PAGE SIX
Weekly Leg
Note: This is another of 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
is confined to discussions
of matters of general in
terest and major import
ance.
Legislative Research
Most observers and leg
islators would agree that a
state legislative session is
hardly the time or place
for thoroughgoing basic
study of matters requiring
legislative action. A stand
ing legislative committee
may provide a reliable
forum for evaluating and
perfecting matured legisla
tive proposals. But usu
ally these committees,
lacking professional staff,
One Bad Shot Can Cause Trouble
ELIZABETH CITY—The
dove sat on the telephone
cable, grey and motionless
in the warm stillness of
the early spring after
noon. A few moments be
fore it had been on the
shoulder of a secondary
road number 1100 in, the
Weeksville section of Pas
quotank County “gravelling
up.”
Now it rested comfort
ably on the communica-
Mass Schedule
At St. Ann’s
Father Joseph J. Lash,
pastor of St. Ann’s Cath
olic Church, announces the
following schedule of
masses:
Thursday, 7 A. M.; Fri
day, 7 A. M.; Saturday,
7 A. M.; Sunday, 8 A. M.
and 12:30 P. M.
At All Souls’ in Colum
bia: Sunday, 10 A. M.
WEDDING SATURDAY
AT ST. ANN’S CHURCH
Father Joseph Lash will
_be witness.to the exchange
Mos vowi between Kay Ca-
uverman ami Ray
mond Bennett ar 3
o’clock' this coming Satur
day afternoon at St. Ann’s
Catholic Church.
Miss Liverman is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Aubrey W. Liverman of
Plymouth, and Mr. Bennett
is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Raymond H. Bennett of
Laurel, Md.
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meeting but four or five
months every two years,
and lacking -continuity of
membership, are not well
adapted to leisurely studies
in depth of complex prob
lems. To help fill this
need, the North Carolina
General Assembly has of
ten made extensive use of
the ad hoc, interim study
commission with consider
able success.
In the North Carolina
tradition the typical study
commission includes mem
bers appointed from the
House and Senate by the
presiding officers, as well
as gubernatorial ap
pointees. In size the com
mission. may range from
five to 15 members, with
nine being an average
number. The commission
will be assigned a limited
topic (for study between
tions cable while the
gravel in its craw aided
in digesting the seeds and
small grain of its late af
ternoon repast.
The quietness of the af
ternoon was interrupted
abruptly by the blast of
the shotgun. The out-of
season sportsmen found his
mark and the bird, caught
by the full impact of the
load, (fell from the cable
to the ground. The still
ness of death merged with
the still of the day lay on
the edge of the field, six
ounces of grey feathers
and flesh, heavier now by
the weight of six bird
shot.
The brave hunter casu
ally examined his kill,
praised himself on his as
tute marksmanship with a
scatter-gun on a sitting
target, tossed the carcass
into the ditch beside the
road, and went cheerfully
on his way, home from
the field.
According to officials of
the Norfolk & Carolina
Telephone & Telegraph
Companies here, this is a
scene which is repeated
many times each year In
all “of its rural Service
areas. Unfortunately, it
dosen’t end with the dis
posal of the victim bird.
If that were the case, the
telephone people would
not be concerned.
However, in the case a?
the Weeksville shoot out,
or shoot up last March 14,
the 125 shot which didn’t
hit the bird, did hit the
cable it was sitting on.
The plastic covering on
THE CHOWAN HERALD, EPENTON, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1967.
islative Summary
legislative sessions and for
report to the next As
sembly with any recom
mended legislation. It may
be given a small appropria
tion, or the authority to
draw on contingency and
emergency fluids, for con
sultant and clerical as
sistance and general ex
penses. Its members will
ordinarily be allowed the
same per diem and ex
pense allowances as mem
bers of other state boards
(principally their travel
expenses plus subsistence
up to S2O per day). Vari
ations from this study
commission pattern in
clude such examples as the
Courts Commission, created
in 1963 to continue until
1970 in its work of im
plementing the new judi
cial article of the State
Constitution.
the 400-wire cable was
penetrated and 10 wires
were severed.
This again does not out
wardly seem to be a
world-shaking disaster. But
placed on an individual
level, considering that
those 10 wires constituted
the source of communica
tion for as many as 20
telephones in the Weeks
ville Exchange area, it
could have been disastrous
for any one or several of
the families whose tele
phone service had been
interrupted in the event of
a family emergency.
Sometimes service is not
immediately cut off. The
pellets may only damage
the insulation separating
the hundreds of tiny wires
which make up modem
telephone cables. As long
as the bare wires do not
come in contact with one
another or get wet, com
munications remain intact
Sooner or later, however,
the weather brings rain—
and along with the rain—
problems for the line re
pairmen.
The recent Weeksville
damage affected only 10
wires. Last year a 100
wire cable was out for
more than 4% hours be
fore it was repaired. Since
April of 1965, when the
local company began keep
ing records of damaged
cables due to shotgun or
rifle blasts, it has had 17
incidents reported. The
number of wires damaged
has varied (from two to 100,
with the average running
at 34.
The time required to re
pair these breaks has
ranged from two to seven
and one-half hours de
pendent upon the extent
of the cable damage. A
total of approximately 135
man-hours has been ex
pended during the two
year period repairing dam
age of this type.
