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tyrrell County Library in
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will be closed all day on
Wednesday, May 14th, »o that the
staff may attend the regular
quarterly staff meeting. Mrs.
Plana Young, Children’s
Consultant from the State
Library in Raleigh, will be the
sjpeclaj guest at the meeting
which Will be held in Columbia.
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•frvice on that day.
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will be aired at I P.M.
The Raleigh Round-Up Os Legislation
By MILDRED HUSKINS
V Leaders in the General
'Assembly last week began
■taking plans for a June recess
and advised the members to let
up on introduction of bills.
The tentative timetable was
announced Thursday in the
House of Representatives when
Speaker Jimmy Green set a
deadline for introduction of bills
in that chamber and indicated
h« was opposed to naming, a
calendar committee.
■: This committee has
traditionally been named by the
presiding officer of each
Chamber to “take care of” all
those bills left in the various
committee boxes. This simply
means, in most instances, the
Mils in that shape get the axe
pretty fast. As a matter of fact,
many of these measures were
introduced in the first place by
Members who have complained
with some request by a
constituted back home and
have failed to push legislation
{Bid couldn’t care less if it ever
fees the light of day.
* However, all committee
boxes have to be cleared before
adjournment and the Speaker
expressed his objection to
calendar committees. So, he
asked committee to continue to
Work on all bills and in order for
this to take place there has to be
a cutoff date for introduction of
bills.
Tuesday's calendar in the
House was long but the list of
bills introduced and ready to be
assigned to committees was
Ijfief. But, alas, Wednesday,
most of the first page of the
calendar was filled with new
bills. The Speaker sighed and
Said: "If you have or had a good
idea which has been provoking
legislation I wonder where It
Has been all this time. It is time
to stop introducing bills.
—o—
• Monday was the 74th day of
the 1975 session and the house
chaplain, Dr. Albert Edwards,
in his opening prayer, took
note of the fact that many of
*these members think being
here is heaven...others think it
is hell...and some of them think
it is alittle of each...but,
whatever they think, Thou art
here.”
Before the misty, cloudy week
had slipped into a beautiful
Friday and the trip back home,
many of the members had
changed their idea of being
there several times. There were
knotty problems but it is
encouraging to see how many of
the 170 members of the General
Assembly have the courage to
face the issues and than face the
voters back in the district.
It was during the Monday
evening session that Rep.
Marcus Short of Guilford
attempted to resurrrect a
measure which had failed in a
vote in the Friday session. The
Gentleman from Guilford
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Last year the Edenton-
Chowan Board of Education
asked local citizens to provide
them feedback regarding their
feelings about public education.
Entitled the First Annual
Edenton-Chowan Poll of
Attitudes Toward Education, it
gave the citizens an opportunity
to respond to several questions
related to public education. The
results were extremely
valuable to education in making
decisions regarding the
educatin of your children.
Once again, the Edenton-
Chowan Board of Education is
solicitng your views through a
second Public Opinion Poll
regarding a variety of subjects.
Your thoughts and opinions, as
previously, will be utilized by
the school board. They alert the
board to overall public reaction
to school programs and policies.
And, compositely, the results
pointed out that there were a
number of members absent
during-the Friday session and
he thought his Mil was a good
bill and should be considered by
the entire membership. The Mil
had to do with compensatory
allowances in workmen’s
compensation. When Rep. Short
referred to the small number of
members attending the Friday
session, Speaker Green, who
was also absent Friday, asked:
"Where were the other 50
members?” But, in order to
have a bill which has failed to
pass put back on the calendar
for reconsideration it is
necessary for a majority to vote
to reconsider and then it may
beplaced back on the calendar
Rep. Glenn Morris of McDowell
had chaired the committee
from which the bill came and
was opposed to it. “This is a bad
bill and we should just let it lie
in peace,” he said as he asked
his colleagues to vote against
reconsideration. They did.
On the calendar for special
order second and third readings
was the important House
Committee Substitute for
Senate Bill 133 to enlarge the
North Carolina Utilities
Commission and it liked
the sponsores had done their job
well and it was all lined up to go
sailing through but
somewhere along the way,
during debate, a snag was hit
when the original bill sponsor,
Senator Wesley Webster, made
his appearance in the back of the
chamber and began conferring
with some of the members.
Rep. George Miller of
Durham, chairman of the
Committee on Public Utilities,
was handling the bill and Rep.
Herbert Hyde of Buncombe
was, for once, in agreement and
was urging immdeiate passage,
noting that time was of the
essence.
Then Rep. Jimmy Love of
Lee, chairman of the
prestigious Committee on
Appropriation, arose to ask that
the bill be carried over for third
reading since there had been no
mention of the cost involved in
naming additional members to
the commission. Then, almost
immediately, Speaker Pro Tern
Rep. Kitchen Josey of Halifax
arose to defend Rep. Love’s
objecion to the third reading.
Rep. Hyde had made a motion
to suspend the rules and go
ahead and vote on third reading
when he did and about-face. “I
want to make an odd kind of a
motion. The Appropriation
Committee chairman made it
serious... then the Speaker Pro
Tem made it more serious, so I
withdraw my motion to suspend
the rules.
And that was that. The
measure, which had been all
ready for passage, was carried
over but, after some serious
conferences, it made it through
serve as a benchmark with
which to compare with previous
Robert SUra
Geest Speaker
Dentists from the Edenton
x eree will join some 2,000
members of their profession
and dental auxiliary personnel
for die 119th annual session of
the N. C. Dental Society in
Pinehurst May 11-14.
An extensive business,
scientific and social program is
announced by Dr. Charles W.
Horton of High Point, state
president of the society.
