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THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, Wi-diM-saV, 16, 1963 New Governor 4 New Top Aides Go in With Sanders Only four new brooms politics wise were at hand Tuesday as the state agencies and departments began operations under the Sanders administration. Gov. Carl Sanders has named only four new department heads Wins Plaudits Of Legislators By JOIIN HERITAGE for revenue, purchasing, welfare and parks with one post in doubt as he started his four-year term mpinpiipimiii.iijlljipijl will mi I I I II H'l IC'llll'l III I llillllil I fMIT PWrMH jlnwmMlwmnwwH'-'HipwiWW Jit i 'i V- KY -J SV tVc if Avl V-. a' 'ly r.f Vt -r'j if v'X i i i i iVtf A -I A i 'i i nr iA K-: LJ Li in -N i miriiir fl A fca MiaM i ii mi ill ii tin i 4imiH AtitkiMHf 4fc 1,4 irfmf i i mi i "The politicians have finally heard the real voice Tuesday. Still to be decided apparently is the fate of Jack Forrester, director of the Department of Corrections.

Sanders plans to await a report from a special committee that will study the operations Sanders Is pushing in the General Assembly a bill that would create a 10-man "non-political" highway board which he would appointas past governors have appointed three-man boards. And Jack Minter's post as Department of Commerce director is a trifle shaky. A new 10 man advisory committee, under a recent constitutional amendment, will name a director of the department by April 1. New department heads sworn in by Gov. Sanders Tuesday were Mrs.

Bruce Schaefer of Toccoa, of the people. This remark was made by a legislator who had just heard Gov. Carl Sanders' inaugural speech Tues day at tne capuoi. of the Georgia prisons. responsibility of the actions of the legislature.

In theory, the director of cor "Sanders, by winning election under a popular vote, received a mandate from all the people, he said. "The Legislature, I believe, Rep. Fowler said, though, that he believes Gov. Sanders would rections is named by the State Board of Corrections but the board has never been known to have named as director a man the gov live up to "'he three key charac teristics of the Vandiver Adminis Intends to carry out this mandate." (This legislator supported former Gov. Marvin Griffin in the ernor didn't want tration economy, efficiency and director of the Department oi Public Welfare; Hiram K.

Under-cofler of Americus, commissioner integrity." A cloud of uncertainty also sur of revenue; Horace Caldwell oi Albany, director of State Depart rounds the State Highway Board, "named" in theory by the Gen Lawmakers speculated that the biggest problem Sanders will face is finding the money to pay for ment of Parks, and Wistar x. jay eral Assembly, although 1964 is the earliest one of the three-man state needs. of Valdosta, state purchasing agent. board is scheduled to step down. "Financing his program is go ing to be a tremendous problem," summer campaigns.) VERY GOOD SPEECH' Compliments and praise for the new young governor were spelled out religiously by the legislators.

"A very good speech "Sanders has conducted himself in a very high manner," "A real astute fellow "I believe 95 per cent of the members are anxious to get behind Sanders program." Rep. Arthur Bolton of Spalding said. He is Sanders floor leader in the Rep. Thomas Murphy of Haralson Staff Photo Bill Youno said. Sanders (Lcfl) ami Vandivcrs Take Salule as Troops Pass Reviewing Stand "I can't conceive how we are going to get the money to pay for Special For The New Year Tremendous Discounts UPHOLSTERIHG all the things this state Riot of Colors Breaks Out Sen.

Taylor Phillips of Macon said. "The key to financing the first year will be how efficiently the Revenue department can col' House. lect money due the state," he A fter an Icy Gray Beginning said. Sen. Garland Byrd, the former lieutenant covernor said, "we are over the threshold." Sanders' First Act Is to Set Up Industry Week Gov.

Carl Sanders' first official act after being sworn in Tuesday was to sign a proclamation for Industry Week on Feb. 10-17. 2-PIECE SUITE REUPHOLSTERED Includes All Labor and Materials touched noses. Magenta of emor at noon, making a delicate Fulton County's Rep. Jack Etheridge expressed confidence that Sanders can handle the By CELESTINE SIBLEV For colorful Georgia inaugura tracery of tree branch shadows The obvious question, though no lawmaker asked it, was how long drum majorettes' chilblained bare legs.

