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Metro Sentinel Orlumlu, Floriilu Mon.lay, Jumiary 3, J977 10-A Orange Seminole Osceola Confident Swann With Carter From Start strategists "only a four or five-man staff. "After I met Rosalynn and then met Jimmy I knew here was a man of great depth," he said. It was in Atlanta, Swann said, that he urged the strategy that was to provide the Carter campaign with the momentum It needed win Florida and the Democratic nomination would follow. And the key to the state was creating a split that was to last until May 1975, when Swann and Talton resigned over reputed objections to complying with the state's financial disclosure law. In the midst of that came Mrs.

Langford's call, and two things captured Swann's enthusiasm immediately "the sense that the country was ripe for someone from the South" and Rosalynn Carter. "She was our kind of people very much a lady and very much a woman of steel," he said. Early in 1975 he journeyed to Atlanta to meet Carter and his was just incredible," recalled the man who was to become one of Carter's chief strategists and an adviser to the president-elect's transition team. Swann entered the act by coincidence, A mutual friend, Edna Langford of Calhoun, Ga telephoned him one December day in 1974 to tell him she and Rosalynn Carter wanted to visit Florida to assess the former Georgia governor's chances in a presidential election and would Swann introduce them around. The only election experience By LEONARD NOVARRO Sentinel Star ItaK When Jimmy Carter's rented plane touched down at Herndon Airport in March 1975, Orlando attorney Richard R.

Swann was on hand to welcome him. In fuct, Swunn was the only one on hand. A little more than a year later, the crowd meeting Carter in Hollywood was so Swann had to ask the Secret Service get him Into the airport. "The competition for his (Carter's) time had huilt up so dramatically since March, the drama that had begun to unfold Swann had before that was coordinating Florida Treasurer Bill Gunter's state senatorial campaign, although he is no neophyte to political power struggles. A month after he was appointed to the Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority in January 1973 by Gov, Reubin Askew, Swann was elected chairman upon a motion from fellow authority member John Talton, ousting then chairman and Askew favorite James B.

Greene. Askew, incensed over the move, pressured authority members to reinstate Greene, which they did, a Vv RICHARD SWANN His for the asking Visitors Start Exodus For North At Budget Rent-a-Car across from the airport on McCoy Road, customers without reservations found a few cars available Satur- day and plenty of cars Sunday, He's Found A Home It's Goodwill Box p'Vfi i i i i The holiday revelry ended Sunday for thousands of Central Florida tourists who jammed Orlando International Airport terminal, the train station and bus stations in a mass exodus to their Northern homes and jobs. But one rent-a-car executive said tourists will begin returning in three weeks for "the biggest winter season in the history of Ceniral Florida and the state." AT ORLANDO International Airport Sunday, operations supervisor Ray Barber estimated 11,000 of the 18,000 scheduled passengers were on outbound flights to places like Baltimore, New York and Chicago. He said several thousand of the arrivals were Navy Training Center recruits returning to Orlando from holiday furloughs. The exodus of holiday travelers peaked Friday and Saturday at the Amtrak train station on Sligh Boulevard, but Sunday also was a busy day, reported Peter Maxwell, district supervisor of service.

"This morning (Sunday), the only space we had for New York-bound passengers was through last-minute cancellations," he said, predicting "a few scattered seats" on trains departing Sunday evening. "WE EXPECT A steady influx of Northerners for another week, then we'll be busy again in February." Greyhound and Trailways bus stations were busy Sunday, too. Trailways added five buses to handle the heavy crowds, a spokesman said, adding that Saturday was busier yet with seven extra vehicles pressed into service. Friday and Saturday were the biggest check-in days at Hertz Rent-a-Car at the airport, a spokeswoman said. Business was reported back to normal Sunday.

Other car rental agencies like Avis and National Car Rental System refused to disclose how busy they were Sunday, since managers were off. t- 1 By MICHAEL SILVER Sentinel Star Staff John McDonald is alive and well and living in a Goodwill box. McDonald, a North Carolina native who came to Florida two months ago looking for work, has found a temporary home in an abandoned collection box at Goodwill Industries headquarters, 6655 E. Colonial Drive. "I'M NOT SET UP here permanently," McDonald explained Sunday.

"I'm just here until I can get enough money for an apartment or a room." A polio victim who uses a. crutch, McDonald said he is employed by Goodwill to rebuild pop bottle cases for Royal Crown Cola. His box sits alongside hundreds of these crates. McDonald, 44, said he has been living in the box for two weeks. It is furnished with some beer cans, an alarm clock, two blankets and a mattress that McDonald said was provided by a Goodwill employe.

