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L'll'hurscUi ember 9. 1982 —The Carolina Review— . v A BETTER FLIP...Gov. !l Jim Hunt’s excellent ‘•political instincts surfaced ' ■again last week when he performed a more tnasterful flip - flop than ‘-faorth Carolinians have been seeing of late. Faced with a shortfall, the governor recommended (to the board of trustees over - -seeing state employee medical care benefits) that the new health benefits package should be cut back. The package was only recently enacted and was set to take affect on October Ist. State employee leaders had considered the liberal health benefits as one of the few plums extracted from JJie governor and law makers in several years. The package had been described as the best in the nation for state employees. Even with the gonernor’s recommended cutbacks, the benefits were still con sidered more liberal than plans in many other states and private firms. But to state employees and teachers, currently under a salary freeze (for merit and longetivity), the cutback seemed a little much. They cried foul and called their legislators. Legislative leaders im mediately called the governor on the carpet -- suggesting he might be tampering with the law to rescind a benefits package enacted by the General Assembly. “About all we’ve done this I Jti Colonial | y] Cfumttep fttoetp •:* We sell & install tops too! I Call: J.L. Harrell, Jr. < . FOR SALE FOR SALE—I 979 Conner Mobile Home. 2 BR. Total electric, partially furnished. Small downpayment and assume loan. WATERFRONT Charming story house on two waterfront lot, Chowan £|/\\ IJaded, with pier. Three bedrooms, 2 full bath: W*J?n, kit., closed-in porch overlooking water, work tor handyman. House furnished or unfurnished. 1978 DOUBLEWIDE On large corner lot with 3 bedrooms, living room, family room, kit., 2 fujl baths. Dining room. Underpinned washer, dryer, living room furniture, furnished. Financing available at 14 percent. LOT ON WEST GALE STREET Close to downtown, churches, hospital, and school. Perfect for building. LOT CORNER OF PARK AVE. AND JOHNSON ST. Priced for quick sale. LOT ON MONTPELIER DRIVE Reduced for quick sale - 100x200 ,$3,900 COMMERCIAL BUILDING lncome producing downtown Edenton. Good long-term investment; tax shelter. COMMERCIAL PROPERTY ACROSS FROM SHOPPING CENTER Excellent investment, income producing. HOME SITES NEAR COUNTRY CLUB Wooded and clear. Low downpayment - 5 yrs. to pay. TRAILER LOTS 5O x 150. FOR SALE 23.22 acres, 5 miles north of Edenton, in tersection of U.S. 17 and N.C. 37. Ideal for commercial or in dustrial use. WATERFRONT,LOT —Oh Chowan Golf and Country Club. Breathtaking view of Albemarle Sound. OVER 25 YEARS EXPERIENCE IN ALL KINDS OF IN VESTMENTS. CALL US BEFORE YOU BUY. CONSULT WITH US BEFORE YOU LIST FOR SALE. Home Realty week is work on this in surance thing,” Hunt aid Gary Pearce said last Thursday. So what is the governor going to do about this “in surance thing?” “We’re going the other way,” responded Pearce. Sure enough, the governor announced he would recommend the full package re - instated. At the same time, he warned that a day of reckoning was coming. “The General Assembly will have to find the money somewhere,” Pearce said. “By tightening down the screws a little more, we can make it until January - when the legislators can look at it for themselves,” Pearce continued. The legislators won’t like what they find. When they convene in January, the benefit package will be in the midst of an sll million shortfall. Without additional legislative funding, the package would be out -of sine another SSO million in the fiscal year 83 - 84. Sources in the legislature and the governor’s office agreed that the package has been underfunded from the beginning. So, unless the legislators decide to tough it out and make the cuts themselves, they’ll have to find more money for the fund. HUNT’S FLIP FLOP...Many Republicans are sure to suggest that Hunt’s abrupt change of direction closely resembled the current Republican fad in Washington of flip and flop. However, most observers - admittedly Democrats - never made the comparison. First, as he occassionally does, the governor took an unpopular position with state employees by recommending the benefit reduction. The state workers were angry. Far from being angered, the taxpaying public saw the action as stern and needed fiscal leadership. But the legislative leaders got into the act. Then, instead of ap pearing cold and un compromising, the governor agreed to re - instate the full package until the legislators could look at the problem. With that agreement, he was able to keep his leadership role and still calm the storm. The governor was at once the stern defender of the taxpayer and also the compassionate benefactor - capable of compromise. Excellent political instincts. 