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1 6-A THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, Sept. 23, 19T7 Candidates Criticize Howard By LYN MARTIN Several Atlanta City Council candidates for the Third District have heightened their individual campaigns against incumbent James Howard, criticizing the incumbent this week for putting labor interests ahead of the concerns of his constituents. The candidates also questioned Howard's involvement in zoning issues that are not in his district The two issues were brought to a head in a candidates forum on WET this week, when several candidates said their constituents would be their number one priority, if elected. Charles Bennett, the Rev. Harold (Blackie) Turner and Lorenzo Wallace said they intended to be advo- cates of their districts, not labor advocates.

Howard, who received a campaign contribution of more than $4,000 from the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employes (AFSCME), was the union's chief supporter on the City Council throughout the spring city employes strike. Randy Bacote, attorney, said he would not involve himself as "arduously" as Howard has participated in rezoning requests in areas outside his district. Howard's most recent involvement in a zoning issue came when he went to bat for Page and Associates, developers requesting rezoning for a 30-story, twin-tower highrise on Peach- tree Street. Howard pushed the rezoning, despite the opposition to the request by Councilman Richard Guthman and Buddy Fowlkes, who represent the district. Howard said he worked for passage of the rezoning because the city needed the highrise for its tax base.

Turner, Bacote and Wallace also attacked Howard for his alleged failure to obtain decent housing for the Third District. While Howard took credit for the construction of 85 new houses in the area, Bacote said he should be "ashamed" that he failed to get the number of units the area really needed. Defending his efforts to get new housing, Howard said his district was second only to District Two hi the amount of community development funds it had received for housing. Absent from the televised forum was candidate Bob Georgian Elected Constitution State Newt Service DUDLEY-Preston Johnson, executive vice-president and general manager of the Oconee Electric Membership Corporation, has been elected secretary of the National Food and Energy Council. -The council, composed of electrical power suppliers and manufacturers, made the selection at their annual meeting in Dallas, Tex.

II i aUA A. -1 HANK SCHWAB LOU HOHENSTEIN BUDDY FOWLEES THE COUNCIL RACES 3Dor'f Miss This Sale! Fiery Fowlkes Trying To Turn Back Clock? stein. Schwab said it proves Fowlkes is "isolated" and "out of step." Hohenstein, 47, emphasizes that through his consulting experience he has designed programs for every level of government. "I can bring intelligent, sensible solutions to problems in city government, and I don't think Buddy can do that," he said. The 36-year-old Schwab, formerly a city official as chairman of the appointive Atlanta Clean City Commission, stresses his "ability to work with the city administration on achieving positive things in this district." And hidden within that last statement, strangely enough, is a racial issue in this almost all-white district.

nJu -rt Jm 'A LnJ uU M. ilk. JMi JL 4K jk fJ fh if we i i Z'-4E uaiu. Fifth in a series on the more hotly con-; tested Atlanta City Council races to be de-' cided by the voters Oct. 4.

I By JAY LAWRENCE i "A few rare individuals are able to ig-J nore the march of time," a local sports columnist wrote in 1960. The column concerned a sprinter who I had just broken his own record in the 100 yard dash at the advanced age of 33. Two men who live in the Atlanta City Council's Seventh District hope that the "march of time" has finally overtaken las L. (Buddy) Fowlkes, the track ace who turned to politics, and that his 16-year sprint as a city legislator is over. The 49-year-old councilman, who still coaches track at his old school, Georgia Tech, taught freshman physical education to one of his opponents, architect Hank Schwab.

The other candidate, management con- sultant Lou Hohenstein, also a Tech grad, is closer to the coach's age but believes never- theless that "the city has gone on and left" Fowlkes. The district they seek to represent runs from North Avenue in the middle of the city all the way north to the city limits, but it is narrowly defined by Peachtree and Roswell roads and the Southern Railway tracks. It has 25,640 voters, 97 per cent of whom are white. Conventional wisdom has it that Fowlkes will not have to sprint, but will amble to victory in this contest on the basis of name recognition and fiery style alone. But Hohenstein and Schwab are running their legs off all over the district, appearing well organized and well financed.

And Fowlkes is mounting an entirely dif-; ferent sort of campaign from the others, one which even he admits is not very visible. While Hohenstein and Schwab run the "yard-sign, shopping-center-leaflet, door-to- door "grass roots" drives currently in vogue, Fowlkes is dipping into his "large card file" and "activating" people to make telephone calls and write endorsement letters for him. After 16 years in office, no one disputes that the card file is probably pretty large. But Fowlkes doesn't represent District 7 now. He is an at-large councilman, who beat a retreat from his citywide post earlier this year when he admitted that the city as a whole was getting too liberal for him.

Schwab and Hohenstein have pounced on Fowlkes for his quick sidestep. The move is a "tremendous admission" by the councilman that the city has left him behind, said Hohen DENSE PLUSH SHAG NOW $4.99 Fowlkes, more than any other present councilman, stands vocally in opposition to the administration of Mayor Maynard Jackson, who is black. Fowlkes thinks that's good; he relishes it. Schwab thinks it's bad that Fowlkes "can't get along with it would be counterproductive for the district to have Fowlkes as its representative, he says. Fowlkes bristles at that.

"He doesn't know what he's talking about. He just wants to get elected to something," he replies. That last was a snide reference to Schwab's last two tries at elective office, which were unsuccessful. Fowlkes' big concern is to "steer away from tremendous social programs" in city government, such as a consumer affairs office, which he opposed. He wants instead to "return to the ABCs" by having the city concentrate on basics like police and fire protection and garbage collection.

Transportation is one issue on which the candidates appear to differ. Fowlkes is dead-set against a road through north Atlanta such as the proposed North Atlanta Parkway, Schwab is "not dead against it and not promoting and Hohenstein, while emphasizing that he does not favor destroying neighborhoods, believes a road could be built along the existing Southern Railway right of way. Official disclosure reports reveal that Schwab has received a $500 contribution from the North Atlanta Development Committee, which favors improving transportation in the area. Hohenstein got $1,500 from the same group. Fowlkes said the group told him he was getting nothing.

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