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Gov. Sanders In Speech
‘State Of State is '
By ED ROGERS
United Pres. International
ATANTA (UPI)-Gov. Carl
Sanders today painted a picture
of “our beautiful Georgia" as
a young and vibrant state with
ber best years ahead, bustling
with opportunity and repeating
an abundant harvest for Its
4,400,000 citizenl
“The state of our state is
truly magnificent," Sanders
told a Joint session of the Gen
eral Assembly in his annual
message.
Sanders pointed to an unem
ployment figure of only 1.4 per
eent — the lowest in the his
tory of Georgia and among the
lowest in the nation — an in
crease in sale of agricultural
products of nearly $1 billion,
construction of more than $1
billion last year, an increase in
personal income of $1.5 billion
during the three years of his
administration and the chance
that he will leave a surplus to
bis successor of between $40
and $6o million.
“Never before has such a
record of achievement and
progress been written on the
enduring leaves of Georgia’s
bistory," the governor said In
congratulating the legislature
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Gov. Sanders
for “a true and working part
nership between the legisla
tive and executive branches of
government.”
To Spend $18 million
He called on the legislature
for supplemental appropriations
of $18,555,000 “to meet the con
tinuing needs of the citizens of
Georgia" of which more than
$6 million would go to public
schools, colleges and unlver-
He also asked $4,475,000 for
two new regional mental health
hospitals, with a total of 850
beds, and for staffing and
operating two existing fa
cilities, with a total of 1,200
beds, at Thomasville and Bain
bridge.
Sanders said his administra
tion would offer four amend
ments in the field of education
during this session to facilitate
school system mergers, sim
plify the selection of county
superintendents and education
boards on a local-option basis,
enable a tax miUage Increase
for local school financing and
permit the local school bonded
debt to be increased from 7 to
10 per cent for school purposes.
He called for a careful look
at rapid transit for urban cen
ters and 01(5 P uWic concern
over crlme control.
Cities in Spotlight
“I believe it is time also for
us to take a careful look at
means of expediting rapid
transit for our expanding cen
ters," he said. “We need to
free the General Assembly of
constitutional restriction from
direct fund appropriations for
such a and this I rec-
ommend to you.
“By so doing, our cities will
be better prepared to establish
a rapid transit system when
federal matching funds become
available, and at the same
time, we would thereby make
more money available for high
way construction in other areas
of the state.
“There is still another public
concern, one which must be
covered by legislation. I refer
to crime control. Georgia truly
is a ’big league’ state today In
many ways, and has therefore
become more attractive to or
ganized crime.
“We now have major league
football and baseball fran
chises, and it is our vigilant
duty to take all steps necessary
to keep the corrupting influence
of syndicated criminal activity
out of Georgia.
“This administration will in
duce measures to discourage
any attempt at establishing
syndicated gambling operations
in Georgia, and will do all else
that it can to supress and
eradicate crime of any kind in
Georgia.**
ha conclusion Sanders noted
that the 1966 legislature has an
Millions Saddened
Shastri’s Death
By JOHN BARTON
United Press International
NEW DELHI (UFI) —India’s
saddened millions today re
ceived the body of Prime
Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri,
man of the people whose final
hours were spent in pursuit of
peace for a nation which has
seen little but hardship and
war.
A crowd estimated at 30,000
thronged New Delhi Airport for
the arrival of a Soviet ms
propjet plane which returned
Shastri’s body from Tashkent,
U.S.S.R., where he succumbed
earlier today of a heart attack.
Receiving the body of the 61
year-old Prime Minister were
Indian President Dr. S. Rad
hakrlshnan and Shastri’s eldest
son, Hari Krishnan. It was
placed on an open gun carriage
flanked by six generals as the
vast crowd, many weeping and
others shouting “Long live
Shastri,” pressed forward for
final glimpse of the dlmunitlve
statesman.
The late afternoon sun cast
sharp shadows across the
airport as the crowd strained to
catch a glimpse of the tiny
figure with its familiar Ghandi
style white hat.