1982 Child Care Workshop CHAPEL HILL - Jo Ann Halsey of Jackson-Feild Home in Jarratt, Va. is attending the 1982 Chapel Hill Workshops for Child Care Personnel being held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill the week of July 11 - 15. Participants have the opportunity to enhance their child care skills by meeting with leaders in the field of group child care and with colleagues from other agencies. More than 50 people from across the country are participating in a variety of lecture, panel, film and workshop sessions. The workshop is spon sored by Group Child Care Consultant, Services, of the, UNC-CH School of Social Jfco rk » W.ojtih sho pi proceedings ' wnr - be* published in the “Chapel Hill Workshop Reports for 1962” and distributed in ternationally. THE CHOWAN HERALD ■ I James 0. Mattox Teachers And Insurance Governor James B. Hunt, Jr., is to be commended for his leadership in restoring the hospital-medical in surance program to the level envisioned by the 1982 General Assembly, Loretta M. Martin, president of the North Carolina Association of Educators, says. “Teacher morale is bound to be better across North Carolina in view of the Governor’s action,” Martin said, adding she had “never seen teachers more upset about any single issue than they were concerning the rollback in medical benefits.” She said the Governor’s action “is one bright spot in what has been a bleak year for teachers.” Martin noted that the salaries of teachers are frozen this year and that even experience increments were not granted. She said North Carolina, which in recent years had risen as high as 24th in the nation in average teacher salaries, dropped to 35th last year and will undoubtedly go even lower during the current year. “We stand in real danger of dropping into the 40’s if we do not act soon to im prove the salaries our teachers are paid,” she i ycr Governor Hunt’s action in insurance program be restored could mean a saving of $450 to an in dividual teacher. The proposed plan would have increased both the deduc tible and the co-insurance liability of individuals and would have worked an extreme hardship on teachers, Martin said. NCAE led the protest against the medical in surance cuts, and teachers across the state were vigorous in their protests. THINK OF ’EM AS... 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Gospel preaching, special music, and congregational singing will be featured. Nursery facilities and workers will be provided. The public is cordially in vited to attend. To learn more about the coastal life of North Carolina, visit the Marine Resources Centers along the coast at Fort Fisher, Pine Knoll Shores and Manteo. INQUIRE ABOUT OUR ESCORT 1982 MODEL lease for less; $13557 PER MONTH ?! •MIES •SEjrUTE i*B Mo. closed end lease. Deposit of $150.00, UB monthly payments of $135.57 totaling $6507.36. Customer hßs no liability at end of lease up to 60,000 miles. Payments include North Carolina , sales and property taxes. Customer has option to purchase for $2735.1*0. All you have to do is meet our normal credit standards. r Albemarle Motor Co. WEST HICKS ST. • PHONE 482-2144 A EDENTON. NORTH CAROLINA 27932 I I .Jp fife , ijjnUyU! yfrA PROMOTED Three College of The Albemarle administrators recently received new position assignments. Each will assume new duties and additional responsibilities as a result of the lateral transers. Pam Whitley has been named Director of Resource Development, the position previously held by the late Harriette M. Crump. She also will continue her activities with the college Business and Community Relations program wfeich she has directed since December, 1981. Bob Hartis will serve as Title 111 Coordinator. The Wilson native will be responsible for closing out current Title 111 activities and coordinating new grant activities that begin on October 1. Linda Combs, former part-time Career Resources Center coordinator, succeeds Sharon Noblitt as Director of Cooperative Education. Noblitt resigned from the position in July. An Egyptian pharaoh who loved the cherries of Baalbek, in Lebanon, four hundred miles away, is said to have had them flown in fresh by homing pigeon. Page 3-B
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