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THURSDAY, MARCH 8,154 S Legislative Topics From Capitol Hill Raleigh, Mar. 7.—'Those few pro- | pile Is who, early In the session, ex pressed the view that the 1945 Gen eral Assembly would not reach final adjournment until March 15 were then regarded by most observers as being unduly pessimistic. What was there to stand in the way of ad jburnment by March sth or 7th? There appeared to be no great I*- siles at stake which might bring on protracted fights. There were the biennial revenue and appropriations bills to enact, of course, but no one expected much change or much fight on the revenue bill, except per haps In committee. The general fund surplus might have invited many raiding parties, but it was pretty well disposed of early in the session by the debt retirement measure. There would quite naturally be r ♦♦♦+♦»»♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦»♦»»« > » ♦ »»»»»♦♦«■»♦»« FOR FUN Come To See Us For Good Clean Fun | A Game Os Billards Is Nice Recreation. % Come Down And Meet Your Friends X • j Beer Wine I • ♦ All Kinds Beer And Wine And I Cold Drinks t • j TUXEDO BttLARD PARLOR | UNDER PEEBLES The Lester Blackwell Post OF THE American Legion Sinclair Gas and Oil NEWS LETTER: JolN ™ E Will Take You Over - The Top. AMERICAN SINCLAIR OIL Dear Buddies: i poinw Bill Minor, Agent. . LEGI ° N We meet Saturday night at the Legion Hut, Saturday, March tOth, and I FffFTT'Q We are expecting you to be there. Some nrDADTMrMT very important subjects axe to> be disc GULF REFINING DEPARTMENT , j t COMPANY STORE cussed, also we nave a very agreeable sur- prise to come up. Be sure and come. Good Gulf Ga? “Roxboro’s And Oil Shopping Center” Ned Dillard. j R. A. Whitfield, Distributor Palace Theatre W. C. BULLOCK Monday. Tuesday & Wednes- jtfSSSVmU/MlMfrh day “The Key. of the Everything to Build George Peck, Thotnas Mitchell Your Business and many other stars. BMP?? Phis a road show. See our Dolly Madison mn>WAR n, PEEBLES DEPT. Monday A Tuesday ! DCADI rC “Under We.t.m BQNDS “ ' „„„ u. c- AN ° STAMPS Depo.it. Insured Everything for the rill, Leon Erred NOW Also Up to $5,000 ! Family SHORT SUBJECT <;• I 1 | fights of: apaatari or lest seriousness over appropriations, but it was gen erally expected that the Joint, Ap propriations Committee would' work out the bill, report* itj and that would be that. There were the bien nial liquor and beer and wine bills, but no one expected' them to delay matters very much, whatever their fates might ha. But by the end of the eighth full legislative week, with only ten more legislative days left ; if, adjournment is to come by March i 15, those few “pessimists” who still hold' to the date of Maroh 15 were being -reclassified by many as op timists. Most of the “bad news" which now makes the prospects of a relatively early adjournment like j unto a beautiful mirage which re , I cedes before the advance of the weary desert traveler came out on Friday. The week started well enough. True, the Hbuse was getting further and further behind on Its public calendar, but. it seemed to contain nothing which a few night sessions wouldn't clear up. The bills requir ing' readings on seperate days were being moved: along with very little delay. The non roll-call calendar could be disposed of without too much difficulty as soon as sufficient time could be spared from commit tee meetings to have a few long sessions. Wednesday was a really 'nice day for the optimists, On that day the Appropriations bill was rat ified, nine of the principal Insurance bills passed the House and were be ing readied for ratification, and the liquor referendum bill was quietly given an unfavorable report by the Senate Finance Committee, with no one apparently In sight ready w inject a shot of adrenalin In an at tempt to give -It a new spark of life. Also on.Wediiseday the Revenue bill was reported favorably in the House, and the following day a number of floor amendments, sent forward by the chairman of the Finance Com mittee, were adopted and the bill passed a second reading, all without debate. To a weary reporter, things were- looking pretty good. Then came Friday (and the weary reporter automatically thinks of “Black Friday”). Both the House and the Senate somewhat jumped the traces. After thinking things ov er since Thursday's session, the chairman of the House Finance Committee decided that one or more of his floor amendments might be construed as a “national amend ment”, having the effect of throw ing the hill back on Its first reading. That being so, the House erred In passing the bill on its second read ing on Thursday, as Thursday’s ac tion constituted the first reading. He therefore moved that the vote by which the bill passed its second reading be reconsidered, to the end that it might then be placed on Its 'second reading in conformity with | the requirements of the Constitu ! tion. The motion carried, whereupon Representative Stone sent forward an amendment which would place an additional tax of $1 per gallon on wine. After some debate and some show of feeling, the amend ment was adopted, which action again threw the bill back to its first reading. All of which means that the Senate will get to its third read ing on the bill by the end of next ■ week at the earliest, with pretty fair prospects that a conference com- . -^ipnppi^' THE CQURIER-TIMKS mittee may finally have to be ap pointed to Iron out differences In a bill which has already been studied for 2 months by a joint committee. That is Just what happened, also on Friday to another bill which had been studied and reported out by a joint committee —the bill which draws the line between the provinces of the Superintendent of Public In struction and the Controller. That bill was reported out to the House,, whloh adopted several floor amend ments, passed the bill as thus a mended, and sent it to the Senate. The Senate added some amend ments of Its own which merely re moved all of the House amendments, passed the bill and sent it back to I the House for concurrence. The Rouse quickly concurred and then, after considerable argument, mark ed by more asperity than has been shown so far, voted to reconsider the vote of concurrence and follow ed that with a vote in favor of a motion “that the House do not con cur in the