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PAGE EIGHT
Weekly Legislative Summary
Tliiu in one in a series of weekly sum
maries prepared by the legislative staff
of the Institute of Government on the
work of the North Carolina (ieneral
Assembly of 19«1. It is confined to
discussions of matters of (tenoral in
terest and major importance.
A week that saw a minimum
of legislative output was mark
ed by two sharply contrasting
events.
On Tuesday the General As
sembly journeyed to Greensboro
for a session honoring House
Speaker Joseph Ilun't. Given
.the red carpet treatment bv their
Gate City hosts, the members
reciprocated by holding a regu
lar legislative session for the
edification of assembled school
children ' and other Greens
burghers.
Pleasant memories of this trip
were interrupted Wednesday by
'the death of veteran Forsyth
County legislator, Fleetus L.
Gobble. Rod. Gobble was scrv
Taylor Theatre j
EDENTOiV, N. C.
Thursday and Friday,
March 9-10 —
Joan Collins and
Richard Eagan in
"ESTHER AND THE KING" j
Cinemascope ami Color :
|
Saturday, March 11—
doi ki.i: n: \ti ki:
Joel McCrea in
"TROOPER HOOK"
—and—
Robert Mitchum in
"THUNDER ROAD"
Sunday. Monday and Tuesday,;
March 12-13-14
Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, 1
Robert Mitchum and
Jean Simmons in :
"THE GRASS IS GREENER" !
Cinemascope and Color
Wednesday, March 15—
DOCItI.K FKATfKK
Elizabeth Taylor in
"ELEPHANT WALK"
—and—
Charlton Heston in
"THE NAKED JUNGLE" j
Itoth In Color
P & Q SUPER MARKET, Inc.
“HOME OF FIXE FOODS”
Eden ton North Carolina
Dear Friend:
It’s mighty easy to forget that money spent at home has away of re
turning to our own pockets, either as wages paid by our local employers, or
by reinvestment of these dollars by local merchants in providing even better
facilities and -elections. Every Edentonian is, truly, an integral part of the
‘’chain of prosperity” of this area!
Your dollar spent in Edenton will get you just about the same size pack
age nf merchandise or services that a dollar will buy anywhere else. But
there is a Big Bonus you get when you buy where you live.
It comes to you in the form of a busier and more prosperous communi
ty . . . a jdace in which you can make a better living . . . easier. The pre
mium for buying in your own community includes better schools/stronger
churches.
Keep.ing more of our trade in Edenton is one easy way by which we can
create and sustain more local opportunities for our young jieople—and for
ourselves, and . . . most important of all, the quiet and full life that only
those can know who live in a prosperous American rural community.
MAKE YOL K DOLLARS BUILD YOUR COMMUNITY.
. . . NOT SOMEBODY ELSE’S.
A MESSAGE FROM YOUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS WHO
WORK AT THE P & Q SUPER MARKET
Sincerely,
Hank Quinn Johnnie Owens Helen Britt
Ernest Kehayes Christine Peele Jackie Britt
Ethel Simpson Ronald Saunders Thomas Brook* \
tt i, r' i u Malcom Bunch
Holly Colombo Neva Spruill
Lenny Copeland
Richard Copeland Rudv Spruill *
Leslie Carter \
Mae Garris Melvin Copeland . „
Paige Farmer
Jack Hardison James Aired Van Fleming
Sybil Jones Johnny Bass Gary Hardison
Jim Keeter Donnie Nixon Frank Hedgepath \
Ernest McClease Beulah Privott .Walter Stowe
Harry Overton William Reeves Woodrow Slade
Bobby Overton Leroy Spivey Paul Whiteman
ing his tenth session in the
House in a tenure extending
back to 1941. Out of respect to
his memory, the House transact
ed no business Thursday and
the Senate deferred its calendar.
