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Money Matters Form Big Questions As Assembly Session Continues. ?i-'il Note: Thid is the eleventh of a , aeries of weekly summaries ot the <mork of the 1949 session of the Gen ?mrnl Assembly ?f North Carolina. "Wheae summaries are nut intended *? a report on all legislation, but are con fined to discussions of mat ?rt* of general interest or of major aajpomncp. > Appiopriotiou Rapid developments In the Gener *aJ Assembly this week posed these (questions: Shall the $30 million Post War Reserve Fund (1> be retained as ?3B. "cushion" against emergency def icits, <2) be used for curent expen MfH to raise the teachers' salary scale w the $2200 $3100 level, or <3> be cimed to finance county school bulld og construction? Advocates of retaining the Fund ;oji a "rush ion" fought a losing bat tfte in rhe Joint Appropriations Corn wall tee this week, as school forces :jt)ammed the brakes on the unlimi ted spending of the previous week ??>at threatened t,o send the whole Siennial AppropriationsBil I to a sub committee for trimming. Reconsider ??/Jon of several approved increases ,*.nd treatment of a few minor re c?ue*ls resulted in an over-afl ap propriation of $418 .million for .the Aiennium, some $38 million in ex icess of estimated revenues for the *ame period. Then, rather than turn measure over to a subcommittee, a convincing majority approved the .r*.l*ase of ithe Reserve Fund to help *w?wt the threatened deficit and vo ted to report the bill (HB 33) fav ?wably, over the protests of co-chalr ? Tien .Edwin Pate and W. Frank Tay lor,. both of whom informed mem fci?rs that they could not supporfthe *?ill in its entirety because they felt <hat the appropriation measure - would and .shouldb e be balanced ?with ex>ected revenues. The combi nuioii of rhe Reserve Fund with an ?*stimated $-1 million surplus in the . year ending June 30, 1940, still leav ?*si revenues and available surplus es $4 million short of meeting the proposed expenditures. <J)ti same Thursday afternoon that this action was taken, the J4ou.se Finance Committee consider-' ed SB 203 calling for a $50 million U?jnd /?s??e to be applied to school jfcSstvxtg '?vn^trucUon, and emerged with a TAiWltute bill providing for <20 million bond issue, with the remainder to be supplied by releas ing the Post War Reserve Fund to', ?? this puprpose. Under suspension ol ruies this measure bypassed the Appropriations. Committee and - will be on Monday's calendar. Since f!B 33 cannot be reported out before Tuesday, the House may well meet rhe 'question of expenditure of the Post War Reserve for capital outlay purposes, before the* Apprqpriations Committee ? approved expenditure of the same Fund for current ex penses can be considered. tie all this confusion one appro priations measure has not been heard from: Just what is going to be *be fate of the $72 million allocated to perman-. nt improvements at the j flute's institutions in the Advisory j 'budget Commission's recommenda 'tions? Schools tfn rewriting the Senate edition of ??he $3<0 million school plant construc tlon bill the House gave special at-" rention to the me'hod of allocating fhe money among the counties. SB 20,'i at* originally written, allocated up to $500,000 to each county. The House approach is to a I locate the ^money in three ways: first, $200,000 i w^uid be given outright ?-. to eacii i county; second, $25 million would be allocated among the counties on I the basis- of average dai.y school ! membership; and third, $5 million would be set up s a equalization fund allocable by the State Board i of Education on the basis of build j ing needs and ability to pay. This ) method was first adopted by the i House Education Committee and jthen embodied in the. House Finan ce Committee's substitute bill re ported out on Friday. The House Fi j' nance Committee's ideas about where this money should come from are mentioned in the paragraph dealing with Appropriations. Two other school bills made their appearance in the Senate this week. SB 338 would add to the School Ma chinery Act provisions <1> for allot ting additional supervisory and spc cial instructional personnel to coun ty and city administrative units at State expense, and <2> for allocating j Federal funds if and When they be come