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The Carolina Review: Coastal Area Priorities Under Discussion
Political ... With ad
journment of the North
Carolina General Assembly,
attentions in Raleigh have
switched from the more
tedious legislative issues to
the more interesting
political questions.
Last week, Governor Hunt
was on vacation at a place
called “undisclosed
location,” which was un
doubtably Emerald Isle,
Attorney General Rufus
Edmisten had his annual
birthday bash and sup
porters of Lieutenant
Governor Jimmy Green
were still assessing the
political damage over
recent cash disclosures.
Governor’s Office ...As
could be expected, things in
the governor’s office were
quiet and relaxed after the
busy, just-finished
legislative session.
“Things are really dead
around here,” said Hunt
spokesman Brent Hackney,
'“I don’t even know where
the governor is.”
Even with the governor’s
absence, his office was still
gearing up for a couple of
probable confrontations
with the Secretary of the
U. S. Department of Interior,
James Watt.
According to Hackney, the
state might go to court in a
week or so to seek a
restraining order against
the U. S. Department of
Interior which is planning to
issue oil leases on six tracts
of offshore land about 20
miles off Cape Lookout.
“An oil spill in that area
could be catostrophic to the
North Carolina coastline,”
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Hackney said.
Another stew over coastal
area priorities seems to be
brewjng as well. The latest
argument concerns the
proposed construction of
giant jetties at North
Carolina’s Oregon Inlet.
The jetties, proposed by
the U. S. Army Corp of
Engineers, are strongly
supported by the governor.
But final approval of the
jetties is needed by the - you
guessed it, the U. S.
Department of Interior -
since the jetties would rest
on land managed by the
Interior.
According to the Corp of
Engineers, the jetties would
Letter To The Editor
Dear Sir:
For 750,000 North Carolina
handicapped citizens, the
designation of 1901 as the
International Year of the
Disabled Person is of
special significance as they
strive to become fully in
tegrated into society and the
economy of this state.
North Carolina, through
the Division of Vocational
Rehabilitation Services of
the Department of Human
Resources, supports
programs designed to aid
handicapped persons in
achieving these goals.
Through the intervention of
Vocational Rehabilitation
(VR) programs, thousands
of disabled persons are
given the opportunity to
overcome or reduce their
vocational handicap and to
obtain the skills necessary
help to stabilize the
notoriously shifting sands in
the channel of Oregon Inlet.
Concern has grown over the
years that the shifting
channel bottom will even
tually close off commercial
boat traffic in the Inlet.
Such as occurrence would
spell doom for the area’s
recently dedicated $7-
million seafood industrial
park at Wanchese. So far the
park doesn’t have any
commercial tennants.
To the dismay of the
governor and other jetty
supporters, Secretary Watt
has suggested in a letter to
the governor that other
alternatives be in-
to enter the labor force. VR
focuses on handicapped
persons of working age who
have work potential. It also
aids 20,000 youths under age
21 and nearly 1,000 in
dividuals over age 60.
The state helps to support
51 sheltered workshops
where handicapped persons
are individually evaluated
as to their skill level and
work potential and placed
into a suitable program
designed to assist them to
employment. Many are
hired to work at the
workshop while some are
able to secure work in
competitive employment.
The Adult Developmental
Activity Program, along
with the Vocational Work
Adjustment program of the
sheltered workshops, seeks
to increase the level of in
dependent living by
providing the mentally
retarded and the physically
disabled with access to job
skill training and com
petitive employment.
These programs also seek
to remove society’s
stereotyping attitudes that
prevent disabled persons
from participating fully in
the many physical, social
and creative activities that
North Carolina has to offer.
The International Year of
the Disabled Person
provides a unique op
portunity to increase
recognition of these barriers
and help find ways to
overcome them.
Sincerely yours,
Tom Gilmore
Deputy Secretary
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presidential pipeline of the
Carter years, has accepted
Watt’s letter as rejection of
the jetty plan. However,
there is still hope for the
(dan, apparently through
Congressional influence.
And outside the govern
ors office, observers are
still trying to figure how the
governor fared politically
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Another political question
that probably will be settled
this week is the long-delayed
appointment of Department
of Administration Secretary
Joe Grimsley to take over
departing Howard Lee’s job
as secretary of Natural
Resources and Community
Development.
, Rufus ... Every year, one
of the most laid back, foot
stomping political events in
North Carolina is the annual
birthday bash for the fun
loving attorney general,
Rufus Edmisten.
Thousands of people at
tend the outdoor event, free
of charge, and partake of
booze and barbeque with
only one hand - the other is
reserved for endless hand
shaking.
Edmisten always sings
with the country band but
says very little. This year he
did offer as to how he was
drinking “only lemonade”.
With tongue-in-cheek,
Edmisten suggested he was
“creating a new image.”
The new image is, of
course, gubernatorial.
Green Troubles... Jimmy
Green’s troubles over his
acceptance of a $4700 cash
gift from a convicted bid-
Thursday, July 23, 1981
rigger continues.
A letter of support from
nine state senators holding
high Senate appointments
through Green did little to
cool the controversy.
An endless array of
negative editorials from
papers across the state has
emerged and the Raleigh
News and Observer, citing
Green’s record, called for
his resignation.