All the soft and muted on the gray stone walls of Cen money problem. tions, history can chalk up Tues grays and browns of animal skins, tral Presbyterian Church across day s. "I think we'll see a good ap the street worn as stoles by shiverin Gov. Carl Sanders went into women. The scarlet of Secre proach to fiscal affairs," he said.

Rep. Etheridge said one "quiet, but very real step forward" had office in a series of shindigs and The crowd which trampled the grass of Capitol Square to see tary of State Ben Fortson'g hood' ceremonies as loaded witn bits ed thermal longies. Khaki WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD NO MONEY DOWN 1st Paym't in H2 mos. Experience Guatantw Every Job 7 Week Delivry TRI-CITY UPHOLSTERERS the swearing in of the new gov and pieces of color as a country been made this session because of and Navy blue blankets swathing He a 1 proclaimed woman's scrap bag. ernor and to hear him speak was smaller than most inaugural dignitaries and their wives on the the governor's magic spell will last when controversies 'arise.

MAGIC SPELL It semed that as the new governor had taken the solemn oath Monday before a crowd of Georgians and the television cameras, the legislators had sworn privately not to oppose him. "I want to see how Sanders' highway bill is written before I express myself on it," Sen. Zell reapportionment and abolition of the county unit system. "Never as Brother- platform. Frosty gleam of There was the ice gray of over Feb.

17-24 hood Week, crowds, possibly due to the aching-ly cold weather, and very quiet. brass horns held by marching cast winter skies. Olive drab JA. 4-7039 PHONE DAY OR NIGHT before has the Fulton County delegation had such good commit musicians. The purple of or miles and miles of parading Only four times was the gov tee assignments, he said.

chids on the shoulders of pretty National Guard jeeps and trucks. ernor's speech interrupted by ap young capitol secretaries. Red of children's frost- Sensible brown of sturdy loafers plause and then it was polite, handclapping, unpunctuated by the vociferous rebel yells of old in worn by a parading south Georgia beauty under a hoop-skirted evening dress. And flapping through it all the brilliant colors of flags national, state, school or augurations. SETS THE MOOD Miller of Young Harris said.

At least three other legislators made comments. The highway! bill will propably be the first! measure introduced in this Gen-1 eral Assembly which means it has been given top priority by Associate Justice Joseph D. military. Quilhan of the Supreme Court, who swore in the new chief execu The day began gray and over tive, may have set the mood for the occasion as he added a solemn benediction: cast with nothing to break the bleakness of the skies but more bleakness one small plane chugging around overhead towing the Sanders. Sen.

Miller also said he is not satisfied with Sanders' proposal to raise teachers' salaries only $100 this year. "I think additional "May God grant to you and the Commonwealth a wise and suc sign of an unsuccessful candidate cessful administration." for lieutenant governor. It read "Eat Segregated Go When tne inaugural ceremony Parade crowds eyed it dispirit was over the change it brought into the lives of the two young couples the Vandivers and the 4 DAYS OF FABULOUS VALUES We're out to set a new sales record for the first month of 1963. To do it we've tagged all our new Frigidaire Appliances with prices so low, you may have to wait another year for a repeat! Hurry I edly and went back to shivering and waiting for the procession Sanders was immediately ap which brought the incoming and outgoing governors and their funds could be taken from administration expenses and used for teacher raises," he said. The north Georgia senator said, however, that he had no quarrel with the new governor.

"He is the same Carl Sanders a very dedicated, hard-working public servant who understands how the legislator feels." Another legislator, Rep. Alpha Fowler of Douglas, said he is parent in their departure from families to the reviewing stand the platform. WHISKED AWAY set up across Mitchell Street, facing the city hall. Gov. Sanders and his First Lady However cold the spectators were in the freezing temperatures they felt warm by comparison to were whisked through two rows of National Guardsmen toward his office, where scores of supporters and well-wishers milled about seeking to congratulate him.

