CAPITAL CUPBOARD t
Three Lieut Governor Seekers
Favor Raised Minimum Wage
By EULA N. GREENWOOD
CLUE ... A clue m to when
members of the Legislsture
think the current session will
be terminated is shown by the
fact that they are not accepting
out-of-Raleigh speaking engage
ments requiring over -night
stays during the week beginning
Monday, June 10.
This would indicate that,
while there is much talk of
Jane 1 and June 9 adjournment,
the members privately feel they
will still be toiling to June IS.
CONSERVATIVES ... Two
avowed candidates for Lt. Gov
ernor, House Speaker Clifton
Blue of Moore County and State
Senator John R. Jordan, Jr., of
Wake County, have at least one
viewpoint in common.
Each, when interviewed ear
lier in this session of the Legis
lature, was quoted as saying
that he favored an increase in
the State minimum wage. But
both Blue and Jordan made it
it plain that they lean to 85
cents an hour ? a ten-cent in
crease ? over the $1 minimum
asked for by the Governor.
? With the House and Senate
i|i disagreement as to whether
the increase should be Ave
cents, ten cents, or 25 cents
. . . and with Speaker Blue and
Senator Jordan in key positions
on the argument . . . their
statements of s few weeks back
take on new importance.
Incidentally, the Federal
wage minimum went into effect
in 1938 at 25 cents per hour.
This rate was not increased un
til 1945? eleven years later ?
when it went to 40 cents, an in
crease of 19 cents.
IS HE RIGHT? ... Ray Wal
ton, one of the two senators for
the . Tenth District (Bladen,
Brunswick, Cumberland and
Columbus counties) said the
other day that "I don't think it
mtfes sense for the General
Assembly to tell a restaurant
operator he must pay his help
more than the State pays some
of its employees."
Sen. Walton stated that the
State is paying some of its own
workers 80 and 70 cents per
hour. The State minimum is 79
emits an hour.
This statement was made by
Sen. Walton several weeks sgo.
If so ? and it has not been de
nied by anyone to this good
hour ? it is shocking.
A twin brother to this one if
the (act that if you owe the
State a debt ? taxes, for example
? it can, and does, garnishee
your wages to collect. But this
same State does not permit pri
vate business to do this.
REALLY? ... Put this under
the You -Can -Hear - Anything
Dept.;
A rumor was making the
rounds last week in Raleigh
that Gubernatorial Candidate
Bert Bennett of Winston-Salem
has already selected his cam
paign manager for next year.
His name? Robert Scott, State
Grange Master, close kin of Or.
Henry Jordan, and mentioned
as a candidate for Governor
himself..
DEBT CEILING?. . . These
two Republican legislators were
sitting in the lobby of the Caro
lina Hotel here the other night
talking about the Cooper flight
and the prospects for ? moon
shot
Remarked one of then:
"Well, we have one thing
even if we are not the first to
reach the moon, we'll be the
first to send it foreign aid."
MAY QUIT . . . Hard-bitten,
firm-visaged Ed Scheldt of the
N. C.' Dept of Motor Vehicles
may be heading for the last
roundup. The Legislature can
crown him, but can't fire him.
He is getting his biennial
kicking from the Legislature
. . . and the word we get is that
he has about had it Recall
Tony Tolar? Now deceased, he
was Kerr Scott's Highway Pat
rol head. He stayed in the news
constantly . . . one instance be
ing when be interrupted a fun
eral with full-blast siren. We
have come a long way? %
Scheldt Is a champ checker
player ... the quiet type . . .
and a hard man to trap. But
Sen. Tom White and one or two
other legislators have several
kings on the board. Scheldt
should be more politician . . .
and less policeman . . . when
the Legislature's here.
FOR GOP . . . Most of the
legislators write a column for
their back-home papers. Some
times this for-the-home-folks
column takes the form of an in
terview with a local reporter.
Now and then it is a radio
broadcast. A few of the ioIods
do their own writing.
Rep. William Leonard of
Traniylvanla it one of the lat
ter. He WQti recently in one
of the Anderson papers, the
Trantylwria lines, about the
annual party pat on for the leg
islators by the lobbyists (coat
each one around $25).
?
Columnist Leonard, knowing
spice when be spies it, said
some of the boys at the shin
dig . . , held at Raleigh's ex
clusive Carolina Country Club
. . actually feot "high". No
kidding! Leonard also wrote out
of the cerpar M his eye about
t*e "oppeaiu ae*." Tush, tush.
Incidental^ ha is a Republi
can.
He did little harm with his
column.' Bat the person or per
sons who went to the trouble
to copy ' the column and to
spread it all among the 119
ot$er House Members and over
into the 00-nember State Sen
ate took a little camp flame and
made a forest fire of it It was
no doubt intended to embarrass
Leonard, which it has, but the
Democratic Party got the worst
of It . . . and the Republican
Party the beat of it But the
beat-laid plana of mice and
men sometimes go astray ? .
It's like sane wag aaid this
paat weekend: "The circulation
of that column went from 3,000
Proffitt Gets
i
Scholarship
Bwm, Ky., May 30? Ronald
C. Proffitt, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Proffitt. Kt 1, Bmmo,
won a coveted Aui tin Scholar
ship award at the annual Schol
arship Day at Berea College,
Berea, Ky.
Proffitt if a graduate of the
Berea (Ky.) Foundation High
School. A sophomore at Berea
College, he recently won first
place in the Danforth Creative
Effort Contest with a special
broom assembly entry made for
Broom-Craft Student Industry
at Berea. Proffitt is also a high
ranking member of the Commit
tee for Democracy In Student
Government and the Bereans for
Democratic Action.
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three days."
OUT OF IT ... This reminds
us of the story Rocky Mount
Publisher Josh Home used to
tell at press meeting*.
The small-town editor had a
pressman who couldn't stay
away from the bottle. He had
to stay after him all the time.
Months went by, with the press
man- getting drunk at more or
less regular intervals.
Finally, the editor could stand
no more of it "You get drunk
just one more time, John, and
I'm going to run a story about
it, with big headlines, right on
the front page of the paper.
That will fix you for good."
"I don't give a dang if you
do", came back the presaman,
"I can walk out of your circula
tion in ten minutes."
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