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i is the fifth of' a series
y summaries prepared by
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nment on the work of the
Carolina General Assembly
'. It Is confined to discus.
t matters of general Inter
i major importance, - ;
. looting in bills with the ear
". concentration of a Bosenbluth
basketballs through hoop,
' neral Assembly stretched Its
1 in bill Introductions over the
legislature , to . 78 bills this
week. Slowed slightly by a trip to
State College's 70th birthday ses
sion on Thursday, the members of
the House maintained their snoot
ina average with 40 introductions on
Friday alone. Featured among the
week's Introductions were bills to
eoarate the orison system from the
State Highway and' Public Works
Commission and to prohibit politi
cal activity by state employees.
State Government Beorgaxdiaslea.
A reform effort at long standing
neared success this week when pa-
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pen to divorce the pi .son system
from the Highway Commission were
tiled . (with Administration ' bless
ings) in both houses. The mar
riage was originally one of con
venience, made during depression
days when it was difficult to secure
adequate prison - appropriations
from the general fund. In recent
yean 'it had undergone attacks in
the MacCormick Report of 1080
and a highway engineers' report in
1954. A partial separation wag ef
fected in 1959, upon recommenda
tion of tha State - Reorganization
Commission, and an .interim study
commission recommended the final
break this year.;' .'yv;n
The bills submitted would create
a state Prison Department headed
by a Director of Prisons, subject to
policy and rule-making supervision
by a 7-member Prison Commission.
They declare the State's policy to
be provision of diversified employ
ment for able bodied prisoners. A
large part of the prison population
will continue to work on the roads
under contract arrangements with
the Highway Commission, but oth
ers will work in State forests and
farms, in prison industries, and for
agencies of State and local gov
ernments under contract with
proceeds from their work going in
to a revolving runa xo De usea in
developing further enterprises.
A companion measure of great in
terest is a proposal to adopt the so
called "Wisconsin plan (with modi
fications), under which first-term
prisoners could be released during
the, day to work at their regular
lobs. Their salaries would be ai
vided between the Prisons beparv-
ment (for upkeep and personal e
penses) and the county welfare de
partment (lor support oi prisoners
dependents), with any excess held
for payment to the prisoners upon
their release.
Meanwhile, the Governor scored
his first major legislative victory of
the session with passage of the but
to reorganize the Highway Com
mission. The measure was shorn.
prior to passage, of Us anti-politick-
ing provisions. As a replacement,
Senator Graves submitted a 'little
Hatch Act' barring political activity
by all state employees. Newspaper
men were quick to point out that no
enforcement provisions were in'
eluded, and others were bothered
bv the broadness of its language,
Senator Graves vigorously insisted
that his proposal was a serious one.
A member of the state a minority
party. Republican Representative
Gavin of Randolph, stole part of the
Governor's program with a propo
sal to set up a 9-member commis
sion to study the State Constitution
and recommend amendments or a
complete new draft to the 1999 Gen
eral Assembly. The proposal fol
lows the plan of the 1931-34 consti
tutional revision effort; commission
proposals then were adopted by the
1933 General Assembly, but due to
a legal technicality they were never
voted upon by the people and thus
never became effective.
Pnblle Welfare
Another problem concerning
which the Governor has expressed
concern received attention from a
source outside the Administration
this week. Representative Speight
of Bertie has for several sessions
tried to cut oft welfare payments
to mothers of illegitimate children.
Stymied last session by the argu
ment that this would jeopardize
state participation in federal funds.
this time he sent forward a resolu
tion requesting the state's congress
ional delegation to seek federal in
vestigation of such payments. Oth
er Speight bills would bar welfare
payments to illegitimate children
of physically fit mothers, but would
liberalize." present welfare eligibility
requirements to exclude compensa
tion earned by .minor children in
determining whether family income
is low enough to justify assistance.
Major revisions in the court sys
tem dealing with domestic relations
cases are proposed by several, bills
introduced. One, effectuating the
recommendations of a special study
commission headed by Countv At
torney Nat Crews of Forsyth Coun
ty, would establish a new system of
family courts twitn provision lor 10
districts, but with establishment li-
nuiti t x - Ji . . ii;ls i c "- Ti
mentutiou pending further Is . Na
tion.) Ouier measures would desig
nate clerks of superior court as
juvenile court judges, authorize
counties having over 150,000 popu
lation to supplement their domestic
relations court personnel and extend
the jurisdiction of domestic rela
tions courts, , , , .
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The two recent school fires In
Surry County (one fatal) triggered
four measures ' by , Representative
Fowler: to guard against future dis
asters. The first three, applicable
only, to schools would require regu
lar fire: drills and semi-monthly
fire - prevention inspections, pre
scribe regulations for reduction of
fire hazards and add fire prevention
courses to school curricula. The
fourth would apply to all buildings
built with public funds, and would
require that registered - engineers
prepare plans for electrical, heating
plumbing, ventilating, air condiiton
ing and refrigeration systems' and
supervise their installation; . and
where the project calls for an ar
chitect, he would be required to su
pervise construction.
Motor Vehicles and Highway Safety
The major proposal of the. week
relating to highway safety would
provide, a legal basis, for the in
creasingly popular blood tests for
alcohol in drunken driving .cases.
