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CO-CHAIRMEN FOR HOSPITAL BALL CHOSEN Mrs.
C. B. (Thelma) Smith, left, President of the Chowan
Hospital Auxiliary, recently chose Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Abbe as co-chairmen of the Chowan Hospital Auxiliary
Charity Ball. The event will be on February 20 at the new
National Guard Armory on Base Road. Proceeds will be
used for hospital equipment and also for items needed at B
and C units.
4-H News: Skating Trip Held
By Jewel Langley s
Co. Council I
Vice President l
Chowan County’s annual ii
skating trip to Spinning /
Wheels Rink in Elizabeth e
City, has been another fi
success.
Approximately 75 4-H’ers, I
leaders, parents and agents i
participated in this years t
Dollar BlN’s History
Continued From Pago 3-B
Adams. In Adams’
allegorical scene, the
mythical Greek hero
Hercules was torn between
the charms of a maiden
representing Virtue and the
tempting life of the sloth.
Franklin called for a
depiction of Moses dividing
the Red Sea. Jefferson
wanted to show the children
of Israel wandering through
the wilderness.
Fortunately, the Congress
wasn’t thrilled by any of the
founding fathers’ designs,
nor was it moved by a
second committee’s
proposed seal depicting on a
shield a warrior and a figure
representing Peace.
The eagle didn’t show up
in any proposed designs
until a third committee was
formed, and even then, the
bird played a minor role in
another allerogical scene.
Finally, in 1782, Congress
turned the matter over to its
secertary, Charles
Thomson, who gets credit
for first using the eagle as
the central element in the
seal’s design.
One member of the
original committee, Ben
Franklin, was unimpressed
even after the Congress
adopted a seal designed
around the eagle. Franklin
called the new national
symbol “a bird of bad moral
character” that “does not
get his living honestly,”
referring to the fact that the
bald eagle often steals its
food from other birds.
Franklin also wrote --
perhaps facetiously -- that
although the turkey was
vain and silly” he would
have preferred it as the
national emblem.
Franklin was by no means
the last American to
criticize the eagle. For the
next 150 years frontiersmen,
ranchers, and farmers
gunned them down as
predators and varmits. Not
until 1940 did Congress
outlaw the shooting of
eagles.
Because they sometimes
feed on dead animals, bald
eagles are still put down by
some critics as scavengers,
but President John F.
Kennedy spoke for most
Americans 20 years ago,
says National Wildlife, when
the called the “fierce beauty
and independence of this
great bird” an apt symbol of
the “strength and freedom
of America.”
Now, throughout most of
the country, the bald eagle
is struggling, not to main
tain its honor but to survive
as a species. Due to loss of
habitat, the ingestion of
deadly pesticides, illegal
shooting, and other causes it
is listed as “endangered” in
43 of the lower 48 states and
“threatened” in the other
five - Oregon, Washington,
Minnesota, Wisconsin and
Michigan.
The “Year of the Eagle”
was proclaimed to remind
all Americans that the
country’s living symbol, like
many other species of
wildlife, is on the en
dangered list, and that as
President Kennedy said,
“we shall have failed a trust
if we permit the eagle to
disappear.”
skating trip. A short tour of
Elizabeth City State
University Campus was also
included along with our trip.
All participants surely
enjoyed the afternoon full of
fun and fellowship.
We are thankful that the
Board of Education allowed
us to use the activity bus for
this recreational event.
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The Weather ... Hie only
news in North Carolina last
week was the weather. And
the oily mystery was
whether it was good news or
bad. Depending on one’s
outlook - or pocketbook - it
was either-or.
Schools, factories and
offices were closed. The kids
were happy as were some of
the workers. But not those
who lost money in the deal
and not the students when
they wish to go swimming
on school make-up days in
June. Swimming?
Despite heavy snows and
severe icing, state offices in
Raleigh remained open,
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though the hours were
somewhat curtailed for
three days. State workers
who didn’t make it to the
office will have to take
vacation time or petty
leave.
Fortunately, regardless
of dire warnings and public
service broadcast appeals to
the contrary, travel in
Raleigh was not as
dangerous or immobilized
as contended. Probably in
other parts of the state,
especially in rural areas,
that was the case.
But transportation
workers seem to have done
a Herculean job in providing
highway access. Depart
ment officials said close to
5,000 workers participated
in the statewide effort to
spread sand and salt and
clear roadways.
The most dangerous
aspect of travel in last
week’s terrible conditions
seemed to be the lack of
respect people were willing
to give the ice and snow.
Only 10 years ago, a
winter storm of this
magnitude would have
brought North Carolina to a
standstill. Is it imagination
or is it fairly obvious that
North Carolinians of recent
years have been carrying on
much like business as
usual?
Court Ruling ... Another
storm broke last week in
Raleigh that could have a
more far-reaching impact -
especially upon state
government and its
executive make-up. The
North Carolina Supreme
Court overturned a 1980
state law that automatically
reserved for legislators four
seats on the North Carolina
Environmental Manage
. ment Commission.
The EMC was created by ■
the Legislature as an j
executive - administrative
arm to carry out en
vironmental laws enacted
by the lawmakers. In the <
enabling legislation, the
lawmakers set aside four
seats on the commission <
expressly for themselves. ,
The court’s dpinion ruled 1
that the Legislature had
violated the state con
stitution’s principle of j
separation of powers by
creating a board to carry I
out environmental laws and j
then putting legislators on (
the board to influence its (
actions. (
The rub goes away beyond i
the EMC. By week’s end, i
discussion was growing i
around whether any state (
board or commission that (
has seats set aside for (
legislators and also is {
responsible for carrying out |
state law can be considered j
safe from the court’s ruling. (
Another 49 governing j
boards or commissions have (
seats for legislators set |
aside by law. That list in- ,
eludes the Advisory Budget
Commission - the most
powerful and sought after
appointive commission seat
in state government.
Apparently boards and
commissions that are
limited to studying issues
with members of the
executive branch or to
advising the executive
branch on policy are not
affected.
Hunt spokesperson,
Stephanie Bass, said Friday
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that the governor, who wa4
in Washington on
Democratic Party business,
would have no comment
until he and administration
lawyers could study the
entire brief. >'
Appearance suggest that
lawmakers will no longer,
as a matter of habit, attach
riders to appoints
legislation that
automatically gives them
executive powers. <