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C6c atlanta Journal the Atlanta constitution, Jan. 1, 1952 37 645 Added To Payroll Of Atlanta No Changes In Traffic Setup Seen No immediate changes in traffie regulations are contemplated at the Plan of Improvement becomes operative, but Karl Bevins, city traffic engineer, is asking $300,000 for bis division for the new year to meet demands for an expanded Atlanta. Bevins says existing speed limits will be maintained through new Atlanta at least for the present. He expects $210,000 to be expended on new traffic signals during the year with $130,000 earmarked to continue the five-year modernization program for signals inside old Atlanta. The remainder will be' utilized to install about 15 needed signals in the new area, and for emergencies.

SCrENTDFIC STUDIES The division has adopted a policy of making installations after scientific studies have been prepared and this has won the plaudits of traffic experts throughout the nation. The procedure eliminates pressures for unjustified units and permits the division to deal with spots which need relief. Bevins and his aides have insisted that all Installations be made on 96,000 Births in 1951 Sets Record For 94.311 in'47 Georgia's birth rate hit an all-time high during 1951, L. M. Lacy of the State Health Department's division of vital statistics announced.

Lacy estimated a total of 96,000 births during the past year. Complete statistics are not available yet. The previous record was made in 1947 when 94.311 babies were born in Georgia. There were 92,099 births recorded in 1950. Of the 94,311 births in 1947, there were 62,394 white and 31,917 colored.

Of the 92,099 in 1950, there were 57.003 white and 35,096 colored. Lacy did not estimate the number of White fnd colored births separately for 1951. There were 30,416 deaths recorded in Georgia during 1950, of which 18,005 were white and 12,411 were colored. The department made no estimate of the number of deaths for 1951. Fulton Back To Traditional County Chores When Fulton County goes out of the business of providing municipal services Tuesday i government will go back to the traditional fun'ctions of county governing bodies.

Because of the county's huge population remaining outside the the basis of actual traffic counts) As an estimated 100,000 Fulton and surveys. He has praised mem- jCountians became citizens of At-bers of council for their accept- lanta Tuesday, the city's official ance of the policy and has been (Population figures increased from praised for strict adherence to it. 1 331,314 to 428,299 and Atlanta He has begun a study of the I moved up from 32nd place to 23D IN NATION City Adds 100,000 in Population jthe 23rd ranking city of the nation Slze The official Increase Was 985 based on 1950 census figures for the new city areas. Since the annexed section are the fastest growing portions of Atlanta, the Metropolitan Planning Commission figures 100,000 is a conservative up-to-date estimate of the population added to the city by the Plan of Improvement. Sienifiranliv.

the inrroac merelv nrrnrds Atlanta its ful place among the big cities of HEALTH LEADERS PLAN MERGER Dr. Roy McGee and Dr. James F. Hackney 192 GARBAGE TRUCKS TO OPERATE Sanitary Division's Work To Soar Under Plan New Health Department To Serve 475,000 People By KATHERINE BARNWELL, The Fulton County Health department, reorganized under the Plan of Improvement, became one of the largest health departments in the South Tuesday as it began serving approximately 475,000 people in both Atlanta and Fulton County. Dr.

Roy W. McGee, Fulton Coun- maternal health, public health ty health commissioner, believes preventable diseases and will be "one of the best in the medical service, venereal disease country!" control, dentistry and tuberculosis McGee, said the goal of the 'control. America. On a metropolitan area an OI improvement wui oe me basis, according to the 1950 cen-i newly established City Sanitary sus, Atlanta already held 23rd! Department, formerly a division place in the nation with a pop-j of the City Health Department, ulation of 671,797, including Ful-! Stafford Graydon, sanitation ton, DeKalb and Cobb Counties, engineer who will direct the new I department, expects weekly IN 50 ibage pickup to soar from When' the Federal census was'ooo a week to 250,000, and street taken in 1950 a preliminary count sweeping operations to increase gave Atlanta a population of from 1,700 miles to 2,800 miles a He said all 350 employees of the old city and county health departments would have positions in the reorganized department. wiuiin nie corporate minis which had not been changed in years, and a later revision placed the total at 331,314.

This ranked Atlanta 32nd behind New Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Detroit, Cleveland, St. Louis, Washington, Boston, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, DIRECTS SANITATION Stafford Graydon correct them as promptly and cheerlully as we possibly can. We urge the public to help us do the very best job possible, and assure citizens of old and new Atlanta we wJl do our'utmost. Houston, Buffalo, New northern and southern portions of Minneapolis, Cincinnati, Seattle, tne county, with two pickups a Kansas City, Newark, Dallas, ln-jweek- The C0Unty has agreed to dianapohs, Denver, San i pay $14 year in the southern Memphis, Oakland, Columbus, part o( the countv and $18 in the Ohio; Portland, nortnem section "for each of the and Rochester. 2 riflf) resMenres served.

