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CAPITQL CUPBOARD Local Enforcement Of Wages And Hours Law To Be Rigid •;- -v : by eula n. greenwood MOVING IN . Armed with an expanded force and endless funds, the U. S. Department of Labor ii»' January began rigid, no-holds-barred enforcement of the Federal, wage-hour law . . . in Southern states. Word reaches us that several large firms in the central areas of North Carolina are now on the carpet. Back pay for one of these coihpanies to its employ ees may run to $100,000. Several very, very small firms—seme with fewer than 15 employees—will be hit for upwards of $5,000. Sharp gov ernment auditors are moving in. The noose is being tightened. Uncle Sam is going back two years—the maximum time un der this law—and making em ployers whose firms are in in terstate commerce tote fair with their workers. What is “fair”? These employees should have been paid at least $1.25 an hour, and time-and-a-half for each hour worked weekly over 40 hours. The government is going to each employee to determine whether he has been underpaid. And if so, how much. A few employees stand to get over $1,000 each in back pay. If you are connected with a firm other than retailing that sells across state lines—into Virginia, South Carolina, Ten nessee, Georgia, for example— then you are on the receiving end or the paying end of a minimum of $1’25 an’hour. You are in interstate commerce. If you are an employee of such a firm, you are certainly interested. Employers in such companies should go . back to their records at once. Get the evidence. Should employees have to go into court, they can get exactly double the amount originally due them. If thrf' -fim is-engaged Jn manufaet<i?Trtg; p’r’o $L printing, etc., odds are it fi-li and has been—under the Fed eral wage-hour law. SANFORD FRIENDS ... It is too early to predict how it will shape up, but we note here and thfere that good, long-time friends of former Gov. Terry Sanford are announcing for the Legislature. And some who have not yet announced are clearing the way to do so. With reapportionment drast ically reducing the number of legislators from the coastal and mountain counties, former Gov. Sanford could come up with as many supporters as Gov, Moore in the 1967 General Assembly. SECOND TERM? ... The rumor still persists that Terry Sanford will run for Governor again in 1968. But, even if he should, it s e e pi s extremely doubtful at this time that he could defeat Lt. Gov. Bob Scott. Young Scott could still stub his toe, however. And don’t make the mistake of thinking that Sanford doesn’t have lib erally thousands of people out &A A Pleasast Vhj It Help loa LUoK M BOONS DRUG CO. Ul K. Bmml N. C there who would rather have him Governor than anybody; else on the face ef this earth. Bob Scott knows this, too. MISTAKE . . . Some children writing editorials in the Win ston-Salem Journal led us into making a bad mistake a column or two ago. These children were writing about “Governor Moore’s Broom". They were getting af ter the Governor for not re appointing more of Sanford’s appointees. In this editorial they said, apparently seriously: . . Ter ry Sanford accepted Luther Hodges’ appointments. William Umstead accepted Kerr Scott’s. And as far as we know, new governors have always done likewise, simply because It’s the only way to preserve the stability and continuity of state government.” Wow! Well, anybody who has kept up with North Carolina “state government” for any length of time knows just how far, far off-base the editorial is. Some of these days—and it won’t be long—a list of new appoint ments by Governors Scott, Um stead, Hodges, and Sanford will be published. And it will be as long as your arm, too. J. McDevitt . . . So, when it was noted that Brookes Peters was not reappointed to the State Utilities Commission (be cause of age), this column said Peters was being replaced by John W. McDevitt “who himself ‘retired’ by Gov. Terry Sanford in 1961 as State Persoriiiel Di rector.” But the column was wrong, dead wrong. McDevitt, good man, was not kicked out by Gov. Sanford, as we had long thought. We were sure he was —so sure we didn’t even check on it. No, he left of his own ac cord, joined a Durham insur ance firm, during Gov. San ford's first year in office. He . was replaced by Ed La nier, who left the personnel post to become Insurance