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h-JfcCTTON TWO.
WEEKLY ÜBSUTIVE SOMMAHT
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J NOTE: This is the ninth of a
i series of weekly summaries
1 : prepared by the legislative
I staff of the Institute of Gov
eminent on the work of the
North Carolina General As
sembly of 1957. It is confined
to discussions of matters of
general interest and major
| importance.
Like a race horse with the smell
Os roses in his nostrils, the General
Assembly rounded the turn and
came thundering down the stretch
|this week. Bill introductions pass
ed the halfway point of the 1955
total, and the pace of calendar ac
tion stepped up until the House
passed 93 bills in one day, Thurs
day.
The reason for the excitement
(and the high point of the week’s
activity) was Governor Hodges’ ap
pearance before a joint session
Tuesday to outline a plan by which
teachers could be given pay raises
averaging 15 per cent and state
employees 11 per cent. Despite a
storm of protest against the man
ner of distribution of the state em
;; ployees’ raise, legislators generally
appeared to feel a knotty problem
was largely solved and the end of
the session in sight, and they has
tened to get their legislative pro
posals introduced and cleared ahead
of adjournment.
, Governor Hodges gave notice
that he will not go along with any
larger increases (citing the risk in
I financing $3414 million of the rais
es out of non-recurring revenues);
that he will stand behind the Per
sonnel Department’s plan for dis
tributing increases to state em
ployees; that he will support con
tinuation of the present differential
in pay of vocational education
teachers (pending study by the
State Board of Education): and
that he still favors a study by an
interim commission of methods of
financing the school system, in
cluding the ability to pay of each
county. Against this background,
the joint Appropriations Commit
tees prepared to turn the budget
consideration task over to a sub
committee.
State Government
The Governor’s reorganization
I program appeared to have hit its
; first roadblock Friday, when the
Senate’s State Government Com
mittee voted 5-3 to give the prison
separation bill an unfavorable re
port. The bill had easily cleared
the House earlier in the week, af
ter the Governor made clear in his
pay-raise statement that Prison
Department expenses will continue
to be borne by the Highway Fund
1 during the next biennium. Efforts
will almost certainly be made to
bring the measure to a Door vote
uext week. The prisoner work
release bill passed without trouble.
Meanwhile, the major proposal of
the State Reorganization Commis
sion was adopted, as the bill creat
ing a Department of Administra
tion reached ratification. Other
Commission bills made progress:
the hill to eliminate duplication
among water resources agencies
passed the House, and the two
building regulation bills were ap
proved by the Senate, after minor
modifications.
The anticipated reapportionment
battle was pushed offstage for an
other week, as the Senate agreed
to postpone consideration until
Wednesday. Senator Whitmire’s
proposed substitute for the Weath
ers Commission proposals cropped
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up in a separate bill submitted in
the House by Representative
Holmes.
Representative Snepp sent in a
hill at week’s end to make it a
misdemeanor for state employees
(other than constitutional officers,
part-time members of boards and
commissions, or persons with writ
ten directions from the Governor or
legislature) to appear before Con
gress or its committees in connec
tion with proposed legislation. Vi
olators would also lose state job
rights for five years.
Motor Vehicles
Highway racing deaths in Frank
lin and Wake counties during the
week spotlighted the several racing
bills which have been introduced.
The legislators from Franklin re
acted with a bill containing much
sharper teeth than earlier meas
ures. In addition to defining two
classes of misdemeanor racing, the
hill would permit seizure and sale
of a vehicle used in a prearranged
race, and would authorize the High
way Patrol to use unmarked cars
and wear civilian clothes in inves
tigating races.
The driver-training bill intro
duced by Representatives White
and Whitehurst (providing for
courses in the schools, financed by
an extra $1 tax on vehicles) sur
vived heavy attacks in the House
and is now in the Senate Finance
Committee.
The committee considering the
compulsory insurance and unsatis
fied judgment fund bills may mere
ly raise the requirements of the
existing Financial Responsibility
Law. A bill offered this week
would require $lO-20-5 thousand in
insurance, instead of $5-10-5 thous
and, and would increase security
deposit requirements from SII,OOO
to $25,000 for those not having in
surance.
Schools
School personnel had other mat
ters than the Governor’s speech to
hold their attention on Raleigh.
