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Gandy appointments Mid-Deltans get key positions By NANCY Y. STEVENS DD-T Capitol Correspondent JACKSON-Greenville Sen. J.K. "Buddy" Grcshman Thursday was promoted to head the Senate Universities and Colleges Committee by new Lt. Gov.

Evelyn Gandy. Gresham, beginning his second term in the upper chamber, had served miring the latter part of the past term as vice chairman of the active panel. Sen. Howard Dyer of Greenville was appointed vice chairman of Uie Senate Local and Private Committee by Lt. Gov.

Gandy, presiding her first day in the Senate. Alexander of Cleveland, another mid-Delta senator, last week was elected president pro tempore of the body, leaving his former post as head of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Mid-Delta Sen. Robert Crook of Ruleville kept his rein on the Senate Fees and Salaries Committee which he chaired during the last term. The only incumbent chairmen by Gandy were Sandy Steckler of Biloxi, who had presided over the municipalities panel, and Ray Chatham of Hattiesburg, whose universities and colleges post Greshman received.

But Ch ath am was Candy's appointee to the important State Budget Commission. Gresham said he was happy about W.B. Alexander Howard Dyer J.K, 'Buddy' Gresham his new chairmanship and other assignments, retained his membership on four panels-- constitution, elections, finance and banks-- and was added to public utilities and highways and transportation, both which he said he requested of.Gandy. He was removed from water resources, which he had vice chaired in the last term, municipalities and the minor executive contingent fund panel. Dyer, a former member of the House of Representatives; in addition to his local and private job, will serve on constitution, county affairs, finance, judiciary ports and Special industries and state library.

He said he was generally pleased over his appointments. Former Sen. Willard Mcllwain of Greenville, defeated by Dyer, had headed the oil and gas committee. Alexander, who will preside over the Senate in the absence of Gandy, will serve on the constitution, corrections, elections, finance, insurance, judiciary universities and colleges and contingent expense committees. Constitution and contingent expense are new jobs for him.

As president protein, he will serve on the State Budget Commission. Crook's assignments, in addition to his fees and salaries role, include membership on the public utilities, appropriations, corrections, highways and transportation, judiciary interstate and federal cooperation and investigate state offices panels. Gresham's 13-member committee, to be chaired by former chairman Chatham, will be composed of five former members of the committee and seven new to it. Crook': committee will be made up of three old members and three newly appointed to the panel. Alexander will also vice chair the rules panel by virtue of his president pro tern post.

Upper chamber Gandy names committee heads By DOUGLAS R. SEASE JACKSON I Hinds County senators were named to head a i a Constitution committees Thursday as U. Gov. Evelyn Gandy announced committee appointments in the upper chamber. Miss Gandy made few changes in committee leadership, reappointing 18 senators to the committees they a i i administration.

Sen. Bill Burgin of Columbus was reappolnted to head the powerful Appropriations Committee and Sen. Ellis Bodron ot Victsburg was reappointed chairman of the Finance Committee. Among the most important changes were Sen. Maloney's appointment as chairman of the Corrections Committee and Sen.

John Corlew's a i a a Constitution Committee. Both men arc from Jackson. The Corrections Committee was formerly headed by Corbet Patridge of Schlater and John Paul Moore was a i a of the i i i i a administration. Both men were defeated in re-election bids. Miss Gandy appointed Sen.

Ray Chatham of Hattiesburg to represent the Senate on the state Budget Commission and also named Chatham vice chairman of the Appropriations Committee. Sen. Carroll Ingram of Hattiesburg was named chairman of the powerful Judiciary A Committee and freshman Sen. Ed Ellington of Jackson was appointed to replace Ingram as chairman of the Interstate and Lt. Gov.

Gandy, presiding over the Senate for the first full day Thursday, announced committee appointments in the Mississippi Senate. At left is Bill Alexander of Cleveland, president pro-tempore. Federal Cooperation Committee. The chairmanship of the Highways and Highway Financing Committee went to Sen. George Yarbrough of Red Banks, who replaces former Sen.

R.B. "Breezy" Reeves of McComb, who chose not to seek reelection. Other changes were Sen. Thomas Hickman of Brooxhaven, chairman of the Forestry Committee, formerly JACKSON (UPI)-Gov. Bill Waller Thursday asked the Mississippi Senate to confirm 55 appointments to various state boards and agencies, including the first appointment of a black to the state Board of Nursing.

