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DETROlT—Michelle Johnson, 7, of Willis, Michigan, demonstrates that this champion
squash at the Michigan State Fair isn't quite suited for baking and buttering on the half
shell. The Squash, grown by Ed. Scheveder, of Washington, Michigan, weighed 301 pounds.
Also featured in Fair vegetable entries was a 37-pound watermelon and a 29 pound gourd.
(AP)
Appalachian region
for‘coal boom’ aftermath
By BETTY ANNE WILLIAMS
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - The
long-term future of the Appala
chian Regional Commission is
uncertain, but the need for its
brand of economic planning and
development will persist, says
its new federal co-chairman.
The region is entering a new
boom era because of its vast
coal resources. The commission
or some agency like it should
enable the Appalachian states
to take a leadership role in the
development of national energy
policies, the chairman, Bob
Scott, asserted.
Scott, a former governor of
North Carolina who has repre
sented the federal govern
ment’s interests on ARC for
about two months, said securing
a role in energy policy de
velopment is one of his top pri
orities.
“Our concern is that as this
coal is used — and it is an ex
pendable and exhaustible re
source — that when the coal
boom is over, there will be
something left to show for it,”
he said in a recent interview.
“It won’t be a boom and bust
situation as in the past,” he
vowed. “We must avoid the de
solation, isolation and poverty
that this situation can bring
about.”
Scott learned the potential of
ARC at first hand while he was
governor of North Carolina
from 1969 to 1973.
ARC is a federal-state agency
created in 1965 to counter the
economic stagnation affecting
the 195,000-square-mile Appala
chian region. The area includes
all or parts of the 13 states
which are broken by the Ap
palachian Mountains. That
takes in all of West Virginia,
parts of Alabama, Georgia,
Kentucky, Maryland, Mis-
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sissippi, New York, North Caro
lina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South
Carolina, Tennessee and Vir
ginia.
Authority in the agency is
split among the governors of
those states, who have their own
representative in Washington,
and the federal co-chairman.
ARC is the largest govern
ment-backed regional economic
development program. Like
other federal progams, it is a
possible target in the Carter
administration’s government
reorganization plans.
Scott said the administration
has begun preliminary dis
cussions about reorganization,
but the long-term fate of ARC
has not been decided.
Even without plans for
reorganization, ARC’S mandate
is due to expire in two years.
Ordinarily, the agency would
seek an extension from Con
gress, which has been generally
receptive to ARC and satisfied
with its progress. But the Carter
administration’s plans for
reorganization may lead to the
formation of some new agency
or the absorption of ARC’S
functions into an existing agen
cy.
“We think this kind of work
will go on, but it may not be as
we know it today,” Scott said.
“It may not be this mecha
nism.”
Scott believes ARC has a good
image with Carter, a former
Appalachian governor, and with
the Office of Management and
Budget, which has a large part
of the responsibility for
government reorganization.
ARC can rightfully claim
some of the credit for signifi
cant improvements in regional
health care, vocational educa
tion, highways, energy develop
ment and sewage treatment,
among other things. It has also
helped turn around the trend of
emigration from Appalachia.
Total personal income in the
region increased from $39 bil
lion in 1965 to SBS billion in 1974,
the most recent figures in
ARC’S annual report. During
the same period, per capita in
come levels rose from 78.2 per
cent of the national average to
82.6 per cent.
Between 1970 and 1975, the
Appalachian civilian labor
force grew 10 per cent from 7.1
million to 7.9 million. Popu
lation in the area grew from 18.2
million in 1970 to 19 million in
1975, a growth rate of 1.6 per
cent compared with the 1.2 per
cent national average.
Scott said ARC has an in
centive to involve itself in ener
gy matters not only because it
represents a producing region
but also because some of its
states — New York, Pennsylva
nia and Ohio among them — are
large energy consumers.
The agency should also play a
role in the national debate on
economic growth and develop
ment, he said.
Scott sees his job at ARC as
that of an advocate for the spe
cific interests of the region and
for the principles of federalism
it uses, involving governments
at the federal, state and local
levels in decision making.
He said he wants to take the
initiative in offering the re
gion’s viewpoint to federal
planners in areas like welfare
reform and national health in
surance “rather than sitting
here and when something
comes out, reacting to it.”
Scott is an affable, plain
spoken man who relishes his
“purely political appointment.”
He worked with the Carter
campaign in North Carolina
and, when his candidate won,
asked to be considered for jobs
at Agriculture, Interior or ARC.
He discounts the possibility that
his experience as an Appala
chian governor led to his ap
pointment.
Scott, who is 48, worked with
the North Carolina Agribusi
ness Council and maintained his
dairy farm at Haw River, N.C.,
after leaving the governorship.
He has not abandoned his rural
roots.
He lives in an efficiency
apartment five blocks from the
ARC office building in Washing
ton during the week. But on
weekends, he goes home to
North Carolina where his wife
and five children live.
“I’ve got to see something
besides concrete,” he ex
plained. “I’m just a country
boy.”
Scott’s father was also a gov
ernor of North Carolina and lat
er, a U.S. senator. Scott says his
political ambitions are fading
as he grows older.
“If I ever ran for anything
again, and as time goes on, that
becomes less and less likely, I
suspect it might be for a state
office,” he said.
But for the moment, he says
with a laugh, “ain’t nobody
knockin’ on my door urging me
to run for nothin’.”
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