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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30. 1973 UpC Atlanta g0ticn.il ami CONSTITUTION J. Ch Election City anenges Voters, Can sLsL sLm5L 1 si sf Spa! si bI tic I gl si gj" J. A 1 i 3 Atlanta Where They're Running The map at right shows Atlanta's council districts. Listed below are tiie candi-dates in each district race as well, as the candidates who are running for city-wide posts: DISTRICT 1-John H.

Calhoun, John Iieleford. DISTRICT 2-Charles Helms, Sam Sheats, Samuel Lee Stephens. DISTRICT 3-Eunice Cooper, Joe Daniel, James Howard, Frank Jones. Tillman Ward, J. Lowell Ware.

DISTRICT 4-James Bond, Malcolm J. Dean, Mildred Glover, Ethel Mat-, thews, Jesse Williams. DISTRICT 5-Morris Findley, Charles Turner Sr. DISTRICT 6-Edward G. Hartline, Tom Houck, Nick G.

Lambros. DISTRICT 7-Ray Abor-" nathy, George Cotsakis, -Roger Kelton, Frank Sal-" ley, Hank Schwab. DISTRICT 8-Tom Cor-' ish, Richard Guthman, C. J. Lynch III, G.

Everett Millican. DISTRICT 9-Brady Barnett Bob Lane, Arthur Langford Jr. DISTRICT 10-Lorenzo Benn, Glorie J. Borders, Jackson, Cecil M. McLean, Ryburn Stephens, Calvin Thornton.

By MIKE KAUTSCH and JIM KENNEDY Atlanta's Oct. 2 city election is as challenging for the voters as the candidates. The election, the first under Atlanta's new city charter, has broken much new organizational ground for voters to negotiate before entering the polls. Voters trying to make up their minds on city council candidates are perhaps beset by the biggest and most complicated task. First, the voters are not going to elect representatives to a board of aldermen, as they have for at least 100 years.

Instead it will be an election of representatives to a city council. In addition, before entering the polling booth, each voter must decide which of 12 newly formed council districts he lives in. He must know, of course, who is running in his district. And he must be alert to the difference between district candidates and office-seekers running for what are called at-large "posts." The new charter replaces the board of aldermen with an 18-member city council. Policy-making and enacting legislation are to be the council's primary duties.

Each of 12 councilmen will be elected from a different council district. Six will be Eddie Robinson, Truette T. Stubbs. DISTRICT 17 (At-Large) -Benny T. Smith, Q.

V. Williamson. DISTRICT 18 (At-Large) GaryM. Holmes, George Napper, Jack Summers, Bob Waymcr. DISTRICT 14 (At-Large) Marvin S.

Arrington. DISTRICT 15 (At-Large) Sherman Barge, Panke Bradley, H. D. Dodson. DISTRICT 16 (At-Large) Donald S.

Azar, Chuck Driebe, Buddy Fowlkes, Seats on City Council 67 Seeking Xi ti Xi a a si St 5: 3 8 SI 3 3 3 fc elected from the city-at-large. A map showing the districts, for voters uncertain as to which they live in, is on this page at the left. Each voter will vote for seven council candidates, including one from his district. Six votes will be for at-large candidates, who will be listed on the ballot as running for citywide council "posts," numbered 13 through 18. Besides electing council-men, each voter may choose one mayoral candidate and one hopeful for city council president.

In addition, there a nine-member school board election. There are six district school board races and three at-large. Each voter will vote for a candidate in his district and three at-large contenders. They will be listed as running for citywide board "seats," numbered seven through nine. Understanding what to expect in the polling booth Abbeyville, Bachelors, Johnson C.

Smith University; Masters, University of Pennsylvania. Personnel service owner. (Write-in) 11th District WILLIE BOLDEN. Age 34. Born in Savannah.

Master's, Harvard University. Teacher CARL WARE. Age 29. Born in Ncwnan. Ga.

BA, Clark College; MA, University of Pittsburg. Consultant. JAMES "JIM" MADDOX SR. Age 38. Born in Atlanta.

BA, Morehouse College, MA, Atlanta University. Contract administrator. 12th District HUGH PIERCE. Age 58. Born in Sycamore, Ga.

High school graduate. Real estate developer. Atlanta alderman. JOHN II. HARRIS JR.

Age 49. Born in Montezuma, Ga. High school graduate. Retired federal employe. JAMES R.

COOK. Age 49. Born in Bowdon a Two years of high school. Real estate investor. DOZIER SMITH.

