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To discuss issues pertinent to blacks
Georgia’s black elected officials met in Augusta
by Barbara A. Gordon
Issues pertinent to blacks in the
August 31 runoff election for the
Democratic gubernatorial
nomination, the effects of New
Federalism on existing government
programs, and soaring unem
ployment were items high on the
agenda of the black elected officials
who met in Augusta last week.
Approximately 100 members of the
Georgia Association of Black Elected
Officials (GABEO) met at the
Augusta Hilton for their quarterly
conference.
GABEO is an organization
designed to “educate and expose”
black elected officials so that they can
be more “productive and effective”
in their positions, said State Rep.
Calvin Symre of Columbus and
president of GABEO. It was found
by Augusta’s Mayor Edward M.
Mclntyre in 1976.
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JACKSON HONORED—Former Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson was
awarded the first Annual R.A. Dent Distinguished Service Award. (L. to R.)
Carolyn Long Banks, Atlanta City Council, Jackson and State Rep. Calvin
Symre of Columbus, President of GABEO.
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PURPOSE OF GABEO—Mayor Edward Mclntyre (L. to R.) and State
Rep. Calvin Symre explain the purpose of GABEO.
According to Representative
Symre, the conference is a timely one
for black officials in light of the
recent elections across the state and
Maynard Jackson
wins R.A. Dent
Service Award
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the nation.
In keeping with the conference
theme—“ Politically. Where Do We
Go From Here During the 1980’s?”
During GABEO’s First Annual
Awards Banquet—A Tribute to State
Representative R.A. “Papa” Dent,
former Atlanta Mayor Maynard
Jackson was awarded the first R.A.
Dent Distinguished Service Award.
The award in honor of Rep. Dent
will be given annuany to a Georgia
public servant for devoted and
valuable assistance to the people of
Georgia.
Jackson, also the featured speaker
at the banquet, asked the audience,
“Don’t we see in “Papa” Dent our
fathers and our grandfathers? The
victories he represent, to us he is a
symbol.”
Commenting on “Papa” Dent’s
(who is critically ill) determination to
go and vote in the August 10 primary,
Jackson said, “If you ask yourself,
Maynard Jackson receives
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August 21,1982
Pilgrim Insurance Company
receives highest nat'lawards
for marketing performance
The Pilgrim Health and Life In
surance Company of Augusta,
Georgia, received the highest
national awards in every area of
marketing performance for 1981 at
the National Insurance Association’s
Annual Convention in Detroit, July
18-21 according to S. W. Walker,
board chairman and chief executive
officer.
J. D. Greene, senior vice president
chief agency officer at home office in
Augusta, recieved the Blount Trophy
as Agency Officer of the Year.
This is the first time that Pilgrim
has qualified for the highest award in
every category of marketing
operations for a single year. He said
that Pilgrim captured all five gold
placques for Combination Com
panies in the company’s category for
1981, thereby emerging as the number
one company in the National In
surance Association.
The following marketing placques
were awarded: Beatrice Wyckoff,
agent in the Mobile, Ala. district,
received the Gibson Trophy as the
best agent in the country in 1981.
Rep. Symre added, “There has been a
‘changing of the guard’ and we must
decide which direction we’re going to
take in the future.”
“We must also monitor the con
cept of New Federalism as outlined
by President Reagan and the in
tolerable consequences that go along
with it.”
“As presently proposed, GABEO is
adamantly opposed to the concept as
defined by the Administration as
“states rights”, he said.
The three day conference, apan
from regular committee and executive
meetings, featured a political forum
between Democratic gubernatorial
hopefuls Joe Frank Harris and
Ronald “Bo” Ginn, an address by
William “Sonny” Walker, regional
vice president of the National
Alliance of Business and a tribute to
Rep. R.A. “Papa” Dent by former
Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson.
why bother? You should bother
because of “Papa” Dent and all the
other “Papa” Dents who bothered.
If we don’t bother, his life will be
minimized.”
“If we can not get it together,
black people will have a tougher time
understanding why they can not get it
together,” Jackson told members of
GABEO.
“We should be sitting in the cat
bird seat by using the power that we
have,” he said, “the promise of
GABEO is worth protecting,
nuturing and struggling for. The
vision of GABEO is to use what we
have to get what we need.”
“There has always been Reagans and
there always will be. Our salvation is
not sitting back and wringing our
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Sidney Bates, sales manager in the
Decatur, Ala. district, received the
Olive Trophy as the best sales
manager in the United States in 1981.
Rosia L. Davis, district manager in
the Mobile, Ala. district, received the
Cox Trophy as the number one
manager in 1981.
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ISSUES AND ANSWERS —Gubernatorial candidates voice their position
of black issues. (L. to R.) GABEO President Rep. Calvin Symre, Joe Frank
Harris, Mayor Mclntyre and Bo Ginn.
Harris rejects KKK endorsement,
Ginn promises to appoint blacks
“As we approach the upcoming
elections, it is important that the next
governor realizes and understands
our position on the major issues,”
said GABEO President Rep. Symre.
With this in mind, black elected of
ficials questioned Democratic guber
natorial candidates Ronald “Bo”
Ginn and Joe Frank Harris during a
political forum sponsored by
GABEO.
Both candidates placed funds for
improving public education, more
appointments for blacks and women
in policymaking positions in state
government, and programs to aid
senior citizens high on their list of
priorities.
Ginn promised to appoint a black
to the Georgia Supreme Court and
the Court of Appeals if elected.
When questioned about the endor
sement he had received from the Klu
Klux Klan, Joe Frank Harris said, “I
did not seek, nor want or would ac
cept an endorsement by the KKK.”
Ginn, who brought up the subject
of the KKK endorsement of Harris
said, “They are welcome to vote for
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E.B. Johnson Jr.
E. B. Johnson Jr., assistant vice
president-Regional Agency Direc
tor, received the Greene Trophy as
the Assistant Agency Officer of the
Year.
Pilgrim has branch offices in
Georgia, Alabama, Florida and
South Carolina.
my opponent and when I’m governor
we will run them out of the state of
Georgia.
Harris said, “this is the wrong
forum to insinuate that I am a sup
porter of the KKK. I resent it being
brought up by Ginn.”
“I won’t allow racism or terrorism
in my administration,” he said, ad
ding that he will establish a task force
to monitor KKK activities in Georgia.
On the subject on making the bir
th date of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
a state holiday, both candidates said
they would support legislation to do
so.
Harris, who admitted voting again
st such legislation in the past, said he
did so for economic reasons —
because state employees already had
12 paid holidays.
And for economic reasons, he
reconsidered and changed his
position saying he would support the
legislation to make King’s birthday a
state holiday, because it could help
increase the state’s economy through
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