One of the busiest divisions Of i the city government under the wfpfr In addition to the huge task of keeping a city of 118 square miles clean, Graydon's new department has contracted with Fulton County to operate 10 pickup routes in the unincorporated areas on a 90-day test basis. These routes are expected to serve apout people in xne Anticipating much bigger continuing clean-up job for the eniargeci municipality, the city government already has spent for new eouiDment to supplement 40 load packer trucks, on JT a garbage lift which came over he from Fulton The city already operated 114 garbage trucks, eight street sweepers, two tractors and two water-wagon sprinklers. The 60 trucks thf county and new ones open trucks and five new street sweepers are included in the new enuinmpnt rmrchased for the de partment. The City of Atlanta showed a ret gain of 645 employees when functions of the city and Fulton County governments were reshuffled under the Plan of Improvement. The newcomers to the city payroll bring the total number of municipal employees in Atlanta to more than 5,000.

Actually the city received a' total of 870 new workers as activities of the county were curtailed, but 225 city employees shifted to the county along with the City Health department. Most all' of the new municipal mployees were added to the city payroll because the plan drastically limited the countv in performing what are generally conceded to be urban services. Virtually all the county police and fire departments and much of the public works division were transferred under the program, while all city health activities will be conducted in the future by Fulton and DeKalb Counties with Fulton getting all employees of the old City Health department. 197 IN PUBLIC WORKS A total of 152 new city employees came from the county po lice department 128 from the lire department and 397 from the public works division. All sanitary, parks and recreation, engineering, prison, sewer and several other Fulton activities were concentrated in the public works division, accounting for the large number transferred from it, according to City Personnel Director Carl Sutherland.

The new city workers have been assigned to the same jobs they performed while in county employ and in the same departments where possible. Only a handfull went to departments other than those In which they worked while with the county. In addition, both the city and eounty may get a uniform pay plan standardizing leaves, setting up standards of employment and other procedures for 5,100 classified employees of the two governments. FLAN IS READY For months, the personnel boards of the two governments have worked on the plan, and it is readv for submission. The plan, according to its sponsors, will eliminate pay advantages of employees of one government as opposed to the other and will have the advantage of avoiding compe tition so far as pay is concerned in recruiting workers.

Sutherland says that 3,480 non-chool city employees are now in the classification plan, leaving only about 150 exempted from its provisions. Mrs. Ruth Knight, Fulton personnel director, says 1,619 Fulton employees are on the classification schedules, leaving approximately 84 off the list. SICK LEAVE Features of the Personnel Boards' recommendations include a one-day sick leave for every month worked, cumulative up to 90 days; 14-day annual vacations including week ends with one day added for each five years of service so that veteran employees could get as much as 21 days va cation; and a recommendation that the beneficiary of a deceased em doyee would be paid for all crued vacation due the deceased worker plus pay for two weeks. The plan also would provide that merit raises be made by advancing employees one step in the pay schedules where the department head, the personnel board and the mayor and council concur.

It provides that a reasonable rent be charged city workers who live in city-owrned houses Jind that salaries be adjusted Instead of giving rent free. No employee of the city would be permitted under the plan to receive any compensation from outside sources for services he renders in performing his regular duties as an employee of the municipality. If finally approved, the last recommendation would bar policemen from receiving rewards for the captare of automobiles engaged in unlawful activities. It also would outlaw rewards for capture of criminals or other persons, and might prohibit clerks in the traffic division of the Recorder's Court from accepting a 25-eent fee paid by the state for processing drivers' licenses which have been revoked. Plan Doesn't Affect Citv Auditorium Operation of the Municipal Auditorium will be unaffected by the Plan of Improvement, auditorium officials said.

