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30720
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The 1957 North Carolina General Assembly was able to authorize spending over $32,000,000 more than was estimated will be collected in General Fund taxes. A surplus of over $62,000,000 helped aid the state budget and allow for increases in spending on state operations.
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30721
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During the Annual Street and Highway Lighting Conference conducted by the General Electric Company's Outdoor Lighting Department in Asheville and Hendersonville, North Carolina, a call for improved street and highway lighting was presented. G.E. also revealed a proving ground for simulating roadway lighting conditions in order for engineers to test systems to reduce hazards through better equipment.
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30722
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Amendments to the Income Tax law adopted by the 1957 North Carolina General Assembly made changes that would put the state more in line with other states with which North Carolina competes for industry. Changes to franchise tax, business income tax, and sales will provide incentives for business and industry in the state.
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30723
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A fifteen percent increase in North Carolina's teacher salaries will bring the average annual salaries of teachers in the state over $3500. This increase in teachers' pay would also increase the rank of North Carolina for teachers' salaries as one of the top five in the country.
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30725
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A 90 day campaign has begun in an attempt to clean up North Carolina's highways. Keeping North Carolina beautiful--spearheaded by the Governor's Committee for Clean Highways and based on Keep America Beautiful--has been urging community programs, tourists, and neighborhoods to pick up the litter along the state's roads.
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30726
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During his presidency, many claims were made toward the paternity of Abraham Lincoln. Such claims suggest Thomas Lincoln was not the true father, but rather a man named Richard Inloe (Inlow, Enlow, Enloe). This article only outlines these claims that tie Lincoln’s family to North Carolina, while giving no evidence stringent enough to sway historians.
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30729
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In 2006, the North Carolina Maritime Museum hosted the conclusion of the Pepsi Americas’ Sail festival, in Beaufort, NC. The festival Began with a race between the world’s largest tall ships from Brazil to the Dominican Republic. Beaufort gained the right to host the celebration when local Horatio Sinbad won the previous race in 2002.
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30730
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North Carolina’s original copy of the Bill of Rights is returned after a lengthy lawsuit. The manuscript had been missing for 140 years after it was taken by a Union soldier during the occupation of Raleigh. Drafted by federal clerks in 1789, the document is one of fourteen original copies.
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30731
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An historic letter from Confederate President Jefferson Davis to NC Governor John Ellis was returned to the state archive after an injunction halted its sale. It is not known when the document went missing but the seller had purchased it from Sotheby’s in 1982. In the letter, Davis informs Ellis that he will request that Virginia send rifle-making machinery to North Carolina.
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30735
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Project NC ECHO (Exploring Cultural Heritage Online) was created to locate, survey and assist various special collections and cultural heritage institutions throughout North Carolina. This program encourages libraries to partner with non-library entities in the digitization of special collections, in order to make available online, exhibits, indexes, catalogs and finding aids.
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30743
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Though field trips and other participatory activities, the NC Maritime Museum seeks to educate school-aged children and adults about the natural sciences of the surrounding coastal areas. Many of these programs are designed to include the public participants in finding real world solutions to various problematic coastal issues.
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30749
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The Thomas Wolfe Memorial begins recovery efforts after a fire devastated the historic boardinghouse in 1998. Fund-raising started the day of the fire, donations have been sent in from as far as California, London and Japan. Only a portion of recovery costs are covered by insurance; and efforts will rely on continued donation and volunteer support.
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30752
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The shipwreck in Beaufort inlet believed to be one of Blackbeard’s ships, the Queen Anne’s Revenge, continues to be surveyed and excavated. Current magnetometer surveys of a thirty by fifty foot section of the site reveals what could be an additional cannon in an area where four have already been recovered. This would be the nineteenth cannon found from this site so far.
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30754
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The North Carolina Maritime Museum in Beaufort, NC became a part of the NC Department of Cultural Resources on Aug 8, 1997. Tracing it’s origin to a collection created in 1898 for the International Fisheries Exposition, the museum was placed under the NC Department of Agriculture in 1959, and did not have a full time curator until 1975.
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30756
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At a historic photograph show and sale in Arlington, VA, a photograph with an unknown view of a section of the NC state capital building was discovered and purchased by an officer from the NC Division of Archives and History. The image by accomplished NC photographer Rufus Morgan is one in a series of twenty-two stereoscopic images titled “In and Around Raleigh, NC”; and depicts a cross-section of citizenry from the mid-1870.
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Carolina Comments
(NoCar F 251 C38), Vol. 44 Issue 5, Sept 1996,
p117-121, il, por
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