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Box 4689 ATLANTA, 30302, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1967 40 PAGES, 3 SECTIONS VOL. 99, No. 175 Old Aire Boost MADDOX HI F(rTFB -J-j 1,1 11 L-1 Jl 11 a 11 BY A 66 SSEM1LY, 0 Quickly Sworn In Behind Shut Doors Says Unity Of Georgia Is His Aim By SAM HOPKINS Constitution Political Editor The Georgia legislature, in an historic day-and-night session, elected Atlanta segregationist Lester Maddox governor Tuesday night. He was quickly sworn in behind closed doors in the governor's office. Of 20 Pet.

Sought By FRANK CORMIER WNSHINGTON (AP) President Lyndon B. Johnson asked Congress Tuesday night to increase the federal income tax bills of most individuals and businesses by 6 per cent. He said this is needed "to hold our budget deficit within prudent limits and to give our country and our fighting men the help they need in this hour of trial." Johnson's call for higher taxes six months hence was the highlight of a State of the Union message which he delivered personally to Congress and it came as a surprise to many. As an example, the President's tax proposal would mean that anyone now paying income taxes of $1,000 a year would pay $1,060 if Congress accepts his plan. The proposed new surtax is planned to become effective July 1.

Johnson also disclosed he will ask Congress to increase Social Sfcurity benefits by an average ot 20 per cent starting July 1. NOT OPTIMISTIC In discussing the Vietnam war, the chief executive voiced little optimism. He said: wish I could report to you that the conflict is almost over. This I cannot do. face more cost, more loss and more agony." Voicing the administration's determination to "see Vietnam Highlights of Johnson's ipeech on Page 6.

through to an honorable peace." Johnson said this about the military measures to be aimed at the Communist enemy: "Our pressure now must be and will be sustained until he realizes that the war he started is costing him more than he can hope to gain." URGES RESTRAINT At the same time, Johnson called for restraint in military operations and rejection of what Continued on Page 13, Column 1 ing" the patrolmen seemed to be. Patrolmen even barred newsmen at first from entering the big reception room which is separated from the governor's office by another office. Only one reporter from The Atlanta Constitution actually heard Maddox take the oath of office. While standing outside of a closed back door to the governor's office, the reporter heard Judge Harold Ward of Dublin swear in Maddox as governor. AN APOLOGY "I'm sorry we've been so late getting out of that mansion," Gov.

Carl Sanders apologized to Maddox after the press had The vote in the legislature was 182 for Maddox and 66 for Republican Howard (Bo) Callaway. It came after the joint session of the House and Senate had voted 148-110 to uphold a ruling by Lt. Gov. Peter Zack Geer, who was presiding, that a resolution calling for a runoff election was out of order. PATROL ESCORT After the official election.

Maddox, who had been closeted in the State Audit Department's office on the ground floor of the State Capitol for several hours writing his speech to the legislature, was surrounded completely by brusque state patrolmen and Georgia Bureau of Investigation agents who hurried Strolls Down Aisle With Supporters By DUANE RINER Fifteen minutes after becoming governor of Georgia Tuesday night at a closed-door swearing-in ceremony in the office he will occupy for the next four years, Lester Maddox told the General Assembly that it is his aim to "unite all Georgians in a common bond so together we can achieve even greater heights." A victorious Maddox strolled down the left aisle of the House chamber at 7:44 p.m., escorted by a band of his most ardent legislative supporters. He had been picked up by the escort in the governor's office after receiving the oath from Superior Court Judge Harold Ward of Dublin. State troopers barred all but Maddox's family, a few aides, outgoing Gov. Carl E. Sanders and a few of his staff members from the cere been barred from entering.

him upstairs to the governor's office. A number of observers commented on how "tough-talk- Staf Photo Charlet Push JUBILANT MADDOX FAMILY GATHERS ON PODIUM BEFORE MEMBERS OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY (L-R): Larry Maddox, Mrs. Lester Maddox Lester Jr. (hidden), Mrs. Lester Maddox Peter Zack Geer and Gov.

Maddox Inside Today Fulton Slip Voids 17228 Write-ins RALPH A Humble Maddox Asks All to Help By CELESTINE SIBLEY The slender red-faced man they had elected governor faced a weary, almost subdued General Assembly Tuesday night and MCGILL By REUBEN SMITH The failure of Fulton County officials to transmit more than 17,000 write-in votes to the Georgia General Assembly in ac They Leave Hand-iii-IIand After the votes were counted, after the ceremony was through, the Callaways from Pine Mountain walked hand-in-hand into the darkness outside the Capitol. Page 8. Other stories about the General Assembly's big day are on Pages 3, 7, 8 and 14. The vote for governor is on Page 20. cordance with provisions of the State Constitution resulted in all humbly asked for help.

of the votes being voided. And some of the 66 who voted ins on attached sheet." There No Johnson-Kennedy Break "Politics is such a torment that I would advise everyone I love not to mix with it." were no write-ins or attached Asked what his preference was in the swearing in, Maddox told Sanders, "I don't want the press in now." Sanders then told someone, "Give me a Bible." But the swearing in could not proceed immediately because no one had a copy of the oath to be given Maddox. Someone rushed out to find one. Maddox took the oath of office at 7:30 p.m. exactly 10 hours after the legislature convened in joint session at 9:30 a.m.