The auditorium has always been availahl to ritv nd rniint users and will continue to be. they add-j d. About 25 employees will! benefit by the upped pay scale, however. BUSY The 96,985 new citizens will, jump Atlanta irom wna 10 place, ahead of Chester, Louis- Prtland, Columbus, Oak- land, Memphis, San Antonio, Len- ver and Indianapolis METROPOLITAN AREA Tn nroa TM-rm1atnn Atlanta already ranked ahead of; Dallas. Louisville, Denver, In dianapolis, San Antonio, Memphis, Columbus, Rochester and such other populous areas as Birming ham, San Diego and Youngstown, QnjQ win maKe a loiai 01.

garuage The increased population with- truJs operation, in the new corporate limits now Graydon division had 425 em-ranks Atlanta as the second city Pjoyees before the improvement in size in the old South, topped Pla" was activated. It now has only by New Orleans, and as the 770 workers. fnrtH ranirin -itv in the old! Nine new load packers, nine Comity Rules Will Govern Building in New City Areas Owners who obtained building permits for structures located in areas inducted into Atlanta under the improvement plan prior to Jan. 1, can complete the work simply by complying with Fulton coun department would be to render as efficient a public health pro gram as Senate Bill 204, passed by the Legislature, dissolved the Atlanta Health department as of Jan. 1, 1952, and made Fulton County responsible for the public health of both city and county.

This change-over, Dr. McGee said, is being effected wish maximum harmony and a minimum interruption of health services. Dr. McGee said he believed the single health department would be "a great improvement over two health departments in one county." He stressed that the one depart ment could provide better service and avoid duplication of functions. DR.

McGEE NAMED Dr. McGee. who headed the old Fulton County Health department, was appointed by the new Fulton County Board of Health to serve as commissioner of health. Dr. James F.

Hackney, director of the Atlanta Health department, was named deputy commissioner. Dr. Hackney will be over-all supervisor and co-ordinator of the various divisions of the reorganized department. As Dr. McGee put it: "There will be plenty of room for two executives." The Senate bill, which created the new Board of Health, provided that it include: (1) the chairman of the Boar dof County Commissioners or any member appointed by the chairman, (2) the county school superintendent, (3) a member elected by the county commissioners, (4) the mayor of Atlanta, (5) the city school superintendent, (6) a member appointed on nomi nation by the mayor and elected by the council and (7) a physician elected by the grand jury on the of the Board of County Commis recommendation of the Fulton County Medical Society, CURRENT MEMBERS Current members who were sworn in two months ago are James Aldredge, Paul West, Richard Hull, Mayor Hartsfield.

Miss Ira Jarrell, Howard Dobbs Jr. and Dr. T. Boling Gay. Dr.

McGee explained the Board of Health would approve all policies and regulations and guide the administration of the public health program. The reorganized health department will be located in the new Atlanta Health Center building, 224 Central S. E. The building has been leased to Fulton County by the city for 19i years at $1 per year, The move to the building is expected to be "completed the first week in January. Fulton County will give the City oi Atlanta specmc services in lieu of th HnilHin Dr.

McGee exDlalned the health department has nine divisions: ad- ministration, public health engi jneering, laboratories, child and new areas to set up a priority pro- gram and is specifically interested in the most urgent intersections. The preliminary survey indicates that an installation with green arrows should be set up at Peachtree and Paces Ferry Roads. Pedestrian cross walks already are protected there. NORTH SIDE STUDY North Side DVive between the four-Ian Marietta Highway and the old city limits, especially in the Collier Road area, is getting special study. Bevins plans to come up with some program to relieve congestion along that thoroughfare.

In the southern section of the new area, Bevins is studying a proposal to erect a traffic signal 4 TRAFFIC ENGINEER Karl Bevins light system at the intersection of Perkerson and Lakewood Roads and Brewer Boulevard. He also has begun surveys along Lee Street and at other isolated congestion points. Bevins now has only two crews to paint lane lines and pedestrian cross walk areas in the old area of Atlanta. He has asked $54,677 in the new budget to employ four more three-man crews to keep abreast of the work and to meet demands for the new city. The estimate will provide salaries, equipment, supplies and other expenses.

$20,000 PAINT SHOP In addition, he i3 reiterating his request for a $20,000 paint shop which he says will reduce cost in preparing signs and at the same time will add to efficiency." He has repeatedly urged the shop as a must facility. He also wants four additional field men, with equipment and automobile allowances to make them effective Cost is estimated at $13,500 for the first year including salaries. "We want to do a "good Job on traffic and are not asking anything except what we regard as minimum needs." Bevins said. "We know we will get sympathetic consideration from the city administration as we have in the past." Bevina says the city provided $142,000 for traffic signals last year, supplementing a promised $130,000 made last January. it i 1 4 I i new city of Atlanta and because of Fulton's sprawling area from north to south with its many acres of farmland, there will be plenty of work to occupy the county's elected and appointed officials.

Traditional constitutional functions of the Fulton government will be unchanged by the Plan of Improvement. Courts, offices of the ordinary, coroner and sheriff and the county almshouse will continue to serve the county as a whole. Seven judges will continue serve in Fulton Superior Court, five in Fulton civil courts, two in Fulton Criminal Court and one in the county Juvenile Court. The ordinary's office, as in th past, retains the duties of issuing all county marriage licenses, ad ministering estates, probating wills and conducting sanity hearings. Coroner Ed Almand's office still will be charged with investigating all deaths where crime is suspected.

