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...shuttered his Atlanta Pickrick Restaurant in 1964 rather than accept an integrated clientele, Maddox won the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in an upset runoff victory over former Governor Ellis Arnall, a racial moderate. Republicans thought that Maddox would be the less formidable candidate against their man, Congressman Howard ("Bo") Callaway...
...proved a wilier bird than even his most knowing opponents anticipated. He has promised to appoint Negroes to state boards and -while insisting that "these colored people won't be involved in our social life"-says that as Governor he would "treat all minority groups fairly." Textile Millionaire Callaway is a segregationist himself, though of a subtler hue. He claims that a Maddox victory would be a blow to the state "from which it may never recover," pleaded before a Rotary Club meeting in the tobacco town of Douglas last month: "Which one is going to bring in industry...
...Georgia, the first published gubernatorial poll reported Republican Howard ("Bo") Callaway ahead of Democrat Lester Maddox, 42%to 34% , with 24% undecided...
...Some of Connecticut's richest Republicans have sent their campaign contributions to conservatives running elsewhere-Ronald Reagan in California, John Tower in Texas, Bo Callaway in Georgia-instead of helping liberal G.O.P. Candidate E. Clayton Gengras in his race for the state governorship. These outstate contributions, said Gengras' finance chairman, already total some...
...Callaway, having opened his campaign in October with a speech blasting the Sanders administration, stated a week later that he would "continue the honest administration of Carl Sanders and Ernie Vandiver," in a flagrant move to gain moderate votes. But moderates still believe that Bo is just a Lester without a Pickrick stick...