Waller, with less than a week left in his term, appointed Mildred Franklin OUis of Summit to the Nursing Board. He also named Biloxi Mayor Jerry a i i a representative on the stale Air and Water Pollution Control Board and appointed three physicians to the state Board of Health. The physicians were identified as Dr. William B. Hunt of Grenada, Dr.

James 0. Gilmore of Oxford and Dr. Frank W. Bowen of Carthage. Other appointees were: James Reeves of Ellisville, state Board of Public Welfare; Norman R.

Johanson of West Point, Technical Advisory Committee of Boiler and Pressure Vessel Safety; Charles E. Henderson of Hattiesburg, Board of Registration for Sanitarians; Jack D. a Registration for Sanitarians; Dempsey C. Strange of SlarkvUle, Commission on Hospital Care; Glenn Heath of Starkville, Mississippi Board of Animal Health; Marilyn Reynolds of Jackson, stale Board of Physical Therapy; Dr. Louis A.

Farber of Jackson, state Board of Physical Therapy; R.L. Phillips of Corinth, Yellow Creek Port Authority; Ernie Jenkins of Jackson, Mississippi Board of Animal Health. Also Lula Mclvie M. Moore of Meridian, Mississippi Board of i K. Wells of Columbus, state Embalming Board; George Holder of Moss Point, state Embalming Board; Harold Hudson of Tupelo, Ojus Malpliurs Jr.

of Jackson, and Judith F. Hammack of Meridian, Council of Advisors in Speech Pathology and Audiology; Rosemary Henrion of Biloxi and Cora Balmat of Hattiesburg, Mississippi Board of i Sam Ivy of Jackson, Polygraph Examiners Board; Howard L. Davidson of Booneville, Probation and Parole Board; Cecil R. Barnett of Winona, and Robert T. Blackwood of Drew, Mississippi Egg Marketing Board; Robert A.

Pritchard of Pascagoula, Mississippi Medicaid Commission. Also Dr. Dora R. Herring of Starkville, Mississippi Economic Development Corporation; Bernice Hale of Pontotoc, state Board of Mental Health; Walter B. Crook Jr.

of Ruleville, Commission on Hospital Care; Robert L. Genin Jr. of Bay St. Louis, Mississippi Marine Resources Council; Oliver Cook of Jackson, slate Board of Pharmacy; Dr. L.B.

Atkins of Union, state Board of Optometry; Robert Graham of Pascagoula and Edward a of i i Mississippi Marine Conservation i i i i a A Williamson of Greenville, Board of Trustees of the Blind and Deaf Schools; George T. Houston of i a Commission; William "Joe" Burnett of Waynesboro, state Educational The Mid-Delta under defeated Sen. Fred Rogers; Sen. John Waldrop, named chairman of the Labor Committee formerly headed by defeated Sen. Ebb Horton of Louisville; Sen.

Ray Montgomery of Canton, appointed chairman of the Public Property Committee, formerly headed by Sen. Emerson Stringer of Columbia; and Stringer, appointed to the chairmanship of the Public Utilities Committee, formerly headed by defeated Sen. Berta Lee White of Bailey. Miss Gandy had encountered pressure from several sources to name someone other than Burgin and Bodron to the powerful financial committees. In naming the committee leaders.

Miss Gandy said she was "very much the heavy responsibility that rests upon me." She said she assigned committee membership in order to best utilize each senator's abilities "for his district and the entire state of Mississippi." In other action Thursday the Senate adopted resolutions inviting Tennessee Gov. Ray Blanton to address the legislature on Feb. 10. Blanton is chairman of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Association, which will hold a meeting in Jackson Feb. 10.

A resolution was also adopted commending the life of the late Charles N. Sliira, veteran athletic i of Mississippi State University. Shira died earlier this month. He had served as athletic director at MSU since 1967. Both chambers adjourned until 2 p.m.

Monday. Waller names 55 to state boards Finance Commission. Also Dr. i ot Greenwood, state Educational Finance Commission; Dr. James E.

Russell of Starkville, state Board of Chiropractic Fjcaminers; Dr. Mary II. Marshall of Long Beach and Dr. Hugh E. Bateman of Oxford, Council of Advisors in Speech Pathology and Audiology; C.C...

