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governor and lieutenant govern
or gathered Thursday to trade
blows — including a call for
Gov. Lester Maddox to “quit us
ing state property for campaign
purposes.”
Rep. Charles Jones of Hines
ville, who is opposing Maddox
for the nomination for lieute
nant governor, accused the gov
ernor at a Kiwanis Club meet
ing here of using state air
planes and cars in his cam
paign.
Maddox acknowledged he flew
in a state plane and rode in a
State Patrol car to Demorest
last Saturday to make a speech
but said his talk was not poli
tical, because no other candi
dates had been invited to ap
pear.
“I call upon Governor Mad
dox to quit using state property
for campaign purposes or get
out of the race,” said Jones,
who told Maddox he was invited
to Demorest and spoke at the
same meeting. “He is making
a mockery of ‘honesty and mo
rality’ he claims to have
brought to state government by
politicking at taxpayers’ ex
pense."
Maddox responded to charges
by Jones that nothing had been
done under his administration
by listing what he said were its
major accomplishments, includ
ing gains in education, mental
health and prison reform.
“I’ll still be your watchdog,”
Maddox told the Kiwanians,
“whether I am in public office
or out of public office.”
D. F. Glover, a Negro and
former school principle in Zebu
lon who is also seeking the
Democratic nomination for lieu
tenant governor, said school in
tegration forced by the U. S.
Department of Health, Educa
tion and Welfare, which has re
sulted in the closing of many
Negro schools, “is the biggest
play of hypocrisy in the history
of this country.”
He said the next lieutenant
governor should be “a man who
is able to deal with the public
school crisis and racial unrest.”
Glover said he is “not con
cerned about bringing people to
gether” unless it is by choice
but the “main issue is justice
and fairness to all.”
Albany attorney C.B. King, a
Negro who is running for gov
ernor, said he wants to become
governor of Georgia, “and by
implication, governor of all the
peopleof Georgia.” Historically,
he said, government in Geor
gia has “failed or refused to
speak relevantly to the majori
ty of its citizens...to the needs
of the blacks and the poor.”
J. B. Stoner, a Savannah at
torney who calls himself “the
white man’s candidate for gov
ernor,” said King “is not likely
to get too many black votes,
because they are owned by the
bankers, the Chamber of Com
merce and the Jews” who will
deliver them to the candidate
of their choice.
Stoner, wearing a Confederate
flag in his jacket pocket, also
charged Democratic guberna
torial candidate Jimmy Carter,
who was not present at the
meeting, with “dragging a dead
herring” across the campaign
trail by charging former Gov.
Carl Sanders with getting rich
in office.
He said he would like Carter,
who was a state senator for
four years, “to tell us how much
he was worth before he went
in office and how much he was
worth after he left office.”
Carter has previously revealed
a financial statement which he
said shows his current worth.
Rep. McKee Hargrett of Jes
up, another candidate for gov
ernor, also blasted Sanders and
Carter. He said Carter “is more
liberal than Sanders, if possi
ble, but is talking on both sides
of the street.”
U.S. Begins
Final Push
On Schools
WASHINGTON (UPI) -With
school opening in seven weeks,
the Nixon administration has
begun its final push to “clean
up” 121 hard-core Southern
districts that have resisted
desegregation since the original
1954 Supreme Court decree.
As it had theatened, the
Justice Departme* filed suit
Thursday against tne state of
Mississippi to desegregate 19 of
its 148 school districts. Two of
the holdouts were expected to
have acceptable plans by the
weekend.
So-called multidistrict suits—
lumping several school districts
within a state—were filed
against a total of 27 districts in
Arkansas, Florida, and South
Carolina.
Nearly 200,000 students were
involved in Thursday’s actions
—95,137 of them black, 81,296 of
whom attended segregated
schools last year.
Assistant Attorney General
Jerris Leonard, chief of the
Civil Rights Division, promised
more suits, possibly today or
this week or next.
“Our action today,” Attorney
General John N. Mitchell said
Thursday, “is to clean up the
remnants—those few districts
which could not or would not
come into compliance.”
