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I rmnf in com i The Weather Today: Cloudy nr-caiimul rain High In 40s Tomorrow: Cloudy colder Chance of rain lcnl Data On Pot 4 201370 Largest Newspaper Virginia's Stale Newspaper 25 Cents (On Motor SwitM Yr) 120th Vrar Numfear Richmond Virginia 23211 Sunday January 18 1970 Holton to Strive to Make State A Model of Race 3 The only thing missing from the Democratic recep- linn was a new governor Page A IS he skies wept a little as a Repuhliran was Inaugti- Ci rated govrrnor Iml there were no thiindcrtmlts Charles 1 McDowell Jr reports Page Bl Someone finally gnt under "the findwin umbrella" and It turned nut to be a Republican First Lady Page i a ib- Editorial comment on page 8 Rohm storm see v44e Oath Is Taken By Republican By James Latimer Limvood Holton told Virginia yesterday its first Republican governor of the 20th century would strive to make this Old Dominion "a model of race Standing in front of the former Confederate Capitol the new chief executive took the oath of office at 12:23 and promptly quoted Abraham Lincoln in dedicating his administration to the proposition of ending racial discrimination "Let us as Lincoln said insist upon an open society malice toward none charity toward all Gov Holton said Let our goal in Virginia be an aristocacy of ability regardless of race color or IN A 14-MINUTE INAUGURAL ADDRESS delivered under gray skies that aprinkled occasional drops of rain Holton sketched his objectives in broad and general terms "We will have a government based on a partnership of all Virginians a government in which there will be neither partisanship nnr prejudice of any he said He took hia cue from the idea that "problem aolving and not philosophical principles has become the focal point of in both slate and nation He went on to list some of the problems and some of the concerns he saw ahead He gave racial discrimination top emphasis A friendly crowd of more than 2500 directly in front-of the Capitol's South Portico augmented by hundreds of others in Capitol Square or inside the Capitol rewarded the Lincolnesque lines with respectful bursts of applause Estimates of the total turnout in the Square many with umbrellas boots and plastic shields against the lowering skies ranged from 4000 to 5000 The inaugural ceremony actually a function of a joint session of the Virginia General Assembly whose 140 members clustered with families and guests on the Capitol steps began an instant before 12:15 pm Speaker John Warren Cooke rapped his gavel and Dr A Hollingsworth Jr retired minister of the Second Presbyterian Church Roanoke said the invocation TWO DEMOCRATS ELECTED with Holton last November were first to take the oaths of office prescribed by the Virginia Constitution In order Atty Gen Andrew Continued on Page 15 Col 1 Oalli Administered to Linwood Holton by Chief Justice Harold Snead of Virginia Supreme Court New Governor Views the Premises Biafra in Death Throes Kept Drilling Hoping Virginia Union President Dies Dr Thomas Howard Henderson president of Virginia Union University Rince I960 died in a Richmond hospital Saturday He was 59 Ite would have been B0 years old Jan Henderson received his bachelor of science degree at Virginia Union in 1928 and his master's and doctorate from the University of By Shelley Rolfe Somehow Gov Linwood Holton managed to escape from the inauguration platform yesterday with his top hat and morning coal intact He shook hands signed autographs and smiled and waved and finally the Holton official party arrived at his new place of business Hnllon had been governor for approximately an hour and 20 minutes when the party which included Mrs Holton and the two Holton daughters Virginia Tay-loc 13 and'Anne Bright 11 arrived at the governor's office on the third floor of tlr Capitol It was sn exploratory and signtseeing trip to show the family where daddy would be working Holton walked to the governor's private office and examined (he high-hacked chair complete with the seal of Virginia he will use The ehair is new Two days before the General Assembly following tradition had solemnly voted to allow Gov Mills Godwin Jr to keep his chair Holton tested his chair Virginia Taylor and Anne Bright each sal in it Mrs Holton suggested it might be well for Holton to open the right top drawer of his new desik Holton did and found two Tour-leaf clovers a memento from Godwin Holton started to put his famous Big Slone Gap buckeye which he considers a personal talisman in the drawer but then thought better of it The hurkeye went hark in hin pnekrt On his desk was a telegram of congratulations fmm Paul Mellon of the Upperville and Pittsburgh Mellons Photographers asked Holton to sit in the chair again He did and then he Continued on Page 15 Col 5 late was there as the final battle of lost war of independence began By Vance Bourjaily There was a colonel a week ago Thursday in Biafra going through the sad motions of showing us the training camp that he command-near Owerri Editor's note: Even when the ammunition ran out antiaircraft gunners kept on drilling Burp guns pointed skyward shout: "Bup bubbaha-bvp" Then the Nigerian mortar shells closed in Vance Bourjaily author of The Man Who Knew Kennedy" and The Vio- Details rage B-l The Inside Story Twelve Sections 130 Pages The World TWO AMERICANS were exhibited at several South Vietnamese villages then killed by Viet Cong captors US command says Page A-7 The Nation THE 915T CONGRESS begins its second session tomorrow and faces an immediate confrontation with President Nixon over federal spending for education Page A-4 The City FRED POLLARD looks hack on 20 years In state government as he steps down as lieutenant governor Page 1 Easiness A TIMF-S-DUf PATCH REPORTER finds the Boeing 747 is big roomy and fun to fly in Page C-l Ural Estate COLONIAL WILLIMSBURG HAS become one of the greatest technological cover-up jobs hiding the 20th century while enjoying its advantages Page D-l He was a tall gray haired black man who carried a swagger stick and spoke with the of Sandhurst the British mililnry college Many of the senior officers on both sides in the Biafran war were Sandhurst graduates just as both Lee and Grant in nur own Civil War had gone to West Point The colonel's Lmnps were there Tor weapons training with a variety or obsolescent and home made arms One group was practicing in pairs light machine antiaircraft defense to use against Lhe MIGs and Ilyushins flown by Egyptians and East Germans for the Nigerian enemy One held the weapon the other held the gunner so that they formed a sort of human quadrupod to gain steadiness and absorb the reroil With men at the front going into battle hearing 50 rounds of amunition or less each there was none to spare for training On command Cnnlinubd on Page Ik Col 1 Hospital Agrees To Help Addicts NEW YORK (AP) St Luke's Hospital agreed yesterday to set up a treatment program for tern aged narcotics addicts marking a measure of success for a small 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