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The Augusta News-Review - October 6, 1*77 -
“Candidates”
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the absurd claim that the
councilmen are puppets of the
Mayor. If the proposals of the
Mayor are for the benefit of
the citizens of Augusta, it
would be ridiculous for
councilman to oppose them
merely to appear independent.
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1. Yes, however, I do not
think that most of the charges
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of this nature are 100 per cent
true. To charge that county tax
dollars are used to pave and
maintain roads only in
unincorporated areas,
particularly on the South side.
However, there would certainly
be numerous occasions when
citizens of the city would
utilize these roads for business
or pleasure thereby deriving
some benefit. Personally I do
not feel that this is a serious
issue in the campaign.
2. I do not feel that efforts
to streamline or modernize and
make our government more
efficient are not necessarily a
proposition of consolidation or
annexation. Should both of
these proposals fail there are
numerous ways whereby
various departments of the city
and county could be
consolidated or merged and
thereby create a more efficient
use of manpower and
equipment. I feel that this
could be accomplished in the
areas of law enforcement,
engineering departments, water
systems, etc.
3. Our present make up of
city council is somewhat
unusual. Approximately 25 per
cent of its membership was
appointed by Mayor Newman.
Therefore this facilitates for
him approval of some of his
programs and proposals.
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However, I feel that for the
most part members of the city
council are people of integrity
who have the interest of the
citizens of Augusta at heart
and they would not rubber
stamp proposals that they
honestly felt would be
detrimental to the citizens and
taxpayers.
7th WARD
Frank Christian, 917
Littleton Street. Photographer.
42 years.
1. Yes, as a matter of fact,
city dwellers are paying as
much as $5 million annually
2
for police protection,
engineering, roads and bridges,
which never cross into the city
line. The answer, of course, is
to work with our legislative
delegation for a constitutional
amendment which would make
it illegal for the county
government to use city taxes
for strictly county purposes.
2. 1 personally believe that
we could have taken a better
approach in the past in
attempting to accomplish these
ends. We certainly need to do a
better public relations job in
presenting these proposals to
the county residents. If
Augusta is going to expand and
prosper, it must have federal
and state aid and Augusta must
be expanded to cover a larger
area and a greater population. 1
am certain that all residents of
our community, those who live
in the city and in the
unincorporated areas, are
interested in Augusta’s growth.
1 think it is simply a matter of
explaining to the county
residents who might come in to
the city, how they can benefit
and how all of the people in
our community can benefit by
enlarging our population and
area.
3.1 think it is untrue. I have
been a part of this
administration for the past
four years having served on the
Augusta Aviation Commission
and as Chairman of the General
Aviation Commission. Our city
government works effectively
on a committee basis and most
of the problems, disagreements
and arguments are aired on a
committee level. These
differences are ironed out
before they reach the council
floor. 1 think that the term
“rubber stamping” is a
personal affront to many of
the fine people who serve on
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in following their own personal
convictions.
S. Herbert Elliott, Jr., 1001
Hickman Road. Mortician, 44
years.
I It is true that city
residences pay for some
services for which they do not
receive full value. Some
examples of those are: (1)
police and patrolling duties of
the county sheriff delivered
almost solely in the
unincorporated areas of the
county; (2) maintenance of
roads and bridges delivered
solely in the unincorporated
areas of the county; (3) county
public works and construction
solely in the unincorporated
areas; (4) county animal
control solely in the
unincorporated area; (5)
building inspection. All of the
above are budgeted and taxed
county wide. A much more fair
and equitable system of
taxation should require the
taxpayer to pay for those
services for which he directly
receives benefits. When the
taxpayer is not provided these
services, there are no benefits
received, therefore, he should
not be expected to pay the tax.
2. The wording of the
question implies that the voters
of the proposed annexation
areas will reject the proposal.
This is a conclusion that should
not be drawn. Many people
that 1 have talked to who live
in the study area do favor
annexation as an alternative to
consolidation. One way to
accomplish a more modern
efficient government is for city
and county officials to strive to
work together for the good of
the community. By working
together, without regard as to
who gets the credit or the
power, a lot can be
accomplished. 1 would be in
favor of consolidating some of
the services mentioned in my
answer to question on. This
would eliminate some of the
tax inequities mentioned in
More minority women workers have kids
WASHINGTON - About 2.2
million minority mothers were
in the work force in March last
year, according to a report,
“Working Mothers and Their
Children,” published by tire
U 5. Department of Labor’s
Women’s Bureau.
