1967 Weekly Legislative Summary
Note: This is another ol a
series of weekly summaries
prepared by the legislative
staff of the Institute of
Government on the work
of the North Carolina Gen
eral Assembly of 1967. It
G. D. Forehand
Dies In Virginia
NORFOLK, Va. George
Dewey Forehand, 54, died
at Petersburg Central Hos
pital last week.
Mr. Forehand, a native
of Chowan County, North
Carolina, was a barber. He
lived in Norfolk for 25
years.
He was a son of the late
William E. and Dearie
Twine Forehand.
Mr. Forehand is survived
by one son, Johnnie N.
Forehand of Richmond,
Va.; a daughter, Mrs. Nel
lie Mae Donati, also of
Richmond; four brothers,
Jce Forehand of Tyner,
Ephriam Forehand of Suf
folk, Va., Major Forehand
of Norfolk, and William E.
Forehand; three sisters,
Mrs. Bertram Byrum of
Edenton, Mrs. Evelyn
Bunch of Hobbsville, and
Mrs. Mamie Byrum of Ty
ner.
Funeral services were
held at Williford Funeral
Home in Edenton Monday
with Rev. Harold Leake in
charge. Burial was in
Beaver Hill Cemetery
there.
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is confined to discussions
of matters of general in
terest and major import
ance.
The 1967 Assembly is
now pounding down the
backstretch, having turn
ed the corner of the 16th
full week of the session.
1712 bills and resolutions
have been introduced, of
which 615 bills and 53
resolutions have been rati
fied. While the pace of
new introductions slowed
somewhat this week, even
so, a total of 95 bills were
introduced and added to
already bulging committee
larders. (818 bills were in
committee as of Wednes
day, most of which are
public bills. Os this num
ber 276 were in the Ap
propriations and Finance
Committees alone). Sig
nificant new proposals in
cluded a complete revamp
ing of the State’s correc
tional institutions, a new
enabling law for local wa
ter and sewerage districts,
and program bills for the
State Highway Commission.
A familiar budget signal
buzzed on Tuesday when
Governor Moore announced
his revised revenue esti
mates for the forthcoming
biennium up $28.4 mil
lion above earlier etimates.
Along with this announce
ment he recommended that
$9.6 million of the spread
be allocated to further
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teacher salary increases;
$7.5 million go to meeting
Federal wage and hour de- ]
mands; $3 million go to an
assortment of items, includ- <
ing the Wright School,
augmenting Negro college
funds, and Agricultural :
Extension salary increases;
and that $8.23 million be .
left to the discretion of the
General Assembly. The
teacher pay recommenda- !
tion would bring to 20%
the total increase for
teachers during the com
ing biennium and will un
doubtedly raise a formid
able obstacle to breaking ,
the “Administration budget
line” when the general ap
propriations bills emerge
from committee.
Natural Resources
Twelve years ago a mild
ly revolutionary proposal,
borne of the extended
drouth of the early 1950’s
was offered to the 1955
General Assembly: to re
place the traditional ri
parian rights doctrine that
has perennially guided the
use of Carolina surface
waters with the rule of
prior appropriation, model
ed on the principles that
govern water use in the
arid western states. Strong
backing from agricultural
and municipal interests
met with stronger resist
ance from industrial water
users, and the proposal was
rejected in favor of a com
promise solution, involving
the creation of a water
policy study group (the
State Board of Water Com
missioners) with limited
authority to control water
use in local water supply
emergencies.
, During the late 1950’s the
Water Commissioners, led
by General James Towns
end an early backer of wa
ter law reform, studied and
ruminated. In 1959 the old
Board was transformed in
to a new one, the State
Board of Water Resources,
originally conceived as a
single coordinating board
for all State water pro
grams to be staffed by a
single Water Resources De
partment. Nominally a
single Department was in
deed created by the 1959
Assembly, but the Depart
ment’s ability to speak
with one voice was hobbled
by another water-borne
compromise. Instead of
fashioning a unitary 'water
board . the 1959 legislation
created one Department
with two policy heads: the
State Board of Water Re
sources, to carry forward
the water use policy and
development functions of
the'old Water Board; and
the Stream Sanitation Com
mittee, to continue as mas
ter of the State’s water
pollution control program.
General Townsend moved
over from the old board
to head the new Board of
Water Resources, while
former Senator J. Vivian
Whitfield, the father of
the Stream Sanitation Law,
stayed on as head of the
Stream Sanitation Commit
tee positions retained by
both to this day. Through
the early 1960’s the fledg
ling Department slowly
gathered its forces, strength
ening and expanding the
Stream Sanitation program,
building a ground water
staff, and initiating a plan- 1
ning program.
From this long and slow
evolution has finally
emerged in 1967 the first
substantial policy output of
a decade of study and ap
praisal proposed legisla
tion seeking once again to
unify the direction of the
Water Resources 'Depart
ment under a single board,
and separate bills to grant
additional powers to the
Department, including the
authority to regulate water
use in “capacity water use
areas.” Altogether nine
Department - backed bills
have now been introduced
to implement these decis
ions. One (HB 356), the
reorganization measure, has
already passed the House
and is awaiting Senate
committee action.
The substantive proposals
(in addition to the capacity
use areas bill) affect five
principal areas: well con
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struction standards and re
porting, water use infor
mation, flood plains man
agement, dam safety, and
State participation in de
veloping water supply stor
age in Federal reservoir
projects. Most of the rec
ommendations involve mat
ters that have long been
under study the dam
safety regulation bill, for
example, grows out of a
major study completed for
the Board in 1963.
Curtain and Curtain Calls
Among the week’s contri
butions to the growing
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storehouse of North Caro
lina law—via ratification or
final passage—were a glue
sniffing prohibition, a mo
torcycle safety equipment
law, amendments to the
Uniform Commercial Code,
and the last of the Ad
ministration’s law and or
der program, the bill to
make cross burning a fel
ony.
A sharp upturn in killed
bills this week, typical of
the late stages of the ses
sion, brought late rites for
a dozen bills, including the
veto proposal.
WHlie White, 65, Taken In Death
Willie White, 203 West
Church Street, died Satur
day morning at Chowan
Hospital. He was 65.
He was a native of Cho
wan County, a son of the
late William Valentine and
Mary Berryman White. He
was married to Lula O.
White, who survives.
Other survivors include
William Albert White of
Edenton, a son; two broth
ers: Thomas N. White of
Stone Mountain, Ga., and
Joe White of Suffolk, Va.;
and one grandchild.
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Funeral services were
conducted at 4 P. M., Sun
day at Williford Funeral
Home with Rev. R. N. Car
roll officiating. Burial was
in Leaver Hill Cemetery.
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Binks Doesn’t it make
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old horse and buggy days?
Jinks—Yes, except when
I remember that a tack in
the road wouldn’t spoil a
trip in those days.