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The coming of flowers and grass-
es green
Are harbingers of Spring I'm
' told;
But yet to me they do not mean
As much as going of the cold.
Stripping down the files of
copies of The Herald the other
day, I had an opportunity to
Check some of my old Round
ups. Some I remembered faint
ly; some I had completely for
gotten. Having checked through
a whole year, I was struck with
the fact that if I summed up
my column in one word, that
word would be “patriotism.” It
seems that I have struck that
chord many, many times, and
rightly so. Patriotism, my
friends, is becoming old-fashion
ed. I mean the articulate and
unashamed expression of the love
of country, flag and heritage.
Weekly Legislative Summaiy
Thi# is one In a hcrios of weekly sum
maries prepared b.v the legislative staff
of the Institute off (Government on the
work of the North Carolina (General
Assembly of 1961. It is confined to
discussions off matters of general in
terest and major importance.
Based upon the experience of
the last two sessions, it appears
that the 1961 session is approxi
mately one-third of the way
through. If the present com
parative rate of introductions N is
maintained, this session will fall
substantially behind other recent
years in total volume of bills.
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We seem to consider that kid
stuff and not worthy of adult
consideration. We leave that
for the school kids—saluting the
flag, singing the Star Spangled
Banner, reading American his
tory and such stuff as Paul Re
vere’s Ride. But we’d better
wake up. We’d better do a little
more flag saluting and singing
the Star Spangled Banner, or
we’ll wind up behind the inter
national 8-ball, with communism,
like the sword of Damocles,
hanging dangerously over our
heads.
I have a marked distaste for
snuffing my cigar on any floor.
But when you are in a public
place of business where smoking
is permitted, and there are no!
ash trays—well, what’s - a fellow
going to do? . . . This little squib
is aimed especially at a par-
Comparative figures are:
1961—442 total bills; 243 public
bills; 199 local bills; 131 bills
ratified.
1959—505 total bills; 302 public
bills; 203 local bills; 108 bills
ratified.
190 V—sB7 total bills; 287 public
bills; 300 local bills; 104 bills
ratified.
Revenue
New tax measures continued
to flow to the Finance Commit
tees. HB 264, by Rep. Osteen
and others, would increase the
sales tax on automobiles and air
planes from the present 1%-SBO
maximum rate to 2% without
maximum limit, and would levy
a tax of 1% on retail sales of
mill machinery. HB 275, by Mc-
Millan of Wake, would double
the present surtax rates on beer,
increase the additional tax on
unfortified wines by 10%, and
ingjpase the additional tax on
fortified wines by 10c per gal
lon. HB 297, by Osteen and
others, would add an additional
3% surtax on spirituous liquors,
increase the surtax on 6-to-12 oz.
containers of beer by M>c, and
would increase the additional
tax on wine by 10%. SB 126,
by Jordan and Scott, would
amend the Constitution to pro
vide a tax exemption up to
SSOOO to persons 5 or older, on
real estate used as a homesite
or residence. HB 277, by Mur
phy, would permit deductions,
for state income tax purposes,!
of contributions made to Alco
holics Anonymous. HB 289
would make changes in the law
governing determination of gain
or loss, for state tax purposes,
upon property distributed in
complete liquidation of a cor-1
THE CHOWAN HERALD
I ticular Edenton. business estab
' lishment—l wonder if it hits its
, mark?
1
. PERSONAL NOTE—I do a lot
of roaming around Saturday as
• ternoons, and after visiting sev
• eral stores, sauntering up and
; down the aisles, you’d be sur
■ prised at the amount of stuff I
pick up—enough to last me sev-|
eral weeks ... Os course, if.
you’ve read this far, you know,'
■ or should know, I am referring |
to ideas for my writing and not
merchandise. It is my conten-j
tion that there is a pithy squib I
in every block, and a good ar-j
tide or short story or poem in,
every mile of city street—if youi
j like to write and take the time
to do the necessary walking.
No compromise with communism!
i poration; the bill would bring
state law on this matter into
substantial conformity with fed
eral practice.
Appropriations
Prisons, Highways, and Health'
presented their respective cases
to the Joint Appropriations Com-!
mittees during the week. Pris-|
ons Director George Randall j
asked for an increase of nearly
$700,000 over the Advisory Bud
get Commission recommendations
for 1961-63. Most of this wou !d
be for salary for extra guards
to reduce the work week from
i 66 (for some) to 48 hours.
The Highway Commission re
quested SSB million above rec
ommended appropriations. Most
of this would be for rural sec
ondary roads. Commission Chair
man Evans rejected the suggest
ion that the roads be financed
by bonds.