HE SAID GOODWILL'S production supervisor suggested he sleep in the box. "I asked for a job and they Central Florida. "I was convinced from the start," he said. "For the asking Central Florida would be his. He told the Carter people if they concentrated on the state for a year, Alabama Gov.

George Wallace could be beaten, "and they'd be on their way." Beating Wallace in the Democratic primary "is what made the headlines. And that's what the people remembered," Swann said. In the early days, Swann and Carter spent hours telephoning community leaders in Orlando, asking for their support. Swann took Carter around to introduce him to "the local leadership." Results were anything but spectacular. Even the staunchest Democrats were not exactly tripping over each other to meet th candidate.

"We spent 10 days once trying to fill up a table with 12 people for Sunday dinner," Swann recalled. Swann and Carter stumped Central Florida together, using a familiar Gunter tactic staying in people's homes. "You may call it cheap, but It built tremendous bonds of loyalty, friendship and love," said Swann. "There were no key people in Florida just 1,809 close friends." Those 1,800 grass roots workers were the same people who had put Gunter into office as state senator and this year as state treasurer and insurance commissioner. Carter made more than 30 trips to Florida before the campaign drew to a close.

Swann said the president-elect "probably knows more people in Florida than in any other state, except Georgia. He spent a year in Florida with people like me. He's formed very personal friendships here. "He has a great deal of warmth about Florida and particularly Orlando," which was "at the heart of his (Florida) campaign." Swann says his main achievement in the campaign was in convincing Carter to send "two absolutely brilliant guys" here. The first, 23-year-old jean-clad Phil Wise "Jimmy taught his Sunday school class" spent one Sunday discussing "everything I knew about Florida.

In 30 days he knew much more than I did." Then in July, when Carter was averaging 30 points ahead of President Ford in the polls, Swann insisted the campaign staff send in a fulltime coordinator, David Dunn. "We were the first state that had a coordinator assigned to us. I'm going to take credit for that. said Swann. After he and Dunn spent 10 days stumping the state and Wise developed a tightly knit organization at the precinct level, "there was total unity.

There wasn't an elected Democrat in the state not committed." Swann, a native of Orlando whose grandparents are from Georgia, attributes Carter's later appeal to two main characteristics. He was a Baptist and he was from Georgia. "Almost everybody in Florida is originally from Georgia or traces their roots there," he said. "That's why I knew Jimmy had a chance." Swann insists he'll "probably not get involved in another political campaign." At least not until another Jimmy Carter comes along. Police Still Investigating Osceola 7-Eleven Theft Kissimmee police said Sunday they have made no arrests in their investigation of a holdup outside the Flagship Bank of Kissimmee.

Nils Ahl, southern district supervisor for the 7-Eleven was robbed Saturday morning while attempting to deposit Friday's receipts from Osceola County's, 7-Eleven stores in the bank's 24-hour depository. Classes Resume Today Public schools in Orange and Seminole counties resume regular class sessions today after two weeks of Christmas vacation. said Ike Hamilton, vice president of operations, Hamilton predicted tourist- related industries here would have a three-week breather to suggested I stay out here." "That's ridiculous," said Frank Harrell, Goodwill's lie relations director, when told of McDonald's story. Calling the incident "a hoax' Harrell maintained that McDonald's presence in the box was an attempt to embarrass Goodwill Industries. "IT MUST BE SOMEONE trying to throw aspersions on the new management," Harrell said.

A new Goodwill executive director, William Swyers, was appointed in July. Swyers said Sunday no Goodwill employe would have given McDonald permission to move into the box. "I can't believe that at all." McDonald, who moved here from Kentucky when his rehabilitation training grant expired, admits that Goodwill's handicapped employes usually don't live in collection boxes. "I think I'm the first." Although he plans to move out next week, McDonald said he finds his box warm and comfortable and doesn't think it's such a bad home. "I could be sleeping on the streets." goals, keep out of trouble with others and eliminate emotional conflict.

"Nobody can 'make' you angry or depressed," he said. "Your emotions are yours." His system of retraining emotions to conform to the "five rules" involves our fleet size in anticipation of a record season," Hamilton said, referring to offices in Orlando, Tampa, Sarasota and Fort Lauderdale. (Sentinel Star Phon by Carl Bergquist) in his goodwill box here permanently' Portia Maultsby, Ph.D., an assistant professor of musicology at the University of Indiana, and Casel a former helicopter pilot in Vietnam, now working on the Alaska pipeline. Her late husband was ill during many of their growing-up years, and she supported the family by teaching 20 years at the former Holden Street School, then two years at Blankner Elementary. "Children need firm discipline and lots of love," she said.

