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"Atlanta Council Members Propose Airport Name Switch"

Tuesday, September 16, 2003

Atlanta Council Members Propose Airport Name Switch
The Atlanta (GA) Journal-Constitution


Instead of putting former Mayor Maynard Jackson's name on a new airport
terminal, an Atlanta city councilman wants former Mayor William Hartsfield's
name on it. 

Jackson's name then would replace Hartsfield's on Atlanta's main airport ---
a suggestion that already has been given a cold shoulder by a special
commission that will advise the City Council on mayoral honors this Friday. 

As the special advisory commission prepares to recommend that the council
name the new $982 million international terminal for Jackson, Councilman
Derrick Boazman on Monday introduced three proposals of his own: 

One calls for renaming Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport the "Maynard
H. Jackson International Airport." 

Another calls for placing the Hartsfield name on the international terminal,
which will be completed in 2006. 

The third calls for erecting statues for both former mayors at the airport. 

Council members C.T. Martin, Natalyn Archibong and Ivory Young, cosigned
Boazman's paper. 

Eight of 15 council votes are needed to change the airport's name.


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