Thursday, June 9. 1977
From The Gallery By Mildred Husklns
legislators Pushing To Close 1977 Session
° RALEIGH - The push is
?on in the General Assembly
f to dose down the 1977
-.session along towards the
;,end of this month but there
~are those who have some
, doubts about whether it can
happen.
Lt. Gov. Jimmy Green
"•announced late in April that
he wanted the senate to
-a finish its work by June 1.
oWell, that was a little
so he has lately
_ revised his timetable and is
for June 17.
•However the most recent
••speculation seems to center
~on June 24 at best and July 1
« at the latest.
Last Monday was the 99th
Day and
' Speaker Carl Stewart, Jr.,
opened the evening session
3 'with a report. He said there
"■were still 700 bills in com
“mittees including senate
but said he felt these
~-could be handled without the
'neccessity of his naming a
calendar or hatchet com
’ mittee.
J '° Most presiding officers
have found that it is
, necessary during the closing
\ .days of the session to name
"-■a committee to handle all
bills and a large portion of
these receive the whack,
which means they come out
with an unfavorable report.
. , If a member still has a bill
he sure must get
■'busy to keep it from
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receiving the kiss of death in
that awesome committee
usually composed of no
more than a dozen members
who are anxious to go home
and who will be helping the
presiding officer reach his
timetable.
To assure that his type
handling of bills could be
avoided, the speaker
requested that all members
with bills yet to be in
troduced should get them in
the mill before the week
ended.
The calendars are getting
longer and longer as the
bills pour out of committee
and in from the senate, so
Friday the speaker held
members in session from 10
A.M. until 3 P.M. and an
nounced a Tuesday night
session, hoping to catch up
on the six-page calendar.
Almost 1,400 bills have been
introduced in the house not
to speak of those which have
been introduced in the
senate.
Rep. Myrtle (Lula Belle)
Wiseman of Avery has had
very few bills before the
members but Monday
evening one of her “little
local bills” finally got on the
calendar and came up for
her explanation.
“Mr. Speaker and
members of the House,” she
began. “My little bill first
was opposed by the
Department of Tran
sportation. It would only
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require special permits for
movement on public roads
in Mitchell: and Avery
counties certain mobile or
modular homes. So a sub
stitute bill was drawn to
satisfy that department.
There have been so many
substitutes for this bill I’m
calling it my ‘tute’ bill,” the
lady continued. “All it does
now is prevent 14-foot
trailers from going in front
of my house and if you don’t
vote for it I’m going to end
up in an institute.”
That’s the way it
sometimes happen. The
simpliest little bill gets
more and more complicated
and becomes a big headache
for the sponsor. Well, Rep.
Wiseman’s colleagues voted
for her bill and it went off to
the senate.
Then there are those
which cause little debate
and Rep. Allen Barbee of
Nash can testify that it is
best to just keep quiet and
let it happen. He was han
dling the very next bill on
the calendar which would
authorize municipalities to
create public transportation
authorities.
“I’ve been told if I didn’t
say anything about this bill
everyone would vote for it so
I won’t,” Rep. Barbee said
when asked to explain the
bill. He didn’t and they did.
The members were a little
restless at the Monday
evening session, since some
of the Sunday newspapers
had published feature
stories about some of the so
called extra curricular
activities which they led
their readers to believe all
General Assembly mem
bers participate in. Os
course, the interviews were
held with only a few of the
members and the reporters,
who take advantage of all
the partying and free din
ners, had indicted the whole
pack. The News & Observer
had published a story about
the social activities, most of
which are sponsored by
lobbying individuals or
groups and, of course, Rep.
Sam Bundy of Pitt, who
never misses a one, was in
one of the photographs.
Being a non-drinker he
hoped to get a laugh out of
his colleagues when he said:
“I’m glad they took the
picture of the hand which
was in the chicken livers
rather than the one with the
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glass.”
Rep. Dan Ljlley of Lenoir
was trying to discourage
debate on a bill which would
re-enact the statute
removing interest rate
ceiling on home loans
secured by first mortgages
or deeds of trust. “I’m
asking you not to amend this
bill. It has been studied in
committee and reported out
favorably,” the legislator
said and closed his ex
planation.
Rep. Sandy Harris of
Alamance arose and asked
to be recognized. “With that
chilling speech, Mr.
Speaker, I will send forth
my amendment.”
The measure authorizing
issuance of S3OO million
state bonds to build high
ways during the next five
years came back before the
house Wednesday and a
great deal of parliamentary
procedure was necessary to
get the original bill back
before the members since
Rep. Billy Watkins of
Granville withdrew his
amendment to allow voters
a choice of bonds or a
gasoline tax. After the
speaker had unwound the
tangled mess Rep. Liston
Ramsey arose to ask a
question of the chair.
“I just want to know if my
amendment is still in
there?” the Gentleman
from Madison asked. He had
included an amendment
which would prevent the
changing of the secondary
roads formula for
distributing the bond
money.
