Run Hippies Out: Millican

By ALEX COFFIN

Soon after police battled hippies in Piedmont Park, Ald. Everett Millican told a church audience a few blocks away that if elected mayor he would run the hippies out of town.

Millican, taking his "law and order with justice" campaign before the Pacers group of the First Presbyterian Church, added that he would try to rehabilitate as many of the hip pies as possible and get rid of the rest.

He didn't give details.

Millican said that Atlanta has two kinds of hippies- “the longhaired youngsters who have had trouble at home… (and)… the professionals who are selling drugs. .. and they are moving in from outside and are a menace.”

SITUATION DISGRACE

Millican said the situation in the 10-14th-Peachtree street area is a disgrace as far as the "hippies, homosexuals, sex deviates and drug pushers" are concerned.

Voicing his now familiar theme, he said that the hallway of one apartment house in the area had been used for restroom purposes 30 times.

Asked what he would do, Millican said that Boston had closed the Boston Commons and got rid of its hippies; "although I don't think they went any further than Cambridge, but Boston got rid of them."

Millican unsuccessfully tried to put a curfew on the parks earlier this year.

In answer to a question from the audience, Millican admitted that Piedmont Park, was dirty and had benches in need of repair and paint but "as fast as we clean up, it's dirty again.

BEGAN EARLIER

He agreed with a questioner that the area around Piedmont Park had begun to deteriorate before the hippies arrived, “but it's gone down a lot more since.

Millican also hit on a number of other subjects, but refrained from his recent hard-hitting attacks against his opponents.

He lashed out against "filth, smut and trash” on the news-stands and against legalized gambling, but spoke for police precinct stations protecting the city's strictly single family residential areas from apartment projects, a self-supporting coliseum and a rapid transit plan financed by means other than ad valorem taxes.