-CAPITAL REPORTER
Raleigh, N. C. Dec -Lot's of:
folks are wondering why the'
State—with a S12.000.000 balance
five months ago—needed to bor- !
row $10,000,000 last week to tide!
il over the next three months.
Administration critics will ■
make the most of it. They'll try
to make it appear that the State
is headed for bankruptcy undei
Governor Scott. Nothing could be1
further from the truth.
It’s just that expense for the
last several months and for the ;
next few months are outrunning
income But a big swing in in
creased income to the State comes ,
every year when the income tax
es are paid—mostly during the
first six months of the year. Then
is when the year's surplus is
made, with income far outrun
ning expenses.
It's sort a like a tobacco farmer
Hi has plenty of money on hand
in tin fall of the year, after he's
sold his tobacco. But come spring,
and planting time, he often has
to borrow money to buy fertili
zer and plants.
Actually, you could blame the
present borrowing on the 1949
Legislature.
i! left Raleigh with the general
!und facing a S3.000,000 deficit
for the 1949-51 budget In addi
tion, it put a rider on the appro
priations bill calling for a teacher
pay bonus. The last was put on
by administration opponents, with
their tongues in their checks.
They never expected it to be paid
because they weye sure the gen
eral fund would wind up in the
ied And they wanted to be able
to go home to the teachers and
say, "sec, what we did for you
we tried to get yott a raise".
That expected S3,000,000 deficit
plus the more than $7,000,000 it
will take to pay the teachers their
bnnus will make up the $10,000,
000 that was borrowed. Actually,
the contingent pay boost, or bon
us, was authorized when the Ad
visory Budget Commission saw
that revenue for the current fis
cal year apparently would war
rant it.
So, despite having to borrow the
$10,000,000, the State will wind
up with the budget in balance
by June 30, 1951—the end of the
current fiscal year. In fact, the
way things are going, there might
even be a few million dollars
surplus by that date.
December 12 at 11 a. m. in
Washington, U. S. senators and
representatives from North Caro
lina will gather in the House
Ways and Means Committee
Room.
There they will meet with Gov
ernor Scott, members of the State
Ports Authority, and Wilmington
representatives to coordinate ef
forts in influencing the Maritime
Administration to lease a porti >n
of the idle Wilmington shipyard
to Jack Puncher of Pittsburgh.
Buncher has agreed to b ase the
18,000-ton Navy drydoek set
aside for Wilmington, if he can
get part of the shipyard The dry
dock is stored in Panama await
ing a decision.
Ironically, the drydoek was so
cured for Wilmington by then
Senator Frank Graham His suc
cessor, Willis Smith, who won in
a bitter primary fight, will be
asked to help make it possible to
get the drydoek to North Caro
lina.
Opposition to the idea is ex
pected from shipyards and dry
docks operating along the Allan
tic coast, and influence- or pres
sure of the entire North Caro
lina congressional delegation may
may be the deciding factor in
the drydoek in operation at Wil
mington However, recent devel
opments indicate that the Mari
time Administration may he will
ing to lease a part of the Wil
mington shipyard, and that will
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be the deciding factor.
In addition to bringing employ
ment to between H00 arid 400 per
sons. plus revenue from ships be
ing refitted at Wilmington, the
drydock would augment the $:>,
000,000 State Port terminals and
dock now being built at Wilming
ton under the recent bond issue.
Development of a ship repair
center there also would aid in
the effort to get steel mills to lo
cate in eastern North Carolina,
since shipbuilding is a tremendous
consumer of steel.
A lot of North Carolinians are
glad that the Tar Heel state wasn t
picked for the H-bomb materials
plant site. In fact, some of 'em
have been heard to say that they
thought it was still too close, being
in South Carolina.
North Carolina was considered
for tlu> plant, however. But the
main reason it wasn't chosen was
because of power - despite all the
conversation from electric com
pany bosses about the “abun
dance'' of elect lie power in this
state.
The South Carolina site was tak
en because: (1) not too many peo
ple, comparatively, would be dis
placed; (2) because a large, flat
area of land was available; Cl)
because there are seven hydro
electric power plants in the im
mediate vicinity; (4) because plen
ty of water was available.
