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The tied and Hlaik. Thursday. November I. 1979
Leathers and Hart battle for city council seat
B> TIM BONNER
Assistant cllx editor
The race in the city's second
ward to fill Bob Carson's council
seat is a battle between two
political newcomers. Democrat
Fred Leathers and Republican
Bob Han. Leathers has under
gone a primary and runoff
election in an attempt to gain
the post, while Hart qualified
for the genera! election by being
The only Republican candidate
from the second ward
Election
The candidates see virtually
eve-to-eve on the issues of city
county consolidation, the his
toric preserv at ion ordinance and
the possibility of a private
contractor taking over the sani
tation services. Hart even said
the real issue in the campaign is
what each candidate has to offer
the second ward constituents.
Leathers. 4“’. is a local
businessman and chairman of
the city personnel board, of
which he has been a member for
the past seven years. He
graduated from the Universitv
with a degree in education, is
married, and has two children.
Han. 30. is a University
instructor in educational media.
He received his ABJ and M.Hd.
from the University, is married,
and has no children.
Leathers favors consolidation
because it has been proved, in
places like Jacksonville. Fla., to
be more efficient and a money-
saver. He thinks city and county
governments need to work
towards consolidating depart
ments. "taking one or two at’a
time, with proper action." but
says ‘total consolidation is a
ways down the road."
Hart is also a proponent of
consolidation, saying "any act
ion that will eliminate unneces-
vary government control is
needed." And while he feels a
plan can be devised that will
improve services and cost fewer
tax dollars, he noted that similar
consolidation plans were voted
down by the county in previous
elections. "The county is going
to have to agree to it first." Hart
said.
Leathers feels the historic
preservation ordinance needs
"some additional work." He
sees tot) many instances where
the ordinance is "taking away
the right of property owners."
though he docs favor something
to keep the buildings and resi
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have loo many commissions.
Hart said
Both candidates favor the city
retaining control over the sani
tation service rather than con
tracting it out to a private
vendor. Leathers views the
current difficulties as "basically
a management problem. We
While Hart is also for historic
preservation of some type. "I
am not for the present one. and I
am not for anything that creates
another arm of government; we
don’t need to do that." Instead.
Hurt favors some type of historic
preservation through the plan
ning commission or a city
council committee. "We already
just need to find out what is the
problem.” he said.
Hart favors the status quo
because he doesn't see a private
firm as being efficient over the
long run. "We have tc look way
tar ahead—look very much into
the long range, considering
inflation and everything else. If
it is going to be efficient over
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the long range. I'm lor it. but as
I see it. it won't be." Hart said.
For Leathers, communication
is the key word in his campaign.
"The lack of communication
causes all the problems." he
said, pointing to the Sleepy
Hollow Mining dispute and other
Mining squabbles as prime
examples. "I intend to com
municate a lot better with the
people."
The Sleepy Hollow controver
sy involved the proposed con
struction of an apartment com
plex near Memorial Hark. Resi
dents of the area complained
that the construction would alter
the character of the neighbor
hood and pose a possible safety
hazard.
Leathers also feels that peo„-
ple are looking for a person with
the background to make deci
sions in city government, and he
thinks his position with the city
personnel board is "a good
stepping-stone." He added.
"The city is like a business, a
huge business, and you have to
follow sound business principles
to operate the huge business
think I have developed these
principles."
Hart's approach to the cam
paign also relies heavily on the
communication aspect. To this
end. he has vowed, if elected, to
periodically publish, at his
expense, a newsletter to inform
the people about what has taken
place in the city government, to
establish neighborhood advisory
groups to inform and advise on
community issues, and to hold
periodic monthly meetings so
individuals can meet with him
and discuss what needs to be
done.
He is doing these things in an
effort to "bridge the gap"
between the people and the
government. Hart also points to
the Sleepy Hollow controversy
as a communications gap. say
ing. "the ward councilmcn were
negligent in not keeping their
constituents informed as to what
coujd be done, what would be
done and what they as council-
men were doing to protect the
interest of the people."
