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Griffin Daily News
Maddox Will Push For
$50-Million Road Bond
By DON PHILLIPS
United Press International
ATLANTA (UPI)— Gov. Les
ter Maddox announced Wednes
day he would push for a $50
million highway bond program.
The disclosure represents a
backtracking by the governor,
who completely eliminated for
mer Gov. Carl Sanders’ $100
million bond program in his
budget recommendations.
Maddox said the $50 million
program—combined with feder
al funds, if they are freed —
would “put Georgia in good
shape” for highways.
Will Ask Approval
Much of the bond money
would be used for “emergency
programs," such as resurfacing
and widening highways, with
the possibility of some two
laned roads being four-laned.
Maddox said he will ask the
current session of the General
Assembly to approve the bond
program for immediate imple
mentation.
The bonds apparently could
be financed without increasing
the $ 1.6 billion budget because
there are already funds in the
budget for highway construc
tion. These funds could be used
to retire the bonds.
Assistant Staate Highway Di
rector Emory Parrish said
Wednesday there Is “a lot of
Many Lawmakers In
Dilemma Over Lease
United Press International
ATLANTA (UPI) State
Sen. R. Eugene Holley of Au
gusta said today most lawmak
ers find themselves in a "curi
ous dilemma" over the leasing
of the state • owned Western
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rumblings” out of Washington;
that federal highway funds will
be released between April and
July.
But Parrish added the “offi
cial word” was that the freeze
would remain in effect through
1967.
Ordered Frozen
President Johnson ordered
the funds frozen last year in an
anti-inflation move. It Involved
more than $50 million for Geor
gia. The freeze hamstrung an
additional $34 million in state
matching funds and crippled
state highway construction.
Parrish told the House Appro
priations Committee, currently
holding hearings on Gov. Lester
Maddox’s record $1.66 million
biennial budget, that the freeze
had not halted highway plan
ning, but added it had “severe
ly cut back actual construction,
especially interstate highways.”
The Georgia Safety Council
Wednesday urged the release of
the federal highway funds. And
Gov. Maddox was in Washing
ton today to plead with Presi
dent Johnson for the funds.
“We desperately need the ap
proximately $50 million in fed
eral funds to forge ahead with
the Georgia interstate system,”
said Edgar J. Forio, council
president.
I Forio noted highway deaths
I "far outnumber the Vietnam
and Atlantic Railroad.
Holley, who attended the day
long hearing on the State Prop
erties control Commission’s
proposed lease of W & A to
Southern Railway, said legisla
tors would be anxious to listen
to arguments of Southern and
the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad at public hearings to
day and Friday.
The state commission gave
the 25-year lease to Southern
over L & N partly on the basis
of Dec. 12 sealed bids. The
lease must be ratified by the
General Assembly and the In
terstate Commerce Commission.
Southern bid $995,000 annually
for the line and L&N, which has
leased Western for the past 50
Vandiver Left
Off Demo List
ATLANTA (UPI) — Gov.
Lester Maddox announced his
choices Wednesday for the
Democratic Executive Commit
tee, snubbing such political foes
as former Gov. Ernest Van
diver.
Vandiver’s name was absent
from the official list of 118
names which included former
Govs. Marvin Griffin and Carl
Sanders, the governors immed
iately before and after Van
diver.
Vandiver refused to endorse
Maddox during the campaign
and was quoted privately as
favoring Republican Howard
(Bo) Callaway over Maddox.
Also missing from the Mad
dox choices for the state com-
Thursday, Feb. 2, 1967
losses,” adding “we sometimes
appear to be almost lackadaisl
cal about the lives lost on our
highways.”
Asks More Funds
Parrish brought a Highway
Department request for an and
dttional $15.8 million in state
funds over the governor’s bud
get for planning and construc
tion on the new Applachian
Highway from Atlanta into
North Carolina.
Parrish said the extra funds,
$8.4 million immediately from
surplus funds and $7.4 million
in the regular budget, would he
used for construction of the
nine mile portion immediately
north of Atlanta and for plan
ning of about 10 more miles.
