CAPITAL CLIPBOARD " -y ?' . > v * ?. * 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. I 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. You get extra years of beauty and protection with Sherwin-Williams House Paints. Less frequent repaint ing saves you money. Their superior quality and dur ability have been proved on homes in all climates. 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