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Many numbers have a special
significance. For instance, when
you see the number 1732, you
should identify it as the date of
George Washington’s birth. When
you see 3.1416 you would, of
course, immediately identify is as
pi. an old-time school friend.
Below we arc giving you a list
of numbers each of which should
have a special meaning for you.
Some of them refer to dates. Others
represent measurements. Still
others apply to certain groups of
individuals. If you make only one,
two or three bad guesses, give
yourself a grade of excellent. If
you miss four or five, give your¬
self a grade of good. Here we are:
1. 212.
2. 360.
3. 186,000.
4. 54:40.
5. 5280.
6. 1066.
7. 1001.
8. 97.
9. 20,000.
10. 1620.
11. 29,141.
12. 94,000,000.
13. 48.
14. 32.
15. 1849.
16. 600.
17. 39:37.
18. 555.
19. 3:16.
20. 24,902.
21. 16U.
22. 99.44.
23. 640.
24. 1607.
Answers on Page 36.
Number 1
Clerk
There are forty-eight
general assemblies in
the United States, but
North Carolina is the
only one that has a
woman for principal
clerk.
When Mrs. Franklin D. Roose¬
velt was in Raleigh last week, she
was guest of honor at a coffee hour
which was given by some of the
business women’s organizations in
the capital city.
Among those who were pre¬
sented to the First Lady by Mrs.
Cherry was Mrs. Annie E. Cooper.
And when Mrs. Cherry did the
honors, she said: “Mrs. Roosevelt.
Mrs. Cooper has the distinction of
being the only principal clerk to
a state legislative group in the
entire country.”
Mrs. Roosevelt was greatly in¬
terested.
Mrs. Cooper, as you probably
know, is principal clerk to the
House of Representatives of the
North Carolina General Assembly.
She was born in Cleveland County,
was reared in Cabarrus, and has
been a resident of Wake for 26
years. She married Mr. G. B.
Cooper in 1920. They have two
children: G. B., Jr.. 19, and Dora
Anne. 13. When she isn’t busy
with her legislative activities, Mrs.
Cooper attends to her duties as
secretary-treasurer of Reliable
Transport, Inc.
She was first employed in the
General Assembly in 1919 as a
committee clerk. Since then, she
has been connected with all regu¬
lar and special sessions as journal
typist, journal clerk and assistant
principal clerk. At the beginning
of the 1945 session, she was elected
principal clerk without any oppo¬
sition. Altogether, she has worked
in fourteen regular sessions and
four special sessions.
There isn’t a more popular em¬
ployee in the halls of the General
Assembly than she is. As one mem¬
ber of the House remarked a few
days before adjournment this
week: “She goes out of her way
to be nice to everybody. When¬
ever a member goes to her with a
request of some kind or another.
FIRST WOMAN OFFICE
HOLDER
The first North Carolina woman
to be named for a State office was
Miss Carrie Broughton. In May.
1917, at the resignation of the State
Librarian, Miss Broughton was
named temporary librarian until
the meeting of the Legislature.
Although Miss Broughton car¬
ried on the full duties of the posi¬
tion, because she was a woman,
she had to divide the salary of
librarian with the assistant libra¬
rian and the janitor.
she drops everything she’s doing
and sees that the request is at¬
tended to.”
The job of principal clerk is any¬
thing but an easy one. as you’ll
readily agree if you ever have seen
the House in session. Every bill
that is introduced passes through
her hands. It is properly stamped,
marked with the name of the com¬
mittee by which it is to be con¬
sidered and otherwise identified.
At any moment during the session,
Mrs. Cooper knows exactly where
each of the many hundreds of bills
are to be found. In addition, there
also is a lot of office work to be
done. In other words, it’s anything
but an easy job, but everybody
connected in any way with the ac¬
tivities of the House will assure
you that it is handled most effi¬
ciently.
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