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WEEKLY LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY |
The twelfth week of the 1947 Gen
eral Assembly was its last; 1949 leg
islators hope their twelfth week will
be the last save one. Lieutenant-
Governor Taylor has appointed a com
mittee to meet with Speaker Ramsey
to coordinate the efforts of the houses
to that end. In longer and more fre
quent meetings the members have
amended and argued at length on a
few public measures, and have con
tinued to deluge the calendar with a
disturbing number of local bills —all
this with the number of introductions
this session only a few behind the
total for 1947. Following the usual
1949 pattern, minds, ears and mouths
were filled this week with school and
money matters. The road bond bill is
in a House committee, but this week
will see that issue opened on the
House floor again.
Appropriations
The Biennial Appropriations bill
was reported out of committee to the
House floor on Wednesday, but was
then pushed down the calendar to
Tuesday, April 5, just four days be
fore the planned sine die adjourn
ment. This bill carries an increase
of almost 38 million dollars over the
381 million' dollars recommended by
the Advisory Budget Commission.
Most of this increase can be attribut
ed to (1) over 26 million dollars addi
tional for raising teachers’ salaries
and reducing the per-teacher load, (2)
three million dollars for increased
State aid to county health services,
and (3) one and one-half million dol
lars for merit salary increases for
State employees in the second year
of the biennium. Since the Revenue
Bill provides income sufficient only to
meet the Advisory Budget Commis
sion recommendations, the commit
tee moved to meet the possible 38
million dollar deficit by releasing the
30 million dollar Post War Reserve
Fund to the General Fund, hoping
that available and future General
Fund surpluses would take care of the
difference.
The Permanent Improvements Bill
came up for committee consideration
on Tuesday, was swiftly approved,
and reported favorably on. Thursday
in form calling for $1,027,500 more
than the 72 million dollar measure
recommended by the Advisory Budget
Commission. Significant, however,
were new provisions freezing specifi
cations for all approved building pro
jects, directing that unexpended bal
ances resulting from a drop in con
struction costs revert to the General
Fund.
Before voting on any bill calling
for specific expenditure of the 30 mil
lion dollar Post War Reserve Fund,
the House on Tuesday was given the
opportunity of voting on the morel
fundamental question—should the j
fund be spent at all? Just as
on SB 203, the school building mea-j
sure, was opened, a House resolution j
was introduced calling for retention,
of the fund as a “cushion” against.
any decrease in General Fund reve-1
nues in the coming biennium. The!
resolution was soundly defeated on a!
Peanut Growers
When you shell your peanuts, you should be
sure that you get them shelled by a seed ma
chine that has proven to be a satisfactory seed
sheller.
We have a peanut seed sheller located at
North Broad Street and Paradise Road on
Route 17, Edenton, N. C., which has proven to
be satisfactory in every way. We believe our
machine turns out more planting peanuts per
bag than any machine shelling today. We
have specialized in shelling seed peanuts for
seven years, and have made many improve
ments which we have learned by experience
during this time. Mr. Satterfield, who super
vises the shelling, has had seven years experi
ence and uses this experience to shell the best
seed possible.
This machine has three shellers for small,
medium and large peanuts. The peanuts are
graded so they will go to the proper sheller.
After they are shelled, they go on a picking
belt 24 inches wide and 12 feet long, where
they are hand-picked. When they leave us,
they are ready for planting.
We have a new storage warehouse with a
3,000 bag capacity, and we will be glad to store
your peanuts free of charge until you are
ready to have them shelled.
WE ARE NOW SHELLING. Bring yours
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SEED PEANUT SHELLERS
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roll call vote of 81 to 31, after which
the House proceeded to consider :
whether or not to spend it for county i
school buildings.
School Building Aid
Two weeks ago when SB 203 ar
rived in the House, it called for a 50
million dollar bond issue to be sub- i
mitted to the people, with the pro
■ ceeds to be allocated $500,000 to each <
county for school plant construction. 1
As the bill passed its second reading 1
on Friday, the only change from the <
Senate version was in the allocation, i
the House having amended it so that 1
$250,000 would be distributed to each j
county, and the remaining 25 million
dollars would be distributed on the
basis of average daily school enroll- 1
ment in the several counties. Behind
this change in the allocation, how- ’
ever, was a week of bitter wrangling j
and floor debate, with an ensuing par- •
liamentary snarl that some observers *
said was the worst in years. ]
The fight centered around the (
House Finance Committee version of ]
the bill reported out last week; it ,
called for an appropriation of 30 mil-
lion dollars from the Post War Re
serve Fund and the submission of a
20 million dollar bond issue to the
people. In that form it was unac- t
ceptable to the “school forces” in the (
House, as their plan called for the use j
of the Reserve Fund to provide for
an increase in school teacher salaries j
to a minimum of $2,200. After sev- (
eral postponements, the bill finally ;
got to the House floor for debate on
Thursday and was met by a flood of ‘
amendments. When the smoke clear- j
ed the proponents of the 50 million <
dollar bond issue had triumphed and
the Post War Reserve Fund was un- ;
tapped. Though this was hailed as a j
victory for Governor Scott’s school ,
program, it remains to be seen, first, j
whether the Senate will approve the j
bill in its present form, and second, ,
whether the Post War Reserve can j
now be drained for school teachers (
salaries as was proposed by the Ap- (
propriations Committee. .