Courts
Court revision is the first ma
jor issue to begin to take shape
in this session. The NC Bar
Association-sponsored bill, in
troduced last week by Rep. Tay
ilor was introduced this week in
j the Senate by Senators Crew,
j Jordan and Bell. On Thursday
I Sen. Hamilton introduced a bill,
backed by Sen. Lindsay Warren
and signed by 30 members of the
Senate, which Sen. Warren stat-
Jcd was designed to be “a sub
stitute for the so-called Bell
j court reform bill.” The “War
l ren Bill” makes no change in
{the Supreme Court, Superior'
Courts, or justices of the peace.
It requires the General Assem
bly to provide for the establish
ment of a system of courts, in
ferior to the Superior Court, for
the various counties, cities and
towns of the state, the courts to
Ibe established in each locality
j with the approval of the local
governing authority. Specializ
ed courts, such as juvenile, traf- [
sic and domestic relations courts j
could be established. Courts!
must be uniform as to organiza-:
tion, jurisdiction, procedure and;
powers; local or special laws re-;
lating to the courts are forbid-j
den, and all amendments must |
be general and uniform in es- j
feet and application throughout'
the state. Until a court is es
! tablished under this bill in a |
I county, city or town, existing in
| ferior courts will continue to op- :
| crate.
Another bill which will be
| come a part of the over-all court
struggle was introduced Thurs
day by Senators Clark and Shel
ton This bill, which is approv
' ed by the NC Magistrates Asso
ciation, provides that one or
more JP’s shall be elected at
each general election for mem
i bers of the General Assembly.
It further provides that the num
! ber of JP’s and the manner of
] their election or appointment
shall be determined by the Gen
eral Assembly; thus some meth
lod of appointment, in addition
to the prescribed election, ap
parently is contemplated. Per
haps the most significant change
made by the bill is the pro
vision that in all criminal 'mat-
ters the JP shall receive a uni
form fee of $5 in each case
where process is issued and final
judgment rendered, regardless of
the nature of the verdict. Thus,
the income of the JP would not
depend upon his decision in
criminal cases. The $5 fee
would be paid by the county \
out of costs collected by the I
JP’s and turned over to 1 the I
county, or from such other funds I
as the county might provide.
All of the bills relating to the
courts were referred to Sen.
Kesler’s Committee on Courts
and Judicial Districts. As the
week ended, the position from
whidh the battle over the courts
will be fought and the identity
of the standard bearers were
more or less clearly establish
ed, but there is still consider
able shuffling about to be done
before it will be clear as to
who will man the guns on either
side.
Legislative Representation
Redistricting of the State Sen
ate would be accomplished by
SB 66 introduced Friday by Sen.
Currie. The bill would make no
change (other than district num
bers) in 20 of the existing 33
districts. Mecklenburg, Guilford
and Forsyth would each be al
lotted two Senators. Cumber
land would be taken from the
present 10th district and would
become a one-county district, as
would Rowan. Cabarrus, which
is now with Rowan, would be
transferred to the present 2-Sen
ator 19th district, joining An
son, Stanly and Union. Craven
and Greene would be removed
from the present 7th—Craven to
join Beaufort, Dare, Hyde, Mar
tin, Pamlico,, Tyrrell and Wash
ington in the present 2-Sena
tor 2nd district, and Greene to
be added to Franklin, Nash and
Wilson in the present 2-Senator
6th. Pitt, now a one-county dis- (
trict, would join Edgecombe and ■
Halifax in the 2-Senator 4th dis
trict. Alleghany and Ashe would
move in with Stokes and Surry
in the 23rd. Watauga would
join Avery, Madison, Mitchell
and Yancey in the present 30th.
The bill was referred to Sen.
; Currie’s Committee on Election
Laws and Legislative Represen
tation.
Meanwhile a public hearing
was held on HB 1, the Kemp
Bill to reapportion House seats
according to the present Con
stitutional formula and the 1960
census returns. The NC League
!of Women Voters urged adop
i tion of the bill. The House
i Committee on Congressional Dis
THE CHOWAN HERALD, EDEKTOK. WORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1981,
triets adjourned after the hear
ing with taking action on the
bill.
