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31187
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The Carolinas Virginia Nuclear Power Associates power plant, located in Parr, South Carolina and the first in the southeast, is now critical and achieved the production of electricity with atomic fuel. A controlled chain reaction was produced for the first time in March, an heralds in a new era in electric power generating techniques for the region.
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31193
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North Carolina's public school classroom teachers now have a new high salary, estimated at $4,975. However, compared to the per captia income for the state, it is little better than comparative figures from two fifteen years ago.
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31194
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More than 412,000 people in North Carolina are now getting old-age, survivors, and disability insurance through the Federal Social Security program. This amounts to approximately $262.8 million a year, and this was an increase of about 12.3 percent of the past year.
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31195
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The idea of free public schools found favor with North Carolina legislators as early as the eighteenth century. Ordered by the Colonial General Assembly in May of 1760 during the administration of Royal Governor Arthur Dobbs in address to King George II, free public schools had a sympathetic interest early in North Carolina's history.
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31199
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About 9800 acres of cabbage, valued at $2 million, were grown in North Carolina in 1961. But there has been difficulty for some cabbage growers in getting sufficient hand labor, about 160 man-hours now required to produce an acre of cabbage. Therefore, agricultural engineers at North Carolina State College are developing a mechanical harvester that should cut the number of hours required to produce cabbage.
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31226
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Between 1943 and 1962, wages in North Carolina have gone up considerably, as well as the number of people employed. In 1943, the total payroll was over $806 million, but in 1962 the payroll was well over $3 billion. Additionally, due to the increase in employs in the state, more taxes paid by employers are added to the state tax reserve for unemployment benefits.
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31227
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The North Carolina State Treasurer has more ex officio duties than any other officer of the State except the Governor. Those duties include the State Treasurer as guardian of the public credit, investment of idle state funds, issues state bonds and notes, and advises the Governor on all things financial.
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31230
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Established in 1941 by the North Carolina General Assembly, the Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System is based on the principle of justice for poorly paid state employees and a measure of freedom from the apprehension of old age and disability. Today, the primary purposes are to provide benefits for retirement, assure career servants of the state a form of deferred compensation, and coordinate the Social Security program.
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31242
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The system of interstate highways was envisioned by Congress in the 1940s. Of the total system, 775 miles of interstate highway have been designated in North Carolina, and almost half of this is already open to traffic.
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31244
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T.A. Loving and Company is an old hand at pushing upward both North Carolina's curve of progress and curve showing highway mileage built. Anyone traveling over bridges at Morehead City, Manteo, Alligator River, or the Albemarle Sound has first hand experience in the workmanship of T.A. Loving and Co, which has operated in North Carolina since 1925.
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31246
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A king-sized museum trailer has been heading down the highways of North Carolina. It contains displays depicting facts of North Carolina's first one hundred years. Sponsored by the Carolina Charter Tercentenary Commission, the mobile museum details North Carolina from Carolina Charter in 1663 to 1763.
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31247
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Just three miles north of Wilmington, North Carolina, the Carolina Nitrogen Corporation's multi-million dollar chemical plant is forming a new skyline. Dredging of the Cape Fear River will allow ocean going ships to bring in raw materials to the plant later this year, and the plant will product nitrogen for the growing agricultural and industrial markets of the southeast.
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31249
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In the number of teachers produced in 1961-1962, East Carolina College led all colleges in North Carolina, followed by Appalachian State. But Appalachian State ranked number one in the number of new teacher graduates who accepted jobs in North Carolina public schools.
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31250
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With a fast-growing population, rising personal incomes, and increasing market demand, North Carolina and other parts of the southeast stand to benefit from closing the gap between production and consumption of pork and beef. There are billions of dollars in opportunities for southern farmers and meat processors to share in the business of putting steak, pork chops, and ham on the tables of millions of families.
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31257
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In an age-old struggle for government and business offices, papers pile up into mountains. But North Carolina is facing the struggle, and plans to win it with a specially designated building--the State Records Center. On more than 10 miles of shelves, the State Department of Archives and History stores and services 29000 cubic feet of inactive records for state agencies.
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