Ex- the young high school girls who frisked valiantly along in their scanty skirts and shorts, their Gov. Vandiver and his wife, Betty, came through the lobby at a Lowest-priced 2-door Frigidaire makes! Giant 100-lb. freezer. Automatic defrosting refrigerator section. Twin produce Hydrators Deep-shelf storage door.

leisurely, informal pace, stopping legs bared to the bitter cold Some of the units were accompanied by fathers marching dog to chat with friends. gedly along, their arms filled with A friend asked Mrs. Vandiver if overcoats. her return to "civilian" life was "sorry to see that Gov. Sanders, like all governors before mm, has organized the House." The governor traditionally picks House officers, usually insuring support of his program by the House leadership.

COMPETITION URGED "I hope someday we'll see a House elect a speaker and other officers as a result of heated competition for these offices," Fowler said. Fowler 6aid hiving the governor r.ame the officers cuts down on legislative independence and shackles the governor with the going to be less hectic than the In the reviewing stand the of the new and the old gov four years just ended. ernors kept circulation up by "You're darned tooting!" brown- leaping to their feet every time a eyed Betty said fervently. "I'm color guard went by and that going to see to that." was often, for it was a predominantly military parade. New Gov.

MMMtwunuii ill I'liO fliPiHiitt Sanders wore a hat at the begin Carl Sanders Jr. Bundles in Blanket Rowan at 27 Model FDS-13T-1 Is Senate's Youngest DAYS ONLY! 13.24 CI. ft. 4 colon or white! Probers Had New Year's Eve In Miami at State Expense The youngest' senator in Geor gia brand-new reapportioned STURDY FRIGIDAIRE WASHER state Senate is a 27-year-old school teacher-turned-farmer from FLAIR by FRIGIDAIRE ning of the parade but eventually removed it to facilitate standing at attention when the flags went by. NEW FIRST LADY The new First Lady, Betty Sanders, wore a leopard skin hat shaped like a coronet with a matching collar on her white coat.

The out-going governor, Ernest Vandiver, was bareheaded, as was his 14-year-old son, Chip. Mrs. Vandiver wore a small felt hat and an untimmed beige coat. Their daughters, Beth and Jane, were snugly muffled about the ears in white fur berets. The parade went by for more than an hour, ending with Augusta-made -floats depicting the life and times of the young Sanders and predicting "Dawn of a New Era," as one float was called, in all departments of By JACK NELSON State Rep.

Marvin E. Moate Berrien County, who was elected and Rep. M. Parks Brown spent in his first bid for public office. Robert A.

(Bobby) Rowan of New Year's Eve in Miami at the taxpayers' expense. The following day they attend Enigma won his Eighth District Senate seat only after two hard- went to the game," he said, "but at our own expense." USED FIVE DAYS Moate said he also thought it should be pointed out that he and Brown used up only five days although their committee was allotted nine days. He said he and Brown also were on another committee that was allotted 30 days, but they used only two days. In addition, said Moate, it should be pointed out that while totaling more than $8,000. Some of the vouchers cover meetings as long ago as August.

As usual the expenses were not itemized and in some instances they did not note the date of committee meetings. Other expense statements filed this week included several substantial ones: Rep. John Lee Phillips, Walton County, of the Oil, Mineral and Gas Committee, Nov. 26-29, Dec. 10-12 and Jan.

7-9, $524. Rep. J. fought battles. He won first in his own county ed the Orange Bowl football game but, as Moate pointed out to a reporter, they were not on of Berrin, under the old rotation system under which each state expense after Dec.