Caldwell of Laurel, Boat and Water Safety Commission; E.U. Parker of Laurel, Board of Trustees of the Blind and Deaf Schools; E. Lee Harrison of Bay Springs and Moody J. Davis of Pelahatchie, state Banking Board; Van H. of i Mississippi Board of Animal Health; Kenneth Cobb of Lambert, state Air a a i Control Dr.

Bobby E. Craven of Hattiesburg, Donald J. Cuevas of Gulf port, Earl L. Koskela of Moss Point and Jerry J. Bodin of Biloxi, Mississippi Marine Resources Council; and Louis L.

Nolan of Jackson, Board of Trustees of the Mississippi Crippled Children's Treatment and Training Center. Lenox Quartet provides rare entertainment By BEN WASSOM DD-T Arts Editor In the world of music the string quartet offers, for me, a place of special delight. Chamber music is Ihe right appelation for it since it is. by its very nature, cast in an intimate form and bears an overall quality of, as the Teutonic languge so aptly puts it, gemutchkeit. These few not so original observations were brought home to me Thursday night when I attended the concert presented by the Quartet in the Greenville High School Auditorium.

The program was sponsored by the Delta Music Association as its second offering of the season, and an excellent choice it was on the part of the Association. I am happy to report that a large audience was in attendance and was entirely rapt during the whole evening. Chamber music needs a degree of "raptness" on the part of an audience inasmuch as offerings in the medium are extremely subtle and, in contrast say to a symphonic composition, are closely knit and rigid with, though, no seeming a i instruments in the quartet are two violins, a viola and a cello. The members of the Lenox Quartet are, all of highly skilled musicians and each seemed to relish a a compositions of the three quartets played last night--a Mozart, a a a a a a wide-ranging program indeed. Last night during intermission I was talking to a friend about the program and I commented that I always felt impertinent when I wrote a review of a concert, and that a "piece" about one was in the of being a show-off of the reviewer's musical knowledge.

Heaven forbid, for I am humble in the marvelous territory of music! Be that as it may, it was marvellous to hear again (alive!) a string quartet. And to Peter Marsh, viotonist; Delmar Peltys, violinist, Toby Appel, violist, and Donald McCal, cellist I offer my great gratitude for a splendid evening of beautiful music. Lee's birthday closing offices Due to Robert E. Lee's birthday, an official stale holiday, the administrative offices in the Washington County Courthouse will be closed Monday. However, circuit court will be in session all day at the courthouse.

The Washington Counly Board of Supervisors' meeting, originally scheduled lor Monday, will be held Jan. 26, beginning at 9 a.m., in the board room. Carter opens headquarters Democratic presidential hopelul Jimmy Carter, former governor of Georgia, has opened a Carter for President headquarters in Greenville, located at 409 Washington Avenue. Peyton Prospere, office manager at the headquarters, said anyone desiring information about the candidate may call the headquarters at 376-9548'or 378-9553. Carter is Ihe only presidenlial candidate actively seeking delegate support in Mississippi who has opened Greenville headquarters.

Land trial still in recess INDIANOLA--The trial of a suit against the Sunflower County Board of Supervisors went inlo its second day of recess today. Attorneys for the plaintiff, county landowner Lofton A. Davidson, who contends that the 1974 reassessment of property resulted in an inequllable valuation of rural land, were reportedly meeting here with attorneys for the board. It was thought that a settlement might be reached sometime today to end the trial, which began Jan. 7.

The case is being heard without jury by Circuit Court Judge B.B. Wilkes. Texan escorts Mrs. Shriver Mrs. Frances "Sissy" Farenthold of Texas, former chairman of the 'National Women's Political Caucus and vice presidential candidate at the Democrats' 1972 convention, will accompany Mrs.

Eunice Shriver, wife of presidential hopeful R. Sargent Shriver, to Greenville Saturday. Mrs. Shriver and Mrs. Farenthold, recently named president of Wells College in Cayuga, N.Y., arc scheduled to arrive at Greenville Municipal Airport at 10 a.m.

and will appear at an 11 a.m. coffee at the Downtowner Motor Inn. Mrs. Shriver will speak on her life with her husband and answer questions on her work with the Special Olympics lor the mentally retarded. Recent Greenville participants in the Special Olympics will be on hand to greet Mrs.

