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THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION Mild Variable cloudiness and mild in Atlanta Wednesday with a high of 63 degrees. Details on Page 2-A. SULLIVAN WINS Touchdown Club Honoree BACK AWARD See Story on Page 1-C For 102 Years the South' Standard Newspaper ATLANTA, GA. 30302, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1971 TEN CENTS 56 PAGES, 4 SECTIONS P. O.

Box 4689 VOL. 103, No. 177 Inside Today Is Jib rter worn 9 FHA-VA Interest Rate Is Cut INTEREST ceiling on FHA and VA-backed home loans cut to 7Vt per cent. Page 8-C. Abby 1-B Crosswo'd 6-B Hoppe 5-A Sibley 5-A Aikman 4-A Deaths 7-B Jumble 6-B Sports 1-C Anderson 4-A Editorials 4-A Martin 5-A TV 4-B Astrology 20-B Graham 5-A Movies 6-C Want Ads 8-B Bridge 6-B Harrell 12-A Murphy 4-A Weather 2-A Business 8-C Health 5-B Outlar 1-C White 4-A Comics 6-B Heloise 2-B Rowan 4-A Women 1-B MiuLst End Ssiy 76th Head of State To Fight Illiteracy By BILL SHIPP Constitution Political Editor Jimmy Carter was sworn in Tuesday as Georgia's 76th governor and declared he intends to end racial discrimination and illiteracy in the state.

After receiving the oath andi the great seal of the state, the peanut farmer from Plains spent just 12 minutes outlining his concept of his next four years in office. His inaugural address was interrupted six times by applause. "At the end of a long cam Caldwell Fights Revamp paign, I believe I know the peo ple of our state as well as anyone," Carter declared. "Based on this knowledge of Georgians north and south, rural and urban, liberal and conservative, Text on Page 7-B. I say to you quite frankly that A group of state officials, led by Labor Commissioner Sam Caldwell, Wednesday lodged strong ob jections to Gov.

Jimmy Carter's bill giving the new governor the power to reorganize state government. And legislative opposition ap the time for racial discrimination is over. Our people have al ready made this major and difficult decision, but we cannot un IM derestimate the challenge of peared to be mounting to House hundreds of minor decisions yet to be made." 5,000 IN AUDIENCE Police estimated that 5,000 persons turned out for the inaug- Staff Photo Marion Johnson uruation of the new governor Carter Stands Between Justice Jordan (IS) and Lester Maddox as He Becomes Georgia's 76th Governor and the swearing in of Lester Maddox as lieutenant governor, Another 25,000 persons lined Bill No. 1 the reorganization authority bill that Carter has described as "the most important piece of legislation" he will propose to the 1971 General Assembly. The bill has been scheduled for debate on the House floor Wednesday.

But House Majority Leader George Busbee of Albany said debate has been postponed until later in the week because of the new opposition. Commissioner Caldwell said he and several other Georgia elective officials object to the bill because it usurps legislative power to reorganize state gov up on West Paces Ferry Road to greet the Carters at an after noon reception at the Mansion. And thousands more jammed into four Atlanta hotels Tuesday Water Increase Put at 110 Pet. night for Carter's inaugural VIET REPORTER'S FINDINGS An Army In Turmoil balls. A 19-gun salute by cannon marked the inauguration of the 46-y a -o 1 Sumter Countain ernment.

It allows the gov who bested 11 other guberna ernor's reorganization plan to become law unless the General Assembly vetoes Carter's plans. By BOB HURT and RICHARD MILES Mayor Sam Massell said Tuesday Atlanta will have to increase its water and sewer income 110 per cent to avert federal court action against the city for polluting the Chattahoochee Rivtr. torial candidates in a primary, a runoff and a general election to win the chief executive's post. The vibration from the cannon salute shattered windows in the state law department across "We feel that is unconstitutional," Caldwell said. "We believe the legislature should af By 1I0LGER JENSEN SAIGON The U.S.

soldiers are clustered around something they found near their armored personnel carriers. It appears to be a mine, and the lieutenant wants his men to scatter. firmatively approve any reorga the state would not pay a penny The mayor came up with the from the Capitol. new fieure after learning the of the project, then hedged. He nization of government instead of having an automatic law that would require a legislative veto Court of Appeals Judge Rob breviations on their helmets and ert H.

