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WEEKLY LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY
This is the fifth in a series of
weekly summaries of the work of
the 1947 session of the General
Assembly of North Carolina.
These summaries are not intend
ed as a report upon all legisla
tions, but are confined to discus
sions of matters of general inter
est ar of major importance.
Monday through Friday of the fifth
full week of the 1947 session saw the
introduction of 99 new bills, for a to
tal to date of 484, as against 152 bills
introduced during the corresponding
period of the 1945 session and that j '
session's total at the end of the same j
legislative day of 521. At the close
of the 33rd legislative day, the House
was running practically even with the
1945 House in terms of the number
of bills introduced, with 343 bills in
the hopper as against 1945’s 242. The
Senate, however, was somewhat be
hind. with only 141 bills as against
1 79 in 1945.
Os the 99 new bills introduced.
through Friday of this week, 63, or
63.6 ' were local bills concerned with '
the usual run of local matters. For,
example, It deal with local salaries ! '
and fees, 7 with local elections, 5 each
with municipal boundaries and local
taxes, 2 with local wine and beer sales
and others with such matters as re
corders’ and mayors’ courts, local
traffic bureaus and the prohibition of.
the practice of palmistry, Clairvoyance !
and fortune telling.
Although the week was relatively
light with respect to the number of
new public bills introduced, a few
bills which may evoke some interest
and a fair amount of argument were
started upon their dubious journeys.!
For instance, there is SB 120, which
might be termed the “Biennia! Liquor
Referendum Bill,’' which would put to
a State-wide vote next November the
question of the continuance of ABC
liquor stores as well as the legal sale!
anywhere in the State of any alco
holic beverage except malt beverages,'
containing not over 5% of alcohol by ,
weight, and light domestic wines. '
Then there is SB 118, which would i
"provide for the general welfare and j .
protect the health, efficiency and gen-' '
eral well-being of workers in the,'
State of North Carolina by providing j j
for minimum wages and maximum j (
hour standards." With numerous ex-j
ceptions as to its applicability, the bill j j
would provide a minimum wage of,
40c per hour, require the payment of j
time and one-half for time in excess j j
of 40 hours per week, and limit fe- j
male employees to whom the bill ,
would apply, except for such seasonal j
periods as the pre-Christmas period, j
to a maximum of a 9-hour day, 48 1
hour week, and 6 day week. This bill I
should stir up some excitement in the
same camps already stirred un by the J
introduction last week of HB 229. j
which is designed to “make unlawful j
and to prohibit contracts or combina
tions which require membership in
labor unions, organizations or asso- j
ciations as a condition of employ
ment.” (Having learned the power
of slogans from the proDagandists of!
totalitarian governments, opponents 1
of this bill are calling it an “anti-j
union" or “anti-labor” bill, while pro- j
ponents orefer the term “right-to-1
work” bill). Both bills at the end of
the week were in their respective
committees on Mamifactures and i
Labor.
Another bill which might be paired !
off against one previously introduced ]
is SB 111, which would “create within
the Bapartment of Conservation and
TWolornment the North Carolina
Wl'dlife Resources Commission.” This
bill would set no wi*hin ‘bo ->r>•><•*.
ment of Conservation and Develop
ment a fi-mr-rnher commission. •> '.u a
commissioner and personnel of .
own to manage and pro—iote the
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sor-a* .on and DeveJotvment and oinre <
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posofl of neruons who would nro-um
ablv bend ovorv effort to',**nrd n i aking
f .r hot ter hunting and fishing in the
Btatn. This compromise, however,
sroms not noticeably to have dimmed
the enthusiasm of tbe separatists nor
the determination of the retentionists.'
At a House committee hearing on the j
separation bill (at which members of
tlm Senate Committee on Conserva
tion and Development found them
selves occupying the role of guests,
although actively participating), the
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pros and antis attended in such num
bers that it was necessary to move
the hearing to a larger chamber.
Among other bills ot general in
terest introduced during the week,
HB 287 would submit to the voters of
the State at the next general election
a Constitutional amendment which
would “fix the salaries of members
and presiding officers of the General
Assembly at S9OO and SI,OOO respec
tively and provide additional per diem
pay for extra sessions not exceeding
2o days at sl2 per day for members
and sls per day for presiding officers
of the General Assembly; HB 291
would “establish a standard rule of
measurement of saw logs or other
round timber,” the standard rule
which would be thereby established
being the so-called "International Log
Rule." and the bill would make it il
legal to use any other in determining
the number of board feet in sales or
contracts of sale of standing timber,
•■■v logs or other round timber; HB
220 would authorize boards of county
commissioners to appoint county elec
trical inspectors to inspect and en
force State and local laws relative to
electrical installations; and SB 124
would require motorists to carry in
their motor vehicles two red fuses
capable of burning at least 20 minutes
for use in the event of emergency
stops on thy highways outside of mu
nicipalities.
On Thursday there was held in the :
House chamber a public hearing upon,;
a widely publicized measure, the
“Medical Care Program.” As had
been generally expected, the chief and
practically the only target of the op-,
ponents was that part of the program
which proposes to establish a 4-year
standard medical school at Chapel ;
Hill with a 400-bed teaching hospital.
