The Macon Telegraph found nothing "liberal" in Maddox, whom it dismissed as "a grave threat to peace, dignity, and progress."
The Macon Telegraph reported that a bucket brigade of both black and white citizens worked to save the buildings which had begun to burn after midnight.
Its editor until 2011 was Mara Shalhoup, a former crime writer for the Macon Telegraph.
The Macon Telegraph hired Harris as a typesetter later that year.
The new Macon Telegraph and News was published as a morning paper seven days a week.
Officials at the site held a public meeting a year ago to unveil a further cleanup plan costing $21 million, The Macon Telegraph reported.
The Macon Telegraph decreed Weltner "a public servant greatly to be admired."
McQueen also worked as the managing editor of the Macon Telegraph.
As an undergraduate he worked as an intern and then as a reporter at The Macon Telegraph.
According to the Macon Telegraph, the mall was completely empty by 1978.