Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-04-02
|GN OPENS
To N|NFAVOR
FOR BONDS
Mayor Still Hopes to Get Council
to Merge Grady and Plaza
Issues.

Campo gners for a Greater Grady
Hospital Thursday entered into their
WORK with q vim and determination
10 win the peoples support. They
viii wage a campaign unprecedented
.n The history of Atlanta
Council at special meeting
Wednesday afternoon. was almost
unanimous in its Endorsement of a
$750.000 bond issue for Grady i'm.
provements. and approved an ordi-
nance fixing the date Of the election
for May ; only two members Oh
jccted They We're Councilmen or
Vile II Hall Of the Third Ward, and
Alderman John : owens, Of the
Eighth Ward. Councilmen Shepard
Reynolds and Kimbrough were absent
from the meeting
The ordinance vas passed on sep
arately by the Councilmen and Al
dermanic Board The former adopted
il by vote Of 3 to J. and the latter
5 to l.
Mayor Approves at Once,
Immediately following Councils &C
ton. Mayor Woodward gave the ordi-
nance his approval by placing his sig
nature on the paper.
w G. Humphrey, chairman of the
Finance Committee. offered a resolu-
ton authorizing the expenditure OF
$500 for advertising the election as
required by law.
No mention was made of Mayor
Noodward's proposal to issue $4,000,
o00 n bonds for building the plaza
over Atlanta's "eyesore"
Expressing his opposition to the
Grady proposition Councilman Hall
claimed that $3.50 600 was not needed
for improvements at the present time
and argued that the scheme was being
rushed through TOO rapidly He did
not believe that sufficient nforma-
ton concerning the project had been
submitted
Concerning the plaza proposition.
Mayor Woodward said he was still
hopeful that county elections would
be deferred until May % and that the
two issues would be submitted to the
people at the one time.
May Defer Election.
Judge Eugene Thomas has issued
a call for meeting Of the County
Executive Committee TO be held in
the Council chamber at - o'clock
on Friday. and indications are that
il will sanction the postponement of
the election. The committee will dis
Cuss the matter with the participat-
ing candidates, and should they ap-
prove of the change Mayor Wood
ward VIII urge Council at its regular
meeting Monday to amend the Grady
Hospital bond ordinance to make the
date correspond with the time to
which the county election IS de
ferred
on the other hand il the county
committee should decline to postpone
the election, the hospital bond pro-
gram viii he carried through.
Mayor Woodward said ne would not
Ike TO have the plaza bonds submit
ted at an earlier date than May %
as he wanted to give those interested
i'm the movement plenty of time to
plan campo gn
ri want the plaza proposition to be
successful" he declared, because. in
my opinion, IL is most important
project and it VIII mean much for
Atlanta
He did NOT wish to he understood
as considering the Grady bonds of
lesser Importance than the other be-
cause he believed the health and well
fare of the people to be of greater
Importance than anything else.
Judging from the stand taken by a
rumoer Of county candidates inter
viewed by The Georgian Wednesday
it is not likely that the executive
committee viii meet with any oppo-
sition when the time comes for post
poning the election Their sentiment
was unanimous for any scheme that
would mean any benefit to Atlanta
and they were willing to agree to any
! thing suggested by the committee