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Section 2—l
100 Bills Given
Assembly Approval
ATLANTA (AP) — The 1966
Georgia Legislature approved
more than 100 bills, motions and
committee reports in the closing
hours of the 40-day session—the
first since court-ordered reap
portionment.
The final workday was de
scribed as one of the busiest by
any Genera] Assembly in the
history of the state. It ended
shortly before 3 a.m. Saturday
‘after clocks were stopped to
avoid automatic adjournment.
Nine Negroes —two senators
and seven representatives—
were among the legislators. The
case of a 10th Negro, Julian
Bond, was an issue at the start
of the session Jan. 10 and again
on the last day.
Gov. Carl E. Sanders, who
leaves office after this year,
saw many of his major recom
mendations approved, including
a strong antigambling bill and a
plan tn allow merger of schools
across county lines.
His House floor leader, Reo.
George D. Busbee of Albany,
roused the weary legislators
with a stirring appeal for pas
sage of the school mergpr pro
posal.
“Please, I beg of you, I plead
with you gentlemen,” he shout- :
ed. ‘‘We are talking about giv- i
ing your people back home
quality education.” ,
One veteran legislator said
afterward that “was the best
speech George Busbee has ever
made. It was the best of this
session.”
Bond was elected to the House !
from the 136th District in Atlan-
ta last June but was denied a |
seat as the 259th member of the
legislature on opening day after
he endorsed statements criticiz- ।
ing U. S. policy in Viet Nam.
Later a three - judge federal
court upheld the House action
on Bond by a two-to-one deci
sion. The ruling has been ap
pealed to the U. S. Supreme
Court.
A special election to fill the
136th District post will be held
Wednesday with Bond, a Demo
crat, the only candidate.
The House before it adjourned
adopted a rule change aimed at
preventing Bond from claiming
a seat following the special elec
tion. By a 121 - 9 vote, House
members stipulated that no rep
resentative elected in a special
election be allowed to take of
fice for 10 days.
The final version of the anti
gambling statute covered bet
ting, lotteries and slot machines
and made possession of gam
bling stamps or payment of
taxes on gambling devices evi
dence of violation of state gam
bling laws.
The many measures approved
in the final hours included:
* —A requirement that senators
run districtwide races instead of
countywide.
. —A proposed constitutional
. amendment to permit use of
. state funds for a rapid transit
. system in Atlanta.
—A proposal regulating bill
boards on interstate and pri
mary highways.
«, —A measure to prevent ex
, cessive jury awards for land
■ taken for state highways.
In another action on the final
day, a new state agency was
created to contract with the fed
eral government for a sl6 mil
lion project of widening and
deepening the harbor at Savan
j.nah. The Georgia Ports Author
; ity must pay more than $600,000
for a sediment basin and $60,000
a.year in maintenance costs.
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Senate. As the last action of the
session, Dean moved for recon
sideration but lost.
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I Arnall Vows I
To Open
■ Local Office I
Former Governor Ellis Arnall
today reiterated a promise to
I *open an ofice in Chatham Coun-
I ty “when I am elected gover
i nor.” i
Ellis, here to meet with his !
i Chatham campaign workers.
j said, “Instead of Chatham coun- i
tians having to travel to Atlanta i
on state business, I’ll come to i
the people.”
Arnall was met this morning |
i by the local Arnall for Governor
Club headed by County Commis
sioner Fred Wessels Jr. The ! 1
former governor, who said he ‘
, was chafing at the bit to get his
campaign under way, said he .
: was still “cultivating” the Re
i publican vote and will do so un
til they “cross the Rubicon”. “If
a Republican chooses to run.
that’s fine with me.” Arnall ‘
said. The one man he said he
must beat now is former gover
nor Ernest Vandiver, who is ex
pected to announce his candida-
; cy in the spring.
Arnall said the coastal region
। is the “stepchild” of Georgia
; and that he intends for the area
। to take the lead in development
if he is elected governor.
On the General Assembly ses
। sion just ended, Arnall said it
demonstrated three points. He
said it “clearly shows we need a
complete tax revision on a state
and local level.”
Secondly he said it proved the
| state lacks uniformity or reason
on salaries and pensions and
• needs a reorganization on this
I level.
Thirdly, Arnall said, the As
| sembly demonstrated who is the
“political boss of Georgia — Mr.
