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CAPITAL CLIPBOARD ^ Luxury Of Private| Offices Is Something New To Legislators By EULA N. GREENWOOD PLACE TO MEET . . . Well, at last legislators of North Carolina have offices. Until this week they had to meet their Raleigh visitors wherever they could ? including, some times, the bathroom. Frankly, when one considers what our legislators have had to put up with, the pitiful salar ies, the pinch-penny expenses permitted, it is surprising that North Carolina has had such excellent government. Hie offices allotted to the 170 members of the House and Senate are not Urge ? have three chairs, a desk, trashcan, and telephone ? but they do constitute privacy. This is something no legislator be neath Speaker or Senate Presi dent could boast of prior to February 6. We are not ready for luxury yet, so no provision has been made for the lawmaker to stretch out for a moment fol lowing a hectic session. How ever, a leatherette lounge, sofa, davenport, or some type of cot will be added as office furni ture before another General Assembly comes to town. NO SEAT BELTS . . . Four high school seniors lie injured here ? one with brain concus sion and three with dislocated vertebrace. Their car hit a patch of ice on a suburban street and rolled down a 30 foot embankment. Each was thrown out of the car. The police officer called to the wreck expressed the opin ion there would have been no serious Injuries had seat belts been in use. Safety experts criticize us for not having seat belts in our cars. But they point out, also, that we don't use them as we should. In other words, we fast en! ? if we have them ? when we get "settled" for long trips. But most of the accidents where seat belts do the most good occur within ten blocks of our homes. CHECKS . . . Plans are still moving along for a Statewide telephone network to appre hend shoplifters, check-fliuh era, counterfeiters, and other racketeers of this type. Bell Telephone is now work ing on a special project for the SBI and the N. C. Law En forcement Association. More on this later. There is a serious lack of coordination, coopera tive effort, and up-to-date phy sical equipment. That North Carolina is one He was to enter the hospital on February 6. Roy looks like hit mother'! people, but writes like his fath er, who died on May 8, 1097, while serving from Hertford County in the House here. Salt of the earth, those Parkers. Roy, Jr., is, as they say, easy to "read after". And it doesnt take him all day to get some thing said. His father wrote that way. He could make inter esting a backyard azalea's aches and growing pains. These heart operations can't be discussed sensibly by lay men. What this one is we don't know, but our understanding is the surgeon doing it has one per day. Well, we wish Roy well. That's about all we can say? except that his dad had the stuff to go through ten years of pain, operations, and general physical deterioration. We hope and pray that Roy, Jr., with his other fine inherit ances, will have those which kept his dad happy, alert, and alive. VISITORS ... For the next year, the State House will be the cynosure of all eyes. Host of the visitors ? probably 00 per cent of them ? will not be here to see the solons but rath er to inspect the place where they meet. The place, alas, belongs to the people, and it had better be made of pretty sturdy stuff. Lipstick, chewing gum, grimy hands, fudgsicles, candy, and coke. We predict 100,000 school children? or roughly ten per cent of our educational popula tion ? will meander, jump, run, and play, tag along State House corridors before another Legis lature comes to town. We once asked for conversa tional purposes a. tired house wife with two children, and ready for a third, what she re membered most about her high achool days. "The Senior Class trip to Raleigh", die said with out hesitation. We just liope the State House is no sissy. HEART OPERATION . . . Roy Parker, Jr., Ahoskie na tive who sold out his interest in Parker Bros, papers and be came a crack political reporter for the Raleigh News fc Obser ver, is scheduled to undergo a heart operation at Duke Hospi tal on February 9. of the wosst states in the na tion in bad check*, etc., may be readily understood from thii true occurreMf: (T | A police officer in Durham recently marked "counterfeit" plainly a counterfeit twenty dollar bill. He marked it thusly in three different places. Then, following instructions, he got out of uniform, dressed as an ordinary civilian, went to an area of Durham where he was not known. In one wrtning, he was able to get change for the twenty in thrtee different places; No questions asked! NO HONEY . . . Time was when a no-good looked like one. Now they may be the best dressed people in town! The bee is such a busy soul, she has no time for birth con trol. So that is why in times like these, we have so many sons of bees. DEPUTY SOMERS , . , Scott Somers, who used to be with the Associated Press and other news-gathering organizations, is now in the news himself. Scott, whose sweet wife Becky has done excellent work for the Republican Party out of Morgan ton for many years, assisted the Republicans in ousting Sheriff Brown in Bun combe County. The pen is mightier than the sword, etc. And, to coin another phrase, to the victor belong the spoils; and Scott Somers is now toting a typewriter on one hip and a gun on the other. TOWN CALLED NJTRO If anyone called Nitro, W. j Va., a "boom town," the real dents might frown at the pun. But they really couldn't com plain. For the cty got its name from the explosives manufactur ed at a large federal plant there during World War I. ? CRMs m;f,i V11IC6 1 silvarfish | roachas far the 1 Eight Juniors Are Selected As Marshals (igbt member* of the Junior claas have been (elected to lerve as marshals for the gradu ating class of 1M3. Ronnie Hunt and Janie Price are chief marahala. Assisting them will be Toi Cooke, Patty Oland, Di ane Warman, Ralph Lane Be ahears, Graydon Eggers, and Johnny Stacy. These student! were selected by the faculty on the basis of their academic standing in the junior class. The duties of the marshals are to serve as ushers and to provide decorations for the senior play, the baccalaure ate service, and the graduation exercises. Cithen-OfTbe-Week Elaine CUwion was elected citiien-of-the-week for January 29. Elaine, who it a freshman honor student, is well-liked and respected by her classmates. A member of Hiss Schell's home room, she participates in the Book Club. She lives with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John W. Clawson, Route 2, Boone. Bete Club Attends Play On Wednesday, January 30, the Appalachian High School Beta Club attended the first performance of "See How They Run," presented by the Col lege Playcrafters. The Beta Club members were the guests of Director David French. Those attending were Jane Buckland, Toi Cooke, Ronnie Hunt, Linda McKaraher, Patty Oland, Patty Payne, Nancy Pease, Carol .Preswood, Janie Price, Becky Russell, Johnny Stacy, Glenda Wilson, Diane Warman, and Mr*. Lera Ran dall, sponsor. Three members, Ralph Beshears, Graydon Eg gers and Alton Johnson, were unable to attend. Switch To HeatingOil 1 Economical ? clean burning ' We deliver automatically R. D. Hodges, Jr. Agent HUMBLE OIL * REFINING COMPANY Boom, N. C. 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