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Till* Mid and Black. Utrinevdax 4»—W» 7. 1979
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Ex-mayor defeated
, J**2!*# <UPI)—Republican City (Councilman George Israel
defeated former Mayor Ronnie Thompson Tuesday in fhe city’s
mayoral race, ending Thompson's third attempt a! a political
comeback
With 37 of 41 precincts reporting, Israel received 16,740 votes to
Thompsons 12.785.
ls» ael succeeds Mayor Buck Melton who decided not to seek a
second term
Election officials had predicted that Macon voters woul(!> cast
the!r ballots in possibly record numbers in the mayoral race
which had become a personality clash between Thompson and
Israel.
PARTICIPANTS ARMED
Klan to march
GREENSBORO, N.C. (UPI)
—A communist group that had
five of its members killed in a
weekend confrontation between
Ku Klux Klansmen and Amer
ican Nazis will be able to hold
another march Sunday al
though city officials have
halted issuance of march
permits.
Police Chief William E
Swing said he has been
informed by members of the
Workers Viewpoint Organi
zation, also called the Com
munist Workers Party U S A ,
that they will be carrying the
bodies of four of the dead with
them and burial services will
be held after the march
Swing said that action turns
the march into a funeral
procession and "we do not
prevent funeral processions "
The five people were killed
just before an anti-Klan march
Saturday in an exchange of
gunfire with a group police
describe as • Klansmen and
Nazis. Fourteen people are
charged in the deaths
Police were present when the
shooting began and marchers
have charged they were not
given adequate police protec
lion They have said they will
be prepared to protect them
selves at Sunday’s march
Swing said such action could
cause problems
"I would think it would be a
very volatile situation," he
said "I would think anybody
in a funeral procession would
choose not to carry weapons ”
While the communists pre
pare to bury their dead, law
enforcement officials continue
their attempts to find out what
happened
The FBI said Tuesday its
agents in North Carolina are
investigating the clash Cecil
D Moses, assistant special
agent in charge of North
Carolina, said about 40 agents
have been assigned to the case
"It’s a very intensive, broad
investigation." Moses said,
with the probe focusing on who
organized the assault
"Was it organized or were
these individual acts the result
of individual people acting
individually" is the central
question of the investigation,
he said.
Moses said the probe will
include a review of the
Greensboro Police Depart
ment’s handling of the incident
but that will not be a key point
of the investigation
Swing said the city is
continuing its investigation of
police actions. At a Tuesday
news conference, he discussed
police radio transmissions near
the time of the shooting
They indicate that an un
marked police surveillance car
picked up a procession of cars
driven by Klan and Nazi
members shortly after it
entered the city and followed it
to the march site
Swing said the plainclotnes
officer who had followed the
carivan reported heckling
broke out soon after the
Klansmen arrived. Forty-eight
seconds passed and the officer
reported a fight was in
progress
Fifteen seconds later, he
reported "shots fired" and. 19
seconds late, he reported
heavy gunfire
Swing said seven police
officers were on the scene
within a minute of the
shooting. 15 officers were there
within two minutes. 21 within
three minutes and 28 within
five minutes
Ray may be isolated
after escape attempt
PETROS. Tcnn. (UPI)—James Farl Ray. convicted assassin of
l)r. Marlin Luihcr King Jr., could be placed in total isolation for his
latest attempt to break out of fortress like Brushy Mountain Stale
Prison, officials said lucsdax.
Ray. serving a W-vcar sentence for the slaying of King at
Memphis, faces a hearing on attempted escape charges today
Indore a three-me. iber prison disciplinary board.
"As long as he's here, we figure he will probably try another
break." said prison spokesman Rav Tucker.
Ray. 51. and his cellmate sawed through she back of their ceil in
the early morning darkness Monday, climbed to the root through a
vent system, and slid down a drainpipe into the "no
man's land" between the walls and a 12-foot high fence encircling
the prison.
Ray meekly surrendered when a lower guard fired a warning
blast from her 12-gauge shotgun after spotting him creeping toward
the fence beneath a green blanket.
Anna Sandhu Ray. who married Ra\ one year ago inside the
mountain prison, said she combined her husband with a couple of
kisses Tuesday. Bui it may be the last visit for the newlywed tor
some time if prison officials decide to revoke Rax's visitation
privileges and isolate him from other inmates.
"It was nice to see him." said the blonde Mrs. Ra\ a J2-ycar-eld
free-lance artist who first met Ra\ w hile sketching him at one of his
many court appearances to win a new tiral.
"We had a bench between us. but we had a couple of kisses. I
know exactly why he got out. It is a terrible life in there. James is
perfectly aware of where he is and for how long.
Dcbby Patterson, a spokeswoman for Gov. Lamar Alexander, said
Rax could be placed in total isolation for up to JO days and placed in
administrative confinement for a longer period with a review every
JO days. She said the board could also restrict Rax s visitation and
recreational privileges.
Prison officials said they had no doubt that Rax will trx to escape
again.
"You just watch him and hope he doesn't get away.” said
Tucker. "He's no problem as far as a disciplinarx problem. He just
wants to leave every once in a while. We’ve had a lot of knifings,
beatings, things of that sort up here and he's never participated in
anv of that. He's very polite and courteous."
Rax failed in two previous attempts to break out ot Brushy,
stuffed in a box canyon of the rugged Cumberland Mountains 40
miles northwest of Knoxville.
But he scrambled over the back wall on a makeshift ladder on
June 10. I 1 )??, and led authorities on a 55-hour chase before a
bloodhound found him hiding beneath a pile of leaves on a dark,
snake-infested mountainside
Tucker said the disciplinarx hearing for Rax and his cellmate will
"be handled like a miniature trial. They will be tried for attempted
escape and being out of place."
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