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Black Papers To Endorse Lester Maddox?
LESTER MADDOX
By Howell Raines
from the Atlanta Constitution
Lt. Gov. Lester Maddox, the
only gubernatorial candidate
who has a systematic
advertising campaign in the
state’s Black newspapers, may
wind up winning the editorial
endorsement of some of those
papers, according to officials of
the newly formed Georgia
Mclntyre
Proposal To
Help Inmates,
Augusta
Richmond County
Commissioner Edward M.
Mclntyre visualizes making
Augusta the real Garden City
of the South through a
horticulture class beginning
August 1 at the Richmond
County Correctional Insitute
(RCCI).
We have been calling
Augusta the Garden City of the
South, yet I have seen very few
gardens. It is about time we
start addressing ourselves to
this, we are not the Garden
City of the South,” Mclntyre
said.
Mclntyre said the
horticulture program is the
result of six months planning
between county and vocational
school authorities. Fifteen
inmates from RCCI will be
involved in the program. “This
will be our move toward being
the Garden City of the South
and give the inmates a
marketable skill in an
extremely critical area of
labor,” he said.
Roger Crenshaw,
horticulturist at the Medical
State HRC
Meets
The Statewide Association
of Human Relations Councils
held its first Annual Training
Conference in Atlanta at the
American Motor Hotel July
24-26. The Conference theme
was “Understanding Through
Communication.”
Maynard H. Jackson, mayor
of Atlanta welcomed the
conference participants who
represented Georgia, South
Carolina, Texas, Tennessee and
North Carolina.
On Friday Gov. Jimmy
Carter will address the group at
a noon luncheon and
Congressman Andrew J. Young
will be the keynote speaker at
the banquet at 7:30 p.m.
Black Press Association.
The association’s treasurer,
W.L. Russell of Macon, editor
of two of the state’s largest
Black newspapers, said
Tuesday that it is “a likely
possibility” that his papers will
endorse Maddox.
Russell also said D.L. Inman,
president and chief organizer
of the Black Press Association,
has had “many, many
favorable things” to say about
Democratic candidate Maddox,
who earlier this year assured
newsmen that “I am still a
segregationist.”
Another member of the
association, who asked not to
be identified, said Inman,
editor of the Thomasville
News, has been “very vocal” in
Maddox’s behalf at association
meetings in Macon on July 6
and July 20. In the July 6
meeting, Inman argued that
Maddox’s inclusion of the
state’s 12 Black papers on the
same advertising rotation with
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EDWARD M. McINTYRE
College of Georgia will be
teaching the course. His salary
will be paid by the Augusta
Area Technical School.
Mclntyre does not envision
this program being a burden on
the taxpayers. He feels that the
initial cost will be around
SIO,OOO. He noted that within
several years after the
greenhouse and nursery are on
a stable footing the program
could become self supporting
through the sale of plants, to
local wholesalers.
Warden Millard G. Gooding
said the men selected for the
program will be minimum
Huggins, Tappan
-The Heat Goes On
City Councilmen Aaron
Tappan and Thomas Huggins
were in another scrape during
the regular city council
meeting Monday. The debate
centered around the purchase,
by the city, of a home that is
owned by Tappan.
Huggins last week called for
an investigation of Tappan’s
leasing a bulldozer to one of
P.O. Box 953
white papers was an
“illustration of good faith,”
the editor said.
Maddox was one of only
three gubernatorial candidates
who accepted invitations to
meet with the association last
Saturday (July 20) in Macon.
The others were State Senator
Bobby Rowan and former Lt.
Governor George T. Smith,
both Democrats.
Association president Inman
had written all candidates
under the Georgia Black Press
Association letterhead inviting
them to attend the meeting “to
discuss the issues and
advertisement.”
Although “some of the
publishers there did
acknowledge that they were
supporting Maddox,” said
Augusta News Review
publisher Mallory Millender,
the association did not act on
an earlier plan to consider a
“group endorsement,”
apparently because of
security inmates with enough
time left to complete the
course.
“The program will provide
realistic rehabilitation and train
the inmates in a field where
there is a demand for skilled
people. It is something the
citizenry can be proud of,” the
warden said.