This represents 44 per cent
of all minority women workers
and 58 per cent of minority
mothers in the population,
according to the report which,
also shows that about half (49
per cent) of all mothers with
children under 18 years of age
“LOOTERS”
Cont’d from page 1
and punishment cannot
always be uniformly set as to
say shoot, jail and likewise.
Some kids are sent to
penitentiaries, but punishment
should fit the circumstances,”
Arthur Stewart, director of
Neighborhood Youth Center,
said that “programs should be
created that would help looters
to work and pay off the debts
they caused through the crimes
committed. Looters should be
held responsible in order to
compensate the person or
business they directly stole
from, through some designated
program.”
question one as well as help to
streamline the present Augusta
government.
3. I do not know. In my
opinion the City Council
collectively and as individuals
should be agressive not only in
policy matters but should
strive to stimulate progressive
and new ideas in the
formulation of city goals and
objectives. The city
councilman should be a
representative of the citizens of
Augusta. He is elected
citywide, therefore, he should
represent the people city wide.
It is only natural that any
Mayor will try to influence
council members to support his
programs. If a council member
owes no debts to the mayor, he
is free to vote his convictions. I
WILL.
City Wide Council Election Oct. 12th
VOTE FOR
PROGRESSIVE
LEAD ERSHIP
g H. Thomason J K. Z. Johnson
I Outstanding young bust- I / Chairman of Public Transit
I | nessman. Chairman of ■ f Committee and serving
I F* Stockade and Recorders ■ currently also on Finance
| < ~* W Court Committee. Serves ■ a nd Trees and Parks Comm-
on Public Safety and Public ■ ittees of City Council.
Works Committees of City
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PUNCH NO. 2 PUNCH NO. 14
4 B. L. Dent william C. Calhoun
F W, Businessman teacher and Attorney and former United
I f * rSt e r hls I " States Attorney for South-
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Serve^ dona Icomnutteesof [W Chairman of Finance Com-
City Counci. Co-Cha.nnan mittee
of powerful Finance Com- ministrations . Watchdogof
F 1 mittee and serving current- . ®
■ J 1 ly on Waterworks and Com- taxpayers money Ah.oser-
i # K 1 ’ A vtng on Public Safety and
"WAfhW r Un y n Deve,opnlent 7Z Transit Committees
Committees. ■ ll 1 WT1..1-i UM
PUNCH NO. 4 PUNCH NO. 16
J Henry A. Wright Frank J. Christian
Journalist, Attorney and Third generation Augusta
I f W full time Augusta Booster ■ photographer and bus-
I Has actively served on all inessman. Offer for first
Y-<X-W Committees of City Council \ ->.■ elected office. Active in
X —•» Co-Chairman of Transit civic affairs, arts groups,
Committee and now serv- sports and avaition. Nat-
|0 JT Jteß ing on Finance and Record A >o™' »" d International re-
gA ers Court Committees. W cognition of his work m pro-
mot ’ n ß Augusta.
PUNCH NO.B PUNCH NO. 20
J Dr. 1. E. Washington George A. Sanckenjr.
I Well known educator and K Former Mayor and local
I • civic worker. Co-Chairman * businessman. Outstanding
I of Public Safety Committee ."-5 s civic leader who has been
I Also serves on Public on au Committees of City
Works and Transit Comm- Council as well as six years
as Mayor of Augusta. Now
serving on Finance, Public
W Works and Waterworks
Committees.
PUNCH NO, 10PUNCH NO. 24
PROVIDING EFFICIENT GOVERNMENT AND
MAINTAINING THE BEAUTY OF AUGUSTA THROUGH
CONTINUED INTEREST IN NEIGHBORHOOD
DEVELOPMENT.
Advertising paid for by the candidates.
were in the nation’s labor force
in March 1976. Their rate of
participation went over the 47
per cent rate of all women and
was more than five times the
nine per cent rate of mothers
working in 1940.-Of the neariv
38 million women workers m
1976. 14.6 million were
mothers. About 5.4 million
had children under six.
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“Most mothers work outside
the home uecause they need
the earning? for themselves and
their families,” Women’s
Bureau Director Alexis M.
Herman commented. “And
with the dramatic increase in
'he number of working
mothers, especially those with
children under 6 years old,
lower cost and more readily
available child care facilities are
critically needed.”
The 28.2 million children of
working mothers accounted for
46 percent of all children
under age 18. The report states
that over 16 million children
three to 13 years *old had
working mothers in 1975, but
only 1.7 percent were enrolled
in group care centers.