The State Board of Health
asked for money to hire more
public health personnel, and cit
ed water foaming out of the lap
in some areas of the state as a
matter requiring attention. The
cause: increased use of deterg
ents not properly filtered out of
the water at sewage disposal
plants.
Water Resources
The House Committee on Wa
ter Resources this week was
handed its first major respon
sibility of the session. Com
mittee Chairman Murphy intro
duced HB 295 to repeal the
existing irrigation permit law,
and the bill was referred to the
new committee. The proposed
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repeal has been recommended by
the State Department of Water
Resources because of administra
tive difficulties posed by the
existing permit law.
Private Business
SB 129 would permit a lender
to charge any rate of interest
agreed upon on loans of $25,-
000 or more to a corporation or
ganized for pecuniary gain. Any
person agreeing to fix the price
of goods or services in order lo
eliminate competition between
sellers, or agreeing upon maxi
mum and minimum price levels
for the purpose of eliminating
or restricting the submission of
competitive prices to a prospec
tive purchaser, would be sub
ject to fine, imprisonment, or
both, under the privisions of SB
131. If the offender is a cor
poration, the minimum fine may
be not less than SI,OOO. This
bill was prompted by the fact
that low bids submitted to the
State for bread at state insti
tutions were identical to three
decimal places —a coincidence
which approximately doubled the
cost to the State.
HB 255 would make it unlaw
ful to use or attempt to use a
credit card fraudently, and
would make it unlawful to use
any device or scheme to avoid
payment of a lawful telephone
toll. The bill is in addition to,
not in substitution for, the of
fense of obtaining property by
false pretenses or tokens.
SB 124 would allow insurance
companies to count investment
in electronic data processing
equipment costing over $25,000
in arriving at the percentage of
required investments of capital 1
assets. SB 125 amends the ;
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Standard Nonforfeiture Law; the
bill is technical, and to the uni
nitiated is quite meaningless.
HB 204, which would extend in
definitely the life of the compul
sory automobile liability insur
ance law, was amended in com
mittee (no final vote was taken)
to extend the law only from its
present expiration date of May
15 to June 30 The General As
sembly will probably have ad
journed by the latter date, so
that whatever final decision it
makes would be accomplished by
that time.
Tombstone Territory
The legislative cemetery is
now liberally sprinkled with
gravestones. Among the more
important bills which have been
laid to rest in this session are
HB 52, requiring life
who are parties to partition pro
ceedings to allege their date of
birth; HB 53, changing the re
quirements for showing an ab
solute deed to be intended as
security; HB 54, authorizing ac
knowledgement of a testator’s
signature to a will before the
clerk of superior court! HB 56,
requiring increase!} bond for an
executor who sells, realty to pay
debts; HB 60, {jroviding that
proof of possession of recently
stolen goods is sj»me evidence
that the possessor.; received the
goods knowing them to be stol
en; HB 62, eliminating the pro
vision that defendants may ap
peal from a suspended sentence
in inferior courts the same
rules as from ans other judg
ment in criminal Stases; HB 63,}
giving the State tl}e same num-l
ber of peremptory^challenges ini
criminal cases as *he defendant:
has; HB 225, authorizing a peace
officer to make arrests without
a warrant when, in investigat
ing a motor vehicle accident, he
has reasonable grounds to be
lieve that a violation of the mo
tor vehicle laws has been com
mitted; and SB 30, excluding
larceny by trick from class of
crimes punishable as misde
meanors.
Politics
Though the Republican mem
bership in the General Assem
bly is still quite small —two Sen
ators and 15 Representatives out
of 50 and 120, respectively—the
number is greater than in recent
years, and there is an increased
awareness of party significance
in the General Assembly. Re
publicans, who normally content
themselves with introducing 10-j
cal bills which usually have no
particualr partisan impact, this
week introduced three public
revenue bills. Three Republican
local bills apparently had some
partisan significance HB 138,
providing for popular election of
the Watauga County tax super
visor, HB 147, exempting Clay
County from the absentee vot
ing law, and HB 248, providing
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Thursday, March 30, 1961,
for popular election of the Clay
County Board of Education, all
were reported unfavorably in
the House.
Democratic leaders, particular
ly from the Piedmont, appeared
before the Senate Committee on
Election Laws and Legislative
Representation to plead for re
districting of the Senate. They
argued that failure of the legis
lature to obey the Constitutional
mandate was providing the Re- j
publicans with a very effective!
weapon.
If it’s all the same to the!
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