The program has been
approved by the Richmond
County Commissioners and
Auguita Mayor Lewis A.
Newman, although no public
funds have been allocated to
the program as of yet,
according to Mclntyre.
his former employes to do
work for the city.
Huggins questioned the
relevancy of the City of
Augusta purchasing property
that has nothing in it. And the
fact that the home should
never have been built over a
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resistence of some papers to
align themselves with Maddox.
“There was not a
consensus,” said Millender, “so
we decided to make individual
endorsements or not to make
endorsements.”
Another issue has been the
matter of appearing to link ads
to endorsements. The Atlanta
Voice, which has maintained
contact with the association
but has not sent representatives
to the meetings, warned this
week in a news story to
“Watch Out for Maddox
Money.” The story quoted a
“reliable source” as saying
overtures had been made to
Inman and other Black
newspapermen in an effort to
“buy endorsements” for
Maddox.
Floyd Adams Jr., the
association secretary whose
family operates the Savannah
Herald Weekly, skipped the
Saturday meeting, reportedly
out of concern over its political
Black Woman
Accuses Policeman
Os 'Verbal Abuse’
An irate Augusta woman com
plained this week of “verbal
abuse” by a local policeman.
The woman, Mrs. Katy
Gallop of 701 Wallace St., told
the News-Review she was
about to drive out of a parking
space in front of the Citizens
and Southern Bank on Broad
St. last Tuesday when officer
L.S. Vincent ran up to put a
ticket on her car.
Mrs. Gallop said she
questioned the officer for
giving her a parking ticket
when she was in her car, but
the officer put the ticket on
the car and walked off.
As she drove away, she said
the officer jerked her car door
open so hard the door hit
another truck. Then he
Barreras Denies
' Renege ’ Charge
Charles A. Barreras,
executive director of the CSRA
Economics Opportunity
Authority this week denied
reports that he accused the
County Commission of
reneging on an alleged
SIOB,OOO commitment to help
the elderly and the poor.
Barreras was referring to an
article in the July 18th issue of
the NEWS-REVIEW, by
Robert Oliver, and called for a
retraction.
“I never made any such
statement to Mr. Oliver,”
Barreras said.
He said he told Oliver he had
faith in the County
Commission to live up to its
committemnet for SIOB,OOO
“if and when federal funds
were no longer forthcoming” as
in their original committment.
“At no time did I say that the
Man Charged With
Rape Os 2 15-Year-Olds
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implications.
Association treasurer
Russell, whose Albany Times
and Macon Times papers have a
combined circulation of
46,000, said members “are not
going to deliver our souls or
our endorsements on the basis
of ads.”
However, Russell
acknowledged that Maddox’s
even-handed ad policy has had
an impact since “other
candidates have not acted at all
along these lines.” Other
members agreed that this has
been frequently pointed out in
both meetings by Inman,
Russell and at least one other
pro-Maddox publisher.
“Maddox has been the only
candidate to come to the Black
press and say I want your help
and here is some advertising "
said Adams. But Adams added
that he was put off by
Maddox’s bad image from
before and I don’t think I can
come around and endorse him
shouted “Get out of this damn
car.”
Mrs. Gallop said after the
officer “got himself together”
she closed the door and
proceeded to cross Broad St.
At the corner of Sth and
Greene, Vincent repeated the
order, again using profanity,
Mrs. Gallop said.
The car door was again
jerked open so hard “that if I
wasn’t holding the wheel, I
would have fallen out.
“I didn’t say anything. He
said, ‘get out of this damn car,’
” Mrs. Gallop said she just sat
there not knowing what to do.
Two more officers came and
she was charged with
disorderly conduct.
Vincent did not show up for
court on Tuesday.
County Commission reneged
because they haven’t, nor do I
feel they have.”
Noting that the local OEO
received no funds from the
City, Barreras said he did tell
Oliver, “I feel both City and
County should be using some
Revenue Sharing funds for
programs for the poor and the
aged as allowed for in
legislation. This due, he said,
mainly to the fact that such
need exists and these monies
come to the city and County
based partly on the number of
poor in each jurisdiction.