Notes from Washington:
An attempt to raise the fed
eral tax on cigarettes from 7
cents to 9 cents a pack is not ox
peeled to succeed. A boost from
$9 to $10 per gallon in the U S
liquor tax is expected, however
A plan that will aid North Caro
lina in getting new industry
particularly war industry is be
ing worked out. The government
is working on a plan far on the
job training in the plant, using
local workers In otherwords, Ihe
idea is for a plant that moves to
1 North Carolina to train Tar Heels
1 for the jobs rather than bring
! m personnel from elsewhere The
I main idea of the plan is to pre
vent mass migration of work
^ ers from one area to another, such
as the movement of thousands of
people to California during tly
last war to work in airplane
plants.
Price controls may he put on
meat by spring.
, A report that tire rationing is
| not in sight brings laughs from
'auto supply houses. Tires aren’t
rationed to them by the govern
1 men!, hut they get only a small
| "quota” from tire manufacturers
A big in fact, one of the big
. gest rubber company has its eve
on North Carolina in the search
for a place to build a $29,0911.0011
plant
Officials say these things are the
most important in select ing a ale
cost'and availability nl labor;
closeness to markets; cost ol trail
pnrtation; and, cost and availibity
of power
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I GoVelnol Stott Soil *'1 f e 1 o.
tit the National 4 li session in
Chicago when lie told the kids he
was in favor of ltl-vear-nlds being
given the right to vote.
"It they’re old enough to he re
sponsible for ;i half million dollar
jet plane, then they'll* old enough
to accept the responsioility of vot
ing,” lie said.
The Governor's attitude is not
new. In his inaugural address, he
said much the same thing.
At the Southern Governors'
Conference, Governor Scott and
Governor Sid Mi-Math of Arkansas
were the only two who did not
veil for federal aid foi Civil Dc
fense programs.
Ironically, neither of the two
states fall into the States’ Highter
category, and some of the Gover
nors who have hollered the loud
est about states' rights were the
fust to want federal aid.
it was repot ted at the meeting
that Texas and North Carolina
have tin* best Civil Deforisi pro
grams in the South, with the Tex
as progiam being considered one
of the best in the nation
Scott’s comment about Civil Do
fense was that "the people seem
more interested in the program
than do the leaders”.
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It always seemed funny to me,
that the folks who yell loudest
about “states’* rights” are among
the first to stick their hands out
for federal government money.
How can they expect to take the
money and not take some form of
federal control?
Folks who don’t want federal
government telling state govern
ment what to do; folks who don’t
want state government telling
city and county government what
to do, should remember this:
The only t me you have com
plete control over the way some
thing is done is when you do it
yourself.
If you want someone rise to do
thn job, you have to pay.
Just like you can't expand state
services without paying more tax
es that's just simple arithmetic
Incidentally, the Advisory Hud
pet Commission will unanimously
recommend a balanced budget to
the General Assembly Their re
comnimendations will not call for
new taxes -not even for lifting
exemptions on the sales tax.
And the recommended budget
will lx1 very little more that the
one for the current biennium.
However, Governor Scott will
point out some things he thinks
should be doiu- in his message to
the legislature These probably
will include a stream sanitation
program, expansion of the High
way Patrol, and reinstatement of
the motor vehicle inspection law
a different version from the last
one, however.
In other words, the legislature
will be told: "Here's what we can
do on an 'as is' basis. Here's what
ought to be done ■ but you can't
do it without more money And (
you can't get more money without [
more taxes."
Which probably means that very
few, of any, new or expanded ser
vices w:il be added by the General |
Assembly, because legislators are
notoriously a spineless let when
d comes to raising taxes
The Governor got a "Thnnsgiv
ing Day" note from Shallote, in
Brunswick County.
It came from Dr. R M Holden,
wrto expressed thanks to Scott
and his administration for "the
wonderful things that are being
done for us here in Brunswick."
Holden said that the road and
school program was putting the
county on the way to become
"self-supporting", and that the on
ly “fly m the ointment now” is a
40-mile square area without u tele
phone.
With every Southern slate
stressing good forest management
the golden age of forestry is just
beginning in the South.
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