North Carolina Now; North Carolina Now Episode from 03/07/1995

Or no. Tonight what it means to be a North Carolinian. Good evening I'm married to her charge.

Please you're invited us in this evening. Tonight we have one story to share with you a video essay called to be a North Carolinian. This is a story that was created with video and film taken from our archives that date back 40 years. But first a check on the statewide news with Merida Mitra in for Michel Louis Merida. Thanks Mary Lou good evening everyone. The U.S. Labor Department is abandoning its joint enforcement of social programs with the state of North Carolina. That joint enforcement began after the September 1991 deaths of 25 workers in a fire at a hamlet chicken processing plant and the discovery that the plant never had a safety inspection. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration found deficiencies in the state inspection program after the hamlet fire. But now. The Labor Department has found that North Carolina's laws have changed that the state now has the resources necessary to provide worker protection and that the state has addressed all of the problems that were identified by Osho earlier reviews today at the legislature the House and the Senate approved a bill clearing the way for a state wide referendum on giving the

governor veto power they issue will go before the North Carolina voters in November of 96. If voters approve of the measure the governor would be able to stop bills passed by the General Assembly from taking effect. The legislature would then have to put together a 60 percent majority to override the governor's veto. North Carolina is currently the only state in the nation where the governor can't veto legislation. North Carolina's Cherokee tribe is refusing to shut down video gaming just spied a directive from Governor Jim haunts office to do so. And a recent court decision not involving the Cherokee. A video poker game was banned because the court ruled it was based on chance rather than skill. The state then gave notice to the Cherokee to stop all video gaming until it could be determined whether or not their games comply with state law. The Cherokee believe that their games are more sophisticated than the one banned under the court ruling and that they require both skill and dexterity. Representatives from the governor's office hope to meet with the tribal members in the near future. If those

negotiations fail the state can bring suit in federal district court. Today all of North Carolina saw a very bleak cloudy skies and warm temperatures highs in the mountains were in the 60s while the rest of the state enjoyed the 70s. Tonight Ryan and possible thunderstorms are expected from the triad West. Elsewhere it will be cloudy and breezy lows will mostly be in the 50s with the exception of Elizabeth City and Wilmington. Their lows will hold in the 60s tomorrow it will be windy with a chance of rain and thunderstorms statewide. Highs in the mountains will be in the 50s and 60s and 70s for the rest of the state. Pros welcome is giving up its efforts to fend off a takeover by a rival drug maker Glaxo Wellcome will advise shareholders to accept Glaxo his offer because efforts to seek out other potential suitors were not successful. That clears the way for a

merger that will create the world's largest drug manufacturer. The merger is pending approval from the Federal Trade Commission. Both Glaxo and girls welcome have their U.S. headquarters located in Research Triangle Park. The stock market was down today the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost about 35 points to close at thirty nine sixty two point sixty three decliners lead gainers by three to one as a three hundred fifty eight million shares were traded. The S&P 500 index was down three and a half points and the Nasdaq index lost nearly six and a half. And now for some stocks of North Carolina interest. If

you've had an opportunity to travel the state of North Carolina you know how breathtaking the land is and how warm the people are. You won't see TVs chancy Capp and Gary Morton have produced this video essay that captures the feel of what it is to be a North Carolinian to be rather than to seem that is the motto of North Carolina in its elegant Latin form. It adorns the seal of the state in a peculiar and wonderful way. It is inscribed on the hearts of all those who treasure wanted me a North Carolinian to

be a North Carolinian means to awaken each day in a place of infinite beauty and endless surprise. North Carolina don't often holds the promise of soothing the peaceful quiet of a gentle landscape. There is comfort in this ancient land and fragrances they call memory. The face of nature seems close at hand and for many. But there is high ground to reported in the sudden fury of wind

and storm blowing the fragile islands of sand got in pristine silence. Find people in massive mountains that inspired Thomas of the rank of the great shapes up the hill who's in brown and glowing with a moat and he was aboard a countering summit's wind and lonely foot of dry and strangeness culture's gorgeous gaps and wild Ruby was bullshit and suddenly away with a terrifying steepness. Sometimes this land called North Carolina whispers with mystery and crackles with danger. It can be a place where the familiar gives way to the unexpected.