Age 47. Born in Hogansville, a Graduate, University of Georgia; further studies, Emory University and Southern Methodist University. srs5 i 1. 1 1 Alike freeways is an apparent desire to save Atlanta's residential neighborhoods from being buried in concrete. Campaigns for city council frequently have plaed heavy emphasis on improving the quality of life in Atlanta.

That, in the view of amny, requires a whole gamut of developments, including more and better housing, vigorous housing code enforcement, careful planning and zoning, more parks and recreational facilities, and improving city services such as sewage dis posal and garbage and trash collection. To many candidates, the result of such endeavors would include a reversal of white flight to the suburbs. Surprisingly, relaUvely few candidates campaigned on some familiar past issues. Racism, for example, faded into the background, giving way to economic issues that cut across racial lines. Almost no candidates staked Atlanta's future on its need for an capacity as an air transport center.

Consumer and environmental protection were brought up, if at all, as asides. Sometimes the candidates' campaigns have had a rather false ring. Little attention has been paid in many cases to getting revenue to finance proposed programs. When the issue has arisen, candidates most commonly called for additional revenue from hotel and motel taxes, from payroll taxes that would foce communting workers to pay their share of Atlanta's costs and legalizing some gambling. Sweeping proposals by somecandidates have failedto recognize that the city council cannot work in a vacuum, without the state legislature and the federal government.

Yet, tax reform and funds for many programs depend on the councilmen's ability to work with state and federal officials. Perhaps the most significant asoect of the election is that Atlantans will be putting candidates into office clearly charged with making policy. No more lengthy sessions are to be spent, under the new charter, haggling over technical administrative tasks, such as issuing licenses for various business pursuits. The would-be councilmen often have tried to portray themselves as potentially imaginative policy-makers. Others suggest they will work with the people and get all their ideas from the voters.

Whatever the case, a candidate's policy-making ability ultimately has been proposed as the determining factor not only in deciding whether he' should be elected, but also in whether he would be an asset or a liability to Atlanta's fu- -ture. chures, buttons, balloons and baloney." A Mitchell aide, citing his candidate's recognition prob--lem, says, "In spite of what Mr. Fowler says, we haven't got nearly enough." The Mitchell statement was the first released to the press. In a less-detailed breakdown Fowler estimated expenditures totaling $17,000, with $3,000 for television, $1,000 radio, $1,000 for staff salaries and the remainder for direct mailings, print' ing and headquarters expenses. Turner has repeatedly declined to list his campaign costs, saying recently, "I'd hate to look because my creditors would be unhappy to see I'm spending this much." Williams, a last-minute entry into the race, puts his expenses "in the neighborhood of $5,000," with $2,400 of that for salaries, $1,500 for headquarters costs and $900 for campaign material, "which we print ourselves." Both he and Episcopal priest Robert Hunter, the other black candidate, avoid radio and television ads as too costly.

Hunter, who has been accused by some of running a less-than-serious campaign, plans no special last-minute efforts, preferring instead to "enjoy Hank Aaron's baseball." However, he says, "I still think that I am in the run-Turn to Page 19A, Column 1 idates 8L.SL OL 21 JO 6WU LMLMLlMMLa I 3 sfsi Sl 5 brings a voter to the big choice: Which candidates? There are 67 candidates. Nineteen, including one write-in candidate, are vying for for the six at-large posts. The rest are competing for the 12 district positions, two as write-in contenders. Many candidates are politi-c a 1 unknowns, and 13 are aldermanic incumbents. Thirteen of 18 council positions have a chance of being won by blacks.

Incumbents are arrayed in such a way that they conceivably could win 11 positions. Several themes have run recurrently through the campaigns, the main one, being how to reduce Atlanta's notoriously high crime rate. Candidates have spotlighted one or more crime-reducing strategies. They include enlarging the police force, enabling it to crack down on drug abuse and other nefarious pursuits; getting the courts to impose stiffer penalties on convicted criminals and digging out the so-called causes of crime. The causes of crime most often mentioned include unemployment, poor education and deteriorating housing.

A number of candidates, frequently the black contenders, propose that the city deal most imaginatively and vigorously with crimes commiited by blacks on blacks in domes-t i situations. So-called "strangcr-to-stranger" cries in Atlanta's streets and alleys often are seen as a lesser source of the high crime rate. Following the crime issue are proposals to increase citizen input in decision-making by city government. Candidates have pledged many ways to assure citizens of more voice in government. There have been proposals for everything from holding council meetings in different areas monthly, to having council-m organize neighborhood offices.

