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SCOTT. . Governor Scott
dM not rush in to tike
command at the UNC in
Chape! Hi!) He only moved in
when the UNC Administration
tailed to cope with the
disorderly situation which
necessitated a strong hand and
an end to coddling which has
been the earmark which has ted
to disastrous situations at
many other institutions of
higher teaming across the
nation.
!n Governor Scott's action
he was not on!y right and on
ao!id ground, but in addition
he was moving with the
overwhehning support of the
people to whom the University
belongs.
in addition we venture to
say that if a vote were taken
that he woutd have the
overwhetming support of the
University Trustees and the
Genera! AssemMy.
For stabilizing law and
order at the University in
Chape! Hill and serving notice
that troublemakers will not be
coddled in North Carolina Bob
Scott is due the plaudits of a
grateful people.
We hope that his leadership
in the Chape! Hil! disturbance
will put enough steel in the
backbone of college
administrators across the state
that he will not have to step in
at other institutions.
DR. RUDOLPH JONES. .
Many peopte wiif regret that
Dr. Rudoiph Jones, President
of FayetteviMe State Coiiege
found the going so rough with
student turmoi! that he has
decided to caii it quits on Ju!y
31 after 13 years in the office
"because of my heaith and
other persona) reasons."
Dr. Jones was a Negro
ieader with )ots of good
common sense.
We recai) back in 1959
when Dr. Jones appeared
before the Advisory Budget
Commission in request for
funds he dispiayed great wit
when he said: "Thos who can,
do; those who cannot, teach;
and those who can't teach,
teach teachers."
No doubt the going was
rea))y rough when the
FayetteviMe educator said:
"!'m Mving with the grace of
pitts, and the strains of the
office aggravate that
situation."
His students-his peopte
wouid have been wise to have
gone a)ong with Dr. Jones'
)eadership and spared him the
strain and stress that ied to his
announced retirement as
president of the institution.
EDWIN GILL. . Edwin
Giii's iegion of friends over the
state wiit wish for him a speedy
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Week!y Legistative Summ ary
Editor's Note: This is part
of a series of wee My summaries
prepared by the iegMative staff
of the Institute of Government
on the work of the North
Caroiina Genera! Assemby of
1969. It is confined to
discussions of matters of
genera! interest.
* * *
'tear the Ha!f way Point
Forty^ight weekday suns
have now risen and set on the
1969 Genera! AssemMy. By
the tights of recent !egis!ative
sessions - which have usuaMy
intoned taps by the 100th
weekday session - the *69
session shou!d be somewhere
near its midpoint.
Statistics continue to reflect
an interesting trend that began
Mid Comptete recovery that he
may continue his vaiuabie
service as State Treasurer and
advisor in many other
capacities. Few men have had
the stabiiizing influence on
state government that Edwin
Gill has exercised. He is author
of the very truthful saying:
"Good government is a habit in
North Carolina.
REP. PHILLIPS. Dr.
Charies W. Phillips of
Greensboro, chairman of one
of the Appropriations
subcommittee is proving to be
a solid legislator just as he
proved to be a solid educator
during his many years before
entering the legislative field.
SUPERIOR COURT
JUDGES. . We feel that
superior court judges should be
elected from the same area that
they are nominated from. If
they are to be nominated from
districts then let them be
elected from the same districts.
Its nothing but political
chicanery to nominated them
from districts then require that
they be elected on a statewide
basis. This is a matter in which
he Democrats should get their
house in order or be prepared
to take the consequences on
down the road.
PUBLIC DEFENDER. .
With so many of the
defendants calling for state
appointed defense attorneys
we feel that it will be more
economical for the state to go
ahead and provide a public
defense defender for all the
indigent.
ASSEMBLY. . It now
appears that the General
Assembly will raise the pay for
the 1971 legislators. This
increase in pay may well
induce stronger men to seek
seats in he House and Senate to
replace those who now may be
dreaming of higher pay for
themselves two years hence.
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to appear eariy in the session.
White the *69 Assembiy has not
introduced as many biiis or
passed as many iaws as some of
its predecessors at this stage,
the difference can be traced
aimost entirety to a dearth of
ioca! biiis. A totai of 691 biiis
has been introduced and 104
iaws passed to-date this year.
By comparison, an average of
742 biiis and 217 iaws were on
the books after the 48th
weekday session during the
past four iegiiatures. But
considering pubiic or statewide
biiis oniy, there is iittie
difference between this session
and its recent predecessors:
488 pubiic biiis and 42 pubiic
acts for the year 1969, as
compared with 438 pubiic biiis
and 48 pubiic acts for the years
1961 1967.
