Through Capital Keyholes Behind the News in North Carolina
North Carolina chatter suggests a move to switch Raleigh from a city commission to a city manager form with a council. Wake County lawmakers have not spoken publicly, but pressure for change in the capital is strong. Utilities action delays phone rate cuts as court reviews an appeal. Officials expect possible relief for residents on rates, taxes, and highway funds, with broad fiscal pressures on state revenues.
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North Carolina
Bess Hinton
Capital Manager
Raleigh
Capital City
Wake County
General Assembly
State Utilities Commission
Southern Bell Telephone
Superior Court
W. C. Harris
The
Utilities Commission
Dennis G. Brummitt
North Carolina Leaders Push Lower Fertilizer Prices
Governor Ehringhaus and Agriculture Commissioner William A. Graham plan to gather data and attend a conference in Washington to address rising fertilizer prices in 1934. The issue mirrors worries over fertilizer and gasoline costs, with tobacco price changes also noted. The Budget Commission readied a proposal to reenact the sales tax with revisions, hinting at possible tax shifts to fund road-building and education.
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Ehringhaus
William A. Graham
North Carolina
Mr. Graham
Advisory Budget Commission
General Assembly
Budget Commission
Sitting Pretty as Governor Ehringhaus Faces Legislature
Friends of Governor Ehringhaus boast of a strong Senate majority and a solid House bloc. Political writers warn of possible trouble for the governor on the eve of the new Legislature.
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Ehringhaus
General Assembly
Senate
Movement to bar married women as teachers in North Carolina
A proposed bill may target married women teaching in public schools. Alexander B. Andrews of Raleigh compiled figures indicating about 4,000 married white women teach in North Carolina. Some states restrict married women where single teachers are available, and NC sentiment is rising locally.
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Alexander B. Andrews
Raleigh
North Carolina
Political lines tighten as 1936 campaigns take shape in capital
The Capital City eyes the governor and eastern senate race with party blocs forming. Ehringhaus and Bailey backers clash as Hoey Coughton and Graham groups align for governor bids. Coughton and Hoey may announce soon while Graham stays quiet until session ends.
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Senate
Ehringhaus
Josiah W. Bailey
Bailey
Clyde R. Hoey
Shelby
R. L. Coughton
A. H
Sandy) Graham
Coughton
Hoey
Graham
North Carolina Dry Laws Topic Comes Into Focus
As the General Assembly nears convening, the liquor question rises in prominence with expectations of potential changes to the state’s dry laws.
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General Assembly
North Carolina
Drys Hold Edge as Election Hints and Local Bets Stir
Rumors swirl over liquor law shifts after Virginia changes and Tar Heels trips. Thad Eure and LeRoy Martin look to be unopposed for top House and Senate clerks, with a December 1934 notice of boundary and land description in Butterwood Township Halifax County for 52.6 acres posted by commissioners Benton and Knight.
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Virginia
Old Dominion
Thad Eure
LeRoy Martin
House
Senate
Capitol Hill
Robert Grady Johnson
Pender
Laurie McHachern
Hoke
Willie Lee Lumpkin
Franklin
M. Scott Benton
William L. Knight
JRA
Notice of Sale in Halifax County Real Property
By virtue of a judgment in the case John B. Lucas Executor of the Estate of Mary H. Lucas versus Paul Robinson First National Bank of Roanoke Rapids assignee and Julian R Allsbrook Attorney recorded in Judgment Docket 19 page 253 the undersigned Commissioners will on January 11 1935 at 130 PM at the Courthouse door Halifax County offer for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash the described real property to wit
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John B. Lucas
Mary H. Lucas
Paul Robinson
First National Bank of
Roanoke Rapids
Julian R. Allsbrook
Superior Court
Halifax County
Halifax
North Carolina
Towit
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Revenue
A. J. Maxwell
M. C. S. Noble, Jr
Butterwood Township
Aurelian Springs
D. T. Cook
R. M. Shehorn
Catvaress
Hodges
Roanoke Rapids Horstereas
Haggidge Hotel
York
Central Park
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