Throughout the months before the election, sentiment against more freeways, such as the controversial proposal for building 1-485, has been expressed. Some candidates have waffled on the subject, passing the buck to the people and saying more freeways would be permissible only if the voters were to consent in a referendum. The big reason for opposing never confirmed charges of a "deal" between leaders of blacks and whites to assure a biracial administration by putting Maynard Jackson in the mayor's office and Mitchell in the council president's chair. Mitchell denies any deal and defies his opponents to prove otherwise. He chides Fowler as a showman-style politician who prefers press conferences to committee meetings.

But Fowler defends his frequent public appearances as fulfilling "Uic public's right to know." The 32-year-old attorney and onetime congressional aide is filling the last days of the campaign with handshaking sessions and a "minimum amount" of radio and television spots "just to let people know I'm in the race." The spots, written and directed by Wyche Fowler, will cost about $4,000, he estimates. Mitchell's ads, he claims, will cost many times that amount, driving his total campaign costs to $70,000. A breakdown of campaign expenses provided by Mitchell to The Atlanta Journal last week puts the figure at It includes for outdoor billboards, $4,000 for bus signs, $5,000 for radio time, $8,000 for television commercials, $1,000 for newspaper advertising, $8,000 for staff salaries and for "hro- North Texas State University. Publisher's representative. RAY ABERNATHY.

Age 31. Born in Atlanta. Graduate of Georgia State, consultant. J.R. BRYANT, in Lindale, Berry Academy.

(Write-in) Advertising Age 63. Born a Attended Sign painter. 8TH DISTRICT C. J. LYNCH.

Age 41. Born in New Orleans, La. Graduate of Georgia Tech. Decorating company owner. RICHARD GUTHMAN.

Age 39. Born in Atlanta. BIE, Georgia Tech. Investment advisor. TOM CORISH.

Age 30. Born in Savannah. BA, University of Georgia Management consultant. G. EVERETT MILLICAN.

Age 75. Born in Harriman, Tenn. BS, Harvard University. Retired oil company vice president. Former Atlanta alderman and stale representative.

9TII DISTRICT BRADY BARNETT, JR. Age 40. Born in Carlton. Ga. Attended Clark College, graduated, Blayton Business School.

Real estate broker. Atlanta alderman, DISTRICT Bolden, James Carl Ware. DISTRICT 11 Willis F. Maddox 12 James Harris, Cook, John H. Hugh Pierce, Dozier Smith.

DISTRICT 13 (At-Large) Morris Brown, E. Gregory Griggs, Robb Pitts. 17TII POST BENNY T. SMITH. Age 43.

Born in Thomaston, Ga. High school graduate; attended Morris Brown College, U.S. Naval accounting school and business and law schools. President of consultant firm. Q.

V. WILLIAMSON. Age 53. Born in Atlanta. Attended North Carolina University; graduate, Morehouse College.

Real estate broker. Atlanta alderman. 18TH POST GARY M. HOLMES. Age 31.

Born in Detroit, Mich. BA, Morris Brown College; attended Emory Univei sity 1 a school. Education and training specialist. GEORGE NAPPER. Age 34.

Born in Berkeley, Calif. BA, MA and Ph.D., University of California. College professor. JACK SUMMERS. Age 66.

Born in Dallas, Ga. Atlanta Law School graduate. Retired businessman. Atlanta alderman. BOBO WAYMER.

Age 35. Born in Elloree, S.C. Morris Brown College graduate; MSW, Atlanta University. Program consultant. 1st DISTRICT JOHN H.

CALHOUN. Age 74. Born in Greenville, S.C. BA, Morehouse College: MA Atlanta University. Real estate broker.

JOHN RELEFORD. Age 30 From Philadelphia. High School graduate; attended Atlanta University. Lawn service worker. 2ND DISTRICT CHARLES HELMS.

Age 37. Born in New Smyrna, Fla. AB, Davidson College; BD, Union Theological Seminary; doctoral candidate, Columbia Theological Seminary. Minister. SAM SHEATS.

Age 60. Born in Athens, Ga. High school graduate. Barber. SAMUEL LEE STEPHENS.

Age 28. Born in Americus, Ga. High school graduate; attended Morris Brown College; undertook vocational training and attended drafting school. Steel firm electrician. 3RD DISTRICT EUNICE COOPER.