Jordan, a longtime Carter flack jackets, and signs around to stop." friend, swore in the new gover said there is a "possibility that "some state support will be forthcoming." With no state money, the federal government could only pay 33 per cent; if the state pays 25 their necks, telling him exactly state might not share in the cost of Atlanta's pollution abatement project. The increase would bring in $4.3 million. Massell said he could not translate that figure into increases in individual sewer bills. nor as "Jimmy tarter." He ignored Carter's proper name, what he can do with the Army. The initials stand for the rawest "James Earl Carter Jr." Carter reportedly plans to meet Wednesday with the officials who include Compt.

Gen. Johnnie Caldwell, Treasurer William Burson and Public Service Commissioner Bobby Paf- of barroom obsenities. per cent, the federal portion After Carter's inaugural address. Supreme Court Justice Action Line gets answers, solves problems, cuts red tape, rights wrongs. For help, dial Action Line 523-5161 between 11 a.m.

and 7 p.m. Monday through Friday. Or write Action Line, The Atlanta Constitution, Box 4689, Atlanta, Ga. 30302. I'm a student and a band member at David T.

Howard high school. I play the trumpet. The school provides most of the large instruments for band members, but if you play one of the smaller instruments you've got to provide your own. My trumpet was stolen last week and I'll have to leave the band if I can't replace it. My family can't afford to buy me another one.

I've been a member of the band for a year and I don't want to leave. Dale Colbert. You won't have to get out of the band. Ken Stanton of Ken Stanton Music Marietta, has agreed to loan you a new trumpet for as long as you need it. He's contacting you to make the arrangements.

Recently a letter to a friend of mine in Atlanta was returned marked that the addressee was deceased. She was a good friend and I'd like to contact her family. My problem is that I don't know any of them. Could you get me the name and address of her next of kin? Mrs. L.

C. Glessner, Lehigh Acres, Fla. It took some real detective work, but we finally got the information you wanted. We've sent you the name of her next of kin in Atlanta. For some time now I've been trying to find out how I can obtain copies of a series of books published by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

The series of books I want is the bulletins of the Bureau of American Ethnology. I've written the See ACTION LINE, Page 2-A Another captain at Quane Tri "Break it up there! Move! I said move. The men ignore him. The officer is frantic. Finally a GI turns and gives him a cool stare.

"Go to hell, lieutenant. I found this mine. It's mine. I gotta right to be here." The men continue poking at the object with bayonets and discover it's just a harmless fragment from an illumination flare. They drift away.

tipsiiy describes life at the Peyton Hawes administered the "Anybody that speculates on ford. oath to Maddox as lieutenant that could be off a mile," the could jump to 55 percent, according to the head of the federal Environment Protection Agency (EPA). EPA chief William D. Ruckle- muddy rear echelon base camp of the 1st Brigade, 5th Mecha governor. mayor said.

Massell had hoped for mass- nized Infantry Division, where Maddox briefly reviewed his men make dollar bets on what four years as governor and told shaus told the National Press sive state and federal aid to work out a pollution remedy. He day the sun will shine. the crowd of the inscription on Club in Washington he sympa "My morale is crappy," he "I can't" figure out those hoped Washington would pro-vide 55 per cent of the $52 mil the late Gov. Eugene Tal-madge's statute. It reads, he thizes with Atlanta city fathers.

But if the state doesn't pay, his slurs. "We're at the end of the supply line. The mail's always The bill was drafted by the office of Atty. Gen. Arthur Bolton so it is doubtful that Bolton would participate in a revolt against the proposal.

Burson said he is "not particularly opposed" to the bill. Meanwhile, several legislators expressed doubt that Carter's reorganization plans will be successful. "My observation is that mem-See ASSEMBLY, Page 11-A lion project, the state would pay said: "I may surprise you, but pursetrings are limited, Ruckle- guys," mutters lieutenant. "Morale is so bad they just don't care what happens to them." Back at Fire Base Charlie 2, 25 per cent and Atlanta would be I'll never deceive you." shaus said. late.

None of our vehicles work. The food stinks and the movies NO DECEIT Atlanta has until May to prove are lousy. Everyone is bored "I don't see how I can sur it will stop pollution of the Chat stiff- not far from the demilitarized zone, a captain thinks morale is left with the remaining 20 per cent, $10.4 million. However, R. S.

