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I ' • '1^ ‘ ' 1 ,'' ) .rJ \ ' i * I f 1 • ' t , f t * . J ,( .' i I j ' ^ 1. *;• tl^i ‘rtp4 ■ i jV . t ■E-.. rM- I' I lir THUnSDAY, MARCH 20. 1047 HARNETT. COUNTY. I^WSr-P^bllahed at Lmington, N. c. PAOB THRBB (By Institute ot .Government) When the Senate and House ad journed on Friday the total number ot bills Introduced In this session had reached 1052, 754 of them In the House. 298 in the Senate. On the same legislative day in 1946 the to tal had reached 1287. Thus this ses sion continues to lag behind its im mediate predecessor so far as the bulk of legislation is concerned. Of the 1052 bills introduced this year, 584, or something more than 50 per cent of them have been local in na ture. This .situation will bo up for study if the General Assembly passes HB 751 introduced on Friday calling for a commission whose busines-s it would be to consider the whole prob lem of local legislation and to make recommendations as to the passage of general laws on subjects most of ten embraced in local bills. The tenth legislative week was marked by the reappearance of the big “money” bills on the floor of the General Assembly. The Finance and Appropriation? committees of both houses have reported out their re commendations on the Revenue, Ap propriation! and Post War Reserve Fund bills. No. sooner had the Re- vtnue Bill been released for debate in the House than some members be gan to assault it with amendments: there were efforts to insure that Confederate widows and veterans get a ;i9-a-month pension raise, to restore theatre taxes to their 1939 schedule, and to restore the 26c re duction in the corporate franchise tax rate made by the original bill. All of them failed although the in troduction of SB 275 on Thursday, to give totally blind and helpless con- foderatt' widows a pension increase, indicates that the friends of Confed erate widows are not yet ready to concede defeat. Representative Mull wa? more successful than his col leagues; by a close vote he succeeded in amending the Revenue BUI so as to prohibit the .sale of wine and to closely regulate the sale of beer in his home county of Cleveland. The following day, stating that he had secured assurance from Finance Committee leaders that they would give favorable ear to hlti local bill to the same offect, Mr, Mull with drew his amendment leaving the committee’s bill ansoratcliel. And so it left the House to be considered In the Senate early next woelt. The Appropriations >Blll left Com mittee with a net increase in appro priations of $8,013,794. Oi this fig ure, $G,16i>,000 is accounted for by the raise in teachers’ salaries. The bulk of the remaining $1,868,794 would go to the State Board; of Health, the Department ,ot Conser vation and Development (this despite its loss of the Division of Game and Inland Fisheries), to the Board of Charities and Public Welfare for old age assistance and aid to dependent children, to the Retirement System to take care of contributions for State employees, to incre-ise State aid to public libraries, lo the De partment of Agriculture iind to the Cooperative Agricultural Extension division at State College. The De partment of Labor, the Industrial Comini8s!9.n, and CommlSsUm for the Blind, four State-supported colleges, four State hospitals, two orphanages, and State vocational education work absorb most of the rest. The only new item added In committee Is a $48,000 appropriation for Pure Food Control work in the Department of Agriculture in the next 'two years. Appropriations for indigent care work of the Medical Care i Commis sion and the veteran’s records pro ject of the Department of Archives and History were the only items in the original bill to suffer reduction (a total of $38'9,740) at the hands of the committee. Both the House and Senate defeated efforts to amend the bill to increase the $102,- 418,430 earmarked for in3;ructional salaries despite strong efforts to con vince the representatives £,nd sena tors that this sum might ’’all short of the 30' per cent Increase desired. Thus, amended only to delete a re quirement allocating 60 'POr cent of the library aid appropriation on the basis of population, and t) give low- bracket state employees preference in the 20 rper cent raise, the appro priations bill .passed both houses. The bill bringing the .post war re-, serve fund to an approximate: $30,- 000,000 by adding $9,300,000 there to passed both the senate and. house without amendment. The permanent improvements appropriation bill re mains in committee where the prob lems incident to the m«dlcal care program, especially the four-year medical school and teaching hospital at Chapel Hill, may bring on pro longed discussion. Ind'Qod this bill offers the principal controversy re maining befO're the legislature. Not all the week’s interest has