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5S-A THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, uct. iv, lV'V Probing By Jury Pushed By BARRY KING Atlanta City Councilwoman Esther Lefever said Sunday night that two of Fulton County's 11 superior court judges support her request for a special grand jury investigation of the Atlanta Police Bureau's cheating scandal. mxJXJ uvyj.u I I 'L I In addition to Mrs. Lefever, state Rep. Gerald Horton, D- Atlanta, and Robert Redfearn, chairman of the Metropolitan Atlanta Crime Commission, have asked for further probes of the scandal, which involves unauthorized release of I I promotion exams for the ranks of sergeant and captain.

Mrs. Lefever earlier had voted against a resolution introduced by Councilman James Bond that the City Councils Public Safety Com i i ill ii i i i i i mittee investigate the scan' dal. mttm "I would not want the Pub -l i a few teste lic Safety Committee to be the only one doing the investigation," she said. "I don't think the people of Atlanta would be satisfied with a body doing an investigations for its own purposes." Mrs. Lefever said she had heard from two of the Fulton superior court judges and that they were in favor of the investigation.

She said she made the request for the special grand jury as an elected official of the state of Georgia. "Under the codes, I have that right," she said. Mrs. Lefever said she would also submit a resolution to the City Council at Monday's meeting. 'Spirit of St.

Louis9 Visits Atlanta tour is being put on by the Experimental Aircraft Association, which spent $100,000 to build the plane and conduct the tour to promote interest in aviation. (Staff Photo-Calvin Cruce) Pilot Vera Jobst stands beside a replica of the Spirit of St. Louis, the plane Charles A. Lindberg flew nonstop across the Atlantic in 1927, at Charlie Brown Airport Sunday afternoon. The plane is on a 102-city national tour which began June 15.

The City Council tew tor hm Runoff Races Heated Up By Charges, Name-Calling no oressine differences of oolitical oh By FREDERICK ALLEN and JAY LAWRENCE The lackluster battle for City Council seats in the Oct. 4 general election has erupted into bitterness and accusations in runoff contests to be decided losophy between him and Fowlkes. Instead, he is charging that Fowlkes is not accessible to the voters. Fowlkes was the incumbent in District 16, but chose to run from a "safe" district in this year's election. Fowlkes blasted Schwab's criticisms as "just another desperation charge He noted that he had beaten Schwab in each of the district's precincts.

Fowlkes also disputed Schwab's contention that the two are not appreciably incumbent Howard had five opponents on Oct. 4 who kept him to 36 percent of the vote and deprived him of a victory. Turner, who was a thousand votes behind Howard, is hoping that the ballots cast for the other candidates were mostly anti-Howard ones. "The votes that all the rest of us received were really negative votes against Mr. Howard.

These people are not satisfied with what he has done," said Turner. He is claiming the endorsement of the other four candidates. Turner, 45, is also claiming that Howard is accountable not to the district but to "an outside national organization in Washington," a reference to amerent. rnere a Dig difterence," he said. "I've got 16 years of experience tie nas none." Fowlkos charged that his opponent is unclear on the issues.

"You can't ever pin him down on anything," Fowlkes said. DISTRICT 11 Three opponents of incumbent Bob Waymer in the Oct. 4 election have not only endorsed runoff challenger Jim Maddox but they are also apparently working in his campaign. "The issue from the beginning was they didn't like me," said Waymer, a 39-year-old United Way consultant who lives not far from Maddox in southwest Atlanta. Waymer said the concerted opposition has helped him.

"All their jumping on me is making me the underdog at the same time that I was the top vote-getter," he claimed. Maddox, a 42-year-old contract administrator, finished less than 200 rsa thud Howards former affilitation with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employes. AFSCME is the city employes' union that gave Howard $4,000 for his campaign. Turner alleges that Howard is still being paid by AFSCME, which Howard denies. "A man who won't be bought, can't be bossed," is Turner's runoff slogan.

Howard, 37, claims that Turner was so far behind on Oct. 4 that he doesn't stand a chance. And he said that when he was first elected four years ago in the northwest Atlanta district, the also-rans endorsed his runoff opponent then too. But it didn't make any difference, said Howard. He also says he has done plenty for the district in the form of new capital improvements and new industry.

Turner, however, maintains that the improvements that Howard claims were already in the works. "He hasn't had a hand in anything," said Turner. DISTRICT 6 Nasty rumors have dominated talk in recent days about this contest between two women who essentially share similar political views and bases. Personal attacks have been made, some allege, on the family of one of the candidates, Esther Lefever. Mrs.

Lefever says she is "appalled" at the tactics of the opposition, Mary Davis. And Mrs. Davis says her supporters have been "outraged" by the nature of the attacks and "doubly outraged that they were accused of it." But the real question in the runoff between Mrs. Davis, 37, and Mrs. Lefever, 46, is who will get the votes of the conservative stockbroker.

