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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1947
Page
8
State law governs school bus driver selection with a principal’s authority and school committee approval. Drivers must complete a certified instruction course and pass a road test by a highway official. Routes are fixed per State School Law and may be altered only with State Board approval.
The North Carolina Attorney General details procedures for changing bus routes requiring local committee and principal approval before presenting to the Superintend ent County Board and State Board. It notes drivers and officials must follow public official negligence rules if routes are mishandled and restricts bus use to students unless signed permission is granted under strict conditions.
Julian E. Mann announces that federal crop insurance contracts on wheat for IMB and subsequent years are cancelled in North Carolina while insurer obligations to farmers remain for 1947. The act allows 200 counties nationwide to have wheat insurance with Congress selecting representative counties by crop value and production. North Carolina will have experimental insurance on tobacco and cotton in 1948, with 369 contracts in force across 44 of 109 counties.
Delegates at Farm and Home Week pass 20 resolutions urging action by the 1949 General Assembly. They call for full college facilities and personnel study, efficient use of appropriations, increased grain and pastures yields, expanded crop insurance, and broader cooperative marketing. They also push soil conservation, equalization of rural and city schools, stricter highway enforcement, and continuation of State College work programs. Roy Lohr becomes president of the Parer's Convention.
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