Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-02-21
Capital Gossip
BY HENRY AVERILL AND
LYNN NISBET

vi Tile leI1dTSy winch mas marked
this session of the General Assembly
is found in the fact that there have
been only two cases in the House
where the "ayes and noes" have
been demanded, and not one single
instance in the Senate
The two House record votes were
on the matter of referring the
good roads bill' to the finance
committee Git Was) and on passage
OF the bill giving the labor Depart
ments rules and regulations legal
effect Git wasn'D.
At this stage two years ago, the
House had roll-called on six differ
ent occasions upon which some
member spotted" the representa-
tives by calling for a record.
He isn't absolutely certain of it,
but Senator "Doggie" Hatcher thinks
he is the first Burke county law
maker Gin recent decades, at any
rate to serve in both House and
Senate.
He also pointed out that no Burke
county representative within mem
DRY of the current generation has
ever succeeded himself and served
in two consecutive sessions.
incidentally, the senator vigor-
ously said there are going to be
plenty of roll calls" on his side be-
fore this session ends.
One of them, he emphasized, is GO
ing to be on the mater of diverting
$7,O00,0OO highway funds in the com
ing biennium.
j. M. Granger, State Rural Elec-
trification Authority secretary, says
that electrificatiOn of the Tar Heel
countryside has brought new dang
er and problem to rural youngsters.
He pointed out that kite flying near
high-voltage electric lines is very
much OF a menace.
Alumni of Virginia Military Insti-
tute from all over North Carolina
will meet in Raleigh on the evening
Of March 4 to hear the Institutes
Superintendent General Kilbourne,
Wade Bruton, assistant attorney
general, has informed this bureau.
An Eastern North Carolina alumni
chapter was recently organized here
with John Pasco, of Raleigh, as pres
| ident.
Pity the poor people who work in
the office of the clerk OF the House
Cor Senate, for that matter)
For example, Monday a charming
young lady, secretary to one of the
House big shots, came into the
clerks office
''Mr Big Brooches wants a copy of
that bill about wine," she announced.
"What number is it," said the
clerk office worker.
II don't know"
els it House or a Senate bill?"
81 don't know"
"Who introduced it,"
81 don't know"
when was it introduced"
II don't know"
And SO on for an almost endless
series of questions and ignorances.
Yet in the long run the clerk S
office assistant found for the lovely
secretary just exactly the bill she
came after-Grady Withrow's pro-
posal for statewide referendum on
the subject of making North Caro-
lima completely, tee totally and una
nimOusly dry.
Efficient, what?
A group of Legislators, just back
from the weekend at home where
they had to listen to arguments and
expostulations of school teachers,
were discussing DramatiSt Paul
Greene's open letter advising the
teachers to forget their timidity and
60 after what they want. what the
hell does that bird mean about
teachers being timid?" one of the
solons demanded. "He just oughta
go to country church meeting In
my county some Sunday, and he
would revise his OpiniOn-or his de-
finition, of timidity."
The town of Hickory in Catawba
county is having powerful hard
time deciding whether it wants to
be bigger or hitler. There are two
cotton mill villages partly inside anc
partly outside the city limits. The
mills want them all in or all ou
and don't care much which. Blu
there are problems Of water mains
hydrants, street curbing, etc., tina
complicate the situation and the
town couldn't decide whether
wanted the mills in or out. So Rep.
; pesentative Flowers offered a bill
putting 'em in the country, one O
the few instances in which a town.
limits were decreased. At his re
quest the House of Representative
passed the measure pronto. Thel
Hickory docided that it might b.
better after all, to admit the village
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