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THE RED SPRINGS CITIZEN PAGE FOUR BED SPRINGS, N. expropriations. THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1949 Weekly Legislative News By Institute of Government NOTE; This is the 'eleventh of a series of weekly summaries of the work of the 1949 season of the General Assembly of North Carolina. These summaries are not (intended as a report pn all legislation, jbut are confined to discussions of (matters of gen eral interest or of major import ance. If, as Governor Scott stated last week, the legislators have been putting pressure on him to fill the United States Senate vacancy, his surprise appointment of Frank Porter Graham, to seat should entitle him to similar promptness by the Dlr. that urge legis- lators in giving favorable action to the knotty problems of roads, schools and general appropriations serve Fund with an estimated $4 million surplus in the year end ing June 30, 1949, still leaves rev enues and available surpluses $4 million short of meeting the pro posed expenditures. On the same Thursday after noon that this action was taken, the House Finance Committee considered SB 203 calling for a $50 million bond issue to be ap plied to school building construc tion, and emerged with a substi tute bill providing for a $20 mil lion bond issue, with the remain der to be supplied by releasing the Post War Reserve Fund to this purpose. Under suspension of the rules this measure bypassed the Appropriations Committee and Two other school bills made their appearance in the Senate. SB v38 would add to the School Machinery Act provisions (1) for allotting additional supervisory and special instructional person nel to county and city adminis trative units at State expense, and (2) for allocating Federal funds if and when they become avail able. SB 343, probably prompted by recent criticisms of the hand ling of local school funds, provides more specifically for the account ing and auditing of all kinds of school funds and for the bonding of all personnel who are authoriz ed to handle school property or who are concerned with the draw- ing or school Last approvingof checks on funds. Roads week presented the first opportunity for concurrent ccn- was on Mondays calendar. Since HB 33 could not be reported out —a comlb|nation of affairs on which the Assembly has come 1 we ii m eet the question of expendi- dangerously close to a deadlock. | tur of the Post War Reserve for (before Tuesday, the House may Appropriations Rapid developments in the Gen eral Assembly last week posed these qusticns: Shall the $30 million Post War Reserve Fund (1) be retained as a “cushion" against emergency deficits, (2) be used for’ current expensesto raise the tachrs’ salary scale to the $2,200 —$3,100 level or (3) be used to finance county school building construction ? Advocates of retaining the Fund as a ‘cushion” fought a losing bat tled in the Joint Appropriations Committee, ass chool forces slam med the brakes on the unlimited spending of the previous week that threatened to send the whole Biennial Appropriations Bill to a subcommittee for trimming. Re consideration of several approved increases and treatment of a few more minor requests resulted in an over-all appropriation of $418 million for the biennium, some $38 million in elcess of estimated revenues for the same period. Then, rather than turn the meas ure over to a subcommittee, a convincing majority approved the release of the Reserve Fund to help meet the threatnd dficit and votd to report the bill (HB 33) favorably, over the protests of co- chairmen Edwin Pate and W. Frank Taylor, both of whom in formed members that they could not support the bill in its entirety because they felt that the appro priation measure could and should be balanced with expected reve nues. The combination of the Re- capital outlay purposes before the Appropriations Committee-approv ed expenditure of the same Fund for current expenses can be con- siderd. In all this confusion one appro priations measure has not been heard from; just What is going to be the fate of the $72 million al- located to permanent improve- ments at the State's institutions in the Advisory Budget Commis sion’s recommendations? Schools In rewriting the Senate edition of the $50 million school plant con struction bill the House gave spec ial attention to the method of al locating the money among the counties. SB 203, as oiginally writ ten, allocated up to $500,000 to! each county. The House approach is to allocate the money in three ways: first, $2000,000 would be given outright to each county; second, $25 million would be allo cated among the counties on the basis of average daily school mem- bership; and third, $5 million would be set up as an equaliza- tion fund Board of allocable by the State Education on the basis of building needs and ability to pay. This method was first adopt ed by the House Education Com- mittee House stitute and then embodied in the Finance Committee’s sub- bill reported out on Fri- day. The House Finance Commit tee’s ideas about where this money should come from are mentioned in the paragraph dealing with Ap- passe unless the Senate majority weakens. Liquor As a seeming aftermath of the defeat of the state-wide liquor referendum bill, various munici palities hurried to join the towns of the state which have voted on ABC stores independently of their counties. One bill Would allow such a vote for Greensboro, oth ers would do the same for Tren- Warsaw, Kenans- ton, Wallace, ville, Walnut Cove, Faison, Clin ¬ ton, and Mooresville. Forsyth County and Winston-Salem were offered a choice. HB 984 would authorize either the county or the city to call an election on estab lishing liquor stores, with the provision that if the county op erated such stores Winston-Salem could- not, while HB 1006 would authorize a county-wide election only. sideration by one house of the bills embodying the ideas of both on the two paramount issues re maining on the road bond ques tion—the size of the issue and the question of making the 1c gas tax increase contingent upon favor able vote for the issue. This came about when, on last Wednesday, the Senate ' Finance Committee, reported favorably as amended, SB 52, and unfavorably, with min ority reports, HB 89 and HB 181. Attempts to have the minority re ports adopted brouht the gas tax issue esfuarely into focus, since the two House bills contemplated n linking of the tax and bond is sue, while SB 52 would make the tax' contingent upon approval of the bonds. The amount 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 in stead of $100 in line with HB 89. After a round of debate and par liamentary maneuver, the score reead SB 52, passed two readings, House bills 89 and 181, on the un favorable calendar and "clinched.” An interesting last try by the “non-linkers” was their attempt to have removed from the refrendum ballot the reference eto th 1c gas tax increase, which also met with defeat. There is now only onee bill to be amended and compromised, whereas formerly there were three. Wheen SB 52 passes its I third Senate reading and is sent to the House, one of three reac tions seems (probable: (1) accep tance as written, with the raise to $200 million by the Senate Com mittee compensating for the link ing of the gas tax, (2) insistence upon non-linkage even if the . amount be reduced aain to $100 million as a concession to tne Senate majority, (3) refusal to ac cept anything but $200 million and non-linkage with a resulting im- I racing A greyhound has a rather sim ple time of it following the me chanical raibbit around an oval track, but following the legisla tive act which permits the grey- hound to run in this State seems throuh the House but failed its a more difficult matter. First the third reading in the Senate by a New Hanover bill came out of close vote. 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