The almshouse, In North Fulton Park, will continue to be operated by the county to provide a placa for aged persons without relatives and who ar unable to support themselves. Addition of four men to Sherrif A. B. (Bud) Foster's office will enable him to institute a five-day work week at the county jail. Assignment of former Asst.

County Police Chief E. G. F1" gerald and two others fror in county police forest the office will permit hi 1 to issign them to a full-time gation of liquor and lottery violations throughout the county, including Atlanta. Foster's office will continue to serve all papers coming out of the courts and county jail. administering th authorities.

We will refer any question about use of such tBr.ks to the Fulton County Health Board." Wofford stressed that the conference between city and Fulton County officials regarding inspection has been for the purpose of rutting red tape for the new citizens and also to avoid needless inconvenience or expense. "We are going to make It as simple and as painless as possible," he added. "If work has been started or if a permit has been iued, the owner must meet only the requirements of Fulton County at the time the permit was issued. There is not a great deal of difference between construction requirements of Atlanta and Fulton County. No one will be penalized because he has been brought into ithe city.

He will be permitted to m-oe inet if rather than those employed by the city. "We think the decision is sound, and we know it will be received with approval by thofte who have work under way and by those who already have received county permits." UNDER PLAN Rail Speeds Not Affected The City of Atlanta's 35 -mile- are lively few and short portions of track commz in and are not nanKea through which croceed at reduced rates of speed. In many instances Atlanta's rauroaa yaras exrena v. Police Chief Herbert Jenkins. city officials charged with The five new motorized brooms electrical, plumbing and will be assigned- to new areas httatt cnoMi while the.

eight old brooms will be utilized for the old portion of the city urayaon says ne nas assigned These employees, he said, rangej irom sanitarians and public health nurses to milk inspectors and typhus control workers. MANY SERVICES The services of the department will be many and varied. They will include immunization against disease well baby conferences conferences with expec tant mothers venereal disease case finding, diagnosis and treatment examinations of food handlers investigation of health nuisance complaints in spection of swimming pools inspection of eating and drinking establishments typhus control j. rabies control inspection or meal processing plants tu- berculosis clinics and many others. Dr.

McGee said a new service would be the inspection of nurseries in which children are placed. He said all nurseries in the future must have a permit from the county health department. The tentative budget request for the calendar year 1952 is $1,347,000. Both the Fulton County and Atlanta health departments in the past have been recognized by the U. S.

Public Health Service for their accomplishments. The Fulton County department was cited in 1947 by the American Board of Preventive Medicine and Public Health for its "proficiency and specialization i 1 i i iu pu- I v. a 1 fciX. Although the records of the two been good, Dr. McGee is convinced that the services of the one reorganized department will be "even better." Greater Atlanta Third in South Here is how Atlanta now ranks with other Southern cities of more than 200,000 population, according to the 1950 federal census.

The listing is on a basis of population within corporate city limits which shows Atlanta in fourth place. On the basis of metropolitan area population, Atlanta ranks third. CltT Carp- Umlt 594.321 432.927 428.299 406.811 394.013 367.359 298.720 277.047 246.93 229. 906 203.404 Mer. An-a 802.102 681.037 610.852 671.797 496.090 480,161 574,474 554,186 359.246 go 326.863 302,711 Houston Atlanta Antoele LEmif Birmingham Fort Wor Miami Jackson villa Rich mono T-t- I I 5 v.

men, who came to the city fromiredures to De followed. are ty regulations. This is the collective opinion of William R. Wofford. city build ing inspector, and Guy Eaves, Fulton County building inspector.

nr- in rorrmlPt armrti on thm nm. Dewey Johnson, city superintendent of electrical affairs, and city construction chief Clarke Donaldson, under whose direction plumbing installations are inspected. The inspection of all heating installations as well as construction work is under Wofford's jurisdiction. Wofford said that inspection of new construction already started will be taken over by the city and will be made solely on the basis of Fulton County requirements. He i said any permit already issued is Confederacy, including the Texas cities of Houston and Dallas.

In metropolitan area population Atlanta already trailed only Houston and New Orleans, ranking ahead of Dallas. 4 Fire Officials From Here Go To Stale Posts Four former Atlanta officials and one former Fulton County official are operating the state fire marshal's office. F. E. Robinson and F.

