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Free Press—News & Farmer. Tuesday, June 2. 1964
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The Georgia
LEGISLETTER
ATLANTA — After a month’s
work on Georgia’s new Consti
tution and election code, the two
chambers of the General Assem
bly changed subjects this week. I
The Senate went to work on the |
House - passed version of the;
Constitution, while the House'
took under consideration the i
election laws sent to it by the i
Senate.
Committees of the two cham
bers are considering these docu
ments, and must report on them
before they go to the floor for
debate. That is expected to re
quire at least a week in each
case.
Governor Carl E. Sanders has
revised his original estimate that
the Assembly would complete
both jobs within a month, Talk
ing with reporters late last week,
the Governor predicted that the
Assembly would be in session un
til around June 15. Some of the
legislative leaders don't believe
they will get away much before
the Fourth of July. It all de
pends on how much floor argu
ment there is when the two doc
uments are considered section
by section.
If House action on the Consti
tution and Senate consideration
of the election code provide a
pattern, there’s likely to be a lot.
Both spent about two weeks on
floor debate.
The election code that emerged
from the Senate was a stronger
document than seemed likely a
week ago after Lt. Governor
Peter Zack Geer and some other
leaders attempted to deprive the
State Elections Board of any
control or investigative power
over primaries and to limit its
jurisdiction to general elections.
The "urban bloc" in the Sen
ate. with support from some of
their colleagues from rural areas,
succeeded in restoring the
board’s very considerable investi
gative powers in county pri
maries. Their findings would be
turned over to local grand juries
and solicitor,s-general for action.
The new act definitely has
"teeth.” Some types of election
fraud may be prosecuted as fel-
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of pleasure when you decide on a
modern all-electric kitchen.
For one thing, your kitchen
stays cooler, and so does the cook!
Surely, there’s heat with electric
cookery but only on the bottoms
of pans where it should be.
Since electric cooking units have
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produce no by-products to grime
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By Glenn McCullough-
onies, not ju,st misdemeanors.
One of the most important
provisions of the new code is
that registration books must be
open until 45 days before the
primaries and 45 days before the
general election. Assuming that
■ this section is approved by the
House, some Georgia counties
i will have to reopen their books
j this year.
The code provides that the
Republican primary will be on
the second Wednesday in Au
gust, or a month before the
Democratic primary in Septem
ber. Senator Dan I. Mclntyre of
Fulton County, a Republican,
tried futilely to delay the opera
tion of this section until next
year.
Some parts of the election code
| will be operative as soon as they
‘ । are finally passed by the Assem
j bly and signed by the Governor.
1 1 Others will not become operative
■ until January 1, 1965.
‘ ——
The Constitution that emerged
from the House was a very dif
ferent document in many re
spects from the one reported by
the Committee on Constitutional
Revision, even after it had been
remoulded by a House Com
mittee.
One bitter fight centered
around a provision to have the
state superintendent of schools
appointed by the State Board of
Education rather than being
elected by the people. This was
knocked out. However, in the
future the board itself would be
named by the Governor from the
three candidates submitted by
the General Assembly members
and boards of education in each
of the 10 Congressional districts.
At present, the Governor’s
choice is not restricted.
However, the hottest fight was
, over efforts of a strong bloc of
■ rural members to write into the
Constitution a provision that re
gardless of what happened in
■ the future, the counties would
; always receive at least $9,300,000
annually in state funds for local
: road maintenance. Behind this
i was an apparent fear that the
House may be reapportioned by
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NATION A L EDITORIAL
Rev. Pickett
Speaker
At Depot
Atlanta Army Depot- On
Tuesday night (May 19) the Rev.
Eugene Pickett spoke at a din
ner-meeting at the Officers
Open Mess, which was sponsored
by the Guilds of the Depot
Chapel. Mr. Pickett is pastor of
the Atlanta United Liberal
Church.
Speaking on "The Twentieth
Century Family,” he emphasized
the necessity for early training
of children in the importance of
love, justice and moral courage.
Born in Westminster, Md., Mr.
