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This is an Inauguration Tradition and protocol direct the order of events when a new administration takes office in Raleigh. Between the time Private Citizen William B. Umstcad rides down Fay¬ etteville Street in Raleigh shortly be¬ fore noon on January 8 and returns up the street early in the afternoon as Governor Umstcad, the major-domo of the inauguration will be nowhere in sight. From start to finish, the un¬ seen boss of the affair will be Mister Tradition. So fixed in tradition is the entire in¬ augural program that about the only change in it every four years is that new faces replace the old in some of¬ fices, and. consequently, in the cars which travel in the inaugural parade. Where North Carolina tradition leaves off, protocol used by the White House takes over. Serenade Moments before 11 o’clock on the morning of January 8, the front door of the Governor's Mansion on Blount Street will open. Governor and Mrs. W. Kerr Scott, Mr. and Mrs. Umstcad, and Adjutant General John Hall Man¬ ning will step out on the porch. From among the assembled parade units, the 82nd Airborne Division Band of Fort Bragg will strike up "Hail to the Chief." Precisely at II, the gubernatorial party will re-enter the Mansion. As the party goes back inside, the gesture pulls the trigger for the parade — whistles will blow, commands will be shouted, and the military units will step off cn route to Memorial Audi¬ torium and the inaugural ceremonies. As the parade line unwinds and be¬ gins circling Capitol Square, the prin¬ cipals again will leave the mansion and get into cars for the trip to the auditorium. The order of units in the parade is OOPS! You won’t find the rest of Charlie Parker’s story on page 35. It’s on page 60. This is what literary people call errata, but in this business it is just a plain bull. By JAY JKYKIYS set by tradition, with the aid of mili¬ tary regulations. For the escort, regu¬ lations specify that Regular Army units go first, Marines second, the Na¬ tional Guard third, ROTC next, and the Fayetteville Independent Light Infantry last. The S2nd Airborne will contribute the band and a battalion of infantry; Fort Bragg will have on hand a battery of artillery; there will be 1,300 National Guard troops, along with the State College band and ROTC unit. Official Vehicles Behind the escort will be 15 cars carrying state officials and their wives. According to Adjutant General Man¬ ning, who, as the man in charge of the event is the enforcer of tradition, White House protocol prevails in fix¬ ing the order of the cars — state officials, ranked roughly with their op¬ posite numbers on the national scene, ride in Raleigh as their counterparts ride in Washington. The number of cars may vary, the order docs not. General Manning estimates that the parade will require 50 minutes to reach the auditorium where members of the General Assembly, their ses¬ sion one day old, will be waiting. When the parade comes to a halt at the auditorium. White House proto¬ col departs and Carolina tradition as¬ sumes control. Lieutenant-Governor H. P. Taylor, as presiding officer of the Senate, will call the joint session to order. Oath-taking then begins. North Carolina officials take their oaths in the reverse order from which their offices were created, so that the man whose office was created last takes his oath first. This means that Labor Commissioner Forrest Shuford and Insurance Commissioner Waldo Cheek arc sworn in first. In the same reverse order, the State Supreme Court Justices administer the oaths. So Associate Justice R. Hunt Parker, newest member of the court, will give Shuford and Cheek their oaths of of¬ fice. One by one, the oath will be ad¬ ministered to Commissioner of Agri¬ culture L. Y. Ballentinc, Attorney General Harry McMullan, School Su¬ perintendent Charles Carroll. Treas¬ urer Brandon Hodges. Auditor Henry Bridges. Secretary of State Thad Eure, and Luther P. Hodges. Licutcnant- Govcrnor-clcct. As soon as he is sworn in. Lieutenant-Governor Hodges takes the gavel and recognizes Scott, who will introduce Umstcad. After Chief Justice W. A. Devin administers the oath to the new Governor, Umstcad will give his inaugural address. From the auditorium, the officials go to a platform on Fayetteville Street to re¬ view the military units as they leave the auditorium. Seal Delivered Tradition is still in the saddle be¬ fore the luncheon at the Governor's Mansion. Ex-Governor Scott will de¬ liver to Governor Umstcad the Great Seal of the state at the Governor’s of¬ fice. At S p.ni. the public reception will be held at the Mansion, and then the Inaugural Ball begins in Memorial Auditorium. Adjutant General Manning, who is planning his first inauguration, dis¬ covered that tradition cannot always go it alone. There was the matter of convertibles, for instance. Winter is not convertible season and Raleigh auto dealers, willing though they were, couldn't dig up enough of the open- top cars. A call to the North Carolina Automobile Dealers Association solved the problem. Planning for the inaugural began late in the summer. In addition to cars and oaths and protocol and tradition, there is the matter of the luncheon menu, and an orchestra for the inau¬ gural ball, as well as the make-up of military units in the parade. All in all, an inauguration ceremony is consti¬ tuted like an iceberg — one tenth of it is visible to the people, the other nine-tenths is hidden in paper work. THE 8TATE. January 3. 1953 8-Л