North Carolina to Receive Large Federal Recovery Funds
North Carolina will gain a substantial federal sum under the Industrial Recovery Act in addition to about 11 million dollars for state highways and forest and park road projects. Funds will be used for post offices, rivers and harbors, erosion control, hospitals, camps, airports, and other facilities with local matching requirements and state guidance from the Highway and Public Works Commission.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Congress
National Forest
National Park Roads
E. B. Jeffress
State Highway and Public Works Commission
Highway Commission
Highway and Public Works Commission
Roosevelt
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Jeffress
Hyde County
Washington Department
Boone Route 2 Community Greetings and Visits
Local notes record social visits and family updates from Boone Route 2 including Major Jones and Ernest Johnsons in Johnson City, trips to Howards Knob, and health updates on W. P. Jones. Several Norris and Hodges family movements are listed alongside a new brick filling station being built in East Boone for DeWitt Barnett.
Fashion Shop to Open in the Jones Building
Mrs Julius Switgall, longtime Johnson City owner, will open the Fashion Shop in the Jones Building beside Peoples Bank on June 24. She brings 20 years of retail experience and a New York buying trip, promising drastic price reductions to clear stock of ladies ready to wear and millinery.
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Julius Switgall
Johnson City
Tenn
New York
Jones
Peoples Bank
Switgall
College enrollment figures by counties states and terms
The report shows 74 counties and 8 states represented with 156 students from west of the Blue Ridge and 545 from east of it in North Carolina. It lists 17 students from other states, 298 who attended other colleges, and 103 graduates from other colleges. About three-fourths of the student body are young women. The second term starts July 17 and the fall term August 29. prompt registration is urged.
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Blue Ridge
N. C
Blue ‘Ridge
North Carolina
Mecklenburg
Mitchell
Appalachian Montgomery
State Teachers College
Moore
J. New Hanover
M. Downum
Pamlico
Polk
Randolph
Richmond
Robeson
Rockingham Alamance
Rowan
Alexander
Rutherford
Alleghany
Sampson Anson
Stanly
Ashe
Stokes
Avery
Surry
Beaufort
Union
Bladen
Wake Brunswick
Watauga
Buncombe
Wilson
Burke
Yadkin Cabarrus
Yancey Caldwell
Wilkes
Carteret
Florida
Ne ‘Suudenta
Georgia
Caswell
Kentucky
New York
Governor Ehringhaus picks several state appointees
The Raleigh News Letter notes Ehringhaus has named many state positions including director of Conservation and Development, director of Purchase and Contract, and several judges. Incoming appointments include E. B. Jeffress as highway chairman, George Ross Pou as supervising director of prisons, and M. C. S. Noble Jr. as executive assistant. Parker to address Bar meeting at Wrightsville Beach with focus on state constitution and veto powers.
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A. S. Brower
North Carolina Railoads
Agricultural Board
E. B.jeffress
Consolidated State Highway
Public Wraske Cammieclan
Wyvens
Maxwell
M. C. S. Noble Jr
Revenue Department
United Dty
B. Fritts Smith
Raleigh
Budget Bureau chief Burke to be replaced by Dunlap
Reports from Raleigh indicate Henry Burke of the Budget Bureau will be succeeded on July 1 by Frank L. Dunlap of Wadesboro. The shift comes amid attacks on the bureau’s handling of state finances and calls for further salary cuts to balance the budget.
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Dunlap
Henry Burke
Capitol Hill
Budget Bureau
Frank L. Dunlap
Wadesboro
Burke
Baxter Durham
D. G. Brummitt
General Assembly
State Department
Gardner
Brummitt
Brummitt Explains New School Laws in Raleigh
Attorney General Dennis G. Brummitt answers nine questions on ownership of school property petition forms for elections bond issues teacher selection and local trustees authority. The letter clarifies petitions for elections county bond authority teacher appointments salary based contracts and succession rules under 1933 laws.
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Raleigh
A. T. Allen
Dennis G. Brummitt
County Board of Education
Board of Trustees
County Boards of Education
Local Family Visits Across Ashe County
Mrs J H Jones and daughter Ruth Elma spent last week visiting relatives in Ashe County. T C Norris visited his two daughters at his sister Mrs C C Greene's home on Monday. He returned with his daughter Ola. C G Hodges and family attended conference at Collettsville last Sunday. D W Cook with son Boyd and daughter Wilma made a business trip to North Wilkesboro last Tuesday. Martha Hodges spent last weekend with her niece Miss Mary Jones at Meat Camp. Fred Greene and family visited his sister Mrs D L Setzer on Sunday afternoon.
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Major Jones
Ernest Johnson
Jean
Johnson City
Jones
Joan
Virginia Norris
Wilma
Mary Cook
Estella Greene
Howards Knob
J. H. Jones
Richard Harless
W. P. Jones
Kyle Christian
J. E. Hodges
Maiden
Hodges
Martha Hodges
E. S. Gragg
B. B. Greene
Ola Norris
T. C. Norris
Grandfather Mountain
W. P. Norris
Norris
Wiley Norris
Claude Norris
East Boone
DeWitt Barnett
Ruth Elma
Ashe County
C. C. Greene
Ola
C. G. Hodges
Collettsville
D. W. Cook
Boyd
North Wilkesboro
Mary Jones
Fred Greene
Mr. Greene
D. L. Setzer
Normal balanced person test by The American Weekly
Readers are invited to answer questions in The American Weekly distributed with the Baltimore American. The magazine offers a self check on personality traits and invites purchase from newsboys or newsdealers.
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American Weekly
Baltimore American
Newsboy
Newsdealer
Lobbyists Spent Estimated 80 000 To 90 000 Last Session
Secretary of State Stacey W. Wade reports lobbyists spent about eighty to ninety thousand dollars during the last General Assembly session. Firms in power, tobacco, insurance, and utilities kept representatives here to influence tax policy. The last Legislature required lobbyists to file itemized cost statements.
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General Assembly
Secretary of State
Stacey W. Wade
Power
Tobacco
Insurance
Public Utilities
Telephone firms refuse voluntary cost cuts amid losses claim
Telephone companies in the state say they will not cut service costs voluntarily, arguing they are not earning a fair return on investment and some claim to be losing money when unable to raise rates.
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N. C. Corporation Commission
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