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THE TAMPA TRIBUNE Final City Edition Florida's Prestige Newspaper TAMPA, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1967 73RD YEAR No. 4 THREE SECTIONS 38 PAGES PRICE TEN CENTS 7 Days Home Delivery 50 Cents First Move as Governor Kirk Call. lators The Weather Bay Forecast Cloudy With Occasional Rain and Cooler Temperatures. High Today Near 66. Low Tonight Near 44.

(National Weather Map on Page 2-A.) Legis I 28v -Cl Act On Coosti tftmfcioe Jlo Declares War On Crime vrwr iiiwHmh i iiw mmm Governor Claude Kirk Holds Out Hand to Check as Ceremony Begins Watching are Katherine Kirk, 17, Sarah Kirk, 18, and Mrs. Claude Kirk Sr. (AP) Leaders Light Drizzle Halts Taken By For Inaugural Speech Surprise By DUANE BRADFORD Tribune Staff Writer TALLAHASSEE Claude R. Kirk Jr. became Florida's 36th governor at noon yesterday, confounding the experts 20 minutes later by ordering legislators into special session next Monday in an effort to rewrite the state constitution.

Success of Kirk's unusual move would be to bring a new charter to life one full year ahead of schedule. It was a lightning bold, super-secret move saved by the 40 -year -old Republican governor until the last of his half-hour inaugural speech. The first Florida Republican governor in 90 years also declared a ringing war on crime as soggy spectators and officials peered from beneath umbrellas and newspapers to watch the historic event. "I have and will continue to confer with officials of New York, Illinois and California, as well as others who share our desire to rid America of this cancerous growth," Kirk asserted. "I intend to make sure that Florida leads them in this battle against our joint enemy," the governor said as many of the spectators clapped approval.

Kirk signed a proclamation an hour later summoning the newly apportioned 165-m ember legislature to Tallahassee Jan. 9 for a 20-day meet. "The sole purpose of this session shall be the rewriting of Florida's antiquated constitution for immediate submission to the people for their final acceptance or rejection," Kirk declared. "It is my hope," he added, "that legislators, during their special session, will provide for a special election to be held on April 18, 1967, at which time the people shall be given the opportunity to adopt a modern constitution geared to solving present day problems." The regular session of the legislature is scheduled April 3. "I will request that the revised constitution have an effective date of July 1, 1967," Kirk said as the crowd again applauded.

The current schedule on constitution revision calls for an effective date of July 1, 1968. Kirk said today's constitution revision problem is not one of next year but now; that it "is not consistent (Continued on Page 11, Col. 1) Probers Question Powell's Many Trips, Fire His Wife By GEORGE HANNA Tribune-Gannett Service TALLAHASSEE With all the traditional pomp and pageantry but with only about 3,000 persons huddled under umbrellas looking on, Claude Roy Kirk Jr. became Florida's 36th governor yesterday. Torrential rains that doused the bunting-clad capital all through the night let up Tuesday morning, and by Inside 'Ill-Timed See Editorial on Page 6-A.

Tampans turn out for inauguration, See Page 8 -A. Text of Governor Kirk's speech, See Page 5-A. in WASHINGTON (DPD House investigators fired Rep. Adam Clayton Powell's estranged wife from her a year job yesterday and questioned his trips with a pretty secretary. A House sub Governor and Mother Laugh at Parade by then the rains had stopped (AP) COMMISSION: Elbert Moore steals spotlight again as he retires from county commission.2-B CALL RAPPED: Hillsborough's legislators expressed amazement over Gov.

Kirk's announcement of a special session. 1-B WON'T PAY: A Sarasota rightist says he won't Mrs. Powell noon when Supreme Court Justice and former Governor Millard Caldwell administered the oath of office to Kirk, only a light rain was falling. The Bible used in the ceremony was covered with plastic to keep it dry. Even the drizzle stopped when Kirk, the 40-year-old.

who surprised the political experts by becoming the first Republican to be eleeted governor of Florida since 1872, began his inaugural speech. The tall, broad-shouldered, former Marine officer, who wore the customary formal attire and top hat, sprang another surprise with a call for a special session of the legislature to be devoted to constitutional revision. Kirk's unexpected bomb- committee, reporting on its inquiry into the New York Democrat's chairmanship of the education and labor committee, included among its recommendations the dismissal of Yvette Powell. House Clerk Ralph Roberts removed Mrs. Powell from the payroll immediately after receiving the order from Rep.

Omar Burleson, chair ed: 1-B Astrology 4-B Editorials 6-A Morning After 1-C Business 5-C Financial 5-7-C Sports 1-4-C Citrus 4-B Fishing 3-C Theaters 16-C Comics 5, 8-C Goren 9-B TV, Radio 9-B Crossword 4-B Graham 9-B Wishing Well 4-B Deaths 11-A Landers 9-A Women 8-9-A Tribune Bureau TALLAHASSEE "How ridiculous." In a moment of unguarded and unvarnished truth, this was the flash reaction yesterday to Gov. Claude Kirk's legislative summons by a man who had known nothing about the surprise announcement. He was Democratic House Speaker Ralph Turlington, sitting beneath the raindrops next to Senate President Verle A. Pope as their Republican governor was being sworn in. Turlington apparently believed segments of the adjacent press stand were pulling his leg, so he was shown a copy of the closely-guarded Kirk announcement as the governor spoke.

