iTiursday, March IK, 1962
Carolina Review
GREEN... With news of * t
“family get - together” a I
couple of weeks ago, rumors
have been rampant that Lt i
Gov. Jimmy Green will bow j
out of the 1964 governor’s .
race. i
The occasskm that ap
parently prompted the spate
of rumors occurred at i
Raleigh’s Capitol City Club,
a favorite watering hole for
state politicos engaged in
measuring the moments of
political stars. Conferees
with Green on his possible
candidacy withdrawal
(Green has been “in” die
raee since bis 1980 reelec
tion) included Senate
heavies Ken Royal, Craig
Lawing and Harold Hard-
SOU, The chief fundraisers
in the 1960 campaign, Snow
Holding of First Citixens
Rank and Bill Henderson, a
prominent land developer,
were among those also
present.
; While some thought
palling so many
heavyweights in for a
discission was unusual, the
tneeting was actually in
keeping with Green’s
practice of periodically
calling in trusted advisors to
talk over politics and
possibilities. Such meetings
are normal in the Green
decision - making process.
1 So was the news blackout
. Os the affair since Green and
his lieutenants fed strongly
that most media personnel
have something less than
the lieutenant governor’s
best interests at heart when
requesting information.
“Why give them (the
media) the bullets - when
they want the bullets to
shoot Green with?’’
responded one strong
supporter of the lieutenant
governor.
Anyway, word did leak out
about the meeting and at
lehst one source has said
that overall, the consensus
at the gathering was “en
couraging” concerning the
1984 gubernatorial cam
paign.
• That squares with per
sonal observations that the
iqampaign is still “on.”
2 Weldon Denny, a longtime
political organizer for
Democrats - especially in
!the fanning sector - con
tinues his work on the
;Jimmy Green Cabinet
■payroll. The Cabinet is
version of the
political action committee
and funds have been
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solicited in recent months
for its continued operation.
Apparently the rumors of
a withdrawal spread in state
government circles with
Just the revelation of such a
meeting of heavyweights
being held. Informal con
versations in Raleigh in
dicate a consensus opinion
that Green’s viability has
been severely crippled with
last year’s news mat he had
accepted $4,700in a cash gift
from a convicted bidrigger.
So the withdrawal rumors
might be a case of people
putting two and two together
and counting Green out
Those people assume any
group of politically astute
advisors would have
suggested the lieutenant
governor retire gracefully
in 1984.
Privately, some of his
former supporters have
conceded that hope.
But three dements keep
Green in the race.
Most of all. Jimmy Green
wants to be governor of
North Carolina. Secondly,
no one dse has stepped in to
fill the void caused by his
(Green’s) troubles. Sup
posed frontrunners Rufus
Edmisten continues to have
“image” problems, though
he recently reported his
campaign was “going
great." Other Democratic
possibilities have their own
varied problems.
Finally, Green knows full
well he doesn’t have to make
a conclusive decision on
withdrawal now, two years
before the race.
In other words, believe the
withdrawal rumors only if
Weldon Denny goes off the
private payroll as Green’s
1984 organizer and if Green
buys a camping trailer for
“roughing it” in retirement.
At this writing, Green’s
office reports Denny is hard
at work. And Green’s idea of
roughing it, by the way, is
the Holiday Inn.
Congressional Club To Hold Barbecue
The National
Congressional Club will
sponsor a Dinner in Raleigh,
NC on March 20. The Dinner
will be held in the Graham
Building at the NC State
Fairgrounds. Featured
speakers for the evening
will include Club Honorary
Cochairman U. S. Senators
Jesse Helms and John East.
Tickets for the barbecue
Letter To The Editor
Dear Editor:
We have noticed many
“Letters to the Editor”
recently on the subject of
potholes. Your own
newspaper has probably
printed some of these as
well.
I'd like to take this op
portunity to share with your
readers some information
about the condition of our
highway system, how it got
that way and what we’re
doing about it
As your renders can tell,
we are experiencing
pavement failures (i.e.,
“potholes”) across a large
segment of our highway
system.
The potholes of today
ware really “born” several
winters ago as tiny cracks in
the surface of the highway
pavement Over the years
they have now reached
“maturity” as foil - blown
potholes due to moisture
seeping into those ever -
growing cracks.
When this moisture
freezes between layers of
pavement, the ice expands
and exerts heavy pressure
on the pavement, causing it
to break up. Traffic on top of
this weakened pavement
accelerates the damage to
the roads.
