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I 2 ■h -/r ’ B «■ Too big to cook 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- NOTICE Notice Is Hereby Given That The Annual Meeting Os GRIFFIN FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION Shall convene at 4:30 o’clock in the afternoon on Thursday, September 15,1977, and shall be held at the offices of Griffin Federal Savings and Loan Association, West Taylor at 10th Street, in the City of Griffin, Georgia. GRIFFIN FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASSOCIATION West Taylor St. at 10th Street Phone 228-2786 By: W. T. Ramsey President 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. 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