Bill Jones. Mrs. Davis, who got 38.4 percent; led Mrs. Lefever by about four percentage points. Mrs.

Lefever is the incumbent but only got on the council about a year ago. She is openly pitching for the votes of Jones, who talked about practically nothing but high taxes and high crime. "Bill Jones addressed it well." savs Mrs. Tuesday. Most attention has centered on the sole at-large runoff, which pits Barbara Miller Asher against Jules Stine for the District 16 seat Stine has been accused of buying support in the black community a charge he vehemently denies while Mrs.

Asher stands accused of "flip-flopping" on the issues. Mrs. Asher has not involved herself directly in the vote-buying charges, and has instead remained content to let Stine try to defuse the issue on his own. "I am not going to become involved in a mud-slinging campaign," she said, declining further comment on that aspect of the race. Stine, meanwhile, is incensed at the accusation.

"Yeah," he said bitterly, "I bought it with 20 years of commitment to the black community." He dismissed the charge as "a lie." Meanwhile, he is charging that Mrs. Asher, the former chairman of the city Zoning Review Board, captured almost 46 percent of the general election vote, because "she was telling different things to different audiences." Mrs. Asher is considered the front-runner in the race by virtue of the plurality she held over Stine, who got 34.6 percent of the vote Oct. 4. Acrimony also marked most of the runoff campaigns in the six contested elections for district seats: DISTRICT 1 Race is the key to the runoff between incumbent Councilman John Calhoun, a 78-year-old black real estate broker and furniture company owner, and Debby McCarty, a 25-year-old white who worked for the Grant Park Neighborhood Housing Service before the campaign.

The showdown is fairly simple. If Calhoun retains his seat, Atlanta's City Council will be majority black. If Mrs. McCarty wins, the council will remain racially equal "This is a real dilemma for me," said Calhoun. "I don't want to turn this into a racial thing.

That's just not me, and people who know me know that. But I can't help what these other people do." The "other people" are black leaders including two losing candidates from the general election who have endorsed Calhoun, apparently hoping to rally the district's 62 percent black population. That sort of tactic might be necessary, since Mrs. McCarty got a commanding 45 percent of the vote Oct. 4 to Calhoun's 30 percent.

Mrs. McCarty, who Is running on a platform that the district has been "neglected" In city services, has charged that Calhoun supporters are spreading lies about her including rumors that she has been married four times, is a communist and owns substantial property in the district. All are "totally false," she said. Calhoun supporters, meanwhile, deny spreading any of the talk. DISTRICT 3 The political axiom that an incumbent receives all the votes he's going to get in the general election will get a good test in the runoff between James Howard and the Rev.

Harold Turner. Well-financed and well-organized votes behind Waymer, who like Mrs. Lefever is a newcomer to the council. Both Waymer and Maddox got about a quarter of the vote. Said Maddox, "The major difference between Bob and me is I am both business oriented and community oriented.

Bob is more or less (power) structure oriented." He said the other candidates joined him because they "recognize his (Way-mer's) incompetence." He also claims Waymer "insulted the voters" when he publicly called all the other candidates "turkeys." Waymer also has some powerful help in the form of Councilman Q.V. Williamson. Williamson aided Waymer in getting selected by the council last spring to fill the District 11 chair. Although Waymer openly calls Williamson his "mentor," he insists that he is not in Williamson's "hip pocket" and that he has differed with Williamson in the past DISTRICT 12 The race in District 12 pits two old adversaries whose campaigns have been marked by personal acrimonv. 1 Jf Incumbent Councilman Hi.ph II I I 3 1 A I Pierce, a 62-vear-0ld former Advertising director, beat 52-year-old insurance executive Dozier Smith is a close runoff four years ago, and obviously the air still hasn't cleared.

"He is one of life's losers," Pierce said of Smith. "Even If he wins this runoff, he'll stiU be a loser." Pierce noted that Smith won a plurality four yean ago as he did this year only to lose in the runoff, and predicted that the same would happen again. He said he and Smith have no sub Lefever. "Crime and public safety and taxes are real concerns of the district." Mrs. Davis says the main issue is still the same.

"People are concerned about strong representation. They are concerned about there being an independent council as far as checks and balances are concerned." DISTRICT 7 The overwhelming favorite in this runoff is Georgia Tech track coach D.L. "Buddy" Fowlkes, since he nailed down 49.8 percent of the general election tally. His opponent, Hank Schwab, got only 28.2 percent, and admits that "we've got our fingers crossed. But we're certainly not rolling over and playing dead." Schwab, an architect, said there are Only xj Brricf Warning: The Surgeon General Has Determined That Cigarette Smoking Is Dangerous to Your Health.

8 mg. 07 mg. nicotine av. per cigarette by FTC method. stantial disagreement on the issues, and indeed, Smith says the same thing.

The race basically boils down to Smith's charge that Pierce ignores the people of the district, and Pierce's charge that Smith is unfamiliar with the realities of politics..