The way to prevent the
initial pavement cracks
which rekilt in potholes is to
protect the road surface
with a timely resurfacing or
sealing program such that
moisture can’t get down
through the pavement in the
first place.
In the past, we have not
had the hinds to really do an
adequate job of resurfacing.
Last fiscal year (July 1,1981
- June 30, 1982) we could
only resurface about 380
miles of our 56,000 - mile
paved road system. We
ought to be resurfacing
about 2,600 miles a year to
keep up with it.
dinner are $5 per person, $1
per student. Tickets are
available by writing The
National Congressional
Club, P.O. Box 18848,
Raleigh, N.C. 27619 or by
calling the Club at (919) 782 -
5700.
R. E. Carter Wrenn,
Club Exec. Director said the
“dinner will be the first of
the year and is expected to
be a very exciting oc
casion.”
Helms, Chairman of
the important Senate
Agriculture Committee;
and East, regarded by his
colleagues as the “brightest
man in the Senate”, will be
joined on the program by
Former - Polish Am
bassador Zdxislaw Rurarz.
Rurarz was Polish Am
bassador to Japan and came
to the U.S. after the Polish
THE CHOWAN HERALD
Thanks to legislative
approval of the “Governor’s
Good Roads Program”,
we’D have SBO - million to
resurface about 2,900 miles
this current fiscal year. By
the end of this month, our
Department will have let to
contract approximately
2,875 miles of resurfacing at
an estimated cost of $78.3 •
million.
That resurfacing, over
and above the 2,600 miles,
will help us cut into the
existing backlog of resur
facing needs and sub
sequently reduce future
winter damage.
Right now our patch
crews are making repairs to
file roads as fast as possible.
Because of the cold weather,
some of these repairs are
temporary and permanent
repairs will be made as soon
as the weather warms up.
Hot asphalt, required for
making permanent repairs,
is not available during the
cold winter months. The
permanent repair process
also requires that damaged
road surfaces be prepared
by some excavation prior to
the use of the hot asphalt.
The temporary “cold pat
ch” technique is being used
now so we can quickly in
sure the safety of motorists.
Resurfacing work to
protect our roads in the
future will begin again in the
spring as the temperatures
permit this work to be done.
We in the Department of
Transportation appreciate
the concern, interest and
patience by the motoring
public regarding their high
way system as we work to
take care of existing
damage as well as protect
the system from future
damage with our resur
facing program.
Regards,
W. R. “Bill” Roberson, Jr.
Sec. of Transportation
government declared <
martial law in December. ,
The National Congressional ]
Club is one of America’s i
most active and influential ]
conservative political i
organizations. With over
300,000 members from all
around America, it was a
more successful fundraiser
in 1981 than the Democratic
National Committee.
The National Congression
al Club conducted major TV
and direct mail compaigns
in 1981 to support President
Reagan’s budget and tax
cuts, on behalf of Senator
Jesse Helms’ cuts in the
Food Stamp program, on
behalf of restoring volun
tary school prayer and
opposing the 33 per cent gas
tax increase in North
Carolina.
In 1982 the Congression
al Club’s major objective is
to elect conservatives to
Congress and the U. S.
Senate.
Crisis Intervention
GREENVILLE Social
workers, clergy, criminal
justice professionals and lay
persons who work in the
field of human services are
invited to enroll in two
courses to be offered by the
East Carolina University
Department of Social Work
and Correctional Services
this summer.
They are “Crisis In
tervention (SOCW 4002) and
“Processes of Group In
tervention” (SOCW 5003).
Each meets daily from June
22 to July 29.
“Crisis Intervention” is a
generic approach to
recognizing, understanding
and intervening ap
propriately in crisis
situations. The group in
tervention class will involve
' methods of effective
working with groups. Four
theoretical approaches will
be examined with emphasis
on group constellation,
group dynamics and group
process.
Further information
about these and other social
work and correctional
services classes is available
from die Department of
Social Work and Correc
uODftl gWICM, oCnOOI OI
Allied Health and Social
Professions, telephone 757 -
SKI.
FBI Agents Concentrate On White Collar Crime
Despite considerable
resources devoted to the
reactive crimes (robberies,
thefts, fugitives, etc.) within
the FBl’s jurisdiction, North
Carolina FBI Agents in 1981
managed to concentrate
much time and effort on
their Number One target -
white collar crime.
