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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1952
Page
3
In Greenville D C Police Court Jesse James McKinney aged 32 the jail janitor was found guilty of selling bootleg liquor to prisoners. Police had long suspected the delay in drunks sobering up in the city jail.
The American Magazine reports Americans write 14 million checks daily and 5 billion yearly. Checks handle about 90 percent of money exchanges, illustrating the dominance of check payments in daily commerce.
The Advisory Budget Commission hears that operating costs for the next biennium may rise about 25 percent over the current period, with departments pledging to match duties with funding. Governor-elect Umstead and others attend, stressing budgeting continuity, overlapping executive and legislative cycles, and a solvent state fiscal position.
Raleigh reports that North Carolina faces rising general fund revenues and higher state operating costs for the 1953-55 biennium. The Advisory Budget Commission heard estimated receipts near 400 million, with revenue officials projecting gains in sales tax and payrolls while requesting fund increases for manpower and programs. Governors and candidates attended, as agencies seek salaries, pensions, and program boosts amid bond and tax implications.
Nine teen fellowships of 1400 dollars plus tuition and fees will be awarded for 1952 53 by Eastman Kodak Co and Tennessee Eastman Co. Twelve in chemistry, four in chemical engineering, three in physics. Schools include Northwestern Ohio State Princeton IIT Rochester Stanford Texas Cornell Harvard Wisconsin Tennessee Emory North Carolina Virginia Tech Georgia MIT and others.
Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin, president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, traces corruption in government to the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment as the group prepares for its 78th annual convention. She warns repeal and current inunda tion are tides in a broader struggle while pledging a tireless campaign against alcohol and drugs. About 2,000 delegates are expected.
The 1950-51 period saw the greatest amount of fertilizer applied on American farms gardens and lawns surpassing all prior years. Strong entities include American farms and gardens and fertilizer usage figures reflecting an all-time high.
Bot Rex Amnas of Granite Falls was identified by Fourth Infantry officials at Ladd Air Force Base as the soldier killed while working on power lines atop a crane near Fairbanks. Funeral services were held at the Air Base and the body will be sent to Granite Falls to his wife Gertrude.
In 1951 the farm labor pool dropped by 350000 as workers joined industry and the armed forces reducing field labor and altering agricultural capacity across the country.
More than 2,300 Cone Mills workers at the White Oak plant cast ballots in a National Labor Relations Board election to choose between the CIO Textile Workers Union of America the AFL United Textile Workers or no union with White Oak remaining non union. The CIO previously lost at White Oak in 1946 and 148 and the AFL has campaigned since June amid a CIO AFL split. Meantime CIO says Granite Haw River workers returned to CIO while AFL official Luther Carroll denied the report.
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