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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1947
Page
3
A car driven by Jack Parker skidded and hit an Alley bus owned by Bulis Butler in Mount Hope. The collision occurred in front of the bus terminal on Main Street, damaging seats before striking the bus. Mike Bolen was the bus driver.
The 1948 election prospects include two constitutional amendment proposals for bonds and life insurance. Senate and House consider cigarette and beer levies, with beer taxes projected to raise 3 to 3.5 million and total taxes about 6 million next biennium. A House passage shapes school aid formulas and local tax moves. The Senate seeks municipal liquor tax authorization and a biannual voter list check.
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko charged that granting an international body powers to own and operate atomic energy facilities would infringe sovereignty and be unacceptable. He accused the United States of seeking a world monopoly and urged a ban on atomic bomb manufacture as a first step toward any control system. He asserted the veto arose from US and British initiative, not the Soviet Union.
Senator Sparkman of Alabama today offered a Banking Committee compromise to extend rent controls to June 30 1948 with no across the board ceiling increases. He said he expected support from five other Democrats and one Republican to create a majority. The plan would avert a subcommittee bill that would end controls next December 31 and allow a flat 10 percent increase. Chairman Tobey opposed the subcommittee plan and suggested continuing a federal agency to oversee rents for hardship cases.
A proposal urges amending the Wagner Act to ban unfair labor practices by both workers and employers. It lists requirements such as good faith bargaining, restricting jurisdictional and sympathy strikes, mass picketing, and violence, with the chamber advocating equality before the law.
The President stressed a global peace goal amid ruins of ancient civilizations, warning civilization could perish if peace is not permanently established. He noted accord with President Aleman on U.S. legislation for border disease issues and potential Latin American visits. The piece also covers local plans for a Beckley recreation center, with community leaders discussing funding, site options, and management.
US proposals to help Hungary were rejected by Moscow as Great Britain and Russia debate aid. British officials call Kovacs espionage charge preposterous while troops shrink from about a million to under 100 thousand. Senate Foreign Relations Committee weighs the peace treaty requiring withdrawal within 90 days with exceptions to protect transport and communication lines. The House bill on Negro pupil rating is revised and now goes to the Senate.
Gunnee stated that per capita cost remains high and ratings will be based on one pupil in schools with fewer than four seventh and eighth grade teachers. In schools with four or more teachers, pupils will be rated as one and a third.
A long catalog of individuals appears, including Warren Williams Theresa Torlone Madge Richardson and many others. The fragment names figures from various titles and statuses, intermixing spouses, professionals, and local officials in a dense personnel ledger.
A bill that would become law was expected to be substituted with its own version and sent to a conference committee for the final draft. Members of both houses expressed confidence it would be in final form for passage by Saturday night before the 60 day session adjourns. Standards note four feet eight and a half inches for track gauge and a locomotive firebox can hold a car.
A group hears that most budgets rely on community donations and appropriations. The YMCA receives about 85 percent of its funding from local community chests and Parkersburg allocates between $11,000 and $12,000 yearly. Deiss explains advantages of YMCA affiliation over city control amid a 2.5 percent budget detail.
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