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T*»e University of Georgia Thursday. September 20, 1979 Volume 86, Number 2 Georgia s only collegiate daily newspaper" News $42 3441 Advertising $42*3414
New mayor wins favor
from various city leaders
By SALYNN BOYLES
Assitant campus editor
Reactions of city leaders to Tuesday’s
election of businessman Lauren Coile as
Athens new mayor are for the most part
•avorable. Coile, who won the primary by
the slim margin of 32 votes, will take
office in January.
Outgoing Mayor Upshaw Bentley
pledged to work with Coile before he
takes office
“I think they’re both good men,”
Bentley said of Coile and his opponent
city councilman Calvin Bridges. “I would
have supported anybody who won,”
Bentley said.
"Wc will be working with him (Coile)
on the new city budget before he takes
office,’’ Bentley said.
Coile outdistanced Bridges 1754 votes to
1722, capturing 50 5 percent of the vote to
Bridges' 49 5 percent
Bentley attributed the closeness of the
race to the* “extremely small’’ turnout
of voters, the bad weather, and the fact
ihe primary was held close to the
deadline
“There was no time to campaign,’’ he
said.
Bentley said he planned to return to
practicing law full time with Fortson,
Bentley, and Griffin.
“I’ll miss the goings-on in the mayor's
office,’’ Bentley said, though he doesn’t
plan to run for elective office again.
“I do plan to be active in city
government but I don’t care to run for
mayor again," he said
The mayor said he is proud of the fact
that Athens is an economically sound
city “Financially we’re in good shape,"
he said. “Athens future looks very
bright.”
The new city charter, a new city code
and the city’s ability to maintain civil
service projects are three of the major
accomplishments' of his administration,
Bentley feels.
He said expansion of water and sewage
facilities and the building of a new
sewage plant are important additions to
the city. He also cited the Athens Transit
System garage, constructed in 1977, and
the completion of Bishop Recreation
Park as high points in his tenure.
Asked about the major problems facing
the city, Bentley said his “main concern
was for the downtown business district.
“I definitely believe government should
get involved in private enterprise.”
Bentley said, adding that the city council
and the new mayor should take an active
interest in trying to keep merchants from
moving out of the downtown area.
Allen Stephenson, executive vice
president of the Athens Chamber of
Commerce, said Coile will make a good
mayor.
“Coile is a competent civic leader, and
will provide solid leadership as mayor,”
Stephenson said.
Stephenson said the Chamber of
Commerce was a non-political organiza
tion that did not endorse individual
candidates, but “we feel that we have,
with Coile, a continuation of the same
support for Athens growth that we had
under Mayor Bentley.”
The head of the Athens Downtown
Development Authority, Joe Burnett, said
Coile seems to be interested in downtown
re-development. "I am optimistic about
the continued interest of the mayor's
CONFLICTS RESOLVED
Saye Day
Albert Saye retires after 42 years
By CHUCK REECE
Staff writer
Back before Albert B. Saye became Dr Albert B. Saye, he worked two jobs: college
professor and dining hall worker. One day, as he was cleaning a messy dining hall
table, a friend quipped, "Albert, you ought to make up your mind whether you want to
be a waiter or a professor,"
He made up his mind.
And now. as professor emeritus. Dr. Albert B Saye retires after 42 years of teaching
political science and law at the University. He is being honored with a proclamation,
issued by Athens Mayor Upshaw Bentley, making September 20 “Albert B Saye Day.”
The "Saye Day" proclamation is one part of a University, community, and
Demosthenian Literary Society celebration honoring Saye.
Saye will be the guest of honor at a tea to be held at 6 p.m. today by the
Demosthenian Literary Society, an organization Saye has been associated with for
“Advisor” to governors.
...friend to students
approximately 45 years. Tommie Elaine Shattuck, president of Demosthenian,
University President Fred C. Davison and Bentley will offer tributes to Saye at a
special meeting following the tea.
Saye's history as a professor at the University is a presitgious one. His list of
publications includes 13 books and upwards of 200 articles for publications as diverse as
The Atlanta Journal, National Civic Review and World Book Encyclopedia.
Saye’s opinion on governmental issues is a widely respected one, and he has been
called "unofficial advisor" to several Georgia governors, including George Bus bee and
Jimmy Carter. He calls the title an exaggeration ."
“Anybody teaching political science at the University might be called in to consult
with public officials." Saye said.
He mildly dismisses the Senate Ethics Committee's action in the Senator Herman
Talmadge matter, saying, "They ran it in the ground. I really think they should have
dropped it."
But it's not Saye's vast knowledge of political science and law that distinguishes him
from other professors Saye's distinguishing factor is his concern for students, an often
lacking element among educators
Inside a cabinet in Saye's office rests an index card file containing the name of every
student he has taught since he joined the University faculty.
Pew professors on any campus would know that Paul T. Bassett made a B in political
science 684 spring quarter 1954.