Greatest Accomplishments
Shastri’s face appeared ser
ene in death, reflecting the
diplomatic triumph of Tash
kent, where he signed a historic
peace pact with Pakistani
President Mohammed Ayub
Khan just 12 hours before he
was stricken.
The accord stipulated India
and Pakistan would renounce
the use of military force to
resolve their decades-old border
dispute over Kashmir which
twice erupted into undeclared
war.
The funeral procession moved
slowly along a seven-mile route
to Shastri’s residence at 10
Janpath, where the body was to
lie in state overnight.
It will be cremated in Hindu
rites Wednesday near Shantl
Vana —the Woodland of Peace
on the banks of the Jumna
River. It was here that
Shastri’s predecessor—Jaawa
harlal Nehru—was cremated 18
months ago before Shastri was
sworn in to succeed him.
En route to New Delhi by jet
airliner for the funeral were
ranking government officials
from throughout the world,
including Vice President Hubert
H. Humphrey, Secretary of
State Dean Rusk and former
U.8. Ambassadors to India
John Kenneth Galbraith and
Sen. John Sherman Cooper, R
Ky. They are the official
representatives of President
Johnson.
Kosygin Present
Soviet Premier Alexei Kosy
gin, who arranged the historic
Tashkent summit between
Shastri and Ayub Khan, led the
Russian delegation which trav
eled aboard a separate plane
from Soviet Asia.
Ayub Khan, whose nation
long has been involved in
bloody conflict with India since
both were granted indepen
dence from Britain in 1947,
named a three-man delegation
to represent him in New Delhi.
He praised Shastri as a man ;
of “sincerity and dedication”
and said, “We have laid a
promising beginning in Tash
kent."
Two days of publte mourning
were decreed and black
bordered newspapers reported
details of Shastri’s death
alongside reports of his major
opportunity that perhaps no
other in modem times has been
afforded: “That is, eliminating
—once and for all — any divi
sion between urban and rural
representation, ana establishing
forever the fact that we are
one state, and that you repre
sent one Georgia."
Sanders sprinkled his un
usually optimistic State of the
State message with figures on
progress made during the last
three years of his administra
tion, an emphasis possibly not
lost on those who expect the
young chief executive to toss
his hat into the ring against
Richard Russell for the U. S.
Senate.
"Our works are seeds sown
in the fertile soil of Georgia to
grow and be harvested for
years to come,” he said.
“Our stewardship — yours
and mine — will not be Judged
solely by changes we make in
our state, but by those changes
which make our state what it
ought to be.
“The strides we have helped
Georgia make are many, and
the enthusiastic achievements
of our people, from one end of
Georgia to the other, are truly
accomplishments at Tashkent,
Shastri, who had been in frail
health since becoming leader of
the world’s second most
populous nation on June 9, 1964,
had suffered two previous heart
attacks during recent years.
Nanda Sworn In
Home Affairs Minister Gulza
rilal Nanda, 67, was sworn in
earlier today as interim Prime
Minister, a sorrowful task he
undertook once before on the
death of Nehru. There was a
possibility Nanda would be
named officially to succeed
Shastri later this week when
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“These transformations did
not come about simply by word
or creed, but by action and
deed.”
Education Stressed
Sanders said education, the
No. 1 aim underlying his com
plete administration, has been
revitalized.
“By the time this adminis
tration closes its books, we will
have opened the doors of our
schools to 75,000 new students,
and we will have provided for
10,000 new teachers and other
certified professional personnel.
“We have financed salary in
creases totaling $1,200 a year
for our public school teachers
and we have made salary ad
vancements averaging 25 per
cent for our college professors
and instructors."
He said the number of college
students in Georgia has already
increased by 50 per cent and
graduate and professional en
rollment has increased by 135
per cent. He said that by next
January, more than 6,000 class
rooms will have been financed
for the state public school sys
tem, and $162 million worth of
college construction.
ruling Congress party
meets to elect the now Prime
Minister.
Radhakrishnan told a griev
ing nation in a radio broadcast
late today Shastri would be
honored posthumously with
India's highest civilian award,
the Bharat Ratna, jewel of
India. He said sadly he had
planned to announce the award
on Shastri’s return from
Tashkent for his meritorious
work in the cause of peace.
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