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I Jo* Lanier V son ? * g?*j 1 have been moving some of my old notes and papers i upstairs to be stored awav with some others. In this ,?X moving an J storing process it seems a 15-minute job turns L ink) an all-day affair. . .Not so much because of the work involvetf, but as you are moving this and that about you sk>p to read and remember. . .10 years ago. . .12 years ago. . .hive years ago. . .Three years ago. . .Last year. . . .Amazingly enough, the minutes" on the county com missioners' meetings from one year k> another read almost the same. . .Some names have changed, but the problems, issues and sometimes even the quotes are just about the same. 1 was reading some of the remarks made by commissioners from other counties ? when Duplin's commissioners were making a study to determine if there was reason enough to hire a county manager. . .One commissioner made the remark, "I would not be a county commissioner if there was not a county manager in my county.". . .Think about that remark a minute. . .That commissioner has forgotten why he is a commissioner. It is not for his single bene(i|. but it is for the benefit of the people of his district and county. . .He asked the people of his district to elect him to represent them. He did not ask for the job so the county manager could do his work. . . In this mass of papers 1 was storing there was a story, or a fact 1 saw that I thought was worth telling in regard to a county manager. . .The number of county employees, excluding one office, is about the same as it has been for a number of years. The budgets of these offices, or departments, has increased as the cost of living has increased. . .The duties arc about the same; maybe a little more defined for county employees. . .So, the only thing changing was the additon of a county manager's office and those additional employees ? highly paid employees ? whose experience in the matters they are dealing with was nil before the office was created. . .The point in all of this ? nothing has changed except the expense of a county manager's office has been added. Those things that the county manager's office is handling now were being handled by someone else before at quite a bit less money. . .Duplin County's board of commissioners, in my opinion, are forcing the tax-paying public in Duplin County to support financially an office created by them that is an absolute liability. If there is a Duplin County commissioner on the board who thinks he would not have the job if there was not a county manager, then 1 say this commissioner is in the wrong job. . .If he (or she) did not have a sufficient amount of time k> put into the office he was elected to, he should not have asked to be elected. . .Quite frankly, if the commissioners feel this way, 1 don't think they should ran in the next election. 1 think they should resign now ? get out so someone with the desire and time can help Duplin County ?- not harm it. . . I was in Wilmington this past weekend in one of the large so-called discount stores. I saw this lady from Magnolia. She had a shopping cart going about this big old store adding an item notfr and again to the cart. Some time later as I was leaving the store I saw this lady and her husband leaving empty-handed. . .1 gave them a big old country howdy and we stopped to talk for a bit. . .The lady said she had gathered up several items in the store to buy and as she was going to the check-out counter, she got to looking at what she had in the cart and decided they were all things she wanted, but did not need. . .She decided she would rather have her money. . .Now, what she did next was prove she was a good country girl from Duplin County. She didn't just push the buggy aside and leave it; she put each item she had in the cart back on the shelf from where she had gotten it. . .It makes me feel real good to know people like this. . .No one would ever have known that Some lady from Magnolia filled a cart with this and that and then just left it in the store. . .That is, no one but the lady from Magnolia. .She is responsible for herself and lived up to it. . .We who live in the country (and if you live in Duplin County, you live in the country) are sometimes called red-necks. . .It's ladies like this one who put a whole new meaning to the word. . .Son-of-a-Gun. . . Discover Home Satellite TV... , -^\ Free ^ Demonstration! Tomor row s Techndogy Avai table Today! Come and see for yourself the amazing clarity of TV pictures sent from space. Experience the incredible variety of television now available via satellite. 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