been confined to money legislation, but at least one bill effects an in teresting tie-up between revenue matte.rs and the health, school teach er and liquor problems. Representa tive Buie of Robeson introduced HB 640 with the encouraging title of “To provide additional funds for salaries of teachers and other state employees, for the Good Health Pro gram, for mental institutions and for other general fund purposes.” If passed, this bill would require every ABC store in the state to turn aver its net proAts to the state general fund. HB 229 aimed at opening the shops has passc(} both houses without amendment despite vigorous efforts in the Senate to remove Its prohibi tion ot maintenance of membership contracts. The Senate committee has reported out its substitute of SB ItSi setting minimum wages and maxi mum hours of a somewhat more elastic variety than those set by the original bill. Teachers and educa tional problems in general continue to hold the legislative spotlight. HB 621 would provide that beginning with next year no school should lose teachers for ’lack of average dally attendance when Its average. dally enrollment would justify keeping the allotment it already has. SB 21'9 and its companion HB 648 woiuld submit the entire state educational system to close scrutiny by a commission required to investigate and make recommendations to the next Gen eral Assembly. These bills, having been approved by the respective committees on education, now rest in the appropriations committees for M .other’s in the kitchen, coaming up a meal. Grandma’s in the laundry, busy washing clothes. Dad plugs in his razor,'and whisks off his whiskers. Lights shine, the radio plays merrily, and Sister skims the cleaner across the bedroom rug. This is a house with dozens of sei'v ants—dependable, willing electric servants—ready day and night to make work easier and life more comfortable. This is living the modern way—the electric way! Yet how little it costs! Grandma can spin the dirt from six heaping tubs of wash—for. only a pi^innyl A few more pennies get Mother through her meal and Farther through his beard, too. Sister can clean that rug and five otJhiers like it before her cent’s worth of electricity is used up. ‘Dollar values for penny prices—that’s the story behind every electric switch in your home. That’s wr song of service! 9Li$i€n U iht N«w Electric HOUR OP 4:^ P.M,, PST, CBfi ^CAROHNA POWER & lIshT COMPANY consideration of the $60,000 .propos ed to 'he appropriated for the com mission’s exenses. SB 222 which has, passed the sen ate without BubBtaritial amendment would give the State Aeronautics Commission power to regulate the installation, equipment and safety of airports. Counties and municipalities will have their tax ceilings raised If two recent bills continue the success ful progress they have enjoyed thus far. SB 203. Introduced by Senator McKinnon on Feb. i'27, which would raise the municipal .general p'urpose tax limit from $1 co $1.50 on the $100 valuation has ,passed the Sen ate without amendment. And on Wednesday Senator Richardson In troduced SB 264 which would sub mit to the people at the general gen eral election an amendment to the Constitution raising the county gen eral I'und t.ax limitation (less con tingent levy of 5c by state) from 15c to 25c on the $100' valuation. These two bills tie In with SB 196 Introduced,by Senator Richardson in February which would submit a con stitutional amendment to! the people to remove the limitation upon the public debt for necessary expenses. Several new bills of general, in terest have been Introduced this week; SB 250 (HB 604) would es tablish a ivocatlonat training school, for veterans at Camp Butner; HB 703 would establish a commission to investigate State-created examining boards with'-licensing power; H® 630 would authorize the establishment of a two-year medical school at the N. C. College at Durham for the train ing of Negroes: SB 265 (HB 726) would appropriate $1,000,000 for improvements to North Carolina ports; SB' 285 (HB 744) dealing with the licensing and regulation of hospitals and the general medical care piogram; an.d SB 286 (HB 748) regulating, the sale of insecticides. By affixing their .signatures the presiding officers 6f the two houses turned 66 bills Into laws this week. At least one bill of major interest was Anally laid to rest; SB 200, the second Senate -bill calling for a state wide liquor referendum, was report ed unfavorably by-the Senate Anance committee. The House liquor refer endum bill still rests iix committee. Legislative leaders now speak with some conAdence of adjournment on or before April- 6. It may be don’^ but if so it will probably be because the presiding ofAcers have more suc cess with turning the clocks back than Canute had with the sea. 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