Republican Representative Simpson
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represents another North Carolina first. No
other state has expended public funds to acquire a public
art collection; which also becomes the South’s first art
museum of consequence below Richmond and east of
the Pacific. (Editorial Art News, April 1956)
Thus, another example of the new vitality of North
Carolina in its enlightened development, which is typi
cal also of those areas which subscribe to the “legal
control” system for the sale of malt beverages.
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made anotner effort to carry out
his party’s platform of letting lo
cal voters (rather than the General
Assemby) choose members of coun
ty boards of education. His bill
would provide for nomination and
election in the same manner as oth
er county officers (but present
members would serve out their
terms). Another House measure
would reward student school bus
drivers with up to 10 annual schol
arships of S4OO each, based on sav
ings effected, scholarship, and gen
eral aptitude; the scholarships
would be financed through savings
in bus operational costs, and none
would be awarded in the absence
of such savings. A Senate bill
would make any person who has
ever served a full term as county
superintendent of schools eligible
to hold that post again, irrespec
tive of whether he holds a superin
tendent’s certificate; present law
grants this exemption only to per
sons serving as superintendent at
the time the revised school law
went into effect in 1955. The
measure providing for education of
trainable mentally retarded chil
dren received a thorough overhaul
in the House Education Committee
and was re-referred to the Com
mittee on Appropriations.
Agriculture
Recent difficulties with plant
pests in some parts of the state
led to the introduction of a compre
hensive bill authorizing the Board
of Agriculture to adopt rules for
ther control and eradication; the
department could (1) make inspec
tions of premises or vehicles sus
pected of carrying pests, (2) or
der owners to eradicate posts, and
(3) where the owner did not act.
take action at the owner’s expense.
Other bills are designed to pro
tect the farmer against harm from
roadbuilders. In 1945 the use of
Bermuda grass to hold highway
shoulders in cultivated farm areas
was restricted. HB 658 would flat
ly prohibit planting of this or other
noxious grasses and make the State
Highway Commission liable in dam
ages for violations, while HB 635
would require the Commission to
submit all seeds to the Department
of Agriculture for tasting (to de
tect seeds of noxious weeds) before
they could be planted. HB 680
would make the Commission liable
for damages from obstructing the
natural flow of water.
The House killed the proposal to
ask a Congressional investigation
of reconstituted tobacco. However,
H!B 236, which establishes a Tobac
co Seed Committee and makes un
lawful the sale of any flue-cured
tobacco variety that has not been
recorded with the Commission of
Agriculture, has been ratified—
along with the bill which authoriz
es cotton producers to levy assess
ments upon themselves for cotton
promotion.
Miscellaneous
HB 667 would give municipali
ties in dry counties the option of
voting for on and off-premises
sales of beer and wine, off-premis
es sales only, or a mixture of the
two plans ... SB 301 would re
quire that JP’s be appointed (and
their salaries fixed) by resident
superior court judges, and that the
fee system be eliminated . . . Two
bills of interest to doctors would
(a) require that they register bi
ennially and (b) create a Board of
Examiners in Psychology ... SB
294 would require most of the gas
olina price signs in the state to be
repainted; it provides that no digit
in an outdoor price sign can be
less than % the height of other
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Electrically recorded duck calls
would be outlawed by SB 298 . . .
After years of playing second fid
dle to “The Old North State,”
“Here’s to the land of the Long
Leaf Pine” will receive comparable
status as the official toast of the
state if SB 350 is adopted. *
GUM POND CLUB MEETS
The Gum Pond Home Demcfnstra
tion Club met Wednesday night,
April 3, with Mrs. Z. T. Evans and
Miss ‘Beulah Evans. Ten members
were present.
A very interesting demonstra
tion on “Selection of Colors and
Fabrics For A Room” was given
by Miss Maidred Morris, home
agent. She pointed out that the
fabrics used in a room and floor
coverings should be related in tex
ture as in color and form for your
room to be in agreement.
“Floor coverings being the first
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thjng to go in a room you should
work with the color of that and
the walls in furnishing the rest of
the room,” said Miss Morris. Col
ors work wonders in a room. A
pleasing color scheme can hold to
gether the most inexpensive furn
ishings of a room, and make it
pleasant. Take a look around your
room for small things a picture',
a piece of fabric or a vase, it may
clash with the color scheme of the
room if so it is a misfit in that
room.”
The club women teamed up in
pairs and selected floor coverings,
walls and fabrics for a room with
comments being given by the oth
ler members and Miss Morris as to
I the improvement to be made. ■
. Material for the cancer drive was
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The club was glad to have Mrs.
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| The meeting being adjourned, the
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