He told Pope about it and the two shook their heads through the ceremony, then met the press: "I can't see where this constitutes an emergency," declared Pope. 1 find it hard to believe that we could go fuUy 100 years under the existing: constitution and then find the need for an emergency session even before we have a final draft of the new one prepared." Asked if either he or Turlington had known of the proposal, Pope shook his head. "He hasn't talked to me and I see no reason to talk to him," Pope asserted. Chesterfield Smith, chairman of the Constitutional Revision Commission which has been laboring on a new document for a year, helped cast some light on the secrecy of Kirk's move. Smith said he'd known about Kirk's plan, but that Kirk had asked him "not to tell anybody about it" before the inaugural address.

Smith said he never found anything wrong with the speeded -up commission approval, that he checked and found out the final draft as wrung out of the group last month was in a position to be polished up and printed. But he said he did at first-object to moving up the date that voters would approve the plan to April 18 in the middle of this year's legislative session. "I thought about it more, and I can now say that I am In favor of the whole idea," Smith declared. Revisionists will rather (Continued on Page 4, CoL 4) The Governor Said Cancer-Ravaged Jack Ruby Dies of Massive Blood Clot CONSTITUTIONAL REVISION. He will call a special session of legislature beginning Monday.

-sV'WAR ON He will appoint a $l-a- Wir nritrarA Waf oaiib shell a shock even to House Speaker Ralph Turlington and Senate President Verle Pope rocked the capital like the 19-gun salute that signaled the state had a new governor. For Kirk, a political novice, the inauguration marked his entry to public office. His only other try for public office was a campaign two years ago for the U.S. Senate against Spessard Holland. For outgoing Gov.

Haydon Burns, whose silent endorsement and campaign workers helped Kirk beat Democrat Robert King High, it marked the end of 18 years in public life. He had served two years as governor and 16 years before that as mayor of Jacksonville. He was beaten by High in the second Democratic primary. For Republican Congressman Ed Gurney of Winter Park, who is expected to run for the U.S. Senate in 1968, the job of master of ceremonies for the inauguration provided some statewide exposure.

Gurney also played a part in Kirk's winning campaign by putting his organization to work for Kirk when Gurney's Democratic opponent i h-drew from the race. Looking on as Kirk took the oath of office were his mother and father from Montgomery, his twin sons, Frank and Will, 12, and attractive daughters Sarah, 19, and Katherine, 17. Sarah held her father's top hat in her lap. Kirk, his parents and chil- Continued on Page 4, Col. 5) agency owner to lead a fight.

man of the full comimttee. The report charged Mrs. i Powell "wilfully failed to obey 1 a subpoena to testify." I Later, Rep. Sam Gibbons, said he thought the committee had shown evidence -of fraud and "I think there are illegal acts proven by this testimony that stand unre- futed." Mrs. Powell lives in Puerto Rico.

The subcommittee called for her dismissal on grounds that her employment was in apparent violation of a law which requires employes to work either in Washington or their member's home state. The report said that Powell and Corrine Huff, his secretary and a former beauty (Continned on Page 2, Col. 5) DALLAS, Tex. (JP) Jack Ruby, the volatile strip joint boss who yearned for "class" but found instead notoriety as the killer of President will establish gov- Ruby Died Saying He Acted Alone Page 12-A Bernor Industrial development committee outposts in other states. ROADS He will remove politics from the road program.

"jl AGRICULTURE- He will help to acceler- mm ate production to avoid li being stifled by "fed- eral harassment." Hf EDUCATION- He will call a series of conferences on educational problems. 6" OCEANOGRAPHY He Mill establish a com- i. Ruby died after more than three years in jail and only a month or so short of a second trial. Because of his death, Dist. Atty.

Henry Wade said he would dismiss the murder charge against Ruby. "Of course Jack died not a convicted man," said his Dallas attorney, Phil Burleson. Ruby had been convicted of murdering Oswald and given a death sentence in his trial in Dallas in March, 1964. His body will be sent to Chicago for funeral services. Dr.

Eugene Frenkel said an autopsy showed the immediate cause of death was a blood clot that broke loose in Ruby's right leg and coursed into a lung. The autopsy also showed (Continued on Page 11, Col. 1) Jack Ruby 'no conspiracy' Haiti 'Invaders' Nabbed by U.S. Say Some Escaped John F. Kennedy's accused assassin, died yesterday ravaged by cancer and finally killed by a blood clot He insisted until the end that he was part of no plot, that he acted alone, that an accident of timing and surge of blinding passion caused taking advantage of the sea around us.

him to shoot Lee Harvey Oswald. A sawed-off, pudgy tough from Chicago's south side, Page 2-A.