PAGE SIX
Weekly Legislative Summary
The General Assembly
ground its way through an.
other of the traditionally
frenzied weeks of the end
of-season rush. The order
of the day from Monday
through Friday was long
Bill Goodwin, Jr.
Returns Home
Lieut, (jg) Willie P.
Goodwin, Jr., has complet
ed a tour of active duty in
the U. S. Navy and in now
visiting his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. W. P. Goodwin,
214 East Eden Street.
Goodwin’s most recent
tour was on the landing
ship dock USS Point De
fiance, whose home port is
Long Beach, Calif.
During the past three
months the Point Defiance
participated in three am
phibious assaults on Viet
nam. One of these was
the first land'ng of U. S.
Marines in the demilitar
ized zone between the two
Vietnams.
Goodwin spent 13 of his
24 months in the Navy
serving in the Far East
with the U. S. Seventh
Fleet in support of the
Vietnam war effort.
A 1965 graduate o fthe
University of North Caro
lina at Chapel Hill, Good
win plans to continue his
education at Columbia
University in New York.
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hours of committee and
floor action involving the
mass of important legisla
tion that, this year as in
years past, gluts the legis
lative ..agendas in its wan
ing weeks.
Calendar committees
were appointed this week
in both houses, a custom
ary device for discourag
ing new introductions and
expediting pending com
mittee business. Nonethe
less more than 100 new
bills were unveiled this
week, bringing the ses
sion’s total of bills and
resolutions to 2,078. This
exceeds the number of in
troductions for the entire
session during every As
sembly of the past quarter
century except 1963 and
the 1963 gross of 2,101 is
likely to be eclipsed next
week.
No clear sign of a sine
die adjournment date is
yet visible. The mere me
chanics of enrolling laws
still to be enarted would
almost certainly require
this Assembly to continue
at least into the last week
of June, even if he bulk
of remainnig business were
completed next week.
The appropriations bills
have not been reported by
the subcommittees on ap
propriations to the full
committee, an event which
now seems likely to occur
around the middle of next
week. For the fourth
Wednesday in succession,
this week the total number
of bills in committee slight
ly increased—up from 827
THE CHOWAN HERALD, EDENTON, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1967.
to 829 in two houses, with
328 of these bills resting in
the Appropriations and Fi
nance Committees.
Local Government
The 1959 General As
sembly, responding to rec
ommendations of the Mu
nicipal Government Study
Commission, enacted sub
stantial and far-reaching
changes in the powers of
local government, w ith
particular attention to the
need for services and for
land use regulation in de
veloping suburban areas.
That Assembly also adopt
ed a fundamental revision
of the laws relating to as
sessment and systematic
revaluation of property for
ad valorem taxes. Since
1959, significant legislative
changes affecting local
government structure and
functions by statewide
laws have been few and
far between. The current
General Assembly appears
to offer little break in this
pattern.
In recent years, one
concern of local govern
ment improvement efforts
has been with finding
means to diminish overlap
and duplication of services
and to encourage coopera
tion among local govern
mental units. This area
marks one of the bright
spots in the local govern
ment legislation picture
this session.
Some people concerned
with problems of local
government have stressed
the benefits of reducing the
number of existing local
units and limiting their
proliferation in the fu
ture. Three local bills in
troduced this session are in
line with this objective.
One of these would per
mit, upon favorable vote
of the people, the consoli
dation of three cities and a
sanitary district (HB
1139) and another would
allow, under similar pro
cedures, the merger of two
cities into one (introduced
in two forms: HB 1322, HB
1350). The third bill, the
only one of the three which
has now passed, will per
mit Wayne County and any
or all municipalities there,
in to merge branches of
their government perform
ing similar functions upon
majority vote of the gov
erning bodies cf the units
entering into the merger
(HB 163).
One of the principal
achievements in statewide
legislation affecting local
governments was the en
actment, early in the ses
sion, of legislation con
cerning ambulance service.
This new law provides for
regulation of ambulance
services by the State
Board of Health and local
franchising of ambulance
operators, with localities
authorized to provide am
bulance services when not
privately available.
Balancing this success
was the early defeat by
unfavorable Senate com
mittee report of the bill to
permit the “electric cities”
to acquire competing util
ity facilities within city
limits, with the approval
of the State Utilities Com
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Another significant new
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The Roundup
By Wilborne Harrell
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something wrong with you
and you need help fast.
All the doctors and nurses
and orderlies are there to
Process Os Elimination
After grandmother had
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’taint me, ’taint kitty. I
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that is necessary to avoid
any possible mixup of pa
tients. What happened in
surgery is just a vague
memory; my trouble, I’m
sure, was relatively minor,
but I assure you it war
major with me. And there
were many, many more
patients, I’m sure, worse
off than I. Many, about
whom I could have said,
“there but for the grace of
God, go I.”
I have had excel
lent care and treatment
and what better time than
now to say simply—
THANK YOU!