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Hiclsen ratings Mable represented in the legislature." As a new representative. Miss Thomas might be short on specifics, but she at least has a vision to guide her. "I would like there to be a society where there is equal opportunity for all all nationalities, men and women and where people could live in peace and where people have equal access to jobs and education and where people dealt with each other on a level of brotherly and sisterly love." 1 The Ccwbv Sow 2 60 Minutvt OS) 3 Highway to Mepyen 'NBC' 4 Th. Hunter iNBO 5 The A Team INBG 6 The nlofci'f INBO Paper Dolls lABCl 8 MA'jH Spec iCBSl Three'i Company (ABO 10 Jessie I ABC) I I family INBO 20,20 lABCl 13 (mniy A words tCBSl 1 4 Hawaiian Heal IABO IS Simon Simon CBSl 16 Ti.V Webster lABCl TV Bloopers' INBO 18 i T.e' Burning Sage iQJSr NBC All Star Hour INBO 20 Cugney locey CBSl CALLAWAY I Fall the General Assembly. During the campaign, she bought a 1973 Chevy Impala, a clunker of a car with a peeling vinyl roof, and had it painted with slogans about Able Mable.

"A brother named Abdul painted it." she says, while admiring the art work. "I just call it the Ablemobile." To aid her campaign, she recruited what some observers saw only as a bunch of children. Ranging in age from 7 to 17, they were her Youth Corps, she says. "I'm clear that whoever can organize the youth paves the way to the future. I knew the campaign would serve as a motivator for youth." Though she's not yet in office.

Miss Thomas already puts in 16-hour days. Somehow, she still hopes to complete her master's degree while serving in the House and to supplement her legislative salary with work as a consultant In keeping with her activist past, she plans to educate her constituency about the General Assembly (through a newsletter and talks with groups) so they can have greater impact on decision-making. "A lot of people are not familiar with the role of a state representative," she says. "I want to try to raise the consciousness of the people in the area." At the same time, she wants to work closely with other officials at the state and local level. But she also wants to put to rest any concerns that because she had the backing of several representatives including Billy McKinney, Tyrone Brooks, Douglas Dean and Bob Holmes she won't be an independent voice.

"Just for the record," she says, "the1 public officials who came, in to endorse me came in after the primary. If anybody knows me, they know I'm a person who weighs out a situation and makes my own Bill Cosby's new sitcom is a ratings smash IN LOVE By Alan Patureau Slat) writer i ine i sitcom was aoout to oe ness contracts and greater emphasis on the development of Atlanta's southside. The youngest of five children in a lower-middle-class family, Miss Thomas grew up in a house at the corner of Jones Avenue and Chestnut Street, where she still lives with her mother, Madie Thomas. The representative-elect wants someday to be married and have children. "But as yet," she says, with a not-too-worried laugh, "I haven't had any convincing proposals." Miss Thomas' late father was a boiler operator, and she recalls, "We didn't have a lot I think of myself as an achiever against the odds.

But thought it was a little bit different in having a house in a ghetto rather than having an apartment I knew we were poor, but it didn't have a big impact on me. -Our family stressed education." At Booker T. Washington High School, where she graduated in 1975, Miss Thomas was vice president of the senior class and played basketball well enough to win a scholarship to Georgia State University. She played college basketball for only a year but became involved in a host of other extracurricular activities while completing her undergraduate degree and beginning work on a master's degree in public administration. Listed in Who's Who Among dents in American Universities and Colleges, she is vice president of the Student Government Association, has chaired the Black Life and Culture Committee, has taken part in several peace organizations, volunteers for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and, during the last legislative sessions, was a state Senate intern.

At the same time, Miss Thomas, a staunch member of the Cosmopolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, has continued to be active in her home community as a volunteer with the English Avenue Community Scouts and a tutor at a boys and girls club. A jogger, jazz buff and avid theater-goer, she has taught drama to young people at summer daycamps sponsored by the John F. Kennedy Community Center and won a Bronze Jubilee award this year for outstanding contributions to the arts in the black community. If there's criticism of her efforts, it's that she spreads herself too thin. But Miss Thomas says, "Sometimes you can't avoid it Sometimes so many things are happening that are related." While her emphasis on constituent service reflects an old-fashioned political style, Mable Thomas, is not likely to be an orthodox member of written off as passe when along comes Bill Cosby with his first prime-time series, in nine years and it's off to a smashing start.

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In response to the needs, the common ones plaguing the poor like lack of housing or heating, Miss Thomas has begun setting up her office as a referral service for people with problems. Much of the time now, she's meeting with various United Way agencies to find out what they can do and to tell them what she hopes to accomplish. "I don't like to think of myself as a politician," she says. "I like to think of myself as a public servant" Long interested in politics, Mable Thomas distributed leaflets for former Mayor Jackson's campaigns and was Georgia State University coordinator for Mayor Andrew Young's 1981 race. But it Jesse Jackson's presidential campaign this year that inspired her to become a candidate.

While serving as Jackson's state student coordinator, she was captivated by what she saw as his long-range vision and sense of idealism. Miss Thomas won a seat the Democratic convention in San Francisco as a Jackson delegate and was singled out in a San Francisco Examiner feature story during the. convention as "one of the young rising stars in the Rev. Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition." Sitting in her office surrounded by plaques from the many community organizations that have honored her for service, Miss1 Thomas now supporting the Mondale-Ferraro presidential ticket talks of human beings as a rainbow with interlock-: ing needs. Many of her concerns are often cubbyholed as "black" or "women's" issues, but she prefers to label them people's issues.

People in her district need more jobs, more and better housing, quality education and freedom from crime and drugs, she says. To begin to meet those needs. Miss Thomas says, "We need to work on building some type of community pride. If you can get a lot of pride, crime would decrease. Then you can get commercial investment to come in the area.

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Officially, the new season didn't get under way until Monday, but as lusual the networks rushed to unveil of their new product early. ABC won the week with an average prime-time rating of 15.3 and a share although its highest-cranked individual show was No. 7 "Paper Dolls" (also a premiere). NBC was second with a 14.8 and a while CBS registered 14.2 and To snare the No. 1 spot, "The fCosby Show" clobbered the first half jjf a rerun of CBS's "Magnum, P.I." the 8 p.m.

Thursday time slot, llhe Tom Selleck series usually finds a place in the top 20 with repeats or ji new episodes, but it drew only 24 percent of the audience last week. Recipient ol Mobil four Sur AAA FourDidmond Awards Sandra Robertson, who initially ran against Miss Thomas and in the runoff actively supported her, says the new representative might have some things to learn come January but predicts she'll bring fresh energy to state government. "The General Assembly won't know how to deal with Mable Thomas," Ms. Robertson says, "because she's not owned by anyone." State Sen. Julian Bond thinks she'll be effective.

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