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AT CONFERENCE - James C. (Pete) bail, left, is pic
tured with Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader following
Nader’s speech to the N. C. Savings & Loan League’s Fall
Management Conference on October 13 at the Wilmington
Hilton in Wilmington. Dail is president of Edenton Savings
and Loan Association.
Carolina Review
AGAIN ... In June of 1960,
upcoming House Speaker
Liston Ramsey said his
main individual objective of
the 1961 Legislature would
be “to see that what money
we have is spent wisely and
that no unnecessary taxes
are levied.”
Ramsey went on to say
that “necessarily, reap
portionment of the
Congressional Districts and
the House and Senate
Districts will be one of the
more important things the
members will have to deal
with ...”
Thursday marks the
beginning of the third
episode of the 1981 session of
the N. C. General Assembly.
The episode and the session
could possibly end on the
same day, but then again it
could go on for a few days
more - or it could “tem
porarily adjourn” and come
again some other day.
This third effort is aimed
at finally resolving the
redistricting dilemma that
Ramsey spoke of almost 16
months ago.
Redistricting is a chore
that the lawmakers should
have bam aware of, if not
when Itymsey was, then at
least siifce the first day of
the first session of the 1981
General Assembly back in
January.
Unfortunately, the House
and Senate membership did
not seriously consider the
various possibilities for
redistricting until toward
the end of that first episode.
More unfortunate is the fact
that the membership by that
time were also busy raising
the gasoline tax, putting off
state employee raises, and
typing up loose ends in
hopes of getting home for
the July 4th festivities.
The lawmakers came
back earlier this month to
finish spending the money
that Ramsey spoke of and
now they are back to re
finish the reapportionment.
To their credit, the
lawmakers didn’t really
know they weren’t already
finished with redistricting.
With a lot of talk and con
sternation, but with relative
ease, both the Senate and
House agreed on plans for
Congressional reap
portionment and for then
respective bodies.
The Congressional
reapportionment plan will
apparently fly. The House
and Senate plans apparently
won’t.
The failure of the plans is
a result of a court challenge
by the NAACP over the “one
man, one vote” doctrine.
The court challenge won’t
go anywhere since the state
Justice department after
looking over the plans,
agreed with the NAACP and
decided that the Senate and
House plans could not be
successfully defended. The
lawyers in the Justice
Department suggested that
die legislators try again.
A similar challenge of
Congressional reap
portionment can be
defended say the lawyers.
So now the legislators
gather in Raleigh again this
week to create passable
“one man, one vote”
schemes for the House and
Senate Districts.
A “normal” deviation of
population from district to
district has been historically
sat fay the federal judiciary
at 10 per cent. The highest
deviation ever approved by
the federal courts, ac
cording to attorneys for the
Justice Department, is 16
per cent.
The original House plan
included a deviation of 23.6
per cent and the Senate a
22.7 per cent deviation. That
means some legislators
might represent over 20 per
cent more people than
others.
The plans drafted during
the committee hearings last
week showed deviations of
10.29 for the House and 12.98
per cent for the Senate.
As evidenced by the
commotion caused last
week in preliminary
committee hearings, the
final decisions won’t be
easy. There are some very
irritated legislators who
have promised to fight the
new committee plans over
the effects negative on their
own districts.
And since the new
recommended plans don’t
even meet the standards
suggested by the Justice
Department for smooth
sailing, the irritated
lawmakers could have a
point.
The question is, with all of
the information available
for so long, why all of this,
all of a sudden?
Seminar
Scheduled
Coastal Institute
Associates, a division of
Neuse Mental Health
Center, New Bern and
Morehead City, will be
sponsoring a seminar,
Leadership Skills For
Professional Women,
November 12-13, at the
Ramada Inn in Atlantic
Beach.
State Sen. Helen Rhyne
Marvin from the 25th
District will give the
keynote speech, “That Was
No Lady, That Was My
Boss”.
The seminar will focus on
specific leadership skills -
situational leadership, time
management, team
building, assertiveness, and
dressing for success. The
cost is slls per person which
includes registration fee,
program materials,
refreshment breaks and two
meals. Registration
deadline is November 6,
1981.
For more information,
contact Phyllis Price in
Morehead City at (919) 726-
0515.
Cane Drive
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per emit of all blindness can
be prevented if action is
taken in time. , However,
many thousands of persons
become totally blind or
visually handicapped
because of a lack of
information.
Culminating the White
Cane Drive will be the
Annual Bangel Sale
scheduled for November 12,
13 and 14.
All contributions to the
White Cane Drive are tax
deductible. Individuals
wishing to make
contributions may contact
any member of th Edenton
Lions Club or may mail
controbutions to: White
Cane Drive, Box 26,
Edenton, N.C. 27932. Checks
should be made payable to
N. C. Association for Blind,
Inc.
Lion John Guard is
chairman of the Edenton
White Cane Drive.
President of the local Lions
Club is C. B. Smith.
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