The Republican says he is
offering the people of the ward
something they "have never
seen before." someone who
wants to help them. "It’s a
question of convincing the peo
ple." Hart said. He added that
the people of the second ward
can have the same type of
representation they have been
accustomed to over the past 15
to 20 years, or "they can have
me. I’m a different type."
Approximately 3960 voters
are registered in the second
ward, a wan that stretches from
Wray Street and South Lumpkin
to the Middle Oconee River near
Milledgc Circle and the Macon
Highway'Millcdgc Avenue in
tersection. encompassing Five
Points. Memorial Park and parts
of the University.
FRIDAY: The Fifth Ward-
Denson vs. Craft.
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Tonight 7:21 9:21
by JOHN KUKLA
University lists biohazards
By STEVE GOLDBERG
Staff writer
The University biosafety committee is
presently compiling a list of all biohazards on
campus and their locations, through the use of
a questionnaire sent out to faculty in all
biohazardous areas.
"We’ve been working on it for a year now.
and by winter quarter we should have all the
questionnaires turned in," said Dr Arden Lea,
chairman of the biosafety committee.
A biohazard is a biological agent capable of
reproduction which would be detrimental to
various forms of life if it escaped from
laboratory situations into the environment,
according to Lea.
The committee handed out an eight-page
questionnaire to each faculty member in all
biohazardous areas, and asked them to check
on the questionnaire which microorganisms
exist in their respective area.
The questionnaire lists all possible-harmful
materials which might exist in a laboratory on
campus, according to Lea. including forms of
bacteria, fungi, viruses, chemical agents, and
cancer-causing agents.
"We felt the questionnaire was necessary to
get a handle on where problems might exist,"
said Lea. "We work in cooperation with local
hospitals, and if they begin receiving numerous
University students or employees with similar
illnesses, the hospitals can check back with us.
We can then determine what the patients came
in contact with where they work or study
"Also, if any building was damaged, such as
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rescue what materials and organisms are in
the building." Lea said.
"Our work with recombinant DNA required
the University to set up the biosafety
committee in accordance with National
Institutes of Health guidelines." Lea said.
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existed, and we decided to cover these other
areas of research as well."
The committee follows many guidelines of
the NIH, as well as those of other government
agencies, such as the Center for Disease
Control in Atlanta, which has a list of all
organisms and rates them as to their level of
risk, according to Lea.
"We follow their guidelines as to the level of
containment necessary for each organism used
on campus," he said.
PRISON
LIFE OF BRIAN
Mat. Sal. and Sun. 3:311 • S:2l
lonighl 7:1 £.• 9:03.
From p. 1
Dr. Chas Eckenrode, retired
professor of criminal justice at
the University and former
associate warden at the
federal penitentiary in Atlanta,
thinks county prisons should be
abolished in Georgia
"Counties are irresponsible
managers of peoples' lives."
Eckenrode said. "It's degrad
ing for men to have to perform
demeaning work in front of the
public with an armed guard
watching over them. These
people are losers. Successful
criminals get away with
crime They know they’re
losers We ought to give them
educitional training Everyone
needs to succeed and the
opportunity to accomplish
something They’re not going
to feel this accomplishment by
picking up limbs."
Counselor Gregory O’Neal
said the prisoners often com
plain of being dehumanized by
the prison system and lacking
self respect. He said they often
feel as though they are being
treated as children.
One inmate said he felt a
lack of self esteem "What if
it's your son's birthday and he
comes to visit you in prison?
You don’t have any writing
materials to make him a card,
and you may not even have a
dime to buy him a coke.
You’re a total burden on your
own family and the county,”
he said
When asked what decisions
the prisoners can make for
themselves, O'Neal said,
"They can decide when to go
to the bathroom." After a
moment he added, "They can
decide to be rehabilitated and
they don’t have to accept
visitors on Sunday.’’
No one has any definitive
answers about how to rehabili
tate criminals. Some are cured
after they have committed
crimes; others will never be
rehabilitated.
But some criminologists, like
Eckenrode. believe as many as
74 to 80 percent of those
incarcerated shouldn't be in
prison.
"They get well faster when
they’re not behind bars,"
Eckenrode said.
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