Barreras submitted his
resignation earlier this month.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Since
Oliver insists that the original
story was correct as written, it
is difficult to know the truth.
If we are in error, we regret the
error.
Augusta, Georgia
for that reason.”
“Certainly, this (Maddox’s
ads) was mentioned by all the
members there,” said Eugene
Rutland of the Cordele
Southeastern News and vice
president of the press
association. He described
Maddox as “the only candidate
who has placed ads in the
Black media” on a consistent
basis.
“If they voted today, in my
section”, Rutland said, “he
would get 25 to 30 per cent of
the Black vote.”
Maddox advocates in the
meetings have been pushing the
notion that Maddox has been
fair to Blacks, despite his
rhetoric.
Russell, who of the seven
newspaper representatives
contacted speaks most t
favorably of Maddox, follows
this line.
“We’re having really to look
at people and candidates on
the basis of their past records
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SPOKANE-Sadness is reflected in the faces of visitors to the Expo ‘74 World’s
Fair who attended memorial services for Mrs. Martin Luther King Sr. in the
Afro-American Pavilion. Mrs. King’s son is prominently featured in an exhibit of
famous Black Americans in the pavilion, the first major exhibit of its type at any
world’s fair. More than five hundred persons attended the service.
World’s Fair Services
SPOKANE- More than 500
persons paid tribute to the late
Mrs. Martin Luther King Sr. in
memorial services held in the
Afro-American Pavilion at the
Expo ‘74 World’s Fair.
Pavilion Director Frank A.
Russell, president of the
Pan-African Foundation of
Tacoma, Wash., Expo ‘74
President King F. Cole, General
Manager Peter L. Spumey and
U.S. Commissioner General
Claude Bekins. were among the
dignitaries who attended the
ceremonies.
“It is only fitting that a
memorial be held here,”
rather than what they’re doing
or saying,” said Russell.
He listed Democratic
candidates David Gambrell,
Bert Lance and Harry Jackson
as candidates who are “saying
one thing and will perhaps act
another way."
Russell said the association
will have another meeting
Saturday in Macon and invite
the candidates who did not
attend. “This would have to be
the last chance” for them to
appeal for the papers’ support,
he said.
According to Adams, eight
of the state’s 12 Black papers
have been active in the
association. The Atlanta papers
have generally steered clear of
it, with the conservative
Atlanta Daily World declining
altogether *o participate
Maddox’s advertising
agency, Locherer and
Associates of Atlanta, confirms
that the lieutenant governor
has used • system designed to
Memorialize Mrs. King
Russell said. “This is the first
World’s Fair that has made
significant note of the
contributions of Black people
in the United States.
“We note Mrs. King’s
contributions, not only
because of her famous son, but
also because she was an
outstanding leader of the Black
community in her own right.”
Russell began the service
with a eulogy to Mrs. King. A
selection of Mrs. King's
favorite hymns from a record
album by Mahalia Jackson
followed. Wanda Dumas, a
pavilion guide from Spokane,
July 25. 1974 No. 18
spread his campaign’s
newspaper ad budget equally
among the state's 215 weeklies
and 18 dailies, with no
distinction made between
Black-owned and white-owned
papers.
“I’ll tell you what the
governor told us to do,“ said
the agency’s Virginia Locherer.
“He told us to send ads to
every paper in Georgia and
that’s what we’ve done.
She said the agency uses a
“rotation” system , to see that
all papers are serviced in turn.
She said that as of last week,
most papers in the state had
received at least three Maddox
ads.
Most member papers of the
Black Press Association report
receiving two or three ads from
Maddox. Other candidates have
advertised with them on a spot
basis, but most report that
they have carried more ads for
Maddox than for any of his
opponents.
then sang “The Broken
Vessel,” another favorite of
hers.
The stirring “I Have A
Dream” speech of her son was
also played at the service and
throughout the day.
Visitors to the pavilion
during the day of the service
signed a special guest book.
People from all parts of the
country and a number of
foreign nations who were
visiting Expo signed, according
to Russell. The book will be
sent to the King family in
Atlanta, Georgia.
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