Reversal Is Sensible Action

The N.C. Senate Rules Committee recommended last week that the Senate restore power to appoint Senate committees to the lieutenant governor.

The action reverses an action taken by the committee earlier this year. The committee heard many wilnes.ses who favored the restoration of the appointive powers to the lieutenant governor. Former lieutenant governors have said they felt the removal of the power was a mistake.

Sen. Ralph Scott said after the meeting, All were doing is correcting the error we made."

It is anticipated that the full Senate will act

favorable on the latest recommendation at a July It! caucus. Formal action will await the actual meeting of the Legislature next January.

The committee has taken a sensible action in recommending restoring the lieutenant governors appointive powers. It doesnt make much sense to us to pay the lieutenant governor a full time salary and then relieve him of virtually all his duties. The job of lieutenant governor is an important one and able individuals are needed to fill it. Its not likely that qualified persons will seek the office if it means sitting around for four years with little todo.

The Senate Rules Committee action of last week is proper.

N.C. Crop Reports Continue Excellent

Crop reports in North Carolina continue to be excellent with the corn crop now pronounced outstanding this year.

Agriculture Commissioner Jim Graham said, Weve got the be.st corn crop that weve had in the

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12 years Ive been commissioner. Ive driven throughout the area and without question the crop is excellent We should have a record yield.

This seems to be one of those years when the weather has cooperated to the farmers benefit.

Sheriffs Upset By Rules

ByBIIXNOBLITT RALEIOH-Meny of North Carolina'a 100 county sheriffs ire upset over what they see a.s a growing encrosrhment of state regulation over their local domains The key issue is minimum standards for deputies, and the slate agency set up to enforce those, which sheriffs complain interfere with their constituional powers "Theres unseen evil, here, lurking in the dirk. It's hard to put a finger on II. but some of us have the feeling that we are gonna go to the office one Monday morning to find the door loeki-d. and discover we aren't going to hsve sheriffs anymore, " is the way Otis Jones, high sheriff of Cumberland County, sees the problem.

Loilng Authority Not only are encroaching slate regulations feared, but fi-deral rulings which deal with how loeal jails are run and other aspects of sherlf-fing, cause the elected officials to worry.

Several aheriffs met recently with s legislative committee to talk about the problems and suggeal remedies Most of the complaints

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centered around the standards for employment drawn up and enforced by the Criminal Justice Training and Standards Council.

For deputies and local police, that means an applicant must be 21 years old. a U.S. clUsen, a high school graduate, pass a written lest, and a physical exam, and undergo a background investigation and finerprint check to make sure he has no felony criminal record. Additionally, a 160-hour training course is required in the first yearof employment.

Standards are also set for State Bureau of Investigation agents, highway patrolmen, paroles and probation officers, and correctional employees.

At first, the supervising council operated independently. but was moved under Jurisdiction of the Attorney General in 1975, The council is made up of 21 peoplc^ith the state Sheriffs Association alloled fiyc; police chiefs alloted Hve. and others from the courts. Justice Department, Motor Vehicles Division, education and some appointed by the governor rounding out membership.

Increasingly, the sheriffs complained to a meeting of the Governmental Operations Cummi.ssion chaired by State .Senator I.C. Crawford. D-Buncombe, the council ha. usurped local authority.

For example, said Buncombe Sheriff Tom Morrisey, a fingerprint cheek might lake a month or two to Clear, but even if a sheriff knows the applicant and his family well, he can't go ahead and put him to work without requesting such permission in writing from Raleigh.

Written Test Applicants must pass a written lest given by the Employment Security Commission, and if they fail must wail five years before retestingand appeals to the council In such cases have invariably failed, the sheriffs said.

Boiled down from the various specifics is the feeling among sheriffs that Kaleigh is nibbling away at local authority, changing regulations without touching base with those affecld, constanlty moving to take way constitutional respon-sibilitea from elected sheriffs.

