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Griffin Daily News
Campaign
Vandiver Close
To Announcing
By United Press International
Former Gov. Ernest Vandiver
Inched closer to announcing his
candidacy for governor Wednes
day while former Gov. Ellis
Arnali claimed this is the year
for baldheads in Georgia po
litics, and Lester Maddox as
serted he is the leading Demo
cratic gubernatorial contender.
Vandiver, in a speech to the
Savannah Jaycees, said “if I
do decide to run, it will be be
.cause of my earnest desire to
repay the people of Georgia
With further service.”
The former governor charged
the federal government was
“dragging Its heels” in the al
location of funds to complete
Interstate highway systems in
Georgia. He said quick comple
tion of the system would de
crease road deaths, noting that
the traffic fatality rate on in
terstates was one-third of that
on other roads.
Vandiver recommended that
the'-size of the State Patrol be
Increased. $
“We are far below the mini
mum strength recommended by
the National Safety Council and
our troopers have to work much
too long for their own safety,”
he said.
Both Arnali and Maddox, who
$,re announced gubernatorial
Candidates, took off in different
directions.
Arnali, speaking in Atlanta,)
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chided Vandiver for allegedly
“bragging about his beautiful
heavy, bushy head of hair.”
Arnali said baldheads consti
tute a lot of voters and charged
Vandiver may have alienated
them. He said he may establish
a “Baldheads for Arnali” di
vision in his campaign.
All of the other gubernatorial
hopefuls, Arnali, Maddox and
Garland Byrd, are baldish.
Maddox claimed that a grass
roots poll shows he is the man
to beat In the governor’s race.
He said he may even clinch
the nomination without a run
Off.
Hie Atlanta segregationist
said Georgians will not elect a
“has been” such as Arnali who
was governor from 1943-45 nor
part of the “political power
structure” such as Vandiver
who Is closely aligned with the
Tabnadge organization.
Maddox also lashed out at
the new school desegregation
guidelines Issued by the federal
government. However, he said
the blame should not necessari
ly be placed on Washington.
“These guidelines are the di
rect result of state leadership
failing to lead,” he said in his
Atlanta speech.
Byrd has not yet actively
his campaign.
Thursday, April 21, 1966
Dateline
Georgia
Lease Not
ATLANTA (UPI)— 1 The state
Properties Control Commission
will probably turn down a rec
ommendation to allow the state
owned Western and Atlantic
Railroad to be leased tax free,
according to a source on the
commission.
A New York consulting firm
has recommended that when
the railroad, which runs from
Atlanta to Chattanooga, is
leased again in December. 1969,
the lease should remain basi
cally as is. A case is now
pending in Fulton Superior
Court in which the Louisville &
Nashville Railroad, which has
not paid income tax on earr>
Okays Times Auction
ATLANTA (UPI)—A federal
bankruptcy judge has con
firmed the sale by auction of
all property owned by the de
funct Atlanta Times.
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Judge W. H. Drake, in issu
ing the confirmation Wednes
day, agreed to allow the news
paper’s trustees to seek a high
er price on newsprint but put
the final okay on all other
property sales. Attor
for the trustees said they
the property had not
brought as much as it was
ings from the W&A, contends
a section of the lease allows it
to omit income tax on the line.
The commission source said
“the New York firm apparent
ly just copied down the same
provision from the old lease.”
He said it was likely that the
provision will not be included
in the new lease.
The Western and Atlantic
lease involves about 135 miles
of line in Georgia and Tennes
see and includes several blocks
of non - railroad property in
Chattanooga. The new lease
probably will not separate rail
road and non-railroad property,
the source said.
worth but they would go along
with everything but the sale of
newsprint.
They said they could get a
higher price than was bid on
newsprint.
The Times, which started its
operations on June 12, 1964,
folded on Aug. 31, 1965 when
it failed to muster the financial
strength to continue.
The equipment was sold at
auction Tuesday for $508,365.76.
An Atlanta firm, the Ivan Al
len Co., bought the land and
University Budget
Is Over $I9-Million
ATLANTA (UPI)—The State
Board of Regents has set the
University of Georgia budget
at $19,357,125, a $3.7 million in
crease over the 1965-66 budget,
and has approved budgets for
17 out of 23 state colleges and
universities.
The budget approvals, made
Wednesday, included an in
crease from $4.5 million to $5.6
million for the construction of
a new general classroom build
ing at the University of Geor
gia.
Also approved was $500,000
for additional library equip
ment and books at the Univer
sity’s Graduate Research Cen
ter.
Other budgets approved by
the Regents include:
Georgia State College, $7,252,
643.
Columbus College, $870,593.
Abraham Baldwin Agricul
tural College, $1,131,910.
South Georgia College, $691,
331.
Middle Georgia College, $1,
building for $55,000 while the
presses were bought by Jake
Shulman of New York.
Stanley Rosen of Ralph Rosen
Inc., the auctioneers, said a
Texas firm bought about one
fifth of the machinery and was
the biggest purchaser of Times’
equipment. Nearly 425 reg
istered buyers from almost
every state and two South
American countries attended
the auction, he said.
035,227.
West Georgia College, $2,340,-
270.
North Georgia College, $1,
048,361.
Georgia Southwestern College,
$1,162,751.
Albany State College, $482,911.
Augusta College, $1,408,285.
Port Valley State College $1,-
817,442.
Savannah State College, $1,561,-
397.
Armstrong State College, $1,-
158 294
Valdosta State College, $1,-
586,263.
Brunswick Junior College,
$481,006.
Woman’s College of Georgia,
$1,374,849.
Horseback
Methodists
Celebrate
200 Years
BALTIMORE (UPI) —Two
thousand Methodists, a dozen of
them on horseback, converge
here today to begin the
celebration of 200 years of
Methodism in the United
States.
Speakers ranging from Metho
dist Bishop Gerald Kennedy of
Los Angeles to Dr. Martin
Luther King and possibly even
President Johnson, are to
address the delegates in this
city where in 1784 the first
convocation of Methodists was
held in the New World. The
theme of the conference is
"Forever Beginning.”
The Roman Catholic archbish
op of Baltimore, Lawrence
Cardinal Shehan, will address
the group on Saturday, along
with Dr. Charles C. P. Parlin,
president of the World Council
of Churches. Dr. King is
scheduled to speak Friday
afternoon. President Johnson
was invited to speak on
Saturday.
Twleve ministers from all
over the United States arrive
on horseback today to symbo
lize the old circuit riding
preachers that brought the
religion of John Wesley to the
frontier.
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Is Up Again
WASHINGTON (UPI) —The
cost of living rose again in
March by about two-tenths or
three-tenths of 1 per cent. But
the rise was not as fast as in
February because of an easing
in food prices.
That was the forecast from
government sources who got an
advance look at the Labor
Department’s monthly consu
mer price index, which was to
be published today.
If their forecasts hold, it
would mean an index of as
much as 111.9 per cent. In
other words, it would have cost
$11.90 to buy the same goods
and services in March that $10
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period.
In February, consumer prices
jumped one-half of 1 per cent
for a gain of 2>/ 2 per cent over
February, 1965. Food prices
once again led the way.
A few hours after the Labor
Department announced the
February figures, President
Johnson said he would ask
Congress to raise taxes if
prices continued to soar at that
pace. Johnson is considering a
tax hike to reduce the spending
power of consumers and
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