Age 51. Born in Kentucky. AB, Kentucky State College; A Atlanta University. Housewife. JOE DANIELS.

Age 55. Born in Atlanta. AB, Morehouse College. Insurance consultant. JAMES HOWARD.

Age 33. Born in Birmingham, Ala. High school graduate; attended Miles College in Birmingham; certificate in labor management relations fro American University in Washington, D.C. Food store owner. FRANK "SONNY" Jones.

Age 37. Born in Atlanta. At- tended Washington State and With Dreams of Runoff, 6 Seek Council Helm ROBERT Age 40. Born Ga. Attended of Business, and the Dale LANE, in Ilogansville.

Atlanta School Air University Carnegie Lead- i Clerk Institution. Supply ARTHUR LANGFORD JR. Age 23. Born in Atlanta. BS, Morris Brown College.

Minister 10TH DISTRICT IRA JACKSON. Age 43 Born in Adrain, Ga. ES, Clark College; further study, Atlanta University. Real estate broker. Atlanta alderman.

A I C. THORNTON. Age 45. Born in Atlanta. Attended Clark College.

Real estate broker. MRS. CECIL MCADOO MCLEAN. Age 34. Attended North Carolina State University.

Community organizer. LORENZO BENN. Age 44. Born in Atlanta. LLB, LLM, Atlanta Law School.

Lawyer. GLORIA THOMAS BORDERS. Age 40. Born in Atla-na. BA, Clark College.

Home-maker. RYBURN G. STEPHENS. Age 51. Born in Tate, Ga.

AB, Morris Brown College, MA, Atlanta University. Teacher HENRIETTA MATHIS CANTY. Age 44. Born in collecting a lot of political debts. To counter Turner's years of labor in black vineyards, Williams says he hopes to portray his opponent as: A supporter of Police Chief John Inman, hardly a black favorite.

A foe of school integration. And "the man who voted against putting public housing in the suburbs." He plans on using hundreds of college students, 40,000 handbills and a combination caravan and sound-truck blitz to put the point across. Despite Bond's recently proferred help that Julian has ever touched hasn't turned to gold," says the candidate), Williams admits there's plenty of work to be done. "My lead on this first ballot must be so explicit, so clear that I'll offset the financial advantages of my opponent in the run-off," he says. At a minimum, he estimates, he must get one and a half votes for every vote that his closest opponent gets.

Turner apparently is aware of the turn the campaign has taken. "The thrust of my effort here on out. is to be sure the voters understand' what the real issues are," he says. "Some of my opponents arc getting a little reckless witli the truth." But, he adds confidently, There a 67 candidates running for election to the Atlanta City Council, three of them write-in contenders. Voters may cast ballots for seven candidates, one district representative and six candidates running for the council's at-large posts.

Here, at a glance, are the candidates, beginning with the office-seekers bidding for election to the at-large posts: 13TH POST MORRIS BROWN. Age 44. Born in Atlanta. BA, University of Chicago: LLB, Yale University Law School. E.

GREGORY GRIGGS. Age 70. Born in Atlanta. Georgia Tech accounting graduate. Corporate management official.

Atlanta alderman. ROBB PITTS. Age 31. Born in Haddock, Ga. BS.

Ohio University; diploma, La Academia Hispanoamericana in Mexico; master's degree, Kent State University; Ph.D. La Universidad Intcramerica-na in Mexico. Businessman. 14TII POST. MARVIN S.

ARRINGTON. Age 32. Born in Atlanta. AB, Clark College; Emory University law graduate. Lawyer.

Atlanta alderman. 15TIIPOST SHERMAN BARGE. Age 36. Born in Camden, N.J. AB, Shaw University; Howard University law graduate.

Community organizer, businessman and lawyer. PANKE BRADLEY. Age 33. Born at Parris Island, S.C. Antioch College graduate: master's degree, University of Chicago.

Social services administrator and researcher. Atlanta alderman (appointed). H. D. DODSON.

Age .41 Born in Atlanta. High school graduate; photography apprentice. Photographer. Atlanta alderman. 16TH POST DONALD S.

AZAR. Age 41. Born in Atlanta. Emory University graduate. r-chant.

CHUCK DRIEBE. Age 39. Born in Scranton, Pa. University of Georgia law graduate. Attorney.

Atlanta alderman (appointed). BUDDY FOWLKES. Age 45. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio. BS, Georgia Tech.