What concerns company
officials is not so much
the additional cost to them
in terms of dollars and
cents for line repair, but
the unnecessary inconveni
ence put upon their sub
scribers by the apparent
thoughtlessness of a few
individuals. One official
attempted to illustrate the
seriousness of the problem
by pointing out that the
seemingly innocent act of
shooting a bird from a
cable could conceivably
contribute to the death ot
a human being miles
away. He asserted his
reasoning was wholly valid
in that not being able to
contact needed assistance
in an emergency situation
could prove fatal for the
victim. In the case of the
100 broken wires in the
South Mills area, the pos
sibility was multiplied by
200 times, the number of
telephones affected by that
outage.
The company urges the
public to give a second
thought before firing any
type of weapon in the di
.rection of telephone
cables. As one employee
summed it up, “You may
have a good day shooting
in the field or along a
rural rood and return
home to find one of your
family in urgent need of a
doctor or ambulance. It’s
too late when you can’t
telephone for help because
the cable you innocently
cut while having your fun
carried your own telephone
line.”
The ad hoc commission
approach has been supple
mented since 1963 by a
continuing, general pur
pose study group, known
originally as the Legisla
tive Council and renamed
the Legislative Research
Commission in 1965. Un
der its present mandate
the LRC is composed ex
clusively of legislators,
and is to make such studies
of governmental agencies
and public policy as direct
ed by its co-chairman (the
Speaker of the House and
President Pro-tem of the
Senate) or by the Assemb
ly itself. Wary of creat
ing a “super-legislature,”
the General Assembly has
limited the functioning of
the LRC to the period be
tween adjournment of one
regular biennial session
and convening of the next
session.
The Week In Review
The Assembly chugged
its way through another
week of very heavy going,
marked by crowded cal
endars, long daily ses
sions and rugged committee
work. Along the way the
members spawned new ob
stacles to early adjourn
ment by introducing an
other 113 bills. The orig
inal target date for Ap
propriations Committee re
ports, today, passed with
out a murmur of money,
and the earliest likely date
for reaching this vital
landmark now appears to
be next Friday, the 16th.
Most discouraging of all in
the adjournment picture—
for the third successive
Wednesday, June 7, the to
tal number of bills in
committee bulged slightly
larger, up from 825 to 827
bills, despite herculean ef
forts at calendar clearing
in both houses.
The week was spiced
with drama from start to
finish. On Monday night
House members adopted a
startling two- week post
ponement of consideration
of the administration tax
cut bill by a 58-57 vote,
overnight, however, as op
position leader Rep. Phil
Godwin ruefully remark
ed, the Governor’s “mis
sionaries” did their work,
and the tables were turn
ed—postponement was re
considered on Tuesday and
the $23.3 million tax pack
age was enacted. Thurs
day brought high theater
to the Senate when the
twin - trailer trucking bill,
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apparently on its way to
routine final approval, was
braked to a shuddering
halt. A three-vote over
nig h t switch parlayed
Wednesday’s 26-23 second
reading approval into a
26-23 motion to recommit
the bill to the Highway
Safety Committee —. where
it will doubtless receive
careful and prolonged con
sideration. On Friday a
last ditch attack was made
in the Senate on the wa
ter and air reorganization
measure, striking mainly at
its judicial review provi
sions and led by Sen. Alls
brook. The bill survived
all proposed floor amend
ments, passed second read
ing and appears likely to
receive final approval on
Monday.
Swan Songs
Over a dozen bills gasp
ed their last this week,
throttled by unfavorable
committee reports or sec
ond reading defeat. Among
the departed were five lo
cal bills, and bills to raise
the motor vehicles sales
tax, raise driver license
fees, to remit 15 per cent
of the sales tax to ooun*
ties, and to permit joint
spouse income tax returns.
One apparent dead duck,
the marshland dredging
control bill, after being
defeated on second read
ing in the Senate was re
vived the following day
when its principal tor
mentor, Sen. Burney, char
itably moved for its re
referral to a Judiciary
Committee for a touch of
plastic surgery.
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Degree Earned
By Miss Leary
OBERLIN, Ohio—Oberlin
College conferred 529 de
grees upon 521 candidates
from 40 states, the District
of Columbia, and 12 for
eign countries at Oberlin’s
134th anniversary com
mencement exercises held
here Monday morning.
Miss Jo Ann Leary of
Edenton, N. C., received
the bachelor of music de
gree. She is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. R. West
Leary, Jr.
While at Oberlin, Miss
Leary was treasurer of the
Music Education Club, a
member of Oberlin College
Choir; and the 240-voice
Musical Union.
Delivering remarks to
the graduating class was
Roy Wilkins, executive di
rector of the National As
sociation for the Advance
ment of Colored People,
who was one of five recip
ients of honorary degrees.
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Tops In Show
WASHINGTON Miss
Betsy Ross, Edenton artist,
took top honors in the
Pamlico Art Group’s side
walk show last weekend.
Miss Ross was requested
to display four of her
paintinga and one of them
wo«i:thp stop award and the
aw» ;
The artist js the daugh
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Ross and teaches in the
School of Art at East Ca
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