Parrish said the rest of the
highway department's budget
was in line with what the gov
ernor recommended. Maddox
proposed a two-year highway
budget of $229.2 million.
In another traffic develop
ment a survey made by TRUX,
the publication of the Georgia
Motor Trucking Association,
showed Georgia is failing to
meet four of the guideposts for
traffic safety set down In by
the 1966 Federal Highway Safe
ty Act.
The publication reported
Georgia is lacking in periodic
examination of all drivers, com
prehensive driver training
years bid $900,000.
L&N upped its offer to $1
million on Dec. 20 but Asst.
Attorney General Harold Hill
told lawmakers the escalated
bid was "improper" and could
not be considered.
Holley said the legislature
would likely have accepted the
commission’s proposal to lease
the W&A to Southern but law
makers "have been told that
the lease to Southern would cre
ate a monopoly."
The dilemma now, Holley
said, is that if Southern is
eliminated, the only bidder left
would be the L&N line.
"With Just one bidder, you’re
left with another bad situation,”
he said.
mittee was Atlanta Mayor Ivan
Allen, another bitter political
foe of Maddox.
Both Allen and Vandiver were
executive committee members
under Banders.
At least one staunch segrega
tionist was on the Maddox list.
He was Carter Pittman of Dal
ton, former chairman of the
White Citizens Councils of Geor
gia.
Negro Rep. R. A. Dent of
Augusta, the only Negro who
voted for Maddox in the legisla
ture was on the list. And he
was the only one, according to
Democratic Executive Director
Joe Sports.
Maddox is permitted 100 ap
pointments. An additional 100
are elected in congressional dis
tricts. Officials are counting on
some of Maddox’ choices de
clining to serve. If more than
100 accept, party rules must be
changed to include them.
Only one of Maddox’s oppon
ents was appointed. That was
former state Sen. Jimmy
Carter of Plains.
Others Included Atlanta Bank
er Mills B. Lane Jr., W. S.
Stuckey Sr.,of Eastman, owner
of a candy for time; Walter
Sanders of Newnan, a one-time
supporter of former Gov. Ellis
Arnall;
Former Congressman James
C. Davis of Stone Mountain,
Mrs. Iris Blitch of Homervllle
and Baswell Deen of Alma,
former Lt. Gov. Peter Zack
Geer; Augusta segregationist
Roy Harris, Rep. James H.
Floyd of Trion; Rep. Jones
Lane of Statesboro, Rep.
Tommy Irwin of Mt. Airy, Mad
dox’s assistant floor leader;
former party chairman J. B.
Fuqua of Augusta; Lamar Size
more of Altanta, a close asso
ciate of Sen. Herman Tal*
madge; DeKalb Commission
chairman Brince Manning and
Judge Harley Langdale Sr. of
Valdosta.
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Sen. Starnes Would
Libera l i s e State
Abortion Laws
ATLANTA (UPI) — The laws
governing therapeutic abortions
would be liberalized under a
proposal put forth Wednesday
by State Rep. Dick Starnes of
Rome.
Starnes told a House Judici
ary Committee hearing that his
proposal would permit abortions
if the mother’s health were en
dangered or if the unborn child
could be "reasonably expected”
to have grave and irremedial
mental or physical birth de
fects.
He offered the proposal as a
liberalizing substitute to abor
tion laws contained in the pro-
posed new criminal code.
Under current law, an abor
tion may be legally performed
only when the mother’s life is
at stake. Under the proposed
code, a physician could order
an abortion, but could only de
fend himself after prosecution
was brought against him.
The new code would specify
that abortions for health rea
sons were “an affirmative de
fense” or proper justification.
Starnes said, however, any
doctor performing an abortion
would find himself at least be
fore a grand jury and possibly
on trial.
“This would be most damag-
ing to anyone’s reputation,” ha
added.
Starnes’ proposal that the un
born child could be “reasonably
expected” to be deformed la an
other change from the proposed
code, which reads “would be
bom” with defect.
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