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Weekly Summary Of Legislative Acts This is the first of a series of ?weekly summaries of the work of the 1947 seisioii of the General Assembly. These summaries are no* intended as a report of all leg islation, but are confined to d:s- | cussions oi matters of general JQ_ | terest or of major importance. __ i ^ The s;:>eed with which the 1947 session of the General Assembly j apparently organized itself and got ; ready to do business gave rise to | some faint hope that the objective ' of Senatev Resolution 2 introduced ! on the first day of Jhe session, | "Piuiiding??'fr.'P'1 uiljumiiiiiL'iil un* Monday, March 10, (which would mean a remarkably short session of 53 legislative days as against 67 legislative days in 1945), might be realized or at least approached. This faint hope received a slight boost when both House and Senate committees were named on the second day, as against the fifth and sixth days respectively in 1945, and when the major money bills? the biennial appropriations bill and the budget revenue bill?were in troduced on the fifth day as against the seventh day in 1945. Also, the speed with which other .measures were being presented lent some encouragement: at the close of The business on the ninth day, the Sen ate .was exactly even with the last Senate on the corresponding day of the last session with 34 bills in . the hopper, while the House had outstripped its predecessor's rec ord by 50 bills to the 1945 House's 30. The faint hope raised by these evidences of a business-like atti tude was quickly dispelled by the happenings of the first few days. It soon became clear that the As sembly's organization was a tech nical rather than a smoothly work ing one, and that, while the seri 'ousness of purpose of the individ ual members could not be doubted, the purposes being pursued so se riously were by no means identi cal. The Assembly shows promise of being an exceptionally hard ceptionally harmonious one. y-The first sign that "all was not to be moonlight and roses came in the House on the first day when the committee on rules recom mended the temporary adoption of the 1945 rules. As was expected. Representative Umstead of Orange immediately led a fight to amend the rules which require two-thirds Votes instead of simple majorities to take a bill from a committee and place it on the calendar or to take a bill from the unfavorable calendar and place it on the favor able calendar when the unfavor able report of the committee is ac companied by a minority favorable report. After 'considerable debate and much parliamentary maneu vering, temporary and then per? manent rules were adopted with the two-thirds rules intact, and by *'And Have Fun99 No matter how dirty the youngsters get their clothes, mom need not worry about getting them clean! Send them to us for dry cleaning and we'll return them spic and span! MOORE'S D ry Cleaners In New Location On Mill 8treet Phone 120 Sylva, N. C. Mi'l 1*1 *" on Display at SYLVA FLYING SERVICE Phone 165-R?Sylva, N. C. f THS PIP'.R CUB SUPIR CRUISKR Tea etn ? to buy tad ?7 i<ia haadaatna (krM - pa* ?ngar plan* with (1m rk starter ?ad It baa a 600.aail? aralaln? raaga and lOS-napb aralilaf apaad . A thrifty 1 OP-bora apowrr ma' aa it aco t? opcrata. PIPIR CUB SPECIAL 'A twa paaaangar, caiy-ta* ??? plana that Is law la aaat. Tka 6S?kanapov?r Bpaalal la a paraaaalM laa mi tha Pt??r Cuba tkauaada aamd tfca&r wlip Attraetiraly jrallav YOU CAN RUT A NIW PIPIR CUR 9OR AS UTTU AS 665 DOWN rutmmcomet ?f tafca afi, tal IIAKN TO PlY A PIPIR CUB AT OUR AIRPORT Honoring fSeeing Eye9 Cat NSV.SPAPER REPORTER Stuart Phister (left) presents medal to guide cai LJafcy" in Los Angeles. The cat was honored by New York's Gieen *.ch Vili^e Humane League (or his faithful devotion to his blind n*:siicss Mis Carolyn Swanson (right). (International Soundvhoto) Glenville 4-H Club Has January Meet The Glenville 4-H club met at the Glenville school Tuesday with County Agent M. L. Snipes and Miss Helen Sossamon, home dem onstration agent, present for the meeting. Children of the 4th, 5th, and 7th grades presented the program. The children of the fourth grade gave rules for the care of the teeth, us ing posters and paper models to illustrate. The fifth and seventh grade children sang the following folk songs: "Froggie Went A Court ing," "The Miller and His Sons," and "Billy Boy." Also featured on the program was a duet, "Barbara Allen," by Patsy Stiwinter and JaneTCogginsr^Old Gray Beard," by Janet Coggins and "Good Old Man," by Billy Roe Carver and David Pruett, Jr. R. L. Pruett is president of the club, Mary Henderson, secretary, and faculty advisors are L. A. Am nions, Maude M; Hutchinson, better than a two-thirds vote. This was regarded as a substantial ad ministration ' victory, and it may have seemed at the moment that the administration had a substan tial working majority in the House ?a matter which has been in doubt. The doubt was given some substance by the determined fight aver the Supplemental Appropria tions bill? SB 11, identical to HB 14. That bill as originally drawn would have provided average in creases in the