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CAPITAL CLIPBOARD Key Employees Yet Working At Leavings Of General Assembly By EULA N. GREENWOOD INTO DOG DAYS . . . The big machine that runt the North Carolina Legislature, swallowing bills aa if they were BC tablets, has about come to the end of its journey some three weeks after formal ad journment of the General As sembly. As of last Friday, however, key employees in the Principal Clerks' offices of both House and Senate were still hard at it, tying up loose ends and mak ing rigid all the various little things done by the 1983 Gener al Assembly. So, right on into dog day* trips the Legislature; and it will be back with us again for the football season. As the demands upon Gov ernment grows, It seems more apparent that one of these days in the not-so-distant future the Legislature ? or at the least the business part of it? will be a year-around proposition. The newly formed Legislative Council, the special session coming up this fall, the long session just drawing to a close are big- big steps in the direc tion .of a full-time N. C. Gener al Assembly. It is going to be rough on Raleigh, particularly State employees, but all signs point to perpetual motion on the legislative front THE LATE GOVERNOR . . . In North Carolina, where we stand out from most states as regards honesty in government, we honor our Governors. Oh, we refer to "oT Terry" in vari ous way*. In collecting sales tax we say "and 14 cents for Sanford". We make jokes about our Governors, moat of them anyway, but we have deep re spect for the office. Even when we dislike the per son, we have the highest re spect for him. And, in turn, our Governors cultivate respect. Not one of them , . . aa con trasted now with the States to the south of us . , . has ever been linked to scandal or wrong-doing or with anything smarting of malfeasance in of fice. When the Governor enters the room, we all stand how ever large or small may be the group. We are used to having our Governors come in late for meetings. Everybody is present, assemDied, awaiting tneir en trance. That is as It should be. That is why we were all plea santly surprised when Gover nor bantora opened a little lain to a small kaieigh group the other day with tne statement: "I violated a rule by apologiz ing for being late." - , ONE AGAINST THREE . . . The Governor did not have to apologize. Nobody expected him to. He is pushed at, pulled at, jerked at, and jumped on so much that it is almost miracu lous he is able to keep ail his many different appointments. He is fair game for every body. That is the main reason . . . and shameful It if , too . . . that we have only one ex-Governor living ... as compared with three ex-Presidents. No bed of roses is the Gov ernorship of the Old North State. And no doubt this goes through the head of one happy Congressman, Charles Jonas as the Republicans tug at him to ran for . Governor next spring. Seldom a day goes by that he doesn't think about it, we are sure: "Three ex-Presi dents living ... but only one ex-Governor." NOT SAME TIME ... Al though there is a lull in the racial troubles right now, they are expected to erupt again at any time. Real trouble is ex pected with the opening of schools and colleges early in the fall. With this In mind . . . and while there is a breathing spell . . . leaders of both races in North Carolina are planning special meetings and projects to stave off trouble. One of these events will be a meeting of industraialists to see what is being done . . . and can be done ... on the em ployment of Negroes in these plants. Plans call for Vice President Lyndon Johnson to be the principal speaker. He is from the South and, in many ways, Is more popular with all seg ments of the population than tony other penaon associated with the President. This in cludes Robert Kennedy. Origin ally this meeting of industrial ist* was planned for Septem ber. However, House Speaker Clif ton Blue has suggested some time won after Labor Day as a good time for the special ses sion of the Legislature. Labor Day comes on September 2. But the Legislature, a racial meet ing, and Lyndon Johnson ? all in September ? promises to be a little on the laborious side, to say the least. Something must give! PUBLIC OPINION ... We do not necessarily ?gree with them, but about {our letters out of each five being printed in the big daily newspapers about-the-State seem to be very, very much in favor of the re cent legislative action barring Fifth Amendment pleaders and known Communists as speakers at State-owned colleges and uni versities. Now it may be that these let ters-to-the-editor writers do not represent the thinking of the masses, but we have a bunch they do. That these letter-writ ers continue to support the legislators seems particularly odd in view of the fact that these same daily papers have within the past three weeks de voted a large percentage of their editorial and news space in all-out attacks on the law. Some of the best men in the State, including Dr. Clarence Poe, have been bitter in their criticism of the Legislature's action. Be that as it may, it is apparent ? or seems apparent ? that members of the 1963 Gen eral Assembly hurt themselves very little politically when they adopted this measure. In fact, quite the reverse! We receive every daily pap er in the State ? weeklies, too, for that matter ? and it does ap pear that our Thinkers and the Letter-writers are in virtually full disagreement on this item of such intense interest. And the question still remains as to whether the law is safeguard or demagoguery. Which side art you on? NOT IN SPECIAL . . . Bills introduced in the first week of the General Assembly (Senate redistricttng) and in the last Willow Valley News Items Miu Diane Yates of Balti more, lid., ia visiting with her grandparents of this commun ity, Mr. and Mrt. Custer Ward. Mr. and Mr*. Baker Ward and family were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Loyd Isaacs Sun day. . Custer Ward is at home now, after spending several daya in the Watauga Hospital. His con dition ia aaid to be favorable at preaent but a long period of rest has been advised by his doctor. Carl and Dillard Greene of this community were shocked to learn of their brother's death, Germmy Greene, of Flat Springs. They attended the fun eral Monday morning. Mr*. Sallie Deckord of Bris tol, Tenn., is spending a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Custer Ward. RANSOM PAID The steamship Maximus car-, ried the laat ransom payments to Havana which will write finis to one of the strangest trades in modern history. The cargo of food and medical supplies completes the payment from the United States to Cu ban Prime Minister Castro in excnange of 1,113 prisoners taken during the April, 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion. week (Communist muzzling) could keep the special session here for several weeks. Governor Terry Sanford wants the first bill passed, the second bill killed. Unless he does just a whole lot of politic al spadework between now and September 1, he is not likely to get both; and could end up getting neither. Many of the Governor's friends in the Legis lature hope he will not insist on killing the Communist item. They like it even less than does the Governor, but see need for redistricting. ONE CAN ... A Charlotte paper searching' for news re cently sent a 18-year-old girl reporter with orders to buy 12 cans of beer. She went to 12 establishments, bought one can at each of 11 places, no quest ions asked. We call this quite overbeering? and could lead to the loss of beer sales licenses in about 11 groceries, grills, and drug stores. Thousands of words Hoys boon written and spoken about rural aloctric cooperatives and private power companies in the past few months. For weeks the General Assembly deliberated utilities problems that were vital not only to members of electric cooperatives, but to all citizens of the state. North Carolina's rural aloctric cooperatives are qrataful for your in terest in their problems. And thay ore indebted to the thousands of you who took an active part in supporting them in their fight for survival. To co-op members, the most satisfying part of the fight was the manner in which you ? the public? rallied to their defense in the face of undemocratic proposals by the power-company dominated General Stututos Commission. The public mode its voice hoard, and Hie General Assembly refected proposals that would have destroyed rural electrification in ? few short years. Problems do still exist, though. There's the matter of duplication of aloctric facilities, and tha need for a satisfactory answar to queetions which arise when cooparative territory is annexed into a town. Now as avar ? North Carolina's aloctric cooparativas remain dedi cated to their purpose: tha supplying of low-cost electricity on ? nonprofit L^a|o -J *? ? iL> j m ^ J Jewolni ^ amA a! ?neiMkl Matvfth DOMif a no f? mm con* in woo jrowrn on? vvTviupiHwiii o? ruroi ivQtni vw?wiiihi? mmSs ? 456'? 89c SfbT' -a9c mm '* 45c DUCKLINGS - 39c
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