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To Relieve Misery of Kings Mountain's Leading Jewelers Speaking Finals Set For April 6 Judges for North Carolina's 1951 pasture speaking contest were announced this week by Dr. E. R. Collins, in charge of agron omy for the State College Exten sion Service. They are J. H. Hilton, dean of the School of Agriculture at State College; L. Y. Ballentine, State commissioner of agriculture; A. I. Teachey, State Supervisor of vocational education; E. B. Gar rett, State soil conservationist; D. S. Weaver, director of the Ex tension Service at State College. The contest finals will be held at 2 p. m., April 6 in the State College Y. M. C. A. auditorium. The contest, open to all white high school students, is spon sored ' each year 'by the N. C. Bankers' Association in coopera tion with State agricultural &? gencies. A separate contest will be held for Negro students. Subject for this year's contest is "Green Pastures ? Their Place in the Economy of North Caroli na." The State winner will receive $400 in savings bonds and will be the guest of the . association at its three-day convention at Pine hurst. Second prize Is $100 in savings bonds and third prize is $50 In savings bonds. Regional winners in 10 districts will be awarded $50 in savings bonds, while sec ond place speakers will receive $25 bonds. The American Red Cross dur ing the coming year will at tempt to recruit and train' an ad ditional 250,000 nurse's aides to help In hospitals and clinics and as a reserve for service which might be heeded in Shelters and emergency stations in connection with the nation's civil defense preparation. ?Quality Cleaning? Thai's The Brand Yon CM At WEAVER'S CLEANERS Phone 551-W with up to 50% why settle for a TV picture that's only half there? Dou Me- barreled value! 1) BIGGEST pie Cure! 2) CLEAREST picture! Enjoy matchless big picture performance with this superb W Admi ral mahogany console. 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For the first time this session the houses failed several times this week to agree and sent 'bills to conference. Hotel expenses are mounting, and pay stops on April 2. Frayed nerves and deflated pocket books signal the 'begin ning of a concentrated effort to finish the Job; night and after noon sessions are not far off. Reapportionment of Legislative Representation ? Tentative 1950 census figures setting North Car olina's population at 4, (?2, 027 are the basis for bills introduced on Tuesday for the purpose of re apportioning representation In the General Assembly. SB 303 calls for increasing the number of senatorial districts from 33 to 38, giving 12 districts 2 senators each. Forsyth, Guilford, and Mecklenburg would remain dis tricts by themselves, but each would get 2 senators rather than 1. HB 526 designed to reappor tion the 120 Housg seats would make less drastic changes; rep resentation would, remain as It now Is except that the second re presentatives now allotted both Cabarrus and Pitt would be transferred to Alamance and Rockingham. Rep. Blackwell's HB 574, Introduced Friday, proposes amending the Constitution to increase the number of senators to 60 and the number of fepresen tatives to 130, retaining the pres ent system of apportionment. While it is too early to comment on the Blackwell proposal, the other bills in their present form, like those designed to realign the Congressional districts, seem to stand littie chance of passage. City Streets ? Aid to city streets in the form of the Powell bill (SB 120) seems to be in the home stretch. After receiving approval from .the House appropriations committee on Tuesday by a nar row 24-22 vote, it went to the House floor, on Friday, and its proponent fought off several a mendments betore securing pas sage on second reading by a sub stantial margin. Third reading is scheduled for Monday night and passage at that time with Subsequent concurrence by the Senate in two clarifying amend- 1 ments seems assured. Alcoholic Beverages ? The last substantial hope for a state-wide liquor referendum before 1953 perished in the House last Tues day when 51 representatives re corded themselves as opposed to a motion to override an unfavor able committee report and place HB 186 calling for an all-or-noth ing election on the House calen dar. Although referendum advoca tes gained a few votes over the 1949 count, the most that could be claimed was a moral victory in forcing the representatives to take a stand on the issue. With that issue settled for the time be ing, two other referendum bills were methodically killed by a Senate committee and a bill au thorizing an ABC store referen dum in Winston-Salem passed the House on Thursday (by a 58 37 vote. Meanwhile a bill was in troduced in the Senate calling for a similar vote in the city of Greensboro. Both city bills are scheduled for a public hearing next Tuesday afternoon before the Senate propositions and grie vances committee. After delaying for almost 2 months, the similar House committee gave an unfa vorable report to Rep. Atkin's bill designed to reduce from 1 gal. to 1 quart the amount of liquor which may be transported into a dry county or into N. C. from out of state. Identical bills designed to shift the responsibility for li quor law enforcement from the county to the state level were in. troduced in both houses on Fri day. They repeal the provision requiring county ABC boards to spend from 5 to 10 percent of their profits to hire local enforce ment officers, authorize the State ABC Board to establish' an alcoholic control . department with a chief and at least 100 offi cers with statewide powers, and require the county ABC boards to pay 10 percent of their profits into a state enforcement fund. Highway* ? The thorny prob lem of truck transportation on the public highways played a large part in the General As sembly's work this week. The Tuesday hearing before the Se nate roads committee on the All9brook 'bill (SB 183) to reduce maximum truck weights set in 1949 saw considerable debate be fore the measure was finally turned over to a subcommittee. Earlier, the Senate received SB 297 tightening the tax provision on trucks found loaded peyond their licensed weights. The House roads committee took only two days to report favorably on HB 540 reducing from 45 to 40 MPH the maximum speed tor trucks | on the open highway, and receiv | ed 2 bills apparently containing recommendations of highway and planning study reports. HB 571 would authorize the Highway Commission to landscape high ways and build and maintain roadside parks, while HB 569 would permit municipalities and the Commission, acting separate ly or together, to plan and build through traffic or "limited ac cess" highways In congested areas. Stats Taxation ? Finance com. mlttee action tills week indicates that this Oeneral Assembly con tinues to think that new revenu es are unnecessary. 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