Georgia News
Kendrick Off Probe
ATLANTA (UPI) - Pardons
and Parole Board Chairman J.
0. Partian says State Probation
Director Ed Kendrick was re
moved from the investigation of
alleged irregularities in the
Floyd County Probation Office
after he was quoted as saying
in public the chief probation of
ficer had been “framed.”
Kendrick was also quoted as
saying Floyd County Chief Pro
bation Officer Jimmy Stewart
was innocent and would be
cleared by the investigation,
which is being conducted pri
marily by the Georgia Bureau
of Investigation.
The probe began after Stew
nrt’« name was linked with
Half Rate Increase
ATLANTA (UPI) - The Gen
eral Telephone Company says
the State Public Service Com
mission made a mistake in
granting the company only half
of a requested rate increase and
then denying its immediate im
plentation.
Any increases at all, the com
pany noted, were forbidden until
it improves certain services.
“The commission erred in al
lowing an increase in revenues
Restrictions Upheld
MACON, Ga. (UPI) - The
Black Youth Club of Sanders
ville, an affiliate of the South
ern Christian Leadership Confe
rence, has lost a legal battle
against restrictions imposed on
racial protest activities.
U. S. Dist. Judge W. A. Bootle
Thursday lifted a temporary in
junction which had prohibited
enforcement of an 11 p.m. cur
few in the east Central Georgia
city which was the scene of
racial conflict last fall.
Bootle also upheld a local
court order which barred dem
onstration marches while court
was in session, upheld the pros
ecution of pickets under the
state criminal trespass law and
To Build Dormitory
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DENMARK, S. C. (UPI) -
A. J. Kellos Construction Co. of
Augusta, Ga., is to begin con
struction July 15 of a $227,729
men’s dormitory at the Den
mark Regional Technical Cen-
Ask More Black Judges
ATLANTA (UPI) - The
Southern Christian Leadership
conference has called on Presi
dent Nixon to appoint Negro
lawyers to federal judgeships in
Georgia and “to do all in his
power” to boost the number of
Negro attorneys in the nation.
SCLC President Ralph David
Abernathy and Fred C. Ben
nette Jr., Atlanta director of the
organization’s Operation Bread
basket, made the requests in
letters to the President, Attor
ney General John Mitchell, pres
idential aide Harry Dent and
U. S. Sens. Richard Russell and
Herman Talmadge of Georgia.
Zoning Ruling Sought
ATLANTA (UPI)-U.S. Dist.
Court Judge Frank A. Hooper
has been asked by an appeals
court to determine what effect
strict neighborhood zoning
would have on the racial make
up of city schools.
The question was one of sev
eral asked of Hooper by the
Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Ap
peals Thursday in returning the
desegregation plan which Hoop
er had previously approved.
The three judges neither ap
proved nor disapproved the plan
which called generally for a
“neighborhood” school system
with children in most cases at
tending the school nearest their
homes.
But the judges told Hooper to
determine by Aug. 17 how the
Atlanta system would be affect
ed if zone lines were drawn
equidistant between the schools
and then adjusted for school ca
pacities.
They also instructed him to
order that no new school con
struction be started until it is
clear that such construction
“does not tend to establish a
biracial school system.”
The appeals court said Hoop
er should determine the num-
known prostitutes and procurers
during a trial in Fulton County
Criminal Court. A former prosti
tute testified during the trial
that one of the defendants,
Hugh Don Smith of Rome, in
structed her to have sexual rela
tions with Stewart, who was his
probation officer.
Stewart later denied the
charge. He said he was being
framed and himself called for
an investigation.
“I think Stewart was framed,”
Kendrick has been quoted as
saying. “There is nothing to the
charge. He’s an innocent person.
I am certain he will be cleared
by the GBI investigation.”
which it said the company need
ed to improve telephone service
and at the same time denying
the increase until the telephone
service had been improved,” a
company spokesman said.
