Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1949-03-30

Il
tho work of the 1919 season OF
the General Assembly OF Nor'h
Carolina. These summaries af
,,+ intended as Il report pn all
legislation, but are contlned 10
a;SausSions of matters OF gen
oral interest or of MAJOR ii''p'i'
ance.
e As Governor Scott stated last
aoI. ,ha legislators have been
nntt,.s pressure on him 10 III! tne
1,nf,ed states Senate vacancy ms
S,,,nr;.e appointment OF H'
Erank P,ytet Graham 20 that
.tat should eutitle him 10 urge
SIMILAR pyomp;ness by the ies'S-
IatorS in giving favorable ac''o"
- me :. o,ty problems OF roads
sr,onI, and general appropriations
combination OF affairs on
wh;ca the Assembly mas come
dangerously close TO 4 oe'o''eN'
Appropriations
ps,fa developments III the Cen
al Assembly last week posed tne'e
crs,;o,s: Shall the $50 mlI''oH
o., war Reserve Fund Cd be
1o.,;rs6 A. cushion against
emergency deficits. 81 be used
sor current expenSeSto raise me
tachrs' salary scale 70 the sZ'-oo
81 100 level or 80 De used 10
sir,ace county Schoo! building
obstruction
Advocates Of retaining the Fund
-. = cushion" fought q losing oat-
,Ied in the Joint Appropriations
Co,rpir-ee. ass chool forces SIAM
Md me brakes on the unlimited
snandrg OF the previous week
,ha, threatened 70 send the wnoIe
Biennial Appropriations Bill to
subcommittee toy trimming. Ne
consideration If several approved
increases and ;reatmn OF a rev
more minor requests resulted IN
an overall approp. iation OF Sfio
WILTON Tor the b;eIN:ulH. some
S?S million IN excess OF eStin',''"
,sv,. les for ne >1i:le per- u
Then rather than tu:n IA' meas
70 over 10 a subcommittee, q
Convincing majority approved me
aIaase of the Reserve Fund 10
help meet The ,hreatnd diicIt ma
void 70 report the bill tFS So
favorably. over TIE protests OF Co
carmen Edwin Pa;e q Il ".
Tyank Taylor. bcta u who.n III
formed members that they co1id
no, support the bill in its entirety
because they felt that the app:o-
nr;3,jor measure could and should
no balanced wiki expected reve-
.ues. The contribution Of tee Re-
serve Fund with an estimated -
million surplus in the year end
i,g Jlue 30. 1919. sill leaves rev
erues and available SURPRISES 81
million short of neeta-g the pro-
posed expenditures.
On the. same Thursday alter
noon that this action was taken
the House Finance Committee
conside.ed So 2O3 ca1nS TOR
$40 milliCr bond issue 70 be a2-
nIied 70 school building conStruc-
ton and emerged with suosu-
rute bill. providing for a $50 MIL
lion bond issue, with the remain
der 10 be supplied by releasing the
Post War Reserve Fund TO th'S
purpose. Under suSpe' sion OF the
rules this measure bypassed the
App. OPERATIONS Committee no
was on Mondays calendar. Since
lib 3S could not De reported OUT
Before Tuesday. the House may
well meet the question o. eIpeAdl-
,uy Of the Post War Reserve foE
capital outlay purposes before the
Appropriations Commlttee-apptoV,
I'd expu ditu:e OF the same fuha
for currea, expenses can BE- con
siderd.
In all this confusion one appro-
pr!atiors measure his not been
heard from: just what is gor to
be the fate of the SD million al
located 70 permanent improve
ments at the States Institutions
in the Advisory Budget Commits
sion's recommendations
Schools
In lewriti-g the Senate edition
Of the $50 million school plant con-
struction bill the House gave spec
ial attention to the method of al
locating the n.oncy among the
counties. So 203, as originally writ
ten. allocsted up TO S50O.COO to
each county. The House approach
is to allocate the money in three
ways: first, S2O00O0O would be
given outright 20 each county:
second S25 millir. would De allo-