One of the higilihgts of the
sessions will be the address of
Dr. Robert B. Shira of
Boston, Mass., president-elect
of the America Dental
Association on Sunday night.
in fine style on Tuesday and
went to the senate for
concurrence with the House
amendment.
-—O—
Rep. Hartwell Campbell of
Wilson had introduced a “little
bill” to enforce height
restriction on passenger
vehicles and it, like most
highway safety bills, generated
about as much debate as a
wildlife bill. Rep. Hoyle
Hightower of Anson was
perplexed and kept asking
questions about the measure
which would require the height
restrictions to be compiled with
before an inspection sticker
should be issued.
The Gentleman from Anson
was concerned about the height
of campers and sent up an
amendment exempting
campers. The Gentleman from
Wilson objected, saying the
amendment was unnecessary
for the bill applied only to
passenger vehicles.
However the debate
continued. Rep. Craig Lawing
of Mecklenburg got into the act
and the Speaker said, after a
heated exchange between the
two, “That’s all the debate we
need from those two.” Well,
anyway, the bill went over for
third reading and finally passed
after an amendment or two.
—O—
The new rules of the House
eliminate the presiding officer
from extending specific
courtesies to visitors in the
gallery from time to time but he
often welcomes the visitors as a
- whole. However, Wednesday
afternoon a group of school
students from the Speaker’s
county of Bladen were in the
gallery and he couldn’t let the
opportunity to take note of them
pass. He asked that they stand
and be recognized and
mentioned that the pretty,
petite teacher was from his own
town of Garkton. There were a
number of rather la ge teens in
the group and the Speaker said:
“I wonder how such a little girl
can handle so many big boys.”
—O—
Bills to amend the state
constiution continue to come up.
The document doesn’t seem to
suit some of the legislators.
Rep. Campbell of Wilson had
one to amend the Constitution to
provide for equal protection of
the laws and no discrimination
by the state regardless of sex. It
came out of his committee
favorably but when it got to the
floor he made a motion that it be
postponed indefinitely. That
means he didn’t want to be
voted upon.
The Gentleman from Wilson
expalined that it was unusual
for a member to make such a
motion concerning his own bill
but he simply didn’t have the 72
votes it would require to place
the issue on the ballot. That
didn’t keep Rep. Mary Nesbit of
THE CHOWAN HERALD
attitudes of the community.
What do you see as the biggest
problems of education? In what
ways are your schools
particularly good? What do you
feel should be the curriculum of
your elementary, junior and
senior high schools? Hgw do you
think schools should be
financed? What do you think
about certain trends in
education?
Hopefully, you will take time
from your already overcrowded
schedule to respond to this
opinion poll.
Today, May 8, your child will
bring home a copy of the Second
Annual Attitude Toward Public
Opinionnaire. It is the sincere
hope of the board of education
that every parent will assume
repsonsiMlity for seeing that it
is completed and returned to
school by their child.
In addition, a copy may be
found elsewhere in this
Buncombe from wishing to be
heard on the measure. Still
piqued with Rep. Campbell for
voting against ERA, the Lady
from Buncombe said, “I had a
speech all written out opposing
the bill but* that motion is not
going to keep me from saying
what I think. I consider it a
crawfish bi 11... introudced only
to muddy the waters.”
Rep. Tom Gilmore of Guilford
is most apt to introduce
constitutional amendments.
The one provoking considerable
debate Wednesday was one of
amend the Constitution to
authorize qualified voters to
hold elective office. If passed by
the people, 18-year-olds could
have been eligible to become
sheriffs and could have served
in the General Assembly. The
debate was interesting and
tended to poke fun at the august
body,the Senate.
In the second section of the
amendment the Gilmore
measure would have fixed the
age for serving in the General
Assembly at 25 in the Senate
and 21 in the House. Rep. Larry
Eagle of Edgecombe said he
thought that could be alright
because it was his opinion that it
takes a senator about four more
years to mature than a member
of the House. Then, in jest, Rep.
Fred Hutchins of Forsyth sent
up an amendment which would
have allowed 17-year-olds to
serve in the Senate so by the
time they were 21 they would be
old enough to serve in the
House. After all the jesting, the
72 votes to carry were not there
and the measure died.
—o—
Rep. Larry Eagle of
Edgecombe is not the least bit
sensitive about his height of his
lack of hair. He stands nearly
five feet tall and has a fringe of
gray at the top of his ears. He is
a jovial, moon-faced legislator
with an attrative sense of
humor. However, he was taken
aback Friday when he arose to
get recognition on the floor of the
House. He is chairman of the
Committee on Alcoholic
Beverage Control and was
attempting to explain a bill.
Rep. Kitchin Josey of Halifax,
Speaker Pro Tem, was
presiding in the absence of
Speaker Green. Now, Rep.
Josey, at the elevafed podium
and standing 6-1, was searching
the House floor for the voice
which was calling “Mr.
Speaker.” Rep. Eagle’s desk is
situated on the front row just to
the right of the Speaker’s desk
and in front of the reading clerk.
When the presiding officer
failed to find the Gentleman
from Edgecombe, he said,
“Right here, Mr. Speaker. “The
Speaker apologized: “Oh, I
didn't know the gentleman was
standing!”
Tse 1 fIHB from
I Marvin
Barham
m
JUST FOR TODAY . . .
I will stop making ex
cuses. I will overcome
the need to alibi when 1
make errors—l will face
myself realistically and
know that being human,
I too, leave a tarnished
spot when I step down
from my pedestal.
WUlifrid-‘&aduuH
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Edenton, N. C
newspaper for interested
citizens to respond. Please mail
or bring completed copy to Mrs.
Mary Rhea Gardner, in the
school board offices of the
County Office Building.
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