Other sheriffs at the session

from Burke, Stanly, Cabarrus, and Halifax couotiea joined in the con-cema. But not all lawmen preient agreed.

Raleigh Police Chief Robert Goodwin and Sheriff Buck Night of Orange County, both members of the standards council, said the system was improving law enforcement personnel.

The standards are making lawmen standard and respected statewide while in the past there have been communltiea which not only tolerated but wanted teu than professional, competent law enforcement.

Cecil Hargett, director of the Standards and Training Council staff, uid be understand! the problems which the iherlffi complain of, but that the majority of the "criminal justice com-junity across the state particularly police and state agencleawant staniarda raised even more, and the move is in that direction.

The iheiiffi said they are not opposed to minimum standards, but the Impoiition of regulatloos from the itate level without enough involvement of local officials In writing those rules.

Cost-Free Ford Speakers

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK WASHINGTON - When rreasury Secrctsry William Simon traveled (o Raleigh; N (' iaat Jan 20 lu addreas Ihe state Chamlter of C.'om-rnerce and then a President Ford Committee (PFC) reception; the taxpayers bill W.H 12,310 The rcim-horjement to Unrle Sam from Ihe PFC for politieal i-xp<-nses S17 44 That ia an example, only slightly more absurd than inosl. of how obviously polillral exiM'osea Incurred hy Simon and other Ford advocates " are routinely exrluded from the stringent 113 million overall limit on pre convenllon spending by any presidenlial randldale Allhoogh Ihe advocates have been liarnslorming the eounlry m the Presidenl'i behalf all year, Federal Eleellon Commission I FECI

files yield little In PFC reports of their expenses

The mirscle of the Presidents cost-free advocates is part of the Ford campaign's clearest ac-eompliahment: effectively

exempting the incumbent from the new federal election law. While Ihe law's tough provisions actually forced some Democrallc candldatea this year Into premature retirement and nearly did In Ronald Reagan as well; Mr. Ford has found presidentialsized loopholes.

Starling with Mr Ford's announcement of cnndidary last year, his campaign has taken a cavalier attitude toward the new law and the rommlaslon assigned to enforce it Unlike other announced candidates. Mr Ford did not report political travel expenses In 1975 (on grounds he was performing as partv head). Accordingly.

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By ART BUCHWALD

A Letter To Delegates

Dear Democratic Delegates,

Welcome to the Democratic National Convention In New York City, which we know will be one of the most exciting events of the last 200 yearn.

Our program committee has worked day and night tomake thii an enjoyable, entertaining and auapenseful experience.

Thli is the tentative ichedule which I know will meet with your approval.

On Monday evening at exactly 6 o'clock we will all stand and sing the "Star-Spangled Banner. This will be followed by welcoming speeches from Gov, Hugh Carey and Mayor Abe Beame. both of whom we know youve been waiting on tenterhooks to hear.

Then that Texas spellbinder. Democratic Chairman Robert Strauss, will give his report on the state of the party.

This will be followed by a

real treat. At tremendous expense we are going to present a film showing highlighu from the careen of all the great Democratic Presidents. It will keep you riveted to your leata.

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and the cost to the PFC is $17.44.

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has enabled Simon, moat effective of Ford advocates, to travel throughout the Southwhere he Is more popular than the Prealdent at bargain rates for the PFC. On each trip, the vaat

burden of coat was attributed to "non-polltlcal" events.

A February awing through MliilialppI and Florida enabled Simon to sing the President's praises In television Interviews, al two party dinners and two

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lonvllle and Orlando. Coat to the government of Air Force and private charter planes: $5.552.36. Share charged to the PFC: 6243.43.

From Florida, Simon took an Air Force jet to Alabama and Tezai where he ipoke at PFC eventa In Mobile and Fort Worth. Coat to the government: $7.023. Share charged to the PFC: 1201.16.

