Thursday, March 17, 1977
From the Gallery
RALEIGH—When spring
officially arrives in a few
days it will find the General
Assembly has about reached
the halfway point in the
current 1977 session.
The 44th legislative day
begins this evening with the
two chambers ip session and
deadlines are now being set
bjr the leaders for in
troduction of bills such as
local legislation which is
designed to clear the deck
for the measures of
statewide significance such
as taxes and budget.
Besides there are still a
considerable number of
matters the governor is
expecting the legislature to
do for him.
Having been in office
about three months now,
Gov. James B. Hunt, Jr., is
about ready to steer his
program through the
legislative process with the
help of several “water
boys” who are members
and a couple of of pretty
large liaison fellows,
Charlie Wirtberry and
Lynwood Smith, who keep in
close touch with the
legislators. The governor
has announced he expects
his main reorganization
bills to be before the two
houses prior to April 1 and
other measures soon
thereafter.
Winberry operates out of a
miniature suite of offices
which were whipped
together on the third floor of
the State House four years
ago for George Rountree, a
Wilmington Republican,
who served as watchdog for
former Gov. James E.
Holshouser. The large suite
of offices which fronted on
the Southeast Court and wak
ocqupied by former official
contacts for, Democratic
governors and from which
two large coffee urns
dispense strong, hot brew
and occasionally where
there were boxes of
doughnuts and at times ham
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offices and is denied to the
governor no matter what his
politics.
It was here we always
could find a morning papier
and, of course, it was where
the newspaper and other
media representatives
gathered to exchange
disparaging remarks about
legislators as being lazy and
partying politicians. In the
eyes of these pundits,
legislators could do no right
but as a group they made
great whipping boys and
girls. Poor Charlie Win
berry is certainly at a
disadvantage for he hardly
has space for himself not to
speak of a big round table
laid with layers of all the
state dailies and wall-to
wall moochers. He has
managed a coffee pot but
enter one at time, please.
You just can’t have much of
a conference in those close
quarters... and he’s a
Democrat, too.
While work is progressing
on what is known as the
governor’s program and
House and Senate members
> are being assigned duties
with it, there is the regular
run-of-the-mill work.
Monday evening Rep.
Richard Wright of
Columbus was handling one
of Senator R. C. Soles’ bills
which had to do with some
local legislation. Senator
Soles of Columbus County
had served three terms in
the House before being
elected to the Senate and he
was trying to straighten out
some problems having to do
with officers of law in his
county.
The youthful Wright
began by saying: “This is
the continuing saga of
Columbus County” and was
halted by a burst of laughter
from his colleagues. He
continued to explain that the
bill was a local bill to undo
some of the work of a
“former representative”
who most of the members
remembered as a
nudH-iy m
Republican from Southport.
Before Rep. Wright wait on
to explain the bill he asked
to send up an amendment,
commenting: “The senator
has not done all of his
research.”
Speaker Carl Stewart
interrupted to add, “We’ll
ask the clerk to strike that.”
The amendment was
adopted after the members
first shouted “No” as a bit of
a joke. About that time Rep.
John Ed Davenpdrt of Nash,
who heads the Judiciary
Committee to which the bill
had been sent, explained
that when the Senate Bill 137
had been salt to his com
mittee he had exclaimed:
‘“Why me, Lord?” After all
the fun and games, the
Gentleman from Columbus
got the measure passed and
it was sent to the Senate for
concurrence with the House
amendment.
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A little bill which would
require printed or written
campaign materials to
indicate thereon the name
and address of person or
persons authorizing
distribution of such material
was being debated in the
House and had created
considerable interest. It was
introduced by Rep. David
Deßamus, Jr., of Winston-
Salem and brought ob
jections from the black
members of the House and
several easterners. Rep.
Stanford White of Dare
accused the Gentleman
from Forsyth of “taking all
the fun out of politics. Let us
enjoy ourselves in politics. I
think this is a bad bill.”
Well, whether it was to let
the politicians enjoy them
selves or not, the bill was
sent back to committee and
it is still there.
Wednesday there was
considerable debate on
House Bill 248 which has to
do with persons instructing
unlicensed drivers being
under the influence of in
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toxicants. The bill would
prohibit the adult who was
instructing or ac
companying the learner
with a permit from being
under the influence. All
seemed to be agreed that
this adult should be com
pletely sober but the
argument was over whether
someone riding in the back
seat and instructing the
driver would be covered by
the bill. Rep. Mickey
Michaux, Jr., a black at
torney from Durham, was
speaking on an amendment
which would make it illegal
for this backseat driver to
be intoxicated. The Gen
tleman said the amendment
was not necessary for under
the present law the person
instructing must be beside
the learner. “He can’t in
struct from the back seat,”
the gentleman said. Rep.
Richard Erwin of Winston-
Salem said: “Maybe you
haven’t had your wife on
the back seat.”