। James L. Gillis (chairman of the
state highway department) and
' I’m for getting him back to So
perton where he can do a job
1 ‘here.”
’ Arnall was scheduled to attend
a public reception here as well
as a meeting with his workers.
“good scour'
Antronaut “Wally” Scliirra re- I
reive* a Scout Nlaluette. Schirra, !
who was a First ('.lass Scout in
Oradell, N.J., as a boy, is one
of the 25 astronauts with a
Scouting background. The Boy
Scouts of America are currently
engaged in a membership cam
paign inviting all boys 8 to 18
to “Follow the Rugged Road
. . . Join the Scouts.”
Town Hall Meets
Thur,, Feb. 24
An old-fashioned “town hall”
meeting has been scheduled for
Thursday, February 24, In the
Bryan County Courthouse.
The purpose of the meeting
is to inform Bryan Countians
of current developments in eco
nomic and industrial develop
ment, according to J. Dixie Harn,
Chairman of the Coastal Planning
and Development Commission.
Chairman Harn said technical
information will be presented
by the staff of the Area Com
mission, which is sponsoring the
meeting, the State Department
of Industry and Trade and other
state and federal agencies con
cerned with economic and in
dustrial development
Scheduled to appear on the
program, in addition to Mr. Harn,
are Bob Short, Executive Direc
tor of the Commission,S. Stanley
Kidwell, Jr., Director of Area
Planning for theStateDepartment
of Industry and Trade, and David
S. Maney, a professional planning
consultant on the staff of the
Area Commission.
“I know of no better way to
inform the citizens of Bryan
County of recent developments
of Interest to our area than
through a meeting such as this”,
Chairman Harn said.
“It is our hope that every
citizen In the county who is in
terested in improving our coun
ty and It’s communities will at
tend the meeting and take part
In It”, he said.
Subjects to be discussed at
the town hall affair are com- 1
munity planning, economic and ‘
industrial development, avail
able federal programs to sti
mulate public works, and the
programs and available assis
tance of the area planning and
development commission.
Special meetings have been
scheduled to fill six seats on
the Bryan County community Ac
tion Committee.
Committee chairman, J. Dixie
Harn, said the meetings were
set up to comply with a recent
federal request to expand the
committee to Include more re- ,
preserttatives from low Income
families.
Chairman Harn that three
meeting places have been cho
sen for the special elections.
Balloting will take place in Pem
broke at the courthouse Monday,
February 28, at 7:30 p.m.
On Tuesday, March 1, repre
sentatives will be elected from
the Richmond Hill area In an
election to be held at the court
house.
Ellabell residents will elect
members in Wednesday, March 2,
at the voting house at 7:30.
Several anti-poverty programs
are underway in Bryan County,
according to Chairman Harn. A
comprehensive program has been
submitted to Washington and is
now awaiting approval, he said.
Store Sues
King Group
For Libel
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP)-A
Birmingham supermarket filed
a $2-million damage suit in fed
eral court Monday against the
integrationist Southern Chris
tian Leadership Conference.
! The complaint by Liberty Su
permarket claims the organiza
tion headed by Dr. Martin Lu
ther King Jr. of Atlanta made
false accusations of racial dis
crimination.
Specifically, Liberty charges
that SCLC Field Director Hosea
Williams libeled the firm by
publishing certain signs and
placards falsely accusing Liber
ty Supermarket of racial dis
crimination in its hiring and
employment practices.
The supermarket contends
that Williams was acting within
his duties as an SCLC agent
when the signs were printed,
and that the accusations were
carried out with the intent to
defame, damage and injure the
firm.
The complaint seeks a trial by
jury.
Pair al Glynco
To Gel Awards
BRUNSWICK—Two men at
Glynco Naval Air Station have
been named to receive Freedom
Foundation awards.
The awards are made annual
ly throughout the nation for out
standing expressions or acts of
patriotism.
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"50 Atlanta Effort
Billy Graham Cited
Bor Early Crusade
ATLANTA (AP) — Sixteen
, years ago, Billy Graham held
his crusade in Atlanta and min
isters say the results are un
ending—among individuals af
fected by the crusade.
' Insofar as a corporate effect
on the city, its morals, its re
ligious fervor, etc., the results
are negligible now, the ministers
, say.