Pickett holds a bachelor’s degree
in political science from Ameri
can University, is a graduate of
Meadville Theological School,
University of Chicago, and has
served as pastor of Unitarian
congregations in Miami, Fla.,
and Richmond. Va. He is presi
dent of the Mid-South District
lof the Unitarian-Universalist
: Association.
Accompanying Mr. Pickett was
his wife, who was born in South
Africa, the daughter of Con
gregationalist. missionaries. Mrs.
Pickett holds degrees in biology
and music and has completed
two years of graduate study in
theology at the University of
Chicago.
Sleep, exercise, food and rec
reation make the best pre
scription in the fight against
disease.
Federal court in order to give
greater power to the cities.
On Governor Sanders’ sugges
tion, the cities were placated by
another provision giving the
same amount to municipalities.
On this basis a compromise was
reached.
All week a political storm hov
ered over the Capitol. A few
members had invited Governor
George Wallace of Alabama to
address the House. Governor
Sanders made it evident the vis
itor wasn’t wanted, even for an
unofficial breakfast in an At
lanta hotel, but promised to re
ceive him politely in his office if
Governor Wallace called on him.
But he said he wouldn't attend
the breakfast. In the end the
Alabaman decided not to come.
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Another delight is the conven
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An electric range brings you
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Contests
MAYOR IVAN ALLEN of Atlanta, Mayor Hugh
Dickson of Jonesboro and Mr. Dclas Hamlin of
the Inter-County Committee of Detroit, Mich.,
map plans for a Metropolitan Atlanta Inter-
A steering committee will be formed to draft plans for
an inter-governmental council to deal with the mutual
problems of the five counties and 45 municipalities of Met
ropolitan Atlanta.
The committee was authorized
by a unanimous vote of about 80
elected officials representing the
various governmental units. The
meeting was held at the East
Lake Country Club in Atlanta
last Wednesday.
Members of the committee will
be appointed by the Atlanta Re
gion Metropolitan Plan ni n g
Commission.
Planning Commission Chair
man, Nelson Severinghaus, ex
plained to the assembled offi
e.ials that the voluntary council
would bring together regularly
representatives of the 50 metro
politan governments to consider
mutual problems.
“We are not about to suggest
a merging of these govern
ments,” Mr. Severinghaus said.
“We are just trying to lighten
your daily load, which is going
to get heavier as the population
increases daily.”
The meeting to consider an
inter-governmental council was
called for in a resolution adopted
by the Georgia Senate last ses
sion. The response was indica
tive of the wide interest in bet
ter coordination of local govern
ment action in Greater Atlanta.
Mayor Ivan Allen of Atlanta,
in moving that the steering
committee be appointed, said
that an inter-governmental
council could accomplish much
good and certainly could do no
harm. Mayor Allen said that
there were several urgent mat
ters that affected all the gov
ernments. These needed early
attention.
The nomination of the steer
ing committee was endorsed in
a seconding by Mayor Hugh
Dickson of Jonesboro.
The main speaker at the
luncheon meeting was Delos
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Governmental Committee which will deal with
the problems of the more than 45 municipalities
in the Metro Atlanta area.
Hamlin, who described the ac
complishments of an inter-gov
ernmental council in the Detroit
metropolitan area, which en
compasses six counties with a
total population of four million
persons.
“Ten years ago there was very
little communication among the
governments of our area,” Mr.
Hamlin said. “In fact, there was
mistrust of the three larger
counties by the three smaller
counties.”
The regional planning com
mission held a series of three in
formal luncheons and it was de
cided that legislative authority 1
for an inter-governmental coun
cil should be sought, Mr. Hamlin
explained. He said the three
larger counties joined in the
plan at the start, and the three
smaller counties joined within
the first month.
Each county is represented on
the council by six members from
local governments and the
chairman of the county govern
ing board. The council meets ten
times each year in an all-day
session broken with a luncheon,
which is attended by an average
of one hundred persons repre
senting the cities, counties,
schools, corporations, utilities
and highway boards.