Capital Punishment
The expected bill abolishing
capital punishment except as to
second offenses was introduced
| Tuesday by Rep. Harris of Wake
and Rep. Taylor. Except for
j one obscure capital penalty (kill
ing a person through malicious
| damage to a railroad: GS 14-278),
the bill punishes with life im
prisonment all capital, felonies —
murder in the first degree, rape,
arson, and burglary in the first
degree—instead of giving the
jury its choice between death
and life imprisonment as at
present. In the process of
amending the burglary punish
ment, the bill eliminates the
present punishment for burglary
in the second degree, which is
either life imprisonment or a
term of years in the discretion
of the court, and thus places
this crime under the maximum
10-year provision of the general
law. The bill provides that the
jury may choose between death
and imprisonment for life when
one commits one of 'the listed
crimes while under sentence of
life imprisonment
Appropriations
Having experimented with
morning meetings, the Joint Ap
propriations Committees voted
overwhelmingly to return to the
traditional afternoon meetings.
Notwithstanding this decision,
the committee met Thursday
morning and heard Agriculture
Commissioner L. Y. Ballentine
request $907,000 for the opera
tion of a compulsory meat and
poultry products inspection pro
gram which would supplement
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Farm Facts
Today’s farmer has the
tools and know-how to do his
job more efficiently. This
makes it possible to supply
himself and 23 other persons,
a production ratio achieved
by farmers in no other coun
try.
The U. S. farmer s capacity
to produce thus makes it un
necessary to maintain a large
labor force on the land. This
makes more workers avail
able for industry, freeing
them to supply the many
goods and services which con
tribute to our high standard
of living.
To achieve this efficiency,
U. S. farmers are continually
increasing their investment
in equipment and supplies.
This demand creates payrolls
and employment for suppliers
to dn extent not realized by
many people.
Few of us realize, for ex
ample, that farmers in this
country have twice as much
invested in machinery as the
steel industry and five times
as much as the automobile
industry.
The farmer is America’s,
biggest customer and he is
getting bigger all the time.
the federal compulsory program i
for meat and poultry products
shipped across state lines. The |
state now has a voluntary in-1
spection program, but many!
meat and poultry packers do not i
participate in it.
Other requests heard by the j
committee during the week in
cluded $82,254 for renting of'
field offices for the Department
of Revenue; money for increased
faculty salaries at the Consoli
dated University; SBOO,OOO for
purchase of farm land south of,
Raleigh to be used by State Col-
twice as much Sj
machinery
. five times
11 1 11
.
i Spendable income of all farm
: families was more than S4O
i billion in 1959. This compares
t with $46 billion that the Gov
ernment spent on defense In
i. the same year. It was more
i than all U. S. business spent
. on plants and equipment.
lege; $115,000 to match a Ford
Foundation grant to State Col
lege School of Engineering, and
$430,000 to double fee size of
a proposed dormitory alt Wo
man’s College.
Miscellaneous
Freshman Senators who have
been receiving instruction in the
procedures and folkways of the
Senate received two unscheduled
lessons Monday night When
Sen. Currie was quizzed 'as to
the reasons underlying his ac
tions in recalling SR 4, relating
to senatorial redistricting, from
the House, and then immediate
ly returning the resolution to
the House, toe made a fairly
lengthy explanation which pro
vided entertainment and mystifi
cation. When Sen. Hancock was
assured by President Philpott
that the Chair "would not be of
fended if the Senator chose to
appeal an adverse ruling, the
Senator graciously declined with
the comment that one such fool
ish action (which he had once
taken) was enough.
Theory Tested
Conservative—So you believe
in dividing everything up, do
you?
Socialist—Yes.
Conservative Would you be
willing to give me half your
cows?
Socialist—Yes, most certainly.
Eddie Wheeler
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Conservative—Would you give
me half your chickens?
Socialist—No, that’s different.
Conservative—What’s the dif
ference? »’
Socialist—Why, I have chick
ens but I ain’t got no cows.
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