The Pentagon In March barred Air Force planea for political travel by anybody except the Prealdent, but the same formula waa used for civilian charters. A March 30 flight to New York (where

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Other Editors Say Don't Split Team

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Two would-be governors, George Wood and Ed OHerron, want to split the state's industrial and economic development activity off from the Natural and Economic Resources department and put it In the governors office. A third, Jim Hunt, wants Industry-hunting moved to the Commerce department.

What short memories they have.

Only five years ago when state government was reorganised, whether Industry-hunting should be run by the same agency responsible for coniervatlon and environment was a hotly fought issue. The state wisely decided, as it had twice earlier since the question first surfaced around 1905, to keep the two functions under one agency roof.

For many years before the raising ol environmental con-sctouaneaa, the "development" side of the old Conservation and Development department had virtually all the ciout. The 1971 decision not to separate the two came juit when this was changing. The new state goal was to get the kind of development that would use limited resources in the most effective wiys, for the peoples benefit as well as the developers.

This kind of planning has worked. But only because "developing" and conserving" are together. Three able NER secretaries. Charles Bradshaw, James Harrington, and now George Little, have rightly seen the two as parts of one job-making North Carolina grow in desirable ways.

The current rumblings about splitting off "development" began this spring when chief state industry hunter Robert Leak left for a South Carolina job al an $6.000 salary hike with a blast at North Carolina for not being more hotly single-minded in pursuing economic growth.

But that kind of pursuit in the past, welcomi(.g whatever industry would come here, gave the state its low induitrial-wage rank today and contributed to low ranking in other indexes.

To pul economic development elsewhere than NER would make the inevitable clashes between industry-at-any-pricers and environmentalists more yiatbleand thus harder to negotiate and aettle. And. most important, it would make synchronizing the state's carrot and the state's slick much harder. If not Impoaslble.

The price ii too great to pay. NER has done a good Job with both its functions. It should be let alone to continue doing ao

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But theres more. We are going to hear keynote ad-dresiea from Sen. John Glenn, Americat moil famous hero, and Congreaiwoman Barbara Jordan, who will both tell ua what a mesa the Republicans have made of the country for the past eight years. This will ge a night to remember.

I know you dont think we can top Monday night, but wait until you bear what we have in store for you on Tuesday. There will be report! from the Credentials ind Rules Committee followed by the highlight of the evening, which will be the reading of the Democratic platform.

We want everyone in tbelr seat! for the reading of the platform, and we don't want anyone sneaking off to watch the All-Star baseball game on television. A motioQ that the Democratic National Committee adjourn the Tueaday night seiaion and charter special trains to go to Philadelphia to watch the game waa overwhelmingly defeated by the committee last week by a vote of 15 to 34. The platform reading will go on ai planned.

Wednesday afternoon will be devoted to the Rules Committee report, and then we will all break for dinner. After dinner we will come back and hear the nomination apeechei for our presidential candidates. Al thli moment we haven't decided how many nominating ipeehches

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By ROBERT B CULLEN Associated Press Writer

RALEIGH (AP)-It is no secret that candidates for governor take ptrili Hargrove Bowl-ea, in 1972, used to whip a amatl white card from his coat pocket. On it. his office had written its latest calculation of the five issues most important at that moment in North Carolina.

II Is also no lecret what the polls tell the candidates, in gen-ersl terms. Enough independent surveys hsve been made public to know that North Carolinians are concerned more about crime than almost anything else.

When it comes to schools, they wint diKipline. They dont want higher taxes, and they think the sales Ux is the fairest tax the state has, because everyone pays it. Their confidence in almost sU of their institutions, including politics, has dropped to very low levels. They believe that government gets less efficient the further It goes from the local level.

Knowing all of this, the candidates have tailored their platforms along similar Unei. For the most part, their ideas sound like the same melody played on different instruments. There are some differences in tone, but everything Is basically the same.

Furthermore, polli may show where the people are today. They do not tell where they need to be tomorrow. A candidate in tune with his pollster may well reflect the thougbU of the voters. He will probably not be much of a leader.

