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ATTORNEY BEN ALLEN (R) takes the oath of office from
Judge John H. Ruffin Jr. Mrs. Allen looks on. Photo by J. Carter
By Rhonda Y. Maree
AUGUSTA FOCUS Staff Writer
AUGUSTA
Just minutes before being sworn
in Dec. 27 in a Municipal Building
superior courtroom by Judge John
H. Ruffin Jr., newly elected Geor
gia state Rep. Ben Allen discussed
his agenda for the upcoming Gen
eral Assembly.
Topping his list of priorities are
the environmental problems
plaguing the Hyde Park and Vir
ginia Subdivision areas.
“I want to make sure that we get
the attention of the governor and
really encourage the governor to
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talk in terms of relocating those
persons,” Mr. Allen said of the
residents who have long com
plained of deaths and healt h prob
lems believed 1 ' be linked to con
taminants in their soil and water.
Lawmakers have been divided
on the toxicity of the pollutants
and on whether the government
should be responsible for the cost
of relocating residents.
“I favor relocation because
there’s no way that you can talk
about giving them the health
screening and health care they
need if they’re going to live in the
same locale, and we know this
motes development ofyoung men
through instruction in social
skills, self respect, pride in per
sonal appearance and respectfor
the community.
The goal of the program is to
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locale is contaminated,” Mr. Allen
said.
He said he’d like to address en
vironmental issues statewide.
“Not only do we have this prob
lem with the Hyde Park/Virginia
Subdivision area, we also have
problems with landfills through
out the state. I think we need to
look at areas around landfills in
the state and make some deci
sions about how best to deal with
potential problems that may come
up,” he said.
Another local issue Mr. Allen
intends to address is the contro
versy surrounding the Coliseum
Authority, which oversees the
operations of the Augusta-Rich
mond County Civic Center Com
plex.
Some lawmakers have suggest
ed abolishing the much criticized
authority.
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“Myunderstandingisthatthere
are no rules or regulations gov
erning the Coliseum Authority.
My position is that rules and reg
ulations ought to be implemented
and we let it stay as it is. I’m not
in favor of just because you dis
agree with the direction of an au
thority, that you abolish it. That
doesn’t solve the problems,” Mr.
Allen said.
If the Authority stays intact,
some recommend that it not be
answerable to the local legislative
begin the grooming process for
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delegation, which partly funds the
authority.
“If we give them money to oper
ate, then they should have some
allegiance to us,” Mr. Allen said.
Al though he won’t have the ben
efit of an orientation usually af
forded new legislators, Mr. Allen,
an Augusta lawyer, said his first
General Assembly will largely be
a learning process during which
he becomes acquainted with cer
tain procedures.
“Because we had a special elec
tion, I didn’t have the pre-legisla
tive session where all the fresh
men legislators are brought in and
given information about whatgoes
on,” Mr. Allen said. “That won’t
take place in my situation. Hope
fully I’ll be a quick learner and get
in and do what needs to be done.
“I’m not overly concerned about
not being oriented. This is some
thing I’ve always wanted to do.
I’m familiar with some of the state
laws because I practice law, so
that’s not really going to be that
much of a problem for me,” he
said.
“Mr. Allen defeated former Au
gusta City Councilman Melvin
Ford Dec. 5 to fill the unexpired
term of George Brown who re
signed without explanation.
Mr. Allen will be up for re-elec
tion for the District 117 seat in
Nov. 1996.
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one of her neighbors later told
him. He met her more than 10
years ago when she walked in
the Mini Theatre and volun
teered her time and talent. Ms.
McQueen did a series of work
shops for the theater students
and performed a one-woman
show of poems and music.
"The kids loved her. She talked
to them about theater and the
time of Gone With the Wind. It
was like a history lesson for all of
us,” Mr. Butler said.
Although she mostly kept to
herself and loved small, quiet
places — she lived in a one-bed
room cottage in the rear of her
house that she rented out, and
she never married or had chil
dren — those who knew Ms.
McQueen have only fond memo
ries.
A common one is of the elderly
woman riding her adult-sized
tricycle around the neighbor
hood, often returning with pack-
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Ms. McQueen rarely posed
for photographs when she
was not performing, but
she is caught here by
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pher Jimmy Carter while
she attended the CSRA
Fashion Show on Oct. 15,
1995. It may be the last
photo taken of the per
former.
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ages in the basket from the near
by Deans Bridge Road Kroger.
Ernestine Ivey recalled how
she and other neighbors were
tickled when Ms. McQueen would
walk through the neighborhood
in one of her ballet costumes.
“We’d peep at her from the
window. We just thought it was
funny,” Mrs. Ivey said.
Perhaps the costume was the
one in which she earned her nick
name Butterfly early in her ca
reer dancing the Butterfly Ballet
in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer
Night’s Dream.
Although some actors come and
go fleetingly, Ms. McQueen, af
fectionately known as “Madam
Butterfly,” has a permanent place
in the hearts and minds of many.
“Everybody knows and loves
Butterfly McQueen,” Mr. Butler
said. “Once you live beyond the
people in your generation, we
have a tendency to be forgotten.
But Butterfly always popped up,
and she’ll always be remem
bered.”
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