Government Employees Seek Raises Across Two-Year Plan
North Carolina state employees and government employers groups request 10 percent raises each year for two fiscal years totaling 20 percent to catch up with inflation. They seek eight pay steps, improved retirement, and note past droughts left 4 percent raises plus $300. A Senate House commission led by Sen. D Livingstone Stallings heard the plea.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Emmett Burden
State
Burden
Commission
Movie Hero's Mother Loses Child Custody
SELMER Tennessee AP A Chancery Court judge removed Helen Pusser the mother of Buford Pusser throne of Walking Tall fame as guardian of her granddaughter inheritance. Chancellor Robert Thomas ordered Pusser to cease handling the estate after at least 150500 held in trust for Dwana Pusser 16 had been spent without court approval.
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Pusser
Thomas
Britt
McNairy County
Abernathy
Carter undecided on tax cuts after Carter meeting
Rep. George H. Mahon said the three hour session with President elect Jimmy Carter in Lovejoy Georgia produced no consensus on a tax cut. Mahon noted Carter stressed balanced budgets and eliminating waste while awaiting guidance from Treasury, OMB and Commerce chiefs.
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Edmund le Breton
Associated Press
Washington
Jimmy Carter
Carter
Ticipants
George H. Mahon
Dtex
Lovejoy
Mahon
House Appropriations Committee
Secretary of the Treasury
Management and Budget
Commerce
Congress
White House
Hunt outlines plans for education courts and prisons in 1977
Gov elect Hunt and Gov Holshouser agree to include 15 million for school reading, 2 million for speedy trials, 2 million for community schools, and temporary facilities to ease prison crowding. He seeks teachers and state worker raises, a four year ECU medical school start, ethics code, reinstating death penalty for first degree murder, and moving hunters duties to the Commerce Department.
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Raleigh
Jim Hunt
Jim Holshouser
Advisory Budget Commission
Hunt
Holshouser
Budget Commission
General Assembly
East Carolina University
Associated Press
State Highway Patrol
Virginia
State Bureau of Investigation
Department of Natural and Economic Resources
Commerce Department
80 Year Old Drifter Tours the Country for Relief
Dan O'Brien an eighty year old man travels by thumb from Stokesdale North Carolina seeking relief in the United States. He hitchhikes with a cane and stays at Salvation Army missions for meals and shelter. He says he has no family and supports himself with Social Security and occasional rides.
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Stokesdale
N.C
Dan O'Brien
United States
Greensboro Record
Massachusetts
O'Brien
Salvation Army Missions
South
Winston-Salem
Tentative Pact Up For A Vote
North Carolina bus drivers and station workers will vote on a tentative contract between Carolina Coach and the Amalgamated Transit Union to avert a strike. Bargaining occurred in Raleigh with a federal mediator. results expected by Monday. A ticket agent expressed relief that a strike is unlikely during the holiday season.
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Raleigh
Carolina Co
Trailways
North Carolina
Virginia
Maryland
Delaware
Amalgamated Transit Union
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