The Chowan Herald
SECTION B
The Carolina Review: Special Session
First Special Segment ...
The N. C. General Assembly
convened last week amid
some slight-of-hand
"parliamentary tactics to
satisfy constitutional
questions over the
authenticity of the “special”
session.
As soon as the session was
underway, the legislators
got busy putting together a
state employee and teacher
pay raise. That pay raise
r had not been effected in July
ostensibly to await state
legislative evaluation of
federal cutbacks in funding.
One thing that did not
-.pccur was a legislative
evaluation of the federal
dollar shortfall. Instead, the
lawmaker’s concentration
. -centered around differences
over state tax revenue
projections for the next year
and a half. Legislative
analysts were projecting a
smaller percentage of
revenue growth than were
the governor’s fiscal
experts.
The lawmakers kept the
advice of their experts on
projected income, but
.through fiscal
gobbledegook, found
another $30.9-million. They
also limited the pay raise
appropriation to six months,
when it will have to be re
appropriated.
With that problem solved,
the Assembly was able to
put together a 5 per cent
across-the-board increase
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for state employees and
teachers effective January
1, 1982.
The raise was less than
employee lobbyists had
hoped for- especially Since
the raise was not
retroactive. But legislative
conversations were so
negative until by mid-week
the employee groups
seemed almost happy to get
away with what they got.
Since the pay raise was
the primary issue, the
session might have been
adjourned as early as
Wednesday afternoon -
except for a couple of snags.
One snag appeared over
an extra jump in the pay
scale for school
administrators. The Senate
wanted the extra amount,
the House didn’t.
By Friday morning, the
joint “Super-sub” (the
chairmen of various sub
committees on ap
propriations) and a joint
conference committee had
put their heads together to
figure a working
compromise.
Os course, the “Super
sub” had to meet anyway
since the other snag to
earlier adjournment was the
appearance of fifty or so
special interest bills. Those
special bills ranged from an
effort to appropriate money
for a coastal river study
(successful) to the hopes of
one legislator to increase
membership of local
community college trustee
boards (unsuccessful).
The only real effort to
address federal funding
cutbacks (the original
reason for even holding the
special session) occurred
through legislation
authorizing a statewide
referendum on a S3OO
- water and sewer
bond issue.
Up until the sweeping
budget appraisal of the
Reagan administration,
seventy-five per cent of
water and sewer
improvements were fed
erally funded.
Grimsley ... One
legislative effort that failed
was a behind-the-scenes
effort to gut the Coastal
Area Management Act.
NRCD Sec. Joe Grimsley set
out to block that action.
Grimsley pointed the
finger at Lt. Gov. Jimmy
Green and Senate Ways
and Means Committee
Chairman Kenneth Royal as
having personal interests in
the legislation. Both Green
and Royal own beach
property regulated by the
act.
When Green and Royal
yelled foul, the governor
Letter To The Editor
To the Editor:
Two points of clarification
are necessary regarding
electric rate comparisons
appearing in recent media
reports.
First, Vepco achieved
rate parity with our
neighboring utility in the
spring.
The difference in rates
between Vepco and CP&L
for the average customer
using 1,000 kilowatt-hours
(kwh) in April and May was
61 cents.
Customers utilizing heat
pumps or other forms of
elective heat and consuming
SECTION B
suggested that Grimsley go
back and “talk with them.”
That according to an
administration source.
The same source said
Grimsley “isn’t the sort of
person who would just go out
and lie. What he does is talk
too much.”
“Maybe he went wrong by
ascribing motive,” said the
source.
Either way, Grimsley was
successful. The Coastal
Area Management Act
remains intact. Legitimate
problems in the legislation,
however, suggest mounting
opposition in the future.
Second Special Segment...
Although the “first” special
segment was just
adjourned, citizens can look
forward to a “second
edition” on October 29.
Apparently, the Attorney
General’s office feels that
legislative re-districting
accomplished during the
original 1981 Assembly can
not be defended in court and
must be done over.
Aside from the gasoline
tax, re-districting was
supposed to have been one of
the major accomplishments
of that “segment” of the
session.
2,000 kwh were charged
$96.49 by Vepco and $100.58
by CP&L.
