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i I By LESTER MADDOX J
THE TRUTH ABOUT RAPID TRANSIT!
Atlanta’s planned system of
rapid transit will, within some
15 to 20 years, render a
necessary and fine service to
the citizens of this area. It will
provide more jobs and
improve working conditions
for its employees and lead
investors to spend hundreds of
millions of dollars for
residential and commercial
developments. However, it is
not in Atlanta’s top priority
for transportation needs and
was placed in the top position
because of moneyed and
political special interests that
were placed ahead of the
people and Atlanta’s most
important transportation
needs.
BILLIONS OF DOLLARS
IN WASTE!
The people were first told
that rapid transit would cost
less than S4OO million. I
countered that it would cost
over $1 billion. Then, the
people were told the cost
would be under S6OO million
and I stated again that rapid
transit would cost over $1
billion. Rapid transit
spokesmen and executive and
legislative leaders in the state
and local governments tried to
ridicule me and continued
misinforming the people.
Finally, RT and the elected
officials admitted to the
people that the system would
cost over $1 billion dollars.
After admitting part of the
truth, RT officials and
executive and legislative
leaders proposed a one-half
percent sales tax to finance
the billion dollar system which
was to be financed two-thirds
by the federal government and
one-third by the state *nd
local government.
The one-half cent sales tax
over the first fifty years alone
would have provided billions
of dollars for the billion dollar
system. Such would have
assured more funds than
necessary to build and operate
the system economically and
efficiently and still subsidize
the fares.
With no opposition from
any source the rapid transit
and state and local officials
then proposed the tax be
three-fourths of one percent
and with still no voice of
opposition the proposal was
increased to a full one cent
sales tax without any need or
justification.
State and local officials,
rapid transit, commerce and
news media officials were
demanding billions of
unnecessary dollars from the
people and moved
immediately to try and
discredit anyone who exposed
their sinister and wasteful
schemes. As demanded, their
proposal would have produced
an estimated $25 billion over
the first 50 year period alone.
$25 billion for a system
designed to cost $1 billion and
which was supposed to be
financed primarily by the
federal government.
This amount of money for
Metro-Atlanta rapid transit
compares with all of the
money spent by both Alabama
and Georgia for their
combined government costs
since becoming states. At $4
million per mile these officials
were demanding enough to
build rapid transit from
Atlanta, to Los Angeles, to
New York and back to
Atlanta.
AND I TOLD ON THEM!
When confronted, officials
of rapid transit, state and local
governments, admitted to me
that they had no idea they
were demanding so many
billions of dollars and could
not even explain how they
could ever spend the money.
The mayor of Atlanta, upon
my questioning, replied that
he could not determine how
much good rapid transit would
do for Atlanta but “spending
that much money will have a
great impact on Atlanta.”
The officials immediately
agreed to my demand that
reducing the transit tax from
one percent to one-half of one
percent at the end of the first
ten years .. .which will mean
an estimated savings of over
sl2 billion during the first 50
years alone. And even now,
there will still be billions of
dollars of waste in the
program during the first fifty
years.
Although agreeing to cut
their program out of some sl2
billion during the first fifty
year period, these officials
have yet to explain their
demands to the people and to
explain why they accepted the
cut without so much as a
whimper.
The reason for no
explanation? They do not
have one. The amount cut out,
after being caught, is more
than four times all state
dollars spent on highway
construction since we started
paving roads in Georgia and it
is enough to pay the present
salary of the lieutenant
governor for more than
600,000 years. Is it any
wonder that they started
talking about abolishing the
office I hold? And now, state
officials are talking about
stripping Lester Maddox but I
want you to know the last
time I was stripped, it was
over 40 years ago. And, it was
by my Daddy and no man at
the State Capitol is going to
strip me in the 19705.
In closing, I will say again
that rapid transit will bring
many benefits to Atlanta but
it should have been done
without built-in billions of
dollars in waste. And rapid
transit and other officials
deceive the people with TV
ads and propaganda that
indicate that traffic congestion
would be ended on Atlanta’s
downtown connector with
operation of rapid transit.
They knew then and know
now, that with or without
rapid transit, that traffic
conditions in downtown
Atlanta will grow worse and
penalize Atlanta until a
downtown west connector,
similar to the existing
downtown east connector, is
constructed.
Motorists from all over
Georgia and from throughout
the nation must be given more
than one major route to enter
and leave downtown Atlanta.
The west connector will
provide the additional route.
Until this is done, rapid
transit, government officials
and business leaders pushing
rapid transit will be looking
after their own special
interests but not the best
interests of Atlanta and all
who travel into and out of this
great city.