Port Bonds
Wednesday was, in the minds of ]
many legislators and on the lips of |
at least one, a “great day in the his- .
tory of North Carolina” because on (
that day the House passed HB 936 ,
which authorizes the issuance of $7,- ,
500,000 in bonds for the “construe- J
tion of seaports” in our State; no op- j
position is foreseen in the Senate. ,
Beer, Wine and Stronger Spirits 1
In interesting contrast to the pro- 1
longed struggle over wine regula
tion two years ago, bills extending
State ABC Board regulation of beer
and w r ine (SB 282 and SB 370) have
| enjoyed smooth sailing so far —weath-
jer conditions that might possibly be
1 accounted for by a willingness of the
! liquor referendum opponents to place
! curbs on beer and w r ine in anticipa
| tion and preparation for the battle to
. come two years from now.
Varying in minor details, but
agreeing in the principle of reducing
i the .liquor option unit from county to
THU CHOWAN HERALD. EDENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, Aj>RIL 7, 1949,
city in a dozen instances, the House •
bills allowing municipal ABC elec
tions have been assigned to a sub
committee of House Propositions and
Grievances for further study. The
one Senate bill doing the same thing
passed the Senate wjthout much dif
ficulty, but will undoubtedly find its
way to the same sub-committee upon ■
arrival in the House.
Matters Os Local Interest
Two bills by which local govern
ment stood to gain financially went
by the board last week when they re
ceived unfavorable reports. One, SB
329, would probably have resulted in
wider realization by counties and 1
cities of tax revenges from inter- ,
urban motor carriers under a for
mula described in this bulletin w T hen 1
introduced. The other, SB 327, would
have allowed rebates to municipali
ties of all taxes paid on gas used in ;
municipally-owned vehicles,
Three sources of local legislation •
which can be- counted on at every j
session to contribute a deluge are JP
appointments, private claims and
county board of education appoint
ments. These are acted upon in three
“omnibus” bills whose advent is one
of the signs of impending adjourn
ment. The JP omnibus bill was ra
tified Friday—the other two are on
the way.
Propositions And Grievances
Three recent bills have one un
pleasant thing in common—their con- 1
nection, directly or indirectly, with :
departing this life. SB 369 certainly
has as one of its purposes postponing!
the inevitable event —it prohibits the
handling of venomous reptiles under
conditions usually associated with the .
rites of a cult recently come to this
State. SB 352, byway of promoting
some good out of the generally un
happy, gives legal sanction and en- '
couragement to the donation by will 1
of one’s body or parts thereof for '
medical use. SB 344, indicating be
lief that “the evil that men do lives ,
after them” and not wishing to pro
long the memory, makes unlawful the
inscription on one’s tombstone of an
accusation of criminality and directs
the eradication of any such inscrip
tions already carved. It was not in
conceivable that these three bills
might all have figured in the same
law suit some day—imagine a snake
handler who willed a part of his body
to science, had the rest of it buried
as the result of a playful nip by one .
of his pets and on whose monument !
was written the statement, “Died I
while violating the Snake-Handling
Act of 1949”—but any chances of
this are now remote, since 352 itself
met an untimely death on Friday
when it was reported unfavorably in
the House.
New Movie On Corn
Attracting Interest
The new motion picture “More Com
Per Acre” has been received with en
s
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eastern part of the State, reports Dr.
E. R. Collins, in charge of agronomy
extension at State College.
The film, first ever produced by the
Agricultural Extension Service, was
shown in 20 counties last week, and
showings have been scheduled in 20
additional counties this week.
Farmers in all corn-producing
counties in the State will have an op
portunity to see the picture by the end
of April.
The 16-millimeter film was made in
color and runs for 25 minutes. It
tells the story of how several hundred
Tar Heel farmers have increased their
corn yields to more than 100 bushels
per acre during the past few years.
All of the principal actors are
North Carolina farmers shown at
work on their own farms. Counties
in which scenes were taken include
Currituck, Nash, Alamance, Forsyth,
Henderson, Bertie, Union, Richmond
and several others.
The picture is largely the work of
three persons—Dr. B. A. Krantz, soil
fertility specialist of the Agricultural
Experiment Station and the U. S. De
partment of Agriculture; Dr. Landis
S. Bennett, who did all of the pho
tography except animation, and Dr.
Collins. Technical assistance was
provided by the Motion Picture Ser
vice of the U. S. Department of Ag
riculture.
Petition Asks For Road
Relief In Upper Chowan
Chowan County Commissioners on
Monday were presented with a peti
tion from upper Chowan County resi
dents asking that the State Public
Works and Highway Commission take
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i over a section of the Piney Woods
. road.
Quite a few names appeared on the
petition, which asks for State main
i tenarice of the road w r hich is one mil<
east of Ryland to the Perquimans
County line.
1 The Commissioners favored the re
quest, but Chairman W. W. Byrum
was instructed to ascertain if it was
the intention of residents along the
road in Perquimans County to make
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