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uthern Baptists Set
Baptism Record In '48
i Southern Baptists set a baptism
record In 1948, with reports
indicating that the denomination's
26,823 churches Immersed
312f,246 persons during the year.
Sam P. Mitchell
Civil Engineer
CITY AND FARM SURVEYS
PROPERTY PLATS
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Office 2nd Floor Bank of North
Wilkesboro Building.
Office Phone 227
Residence 566
Porter Routh, satistical officer
of the Southern Baptist Convention,
said that the baptisms pushed
the membership of the
churches to 6,491,981. Sunday
school enrollment jumped more
than 300,000 during the year to
bring the total enrolled in weekly
Bible study to 4,308, 374.
Gifts for all causes channeled
through the churches reached
$156,605,521, a gain of almost
125,000,000 over 1947. Of the
total given $124,855,222 was
used for local church work, and
$31,750,299 was used for Emissions,
education, and benevolences.
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Franklin County farmers are
learning in increasing numbers
that winter grazing is the most
economical method of producing
swine, says County Agent Walter
Fuller. ,
Dr. J. H. SOWDER
Optometrist
Care Of Visiorr Glasses Fitted
821 B Street North Wilkesboro, N. C.
Hours 8:30-5:00 Phone 899
Closed Wednesday Afternoons
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20 Per Cent Pay
Raise Is Granted
All StateWorkers
Raleigh, March 3, — The
Legislature tqday rushed
through to pasage a bill granting
teachers and state employees
a 20 per cent pay boost for this
year.
The increase is retroactive
to last October 1 and will cost the
state approximately $15,000,000.'
The measure becomes effective
upon ratification by the speaker
of the house and the president
of the senate, a formality expected
to take place tomorow.
The senate wrangled for- a
while over three proposed amendments
to the measure. Then it
killed the amendmerfts, passed
the measure unanimously and
rushed it to the house. There
the house sent it through to final
passage without debate.
Earlier, the house got into
lengthy debate over a measure
, which would have permitted licensed
automobile drivers to get
their drivers' licenses renewed
without taking an examination.
The (bill finally was killed by a
58 to 8 vote.
During the debate, Representative
Roy A. Taylor of tuncombe
reminded the house that
the law requiring inspection of
motor vehicles had been repealed
and asserted it appeared the Legislature
was bent on repealing
the state's entire highway safety
program.
Representative Larry I. Moore
of Wilson, chairman of the
House Finance Committee, reported
action of the joint finance
committee yesterday in giving a
favorable report to the biennial'
revenue bill. The measure was
set for house consideration tomorrow.
It would provide ajbout
$200,000 a year more revenue
than the original measure proposed
by the Advisory Budget
Commission.
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Red Cross Acts j
On Vets' Claims
Of the more than 6}500,000
compensation and pension claims
on file with the Veterans Admin-1
istration last year, the American1
Red Cross held power of attorney
in more than 1,000,000 cases to
act for the veteran or his heirs,
local chapter officials asserted
here today.
They empnasized that the organization
is ready to give immediate
assistance in the preparation,
filling and development of
claims for government benefits
that may >be due a vetepan or his
! dependents.
| Chapter workers are kept advised
by Red Cross national headquarters
jof the laws enacted by
Congress and the interpretation
of them by the Veterans Administration,
it was pointed out. These
chapter workers know exactly
what information must go into
the various applications, and to
what office they should be sent.
Furthermore, Red Cross claims
service field directors are stationed
in each of the 84 offices in
the United States, Alaska, Hawaii,
Puerto Rico and the Philippines,
the chapter added. Approximately
8 5 per cent of these
claims service representatives are
former servicemen and they have
been specially trained for their
jobs. Thousands of veterans the
country over have successfully
presented their claims before the
various VA boards through these
representatives, it was said.
During the past year they
handled approximately 1^291,700
cases, it was pointed out. With
chapter workers the country ever
ready to obtain background information
that they may be needed
to round out a claim, the
Red Cross is able to serve the
veteran or his dependents speedily
and, equally ^important, efficiently,
the chapter officials asserted.
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High Court Rules
States May Impose
Union Curbs
WASHINGTON, March, 7 —
The Supreme Court ruled today
that the states may impose toucher
curbs on "union security" contracts
than are provided in federal
laws.
The court split 7-2 in holding
that neither the Taft-Hartley Act
nor the Wagner Act which preceded
it bans states from regulating
union security agreements.
The majority said the only limit
is that "the state shall not
impose a policy inconsistent with
national policy."
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Civilian per capita consumption
of food in the United States
this year is expected to continue
at about the 1948 level, which
was 12 per cent above the prewar
average. Retail food prices
are likely to average somewhat
lower in 1949 than in the past
vear, when thev set a new high.
However, no sharp decline is anticipated.
Eleven From Wilkes
Students At State
RALEIGH — The winter term
enrollment in the School of Engineering
at N. C. State College
includes 11 students from Wilkes
County, a survey of the institution's
registration figures indicated
today.
Dean J. H. Lampe announced
that the School of Engineering
now has a total enrollment of
2,609 students, including 1,823
veterans of World War II.
The Mechanical Engineering
Department attracted the largest
number of students with an enrollment
of "743. The Electrical
Engineering Department drew
6 56 students, and the Civil Engineering
Department registered
470. O
College'iJ
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Chemical
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Wilkesboir
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North
Wright
her dAartments in the
the following enrollment:
Scholl
301;
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, 26;
e also
[Industrial, 202;
Ceramic, 76;
and General, 18.
86 graduate stu
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County
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Kern
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Wilkesfci
Norm
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of Engineering
students from
are enrolled in
|non C. BroyhilJ,
Church North
ro; JoAph L,. Clements,
ro; Royal R.
oro; George S.
Wilkesboro;
C. Milllr, North Wilkes
Moore, North
o; Ru is W. Moseley,
B; The Has F. Nelson,
flkeslbor ; Rex B. Wood,
Wilkest >ro; John R.
Wilkesbt o.