pay of teacherj and other state employes for the last six months of the current year of 20 per cent for those in the "lower" brackets (those now making up to $2,700 per year) and a flat increase of $45 per month for those now making from $2,701 to $6,600 per year, except constitutional offi cers, the 20 per cent, increase be ing in accord with Governor Cher ry's recommendation in his ad dress to the joint session. Intro duced in both chambers on Thurs day, the bill was reported favor able to both bodies on Friday, when the Senate immediately passed its bill and sent it over to the House for similar speedy ac tion. The House not only balked, however, but in the face of a de termined fight by supporters of the original bill, adopted an amendment which raised increases to 30 per cent on salaries up to $1,200, and to 25 per cent on sal aries of $1,201 through $2,700. Back to the Senate went the bill for a concurrence in the House amend ment, but this time the Senate balked and refused to accept the Funeral Rites Helcr For W.H.Phillips| Funeral services for William Houston Phillips, 80, who died at his home in Cowarts Friday, were held at Catherines Chapel Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. Mr. Phillips, a life long resident of Jackson county and a retired farmer, had been In ill health for several months Surviving are two sons, Thomas Luther Phillips of Cowarts and Ernest Phillips of Enka; three daughters, Mrs. Bergen Adkins of Ramseytown, Mrs. Eunice Birch field of Bryson City, and Mrs. Ol limay Parker of, Cowarts; four brothers, Allen, Western and Jfan Phillips, all of Cowarts and S. Jerome Phillips of Willets; and one sister, Mrs. Will Snyder of Hazel wood. Elaine M. Norton, and Irene S. Cline. , ' \ House amendment. The bill then went to a conference committee which brought out a report which, while allocating the salary in creases substantially the same amount of funds which would have been required by the House amendment, by and largely main tained the principal of not more than a 20 per cent increase. This report the Senate quickly accepted but the House rejected, resulting in the discharge of the conference committee. At week's end, the Speaker of the House had reap pointed an enlarged representation to a conference committee, the President of the Senate was ex | pected to do so Monday, and there the matter rested. All of which presages some hard and bitter skirmishes on many items in the record breaking biennial appro priations bill. In addition to the usual bien- j nial revenue and appropriations < bills, the Assembly also received a j bill to set aside an additional $9,- i 300,000 in its Post War Reserve Fund, raising that fund to an ap proximate $30,000,000, and another bill to transfer $44,501,437 from the present and expected surplus to a Permanent Improvements fund, to be used, subject to cer tain conditions, for a building pro gram. The State is dealing in in creasingly large figures. We set out below for purposes of comparison ; the actual appropriations adopted by the 1945 legislature, including amounts added by amendments, and the appropriations called for by this session's original bill: GENERAL FUND 1945-46 1946-47 1947-48 1948-49 Legislative $ $ 200,000 $ $ 225,00 Judicial 458,593 458,593^ 507,991 507,991 Executive & Administrative 4,007,419 3,818,953 5,895,446 5,900,126 Educational Institutions 4,938,002 4,593,187 7,041,332 6,961,287 Charitable and Correction- - 1 able Institutions 5,457,342 4,649,810 7,718,556 7,630,381 State Aid and Obligations 5,500,221 5,498,496 8,221,639 8,159,281 Pensions . 266,200 266,200 319,200 279,200 Contingency and Emergency 750,000 750,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 Public Schools 44,346,824 44,620,500 60,530,174 61,353,160 Debt Service 151,858 72,413 66,355 TOTALS $65,876,459 64,928,152 91,234,338 92,082,781 AGRICULTURE FUND ?Department of Agriculture 751,137 751,132 1,014,989 999,334 HIGHWAY AND PUBLIC WORKS FUND Highway and ^ Public Works * 40,055,020 45,138,290 52,567,745 52,303,245 (Debt Service 1 (Highway Fund/ % 7,576,708 7,441,239 7,278,114 5,612,864 Totals $47,631,728> 52,579,529 59,845,889 57,916,109 GRAND TOTALS $114,259324 11^,258,813 152,095,216 150,998,224 The Sylva Pharmacy S/H/te *r fVwrERf Great dreary winter days with a bright smite... a Klenzo smile! 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NOTE BOOKS 1 C? and Q TWO SIZES IWV UVl HAN KSCRAFT BOTTLE WARMERS $1.95 ELECTROSTEEM BOTTLE WARMERS $6.95 REX-RAY HEATING PADS $5.95 \ KANTLEEK, WATER BOTTLE $2.95 $2.00 SIZE CHERAMY SKIN BALM $1.00 WRISLEYS SOAP $1.39 BABY ANIMAL SOAP 35c If?t#? and laugh! There's A Half-Hour af Hilarious Fun For You Every Friday Night ?-> DURANTE MOORE CBS-COAST-TO-COAST ffs The Reualt Drug Radio Show/ BE CAREFUL WITH DRUGS! When your doctor prescribes potent drugs to bo / used, he orders the exact dosage prepared that will bo safe for yov. You can depend on your Rexall pharmacist to prepare your prescription exactly as ordered. All his years of study and practice helps him fulfill the solemn responsibility of sharing you/ welfare with your doctor.
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