep Jack Love opposes it amid party splits. The House Manufacturing and Labor Committee will hold a public hearing Thursday on the 75 cent minimum wage bill already approved by the Senate.
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East German Reds Enforce University Labor Service Draft
East Germany imposed labor service for prospective university students on state farms and factories to curb bourgeois attitudes. Ostsee-Zeitung attacked liberalism and anti social unrest among youth while 12 Rostock refugee students fled to West Germany fearing arrest for anti-Communist statements.
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India seeks new loan to complete plan from US aid
New Delhi finance minister said India needs about a billion dollars in foreign aid to finish its second five year plan. He prefers loans from the United States but would also use U.S. commercial markets if needed. He has not formally applied and is unsure how to proceed.
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Canadian Sect Seeks To Go To Russia
The Vancouver Province reports British Columbia's 2500 Sons of Freedom Doukhobors have asked the Soviet government to allow the entire sect to relocate to Russia. The move follows decades of clashes over authority and a claim that forced schooling of more than 100 Freedomite children at New Denver prompted the desertion.
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Pants theft hits local law enforcement in Rupert
In Rupert Idaho a burglar stole from Parker's Laundry and Dry Cleaners taking two pairs of trousers belonging to Sheriff Theo Johnson and Police Chief Jake Wall. The thief was caught at Pocatel lo but neither officer recovered their pants.
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Kennedy Bill Aims Wider Minimum Wage Coverage
Sen. Kennedy predicts the labor subcommittee will approve a bill doubling the number of workers covered by the minimum wage. The plan would extend coverage to about six million workers, with the administration proposing 2.5 million more. Debate centers on federal versus state powers and overtime pay eligibility.
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Photo ban in court debated by panelists
U S District Judge Alexander Holtzoff argued modern photography can document court sessions without disrupting proceedings or harming fair trials. Brucker of the American Newspaper Editors Society warned that allowing a ban to stand would erode in public trial access, as a panel weighed revisions to the American Bar Association stance on courtroom photography.
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Girl Back Home After Operation
Stephanie Zagar is home in Charlotte after a 12 week stay at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore for heart repair surgery. The two year old will return to Baltimore for a June 12 check up while recovering at home and is kept quiet to protect her healing heart.
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Gas Cited As Cause Of Blast In Shelby
Shelby officials say gasoline caused the explosion and fire that killed Dr. George W. Singleton. A fingerprint on a gasoline can in his building supports the finding. NAACP says no civil rights motive detected. inquest date not yet set.
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Graham Crusade Sparks Catholic Response in New York
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York orders nine sermons on Catholic doctrine to run during Billy Graham’s revival at Madison Square Garden from May 15 to June 30. Pastors are directed to address topics such as The Nature of Religion and The Eucharist starting May 5. Catholic leaders condemn Graham meetings as Protestant services.
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