available. SB 343, probably ? prompted by recent criticisms of the handling of local school funds, pro vides more specifically for the ac- i counting and auditing of all kinds I ! of school funds and for the bonding jof all personnel who are authorized | to handle school property or who are concerned with the drawing or ap proving of checks on school funds. : Roads j . This week presented the first op portunity for concurrent considera tion by one house of the bills em bodying the ideas of both on the two paramount issues remaining on the road bond question ? the size ol.the issue and the question of making the Ic gai tax increase contingent upon favorable vote for the issue. This came about when, on Wednes day, the Senate Finance Committee reported favorably as amended, SB 52, and unfavorably, with minority reports, HB 89 and HB 181. At tempts to have the minority reports adopted brought the gas tax issue squarely into focus, since the two House bills contemplated no linking of the tax and bond issue, while SB 52 would make teh tax contingent upon approval of the bonds. The a mount of the bond issue was taken out of the conflict, temporarily at least, by the Senate's amending SB 52 to set the figure at $200 million instead of $100 in line with KB 89. After a round of debate and parlia mentary maneuver, the score read SB 52, passed two readings. House bills 89 and 181, on the unfavorable calendar and "clinched." An inter esting last try by the 'non-linkers" was their attempt to have removed from the referendum ballot the reler ence to the lc gas tax Increase, which also met with defeat. There is now only one bill to be amended and compromised, whereas formerly there were three. When SB 52 pass es its third Senate reading and is senr to the House, one of three reac tions seems probable: U> acceptan ce as written, with the raise to $200 million by the Senate Committee compensating for the linking of hte gas tax, (2) insistence upon non linkage even if the amount be re duced again to $100 million as a concession to the Seriate majority, <3> refusal to accept -anything but $200 million and non-linkage, with a resulting impasse unless the Sen ate majority weakens. Liquor As a seeming aftermath of the de 1EST GRADE PROMPT DELIVERY DIXIE GEM / J ? ;? \ * * ? a ^ ? B3 J ?. J* . . . 1 - - 1 A -WAV DOWN SOUTH VN O'l X 1 1 f H t 'NAttO N At FAVORITE LOCAL FAVORITE TOO . . . KINGS MOUNTAIN COTTON OIL COMPANY YOUR ICE AND COAL DEALER Phone 124 teat of the ?tate-wkie liquor referen dum bill, various municipalities hurl ried to Join the .towns of the State 1 which have voted on ABC stores in- ! dependency of their counties. One t bill would allow such a vote for Greensboro, others would do the; same for Trenton, Wallace, Warsaw, Kenansville, Walnut Cove, Faison, Clinton, and Mooresville. Forsyth Countyan d Winston-Salem were of fered a choice. HB 998-4 would au thorize either the county of the city to call an election on on establish ing liquor stores, with the provision that if the county operated such stor es Winston-Salem could not, .while HB 1006 would authorize a coutny wide election only. Next Tuesday af- 1 ternoon the House Propositions and' Grievances Committee will hold a public, hearing on . the town ABC e- ' lection bills before it. ' , j A greyhound has a rather simple time of it foldwlng the mechanical rabbit around an oval track, but fol lowing the legislative act which permits the greyhound to run in this State seems a .more difficult matter. First the New Hanover bill came out of committee with a favorable vote, passed its second reading and j went back in committee to emerge i this time on Tuesday with an unfav orabie report. The bill to legalize dog racing in Currituck had an easy lope through the House but on Wed nesday failed its third reading in the Senate by a close vote. On Thurs day the Senate reconsidered the vote by which the bill failed Its third reading and passed it. Pasquotank in HB 1914, sought to prove that all racing in the State is not going to the dogs by seeking a vote on allow mg horse racing. The bill was re- 1 Major accident rap tor *he Naval ported favorably on Wednesday and Air Reserve during 1948 wa a only will come up oh March 30. 5.33 per 10,000 aircraft hours. 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