The Orlando Sentinel from Orlando, Florida • Page 85

He's Judge Andrews Now of Florida's Second District Appellate Court Charles O. The Milk for the formality By DAVE HARLES O. Andrews is a quiet man. He's not the kind of guy to get rattled, excited or emotional, even when the governor calls him on a Sunday night to ask him if he can serve as a judge on the Second District Appellate Court of Florida. "Can you give me a little time to think about it?" was his answer to the governor that night.

Judge Charles O. Andrews has attacked problems all his life by taking his time to think about them, and he usually comes up with the right answer -as he did when he called Gov. Bryant back an hour later and told him, "I'll take it." Judgeship is a dream nurtured by virtually every man who ever Man of the Week passes a bar exam, and Andrews is no exception, although he frankly admits "I never had any desire to become a trial judge." By the same token, "I never had any hopes or expectations of becoming an appellate judge," he continued. are only 14 in the state." SO, SAYS Florida's newest appellate judge, the appointment came as a complete surprise." However, some of Andrews' political opponents and his relentless pursuit of what he thinks is right has earned him quite a few predicted a year ago that Bryant appointed Andrews to chairmanship of the Florida Milk Commission to keep the bench warm until the next judicial post opened up. If his appointment to the milk commission was only to keep the political kettle warm, the controversial job simmered into one of the hottest cauldrons Andrews has tended in his many years of public serviceThrough bitter hassles among milk producers, distributors, Andrews trades Commission's hassling of judicial life HOWELL retailers and consumers, Andrews sat unshaken and firm, looking always for the solution to what many consider an insoluble problem.

"I really enjoyed it," he declares today in retrospect. "It was very challenging, and a necessary and worthwhile work. Most people don't understand it but somebody has to do the job." Democracy At Work HE CALLS the posts of milk commission chairman and beverage director the two most difficult jobs in the state. "There are terrific pressures in both those positions, and I don't know of any way to change it. That's the way democracy works." The basic problem is deep seated, he feels.

"Science has found a way to preserve all foods indefinitely in a palatable form except bread and milk. is no concentrated or powdered milk that holds its food value and has an acceptable taste. When they make that breakthrough, it will make major changes in the industry just like orange concentrate did to citrus. In the meantime, the problem still exists of how to keep some degree of free enterprise and still protect the consumer without breaking the dairy farmer in the process. Now that it's in the past, he's eager to get into his new job.

Retiring Judge A. 0. Canner, whom he was appointed to replace, agreed to serve until Andrews could wind up his law practice and other business affairs. So, although he has participated in two cases, he doesn't take up his full case load until tomorrow. THE SECOND District (there Judge and Mrs.

Charles O. Andrews Jr. with Sandy and David are three in the state) Appellate was 175 cases, just double the naCourt meets in Lakeland, where tional average for appellate five judges hear appeals from judges. criminal courts of record, circuit courts and county judges courts HE DOESN'T expect to have in 28 Central Florida counties. much more time than he has Chief Justice of the Second District is Sherman Smith, Vero Beach, who preceded Andrews on the milk commission, left itlike Andrews -to accept Bryant's appointment to the Appellate Court in mid-1961.

The other three judges with whom Andrews will work are William P. Allen, Bartow; George T. Shannon, Tampa; and Jack F. White, Clearwater. Interstate 4 has made it possible for Andrews to retain his residence at 225 Palmer Ave.

on Lake Maitland in Winter Park, commute to Lakeland 10 or 12 days a month, though he'll be working many more days than that. "So much of the work is studying the cases, and I can do that at home," he explained. It's the busiest appellate court in the state, with the most cases filed and most disposed of. Last year the case load for each judge ever had, still hopes to keep his regular Saturday golf date with Dick Grace, Wallace Mercer and Charlie Hendricks. That and entertaining friends as often as they can are about the only pastimes the new judge takes time to enjoy.

Politics and public service are as much a part of Andrews as his Florida background. His father, the late Sen. Charles O. Andrews, was criminal court judge of Walton County in DeFuniak Springs when Charles Jr. was born in 1910.

He was nine years old when his father was appointed circuit court judge of this district, piled the family into an old Velie touring car and headed for Orlando. "It took us three days," Andrews smiled. "We had to stop every time it rained and put up the side curtains, and we (Continued Page 6) SUNDAY, APRIL 5, 1964 5-F.