Second, rates on file with
the N. C. Utilities
Commission which include
rate requests pending
approval indicate Vepco’s
rates will again be equal to
or less than CP&L’s in
December, January,
February and March.
For the average customer
using 1,00 kwh, CP&L will
probably charge about 82
cents less than Vepco.
Electric heat customer!
will be charged about
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Trenton Resident Chosen
Jones Wins Top Tree Farmer Award
RALEIGH Charles C.
Jones, a native of Jones
County and resident of
Trenton, has been selected
as the 1981 North Carolina
Tree Farmer of the Year.
Announcement of the
selection was made by
Dewitt Sheffield, chairman;
Joe Kelleher and Ed Tokarz,
vice-chairmen of the N. C.
Tree Farm Committee of
the N. C. Forestry
Association.
The award has been given
in North Carolina since 1975
to recognize achievement in
forestland managment by
an individual forestland
owner. Jones owns
forestland in Jones County
and has 485 certified
in the national tree farm
program administered by
the American Forest
Institute in Washington,
D.C.
Robert Francis of
Edenton won the honor in
1980.
Fraud Investigation Increase
RALEIGH - Anti-fraud
investigations during
September increased 134
per cent over those in July
according to figures
released by the Benefit
Payment Control unit of the
N. C. Employment Security
Commission (ESC).
Last month the unit
investigated 508 persons
who had claimed or were
then claiming unem
ployment insurance
benefits. Os that number,
239 cases were classified as
fraudulent. State courts
tried 65 persons and
convicted 61 of them during
September. This represents
an increase of 103 per cent
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Along with being a tree
farmer, Jones owns Brock
Ford in Trenton. He has
been involved in forestland
management since 1962 and
joined the American Tree
Farm system in 1964.
“He was selected as this
year’s winner for his
initiative as a private
forestland owner,”
according to Kelleher, “and
his willingness to try a
variety of forestland
management practices.”
Jones says he has been
interested in tree farming
since 1962 when he was
discharged from military
service and returned to
Jones County to live. His
forestland at that time was
poorly stocked, having been
the victim of forest fires. “I
didn’t want to leave the land
idle, not producing,” he
says, “some of my early
steps failed, but I learned
from the failures.”
over July’s results. The
commission recovered
$141,318.50.
According to Ron P.
Hawks, chief claims
investigator, changes in
investigative procedures as
well as technological
advances have enabled his
team of investigators to
pinpoint potential fraud
earlier than ever before.
Persons in 33 of the state’s
100 counties were cited
during September. Five
convictions were achieved
in both Buncombe and
Vance counties, four each in
Cleveland, Forsyth and
Onslow counties and three
or less in 26 other counties.
Today all of the 485 acres
he has in the American Tree
Farm system are in some
form of forest plantation
development. His most
successful stands are those
which received modern
treatments such as site
preparation following
harvest, bedding prior to
Training Session Is Set
On October 29, day care
and head start staff in 13
Northeastern North
Carolina counties will be
meeting in a training
session concerning health
and nutrition.
The session will be held at
Knobb Creek Recreation
Center in Elizabeth City and
is jointly sponsored by the
Day Care Section of the
North Carolina Department
of Human Resources,
Eastern Region Division of
Health Services, N. C. Office
of Child Day Care Licensing
and the Developmental
Evaluation Center serving
the northeastern counties.
The session is designed to
assist staff who work with
young children in meeting
the health and nutrition
needs of the children in their
care.
Child health professionals
from the local region as well
as several faculty from the
ECU School of Medicine,
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planting young tree
seedlings and some
fertilization.
Jones has received
assistance from the N. C.
Forest Service and
cooperation from Champion
International, and adjacent
neighbor, in protecting his
forestland from fires.
Department of Pediatrics
will be leading the workshop
on such topics as
recognizing childhood
illness, infant health needs,
the health needs of special
children, disease prevention
through sanitation and
nutrition and cost efficient
food services for young
children.
Gary Taylor, health
education consultant in the
eastern Region, Division of
Health Services, will
address the group in its
opening session on
“Modeling Good Health For
Children.” Taylor, the
father of two preschool
boys, will emphasize the
importance of setting a good
example in health habits for
young children.
The format of the
workshop is designed for
staff in day care and head
start centers, but parents
and others who work with
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