“Mr. Graham did a lot of good
in Atlanta, I can give you chap
‘ ter and verse, man and wom
an,” said Dr. Louie D. Newton,
pastor of the Druid Hills Bap
tist Church.
I “However, Atlanta itself is in
; a pretty bad way crimewise,
I but so is every other communi
ty I know. But there are many
. .factors involved in the increase
of crime in a growing city,”
Newton added.
“Individually, I believe Grah
am accomplished something of
real value which is still mani
i testing itself. . .” said the well
■ known Baptist minister.
Graham begins his last cru
j sade for this year in the United
States on March 4 in Greenville,
S.C., after which he goes to cru
sades in London and Berlin.
How does one assess the ef
fects of his crusade on a city?
A poll of leading Atlanta church
t men, who were here at the time
of Graham’s last crusade, re
vealed a basic agreement on the
individual effects.
The clergymen and other
church officials had varying
opinions on its community ef
fects.
Dr. Robert Burns, pastor of
Peachtree Christian Church
said: “We received some mem
bers as a result of Billy Gra
ham’s crusade, they’ve stayed
with the church and been effec
tive workers.
“If we hadn’t had the crusade,
we’d be a la, worse off in the
community. He got a lot of peo
ple talking about Christianity
md revived an interest in re
igion.
“A lot of people who sit on
the sidelines and criticize Atlan
ta's crime rate are not doing
anything to help,” Burns added.
Newtoh said he felt such a
crusade was difficult to assess,
except on an individual basis.
“The crime commission has
looked at Atlanta's crime situa
tion and found it very disturb
i ing,” Newton said, ’“and we
have a tremendous problem on
our hands. There are so many
factors involved, it’s impossible
to assess the Graham impact.
Individually, of course. I could
give you many examples.”
Dr. John Brohaff, of Emory
University’s theology depart
। ment ; put it this way:
“It's unfair to look for any
definite results of Graham’s vis
' it to Atlanta. It was one of his
; early crusades and he was not
i in full strength at the time. It’s
also difficult to measure results
after 15 years.”
“The Graham crusade,” said
Gene Carroll, director of public
relations for the Atlanta area
Methodist church, “did not nec
essarily turn Atlanta upside
down.
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Influence Seen
“But it did help to bring about
a revival in -our churches and
; in return, this had a great effect
in providing more harmonious
atmosphere for racial media
tions, now going on in the city."
Carroll said also that numer
ous civil and state officials were
personally affected by the Gra
ham crusade.
“We ought to have a Billy
i Graham crusade next year,”
said Burns.
Gra h a m’s headquarters,
which were recently moved to
Atlanta, said there are no plans
for a crusade here anytime
soon. They also refused com
will.”
ment on the effects of his last
crusade, saying the office had
only been here eight months and
had no way of making such a;,
assessment.
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throughout February.
Sixth District
Council Meet
The Sixth District Citizen’s
and Council, Inc., held its re
gular quarterly meeting in Pem
broke Sunday afternoon at the!
American Legion Home.
During the business session,
; Mr. Winton Foxworth, who is
‘ a membe r of our local Citi
। zen’s Band Club was elected
: President of the Sixth District I
| of Georgia citizens Band Coun- ;
I cil, Inc.
Mr. Porter Dawson, Area ci
! vil Defense Director, spoke to
I the group congratulating them on
i the fine job they are doing with
I the new work drills on the Citi
j zens Bank 2-way radio on Tues-;
! day and Thursday night of each f
I week at 10:30. He further sta-j
; ted, that to his way of thinking, '
I Civil Defense would be lostwith
out Citizens Band Clubs. He
j says civil Defense is backing
i Citizens Band 100 percent not only
■in Georgia, but all over the
‘ United States. Mr. Dawson feels
I that as soon as the people un-
I derstand how civil defense and
i the citizens band w*a j - s together
that there will be no friction be
. tween the two.
Our local citizens band club,
; the Bryan-Canoochee Communi
cations Club, Inc., is now taking ।
i a civil defense course in Basic
i Rescue and First Aid, which j
will enable them to take a more
active part in the emergency;
; operations of our local civil j
; defense organization.
• Other distinguished guests at
the meeting were Mr. Morey Por
ter, President of the Georgia;
Citizens Band club, and Mr. :
B. A. Haupt, Deputy Directory and
head of the Communicationsclub
in Chatham County.
Mr. Merrill Bacon is president
of the local citizens Band Club.
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