The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-02

W ~AA
servation and Development opened
their big guns in the legislature
this week. In five Of the most &C
tive days of this session, legislators
Embossed a torrent of bills that piled
up the work of already busy com
mittees.
AS the formal sessions of the
week drew to a close, the heralded
South Piedmont plan to boost the
pay of teachers hit the floor in
the form of a bill by Rep. Wilson
of Caldwell. 1t would be effective
during the biennium stating July l
and profile raises ranging from
25.3 per cent to 84.84 per cent for
"A' certificate holders, and from
AZ. Is per cent to 99.67 per cent for
graduate certificate holders.
The administration has recon-
mended 20 per cent raises for all
tea cheers and state employees for the
next biennium.
A majority of the house mem
bership signed the North Carolina
Wild-life Federation, Inc, bill for
the separation of Game and Inland
Fisheries from the Conservation
and Development Department. A
minority of the Senate affixed their
signatures to a similar measure.
The federation claims outdoorse-
men should have o vocie in
game and fish management.
Proponents of the separation
measure will be heard by the
House Conservation and Develop
ment Committee On February II
and opponents, including the de-
partment, on February 13.
The liquor issue popped up. One
measure would allow the city of
Hickory to vote Independently On
the establishment of Alcoholic Bev-
erage Control stores. Similar meas
ures are expected, particularly one
from Charlotte.
While the Hickory bill "a being
sent up, trustees of the Allied
Church League for Abolition of
Beverage Alcohol was adopting a
resolution calling for the introduce
ton of a statewide referendum
bill. 1t was at that session that Rep.
o. M. Null of Cleveland, Longtime
temperance leader and former
speaker of the house, said he did
not believe sdch a measure would
pass in this legislature, but he urg-
ed the league to take heart, con-
tinue its work and seek aid from
other sources.
Significance was attached to de-
ferment by the joint appropriations
committee of an administration
proposal to transfer SO, 300, 900 to
the reserve fund, which then would
total $50, 600, 600. Some of the COM
mitteemen said they believed such
a trasfer should be delayed until
the assembly determined what ap-
preparations it would make. Among
those making those statements
were supporters of increased pay
for teachers and better and great
ly enlarged medical facilities for
mental patients.
DR.. Carl V. Reynolds, state health
officer, asked that same commit
tee to appropriate $500, 900 during
the l947-48 biennium to carry on a
campaign against v%enereal dis
eases. Such a fund, he said, is
needed to replace the 5000, 900
which the state had been receiving
yearly from the Reynolds Founda-
ton, and to carry the fight against
venereal diseases into every
ty.
A Senate committee adopted a
substitute bill by which the sale.
possession, purchase and use of
fireworks in this state would be
banned, but they could be mem
featured for out-of-state sale IL
permission is obtained from the
BOARD OF county commissioners.
me assembly received measures
10 provide grants-in-aid for school
building repair and constructed
Inc measures were designed tn
oehe1lt the so-called counties TbcI
aenate measure would provide for
me ~siiocatlon CT S1Cc90. non ~ r.
In the next five Years. with an
aoditlonal SIS, 200, 600 out Of tho