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STATE CAPITAL
KEYHOLES
By BESS HINTON SILVER
HEAD MEN Chairmanships of
important legislative committees are
beginning to attract attention in the
Capital City. These posts are par
ticularly significant because of the
fact that most legislative work is
done in committee and action on the
floor i 3 more or less of a cut-and
dryed affair. The attitude of a com
mittee chairman has a vital relation
to the chances of a bill becoming law.
You can’t tell who will be who in the
House until the speaker is elected
but in the Senate it is a different
story since Lieutenant Governor A. H.
(Sandy) Graham will have the ap
pointments again this year. You
might not be far wrong in a guess
that Senator U. L. Spence of Moore
County, and Senator Harriss New
man, of New Hanover, will head the
powerful finance and appropriations
committees, respectively, in the up
per house. Both have played im
portant parts on these same com
mittees in the lower house and their
views are not radically divergent from
those of Mr. Graham and the admin
istration.
TEETH—Don’t it into your
head that North Carolina dentists are
going to quit their efforts to get
ethics inscribed on the statute books
just because the Supreme Court re
versed them on their prosecution of
Dr. J. E. Ow r ens, Asheville dentist
and close friend of Senator Robert
Reynolds. The tooth-drawers are
already at work on plans for a bill
to be presented to the next Legisla
ture which will make the carelessly
inclined of their tribe walk the
straight and narrow way or surrender
their license. Incidentally they aim
to keep the molars of the public in
better repair at a saving of money
by kicking the unethical out the well
known window.
HAS HELP—If kinship has any
thing to do with it, Senator Paul
Grady will be president pro tern of
the next Senate, in the opinion of
those who profess to know their poli
tics and genealogy around the ancient
and honorable State Capitol. One
such gentleman points out that Sen
ator Grady and Robert Grady John
son, representative from Pender and
also candidate for speaker of the
House are cousins. This same man
makes the seemingly extravagant
statement that almost all the Gradys,
Outlaws and Maxwells in this State
are kinsmen. If that is half true it
gives Mr. Grady a good start over
his opponent, Senator Carl L. Bailey,
of Washington County. But don’t be
misled. Mr. Bailey has his following
in the Senate where he played an
important part in school, tax and
game legislation two years ago.
LOOKS SURE —It’s no longer any
secret that powerful pressure is to be
brought upon the General Assembly
to divert highway funds into other
channels. Newspapers are advocat
ing such action, in some instances.
Motorists are now said to be paying
half the total State revenues, albeit,
many county roads make difficult
traveling for farmers. If gasoline and
license money is turned into other
channels the roads will not improve
and automobile taxes will not de
crease.
HOLD EVERYTHING Don’t get
excited by recently revived publica
tion of the prediction that Tam C.
Bowie, representative from Ashe
County, will run for the Democratic
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gubernatorial nomination in 1936. Os
course, Mr. Bowie may run but his
close personal friends say that he
will not oppose Congressman R. L.
Doughton if that worthy decides to
see the honor and around Raleigh it
is a generally accepted fact that the
Congressman, also a close personal
friend of Mr. Bowie’s, is planning to
do that little thing. What Mr. Bowie
does will depend largely upon what
Mr. Doughton decides to do, in the
opinion of mutual friends of both
these political big-wigs.
WANT THE MONEY—Times be
ing what they are everybody and liis
brother working for the State of
North Carolina is going to ask for
increased appropriations from the
next General Assembly. And by the
same token they stand a much bet
ter chance of getting at least part o!
what they want than they did two
years ago. The members of the
General Assembly and the State
Treasury are all in much better con
dition and with the cost of living
bounding upward the chances are
that a somewhat fatter pay check
will greet all the State hired help
during the coming biennium although
the increase may not be enough to
buy a house and lot or even a Rolls-
Royce.
HOT SPOT—Watch for a double
barrelled attack on the electric chair
during the next Legislature. A bill
to abolish capital punishment in
North Carolina would not occasion
THE,CHOWAN HERALD EDENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1984.
any great surprise at the capital and
Dr. Charles Augustus Peterson, Re
publican, who will represent Mitchell
County in the House of Representa
tives, is all set to toss a measure in
to the hopper that would substitute
lethal gas for the electric chair. The
doctor has made a study of the gas
executions now used in a few states
and has all the dope ready with
which to back his proposal.
CRIMINAL LAW Recent execu
tions have been followed by vocifer
ous discontent with state statutes
which permit a person who beyond
all doubt hired another to do a mur
der to escape the death sentence
while the man who committed the
deed often pays with his life. An
other law sent four men to the death
chair for the murder of one in the
Taylorsville bank robbery case. Stili
another case recently sent three Ne
groes to the chair for killing How
ard Jemigan, Sampson County white
man. It is not at all unlikely that
efforts will be made to revise these
laws to make all parties in a hired
killing equally guilty while a para
doxial effort may be made to confine
the death punishment to the party
committing murder. Prospects for
revision of these laws are not bright
although any move in that direction
will be of interest to every citizen.
JOBS—Lieutenant Governor A. H.
(Sandy) Graham and Secretary of
State Stacey W. Wade have long
been beseiged with applicants for
jobs during the Legislature. Over on
the House side of the Capitol the
speaker will have jobs to dish out
but since there is a three-cornered
battle between Representatives Rob
ert Grady Johnson, of Pender, Laurie
McEachem, of Hoke, and Willie Lee
Lumpkin, of Franklin, the applicants
can’t tell just which way to turn at
this time. But when one of them is
elected—woe be unto him. Leßoy
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Martin and Thad Eure, unopposed
for chief clerks -of the Senate and
House respectively, are also hearing
from the job-hunters. Somebody is
due to receive a big disappointment
since, in these days of economy, leg
islative jobs no longer grow an trees.
SURPRISE—Persons engaged here
in collecting advance information on
views of members of the next Legis
lature express surprise at sentiment
recorded in favor of a change in the
State’s prohibition laws. They will
tell you that more than the expected
number of solons would legalize li
quor sales under strict supervision
and taxation. Old political heads
around the capitol shake their grey
locks, however, and opine that this is
not the time to of
the dry laws. From all indications
this situation is likely to result in a
clash of considerable proportions, but
+he odds still appear to be with dry.s.
Three thousand baby chicks have
been started for broilers in Catawba
County with an equal number to be
started" in the next two or more suc
ceeding weeks, reports the county
agent.
Our Stocks Are Very
Complete and
The Prices Are
Most Reasonable
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Or get all messed up in the
And Santa Claus is in despair, ■' ’
He merely (lies up in the air.
And if the airplane (ails him too.
He drops straight down the chimney flue.
For just like “Lindy.” he’s no dub—
He’s joined the “Caterpillar Club”!
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ties of Harnett County report a
heavy infestation of cholera, with 1
the epidemic being fought wifcljj
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