P. Reinero, state fire marshal ami chief deputy fire marshal, for- merly held identical posts with the City of Atlanta. They joined Georgia Fire Safety Commissioner and helped draw up Georgia's new Zack Cravey in December, 1948, fire laws. George Maddox and Otis Downing, former members of the Atlanta Fire Department, are deputy marshals. Maddox, a captain, retired in 1946, after 28 years.

Downing, with 17 years service, held the post of engineer when he joineri the state force. Tom Watkins was Fulton County's one-man fire prevention Fulton to operate equipment for the new segments. His reason is that they already are familiar with the territory, and can insure a better job. New units for the incinerator have been installed by the city, doubling incineration capacity, and pushing the total to 660 tons daily. Graydon said the new units indicate clearly what inflation has done.

The first installations made soon after World War II cost $585,000. The new work just finished cost $1,300,000. In addition to the incinerator and two land fills operated for the Ail 4.1 JI good for six months, but that the'tfl inEDection of count- ino'r 4 V. .7 VJiJij ill. l'I ditional land fills will be utilized riod or a new permit will be re-for refuse disposal in the new sec-1 quired, tions.

They are located east of WILL DIVIDE FEES Hapeville, just beyond Adams-1 Fulton and Atlanta officials will viile and off the Bankhead High-1 agree on the percentage of work way. Incineration of garbage Is ex-! pected to jump from 8.000 to i divide fees between the two gov-000 tons a month under the ex-lemments on the ba.is of the in- oreration The citr sells ispections each made. Sed there to the! Wofford said he ha. surveyed Georgia Tower Company. It also iff sells reclaimed tin cans "from the done when the city took over any structure already begun and will approximate 800 construction projects under way in.

the new vision oi ti. ijcnoiieja. cniei cuy iplumbing inspector, will be made sanitary division. Income from area ana na ne ana coumy oiij-the sales totaled about $200,000 ciaIs are ln complete accord on last year, but Graydon expects it procedures. to jump to $250,000 this vear.

Donaldson said plumbing ln-Atlanta is one of the few cities spections. under the direct super- "'rJ Illy SJC! WTf OO. CilitllliaiCU UlIUll the Plan of Improvement. 38 Schools Move To City System A. th rmmtrv have to pay to get rid of its gar bage.

Cost of operating the in-in the 5ame ss' Jhnson gavean.hour Kpeed limit on railroad nere are me uiion t-ouniy iyc-; trams wui nave little eiiect on the ments will be applied to all work speed of trains entering and de-in progress or for which permits from tne eniargeti raUnici-have- been Issued. according to railroaders Donaldson also said no effort and governmental officials, will be made to force residents of j.t;.. Railroad men pointed out that icineration plant was $134,000 last year, which means the city actually made money on incineration. The profit is expected to go even higher this year. Garbage and refuse disposal Is ilschools that become a part of the city of Atlanta's public school sys-ijtem Tuesday: Fulton High, North Fulton High, IjNorthside High, Southwest High, ton, Brandon Morris.

John Carey, Cascade, Center Hill, Chattahoo- ff1 their septic tanks and connect functions of large cities, and vjridjuuu ena nis aiaes realize inaiigppjQ TANKS ALLOWED oul or lne Qlx? tnar. citizens demand better and He errhacired tha coders areifcy railroad yards jjchee, Lena H. Cox, Margaret Fain, Garden Hills, R. L. Hope, E.

P. 'Howell. Humphries, Lakewood prompter service from them than rm. trains already rrom any other division of the i a municipality. They are gearing their department to give the "best possible service." If Ihere are any complaints i oiaiiauil.

Ill C'JI11C CllViiO that the Fulton County Health De- Irjartment which will have com-: charge of all health activi- plete charge of all health activi- lies, wui ueieniime viiiruici specif ic tan is a hazard. Heights, a Perkerson, E. Rivers, Rock Spring, West Haven. Mount Vernon. The county's Negro schools com- ing into the city system include i iftuuciwn raiK, isiamon, farcer.

Hunter Hills. New Hope, Phila delphia, Rockdale. William Scott. South Atlanta, Thomasville, and Henry Tunwr and Hapeville High School. they should be telephoned to the; "We do-not intend to attempt charged with enforcement of Sanitary department, WAlnut to enforce ordinances barring speed laws, said he anticipated no 4463," Grtydon said.

"We will or installation of septic tanks in difficulty with trains because of make mistakes, but we promise the new artas. Donaldson said. Ithe extended city limits, and fore-we wifl do everything possible to, "That is primarily a health matter jsaw no change on account of the avoid making them and we will land should be decided by health Plan of Improvement. BUCKHEAD BECOMES PART OF NEW CITY OF ATLANTA Suburban Shtppig Center fat Heart of Flush Residential Are.