The candidates fed from polls develop a vapid litany of things to be for and things to be against:

They are for being tough" on criminals, putting them In jail and making them stay there. They are against railing taxM to build the piisona needed to hold the population.

They are for economic development, but not at the expenae of the environment. Put another way, they are for preserving the environment but not at the expenae of eeonomic development.

They are for giving pay raises to teachers and state employep, but against raising taxes to pay for It. Instead, they promise they will get the money by cutting bureaucratic "fat'' out of state government.

They are for a progreiaive, fair tax system, but they are against putting the bite on the people who do not pay their fair, progressive share.

Reporters and do gooders" press them to take specific stands on the issues. So they put forth "program proposals,"

One candidate will move the Industry-hunting office in state government out of the Department of Natural and Economic Resources and put it directly under the governors office. Another will put it in the Department of Commerce. A third will leave it where 11 la.

While they debate theie momentous ideal, no one talks about thlngi like North Carolinas unionixation rate, the educational opportunities it offers, its Irinsportation system and Its cultural offerings, despite the fact that all of theae would seem more important to industry than the location of the industry-hunting office.

Another thing the candidates learn from the polls is that only I imall minority of North Caro-Ilniana like librala." More like "conaervativei," but the grealeil number like to think of themielves as somewhere in between.

Thus they pride themselves on staying away from that sort of coherent, coordinated view of Itate affairs that might get them tagged with either label.

In the abort run, the candidates may be helping them-lelves get elected. In the long run, they may be doing every-U onlinufd on pagr 5)Strength For Today Seeking Help Fram Cansumers

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His lltllt', nameless, (inrcmembered arts Of kindness and of love " Wp frequently diseover that the little thing.x we have done fur our friends which often seem trivial and unimportant to us bring more happiness than a gift of large proportions Ieoplf never forget the word that was kindly spoken in a momeni of

dlicouragement. a little helpful act which made living endurable in a season of trial. A young man who later attained great fame in English literature said that it was a brief walk and converaation with the celebrated English man of letters William Hailitt which ftarted him on the road to high achievement.

Influences are emanating from our personaliliei all the time which for belter or for worse can strongly affect people around us. This gives us a chance to do good in the world with very little effort, by Elisha Douglass

By LOUISE COOK Aaaocialed Pren Writer Whala the best way to make cars safe?

Should airlines have to explain their fare schedules?

How big a refund are you entitled to on a defective product?

These are some of Ihe questions the governmeni is trying to answer, and it wants help from consumers. Here are some proposed changes in government regulations and information on making your views known AIR BAGS The Transportation Department has proposed

extending until Aug 31, 1977. requirements concerning air bags and seat belts. As of now. auto makers have three options. They can install a complete, passive protection system such as an air bag which automatically Inflates to provide protection in all types of crashes. They can install a combination aystem with an air bag to protect the occupant in head-on crashes andJap seat belts lor safely in othe|- accidents. Or, they can simply provide lap seat belts.

Mijat^ manufacturers have chosen the third option General Motors offered a passive restraint system as

an option on some luxury cars in 1974.1975 and 1976.but does not intend to uner it in the future.

Transportation Secretary William T. Coleman Jr. has scheduled an Aug. 3 public hearing in Washington and alio wants written com-menta. He hai said he will issue a written decision by next Jan. 1.

Among the questions Coleman ia asking:

Should Ihe current standards be extended?

Should air bigi be required on ail vehicles after a given date?

Do voi> favor more

federatly-sponaored research on the costs and effectiveness of devices such is air bags?

Would you support state laws requiring the me of safety belti?

The Aug. 3 hearing will be 3eld at the Transportation Department auditorium. Constitution Avenue between 12th and 14lh SU., N.W.. in Waihington.

Written commenti, due by Sept. 17, should be sent to the Secretary of Transportation. Washington. D.C.. 20590. Mark the envelope FMVSS 206. indicating that your comments spply to Federsl