According to Bob Pence,
special agent in charge of
the FBI in North Carolina,
this emphasis has begun to
payoff. This past year FBI
Agents working white collar
cases recovered monies and
goods amounting to nearly
one - half million dollars and
averted economic losses in
other cases estimated at
sl.l - million. Pence stated
that during 1981 FBI in
vestigations in white collar
crime resulted in 81 con
victions, up from 56 in 1980.
While many erf the convic
tions involved individuals
(ether employees or out
siders) who attempted to de
fraudorembezzle from North
Carolina banks, hundreds of
thousands of dollars in a
myriad erf schemes, Pence
indicated this is not too
unusual since Federal law
requires banks to report all
losses to the FBI “and we
have virtually 100 per cent
cooperation from banking
institutions in this state.”
What is more encouraging,
states Pence, is the solution
of cases involving public,
union, or corporate funds in
which some citizen, who was
not necessarily required to,
stepped forward and
reported a white collar
crime. As a result of FBI
investigations in 1981, the
former Director of the
Burlington Housing
Authority was convicted of
accepting illegal kickbacks;
an Iron Workers Union
official in Durham was
convicted of embezzling
union funds; and the former
President of the State AFL -
CIO was convicted for
misuse of Federal program
(CETA) funds.
In other investigations
two Charlotte attorneys
were convicted in con
nection with abuse of
Federal funds intended to
renovate a Wilmington
housing development and a
third Charlotte attorney for
"WHEN YOU SE
THIS SIGN ■ ■ ■"
The HERE’S HOPE sign There are more than I HERE S HOPE services at
can be seen in front of 10,000 churches and this time,
hundreds of Baptist synagogues in North
churches during the next Carolina. They come in ail . .j ll * 1S y° ur . s P ec,al
few weeks. The sign is a sizes and denominations. invitation to Visit a
special invitation to visit that They are located in every Baptist church near
church. The message of the community. North Carolina you. They will be
sign is "this church cares has a rich tradition of I lookinq for you!
about you and Jesus Christ church people helping \\R// a
cares about you." people.
Hundreds of
Baptist churches
throughout the
STI HERE’S
■hope
North Carolina Baptists
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fraud while posing as a
doctor and giving
unauthorized physical
examinations.
Pence stated that as a
direct result of citizens
becoming involved a
Wisconsin man was con
victed for defrauding a
number of individuals in
Greensboro and Winston -
Salem of several hundred
thousand dollars in an in-
New Computerized Telephone Service
RALEIGH - The North
Carolina Department of
Human Resources has
initiated a new com
puterized telephone service
for people who require
certificates of vital personal
documents within a limited
period of time.
The Vital Records Branch
of the Diyision of Health
Services is utilizing modern
technology to implement a
faster, more convenient,
and relatively inexpensive
system to enable citizens to
call a toll - free number and
order a certificate of birth,
death, marriage, or divorce,
and charge all costs to their
MASTER or VISA cards.
According to Ed Warren,
Head of the Vital Records
Branch, “Western Union
operates a national toll - free
telephone number, verifies
the callers identity, and
then transmits the cer
tificate request to our
computer terminal. We will
process and mail the cer
tificate or an appropriate
response the same day the
message is received. Under
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vestment scheme and a
Georgia carpet manufac
turer for defrauding a High
Point business of over
$700,000.
In addition, with the
troubled economic times
has come a rash of
bankruptcies throughout
North Carolina. FBI in
vestigations this past year
have resulted in convictions
of three Charlotte
the new system, the cer
tificate can be in the mail
within two hours from the
time the call is made.”
The total cost for the
newexpressserviceis $9. Un
til now only mail service
was available, through the
Postal Service and Western
Union, at an average cost of
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request processes through
the mail can take between
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businessmen for fraudulent
bankruptcies and the
subsequent recovery of
several thousands of dollars
in merchandise.
“I think the ball has really
started to roll,” said Pence,
“and when we reach the
point that businesses and
private citizens report the
crimes as faithfully as the
banks, we can indeed take a
bite out of white collar
crime.”
four to ten days depending
on volume. In 1981, the Vital
Records Branch issued
95,000 certificates to the
general public. People who
prefer so pay cash rather
than using the telephone
credit card system may
request their certificate in
person at any local Western
Union office, at a slightly
higher rate of $13.95.
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