Raleigh Round-Up
More Talk On New Capitol Building,
Speculations On Minimum Wage Law
BY KIDI) BREWER
THE LAST? ... A lot of the
legislators we have talked with
during the past few days seem
to think this may be the last ses
sion of Die N. C. General Assem
bly to te held in the State Capi
tol.
When both houses are in ses
sion. humming and grinding
awaj at the bills, the place
seems overcrowded. Three high
school science classes can fill (he
upstairs galleries to overglowing.
The seats there are the narrow,
high-backed type that we used
to have in our churches.
MUSEUM . You can sit in the
gallery of House or Senate — and
particularly in the House — for 30
minutes sometimes and catch only
a word or two of what is transpir
ing in the well below. And to climb
from the ground floor of the Cap
itol up the four flights of steep
stairs to the overlooking galleries
is the equal of a five-block run at
full gallop.
Now the beauty of our legisla
tive halls in North Carolina is tre
mendous. We heard a famous artist
NOTICE
State of North Carolina
County of Transylvania
Having qualified as administra
trix of the estate of Clarence Mc
Call, deceased, late of Transylvania
County, North Carolina, this is to
notify all persons having claims
against the estate of said deceased
to exhibit them to the undersigned
at the office of Thomas R. Eller,
Jr., Attorney, 3-5 West Main street,
Brevard. North Carolina, on or be
fore the 29th day of January, 1960,
or this notice will be pleaded in
bar of their recovery. All persons
indebted to said estate will please
make immediate payment to the
undersigned.
This 26th day of January. 1959.
S-—Mary Jane Price McCall,
Administratrix of the estate of
Clarence McCall, deceased.
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refer to it one time as “breath
taking”. We would not go that far
—for we are not that artistic —
I but our State Capuitol is a thing of
beauty, inside and out. But when
! walking through it. visiting a
friend having offices there, or
greeting legislators in the rotun
da. 1 sometimes have the feeling
that I am in a museum-piece.
SQUAT . . . Now within the !
next few days you will likely *
hear and read more about a new
legislative building. With the
1 present set up, only the Lieuten
ant Governor, over in the Sen
ate side, and the Speaker of the
House, and the chief clerks of
the two houses, have offices. The
chairmen of three dozen impor
tant committees and their sten
ographers squat for a dictating
session wherever they can find a
chair. Many an old courthouse in
this State has better bathroom
facilities than our State Capitol.
$100,000 . . . Our first State
I Capitol here was destroyed by fire
J in 1831. We soon got to work on
i another one. but it was not until
j the summer of 1840 that the work
j on our present building was finish
ed. It cost us a little over one-half
million dollars ... or the equiva
lent of five years of taxes. Our to
tal tax income for North Carolina
in that year was less than $100,000!
Our income for our next fiscal
year — 120 years later — is ex
pected to be a little over $500,000,
000.
COMPARISON ... If we were
to spend five years of state tax
es on our new legislative build
ing — as we did 120 years ago
for our State Capitol, the cost
would be five times $500,000,000
—or two-billion-five-hundred-mil
lion dollars!
And this would be the most
expensive building on earth!
All of which gives you some
idea of the burden of putting up
a building which cost $531,
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MINIMUM WAGE . . . Although
you hear a great deal of talk about
the certainty of this legislature
adopting a state minimum wage
law, don't bet your last dollar on it.
While everybody says the law is
needed, strange winds blow. We
hear that a lot of the members
who came sailing into town plump
ing for it two weeks ago are slow
ing down a little. Those opposing
North Carolina’s telling employers
what they must pay their help
point out that no other state
south of Delaware and east of the
Mississippi has a state minimum
Wage law. Also, the talk of a bill
calling for a dollar-an-hour mini
mum wage was slowing some of
them down to a walk last week.
But the Governor is pushing . . .
and so is Frank Crane.
We predict a long, hard battle
before the adoption of any type of
State Minimum Wage Law. This
type of legislation is not easy.
NOTES . . . The average num
ber of bills introduced at one of
our North Carolina legislative
sessions is about 2,000 . . . but
at the rate they are being drop
ped into the hopper this time,
the number is expected to run
close to 3,000 — a large propor
tion of them affecting only one
county ... or only one com
munity in the county . . .
Carl Goerch, story - teller -
publisher, aviator, and the man
who has been reporting doings of
the legislature for more than a
quarter of a century . . . has hit
it lucky . . . with the National
Executives club, which lists
among its speakers the best in
the land . . . Goerch has just
been informed that he has been
added to their select group . . .
and will hit the banquet circuit
for Executives clubs soon after
he and Mrs. Goerch return from
a two-months tour of Europe
with Edmond Harding’s cruise
. . . and Carl also plans to have
Mrs. Goerch with him executing.
They pay a fee for each appear
ance . . . and expenses for the
speaker . . . and Goerch figures
the two combined will be enough
for a nice .speaking tour of Am
erica . . . and here’s wishing
them luck . . . and fun . . . when
all this gets under way several
months hence . . .
Failure of the massive resis
tance movement in Virginia’s ef
fort to avoid integration is put
ting a auieetus 6n some at
tempts to follow this approach
in Tarheelia . . . and will no
doubt slow down to a walk Dr.
Beverly Lake’s run for Governor
. . . More on this later as the pic
ture develops . . . but legisla
tive leaders we have talked with
say N. C. will stick strictly with
the Pearsall Plan adopted in
special session in the summer of
1955.
A shipwrecked sailor who had
spent three years on a desert is
land was overjoyed one day to see
a ship drop anchor and an officer
handed the sailor a bunch of news
papers.
Officer: “The captain suggests
that you read what’s going on in
the world and then let us know if
you want to be rescued.”
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CONGRESSMAN DAVID M. HALL received a Boy
Scout emblem from Scout George Hanks, Jr., in observ
ance of National Boy Scout week. Scout Hanks of
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LET US DO YOUR JOB PRINTING
NEW INSTRUCTORS
ADDED TO STAFF
As the second semester begins,
two new teachers have joined the
faculty at BHS. They are Mrs.
Ralph Humphries ami Warren
Burleson.
Mrs. Humphries, who is teaching
sociology, is well known as a for
mer teacher and leader in extra
curricular activities. She is a grad
uate of Western Carolina college
with a B. S. degree.
Burleson, who is the pastor
of King Street Baptist church, at
tended Southwestern Seminary,
University of N. C., and graduated
from Furman University with a B.
S. degree. He is teaching English
and has formerly taught at Valley
Springs in Buncombe county.
Concert Highlights
Agenda Of Program
For Recent Meeting
The band at Brevard high school
presented a concert on Monday,
February 16th at 8:00 in the school
auditorium.
The event was a P-TA program
which the public was cordially in
vited to attend. The band letters
were also presented during the
program to the following seniors:
Jean Fluke, flute; Leonard Poteet.
drums; Sarah Nichelson, bass clar
inet; and Ann Wells, majorette.
The numbers that were played
1 were as follows: Burst of Flames,
j a march by Richard W. Bowles;
i Final movement of Symphony No.
1 in E Fiat, by Saint Saens; Iphi
cc nia in Aubis, an overture by Van
Gluck; Prebuets Faust, by Charles
Gownad; and ending the program
of music was Headlines, a modem
i rhapsody by Carleston Colley.
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