As had also been generally expected,
the public hearing which lasted near
ly 4 hours threw very little light up
on the probable fate of the University
medical school and hospital, Consid T
ering the large number of powerful |
organizations and of prominent in- 1
dividuals on record as publicly en- j
Horsing the entire program and the i
heavy and determined pressure;
against adoption of the medical school
and teaching hospital part of it, the
joint Appropriations Committee clear
ly has in this bill a very hot potato.
On lesser is ;ues than this, men have
in th p-,. t 1 »n politically made or
broken.
On Tuesday HB 71, which would
have given municipalities a-5-cent re
fund on the 6-cent State gasoline tax
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Saturday Continuous From 1:30
Sunday Shows 3:30 and 9:15
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Today (Thursday) and Friday,
February 20-21
Loretta Young and
David Niven in
“THE PERFECT MARRIAGE”
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Saturday, February 22
Bob Steele and Syd Taylor in
“SIX GUN MAN”
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Sunday, February 23
George Raft and
Sylvia Sidney in
“MR. ACE”
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Monday and Tuesday.
February 24-25
John Garfield and
Joan Crawford in
“HUMORESQUE”
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Wednesday, February 26
Double Feature
Jimmy Wakely in
“I’M FROM ARKANSAW”
Robert Lowery in
“GAS HOUSE KIDS”
Coming February 27-28
Taylor and Hepburn in
“UNDERCURRENT”
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HIE CHOWAN HERALD, EDENTON, N'. C. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1947.
paid on motor fuels purchased by
them (and used to a large extent by
vehicles employed almost entirely
upon city streets in such essential
governmental functions as police work
and fire fighting) came up in the
< House on second reading and after a
debate bordering somewhat on the
acrimonious, was defeated. The fol
lowing day saw the introduction of
another highway fund bill designed
to give the financially hard-pressed
municipalities some relief. HB 310
would permit cities and towns after
taking care of highway system streets
and connecting links, to use, on any
of their streets designated by their
governing bodies, any balance of the
State funds remaining to their credit.
Another bill which bit the dust dur
ing the week was HB 15, which aspir
ed to “reaffirm the truth of the Meck
lenburg Declaration of Independence
of May 20, 1775, and to promote the
better observance of that event as be
ing one of the achievements that
brought honor and glory to North
Carolina during the American Revo
lution”—reported unfavorably by the |
House Committee on Education.
HB 181, introduced by John W.
I Announcing ... 1
THE OPENING OF j
Edgewood Dairy
IN EDEN TON
TO SERVE YOU WITH |
Grade “A” Pasteurized Milk .<
This Service Is Now In Effect I
MAIL US A POST CARD TO POST OFFICE BOX 187, EDENTON, GIVING YOUR NAME f
AND ADDRESS AND WE WILL IMMEDIATELY INCLUDE YOU ON OUR REGULAR f
DELIVERY. [
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- OUR PRICES ARE ~ j
Milk, per quart 20c Cream, per pint 70c 1
Milk, per pint 10c Dream, per half pint 35c |
I The prices listed above are old established prices which have been in effect for the past 4
year in Elizabeth City j
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WE WISH TO MAKE THIS STATEMENT TO THE CITIZENS OF EDENTON: OUR T
MILK COMES FRESH DAILY AND IS NOT BOUGHT FROM ANY OUTSIDE MARKET, i
THIS IS ONE REASON WHY WE HAVE OFFERED MILK AT THESE REASONABLE t
$ PRICES. DUE TO OUR OPENING IN EDENTON IS NO DOUBT THE REASON MILK f
j PRICES HAVE BEEN REDUCED BY OTHER DAIRYMEN. IN THE FUTURE IF COST {
i OF FEED AND OTHER COMMODITIES COME DOWN, WE WILL REDUCE PRICES k
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i Elizabeth City, Nags Head and Manteo for the past 20 years, and we feel sure that the 1
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Edge wood Dairy
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1 Post Office Box 187 Edenton, N. C. ~
Graham, having to do with medical
treatment contracts in Edenton, pass
ed second reading in the Senate Fri
day.
Miss Rosa Asbell In
Minstrel At College
Miss Rosa Asbell, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. George Asbell, took part in
“The Dixieland Minstrel,” presented
by the Veterans Club of East Caro
lina Teachers’ College on February
4th and sth. Miss Asbell is a fresh
man at ECTC, and was one of eight
girls chosen to do a specialty dance
number, ‘.‘The GI Jive.”
This dance was so popular that the
group has been requested to repeat
it in a minstrel which the Kitfanis
Club of Greenville is presenting in
April.
District Farm Bureau
Meeting Held Here I
| No. 1 District of the North Caro- |
I lina Farm Bureau Federation held its I
officers’ and boards of directors’ meet
ing in Edenton Thursday, with Will
Rogers of the State Farm Bureau of
fice conducting the meeting.
Principal matters given attention at
the meeting were how to keep the
County Farm Bureau alive and active
throughout the year, activities of
Virginia Electric and Power Company
Common Stock
(When Distributed Basis)
Bought Sold Quoted
. Inquiries Invited
KIRCHOFER 8/UWOLD
INSURANCE BUILDING, RALEIGH, N. C.
Telephone 2-3711
NEW YORK CHARLOTTE
some county organizations, improve
ment of the organization’s news
papers, setting tentative membership
goals for the 1947 fall drive, time for
the fall drive and how to put it ove*\
Fifteen counties were represen*, d
by farmer members who participated
freely in the discussions.