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Bryant Platform
For Friday A.M. Release
Gubernatorial candidate Farris Bryant today revealed his plan
for "operation bootstrap," a program to help the citizens in each
county to "lift themselves by their own bootetrape to a better
place in the Florida sun," as he released four additional planks
in his campaign platform.
Bryant also proposed a plan for the peaceful maintenance of
segregation, a highway safety program calling for rigid enforcement
or laws, and a conservation program designed to preserve and increase
the state's natural resources.
In "operation bootstrap" Bryant called for intensive research
"to determine the hidden resources of each Florida county." Human
resources, natural resources, and industrial resources should be
calculated and cataloged, the platform states.
"Then county officials and local citizenry, with cooperation
from the Development Commission and other state departments, should
unite their efforts and direct their energies toward the development
or those resources which offer the greatest promise.
"By assuring each county adequate cpportunitiea thus to help
itself, to grow and to proaoer, we can find the answer to a familiar
Florida dilemma-~how to get all or Florida together in solving mutual
problems."
"I believe in segregation," Bryant wrote in his segregation
plank. "It has been the means for peaceful progress of the two races
Its maintenance will insure the continued growth of the cultures of
each."
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Bryant proposed four poaitivo measures to insure the continuance
of segregation in Florida:
1. "Immediately call together the beat legal, political and
educational minds to evolve a program suitable for Florida, and
pursue such administrative, legislative and constitutional eteps as
are developed.
2. "Secure the appointment or one or more eeeietant attorney
generals to concentrate upon the legal steps necessary to maintain
uegregation, and make their aericas available to local school and
other local governments ea they require them.
3. "Join with the governors of other states with similar views
For the purpoee of working out a program to meet the threat of Federal
:ntervention, without force or violence.
4. "Accelerate the already great steps taken to make the facili-
les for Negroes equal as well as separate. so that within their '
sphere they too may enjoy life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
For increased highway safety, Bryant called for three phases of,
activity--enforcament, education, and engineering. .
"We must eatebliah, and soon, uniform and reaaonable traffic
laws, with speed limits determined to fit specific situations. Then
thooe lawn neat be enforced--rigidly, without fear or favor," the
platform eclaree, "Our hignly trained, expanded highway patrol must
be given the green light to enforce these reasonable lave.
The pace of activities in safety education must be apoodod up,
new roads must be designed for safety, and old ones reviewed for the
reduction of "built-in" traffic hazards. Bryant continued in his
gafety plank.
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The conservation plank proposes returning "control of the Game
and Fresh Water Fish Commission "to the hunters and fishers of
Florida, with such scientific advice as they deem necessary to assist
them.
"The laws for the control of abuses in fresh and salt water
fishing and for the protection of our game, should be rigidly enforced
Bryant said. He also advocated the establishment of hunting and
fishing preserves, "by agreement with landowners, for the sportsman
who has been fenced out and posted cut."
Other phases of Bryant's conservation program include:
Development of Florida's park system "to the maximum limit of our
financial ability.
"A state-wide, long range policy for the utmost utilization of
our submerged lands, by the state and by private interests which also
serve the public interest."
Encouragement of commercial fishing.
Development of inland waterways for recreational purposes.
Support of the Central and South Florida Flood Control project
"by money and by all encouragement to our delegation to Congress in
their efforts to secure the promised Federal funds-~ncw."
"This is a document of action, not of empty phrases," Bryant said
of his platform. He said the record of his ten years in the logis-
lature will show he has supported the type of constructive legis-
lation called for in his platform.
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