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Kidd 'Brewer’s "RALEIGH ROUNDUP” REASONS ... Not a very goad mixer is State Sen: J. Spencer Bell is one reason given for the last <8tch defeat of the court reform plan in the Legislature last week. Bell waked like a dog cm the preject, which never had what yon could call rank-and-file endorse ment from the attorneys of the State.-' . .:#■/ ■ -in the grassroots, meantime, Ore magistrates or Justices of the peace knifed at the charge which would sharply alter'the process of appointment and pay far these augttst offices. Here in the (Legislature the pro posal—for the most part stayed perched up there on Cloud Twen ty. The House members who would have to cany the hall wore not lobbied enough on the Mil. It be came too much of a Senate thing. So when it got mixed up with con stitutional changes, etc., John Kerr, Jr. and Friends—able men, too—could hardly wait to get their hands on Court Reform. nn our opinion, one or tne real statesmen in the 1959 edition of the N. C. General Assembly which held forth here for more than four months was J. Spencer Bell. Bald, blue-eyed, cupdd-red-faeed and cocky in a quiet way is one of the real biig men of North Carolina. But he’s no lobbyist, no-hail-fel low-well-unet, and he had a big load to carry with a, short number of shoulders under the log. Court reform is needed in North Carolina—and it will come. But it seems that nothing connected with courts can ever attain much speed in this State. If you have ever been plaintiff, defendant, witness, member of the jury, judge or at torney, you know what we mean. NOT OFTEN ... As the Legisla ture ground to a faltering stop last week, there was some talk amidst farewells that House Speaker Addison Hewlett might become a candidate for Gover nor next year. Well, we doubt it. In the first place, Hewlett is completing about 15 months of the hardest work of his career—running an extremely Kinston, N. C. NOW thru SATURDAY "Tarzan’s Greatest Adventure99 Technicolor —STARRING— Gordon Scott 'Shake Hands with The Devil99 James Cagney ansions hud race tor Speaker; and then serving as referee, umpire, and heed linesman for that always rambunctious House of Represen tatives. Alan, while now well known and generally liked by most legislators, easy-going and prematurely gray Addison Hewlett is not yet a fam iliar up the l^nes, around the courthouses, and down the streets where votes are made in North Carolina. He'knows that. THE SPEAKERS . . . What be comes of North Carolina House Speakers once their tenure in this prominent and powerful position has come to an end? To our memory, only two of them in modern times have gone to greater things on the political horizon. Willis Smith went to the U. S. Senate about 20 years after Ms service as Speaker. Gregg Cherry became Governor ten years after stepping down from the post. Some other Speakers of recent years were: Kerr Cratge Ramsey of Salis bury, who served just a decade ago, was at 38 one of our young est men to serve in this place. He died suddenly a few months later. John Kerr, Jr., Speaker in 1943, has served time both in the Senate and House; and was in the House very muddy this session. - Larry Moore, Wilson, was the star lobbyist in the vain attempt to bring the dogs and the rabbit back to Morehead and Currituck this time. He served in 1955. Gene Rost, Kannapolis, was de feated in the runoff with Bedford Black last year. He was' the Speak er in 1953. " . “DRUG 99 ft m ALWAYS POUND irs. tUG STORE 80 SATISFACTORY, I KNEW I'D FIND EVERY THING HERE FORA OIABETIC/ Frank Taylbr of Goldsboro, 1961 Speaker, is an effective lobbyist and attorney. Tom Pearsall, Rocky Mount, is’ the daddy of the now famous (and apparently successful) Pearsall Plan for the solution of racial problems in the schools. He has extensive fanning interests in Nash and Edgecombe counties. J. K. Doughton, Sparta, became 75 this past May 16 and, like Ms kin, looks as much like white oak as a Doughton. He CSS in the re cent House. NEXT TIME . -. While, as you can see, the Speakership seldom leads to fame or fortune, the of fice undoubtedly carries prestige— hence the hard battles for it. The fight has already begun for 1961, with candidates seeming to be Honorable Cloyd Philpott of Lex ington, Joe Hunt of Greensboro, iMarcellus Buchanan of Sylva, and Clyde Harris of Salisbury, to name & feiw. __ Harris, who served as chairman of the Appropriations Committee in the House this time, will have a lot of Hewlett strength in his corner as a nucleus for this cam paign. HOUND DOG ... A couple of weeks back, the Rev. Bones Mc Kinney, Wake Forest basketball coach, was giving the address in his delightful informal way for the special ceremony honoring R. S. Haltiwanger, retiring as principal of Hanes High in Winston-Salem. RENEW YOUR SUBSCRIPTION TO THE JOURNAL Just $3 Per Year The fairest sterling in the land Tara by Reed & Barton Six-Piece Place Setting $36.75 Theodore Baxter Jeweler IN NEW BERN FOR 22 YEARS -YOUR HEADQUARTERS FOR BRIGGS-STRATTON Engines and Parts Mill Supplies, Automotive Parts, Supplies Motor Rebuilding Craven Foundry & Machine 202-210 Cravwt St. New Barn, N. C. Pnrf. HaWwaoger is much loved by everyone who knows Mm. When old Bones bare down once very eloquently on what he had meant to education, one of the good patrons, deeply impressed, shouted "Amen!” Bones halted for a moment and in tala charming way said: “Glad you agree, Friend, but please don’t say amen to me-or we Just might be here all n4£»t. 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