(Rock) Howard, head of the state Water Quality Control board, hinted prise you anymore," Maddox "I'm sitting in the officers' "pretty damn good." tahoochee or face a Justice Department lawsuit. To meet the deadline the city must act now See CARTER, Page 11-A But many of his men wear ab See VIET, Page 11-A and see if later state action will decrease Atlanta's cost in the WHITE FLAG AND STARLINGS FLY project. "We can't sue the state," Ruckleshaus said, "so the city is what we will deal with." A plan financing the project without state help was submitted Cannon Punctuates Pageantry officials submitted Tuesday to Murray Stein, enforcement chief of th EPS. Massell said he intends to toss See SEWERS, Page 11-A Pledging to end racial discrimination in Georgia, Jimmy Carter is sworn in as state's 76th governor in a joint session of the House and Senate. (Page 1-A) House Bill No.

1, Carter's authority to reorganize state government, hits another snag as state constitutional officers object. (Page 1-A) House Rules Committee rules out objections to seating Charles Oliver Oxford of Americus and declares him as a duly elected representative. (Page3-A) Booming guns and dash and style mark state's most elaborate inaugural ceremony. (Pages 1-A) Closed Schools To Honor King Atlanta public schools will be closed Friday in observance of the late Dr. Martin Luther King this one, said he's convinced it would have snowed Tuesday except for the elaborate preparations which included portable heaters and blankets for platform guests.

Maddox said he'd like to enlist the committee headed by Sen. Ford Spinks of Tifton to handle his next inaugural "whether it's in Atlanta or Washington." Evidence that no detail pageantry was left wanting perhaps was best illustrated by the fact that former Gov. Ernest Vandiver sat on the platform resplendent in the uniform of adjutant general, a job he held before being elected governor and will hold again in the Carter administration." House Speaker Beorge L. Smith was moved to depart from his stiff role as presiding officer long enough to exclaim, "That takes me back a long time when I see him in that uniform." The new first family's three-year-old daughter, Amy, obviously prepped by her mother about the solemnity of the occasion, maintained rare decorum for one so young except for the moment the Great Seal of Georgia was delivered to her father. Seeing the object swaddled richly in purple velvet and a bright red ribbon apparently was too much.

She started chattering briefly to her somewhat embarrassed mother. Bloopers were few in the throughly planned and rehearsed ceremony. Maddox got a little mixed up in his half-prepared, half-ad libbed speech and Identified "Miss Mitt" Tal-madge as former Gov. Eugene See CANNON, Page 11-A Hoards of starlings fled the noise and the smoke in a wing-flapping frenzy which carried them above the inaugural platform. Some claimed to have heard an audible sign of relief from Secretary of State Ben W.

Fort-son, who has tried every method in the book and some never put on paper to rid the Capitol of the pesky birds. But aside from the shattered window, the inauguration of Georgia's 76th chief executive was hailed by Fortson as "the best organized and best handled that I've ever seen" with the best weather to boot. Fortson has witnessed nine inaugurations. Lt. Gov.

Lester Maddox, whose inauguration as governor four years ago occurred in 34-degree weather and contained few of the detailed trappings of By DUANE RINER Nineteeen times the inaugural cannon belched out fire, black smoke and an ear-shattering fa-loom. Windows throughout the Capitol complex rattled in their casings, and finally the tinkling of broken glass provided a soprano a cappella to the bass rumbling of the cannon. The cannon was aimed squarely at the state Judicial Building, and that's where the concussion fianlly took its toll. Then came a moment of comic relief in th solemn inauguration of Gov. Jimmy Carter.

Out of the jagged hole in the window was thrust a white flag of surrender. But there were those who didn't even stick around for a truce to be signed. Carter rhetoric a far cry from speeches of Talmadge and Vandiver. (Page 3-A) birthday. The city Board of Education voted unanimously Tuesday to make Jan.

15 an annual school holiday in honor of the late civil rights leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner. To make up the day of classes, the board voted to keep schools open this year only on House Rules Committee seats Rep. Charles Oxford of Americus. (Page 3-A) State officials throw up roadlock to Carter's first bill. (Pace 1-A) Sen.

Hugh Gillis Introduces bill creating state Athletic Commission to license all sporting events. (Sports Section) Full page of Inaugural pictures and stories. (Page 10-A) Georgians flock to visit Carters at mansion. (Page 1-B) Memorial Day (May 31), a day nononng the nation's war dead..