Mr. Hamlin, formerly a mayor
of the City of Farmington,
Michigan, has been Chairman of
the Oakland County Board of
Supervisors for six years. He is
a former Chairman of the inter
governmental council and is now
council Vice Chairman.
"Ten years ago every sugges
tion for joint action brought a
caucus of the representatives of
each county to see who was
trying to hoodwink whom,” Mr.
s Hamlin said. "Now we have a
fine spirit of cooperation.”
One of the biggest accomplish
ments of the inter-governmental
council has been a $l7O million,
ten-year water supply program
for the Detroit area. Ten years
ago there were severe shortages
which caused plants, including
General Motors, to shut down
for periods of time. The pro
gram, which is on schedule, has
advanced faster than actual
needs, he said.
When the FAA w’arned that
the Detroit airport was headed
for trouble, the inter-govern
mental council tackled airport
needs on a matching, pro rata
basis.
A cooperative plan whereby
the Detroit sanitary plant would
serve the metropolitan area on
a contractual basis was worked
out, and now the inter-govern
mental council is tackling the
problem of garbage and rubbish
disposal on a five-year basis.
The Detroit area inter-govern
mental council operates with a
director, an assistant director
and a small clerical staff. It is
financed by contributions of
SII,OOO annually from the larger
counties and $4,000 from the
smaller counties.
In the Atlanta area regional
plans are developed by the At
lanta Metropolitan Planning
Commission which affect the
1,150,000 citizens who make up
the 50 governments.
Implementation of plans on a
regional basis is impossible with
out close coordination and a
permanent method of communi
cation among officials con
cerned. Examples of plans which
are already completed and are in
the discussion stage of imple
mentation are rapid transit and
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ATLANTA ARMY DEPOT—Depot Employes Receive Special Act
Award. Holding citations are (left to right) Arthur W. Whitt,
Mrs. Mary B. Winslett, Mrs. Edna J. Pierce, Joe H. Keith, and
William F. Benton, shown with Col. J. P. Alexander, Jr., Depot
Commander, who made presentation; Lt. Col. W. A. Reitmeir,
Comptroller, and Major Vernon R. Porter, Chief, Data Process
ing Division. Back row (left to right) Albert G. Smart, Deputy
Chief, Data Processing Division; Lt. Col. Joda L. Robinson, Fi
nance and Accounting Officer. (U.S. Army Photo)
regional nature preserves. Proj
ects now. being studied by the
Metropolitan Planning Commis
sion include area housing and
building codes and regional air
facilities. Also the interstate ■
highway program, which is
scheduled to be completed by
1972, requires a great deal of
teamwork from all governments
in the metropolitan area. Under
the Federal Highway Act all!
metropolitan areas such as At
lanta are required to have a
closely knit organization for;
highway planning in order to
continue to qualify for federal
funds.
If an inter-governmental coun
cil is established it would be ex
pected that several working
committees would be formed to
bring about more efficient
methods of handling day-to-day
government business. These
committees might include one on |
traffic, one on water and sewer l
services, one on communications i
for police and fire departments'
in the area, and one on adoption
and enforcement of uniform
housing and building codes.
The over-all objective of such
a council would be to promote
better understanding and more
efficient ways of handling re
gional problems through an in
ter-governmental exchange of
ideas.
A voluntary council would not
in any way decrease the inde
pendence of cities and counties,
nor would it be a new layer of’
government. Instead it would be
a forum for discussion and an
agency for improving the effec- |
tiveness of ail of the present |
governments.
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that most people take them
selves seriously.
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PICKING PEAS
Mechanized .harvesting oi
■ Southern peas for processing is
here to stay, believes F. B.
Cates, horticulturist with the
■ Cooperative Extension Service.
He says six harvesters were op
' erating in Georgia pea fields
last fall, and growers were gen
erally pleased with the results.
“We can expect to see more and
more peas harvested mechani
■ cally.”
Cooperative Extension Serv
ice foresters this week re
minded Georgia landowners
that, under certain conditions,
timber losses from fire, wind
storm, and ice damage may be
claimed for income tax pur
poses.
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