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Ruffin, Mays, Dent Rate Candidates For Governor
EDITOR’S NOTE
The News-Review asked leaders supporting each of the major
candidates for governor to explain for the benefit of our readers
why they are backing the respective candidates.
We were unable to find a spokesman to support openly Lester
Maddox, Bert Lance, or George T. Smith.
This year’s gubernatorial
campaign finds an abundance
of candidates, but only an
examination of their respective
records will show which of the
candidates Blacks should
support. It is indeed
disheartening to find that there
are some Blacks who are
Mpporttag Later MmMox. It to
EX
heartening to know that the
News Review is not. The old
adage “Politics makes strange
bedfellows” is ringing true to
form.
The Stock vote across the
State is fragmented in that it is
divided among David Gambrell,
George Busbee, Lester
Maddox, Bert Lance and
perhaps George T. Smith.
Harry Jackson of Columbus
Hunter Captured In lowa
DES MOINES, lowa
-Convicted rapist Lendell
Hunter, who made the FBl’s
most wanted fugitives list at
age 21, was returned to the
Story County jail in Nevada,
lowa, last Thursday after a
federal judge denied the
Augusta, Ga., native bond.
Hunter, captured by federal
agents in Des Moines late last
Wednesday, appeared calm
during the 11-minute hearing
at which U.S. District Attorney
Allen Donielson unraveled the
fugitive’s lengthy criminal
record in Georgia. Hunter only
nodded in response to
questions from U.S. District
Judge William C. Stuart.
Accompanied by a
contingent of federal agents,
Hunter stood before the bench
throughout the hearing as
Donielson informed the court
of the past record which
included three consecutive life
sentences plus 95 years for
rape, burglary, aggravated
assault, kidnap and criminal
assault In addition, a murder
charge has been filed against
Hunter in Augusta. Stuart
informed Hunter of his rights
and then set another hearing
for 11 a.m. the next day to
further determine the fugitive’s
fate. Donielson said it could
take “possible a week” before
Hunter is returned to Georgia.
“We will file for extradition
once we establish probable
cause that a crime has been
committed and that he
committed it,” Donielson said
following the hearing.
“Obviously, that won’t be very
difficult.”
He said the two FBI
specialists had matched
Hunter's fingerprints with the
may even get a few. My
support goes to David
Gambrell because of the
following:
(1) Gambrell supported tax
relief for low income people
while he was in the United
States Senate in the 92nd
Congress. Out of the many
problems which confront
Georgians, taxes occupy a
priority and there has to be
realistic reappraisal of the tax
structure.
(2) Gambrell supported
the increase of the minimum
wage. Again, this is indicative
of Gambrell’s concern for the
poor and working class.
(3) Gambrell supported
■nemployment benefits in that
Ire voted for the Emergency
ttoremployment Compensation
Act of 1971, and its extension
of 1972. It gc?s without saying
that the unemployment rate
for Blacks is more than double
that for whites in Georgia.
(4) Gambrell has supported
legislation which provides jobs
for Georgians. For instance, he
supported the Emergency
Employment Act of 1971
which authorized public service
jobs in times of critical
unemployment. Additionally,
Gambrell supported the
Rehabilitation Act of 1972 to
asist states in providing
rehabilitation services. ’ Again,
murder of a 78-year-old
Augusta grandmother, Irene
Elliott DeQuasie, on Feb. 14,
1973. One of the two federal
warrants for Hunter’s arrest was
filed in connection with the
murder; the other was for “un -
lawfully fleeing the State
of Georgia to avoid
confinement.”
Donielson said the bond was
set at SIOO,OOO on each of the
two federal warrants, but
recommended that Stuart
disallow any bond.
He told the court “the
defendant is presently under
sentence of three consecutive
life terms and 95 years, in
addition to that, I
recommended that there be no
bond because he gave no
assurance he would appear.”
Stuart followed the
recommendation until Hunter
“has a chance to visit with his
counsel” and continued the
hearing for the next day.
Donielson said Hunter, who
has been using an alias of Harry
Fontaine Baker, has been
considered as a fugitive since
Feb. 21, 1973 -a week after
the murder of the DeQuasie
woman. The attorney said
Hunter had been in Des Moines
for “some time” and had been
living at the YMCA located
about two blocks from the
federal courthouse.
