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17176
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So far, incendiary and high explosive bombs are the weapons of choice, but another weapon held in reserve is gas. Smith discusses the types of gases potentially used against civilians during wartime and the ways to prevent harmful attack.
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17177
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This article reviews the potential acts of espionage and sabotage during World War II against the United States.
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17180
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Since the beginning of hostilities between the United States and the Axis powers, a great toll of life, property, and valuable and useful merchandise has been taken along the Atlantic Coast by both surface and under sea raiders. It has thus been suggested that the use of the Inland Waterway would greatly reduce the tonnage lost due to attack.
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17181
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Reidsville, a small North Carolina town who has met typical wartime problems with notable success, uses new ideas and old principles in civilian defense.
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17183
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Tire rationing and the rubber shortage are causing thinking Americans more concern than any of the other dislocations of civilian life. Tires and rubber production have grown to be an inseparable part of American daily life; they are indispensable to waging war. Present problems with wartime rubber production may be compensated by developments in the field of synthetic rubbers which will not only to self-sufficiency in rubber production, but will also open up further possibilities of specialization in uses of the various types of rubber.
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17185
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Beginning January 1, 1943, until after cessation of hostilities, every officer, agent and employee of the North Carolina and of every county, city and town thereof, will be required to pay a tax equal to five percent of his gross income in excess of a specific exemption of $624 per year. By virtue of the Revenue Act of 1942, every county, city and town becomes a federal tax collector, without being placed on the federal payroll.
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17191
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In this extended issue, Coates presents a series of lectures growing out of Citizens Defense Corps training, discussing basic duties; organization; internal security; defense by sea, land, and air; and issues of mobilization and shortage.
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17192
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By December 1942, the uninhibited sale of wine and beer had created a major community problem in most of North Carolina's 100 counties and over 300 cities, towns, and villages. Several bills have been introduced to prohibit the weekend sale of wine and beer, but of the total introduced only two have passed.
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17193
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The state of North Carolina owns approximately 72% of the outstanding capital stock of the Atlantic and North Carolina railroad, which has a line running from Goldsboro to the deep water port of Morehead City up to Beaufort.
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17194
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The General Assembly of 1943 gave the little one-room school with its one teacher instructing in the three R's for four months in each year, a few more final shoves into the limbo which it has been approaching for over a generation. Most important among these was the nine months school term bill.
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17196
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All dressed up in a new name--the \"General Statues\"--North Carolina's first official Code in twenty-four years was adopted by the 1943 General Assembly. The last official Code was the Consolidated Statues enacted in 1919, with a supplementary volume in 1924. Since that time thousands of public laws have been enacted repealing, superseding, amending, and adding to the body of public law.
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17198
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Carrying forward North Carolina's public health program, the 1943 General Assembly passed several measures to bolster and give strength to the existing set-up and added certain new developments. These included criminal penalties to enforce health regulations, the implementation of sanitary districts, systematic post-mortem examinations, and the creation of hospital authorities.
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17199
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This article discusses amendments made to Unemployment Compensation and Workmen's Compensation Acts.
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17200
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Abbott discusses the various bills brought to the General Assembly in 1943 that did not pass. These bills were related to a wide manner of subjects, from liquor and wine; labor and trade; pensions and retirement to taxation; law enforcement; state institutions and education to name a few.
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17202
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The part of the Current Tax Payment Act of 1943 that is uppermost in the minds of most people, and that will give the most trouble to finance officials of counties, cities, and towns is the provision for withholding the tax from wages and making remittance to the government.
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