Com missioner. Hugh Cannon, who is as sociated with Terry Sanford in the practice of law, set us straight. Cannon was State bud get officer and director of the Department of Administration under Gov. Sanford. Mr. Cannon’s letter begins, “I noticed in your column the other day" . . . and he takes off from there. Mr. McDevitt left of his own accord for a bet ter-paying job, and his depar ture came as a surprise to the Sanford administration. McDevitt had assurances from the Sanford people that he had their support, for they felt he had done a good job—as he will as a member of the State Utilities Commission. This col umn was a little unfair to Gov. Sanford, and to Mr. McDevitt, and is glad to set the record straight. TWENTY-FIFTH . . . The N. C. Citizens Association will hold its 25th annual meeting here on March 16. The speaker will be Stuart Sanders, chair man of the board of Pennsyl vania Railroad. Co. Agent’s Column Please note that the tobacco meeting is Friday mprning, February 18, at 10:00 a." m. In the County Courthouse, Boone, instead of Thursday as we stated last week. Strawberry Plants We will continue to make pool orders for strawberry plants for April delivery as long as plants are available. French Honor Society Initiates ine National r rencn Honor Society, Pi Delta Phi, at Appalachian State Teachers College, held its winter initiation on Friday, Jan. 28, at the Daniel Boone Inn. The formal ceremony was followed by a dinner. The following new members were initiated: Jo Ann Anderson, Char lotte; David Brown, Mooresville; Wanda Burleson, Spruce Pine; June Goforth, Statesville; Georganna Mayhew, Davidson; Mike Yancey, Val dese; Hannelore Pfann, Boone; Christie Stoddard, Raleigh; Juanita Lew is, Boone; Sue Smith, Mount Airy. Officers of the local Gamma Phi Chapter are Ken Davis, president, Ellenboro; Faye Spivey, vice-presi aeni, i-anaor; ana uioria uasn, secretary-treasurer, Stafford, Va. Other mem bers who were initiated in previous years are: Martha Baysden, Wingate; .■'* Lewis Gaston, Belmont; Judy Lefler, Salisbury; Judy Hayes, Boone; Jolene \ Riddle, Spruce Pine; Arby Frost, Pulaski, Va.; Annie Lee Sampson, Guilfonl - College; Keith Yokley, High Point; and Faye Henson, Forest'City. Professor Carl Bredow, a member of the language department faculty at Appalachian » was initiated as an honorary member. Mrs. Shelia Norton and Dr. J. Hoy-> Prince, also of the department faculty, are also members. Dr. Prince is the faculty sponsor of the group. ;; •_ ./ Near-Miracles Being Seen In War On Heart Disease Chapel Hill — A tiny needle pulling almost invsible thread takes twenty stitches in a blood vessel about the size of a tooth pick as the surgeon views his field of operation through a microscope. A woman whose own heart has lost its power to beat rhy thmically goes about her busy, normal life with an artificial pace-maker mechanism implant ed in her chest. - A young man who has drown ed in the surf is returned to life as mouth-to-mouth breath ing and external chest pressure restore his lung and heart ac tion. A diseased heart valve is cut out and an artificial one neatly inserted so that the child may run and play again. A heart-lung machine puts oxygen into the blood and pumps it through thousands of vessels to all parts of the body, while the patient's heart lies motionless under the surgeon’s hand. These are some of the more dramatic results of the war against heart disease in North Carolina and elsewhere during the past decade, according to the North Carolina Heart Asso ciation. Less well-known, ex cept to the physician, are other advances, such as vastly improv ed methods of diagnosing heart and blood vessel disease and the new drugs for treating and controlling these diseases. The American Heart Associ ation, of which the North Car olina Heart Association is a partj has spent about 110 mil lion dollars on research since it became a voluntary health agency in 1949. For the last several years, Heart Associa tions have invested more than ten million dollars a year in cardiovascular scientists and their laboratories, which they term “miracle factories.” The North Carolina Heart As sociation’s annual report for 1964-1965, entitled “War Against Heart Disease,” has just been released and single copies may be secured by writing HEART, Chapel Hill, N. C., 27514. 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