This question led two of
the Republican members,
Rep. Leroy Spoon of
Mecklenburg and Rep. Fred
Dorsey of Henderson, to ask
some questions of their own.
They inquired of Rep.
Ramsey if he didn’t know
that a bill or several bills
had been introduced which
would change the formula.
Rep. Ramsey said: “I don’t
know whether I can answer
them so they can un
derstand it or not but I can
try,” he began. Then Rep.
Spoon said: “In words of one
syllable...” and was in
terrupted by the gentleman
from Madison with “it is you
who are having trouble, not
me.”
There was a pretty heated
debate underway on one of
the bills which came out of
that study committee and
Rep. Conrad Duncan of
Rockingham, a contractor,
arose to speak on the
measure.
“I’m going to vote for
your bill,” he said to Rep.
Tom Ellis of Vance who was
sponsoring a measure to
raise the standards of
building inspectors, “but I
want you to know that in
spectors have caused me a
lot of trouble. They have
taken a lot of hair off my
head and made the rest of it
beautiful.”
“I would be happy to
exchange hair with the
Gentleman from
Rockingham any day in the
week,” replied Rep. Ellis,
who is one of the balder
members of the General
Assembly.
Rep. Hector Ray of
Cumberland was explaining
a bill which came out of a
building code study com
mission. He said he was an
electrical contractor and he
was surprised to be named
to the commission to study
state building codes. It was
about as ridiculous to name
an electrical contractor to
such a study commission as
for Rep. David Bumgarner
to be named to a sexual
assault committee.
“Well, Mr. Ray, if the
Gentleman from Gaston
was named, he could be
completely objective,” the
Speaker said.
Agriculture Com
missioner Jim Graham is
just back from the Soviet
Union. The day he was to
leave we were among some
35 legislative wives who
were his guests at breakfast
at the Farmer’s Market. He
was a little apprehensive
about the trip to promote
North Carolina agriculture
products and to observe the
Russian way of providing
food and fiber.
“I felt like I had already
been elected something for
they called me commissar,”
Big Jim said in answer to a
reporter’s statement that he
had been acting like he was
running for office.
In Moscow, the com
missioner went to the opera.
“They kept singing,’
‘Figaro, Figaro, Figaro.’ At
first I thought they were
advertising a fertilizer,” he
said with a sly smile.
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Dr. Robert F. Bradley
Rev. Bradley
Awarded Degree
Rev. Robert Franklin
Bradley, pastor of Fox Hill
Road Baptist Church in
Hampton, Va., was awarded
a Doctor of Ministries
degree last month from the
Luther Rice Seminary In
ternational at Jacksonville,
Fla.
Dr. Bradley is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. William P.
Bradley who reside at Cape
Colony.
He also holds degrees
from the University of
Miami and Southern Baptist
Seminary in Louisville, Kry.
Dr. Bradley was ordained
January 19,1964, in Florida.
He joined Fox Hill Road
Church when it was a
mission.
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Miss Sallie E. Pottaze of
Creive, Va. visited Mr. and
Mrs. John M. Elliott last
weekend.
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Gerald Blanchard of
Belvidere was the winner of
an 8 HP riding lawnmower
given by the Colonial CB
Association of Edenton.
Proceeds from the May 31st
event will benefit the C.B.
club.
ON DEAN’S LIST
WILSON Mary A.
Jordan of Edenton was
among 392 Atlantic
Christian College students
to earn places on the Dean’s
List for ■ academic
achievement during the
spring semester.
Alexis Franziska Kehayes
Dr. and Mrs. Alexander
Kehayes of Cornelius,
Oregon, announce the birth
of a daughter, Alexis
Franziska on May 19. Mr.
and Mrs. Ernest Kehayes
are the paternal grand
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Funeral Service Held
For Victim Os Accident
Hollis Jurl Copeland, 35,
Route 1, Edenton, died
Monday in Norfolk General
Hospital as a result of an
accident.
A native of Perquimans
County, he was the husband
of Mrs. Leverna Lamm
Copeland, and a son of
Luther Darvis and Mary
Roberson Copeland.
He was an employee of
Thomas J. Lipton, Inc., in
.Suffolk, Va., as mechanical
maintenance leader; a
member of Rocky Hock
Baptist Church, and a
veteran.
Other survivors include a
son, Tony Copeland, and a
daughter, Miss Mary
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Copeland, both of the home;
two brothers, Jarvis
Copeland and Clifton
Copeland both of Tyner;
four sisters; Mrs. Hubert
.(Margaret) Jordan of
Tyner; Mrs. Edgar Ray
(Little Belle) Taylor of
Ryland,; Mrs. Ralph (Lois)
Peele of Edenton, N.C., and
Mrs. James C. (Linda)
Boyce of Hertford.
A funeral service was held
Wednesday at 3 P.M. in the
chapel of Swindell-Bass
Funeral Home, by Rev.
Larry McClure and Rev.
George Cooke. Burial was in
the Copeland Family
Cemetery at Tyner.