Very Sincerely,
Lester Maddox
YOU OUGHT TO KNOW
P.O. Box 1974
Atlanta. Ga. 30301
Yellow Daisy Festival
STONE. MOUNTAIN, Ga.
(PRN) - A 3,200 acre carpet
of yellow daisies awaits this
year’s visitor to Stone
Mountain Park’s fourth annual
Yellow Daisy Festival, Sept.
15-17.
The full weekend of
colorful activities includes
old-time music, art and flower
shows, carftsmen, a produce
market and sports reminiscent
of grandfather’s day.
The Atlanta Artists Club
opens the festival with a
three-day art show, featuring
more than 100 exhibits of oils,
acrylics, water colors,
graphics, sculpture and crafts.
Hours are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
each day.
Also beginning at 10 a.m.
daily, the Ante Bellum
Plantation will sponsor
displays of quilting, open
hearth cooking and
hand-painted china.
Friday at 3 p.m. the
18-county Redbud District of
the Garden Club of Georgia,
Inc. will open “Daisies Tell”, a
flower show featuring 70
classes, at both Confederate
and Memorial Halls. The
flower show will continue
Saturday and Sunday from
9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
At noon and 4 p.m. Friday
and Saturday Herbie Koch,
Official Carillonneur of
Georgia, will play programs of
century-old favorites on the
732-bell carillon. Sunday
carillon programs are
scheduled at 1, 3 and 5 p.m.
Craftsmen from all over the
state will set up their shops in
the Park’s new 7,500-seat
covered arena Friday from 6
p.m. to 9 p.m. Artisans
include glassblowers,
woodcarvers, blacksmiths and
wheelwright, potters, broom
makers, and spinners.
At 6:30 p.m. Friday toes
will begin tapping as an
old-time music festival takes
over the covered arena for a
three and one-half hour show.
Saturday’s schedule starts
with a continuation of the
flower shows at 9:30 a.m. and
concludes at 10 p.m. with the
wind-up of an all-day folk
music contest at the covered
arena. Six classes of traditional
and / popular blue grass
musicians will fill the air with
sound beginning at 10 a.m.
Atlanta recording star Tim
McCabe will M.C. the event.
Greased pole climbing, cross
cut saw competition, axe and
knife proficiency contests and
pole felling add another
dimension of excitement in
the outdoor ring just behind
the covered arena. These
Veterans
Corner
Q — My widowed mother re
ceives VA death pension bene
fits. Is she eligible for ad
ditional pension because she is
now a patient in a nursing
home?
A- Yes. Pensioners who
need regular aid and attend
ance or who are in nursing
homes are entitled to an add
itional special monthly aid and
attendance of $ 5: urda? 'n
current law. Those under the
“ old ” pension Hw may re
ceive an additional $ 50 mon
thly.
Q — I hear World War II
veterans can now get more
insurance coverage. Is this
true ?
A- Yes. Policyholders with
either term or permanent plans
of insurance ( V policies only)
may request that any individual
due and payable be used to buy
paid . up additions to their
policies.
Set At Stone Mountain
events are from 10 a.m. to 4
p.m. Saturday.
Other Saturday activities
include: art show 10 a.m. to 7
p.m.; craftsmen exhibits, 10
a.m. to 7 p.m.; corn and
peanut boiling and cornmeal
grinding at the Grist Mill area,
10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; canoe
jousting and log birling at the
riverboat docks, 1 p.m. to
2:30 p.m; square dancing at
the cbvered arena, 6 to 7 p.m.
Sunday’s schedule includes
flower shows, 9:30 a.m. to
5:30 p.m.; quilting, open
hearth cooking, china display
at the Ante Bellum Plantation,
10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.; art
show, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; crafts
display, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.;
corn and peanuts boiling and
cornmeal grinding, 10 a.m. to
7 p.m.; greased pole climbing,
cross cut sawing, axe and knife
contests, pole felling, 1 p.m.
to 3:30 p.m.
And, throughout the Park
throughout the Festival, 1972
Yellow Daisy Princess Pamela
Newberry will be on hand to
add a special dash of Southern
hospitality.
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- The Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Georgia, September 14, 1972
STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. -- Retiring Yellow Daisy Princess
Susann Collins (1) crowns her successor, Pamela Kay Newberry.
Pamela will reign over Stone Mountain Park’s fourth annual
Yellow Daisy Festival, Sept. 15 -17. The three-day folk festival
recreates the arts, crafts and music of rural harvest time in the
Old South. (PRN)
