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T1F 'VJ' 7 i 1 i I fc flllfi The Weather 200471 7 NwwmmhwmiwwI Today i Snow High In low Ritlmwni) Largest Suntfog Circulation In Virginia Tomorrow i Cloudy cold Section A Local Data on root I USth Year 20 Cents Richmond Virginia 23211 Sunday January 16 1966 Velum 111 -Number it New Governor Exhorts Virginia To Seek Progress in Education can take no rest i-ntil all our public not just will compare with any in the nation until all our colleges and not just can hold up beads in any company until all our sons and daughters not just have the same chance to train their minds and their skills to the utmost eral Assembly members who liked what they heard yesterday and were delighted at its brevity in the bone-chilling weather They expect Godwin tomorrow will pick up where ex-Govemor Harrison left off in charting a sales tax course for the perhaps to suggest a different approach to the troublesome problem of how to allot and distribute the sales tax proceeds On inauguration day however the legislative thoughts turned to more festive things like the swearing-in rites By James Latimer A brand-new Governor told Virginia yesterday it is time for this Old Dominion move to strike out boldly to reach for the Mills Edwin Godwin Jr standing bareheaded under chill and leaden skies took the oath of office at 12:31 pm on the South portico of the State Capitol He promptly set a now record for inaugural brevity by packing his first gubernatorial address into little more than 11 minutes He deliberately kept this opening speech very general as well as very short hut promised to deliver the General Assembly 'a positive plan of action' tomorrow afternoon Editorial Comment Page B-H Text Page A-12 sat and stood on or around the portico area and the other thousands clustered elsewhere in the sloping Capitol Square Among the distinguished guests seated with the General Assembly uere two visiting Dan Moore of North Carolina and I-Iulett Smith of West Virginia Four former Virginia Governors were Judge Lindsay Almond Jr Thomas Stanlpy William Tuck and Colgate Darden Jr Former Governors John Battle and Harry Byrd were unable to attend two United States Senators A Willis Rohertson and Harry Byrd Jr headed the congressional delegation that Included all of the 10 House members except the dean Rep Howard Smith of the Eighth District As the Inauguration was conducted by the General Assembly technically in joint session outside the usual meeting 1 hall Speaker Blackburn Moore presided as master of ceremonies The Rev Dwight Moore pastor of Oakland Christian Church at Chucka-tuck where the Governor has taught a Sunday school class opened the Inaugural rites with a prayer Dr Rich- ard Perkins minister of Bon Air Presbyterian Church said the benediction First to be sworn in at 12:27 pm Continued on Page 12 Col 1 CAN WE rest there for an educated people will demand in fact are already demanding that they he given the proper tools of our civilization with which to work We must provide them in whatever variety and amount may be Those passages seemed to be the heart and soul of the Godwin inaugural message and he suggested they represent what the vast majority of Virginians want matter what their political That sounded like an oblique reference to the fact that though Godwin Is the first Governor of modern times to be elected with less than a majority of ihe voles cast it might be said that more than 85 per cent of the voters approved the big-education programs offered by both the Democratic and Republican candidates the parade the booming cannon salute the reception and private parties last night A crowd estimated by Captain Rodney Holland of the State Police at about 12-000 flooded Capitol Square many of them westward toward Ninth st where they could hardly see the inaugural platform built out over the front steps of the Capitol Richmond's official temperature at noon as 32 degrees It was below freezing when scores of early-arriving inauguration buffs began huddling in the choicest bleacher seats three hours or more before the noon starting time Eventually some 2000 filled the bleachers another 1000 or so THE GODWIN administration he emphasized vill be (funded on advancement of learning' and he would begin by "sighting in new he said "Knowledge is the great equalizer of our time With it come all the fruits of life With it too comes an atmosphere of mutual respect in which reason can prevail over the heated problems that confront in "If there is a universal enemy if there is a main root to the excesses and to the inertia which get in our way if -here Is a handmaiden to poverty and failure It Is ignorance Let us marshal all our resources against it Staff Photo by Jim Nttlwrwaod Mills Godwin Jr Becomes Seventieth Governor of Virginia He Smiles as Inaugural Parade Units Begin Passing in Review Just what the new Governor will propose Monday in the way of specifics was a of speculation among Gcn- Staff Photo! Scenes of the 'New and the Old at Inaugural of Mills Godwin Jr are Godwin and Albertis Harrison Jr outgoing Governors just before they were driven from Hotel John Marshall to attend the event Harrison and his wife departed from the Mansion at for their home at Lawrenceville John Battle from attending In the center photo Chief Justice John Eggleston of Norfolk administers the oath of office on the South Portico Godwin completed the swearing-in process at 12:31 pm then delivered an unusually short 12-minute address At right Four of six living former Governors braved cold gray 38-degree weather yesterday to attend the inauguration of Mills Godwin Jr Listening pensively in the left photo (left to right) are Lirdsay Almond Jr Thomas Stanley William Tuck and Colgate Darden Jr Ill health prevented Harry Byrd and Details and Dilemma Constitution Elections Snow Hits Wide Area In Other Sections Big Day Began With Taps Of State In Promised by Ky More stories pictures of inauguration mag be found on Page A-tt and in Section i New statistics show Virginia schools rank high among those in the South Page B-l October and national elections of 11 ruling generals said the in 1967 leading to a return to main emphasis of the govern From Wire Vi spatches SAIGON Jan 16 South Vietnamese Premier Nguyen Cao Ky promised Saturday a new constitution by civilian government In a far-reaching