Dr. Albert B Saye does.
Student activities reshuffled
office in ADDA's work,” he said.
Members of council were guardedly
optimistic about Coile’s election. Council
man John Taylor said Coile’s leadership
and experience in other fields will help
him. He has things to learn,” Taylor
said, “but I think he’ll make a good
mayor.”
Coile, a graduate of the University
who’s lived in Athens most of his life, has
never held political office before.
Coile's lack political experience, along
with the fact he runs a major automotive
dealership is the subject of concern with
a few council members who feel he
doesn’t have the experience or time the
job requires.
One councilman, who did not wish to be
named, said he did not believe Coile had
the experience necessary to be a good
mayor.
By JOHN LACKIE
Assistant campus editor
“Serious conflicts” between members
of the professional staff of the
Department of Student Activities and
Director William Powell have apparently
been resolved, administration officials
say
Discontent among members of the
professional staff culminated at the end
of spring quarter with a letter, signed by
10 staff members, to Dean of Student
Services Dwight Douglas expressing “a
total lack of confidence" in Powell as
director
Douglas confirmed he had met soon
afterward with individual members of
the professional staff and with Powell in
an attempt to resolve the problems.
“The matter has resolved itself
satisfactorily,' 'Douglas said earlier this
week.
In wake of the conflicts the department
has been reorganized. Two entirely new
positions on the staff were created, and
seven members of this year’s staff were
hired this summer
"We had a period of internal crisis that
we were able to work together to
resolve," Powell said.
‘The matter has resolved
itself satisfactorily’
—Douglas
Carol Winthrop, assistant director of
the department, who had signed the
letter along with nine other staffers, said
the conflicts had been resolved and the
staff was looking forward to a good year
in student activities.
Powell noted that one of the positive
aspects of the department's reorganiza
tion involved the development and
centralization of areas previously not
covered by the department
In an effort to centralize student
services, the department hired a
coordinator of recreational sports and a
program advisor for leadership develop
ment. Powell said
The coordainator of recreational sports
will oversee intramural sports, supervise
sports clubs, and schedule facilities for
recreational sports after 4:30 p.m —areas
previously supervised by the physical
education department
The program advisor for leadership
development will handle programs such
as Communiversity, the University
“leadershops” and other special program
areas
"The conflict is completely resolved,"
said Earl Cashon. director of operations
"Looking back. what we had at the end
of the year was a very tired staff," he
said "There are no negative feelings
here at all "
Pope to spread word
In what will be the first papal
trip to Ireland and the first to
the U.S. in 14 years, John Paul
will appeal for world peace and
respect for the dignity of man
VATICAN CITY (UPI)-Pope John
Paul II embarks late this month on a
voyage that will take him from the
ancient battlegrounds of Ireland to the
cornfields of Iowa in an appeal for an end
to terrorism and war
John Paul begins his journey Sept 29
with a three-day visit to Ireland. He
returns to the Vatican Oct. 7 after
addressing the U N. General Assembly,
touring the eastern and midwestern Uni
ted States, saying mass before about one
million people in Washington and
meeting President Carter in the White
House
It will be the first trip to Ireland for a
pope and the first in the United States in
14 years.
Church officials involved in the trip’s
planning say its central theme will be an
appeal for lasting peace in the world and
respect for the dignity of man
The pope # will make his keynote
address on tlte subject before the U N.
General Assembly Oct. 2.
The address will come almost 14 years
to the day after the late Pope Paul VI
made an empassioned plea for disarma
ment and world peace from the same
rostrum to representatives of 117 nations
“No more war. War never again If you
wish to be brothers, let the weapons fall
from your hands," Paul VI, speaking in a
hoarse but forceful voice, told the
General Assembly Oct. 4, 1965
Paul’s appearance before the General
Assembly was the big point of a 14-hour
visit to the United States, the first ever
by a reigning pontiff.
Although the appeal for peace before
the United Nations will be the center-
piece of John Paul's trip as well, his
stops at six cities in Ireland and six in
the United States will have a far wider
scope
Among the themes he will touch on in
Ireland and the United States, according
to church sources, are the enduring
values of family life, the church’s firm
opposition to abortion and artificial birth
control, the contributions of nuns to
religious life, the ennobling character of
work and the need for more men to enter
the priesthood.