Senate amendments." The "bad Friday” in the Senate gets its foundations from the “good Wednesday” two days before, when Senate Bill 147, which would give the counties of Graham, Macon, Swain, Cherokee and Clay the right to vote on prohibiting the sale of beer and wine, was reported unfav orably. It then seemed as moribund as the liquor referendum bill. But on Friday up rose the bill’s sponsor, Senatr Ponland, and entered a force ful plea in suport of a motion to take the bill from the unfavorable calendar and place it on the favor able calendar. The plea appealed to enough Senators to bring forth the necessary two-thirds vote, and there it is, just like any other bill, need ing now only a simple majority to pass the Senate. Os course, there is still the House, and the bill itself is of no very great importance to the State as a whole. But does the Sen ate's action on this bill, and the House’s action, in tacking the wine tax amendment to the Revenue bill, portend an open fight on the whole liquor-beer-wine question? If so, the grass may again grow green on Capitol Square before the Senate and House gavels simultaneously sound final adjournment. There are some 30 other local beer and wine bills still in the Finance committees, and every day adds to the list. Con . siderable restlessness, even outright ; impatience, is becoming more and more evident, especially on the part , of legislators from the west. Wheth er anything much will come of Fri day’s doing remains to be seen, but plenty can still happen. One thing seems certain at this date: the Gen eral Assembly is not quite ready to be tied up in a neat bundle and sent home. Among the bills of general Inter est introduced during the week was a bill to create a Medical Care Com- ' I mission, to provide for the expan sion of the medical school of the University to a four year school, to provide for the erectiin of a central hospital in connection with such school and to provide a contingent appropriation to pay part of the hospital costs of caring for indigent ipatientst; a bill to require that all instruments subject to registration bear the name of the draftsman; a bill to amend the Constitution to raise the pay of members of the General Assembly to S9OO for the term and to sls per day for extra sessions for not more than 25 days, and to increase the pay of the pre siding officers, and another bill to amend the Constitution to allow members $lO per day and the Speak er sls per day for expenses; a bill to exempt from taxation homes of veterans purchased with disability compensation up to $5,000 tax value; a bill to divide the State into eight Educational Districts as provided by the recent Constitutional amend ment; a bill to exempt service men and women from poll taxes and cer tain license taxes for ten years fol lowing honorable discharge; a bill to permit counties to establish zon ing regulations, and another to per mit counties to establish planning boards; and a bill to empower the REA to assist rural communities in securing telephone service. 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In addition, the government set aside of lard for war uses is absorb ing a large percentage of all fed erally-inspected lard production. Because the amount of lard avail able to civilians is smaller than orig j inally anticipated, an increase In its I ration point value is necessary at j ths time. Because shortening, salad '! and cooking oils and margarine may I be used interchangeably with lard . | in commercial and household cook ’| mg and baking, it is necessary to ' j increase their point values simul -1 | taneously. WHY BE FAT\? Get slimmer without exercise ffL j You may I.r e* pounds and have a j moic slender. >:ruc”lid liyuro. No , exereisiny. No laxatives. Nodruss. * \Yit!i this A YDS plan you don't cut out ary imv.l.-. -tardies, po- I tatocs, iiKMis or butler, you sim cut them down. It's easier wuen you enjoy delicious (vita- N min fortifictb AS’DS before meals. I Absolutely horinle>r\ v ! In clinic il ie>t« conducted by medical doctor®, I more than 100 persons lost 14 to 15 lbs.arer* ajje in a few ’.vccks with AYDS Yitanii* Candy Reduciu;; Plan. Try a df»;d.,y Mipyly of AYDS, only $2.25. Money I'. cl: < i the very liiit box il you don’t get results. Phone THOMAS & OAKLEY Ftotf Stamps: ! In Good Budget Raleigh, March 7. —With valida tion of new food stamps this month, American housewives now have a sizable block of stamps with which to budget their buying of rationed foods, OPA District Director Theo dore S. Johnson said this week. At present there are 19 Red Stamps <Q6 through Z 5, A 2 through J 2) and 20. Blue Stamps (X 5 through Z 5, A2 through S 2) currently good, Mr. Johnson pointed out. “Under the new arrangement, there will be about this same number of stamps good at all limes," the OPA. official added, "since each block of stamps will remain valid approximately four months.” Mr. Johnson urged every house wife to mark the expiration date of each Blue or Red Stamp as soon as INSURANCE For All Kinds of Insurance See KNIGHT’S INSURANCE AGENCY , • | ( THEY REPRESENT ( 1 The Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, the oldest company* in America; The Ohio State Life Insurance Company; The Reserve Loan Life Insurance Company The National , Casualty; The Inter-Ocean Casualty The Continental Cas ualty; The National Accident and Health; The Travelers of 1 Hartford, Conn., And Other Companies. : WE SELL ALL FORMS OF LIFE INSURANCE Kamilf' Group policies. Hospital. Health and Accident, Bonds; ! Automobile, Fire, Hail. KNIGHTS INSURANCE AGENCY Roxboro, N. C. —— J PAGE THREE | announced, on the bock of the stamp ! itself, as the best way to keep her* self reminded of the final date for its use. | LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION NORTH CAROLINA, PERSON COUNTY. The undersigned, having qualified i as executrix of Mrs. Lizzie Frazier Knott, deceased, late of Person County, this is to notify all persons having claims against said estate to present them to the undersigned on or before the 30th day of January, 1946, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned. This the 30th day of January, 1945. Mrs. Jennie Knott, HxecutriX ! Lunsford & Burke, Attorneys. Feb. 1,8, 15. 22, March 1, 8.
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