"It was so with black children, and after the crossover I found it wasn't any different with white. Give them love and approval, and they don't even want to leave when classes are over." "AT HOME, SHE didn't spare the rod," her son said, smiling. "No, I didn't," the mother said. "Portia started music lessons when she was 5. They had to go to bed at 7:30, and get up at 6 a.m.

to study. People told me that was cruel, but it wasn't. Their minds were fresh. "Maxie graduated from Jones at 16, and when he finished Talladega College in Alabama he had his choice among five medical schools." He chose Case Western Reserve in Cleveland, Ohio. All three of her children had merit scholarships.

DR. MAULTSBY SAID he, too, is a firm father. 'No' means 'No' I learned that from Mama," he said. "Kids are born ignorant. If you don't teach them, they'll learn anyway the wrong things." As a psychiatrist, Maultsby said he endorses "Mama's" child-rearing methods.

"Well, I agree with most of them," he hedged, smiling affectionately at his mother. prepare for a busy winter season. Business, he said, should begin building the last week in January. "DURING THE NEXT three weeks, we'll be nearly doubling Wis. john Mcdonald sits 'I'm not set up processes he terms "rational self-analysis" and "rational emotive imagery." MAULTSBY HOLDS clinics and seminars throughout the nation on his system, which has been pronounced successful in helping many alcoholics, drug addicts and compulsive smokers, as well as "normal" neurotics whose problems center on irrational fears and self-doubts.

"Worry is modern voodoo," he said, explaining that the worry habit is a hangover from an early childhood belief that bad things would happen if you didn't fend them off in advance with "magic thinking." Maultby's decision to become a psychiatrist came when he was an Air Force medical officer in charge of a base clinic in the Philippines, after several years as a general practitioner in Cocoa. "WE HAD ONLY ONE psychiatrist," he said. "Thousands of physically sound dependents were filling the doctors' schedules, and 90 per cent of their problems were emotional. opened a small mental health clinic where I handled daily irritations, with the base psychiatrist as adviser." After a transfer to Japan and two more years' service, he enrolled at the University of Wisconsin Medical Center, to specialize in adult and child psychiatry. His wife, two sons, 6 and 14, and daughter, 5, are with him in Orlando, visiting his mother, now the wife of the Rev.

Jack Williams, pastor of a Methodist church in Oviedo. MRS, WILLIAMS ADMITS she's proud of her distinguished son, and no less of her younger twins, I ft I Jr l- IV Tank' Would Rather Talk About People Than Football -Wl 1 ife, fr? iffy fM By DOROTHY MADLEE Sentinel Star Staff He's remembered in Orlando as Mrs. Valdee Maultsby's oldest boy the husky youngster who always delivered the Orlando Morning Sentinel on time, and was cheered as "Tank" Maultsby, star fullback of the Jones High School Tigers, until he graduated in 1949. Home for the holidays, Maxie C. Maulstby Jr.

last week sat in his mother's living room overlooking Clear Lake, talking a little about those days, but a great deal more about now. About man's ability to create his own well-being. MAULTSBY, author of "Help Yourself to Happiness," "You and Your Emotions" and other books, manuals and tapes, is a nationally respected psychiatrist, credited with originating a new technique in the behavioral sciences, called "rational self-counseling." He is associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Kentucky Medical Center in Lexington, director of its Center for Rational Behavior Therapy and Training, and founder of the Wisconsin-based Association for Rational Thinking, which has 20 chapters and more than 1,500 members in the -United States, Canada and Mexico. "Emotions are not complex, mysterious things that sneak up and grab you," he said. "They're simple.

You create, maintain or eliminate an emotion by use of your brain." YOUR FEARS, angers, phobias and self-defeating impulses are all learned behavior, Maultsby says. And, like relearning to drive in a country where traffic moves on the left instead of the right, you (Sentinel Star Photo by Tom Kennedy) MRS. VALDEE WILLIAMS WITH SON MAXIE He is author of 'You and Your Emotions' can replace irrational emotions with rational ones. Physical or emotional behavior is rational if it obeys three of Maultsby's five rules: It must be based on known facts of a situation, and must enable you to protect your life, achieve your.