FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1941
Summary of
Legislature
lly KLMKII OKTTIXJER
«>f the Institute of Government Staff
< Editor's Kote: This is another
of a series of weekly summaries of
the activities of the UHI General
Assembly. The staff of the Insti
tute of Government presents this
service to afford a comprehensive
weekly review of legislation intro
duced or passed by the represen
tatives in Raleigh.)
At the close of its fifth week
the General Assembly is prepar
ing to dig through an avalanche
of public legislation, including
such individual obstacles as wage
hour, state marketing authority,
reapportionment, unemployment
compensation and national defense
bills.
The only measures of public sig
nificance actually passed during
the week were bills requiring the
judge in first-degree burglary
cases to charge the jury that they
may render a verdict in the sec
ond-degree and permitting di
vorced women to resume their
maiden names or the name of a
prior divorced husband.
The national defense bills in
volved sabotage, housing, army
draftees and volunteers, and uni
forms. The sabotage" measure, un
iform bill sponsored by the Council
of State Governments, would send
to jail for 10 years or fine $lO,-
000, or both, persons intentionally
destroying or injuring property or
failing to note, on inspection, in
tentionally defective workmanship
on articles when such actions
would delay or interfere with de
fense or war preparations. The
act also provides lesser penalties
for unlawful entry on defense
properties, or restricted streets or
highways, and defines the rights
of labor, privileges of witnesses
and the questioning and detention
of suspects in such cases.
Three housing measures, one
validating the establishment and
undertakings of housing author
ities, were presented on Friday.
The others would create such au
thorities to engage in slum clear
ance and dwelling accommodation
projects for persons of low in
come including farmers, authorise
cooperation with the Federal Gov
ernment in housing projects, and
assure safe and sanitary dwell
ings for persons engaged in na
tional defense activities. Another
bill would credit to draftees on a
new car license the proportional
amount of “Schedule B’’ license
tax he had paid but not exercised
because of his induction into
armed forces. Other defense bills
would appropriate $30,000 for uni
forming home guard units and
authorize the Governor to form a
State Guard to substitute for the
National Guard when the latter
is called into active Federal ser
vice. Individual State Guard mem
bers would not be exempt from
Federal service, and the organi
zation would be disbanded upon
the National Guard’s return.
A State wage-hour bill, much
nearer to Federal standards than
the impending Wage and Hour
Commission’s majority and min
ority reports, was offered by Sen
ator Gregory. Minimum wages of
25 cents and maximum hours of
44 per week would be prescribed
for the first year; a 30 cents per
hour minimum for the next six
years, with 40 cents per hour
from then on; 42 hours maximum
for the second year, with 40 hours
thereafter. The act creates a
Wage and Hour Bureau in the De
partment of Labor, to he appoint
ed by Commissioner of Labor, and
specifies non-interference with la
bor’s right to collective bargain
ing.
Representative LeGrand of New
Hanover sponsored a bill calling
for the submission of a constitu
tional amendment at the next gen-
r.tation of any sfngl count, i :
the Genera! A.-wtiib jto o -
ator and three representatives.
Another mtaaufe propose- to set
up a State Marketing Auth r t; ,
. mpo-ed of m tubers o; t <* t
Board of Agriculture, t<> pm nm
the more effective marketing of
farm products. The unemp nnt
cm pensation law amendment ;re
designed to extend and revise th"
provisions of the present law.
Perhaps the most vital of all
the bills introduced, from th
standpoint of the coun'i ° an '
their officials, is the one which
would require the Stat° to as u
all obligations on conn*" r -nd
bonds issued before 1031 W il
the counties would not be r i v
of responsibility for p in'inn' o •
interest in arrears nt thn* time,
the assumption, on Julv 1,10 P
wou’d put on state higlv-n- fend®
the burden of all payments doe
after that date. Also > i
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Tomorrow’s needs of territory and nation
Since the original Carolina Power & Light Oom. needs, the territory is growing rapidly and the
pany was organized in 1908 with a total gene- demands for eleotricity are steadily increasing. In
rating capacity of only 6,330 h.p., a policy of keeping with our policy, $3,000,000.00 is being in
anticipating future power needs has been closely vested in a new steam electric generating plant *
followed! which will provide an additional 40,000 h.p., mak-
By 1926, when the present Carolina Power & Light a av »ikble.
Company was formed, the generating capacity In undertaking this new construction we are not
had increased to 166,000 h.p. Steadily this oa- unmindful of the importance of this territory in
pacity has been increased, always in advance of our nation’s Preparedness plans and of increased
actual needs, until, at the present time, the Com- National Defense needs for electric power.
pany has an available oapacity of 426,000 h.p. _ . . , ....
Indeed, we are building today to meet tomorrow f
While present facilities are adequate for present needs of our territory and nation!
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mission system, as well as the addi- Q W*- t */ utility industry as a whole, feel the
tional new generating plant, repre- " 7 y responsibility for providing adequate
sents an investment of private capital power for all Preparedness needs,
without Government aid or subsidy. \ leaving National Defense funds free
Our Company and Electric Bond and \ for the purchase of actual defense
Share Company, with which it is at- materials.
IHE Zl. RECORD
the bill is a provision prohibiting
diversion of the highway funds.
Os further i uere-t to countuf
a e measures to permit the ap
pointment of county electrical in
spectors t> input wiring and
ele trical insti l! tions in towns of
:s- than 1 000 and in rural com
munities, and to permit no reval
uation of r n "1 n opertv for taxes'
n eases where the county com
issioners i ' no change in vr
ues which would require revalua
tion b' - atu appraisal, or by j
horizontal increase or reduction; !
past failures to revalue in s’i"h
ses would be validated. Another
bill would make the commissions
of representa ives of deceased
persons not over 5 per cent, in
clerk’s discretion, on expenditures
and receipts, including the value
of all persona’!v when received.
Non-stock, noe-proft ch'” - B'>Ho
hospitals would he exempted from
taxation under another bill.
The riding public and highway
♦ rat ' ♦'on agencies are direct
ly affected both by the Motor V
hide mi bill, which would
subject all m 'tor vehicles to a
emi-n’Tual i spe tion, and rule
three found to he unsafe off the
highways, an( | the proposed
Vni di s ’ts to the Gasoline In
sp c'ion T aw. which would adopt
a mir imo i standard for gasoline.
A’-ot 1 ■< of th' recommenda
tions node bv the Governor in his
i inaugur >1 address took concrete
' form ];>sf week, in a bill designed
‘o rai ■ the minimum age for
romnn ! «o''v school attendance
't 'm fourteen to sixteen years.
Teacher-, under the terms of .an- 1
onther introduction, would be en
tit ed to five clays of sick leave
vith p-’v each year, making this
inandatorv upon the State School
Commission, where formerly it
h.as been discretionary.
The filing of trademarks with i
the Secretary of State by labor
associations, for recording at $1
each, is provided for in another
measure, which calls for the issu
ance of injunctions by courts to
prevent unauthorized use of man
ufacture of labels. A further lib
eralization of the birth certificate
laws is contemplated by a bill to
allow*and provide for registering
births more than five days after
birth. ’File bill does not remove
criminal liability for failure to
register births within five days,
but does validate the registration
and filin gos irregular birth cer
tificates.
EARLY THANKSGIVING
Th< r n ed be on uncertainty as
to the elite of Thanksgiving Day
this year. Governor Broughton
has announced that he will con
form to the date set by President
Roosevelt, which is November 20.