Assistant professor and track coach at Georgia Tech. Atlanta alderman. EDDIE ROBINSON. Age 37. Born in Houston.

Tex. University of Texas graduate. Public affairs executive. TRUETTE T. STUBBS.

35. Born in Atlanta. BA, Emory University; Harvard Business School graduate. Investment firm partner. MARY JO VOGEL.

Age 23. Born in Jefferson. Wis. Georgia State student. Socialism activist.

(Write-in). law school Counselor. in Atlanta. Drug TILLMAN WARD. Age 28.

Born in Atlanta. BS, Morris Brown College; attended Atlanta University and Emory University. Food sales representative. J. LOWELL WARE.

Age 45. Born in Alabama. BS, Alabama University; attended Morehouse College. Newspaper editor and publisher. 4TH DISTRICT JAMES BOND.

Age 28. Born in Fort Vallev, Ga High school graduate; attended col lege. Politician. MALCOLM J. Dean.

Age 48. Born in Oklahoma. BA, Oak-wood College in Alabama; MA. Andrews University in Michigan, advanced study at Atlanta University. Real estate broker.

MILDRED GLOVER. Age 36. Born in Savannah. BS, Savannah State College; MA, New York University; Doctorate, University of Georgia. College professor and account-.

ing consultant. ETHEL MATHEWS. Age 42. Born in Alabama. High school graduate.

Welfare rights activist. JESSE WILLIAMS. Age 43. Born in Atlanta. Attended Blayton Business College and Los Angeles City College.

Community service agency director. 5TH DISTRICT MORRIS FINLEY. Age 34. Born in Atlanta. High school graduate; attended lithography trade school.

Commercial printer. CHARLES TURNER. Age 53. Born in Atlanta. Attended Morehouse College.

a c-housc foreman. GTH DISTRICT EDWARD G. HARTLINE. Age 28. Born in Erie, Pa.

BS and MBA, Pennsylvania State University. Investment banker. TOM HOUCK. Age 26. Born in Cambridge, Mass.

High school graduate. Politician. NICK G. LAMBROS. Age 47.

Born in Ada, Ohio. BS and LD, from Emory University. Attorney. Atlanta alderman (appointed) and former state representative. 7TH DISTRICT HANK SCHWAB.

Age 32, Born in Miami. Fla. Bachelor's degree, Georgia Tech. Architect. FRANK ALLEY.

Age 29. Born in Atlanta. BS. Georgia Slate. Mathematician.

GKORGI 62. Born i Graduate Wholesale alderman. COTSAKIS. Age ii New York, N.Y. of Georgia Tech.

grocer. Atlanta ROGER KELTON. Age 31. Born in Dayton, Ohio. BS, By JOE LEDLIE The six-man contest for city council president has largely turned into a series of two-man sprints.

The prize in this political marathon? A chance to run yet another race. Because the Atlantans who go to the polls Tuesday to elect a new city council president won't. They'll have to Wait two weeks, return to the voting booths and try again in a runoff election that now seems sure to erne. At sake is a job whose holder will serve as parliamentary power-broker in the new city council scheduled to take office Jan. 1.

Since the charter setting up the new council also calls for a massive reorganization of city government, the job will be a ticklish one. Meanwhile, two days before the first race, the strange fate that governs Atlanta politics has paired some surprising opponents in the preliminary heats. Cecil Turner, for example, faces final-hour competition from Hosea Williams, highly vocal, barrel-chested civil rights activist. Williams, i campagn buoyed by the Uth-hour 'manageral support of state Rep. Julian Bond, vows to "the other side" of Turner to the black community, where the veteran white alderman obviously counts on "I'm still the front runner, and I'm going to win.

"interesting" that Bond has taken over the Williams campaign, but quickly drops the subject when pressed. He sat next to Bond when they served together in the Georgia House of Representatives in the late '60s, he notes. As for Williams' run-off hopes, Turner is skeptical. The race for the second spot, he says, is "between Wyche and Wade." Aldermen Wyche Fowler and Wade Mitchell are running their own warm-up race to lure the white liberal-to-moderatc vote they once shared. But neither has written off the chance of black support.

Mitchell, a 38-year-old banker and former Georgia Tech football star, is expending "a little more energy" in th black community, where he claims he has a recognition problem. That claim is borne out by the results of his 1969 aider-manic race, which saw him tail Turner and Fowler in terms of black votes. The Mitchell campaign has suffered from oft-repeated but.