Work Favors Two Southern Parks
In a North Carolina Park Commission push, Senator Simmons seeks drafting aid for a bill to create a congressional panel to study sites for a Smoky Mountain National Park. Secretary Work backs two southern parks in the Appalachians, proposing Blue Ridge Virginia and Great Smokies North Carolina Tennessee sites with a $15,000 survey boost and an advisory commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
North Carolina Park Commission
Simmons
Legislative Drafting Service
Senate
North Carolina
House
Doughton
Bulwinkle
Smoky Mountain National Park
Tennessee
Senator McKellar
Secreary of the Interior
Johnson
Carter Unicoi
Washington, Greene, Cowie, Sevier
Henry W. Temple
Pennsylvania
Blue Ridge
Great Smokies
Temple
Secretary of the Interior and
Budget Bureau
Interior Secretary
Congress
Work
Mississippi River
United States
Mississippi
McLean Fights $35 Million Bond Issue For Highways
Governor McLean opposes the proposed 35 million dollars in new road bonds amid a statewide funding debate. He says the state must balance finances while counties demand their share of highway money and acknowledges the current program cannot be completed soon. He will state his final stance after budget reports due midweek.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McLean
Bowie-Heath
General Assembly
Budget Commission
State Board of Assessments
A Winter Scene by James M Downam
Poem in Boone North Carolina praising a winter landscape. The verse describes sunlight on icy forms across mountains hills and trees, calling the scene a crystal diamond made by divine hand reflecting a wondrous world beyond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James M. Downam
Boone
N. C
Senators Debate Parks Bill In Great Smokies Plan
A congressional hearing discusses a temple bill favoring public lands committee action and a second national park proposal for the Great Smokies across Tennessee and North Carolina. The budget director supports a combined $15,000 appropriations, saying the expense aligns with the President’s program.
Governor McLean outlines safe progressive policy in Raleigh
Governor McLean’s joint session message surveys state business and urges economical administration, budget transparency, and revenue alignment. He backs highway funding, pardons reform, and organizational upgrades including a budget system, water transportation, and coastal development while warning against extravagance. The week saw highway bond discussion and university dedication attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. L. Shipman
Raleigh
McLean
House
Commonwealth
Budget Commission
General Assembly
Bowie
Ashe
Senate
Heath
Union
Wemble
Forsyth
North Carolina legislative digest of proposed legal reforms
A long list of proposed acts and amendments. Topics include establishing recorder's courts in larger cities, prohibiting judges from criticizing juries, clerks approving grave markers, repealing primary law provisions, witness immunity in bribery cases, aiding county and town development, township recorder courts, arming during alcohol production, funding highway district settlements, arbor day date changes, Fort Macon committee, corporation commission, motor vehicle licensing, rotation of Superior Court judges, hearings procedures on allowances, husband and wife as witnesses, fishing net sizes and seasons, judge excuse accounts, issuing $35 million in highway bonds, cavets to wills, reducing court docket congestion, county courts, state employee hours, pardons commissioner, continuing cases in civil courts, prohibiting highway signs, dog injury damages, judgment entry timing, and more.
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Wake Highway District
North Carolina
Arbor Day
Fort Macon
Corporation Commission
State Highway Commission
Happenings at AT S. Week of Activities and Games
President Dougherty left Raleigh on business and has not returned. East Tennessee Normal from Johnson City defeated the Training School 35 to 17 in basketball. Literary societies hosted a pleasing program with the Calliopean and Euterpean and social hours followed. The Sunday School enjoyed a supper and talks by Dr Rankin and others, with a canvass for 100 percent attendance planned. An Epworth League was organized.
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Dougherty
Raleigh
East Tennessee Normal
Johnson City
Watauga
Appalachian
Young Ladies’ Society
Calliopean
J. D. Rankin
M. B. Woosley
F. A. Linsney
Taylor
Dixon
Annie Stanbury
John B. Steele
Epworth League
J. M. Downum
Five States Outrank N C as Revenue Producer
A New York bulletin shows North Carolina ranking among the top revenue states for the first six months of fiscal 1924 and 1925. North Carolina reported 1923 payments of 78 million and 1924 payments of 79.1 million dollars, with New York Pennsylvania Michigan and Illinois only outranking it overall. The report covers income and miscellaneous taxes and notes the income tax is slightly lower than last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Bureau of Internal Revenue
New York
Pennsylvania
Illinois
North Carolina
New Jersey
California
Ohio
Massachusetts
Michigan
Inheritance Tax Laws and State Provisions Act Summary
Public laws enacted include broader exemptions for widows and minors under inheritance tax, authorization to sell life estates in foreign corporate capital stock, and creation of a memorial for Judge Henry G. Connor. Other measures empower county Agricultural Agents, grant state income tax exemptions, set automobile speed limits, regulate the State Fish and Game Commission, restrict attestation charges by notaries and magistrates, authorize gravestone purchases by executors, require joint legislative sessions for canvassing state officer returns, protect county and city agricultural fairs, and permit creation of county courts with extended process service.
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Henry G. Connor
North Carolina
State Fish and Game Commission
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Virginia
Appalachians
Tar Heels
North Carolina Commission
State University
J. Elmer Long
Manning Hall
Josephus Daniels
Board of Trustees
New Carolina Inn
Supreme Court
University
Assembly
Motor Service
Sir Walter Hotel
Sams
Geological and Economic Survey
Capitol
Dorothy Ellingson
San Francisco
Dorothy
T. S
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