The rub iies in the iocai bii!
output, which has shrunk
drastics!iy this year. Locai
introductions are running at
about two4hirds of the average
for the past four sessions (203
compared with 305) and ioca!
acts at about three-eights of
the average (62 compared with
169). This Assembiy can
probabiy thank the Locai
Government Study
Commission, with its "home
ruie package," for thus drying
up the weii of iocai iegisiation.
The prospect that substantia!
new powers of iocai
government may be granted to
cities and counties under this
package of biiis has apparentiy
persuaded most iegisiators and
their iocai constituents to
think twice before asking for
iocai biiis this year.
Two of the biiis
recommended by the Locai
Government Study
Commission are among the
major enactments thusfar of
the 1969 sesssion: the act to
authorize boards of county
commissioners to adopt
reguiatory ordinances, and the
act to estabiish a uniform
statewide scheduie of fees for
registers of deeds. Two more
Study Commission proposal
passed the House this week and
were sent to the Senate, the
biiis authorizing mumidpai and
county governing boards to fix
their own compensation.
Among the Study
Commission's proposais,
important biiis yet to receive
Boor consideration inciude
those that wouid repeat to
iocai exemptions from genera!
enabiing iaws, iet iocaiities
determine their own
government organization, and
overhaul Artide 5 of the State
Constitution reiating to pubiic
finance. Several more
Commission sponsored
measures were introduced this
week, reiating to the salaries of
county ofBciais and procedures
for meetings of the boards of
county commissioners. Yet to
be introduced is an antidpated
bii! to carry forward the
recommendation of the
Commission and the Governor
for a new State agency
concerning iocai government.
Piainiy the Locai Government
Study Commission has already
ieft its mark on the annais of
the 1969 iegisiation session,
though the finai verdict has not
been rendered on aii of its
program.
The '69 session has aiso
begun to accumulate a
significant record of
enactments in other fieids. A
iist of major measures that
have aheady been piaced on
the statute booh: would
include the Univform
Anatomical Gift Act, a hike in
the State minimum wage taw
to $1.25 a reorganization of
the Governor's Law and Order
Committee, and a genera)
revision of the credit union
laws. The customary spring
freshet of new traffic
iegisiation is underway, with
the ratification of measures
which aiiow hoiders of
learner's permits to practice
night driving, ciarify the ruies
regarding passsing at raiiroad
intersections, require
obedience to the orders of
traffic poiice, and iimit the
punishment for driving under
the infiuence of aicohoi. Other
new iaws have been passed that
iimit iiabiiity for unsoiicited
merchandise, permit up to 7%
interest on church buiiding
loans, increase to $45,000 the
top ioan that a bank may make
to its own officer, and aiiow
l&year oids to make wiiis.
Legislation was enacted this
week that permits North
Carolinians to purchase rifles,
shotguns and ammunition in
adjoining states, thereby iifting
a ban otherwise imposed by
new Federal gun iaws. And
new iaws have been passed that
require skin divers to dispiay
warning fiags and exempt
private ponds from the
Motorboat Law.
The major tax and spending
propose is of the
Administration, in addition to
a welter of tax options
proposed in other quarters, are
now before this Assembiy in
biii form. A iso in he hopper are
major program proposals of the
Governor and of iegisiative
study commissions on a variety
of other subjects - ranging
horn control of riots and civi!
disorders, the addition of
Asheviiie and Wilmington
campuses to the State
University, iicensing of day
care facilities, abolition of
capita! punishment, a coastai
insurance pooling pian,
strengthening of ioca! air
poHution control powers, and a
genera! overhaul of the State
Constitution-to creation of a
State Zoo. Not yet introduced,
however, are important bills
that have been anticipated on a
number of topics, including:
reorganization of State
agencies (the Department of
Conservation and
Development, the State
Highway Commission, the Jail
Detention Service and the
Good Neighbor Council); the
creation of new State agendas
(a Department of Local
Affairs); conservation (the
launching of new programs of
estuarine conservation and
marine sciences); new
consumer credit legislation and
several major proposals
involving the organization of
the public school system and
the services its affords. It is
obvious that the 1969 General
Assembly, havingcovered some
ground, has still a long trek to
travel
New Introductions This Week
Heading the list of new
introductions this week is a
pair of proposals to strengthen
the legislative fiscal
apparatus stimulated, no
doubt, by the restructuring of
the Appropriations
Committees that was instituted
by the presiding officers this
year. H 396, introduced by
Rep. Bryan, wouid create a
staff of legislative fiscal
analysts, responsible solely to
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TAR, HEEL OUTDOOR?
by Joe) Arrington
Outdoor MHor. Worth Corottoo Trowot 0 Oromottoo OtwHtoo
Although Tar Heel crappies
may be caught in numbers
during any season, in eariy
spring the speckied beauties
seem to be most susceptibie to
bait and iure.
