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Georgia elections
Albany, Athens mayors reelected
By United Press International
The mayors of Albany and
Athens were returned to office
Tuesday in Georgia’s municipal
elections, but a runoff will be
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needed to determine the winner
in the District 114 state House
race.
Albany attorney Charles
Hatcher emerged with 43.1 per
cent of the vote in the House
race while Albany realtor
Marvin Banister had 35.3 per
cent and black businessman
Hank Young of Albany had 21.5
per cent.
The unofficial returns gave
Hatcher 4,679 votes; Banister,
3,835; Young, 2,185; and the
Rev. Clennon King, a black Min
ister, 145 votes.
The legislative post was va
cated by former Rep. Billy Lee
of Albany who has become dis
trict attorney of the Dougherty
County judicial circuit. The leg
islative district encompasses
Doughery County and parts of
Baker, Lee and Calhoun coun
ties.
Young’s votes came from pre
dominantly black areas in Al
bany,andelection observers say
Hatcher and Banister will have
to appeal Young’s supporters to
get elected.
In the Albany city elections,
James Gray, publisher of the
Albany Herald and a former
Democratic gubernatorial
condidate and state party
chairman, easily won re
election over two write-in
candidates.
Gray polled 5,986 votes to 407
for Herb Greenholtz and 53 for
John Mouw. Mayor pro - tern
Proctor Johnson was re-elected
over Richard Garner 4,265 to
3,207. Garner was an indepen
dent who qualified by petition.
T. W. McCorkle and Joe Whit
tington won city commissioner
seats without opposition.
Reelected to his sixth term as
mayor of Athens was Julius
Bishop, who ran unopposed, but
three University of Georgia stu
dents seeking city council seats
were defeated.
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A trawler slips under the drawbridge in the Sidney Lanier
Bridge at Brunswick a year after the African Neptune
plowed into one of its spans, sending trucks, cars and
Bridge wreck year ago
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— Griffin Daily News Wednesday, November 7,1973
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (UPI) -On
Nov. 7, 1972, the freighter Afri
can Neptune crashed into the
Sidney Lanier drawlridge in the
Turtle River, sending cars and
trucks tumbling into the chilly
water 40 feet below.
Ten persons were killed, and
U.S. 17, the city’s main north
south artery, was severed. And
the tragedy of death quickly
turned into an economic disas
ter, from which this resort
community is still recovering.
Travelers who used U. S. 17
as their Massachusetts-to-
Miami route bypassed Brun
swick because of the slow and
crowded detour. Motels,
restaurants and gas stations
saw the traffic load of 18,000
cars a day dwindle to 6,000 a
day.
Today the bridge is back in
operation, but half a dozen gas
stations and a restaurant are
gone, and motels are struggling
to break even.
Emory Phillips, who owns two
large motels on state - owned
Jekyll Island, said his business
dr oppedßo percent from Novem
ber until May when the bridge
was reopened. He said he took
a personal loss of $380,000.
“It was like that for all of us,”
Phillips said. “We all had to cut
back. The big ones just barely
made it through, the little ones
Talmadge says
resignation
up to Nixon
WASHINGTON (UPI)-Sen.
Herman Talmadge, D-Ga., said
Tuesday that though President
Nixon’s credibility has been se
riously affected only the Presi
dent can make a decision on
whether to resign.
Talmadge, a member of the
Senate Watergate committee,
said the President’s “popularity
in the country has been severely
eroded in recent months.
“But the President, and only
the President, can determine
whether or not he wants to re-
debris into the icy water. Ten persons were killed and the
closing of the span left numerous economic scars. (UPI)
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had to close.
“I rode it out, but I’ve got a
lot of making up to do.”
But the merchants of Bruns
wick, Jekyll Island and St.
Simons Island eventually would
have lost much of the tourism
trade anyway.
Interstate 95, a new, four-lane
highway further inland, is fin
ished in many places and even
tually will provide a through
north-south route completely
bypassing this area.
Jim Hall of the chamber of
commerce said, “The bridge
collapse brought about the same
thing 1-95 was going to do. It
just brought it about sooner.”
The community suffered other
ill effects, besides the loss of
tourism. Industry was on one
side of the crippled bridge;
many residential developments
were on the other. Jekyll Island,
with its resorts and second
homes, was separated from
stores, hospitals and other serv
ices.
“I counted on one and a half
to two hours to get through—
that’s normally a nine mile
trip,” said Jean Alexander, who
lives on St. Simons Island.
But most of the residents in
convenienced by the loss of the
bridge did not move, and the
number of businesses closing
was relatively small.
sign and that’s his decision and
his alone,” he said.
In an interview for Georgia
radio stations, Talmadge said
disclosure by the White House
that two key tapes ordered turn
ed over to federal Judge John
Sirica were missing “very se
riously affected” Nixon’s credi
bility.
Two senators, Edward W.
Brooke, R-Mass., and Daniel K.
Inouye, D-Hawaii, already have
called for Nixon’s resignation.
Inouye is also a member of the
Watergate committee.