Shriver at the airport. Greenville has produced two national Special Olympics champions. The two women will leave Greenville at 12 noon and return to Jackson, where Mrs. Shriver will continue campaigning for her husband. Survey to be taken Greenvillian Marjorie P.

I.ee will be conducting the monthly employment survey for the Bureau of the Census during the week Jan. 18-24 in Greenville. The survey is conducted for the U. S. Department of Labor in a scientifically designed sample of approximately 55,000 households nationwide.

Employment and unemployment statistics based on results of this survey are used to provide a continuing measure of the economic health of the nation. For example, in November the survey indicated that of the 93.0 million men and women in the civilian labor force, 85.3 were employed. The nation's unemployment rate was 8.3 per cent in November, the same as in September but substantially below the recession peak of 8.9 per cent reached in Ihe second quarter of 1975. Information supplied by individuals participating in the survey is kept confidential by law. Mrs.

Lee resides at 1252 Margaret Greenville. New phone books arrive The new telephone directories are here. Sixty-five sacks of South Central Bell telephone directories arrived at the Greenville post office this week. A post office spokesman said distribution began Thursday and will conclude Monday or Tuesday. The new 154-page directory features a Bicentennial cover--Ma Bell's way of saluling the nation's 200th birthday and the 100th birthday of the invention of the telephone.

The directory cover features sketches of 32 characters--figures from American history, images of family and friends, and mythic personalities--all talking on the telcplione across time, space and the two covers of the phone book. Each character is talking on a different phone developed by the Bell System in the last 100 years. South Central Bell manager Jim Finger says, "Of course, the cover comes wrapped around the familiar telephone directory--that complete and useful guide to the phone numbers of friends, emergency help, businesses, government offices, social agencies and lots more here in the Greenville area." A key to the identities of the characters on the cover can be found on the last page of the Call Guide, page 12, The Bicentennial cover, first seen in Washington, D. C. on April 30, 1975, was created by New Jersey artist Stanley Meltzoff.

Finger said the Bell System issues 2,287 different directories each year, ranging in size from the 'card directories' of small towns to the two-volume Manhattan directory of 2,056 yellow paes and 1,784 listing pages. The state Winter urges leadership JACKSON (UP1)--Former Lt. Gov. William Winter challenged his friends and supporters at a $50-a-plate appreciation dinner Thursday night to continue to provide "progressive citizen leadership" in Winter, who stepped down from the state's second highest this week after waging an unsuccessful campaign for governor last year, told the several hundred persons on hand lor Ihe occasion that any governor must have the "enlightened support of the citizenry" in order to move the state forward. "I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth to have friends like you," he concluded.

Among special guests at the dinner were former Mississippi governors J.P. Coleman, Ross Barnett, Paul Johnson and John Bell Williams, and Rep. C.B. "Buddy" Newman of Valley Park, the new speaker of the Mississippi House. Lt.

Gov. George Nigh of Oklahoma was the featured speaker. Winter was defeated last summer in a Democratic primary runoff race for governor by Batesville attorney Cliff Finch, who went on to win the general election. Finch will be inaugurated next week. Evelyn Gandy was inaugurated as Winter's successor this past week.

Winter displayed a lunch pail, one of the symbols of Finch's "working man's" campaign, as he reached the speaker's rostrum, setting off a wave of laughter in the banquet hall. "I just started work today," he quipped. "If anyone of you see the governor, I wish you would tell him that some of us working folks are going to need some help during the next four years." ME calls for laws JACKSON (UPI-New state laws are needed which will allow cities and towns to "choose their own form of government more freely," the chairman of a Mississippi Economic Council (MEC) committee contends. J. Kane Ditto, a Jackson attorney, said Thursday existing laws are "blocking change in municipal government," and the MEC hopes the 1976 legislature will act on several proposals aimed at improving the situation.

One proposal would give all municipalities the option to adopt the mayor-council plan. Ditto said Jackson is the only city which now qualifies under a law making cities with a population of 100,000 or more eligible for Ihe mayor-council form. He said the MEC also supports giving municipalities three methods by which they can change the form of government. The only method now accepted provides for citizens to petition for a change, he said. 8 Friday, Jan.

16,1976 Delta Democrat-Times Greenville, Mississippi.