31. county elected a senator every third term. Records in the state treasurer's office show Moate, of Hancock It I Then, after reapportionment, he government. Some spectators saw the whole thing through but more ducked into the city hall and the County, and Brown, of Hart Coun Model WM-CS NEW 12-18, TUB! Model RCDI-630-2 electric 4 colors or wbltsl faced Jack Sullivan of Valdosta, O. Brackin of Seminole, same ty, filed expense statements for also a new senator-elect under committee, same dates, $605.60.

a Dec. 27-31 trip to Tallahassee the rotation system. Sullivan had and Miami. They traveled as emerged victorious in a four-man capitol to get warm and buy out the coffee machines before returning to the curbside. 21-GUN SALUTE The sun came out by the time Rep.

Henry N. Payton, Coweta County, Disbarment Laws Study Committee, for several different race which included former Gov. M. E. Thompson, and most observers predicted he would defeat meetings dating back as far as Rowan easily.

But it didn work Wash 12 lbs. of clothes In a single toad! Soaks automatically, washes automatically! i Fresh running water rinses, automatic Aug. 23, $922.40. FUNDS AND DATES the National Guard fired off its 21-gun salute to the new gov- Flair loveliest range of the yearl Looks built-in but It's not! Exclusive glide-up glass oven door, roll-away cooking top plus lots of good cookin' features. he was speaker of the House during the Marvin Griffin administration, total House expenses were about half a million dollars a year less than they are now.

Rep. George T. Smith, new House speaker, said Tuesday he will soon disclose his plans to reduce drastically House committees and travel. Lt. Gov.

Peter Zack Geer has said he will take similar steps in the Senate. OTHERS FILE Meanwhile, some 20 other legislators this week have filed committee expense statements out that way. Rep. Chappelle Matthews of lint disposal. 4 PAYS 4 CAY a1 HT Multiple sclerosis manifests itself in disorganized functioning of the muscles.

Recovery depends on reactivation of nerve centers to restore harmonious opera members of the Special Commerce Committee appointed by Rep. George L. Smith II, who was speaker of the House during the Vandiver administration. TOTAL DRAWN Moate drew a total of $358 and Hart, $359.85. They drew $150 each or $30 a day for hotel and other living expenses during the five-day Florida visit.

Moate's transportation bill was $108 and Brown's was $109 85. Asked what they did as legislators on the Florida trip, Moate said, "We contacted industries to get them to locate in Georgia." He said he and Brown plan to file a report with the House. "Don't say we went to the Orange Bowl at state expense," tion of the body's normal processes. This. Chiropractic endeavors to do and has been successful in the treatment of so many case that sufferers from Clarke, University, Jan.

2-11, $467.20. Rep. J. Battle Hall, of Floyd, Education. $488.81.

Rep. Andrews of Stephens, University System, Dec. 20 and 28 and Jan. 4 and 7-11, $464. Rep.

Joe Mack Wilson of Cobb, School Bus Retirement System, Aug. 13-14, Sept. 23-26, Oct. 22-23, Inchides optional bast cabinet multiple sclerosis are now being given i new leasa on hf. f.

m. wkw vnw.ffwayff ujyy i'jijwhj wbwi mm w.m 1 it in i I amvh 'WITH TRADE linrm si I US i ii A Hot Problem LONDON (ITP-LIoyd's Bank, executor of the will of bachelor George Maskell, said Tuesday it World Famous Spears Hospital was doubtful about carrying out provisions of the will. Maskell Dec. 11-12, $425.60. Rep.

Wiley B. Fordham of Bulloch, committee name and dates not listed, $420.80. Rep. James W. Keyton, Education, Dec.

30-31 and Jan. 4-10, $352.80. Research at 8pars Hospital has further added to the effectiveness of Chirev practic's attack on this crippler. See) your local chiropractor and writ for frM literature on MS and other problem diseases. asked that his furniture, jewelry, 427-5035 404 N.

Four Lane (Marietta, Ga.) Moate said, and pointed out that carpets and car be burned. "We SPEARS st 10th Jersev Sts. CHIROPRACTIC HOSPITAL DE 3-1531 Denver 20, Colo. Dept. A-3 the expense statements included must give it lot more thought," no dates after Dec.

31. "Weja spokesman said. WattiiBNBBietafl.

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