John Paul also will appear before the
U.S. Roman Catholic Bishop's Confer
ence in Chicago Oct. 5 and is expected to
call for a more disciplined priesthood and
stricter adherence to ancient tenets of
faith
In Ireland, his keynote address will
come at the ancient walled city of
Drougheda, site of a 1694 battle in whic
Oliver Cromwell’s Protestant troops
slaughtered Irish Roman Catholilcs
John Paul had been under heavy
pressure from Irish Catholics to visit
Northern Ireland as well but the Vatican
ruled out such a stop after the Irish
Republican Army killings of Britain's
Lord Mountbatten ana ID British soldiers
Aug 27
Elvis’ body may be exhumed, examined for drugs
NASHVILLE. Tenn (UPI)-Of«icials
said Wednesday they may exhume Elvis
Presley's body and subpoena his
hushed-up auiopsy record because of
reports that he received huge quantities
of drugs before his death
"We cannot rule it out." State Attorney
General William Leech said about whether
or not Presley's body will be taken from
the grave for examination "If the
investigation points in that dirction. it
will be done."
Leech said his office may also subpoena
the still undisclosed autopsy report on the
rock n roll king's death
The attorney general said he is taking
a "hard look" at charges that Dr George
Nichopoulos. Presley's personal physi
cian for 11 years, indiscriminately pre
scribed 5000 uppers, downers, and
painkillers for Presley during the seven
months preceding his death
Follow ing his sudden death on Aug 16,
1977, Presley's body was placed with his
mother's in a mausoleum at Forest Hills
Cemetery, about three miles from
Presley's Graceland Mansion in Mem
phis
The two bodies were moved on Oct 7,
1977, to a small garden on a Presley
estate after police thwarted a bizarre
attempt by grave robbers to chisel their
way into the locked mausoleum in an
apparent bid to steal Presley's body and
hold it for ransom
A police informant, one of three men
arrestesd at the cemetery on Aug 29,
1977, later claimed the attempted
body-snatching was part of a plot to
extort $10 million from the Presley
family
The Presley family subsequently
obtained special permission from Mem
phis officials to turn the Graceland
Meditation Garden into a six plot private
cemetery for the family
"The issue is there and it looks like
there will come a time when something
will have to be done, such as subpoena
the autopsy," Leech said
On Aug 16. 1977—one day after he
received 690 tablets and 20 cubic
centimeters of liquid stimulants, depres
sants and painkillers allegedly prescribed
by Nichopoulos—Presley's body was
found sprawled on the floor of the floor of
an upstairs bathroom of Graceland
Mansion Eight doctors, including Nicho
poulos and Shelby County Medical
Examiner Dr Jerry Francisco, subse
quently performed a three hour autopsy
at the request of Presley's family
The results of the autopsy were never
released, but Francisco later told a news
conference that Presley's death at age 42
resulted from “hypertensive heart
disease with coronary heart disease as a
contributing factor "
See ELVIS, p. •
r
Art by Robert Holland
UGA Today
University Union says..
...You’re still the one with
Stillwater! The double U’s presents
its first concert of the year tonight
on Legion Field featuring one of
Macon's finest, Stillwater. This
dynamite rock and roll-country
band will start playing at 7 p.m
Or if you're in the mood for other
types of excitement, make your
way to PJ to see one of the biggest
money making films of all times.
Jaws, 7000 pounds
people-eating shark
of hungry,
Also, that fun-supplying Union is
sponsoring a beginners rock
climbing trip to Mt Yonah this
weekend. This two-day trip will
include transportation, meals, and
instruction Contact the business
office in Memorial Hall for more
information
Oops! Wrong Number
In Wednesday’s Red and Black, the
telephone number for Health Service’s
taped information service was listed
Sports Pics
incorrectly The correct number is
542-9912. We sincerely apologize to the
student who has been receiving all
these phone calls
Today, The Red and Black
introduces a new feature to the Sports
page This feature is a poll of the top
20 college teams in the country as
selected by The Red and Black sports
staff Southern Cal was the number
one pick this week Look for this
sports poll every Wednesday
Book ’em
The University Libraries cordially
invite you to “An Introduction to the
Library" Presentations provide basic
orientation and will begin at the times
scheduled below in both the Main and
Science Libraries Orientation dates
are Monday. Sept 24 through Friday,
Sept 28 Attend Monday. Wednesday
and Friday. 2nd. 4th, 7th or 9th
periods, and on Tuesday and
Thursday, attend 3rd. 5th. 8th or 12th
periods
The University Health Service is
accepting applications from female
students who are interested in doing
volunteer work with the Women’s
Health Program Women who are
interested in participation in this
program or who would like more
information should call Pat Brown or
Nancy Jacobson Applications will be
taken through September 24 only
Soap-n-Summer
Get ready for another exciting
adventure on Soap tonight as Burt is
held captive by aliens, and an
over sexed double is sent to replace
him Meanwhile the Major devises a
plot to free Billy from the hands of a
religious cult Starring Richard
Mulligan. Arthur Peterson, and
Jimmy Baio Soap up on channel 11 at
9 3U
Also on ABC at 10 p.m., 2*-2«
Magazine presents "Miss Hot Stuff"
herself. Donna Summer Tune in to
the world of disco recording, meet
Donna, and see her perform in concert
"Hot Stuff" and "Bad Girls."
Discover what makes her sizzle!