E. H. Jared, general manager
of General Telephone’s Georgia
operations, said “with few ex
ceptions the company is now
meeting or exceeding the ser
vice standards contained in the
commission’s order. ”
enjoined pickets from intimi
dating others in the boycott.
The pickets were arrested for
allegedly trespassing on the
property of the George D. War
then Bank.
In the injunction against the
pickets, Bootle forbade the use
of anything other than signs to
carry out an economic boycott.
It had been charged that the
pickets used cameras to intimi
date prospective shoppers at the
stores.
Defendants in the case includ
ed Mayor Joe Slade, Dist. Atty.
Reginald Thompson, city Judge
Irwin Evans and members of
the city council.
The contract for the two-story
air conditioned building, which
is expected to be completed
within six months, was awarded
to the Augusta firm Thursday.
The SCLC leaders urged Nix
on to appoint one or more
Negro lawyers immediately to
four newly - created federal
judgeships in Georgia. They
said there were no Negroes
from Georgia represented in the
federal judiciary and that
“many black lawyers are highly
qualified for federal judgeships.
“Less than two per cent of all
lawyers” in the nation are Ne
gro, they added, and urged
Nixon “to do all in his power
to help bring about a five to
tenfold increase in the number
of black lawyers.”
ber of students who could be
expected to attend an integrated
school for one or more school
years during the 12 - year
course of education under the
plan he had approved.
And it called on Hooper to ap
point a 10 - member biracial
committee — half black and
half white — to advise the court
on operating and maintaining a
unitary school system.
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Richmond Riot Suit
AUGUSTA, Ga. (UPI) - Mrs.
Cornelia Oatman, the mother of
the 16-year-old Negro boy whose
death triggered riots here in
May, has filed a $4 million suit
against Richmond Coun
ty Sheriff E.R. Atkins and
other officials.
The beating death of Charles
Oatman by two other Negro in
mates in the county jail set off
demonstrations which even
tually led to the riots in which
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Man, Woman Robbed
ATLANTA (UPI) - Two “po
lite” masked and gaudily - at
tired bandits robbed an Atlanta
businessman and his wife Thurs
day of more than $28,000 in jew
elry and money and left the
couple bound with adhesive
tape.
Mr. and Mrs. Mark L. Tram
mell said the pair surprised
them as they arrived home with
one pointing a pistol at them as
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Mrs. Oatman claimed in her
suit that “the infliction of beat
ings and corporal punishment
upon others, mostly blacks, is
common and is carried on with
the knowledge and approval of
Sheriff Atkins and Jailer
(James) Powell.”
In addition to Atkins and
Powell, the suit named as de
fendants Augusta Municipal
Judge Al Cooper and two un
named Negro youths.
they entered.
The two men, one wearing
yellow slacks and the other or
ange trousers, made off with an
estimated $27,890 in jewels and
$l5O from Trammell’s wallet
plus the couple’s station wagon
which was later found aband
oned.
The Trammells said the two
men were “exceptionally polite”
and placed a pillow beneath
Mrs. Trammell’s head after tap
ing tile couple’s wrists behind
them. They also loosened the
tape for her and elected not to
gag the couple when they said
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Lindler Jr.
Elected
MACON, Ga. (UPI) - The
Georgia Regional Directors As
sociation has elected Tom Lind
er Jr. as its new chairman and
Glenn Bennett vice chairman.
Linder is executive director of
the Middle Georgia Area Plan
ning Commission. A native of
Hawkinsville, he has been with
the commission since April,
1969. He was associated with the
Georgia Department of Industry
and Trade prior to that.
The new chairman is a gradu
ate of the University of Georgia
and holds a Juris Doctorate de
gree from Samford Universify
in Birmingham, Ala.
Bennett is executive director
of the Atlanta Regional Metro
Planning Commission.
The association, which in
cludes the executive directors of
the 19 area planning and de
velopment commissions in Geor
gia and works closely with the
Georgia Bureau of State Plan
ning and Community Affairs,
hqld elections at its meeting
here Thursday.