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Sure Thing In 1'i ij-Or's Ra.ce ! -, :;i1Ft Is Mrs. Jenness Won't Win By ALEX COFFIN One thing can be said with certainty about the outcome of the mayor's race-Mrs. Linda Jenness, the Socialist Workers Party candidate, won't win. She's virtu:1Ily unkno wn, has little money, pas a platform u n acceptable to the majority of voters and is Alex c:fiin a woman. But · that hasn't deterred her cam· , paigning. Mrs. Jenness won't attract as much attention as other can- ') f:;J':;~lr: i -;~ I l• ~~ f:~; t1t 1. f li clidates, but she has something voting bloc between the labor to say and here it is : bureaucracy, moderate black For example, she explained l'e aders and t he Dixiecrats? 143.215.248.55:gtl~irf~;s h~;o:c~;~;/ ~:m~ ;~~t:1i~t ii~itit~!~ot~ft~7 capitalist politician, who, she black community and the labor said is either satisfied with the movement with sugary promstatus quo or believes ti ~~ . .: ms ises and when elected throw - · .- ---the promises in the was,te basComment and Analysis ket," she said. Sodalist candidates, however, can be made within the frame - don't believe the major probwork of the existing capitalist lerns of the nation can be solved "by piling reforms one on top system. "Since the pr~ ·-goal of of th.e other within the walls the capitalist politi.c'iari is t o get of the capitalist system," she elected, he will make whatever said. Mrs. J enness added that unholy alliances are necessary the United States' foreign policy to achieve this aim . How many attempts to preserve capitalism Democraitic presidents have throughout the world and interbeen elected on the basis of a vene against "the rising re volu- -- - - - - - - - -· tion of oppressed people. · · ," -~-~w-~·~-~w- RACIST PLAGUE At home, the "racist plague , .. cannot be wip ed out without uprooting the existing economic and political order. . • • The privileged minority of capitalists that run this country cannot permit the black community to control its own affairs because it would' end the profitable fr uits of racism ," she said. Mrs. Jenness demands abolishrnent of sales and gasoline taxes. no taxes ·on income less than $7,500 and 100 per cent on incomes more than $25,000, rais-ing corpora te taxes and 100 per cent tax on war profits. "Politicians like (E verett) Millican, (Sam) Massell and (R;odney) Cook may argue that this _w~ul~ be a_ good ~ema,id but it 1s 1mposs_1~e. !t 1s only 'impossible' if you are a capitalist politician attempting to defend the capitalist system," she said_

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The Atlanta Water Department set an all time record June 27· when the syst~m pumped 129.6 ;nillion gallons. lH t ' 'tj · ' ·1 · ~ , -1· :_: ,; J..•

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• Reliable sources say Dr. Horace Tate is having trouble raising money for his campaign for mayor. Other political observers say that while Tate is far from being highly popular in the black community, he may get a lot of votes just because he is the first black candidate for the , top elected spot in ,t he city.

.. Add Dr. John Middleton, president of Morris Brown College, as a strong possibility for the new 9th Ward seat on the Atlanta Board of Aldermen. Jerry. Luxemburger, a leader of Good Government Atlanta, ,told the Community Relations Commission recently, that his group had not been as successful as H had hoped in getting school board candidates. Luxemburger predicted that Ed s. Cook of the Fjrst Ward and Robinson W. Schill ing of the 6th Ward will retire after this term. Luxemburger had high words of praise ·for the school board's , newest member, William T. Beebe of the 8th Ward.

. J ohn Boone is leaving the Southern Regional Council to . ~: :::

take a job with the U.S. DepartTenants United for Fai rness ment of Justice.

(TUFF) ha ve asked six organizations invited by the Atlarrta Housing Authority to select representatives to,' the public housing advisory _committee to . �