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Governor's Liason Man Walks
Quietly In Crepe-Soled Shoes
By KULA N. GREENWOOD
EFFECT ... The State Cot
lege name-change argument is,
like' politics, making strange
bedfellows.
In the Legislature, you have
liberals. Democrats, and Re
publicans. But who you are,
what you are, how you vote,
and how you stand, won't make
any difference In the final vote
on the whing-ding. How will it
all end?
The battle has turned legisla
tors from anti-Sanfordites into
lovers of the Governor. On the
other hand, the hassle has lost
some solid administration sup
port.
In brief, the State College
item is having a far-reaching ef
fect on just a lot of other State
wide legislation. Around-and
around she goes, and where it
will end, nobody knows.
GUMSHOE . . . They call him
"the Governor's liason man."
His name is Edward Breeden
Clark.
Every Governor has his own
personal lobbyist. Clark, for
mer Superior Court judge, is
Terry Sanford's. If you repre
sent Bell Telephone Co., Caro
lina Power k Light Co., the
Tarheel Electric Membership
Corporation, or the' State Bapt
ist Convention in the Legisla
ture, you have to register in
Secretary of State Thad Eure's
big book as a lobbyist.
The list is long . . . and they
are good men . . . but, alas, all
are lobbyists. However, the
most effective lobbyists here
are, year-in-year-out, State em
ployees. Their departments
want this or that bill to pass or
fail. They go after it, hammer
and-tongs. But they never reg
ister as lobbyists.
Edward Breed en Clark of Eli
labethtown, a former State
Senator, moves quietly among
the legislators. The administra
tion's way is his road. His bi
vouaics built of blooming bills.
And, believe it or not, he
doesn't walk. He tiptoes! You
don't hear him coming. You
look up . . . there he 1st
"I wish he would start wear
ing regular 4hoes", said a legis
lator last week, "so I could
hear him approaching."
What he meant was that Lia
son Han Clark wears these ul
tra-modern hush-puppy shoes.
They have crepe soles and make
less noise than a heavy fog.
Anti-administration men have
been caught with their plans
down ... on several occasions.
Right now, Edward Breeden
Clak, 47 last Januay, is up
to his neck in cows and com
mas ... for the administration
and Greater University of North
Carolina. His salary? Better
than four times that of a legis
lator.
TIME IT TAKES ... If you
plan to come to Raleigh to visit
the State House, as who doesn't
who hasn't . . . you want to
figure on the time required for
the tour.
It may take longer for you
. , . but the allotted time re
commended by the supervisor
is 20 minutes. But, remember,
space and glass look alike.
CONTROL ... The Legisla
ture says you must have seat
belts on any new car you buy
after January 1, 1964.
You don't have to fasten
them . . . but they are better
that way. And the buckles are
terrible things to sit on.
William M. Bryant of Ra
lelgh reports in the current is
sue of Reader's Digest that one
of his friends involved in a
minor auto accident admitted it
was all his fault.
The friend, reports Bryant,
explained that after he had
pulled out of his driveway into
the street it dawned on him
that he had forgotten some
thing.
"So," he said, "I tot* my
hands off the wheel to fasten
my seat belt ? and lost control
of the car."
KNEE-DEEP . . . What is so
rare as a day in June ... if
with it comes adjournment of
Legislature?
The Raleigh News & Observ
er, no stranger to legislative
lethargy, got out its whip last
week and gave the boys a lar
rup, hinted at a "do-nothing
Legislature", and urged them
onward.
But the Legislature, slowed
by controversy, was moving like
molasses in midwinter. Where
two weeks ago there was talk
of adjournment June 1, now
came bets of June 15 ? a scant
two weeks short of money
short *61. But this session has
worries which did not plague
its predecessor.
The State Senate wis pretty
well up with it* calendar. But
this is about par for the course.
In the House, where you have
more than twice as many mem
bers and three times as many
bills, the pace was much slow
er.
But, even there, some com
mittees were moving with
great dispatch. An example of
this was Judiciary II, chair
maned by fast-moving, quick
witted Gastonia Attorney Steph
en Bland Dolley, Jr. His group,
composed exclusively of at
torneys, had disposed of ap
proximately three-score bills.
No dilly-daliier, Dolley got
the Sunday Bill on one Thurs
day and sent it out with a fav
orable report one week later.
Only two Republicans on the
committee, Simpson of Morgan
ton and Bennett of Morehead
City, voted against the bill cur
tailing Sunday selling.
FISHING ... We observe
Mother's Day at our House, red
roses and all that, but mainly it
is recognized in our establish
ment as signaling the best time
for spring fishing on the coast.
Virginia mullets, sometimes
called "whitings", blues, and
king mackerel love Mother's
Boone Girl In
Meredith Cast
Miss Carolyn Hargrave,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mar
shal Hargrave, 91S Faculty
Street, Boone, was a member of
the cast of "Salute to the Caro
lina Charter", a pageant pre
sented at Meredith College,
where she is a student, In con
nection with the May Day festi
vities.
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You can never tell, from the
way a woman smiles at you,
what ?he is thinking of you.
Day weather. In fresh water,
bass and blue gills are biting.
If wildlife people have their
way ? and we hope they get it
plants dumping poison into
streams will pay for the fish
they kill. On a basis of 90 cents
per pound, the fine for the fish
recently killed in the Roanoke
River would cost a certain plant
a cool $8,000.
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