The FBI flyer on Hunter,
dressed in a brown knit shirt
and dark brown slacks, said he
was armed with a sawed-off
shotgun, ,38-caliber pistol and
knife. The poster said he was
to be considered “extremely
dangerous.”
Hunter was born in Augusta
June 20,1953, stands 5-feet-10
P.O. Box 953
this is a benefit to Georgia’s
working class, including Blacks.
(5) Gambrell supported
Social Security legislation that
provided for increased Social
Security benefits.
(6) Gambrell supported
equal employment
opportunities legislation. Hit
vote in the Senate on the
legislation caused some to refer
to him as a “liberal”, and thto
is probably one of the votes
which cost him his re-elerti—
bid. Again, this legislation wss
primarily designed to benefit
Blacks and other minorities ■
the enforcement of the Civil
Rights Act of 1964.
(7) Gambrell supported
voting rights when he
supported legislation that is
designed to permit people to
register by postal cards. This to
a recognition on Gambrell’s
part that the election process
should be made easier, not
more difficult.
(8) Gambrell supported
anti-poverty legislation when
he voted for the extension of
the OEO program and he
supported improved legal
services to the poor.
(9) Gambrell supported
consumer legislation which
provides for no-fault
automobile insurance;
automobile repair cost
legislation which was
designed d to reduce the cost
of automobile repairs; meat
inspection and pollution
control.
(10) Gambrell supported
limiting federal spending to
curb inflation.
There isn’t another
and weighs 160 pounds. He has
worked as a brick mason,
construction laborer, plasterer
and stock clerk, possessing an
“above average” IQ of 114
despite supposedly having
trouble reading, the FBI noted.
When Hunter escaped from
the Georgia Department of
Corrections facility at Alto,
several Augusta leaders
questioned why he had been
sent there and not Reidsville,
the maximum security prison
for long-term offenders in rural
Lt. Gen. James Named
Airlift Vice Commander
Secretary of Defense James
R. Schlesinger today
announced the selection of Air
Force Lieutenant General
Daniel James Jr., to become
Vice Commander of the
Military Airlift Command
(MAC) with headquarters at
Scott Air Force Base, 11. on
September 1,1974.
General James, 54 became
Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Defense (Public Affairs) on
March 31, 1970 and was
designated Principal Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Defense
(Public Affairs) on April 20,
1973.
A native of Pensacola,
Florida, General James was
commissioned in 1943. He flew
101 combat missions as a
fighter pilot during the Korean
War and 78 additional combat
missions during the Vietnam
conflict while serving as
candidate running for governor.
that can match Gambrell’s
record - not what he says he
will do, but what he has done.
Blacks will do well to vote for
David Gambrell on August 13,
1974.
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MRS. CARRIE J. MAYS
I have followed the
candidates closely from the
very beginning, then more
closely leading up to the
primary, and after checking the
records of all of them, Busbee
had the best voting record of
all of them in the House of
Representatives.
I had thought of Gambrell,
because of his national
affiliation in Washington, he
would have some input in the
state of Georgia, if he was
elected. But then I did not
think that he had enough on
the ball with the House of
Representatives to work with
them here. And realizing that
you may be of the state or the
President of the United States,
but if the House doesn’t
southeastern Georgia.
An interview with Dr. Allen
L. Ault, at the time head of the
Diagnostic and Classification
Center at Jackson, now
director of the state’s penal
system, noted that Hunter was
18 years old at the time of his
rape convictions.
He said it was “just not
policy to send a person 18
years old to Reidsville.”
Instead, Hunter was sent to
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Lt. Gen. Daniel James, Jr.
Director of Operations
Training and later as vice wing
commander of the Bth Tactical
Fighter Wing.
Atlanta’s Negro Rep.
Still Backing Nixon
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support your bills, they may
never get any place. I’m afraid
that this might happen to
Gambrell because he doesn’t
come across that well.
Bert Lance: I look back on
his Highway Department
record. He had an excellent
record and was a successful
banker. All of it sounds very
good, but then I recall back
when high school boys weren’t
able to get jobs, Black high
■chool boys. It was just never
any jobs available for them.
Little minor things that he
could have done in the
Highway Department as the
department head that he liad
not done. And I have reason to
believe that he will not do any
better if he was elected
governor.