He was certified as elected at 7:18 p.m. and the joint session adjourned at 8:17 p.m. Congratulations, Governor," Sanders said to Maddox after he was sworn in. GREATEST TRIUMPH The election was undoubtedly the greatest victory of his life for Maddox, who gained national and international attention several years ago when he pulled out a pistol and handed out ax handles to keep Negroes out of his restaurant. Maddox not only defeated five other Democrats in the primary and won the run-off, he now has come off with the most important election victory of all in the legislature.

a x's final victory climaxed probably what was the most hectic, confusing, complex elections in the history of the state, and he finally had both the U.S. Supreme Court and Georgia Supreme Court on his side. The only election he didn't Lt. Gov. Peter Zack Geer ruled Tuesday that the 17,228 votes all but seven for former Gov.

Ellis G. Arnall were not to be included in the offi sheet. After Geer rejected the write in votes he and Fulton Sen. Thomas Jef- 1,1 James Wesberry, engaged in a lively debate. Geer told the senator he was out of order and if he wanted to "make pol mony.

APPLAUSE IS SIGNAL A burst of applause at 7:20 p.m. signaled the end of the oath-taking and two Constitution reporters entered the office unobstructed. Maddox told legislators he will take office "with no enemies to punish and no friends to favor." "With your help and God's, the next four years will be the most memorable and successful in history for all of Georgia and all her people," Maddox promised. The 51-year-old former fried chicken restaurant operator fashioned fingers of both hands in a for victory sign as he received the applause of legislators. HIS HEART IS FULL "My heart is full and I am humbled and honored by the decision of this august body," said Maddox.

Maddox said he accepted the "mantle of responsibility you have placed on my shoulders" and vowed to "wear it with dignity." The new governor praised the General Assembly for the manner in which it "discharged this difficult responsibility imposed by the Constitution." He detailed how his race for governor had gone "from the ballot box to the courts and finally to this legislative body" and recounted the "sharp divisions" the sometime-bitter cam-Continued on Page 13, Column 5 cial tabulations. Fulton Ordinary Eugene Gun-by failed to include the write-ins in the sealed envelope that was delivered to the secretary Heloise Outlar Patterson Shavin Sibley itical speeches, do it your in a letter to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 1800. Happily for his times and his country Mr. Jef- fnrcftn A'r Tint of state after the Nov. 8 election.

Abby 17 Aikman 4 Astrology 40 Bridge 36 Business 37-39 Comics 36 Crossword 36 Deaths 20, 21 Editorials 4, 5 Health 40 Instead, the write-ins were de livered by hand to Lt. Geer after the General Assembly had own district. This prompted Wesberry to remind Geer, indirectly that he was serving his last day as lieutenant governor. "I've been reelected. I don't Sports 33-35 Star Gazer 40 TV 14 Theaters 12 Want Ad 21-31 already begun its official can accompanied by the rebel yells of the old days.

Due to the presence of a big gold-draped platform for one of the television cameras. Maddox was perhaps the first governor in Georgia history to approach the platform from the left aisle instead of the right. The television stand made the right aisle crowded. After he had to them a brief prepared statement expressing gratitude for their action in electing him and optimism for the prospect of "a memorable and successful" future for the state, Maddox said, half apologetically, "I was supposed to close here, but I want to say a few more words. "I need and seek your help, your prayers, your counsel and your advice," he said.

"Friends and opponents, let's set ourselves together to work together." Peter Zack Geer, who was presidings, apologized for his failure to introduce the new first Continued on Page 10, Column 3 against him, and some of those who said they couldn't in conscience vote at all looked sorry for him and later said they would heb him to be a good governor if they could. The General Assembly's reception of Lester G. Maddox was in direct contrast to the whooping, cheering, thundering reception that some people had expected. At 7:34 p.m., after being sworn in a ceremony the General Assembly seemed to take for granted without being officially apprised of it the new governor, his wife and sons and daughters appeared at the door of the House with an escort committee of legislators sent to get them. When the doorkeeper entoned, "Mr.

President, His Excellency Gov. Lester G. Maddox and Mrs. Maddox await the members of the General Assembly got to their feet. As the party came down the center aisle applause broke out but it was fairly sedate and un i -I 1V1 fcJVl U1U Uf vas of the returns Tuesday morning.

really mean it. itHe wrote out need to make political speeches," Wesberry said. Wed nesday, Geer will step down and George T. Smith will be sworn as lieutenant governor. Later Wesberry said that the Geer said at the time of his ruling that he doubted that the voiding of the votes would effect the outcome.