The name is pronounced
"croppie" in some western
parts of the state and
frequency "speckied perch" in
the Piedmont and Coastal
Piain. But the fish referred to is
one of two similar
species-white crappie or Mack
crappie.
Both varieties are vertically
flattened, have silvery sides
shading to dark olive or black
on the back, and are more or
the Genera! AssemMy, and
supervised by a committee of
Senators and Representatives.
S 257- H 398, introduced by
Sen. AMsbrook and Rep. Hicks,
revives a proposal of former
years for a Legislative
Comptroller, to be appointed
by the Governor for a 6 year
term but to serve oniy the
General Assembly. In a related
development Speaker Vaugh,
representing the Legislative
Research Commission,
appeared before an
Appropriations Subcommittee
to defend the computerization
and administrative reforms
initiated this year by the LRC.
His gentle reception by the
Subcommittee indicates a
cooling of earlier ardors for
critical scrutiny of these
reforms.
Other notable introductions
of the week past include a new
soft drinks tax proposal, a
proposal to make liquor sales
subject to the sales tax, the
omnibus school boards
appointment bill (down to 55
counties this year) a
"stop^nd frisk" bill, a bill to
give the veto power to the
Governor, and comprehensive
revisions of the unemployment
insurance laws and the State
and local employee retirement
systems.
less covered with Mack spots
on the sides and fins. The
arrangement of these spots,
aiong with the number of
dorsai spines, distinguish the
species. White the Mack
crappies spots are irreguiariy
scattered, those of its white
cousin are arranged in seven to
nine vertica! bars. The white
has five or six dorsai spines and
the Mack seven or eight.
In North Caroiina, crappies
usuaiiy weigh iess than one
pound, but two or three pound
fish are not uncommon.
Crappies over five pounds are
recorded, but the Tar Heei
record is four pounds and eight
ounces. It was caught in 1960
by Henry Griffin from Lake
Tiiiery.
Both hite and biack crappies
MB caught in the state, but the
white is not a native species. !t
was introduced many yean ago
hom its origins! range in the
Mississippi drainage. The Mach
prefers iarge, quiet, cooi, ciear
water and is iess toierant of
turbidity than the white. Whiie
the biach variety is found
throughout North Caroiina, it
thrives best in the deep, iarge
iahes and rivers of the coast.
The white, on the other
hand, iihes warm siity rivers
and iahes and is common in
southern impoundments, it is
found in the siower Tar Heei
iahes and streams from Cheoah
across the Piedmont, but is rare
in the Coasts) Piain.
Probabiy the iargest
crappies in the state are the
biach species, it seems to do
better in its native habitat than
the white does in waters where
it is introduced.
As far as the angier is
concerned, the most notabie
characteristics of crappies are
their inciination to schooi and
their instinct for protective
cover.
interprising angiers over the
state tahe advantage of this
"schooiing in cover"
characteristics by sinhing brush
and iimbs wherever they want
fish to gather. Cottage owners
around Lake Norman, and
other impoundments,
frequency submerge vegetation
off the end of docks and
"seed" the spot with cotton
seed cakes and aifaifa. The
effort pays off in virtuaiiy
uniimited crappie fishing.
The greatest draw back of
crappies as game fish is their
propensity for stunting due to
tremendous productivity. In
smaii water bodies iike farm
ponds, crappie popuiationa
frequently reproduce beyond
their food suppiy in a few
seasons. For this reason, they
are not usuaiiy recommended
for stocking in such waters.
Studies have shown that in
southern iatitudes, about 50%
of aduit crappies' diet consists
of minnows. In Piedmont
impoundments, this prindpaiiy
means gizzard shad.
Crappies' appetite for fish
has ied angiers to bait with
minnows more frequency than
with worms. Lures that imitate
smaii minnows-spinners and
tiny jigs are preferred.
Recentiy the 1/2S Hopkins has
gained favor for deep jigging
over brush piies.
Whiie crappies admittediy ^
are not the most nobie of game
fish, they provide continuing
angiing pieasure for thousands
of Tar Heei fishermen. ,
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