Probably creating more
debate than anything to
come up during the week
was a little old resolution to
exclude resolutions. This
House Joint Resolution was
introduced by Rep. Peter
Hairston of Davie and would
do away with the practice of
members introducing
resolutions to honor former
members of the House and
Senate who were still living,
baseball and basketball
teams, bands, etc. The
Gentleman from Davie
argued that these were time
consuming and besides they
cost considerable money to
process through the
legislative mill.
Rep. Bob Jones of
Rutherford asked Rep.
Hairston about one line in
the Bill which includes living
members of the Senate,
House and “other un
necessary items.” To which
Rep. Hairston replied: “I
am glad to admit the
By Mildred Huskies i
t
Gentleman is a necessary
iton.” As the debate con
tinued and time was running
out the Speaker said: “I
would advise the Gentleman
from Davie his resolution is
running a high fever.” Rep.
Marcus Short of Guilford
wanted to amend the
resolution to limit debate on
the various resolutions
saying: “The debate
bothers me more than the
money.” That amendment
went the tabling route. Then
someone objected to the
third reading after the
resolution had squeaked by
on second reading. So,
Friday the measure was
passed by a vote of 51 to 50
and was sent to the Senate.
During Debate on the bill
which would increase
inheritance tax exemption
applicable to living spouses
from the present SIO,OOO to
$30,000 a bushel of tears was
shed for widows and
children. A number of sad
tales were told as members
debated the measure and
anyone objecting was a bad
boy. Rep. Sam Bundy of Pitt
was in favor of the bill but
added at the conclusion of
his speech: “I hope my wife
will never become a
widow.”
We joined more that 400
legislators, spouses and
staff members along with
some of the lobbyists for a
series of tests during a
legislative screening clinic
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held in one of the courts
Thursday. Hie screening
was for glaucoma, diabetes
and hypertension and we all
got the works. The entire
examination process took
about 20 minutes and
sometimes lines formed
before the nurses’ stations.
We were waiting our turn
when former Senator Tom
White of Kinston came out of
the last station where he had
a blood pressure test and we
asked if he passed.
“I’ve been all the way
through and they couldn’t
find a thing wrong with me
except old age and they
don’t have a cure for that,”
he reported.
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School board members
and superintendents of the
units over the state were
invited to meet with the joint
House and senate Education
Committee Wednesday.
METHODIST TOPIC
“Acceptable In Thy
Sight” is the topic chosen by
Rev. E.L. Earnhardt for the
11 A.M. service Sunday at
Edenton United Methodist
Church. His text is Psalm
19:12-14.
JIMMIE M. PARRISH, 111
Mr. and Mrs. J.M.
Parrish, Jr., announce the
birth of a son, Jimmie
Moore Parrish, 111, on
March 10 in Chowan
Hospital. Mrs. Parrish is the
former Anne Leary.
Provideßce Church News
“I Will Let Nothing
Separate Me From the Love
of Christ” was the subject of
Dr. Fenner’s morning
worship service Sunday. His
subject was taken from
Romans 8:35-41.
With the many problems
facing us daily, such as,
unemployment, drugs,
crimes, floods, famine,
inflation, etc., our love for
Christ should be so euphoric
that even these things
should not hinder or
separate us from the love of
Christ. Sometimes it will be
very difficult to see where
we are going, but our love
for Christ will teach us to
walk by faith, rather than
sight.
There even will be times
when trials and tribulation
will be forever pressing and
everyday will seem like a
cloudy day, but if our love
for Christ is as a tree
planted by the waters, then
nothing will separate us
from the love of Christ.
The pastor, officers and
members invite you to any
service at Providence. Our
doors are always open. We
cordially invite you to at
tend the Church where
everybody is somebody and
Christ is Lord of All. Won’t
you join us as we reconcile
and strengthen our love for
Christ?
Church School begins at
9:30 A.M. Morning worship
service begins at 11:00 A.M.
with the Senior Choir ser
ving. Dr. Fenner will be in
charge of morning worship
service.
'Calendar for ensuing
week:
Monday 7:15 P.M.
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Young Men’s Brotherhood
Meeting - Charlton Building.
Wednesday.— 7 P.M.
Mid-week Prayer Service -
Charlton Building. The
pastor invites all members
and friends to attend this
service.
Future Happenings:
Sunday March 20 at 4
P.M. the Missionary Society
will feature-sponsor the
Edenton Community Male
Chorus in an afternoon of
good spiritual singing.
Sunday March 27 at 4
P.M. the Young Women in
Action will observe their
second Anniversary. Guest
speaker for said occasion
will be Rev. Jessie Smith,
pastor of Shiloh Baptist
Church. Music will be
rendered by Mr. Smith’s
Young Adult Choir, the
Black Movement of
Elizabeth City and other
selected guests.
PERSONAL NOTE
Mrs. Bob House and
children, Lynn and Jennifer
of Harrellsville visited Mr.
and Mrs. Ralph Smithwick
Sunday.
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