Until the Legislature came to Fulton County, everything had gone smoothly. Then the Fulton returns were opened and it was found that the votes for Howard (Bo) Callaway and Lester Maddox were in order. Included in the envelope was a note which read "See write- failure of Fulton officials to get the write-in returns to the General Assembly was an example of "their incompetency." win outright was the Nov. 8 general election. Callaway won Cloudy, Cold Is Expected for Next 2 Davs Partly cloudy and cold Wednesday and Thursday is forecast for Atlanta by the U.S.

Weather Bureau. Temperatures probably will range Wednesday between 29 and 44, and Thursday between 26 and 49. Tuesday's range was 33 and 45. Georgia zone forecast: Page 11. the most votes, but former Gov.

"This is just another illustration of the gross incompetency Continued on Page 8, Column 4 Ellis Arnall's write-in votes Continued on Page 10, Column 1 of a feeling of bitterness that comes to every president who, in one degree or another, is subjected to the slings and arrows of criticisms, calumny, falsehoods and slanders, much of it incredibly petty and malicious. President Johnson has his share of it. In his case the malice arises out of a success story. President Roosevelt was slandered and abused because he initiated a fair employment practices commission. It was called communistic, and worse.

It would, said the critics, destroy the free enterprise system. President Harry Truman was excoriated and subjected to the most unreasonable abuse because he advanced the civil rights of some 19 million Americans. Southerners walked out of his convention and formed a shabby Dixiecrat party that nominated Democrat Strom Thurmond, now Republican Senator Thurmond. A Reality President Johnson, and the Congress of the United States, made civil rights, including voting rights, a legislative and ad Congress Installs Blackburn After Georgians Compromise House Bars Seat to Powell As Protesters Roam Capitol PIXies By Wohl I offered it on the floor. Between You.

WASHINGTON Ben B. Blackburn was seated in the 90th Congress Tuesday after Georgia Democrats worked out a last-minute compromise over the Fourth District election contest. The Decatur Republican took the oath of office at 4:23 p.m. almost three hours after the rest of the House following voice vote approval of a motion to allow him to take his seat. Blackburn was seated conditionally, however, pending a Georgia Court of Appeals ruling on a contest suit filed by defeated Democrat James A.

Mackay. By ART PINE rmitltutiM Waihlntloa Bureau The motion to seat Blackburn was offered by Rep. John W. Davis, a member of the House Special Elections Committee which voted Dec. 29 to recommend that the seat be left vacant.

Earlier, just before 432 other House members were sworn in, Davis had challenged the seating of Blackburn in anticipation of the Elections Committee recommendation. Committee chairman Thomas P. O'Neill, who had a motion to delay seating 'already prepared, never actually to include major surprises. On an opening day that normally includes ceremony, formality, handshaking and little more, the House was an arena of bitter struggle. Powell supporters, perhaps 300 strong, most of them Negroes, massed on the steps that lead to the House wing of the Capitol and chanted their demands that the Harlem congressman keep the job he has held for 22 years.

Ahandful perhaps 10 burned draft cards. "Send the black troops home," they Continued on Page 10, Column I WASHINGTON Iff) -The 90th Congress assembled Tuesday to face the momentous Issues posed by war in Vietnam, and plunged at once into explosive, racially tinged controversy as the House refused to seat Harlem's Adam Clayton Powell. There was tumult on Capitol Hill as Powell's supporters conducted a' demonstration on the House steps and roamed the marble corridors. But the House denied the Negro Democrat the seat to which his Harlem constituents overwhelmingly elected him, until a special committee investigates his qualifications for the office. Mixed with other emotions, By WALTER R.

MEARS there was sorrow in Congress at the death of a veteran member, Rep. John E. Fogarty, House and Senate convened at noon for a session that must finance the war raging in Southeast Asia, deal with the draft and decide whether to slow the pace of President Lyndon B. Johnsons Great Society. Johnson himself worked into the early morning hours on the State of the Union message that outlines his ideas and recommendations for the new Congress.

His address before a joint session and a national radio and television audience.was reportedt the time that Davis offered his challenge and the time he moved to seat Blackburn, Georgia's eight Democrats engineered the compromise with House leaders. The Georgians held an informal caucus on the House floor with Speaker John W. McCor-mack, and Majority Leader Carl As Davis described it, "It turned out the Georgia delegation was not unanimous on the As a practical immediate solution we decided to ask Continued on Page 13, Column 4 ministrative reality. Resistance, ugly and vicious, retards complete realization of those rights, but they will come. The President's successful culmination of this struggle has earned him most of the abuse Continued on Page 10, Column 1.