The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter. [volume] (Manteo, N.C.) 1959-1973, 1961-01-20
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CLIP BOAR D
By
EULA N. GREENWOOD
Raleigh Correspondent
NOT THIS TINE
RaIeiah Correspondent

since taking office January 5, he
has winged to Chicago and to
Palm Beach, Fla.-and so has
hardly found time to warm that
big leathery chair in his office.
After plugging hard for IL solid
months for the office (and the
Democratic Party, you might
think our Governor would be per-
mitted two or three weeks of
peace. We recall the good old days
when the first few days of a new
officials term of office used to be
called the honeymoon period" No
more.
FANGS IN GREENSBORO
With Governor Sanford, new
approach is being taken. Editorials
lambasting him for some of his
appointments have appeared. Let
ters-to2the-editor have torn him
apart.
Nor would we label as altogeth-
err pleasant for him the conference
he had with the media last Thurs
day evening in Republican-ridden
Greensboro. Fangs showed clearly
through some of the questions.
Viewing-with-alarm is the mod
ern-day approach. It is heck if
you do and heck if you don't. We
note that Governor Sanford has
not complained-at least not out
loud-and has handled the ball
very we'll in the press-radio-tele-
vision sessions.
SCATTERED SHOT
Even though he is fast-on-his-
feet, Terry Sanford can look most
ly for trouble for many months
to come from erstwhile Lake-lean-
ers and Gavin-gops. They will
serve to keep him on the defen-
sive.
And the tight rope may become
beaten path.
There is still much bitterness
abroad ;and the wounds are slow
amending. But, viewing the scene
with Socratic eye, Governor San
ford can see that for two weeks
he had the full blast. Now he
knows the critics must turn to
Kennedy and the Washington
scene.
Then will come the Legislature
= always fair game - and taxes.
The shot must be scattered in the
months to come. This may afford
the Governor sufficient time to sta
bilize his administration.
Central Business District
A study of the downtown prob
Hem in North Carolina cities was
conducted by the Institute of Gov
eminent with Ford Foundation
funds last spring.
Now in book form, some results
of the findings will be available
by the time a big meeting on
downtown problems comes up at
Chapel Hill on February 1920.
Mooresville, which we under
stand is in the running for ALI
American City honors, will report
on what it is doing about traffic
congestion, parking, etc. Down
town developments in Ahoskle,
Durham, Winston-Salem and
Greensboro will also be highlighted
at the meeting. .
Principal speaker for the event:
1t. Gov. Cloyd Philpott OF Lex
ington.
Racial Employment
Now, feeling new strength
throughout the South, Negroes
have begun a quiet campaign to
determine if they are being treated
fairly on the employment front.
The whirlwind will soon settle
over the offices of the Employment
Security Commission throughout
North Carolina. Look for this to
erupt into prominence any day.
Raleigh has had two privately
owned employment agencies for
about three years now. A third
one opened early this month.
The Champ?
When Kerr Scott, freshly sworn
in as Governor, was having such
a hard time with his 1949 Legisla-
ture-he finally got all he wanted,
incidentally - he singled out the
following lobbyists for special at
tention:
Sam Blount, Fred Bowman, Gil
mer Sparger, and Harry Buchan-
an.
The next morning out came the
Raleigh News & Observer with
these Peck's bad boys standing
grinning, arm-in-arm, in a big
three-column photo. Thus they
were recognized by none othel
than the Governor himself as lead
ers of the Third House."
Blount, who was with the beef
people, is practicing law in Wash
ington, N. c., his hometown. Spar
ger, originally from Mount Airy
lis still doing first class job fol
the petroleum people here. Harry
buck of Hendersonville, theatre
man, is still doing good for the
theatres. We no longer look te
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