speech Ky speaks for a 26-year-old prediction of a drought came true a year early in Virginia and bodes ill for the state Times-Dispatch reporters describe conditions throughout the state Page B-2 The farm bloc is hoping for a reversal of American farm to a position of encouraging rather than restricting production Page C-10 away with the flowers which later turned up somehow in the proper plare 8 am The Godwins order breakfast For some reason the hotel sends two extra plates and two extra servings of hot cakes They also sent scrambled eggs grapefruit orange juice toast and coffee much of which was Continued on Page 12 Col 3 Troops in Nigeria Seize Prime Minister Features Snow unmanned and unneeded since last winter rumbled out of their barn and onto Virginia's roads last night as the first big snowfall of the winter began accumulating cm highways and byways In the Richmond area at least 48 pieces of special equipment were reported busy shoving the snow off the main thoroughfares and spreading chemicala and sand in icy spots By midnight the storm had dumped from three to 5)4 Inches of snow on Richmond and it was still snowing The United States weather station at Byrd Field reported an accumulation of 3 inches and Louis Rubin amateur weatherman in Richmond's West End reported about 11 pm that he had measured inches Temperature In SO'a Temperatures were in the upper then Today they should reach into the lower 30's and the snow will taper off leaving a total accumulation of about 6 inches Power and other utilities in By Ed Grimslev Inauguration day for Governor Godwin began with a bugler blowing tapa It was early yesterday about 1 a in and the bugler was attending a very noisy party in rooms immediately above Godwin's suite at Hotel John Marshall And while the bugler bug-led somebody kept time by thumping on the floor with his feet Godwin couldn't really complain about the party for it was in his honor so to speak It was one of several held in Richmond Friday night by his supporters in town to see him become new chief executive Despite the noise from above the Godwin family -the Governor his wife Katherine and their 12-ycar-oid daughter Becky -finally drifted off to sleep They awoke a few hours later to Fire Damages ment In 1966 would be on and in hostile parts of the countryside He said the government'! aim "is not only to root out the Viet Cong from the rural areas but also to root ourselves in the rural areas and this not only for some time but Ky spoke to a 1 500-officer 'Congress of the' Armed Saturday morning Ky met with the United Secretary of- State Dean Rusk who spelled out United States policy in the current American and sought according to diplomatic informants to assure Ky and other South Vietnamese leaders that President efforts to end the war will not undermine Ky'a military regime A joint communique was issued before Rusk left Sunday for Washington declaring that the positions of the two govem- ail nients consistent in ail A wife has begun what she hopes will be a revolution in the hiring of department store employes Page C-13 Blighted cities are turning more and more to the federal government for financial aid Page L-l How safe is your job? This Week magazine Page 9 A Powhatan housewife who holds the national record in her class in drag racing also sings in the chorus of the Virginia Museum production of and cares for her husband and three children Page H-3 Apartment Here urday night that both the Western and Eastern Regions were loyal to the federal govern ment Kaduna the northern cap! tal and Kano are still believed to be controlled by a revolu- New York Times Servics LAGOS Jan The prime ministers of Nigeria's Northern and Western Regions the Sar-daunn of Sokoto and Chief Akintola were killed and the federal prime minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa and tfonary council A broadcast federal finance minister Chief! from th5g (ouncji at Kaduna Festus Okotie Eboh were kid-1 gaM on the authority of its naped in a dawn coup d'etat yaj Chukwama Ka- A two-alarm fire caused heavy damage early today to a two-story apartment dwelling at 609 North Sixth St All occupants were believed to have gotten out without injury after the fire was discovered at 120 a Fire officials ordered Abhy Art Books H-10 L-l L7 hrre liy part of the Nigerian rtuna jfzegwu that the min- Business Camera C-10-15 T-3 Jumble Music Mixing Bowl News Roundup Obituaries Pnrents Ask Radio-TV Real Estate Resort-Travel Stage and Scree State News Sports The Girls Weddings Women's News LS H-19 B-15 D-8 H-18 T-l-6 D-l-9 Lr6 Lr23 B-2-6 C-l-9 H-17 H-4-6 11-1-20 occupants of at least three adjacent dwellings In the 600 block North Sixth st evacuated until the fire could I brought under control The homes also backed follow a schedule that something like this 7:30 A hotel bellboy arrives with an armload of hoxes containing corsages for all the women in the inaugural party rmy jisfers would he charged Troops apparently loyal to' porruntion the federal government under council's broadcast urged MaJ Gen Aguiyi Irons! army permanent secretaries of min-chief of staff were still try- jgtrjPB to keep to their posts to locate the kidnaped min- Sfmnjc mjnptl in Ugns aay isters late Satui day night that tbe fPrfprn prime minister Lagus was calm though tiwpj finance minister were being guarded strategic points and by )ie rri)els l0 Cnlflbar sealed off roads 1 jn eastern Nigeria where Chief After a day of confused reports reliable sources said Sat-i Continued on Page- 3 Col 1 the city were unaffected by the storm which was a gentle hut fundamental steady snow pxcppt on Ihe cohsI Meanwhile rumors circulated where it was ex weird to bring Saturday in Saigon of a possible gnie winds last night move by some general who the' Bus stations reported that Associated Press reported are buses coming into Richmond said to fed that Ky is ready: from the south were running City B-l-13 Classified IV10-21 Consumer I M3 Crossword T-3 Editorials B-14 Education Science L-8 Fcatures-Arts L-l-R Gorcn On Bridge T-3 Hobbies T-3 The Godwins don't know what against storage facilities of the to do with them for somebody else is supiosed to be in eharge Richmond Tire and Rubber Co but these were not believed to Continued on rage 6 Col 5 1 Continued on Page 2 Col 3 I of flowers Ttia bellboy goes 'have been damaged it tr' M-.