More than four centuries ago explorers boasted that they had found here the good lead US soil under the cope of have to be a North Carolinian means to treasure that soil. This place beyond all of us would be a North Carolinian means to be a vivid vital scrap of the

brilliant patchwork quilt of North Carolina's people. The quilt is an ever growing jumble of color texture size shape and style pieced together with sutras of loving care threads that connect to more than six and a half million North Carolinians are temperate Pango and sometimes free but they die immensely strong. The pattern begins with those whose ancestors were the first people who love this land. Native Americans watched Friends say you know it's been living on the eastern horizon. They stole the life they treasured changed forever as new cultures washed over them. But thousands stayed on good many tens of thousands now define what it means to be a North Carolina it

is easy to find the rough years of sturdy pioneers who live Europe because of that you live in a new world. Look for the broad shoulders wrapped in that parrot in English one of them the simple broadcloth of pious German and other strong fabrics that travelled with a rich dense weave a clam and custom. North Carolina's quilt has its ragged edge. Careful repairs to men and women came from Africa as slaves forced to do others work.

But the baby stayed by choice because they choose to be North Carolinians of great strength and resourceful hope and the dream state. And so every day brings subtle ship and sparkling additions. The newest North Carolinians are the ones from other states other countries and other continents. Many bring cultures virtually unknown here a generation ago. They embroider our lives with the memory and tremendous where it's often born of hardship. They share with all who came before that dream of opportunity. Each one of them has chosen to be a North Carolinian.

It would be a North Carolinian means to value the world of work wrestling a living from the land take strong backs long eyes and generations of knowledge of the rhythm of seasons and roles in life across the rich earth of the Western farm. I ducked amid rocks and forests the forests themselves are productive places. On big money clay family farms share the land with sprawling suburbs and gleaming factories. A full day's

work for many North Carolinians encompases farm and factory to begin a North Carolinian is to know better than most. A fascinating power of America's technology workers on North Carolina's factory floors make things that matter and they make them by the millions. Powerful minds and skilled hands work together in North Carolina to create the future. Sometimes though the way the work is done Hans lovingly took a pass to be a North Carolinian means to cherish the unique craft of the office and who creates objects both beautiful and useful one by one.

It can't always be a North Carolinian is the reveled in the night that many of those who live here know in this variation of every five there's room for individual challenge through strength and skill. If you didn't solve it you would against mountain and wind are against determined competition. There's energy for the kind of fun that demands a company by the hundred thousands even tens of thousands and there's time for an old fashioned kind of leisure that demands no bigger

crowd than a friend in the next rocking chair and someone to keep the ice deep picture for. To be a North Carolinian is to understand the need to nurture the beauty and grace of mind and spirit. You know what it means. Connect over so that compose of the mind in the whole and the heart with the richness of the culture of many centuries and many places lessons of life are in the laughter of the smallest smiling face and the wrinkled squint one of pure hard won experience. Look for learning on metal brick

canvases shaded by Oaks planted centuries ago or in a computer lab opened just today. Already defining tomorrow's knowledge will be a North Carolinian is the treasure of the giant in the journey toward perfection. Could be a North Carolinian means to be on the cutting edge of change. I know how it feels to be the last to be the best to tackle the toughest problems and to delight in the greatest achievement is to be a North Carolinian means to be ready to speak out and to stand up for your own ideas and for the right of other North Carolinian Mr disagree to be a North Carolinian is to cherish the chance to be different and they welcome new ways to work together to be a North Carolinian

means and that's what it may be most of all it means to be what others wish they were proud people and a place that echoes with the power of promises kept and challenges overcome and to beat rather than to seen to be. I'm not counting him. If you're interested in making that video a part of your home video library you can get a copy by making a forty dollar contribution to un see TV. Just call the number on your screen. We encourage your support because you and the TV is facing a critical time financially. That's why festival 95 is so important to us and we hope you'll enjoy shows like nature which is coming up next. And a special later tonight about the rock group The Eagles for everyone

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