The bill would prescribe the evidential-
offset tn be . ffiven such
I tests, but no one could be required
to take such a test and the prose
cution could not comment on one's
refusal to submit to it The Judicial
Council sponsored another measure,
which wold Increase the maximum
penalty for reckless driving to a
year's imprisonment (rather than 00
days) and-or a fine in the discre
tion of the court (rather than a
maximum of $100).
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Criminal Law
Shoplifters, and persons looking
like shoplifters, were the - target
of two bills. HB 244 would author
ize an officer, merchant, or em
ployee with probable cause for be
lieving that a person has stolen
goods from ,the merchant to detain
the suspect for a reasonable time
without incurring liability for false
arrest, false imprisonment, or un
lawful detention, HB 275 makes it
a misdemeanor for an unauthorized
person to willfully conceal un-
bought merchandise while upon
store premises.
Two Judcial Council proposals
would arid to the mass of arson sta
tutes. One would make the willful
burning of another's property a
misdemeanor or a felony, depend
ing upon the value of the property.
The second would make It clear
that a successful burning of a dwel
ling house (as well as an attempt
to burn) is a felony1, and that the
offense of burning houses is not
covered by a misdemeanor penalty
tor defacing or destroying such
buildings. Aside from criminal pen
alties, persons playing with lire
should take care. Hp. 264 makes a
person who negligently or willful
ly starts a forest-or qrush fire liaj
ble to the state for expenses in
curred in fighting the fire.
Miscellaneous ,
HB 230 would create a Tobacco
Seed Committee to identify varie
ties and require that varieties be
registered with the Department of
Agriculture, for the protection of
growers senate DUis wouia re-
auire permits before outer banks
sand dunes or vegetation couia be
disturbed and would forbid cattle
I am always interested in some
thing new. as I am tlira vnn m
Earlie'; we dUcusseed 'Plant Regu-
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vou about the newest one, Gibbere
' ie Acid, which will be available
.lis summer under the trade name
-wiDrer. -,;; y . .v...-..--. v''- ' -Let
me say ui the beginning that
. am not , recommending Gibrey'
lecause it is still in tha ri.
mental stage. However.' some rath
er . exciting - things have already
ma reponea concerning the re
sponse of certain vegetables and
flower crops to this plant regulator.
: The African Violet ia one of the
most common -. and ' , satisfactory
house plants - and I am suggesting
that, if you want ' to experiment a
tittle, you try. this nevtt material on
a few of your plants. It is claimed
mac -uwrer will cause the plants
to grow more ; erect., bloom more
profusely and have a more pointed
and attractive leaf.
F. F. Rockwell discusses some
'colorful new shrubs' in the March
issue of the Farm Journal You Will
be interested.' Flowering Quince
(Cydonia); Rowallane, a new En
glish variety, grows only two feet
high; Knaphlll Scarlett ' is even
more ' dwarf; Spitfire grows to a
height of six feet Magnolia Dr.
Merrill: a hew hybrid which grows
faster than the ordinary magnolia
and. reaches a height of about fit
teen feet. Buddleia (Butterfly Bush)
Hever Castle, an English import,
grows to six feet Rich, lavender
cuiuicd and 1 .,,,it. Viuurnum
carlcephalum (Snowball Bush); fast
growing and can be pruned to any
size and shape desired. It is also
a recentmport from England. Rhus
conunus ruDrixoiius ismoKe xree:
the Norcutt variety Is more con.
pact than the old type. A prolific
bloomer with filmy white blooms in
mid-summer and rich .plum colored
foliage in the falL Grows to fifteen
to '.twenty feety,; ,
' . Will Scarlett and Flamingo . are
two new shrub, type roses, four to
six feet, which will bloom almost
constantly from May or June until
frost Forsythia: Morning Glory,
very ...early with ' extremely large
florets; Lynwood Gold, imported
from laeland. has deep gold flow-
en -. which grow on erect rather
than ' pendant branches. Beatric
Ferrard, symmetrical, six to eight
feet, with florets up to two inches.
' General Randolph McCall Pate Is
the 21st officer to head the U.. S
Marine Corps. , 1 ' ' ,
running at large 'on the banks-
Well diggers are expected to eive a
cold reception to a bill requmr
them to furnish cuttings from all
wells to the Department of Con
servation and Development
; DCPLIN BOAS
HB 89 Introduced by Johnson,
February 25 Deputy sheriff's Sa
lary) March 12, ratified.
HB 121 Introduced by John
son, February. 28 (Register fees)
V rch 15, passed Senate. '
HB 295 Introduced by Johnson
March 15,
To amend Chapter 114 of the Ses
sion Laws of 1951 pertaining to the
salary of the county commission-
en of Duplin County, ana piov.-ng
another fee deputy sheriff.' (Raises
salaries of county commissioners to
$85 per month, retroactive to Jan. 1
(now chairman $75 and membera
$50.) Amends Sec. 6 (apparently
should be Sec, 14) of cited chapter
to authorize sheriff to appoint five
(now four) deputies to serve on fee
basis.) To Salaries and Fees.
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back rural sociologist at N. .C. State
College. " , 1
Nationally,' the number of part
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place in the Tar Heel State, Aur
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tinue as long as off-farm Job op
portunities are good and new me
chanization reduces or changes the
labor needs on farms.' - -
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j The type of farming is one. Many
arms .r especially those with to
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other occupations.
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the relatively limited non-farm op .
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