Fifty Years Ago Today, January 9, 1966

Calm Session Seen For Assembly

Money: how to get it and how to spend it. Deaths: on the highways and in the electric chair. Schools: how to finance them and whether to consolidate them. Billboards: whether to keep or ban them. Those will be key topics in the deliberations of the 1966 Georgia General Assembly which opens its annual 40-day session in Atlanta Monday.

War Cloud

A Congress confronted with the possible escalation of fighting in Viet Nam and the threat of inflation at home convenes for its 1966 session in a solemn mood Monday.

Callaway

Third District Rep. Howard (Bo) Callaway this weekend is reported closer than ever to a decision to seek election this fall as Georgia's governor.

This story was originally published January 8, 2016 at 4:09 PM with the headline "Fifty Years Ago Today, January 9, 1966 ."