After looking at George
Busbee’s voting record in the
House and how well he was
getting along with the House
members, and even members of
the Senate, I felt like he could
get his program across if he was
elected governor far better
than any one of the two
candidates I mentioned.
Os course, Harry Jackson
and those, I never even
considered them. They’re fine
candidates, I’m sure, for some
people, but I never even
considered them. So it was
always with me the three
people, Gambrell, Lance and
Busbee that I had to make a
choice between. And in making
that choice, after looking at all
of it, I feel that Busbee is the
best candidate for all
Georgians, not just some
Georgians.
I never considered Lester
Maddox at all, at any time. All
of them may be racists, but
he’s an admitted racist, so I
could never consider a man like
that, regardless of who may be
able to go into his front door
Blacks Who Helped
Build Augusta
Part IV
Blacks and the Masonic Fraternity
Background
When Prince Hall, a CME minister, petitioned for and received
a charter from the Grand Lodge of England on September 29,
1784, little did he know that African Lodge No. 459, of Boston,
Massachusetts, which was formally constituted, May 6, 1787,
would spread into a national institution and positively affect the
lives of every Black man, woman and child in America. Masonic
history tells us that this was the only charter ever granted by the
Grand Lodge of England to a group of Black masons on the
North American continent.
Because letters addressed to the officials of the English
Jurisdiction had remained unanswered for many years, the
members of the African Lodge No. 459 declared it to be “free
and independent” of the control of any organization. After this
Declaration of Independence, The African Grand Lodge of North
America was established on Friday, June 24, 1791 at Boston,
Massachusetts, with Prince Hall as Grand Master. Its present title
of “Prince Hall Grand Lbdge, Free and Accepted Masons, of
Massachusetts” was adopted in 1808 after the death of Prince
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MASONRY COMES TO GEORGIA: 1866
Rev. James M. Simms, a Baptist preacher, and a free man lived
in Savannah during slavery. For teaching Blacks how to read and
write, he was severly flogged. Living conditions became so
intolerable for Rev. Simms that he moved to Boston, Mass.; there
he was made a mason, and there he lived until the Civil War was
over and slavery abolished. Before returning to Savannah to live,
Rev. Simms was given authority, by Grand Master Lewis Hayden
of the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of
Massachusetts, to set up masonic lodges in Georgia, Florida and
Alabama.
Eureka Lodge No. 11, Savannah, was chartered in February
1866; Hilton Lodge No. 13, Savannah, was charted in September,
1866. Bannaker Lodge No. 38, at Augusta was chartered by the
Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, in December, 1866. That gave
Georgia three Lodges by the end of 1866.
It was these three lodges that Rev. Simms called together at
Savannah, in June, 1870; at which time, The Union Grand Lodge
of Georgia was duly organized, with Rev. J.M. Simms as the Most
Worshipful Grand Master. The Grand Lodge then issued charters
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Augusta, Georgia
or his back door. Until his
doors are open to all Georgians
alike, then I don’t think much
of the man.
I came to my final
conclusion after looking at the
legislation that George Busbee
had supported and pushed
through for poor people, not
only Black people, but poor
people alike, as well as other
good legislation, I just felt like
he was the best man. I feel that
not only Black people should
support him, but I feel that
Georgians should support him,
for I think he will do in a fine
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REP. R. A. DENT
I’m in a delemma. Bert
Lance was chairman of the
Department of Transportation.
I was on the Highway
Committee, I’m still on it.
I served in the House with
George Busbee and he’s a
tremendous fellow.
I served in the General
Assembly with (Harry)
Jackson. And I’ve served in the
House with Maddox. I’ve
served in the House with
George T. Smith and Bobby
Rowan.
I think that George Busbee
is the most knowledgeable man
we have in the race. He’s a hard
working man, very
consciencious, and he’ll do a
good job.
Harry Jackson is a
wonderful man. Harry Jackson
will do more for us than
George Busbee. He’s more
liberal. If you talked to Blacks
down in Muskogee County and
Columbus, man, Harry Jackson
has been a great help down
there to people, and especially
our people. 1 don’t think Harry
can win, but he’s a good man.
