Thursday, May 27, 1982
Carolina Review - Rep. Ron Taylor Arrested And Charged In Connection With Fire
LOOKS LIKE... “It looks
like he must be the dumbest
guy in the whole world if he
got hooked up with
something like that,” said
one long - time observer of
state politics. The observer,
a man who has seen a lot of
dumb guys through the
years, was talking about
Rep. Ron Taylor, D
Bladen County, who was
arrested and charged last
Friday in connection with an
April fire that destroyed
three tobacco warehouses
that belonged to State
Senate power, Monk
Harrington, D Bertie.
The catch is, Ron Taylor
is not the dumbest guy in the
whole world. “I never
considered Ron a mental
giant, but he certainly isn’t
dumb either,” said another
observer who has worked
with Taylor in the
Legislature.
Lost Colony On Schedule
MANTEO lt’s count
down time for the 42nd
production season of “Hie
Lost Colony.” The 1982
season of the Joe Layton
edition of Paul Green’s
classic symphonic outdoor
drama will open June 11 in
Waterside Theater and run
nightly except Sundays
'through August 28.
“We have an excellent
cast lined up,” says
associate producer - general
manager Bob KnOwles. The
cast reports May 24.
“Our auditioning process
was very successful and the
cast we will have this
summer is quite capable of
continuing the quality
presentation of ‘Hie Lost
Colony.’”
Veterans like Nancy Kaye
(Queen Elizabeth), Cora
Mae Basnight (Agona) - her
26th season, Perry Turner
(Old Tom), Walter Tucker
(Father Martin), _ Pete
Peterson * f (Wanchese),
Robert Midgette (Manteo)
and John Gullucci (Simon
I in their same ro^s^
L. An<* various
" and colleges wfllbe sending
some talented young
professionals to “The Lost
'Colony” for their first
season, according to
Knowles.
Early Book Art
On Display
Early bode art is on dis
play at College of Hie Albe
marle through the month
of June, file exhibition,
which is on loan from the
N.C. Museum of Art, has
been hung in the main lobby,
and corridors of “A”
Building on the North Road
Street campus.
The collection contains 38
book leaves, all from the
15th and 16th centuries.
Thirteen are vellum sheets
from hand-written and
hand • illuminated
manuscripts. One, a
calendar page from a “Book
of Hours,” is estimated to
date from 1430.
The remaining leaves are
early printed pages. They
are embellished with
woodcuts with the exception
of two early Bible pages that
display hand illuminated
intials. Thirteen of the
printed pages are from the
15th century.
A number of the leaves
date from the 14705. Pam
Whitley, COA coordinator
for the traveling exhibitions,
pointed out that this was
only 30 years after Guten
berg’q first printed Bible,
and 10 years after the in
troduction of woodcut
illustrations.
Whitley said she is
pleased that the book art is
on display at the college for
Albemarle area residents.
The museum purchased its
collection with assistance
from the Reby Lewis
Purchase Fund in 1961.
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But Taylor was charged
with 21 counts of conspiring
and soliciting to burn,
burning and using an in
cendiart device. Two other
men, also of Bladen County,
were charged in the in
dictments that were handed
down by a Bertie County
grand jury.
Tailor is president of a
family business that
manufactures, tobacco
equipment. Monk
Harrington is president of
his own tobacco equipment
manufacturing company.
Since 1980, Harrington has
been trying to collect a
$350,000 court judgement
from the Taylor company
over patent infringements.
According to one more or
less neutral observer, there
could be “no motive but
revenge - unless Taylor
thought Harrington would
Dare County Preview
Night June 10 all Dare
County residents are invited
to a special and traditional
“free” preview of the 42nd
production l of America’s
first and oldest symphonic
outdoor drama.
“We are excited and
looking forward to an ex
cellent production season.”
added Knowles.
For information on “Hie
Lost Colony,” write P.O.
Box 40, Manteo, N.C. 27954.
Social Security
By Lee Wallio
Field Representative
Young people planning to
work this summer as
waiters, waitresses, and in
similar service jobs should
be aware that cash tips are
covered by the Social
Security law, just as regular
wages.
However, tips must be
specially reported to get
Social Security credit for
them. •
For Youftg people, %jri§l w .
Beewrity-ylisatoiiity—amt
survivors benefits can be
paid after as little as a year
and a half of work.
If a person suffers a
mental or physical condition
that prevents him from
working for a year or more,
he can qualify for Social
Security disability benefits.
Social Security can also
pay benefits to the surviving
young family.
While the employer
deducts the tax
automatically from regular
wages for Social Security
purposes, the employee
must report cash tips to the
employer who then reports
them to the Social Security
Administration.
Cash tips of S2O or more in
any month must be reported
to the employer within 10
days after the month ends.
Tips must be reported in
writing by the employee.
The Employer collects the
Social Security tax due on
the tips that are reported.
The amount may be
deducted either from the
regular wages owed or from
money turned over to him
for that purpose.
The employer does not
pay the employer’s share of
the Social Security tax on
tips as he does on regular
wages.
However, if the employer
pays regular wages to an
employee who receives and
reports tips to his employer,
and the regular wages paid
are less than the federal
minimum wage, the em
ployer is required to pay
Social Security taxes on the
difference between the
regular wages and the
federal minimum wage.
Jpore information and
leaflet! about Social
Security coverage of tips
are available from the
Elizabeth City Social
Security offiefe at 338 - 2161.
feel intimidated and stop
trying to collect the
$350,000.”
“And anybody that knows
Monk Harrington knows
better than that,” said the
observer. “All the evidence
points to Taylor doing it, but
almost too much. It’s too
pat,” he said.
Taylor was certainly not
acting guilty. As soon as he
was released on $75,000
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THE CHOWAN HERALD
bond, he was back home in
Bladen County campaigning
for re - election.
Before the case is over,
and that promises to be
awhile, there could be a lot
more political fall - out than
that just affecting Ron
Taylor. And it could give a
glimpse into a part of the
tobacco industry that no one
likes to talk about- a
glimpse that everyone hopes
is just a very ’minute‘ part.
PAY RAISEO/iCon
versations continue about
what is going to "happen in
the Legislative “short
session” over teacher and
state employee pay raises.
State Treasurer Harlan
Boyles entered the con
troversy last week by
suggesting that the state
workers not give up on
getting there current pay
raise continued (the pay
raise last year was not
permanent, but rather
mandated only through
June 30, 1982). Boyles said
the state might also be able
to make longevity, merit
and step increases
available.
Gov. Jim Hunt has said
that one or the other has to
go or more state employees
will have to be laid off.
Betting continues that the
merit and step increases
will take the dive - in effect,
a salary freeze for the state
employees and teachers
(the current “temporary”
raise wo Jd be legislated
permanently).
According to a source
within the administration,
the salary freeze “is the
direction we’re going in.”
ERA.. .Pollster Lou Harris
Page 3-B
visited the state this week as
a guest of Governor Jim
Hunt and ERA activists.
According to a Harris poll
taken in April, a big
majority of North
Carolinians favor ERA
passage.
The visit was timed to
coincide with legislators
preparations to come to
Raleigh - possibly to vote on
the ERA one last time.