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
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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.
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Weekly Legislative Summary
ACTIONS OF THE 1951 GENERAL ASSEMBLY
By the Institute of Government
(Note: This the ninth of a se
ries of weekly summaries of the
work of the North Carolina Gen
eral Assembly of 1951. It is con
fined to discussions of matters
of general interest, and major
importance.)
Tliis week the legislators spent
a day at the marine base at
Camp Lejeune; next Wednesday
they will visit Cherry Point. To
get home by April 14, and both
presiding officers have said that
this is possible, they will have
to hustle in the 29 legislative
days remaining. Already the cal-.
endars show a backlog of post
poned bills, and the rato of in
troduction is on an increase. 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. Following a
public hearing on Thursday, ths
committee disapproved the a
mendment to the Revenue Act
designed to raise $3 million by
lifting the maximum sales tax on
a single article article from $15 to
$30 and tabled a proposal which
would require "fleet owners" to
?pay a 3 percent ralca tax on ve
hicle lubricant* and accessories.
On the same day Rep. Umstead,
who still thinks that additional
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revenues will be required, with
drew art amendment calculated
to bring in about $1 1/2 million
annually by Increasing the sales
tax on wholesale transactions
from 1/20 to 1/5 of 1 percent and
another which would levy a 3 per
cent gross receipts tax on movie
admissions, and in their place
submitted one to raise between
$5 and $6 million by imposing a
l/2c crown tax on soft drinks of
12 ounces or less i&nd lc on lar
ger containers. A measure which
would have decreased state rev
enues by some $400,000 by al
lowing persons with incomes of
less than $5,000 pet year to report
on "short form" income tax re
turns also met committee disap.
proval.
Matters of Interest to Local Of
ficials ? County officials did not
dispute the value of the farm cen
sus to North Carolina farmers at
Tuesday's committee hparirafeon
bills relieving the countlesfeyjqpf
census-taking responsibility^?#ut
they emphasized that tax listers
cannot do a good Job of listing
property and count farms at the
same time. The county agricul
tural agencies praised the cen
sus but pleaded inability to do
the job themselves. The bills
have been referred to a joint sub
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Orchids $5 up
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Carnations . . $2.00 up
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