Bobby Rowan is a good
Editorial
Busbee For Governor
After careful study of the candidates, we recommend George
Busbee for governor.
He has been a member of the Georgia House of Representatives
for 18 years. He was a floor leader from 1963 to 1966. In 1967,
he was elected Majority Leader of the House, and he has been
re-elected to that position continuously for the past three terms
without opposition.
This year the House passed a special resolution commending
“his fairness, his abilities as a leader, his counsel, his dedication to
hard work, his ability to mediate, and his integrity.
Twelve of the 16 Black legislators in the state are supporting
George Busbee. Recently, State Representatives Julian Bond, Ben
Brown, and Betty Clark came to speak with representatives of
Aqgusta’s Black community and gave personal testimonials of
their experiences with Busbee and of stands that he has taken
in the interest of Black people.
Locally, City Councilwoman Carrie J. Mays is among
these endorsing Busbee for governor.
Listed below is his voting record on some of the important
issues facing the people of Georgia.
County Unit System Abolished. In 1964, George Busbee
chaired the House Reapportionment Study Committee and
guided through the House the legislation which reapportioned the
House districts to conform with the Supreme Court’s “One
Man-One Vote” ruling.
Medicaid Reform. In 1971, George Busbee sponsored
legislation creating the House Medicaid Study Committee. As
chairman of the committee, he helped develop the Peer Review
System designed to stop the administrative errors which had
resulted in overpayments to doctors, druggists and hospitals.
Busbee’s Medicaid reform meant that more money was available
for those who needed Medicaid services.
Family Planning. In 1966, George Busbee introduced the
legislation which started the Family Planning program in Georgia.
In 1972, Busbee and Black Rep. Grace Hamilton co-sponsored
the Medical Consent Act to extend family planning services to
any woman, regardless of age or marital status.
Indigent Defense Fund. George Busbee has been a supporter of
the Indigent Defense Fund that provides funds for legal services
for those who can’t pay a lawyer. In 1972, Busbee added $60,000
to the budget to expand this program.
In 1974, he supported a bill which would have created a
statewide defender program, the Georgia Criminal Justice
Council, to defend indigent persons in criminal as well as civil
matters. The bill was killed in the Senate.
MARTA. In 1971, George Busbee voted for the bill to
authorize a local option retail sales tax in Atlanta metropolitan
counties to finance MARTA.
Open Housing. In 1973, George Busbee introduced and helped
pass a revised Real Estate Code for Georgia which contained an
anti-discrimination clause.
Community Action Agencies. In 1974, George Busbee
supported and guided through the House a bill authored by Sen.
Leßoy Johnson continuing the Community Action Agencies in
the state Department of Labor to provide services to the
economically disadvantaged.
Equal Rights Amendment. In 1974, George Busbee voted for
the women’s Equal Rights Amendment.
Voter Registration by Post Card. In 1974, George Busbee
worked hard for a bill allowing voters to register by post card.
When the bill was tabled in the House, he worked to have it
removed from the table and put on the Rules Calendar. He led
the floor fight over the bill. Although the bill received the
majority of the votes cast in the House, it did not receive the
required constitutional majority, and it failed in the House.
Workmen’s Compensation. George Busbee has supported
increases in the amount of compensation paid to workers who are
injured on the job.
Unemployment Compensation. In 1973, George Busbee was
the author of a bill that did away with the one week waiting
period for unemployment compensation. Prior to that, a person
who lost his job received no compensation for the first week of
unemployment. Busbee’s bill corrected the problem.
While we have given our attention primarily to issues of
concern to the Black community, it is important to point out
that his record is equally good with other groups; he has been
endorsed by the states major labor organizations.
Looking .at Busbee’s experience, education (Baldwin College,
Duke University and the University of Georgia) and his
demonstrated ability as well as his williness to represent all people
in the state, we recommend George Busbee as governor of the
state of Georgia.
August 8, 1974 No. 20
man, but Bobby can’t win.
George T. Smith is a good man,
but he can’t win. Now Lance
might slip in there, 1 don’t
know. He’s spending a lot of
money.
1 still think that Maddox is
going to be your next
governor. And Maddox will do
a whole lot for us. I don't like
the image he might give
Georgia, but he’ll do a lot for
us. I don’t think anybody in
the race will do more for us
than Maddox.