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Vol. 100, No. 249 Anniston, Ala. Csjnttfttt cupyrtf MMl 1971 Thursday, Sept. 7, 1978 Price 15 Cents 'Alabama's largest home-owned newspaper veto test Carte faces first By LEE BYRO Aifodated Preti Writer WASHINGTON AP) President Carter faced the first possible rebuke of his veto power today as the House neared a showdown vote on whether to authorize construction of a $2 billion nuclear-.

powered alrcaft carrier over his objection. Both opponents and supporters of the carrier claimed to have enough support to carry the vote, expected about midday. Carter vetoed the $37 billion defense authorization bill featuring the nuclear carrier Aug. 17, describing the carrier as wasteful at the expense of other, more vital defense projects. Although the chairmen of both the House and 1 Senate Armed Services committees joined the intensive drive to override the president, Speaker Thomas P.

O'Neill and other House Democratic leaders stood by Carter and predicted he would be sustained by a narrow margin. -7" Carter's veto was the fifth of his presidency and 1 the first to draw an attempt to override, which a handful of ships and I say we need more and smaller ships." Rep. Melvin Price, D-I1I7 chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, led the override campaign and won a. 24-6 recommendation of that course from other members of the panel. Price and most ranking members of the committee pointed to several seeming flaws in Carter's veto message, including the claim that some $800 million in priority, NATOoriented programs had been eliminated to make room for the carrier.

In fact, such huge cuts were not part of the bill, although they could materialize in companion appropriations measures. White House officials said when Carter exercised the veto he was looking at prospects in the whole legislative process including the appopriations bills to come rather than the specific authorization measure alone. requires a two-thirds vote in both houses. It was also the first veto of a major defense program in modern history, triggering protests from many that Carter was interfering with the constitutional duty of Congress "to make rules for the government of the land and naval forces." House Republican Whip Robert Michel of Illinois declared late Wednesday, "We only regret that the president has allowed political considerations to enter into his veto and obstruct us in the exercise of our constitutional responsibility." Michel and others, including some Democrats, suggested that Carter's action was prompted more by a desire to assert his political strength and Improve his public image than by any serious objections to the carrier. Carter's defenders say such charges are outrageous.

Rep. Les Aspin, declared, "The issue is simply one of whether we should have a nuclear carrier. It is not a constitutional crisis. We've been spending billions of dollars for 1 HAVE A GOOD DAY! If James, Baxley mmm faceoff begin 7 'i A "-State Local- i THE CALHOUN COUNTY FAIR will run Sept. 25-30 and will feature, for the first time, craft booths by artisans across the state.

More parking spaces have been added. Details Page 7A. i i i CAREER EDUCATION and "open door" admissions have brought growth, to Jacksonville State University, now the third largest state university. Has growth been achieved at the cost of educational standards? Details Page 5A DEATHS: Mrs. Lizzie M.

Shanks of Anniston; Mrs. John Dandridge Bibb of Tuscaloosa; Mrs. Lois S. Carson of Pahokee, and Mrs. Annie Mae McAuley Zaner of Framingham, Mass.

Details Page 3A. 4 -Teresa Cheatham sings at Atlantic City From Staff, Wire Reports Political newcomer Fob James returned to cheering hometown supporters in Opelika Wednesday while Atty. Gen. Bill Baxley wasted no time in shifting to a runoff strategy, as the two prepared for a Sept 26 faceoff in their quest for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. James returned to his hometown aglow with having been the top gubernatorial vote-getter in Tuesday's primary balloting.

'There's no support like hometown support," James told the Opelika "But I'm afraid we're going to lose the support of the local law enforcement officers if we keep having these traffic jams. "I'm grateful for the people of Alabama for allowing us to be in the runoff," he continued. "A lot of people asked me who I would rather be in the runoff with, but we're happy to be in the runoff with anybody." EARLIER both Jamesand Baxley paid courtesy calls on Gov. George C. Wallace in the governor's office in Montgomery.

James said Wallace was "very kind" and told him to "just keep on keeping on." Baxley said he told Wallace he has a fine son. George Wallace Jr. has been a campaign worker for Baxley. Meanwhile, one of Baxley 's campaign "National talent preliminary in Miss America pageant Teresa 's singing winner in pageant advisers, Huntsville attorney Julian charged Wednesday that the financial disclosure form filed by James is "a financial lack of disclosure form." Butler said James has hired "one of the finest out-of-state political manipulators in the business," referring to Deloss Walker, the Memphis political advertising specialist who has a reputation of developing businessmen into successful politicians in several southern states. "He is an expert at packaging a candidate to be sold t3 the public, but we think that the people of Alabama want to see the two candidates and get to know what Fob James is when Deloss Walker is not orchestrating him." BAXLEY MAY get his chance, with the Alabama Public Television Network announcing Wednesday that Democratic runoff candidates in five major races have agreed to a statewide televised debate sponsored by the network and the League of Women Voters.

The debates; if they come off as scheduled, would be 17 in the House of Representatives chamber in the state capitol. The network said Baxley has agreed to debate James, but that James could not be reached. When public television official asked him about such a debate several weeks ago, however, the network said James responded favorably. 1 Baxley based his campaign heavily during the summer on slashing attacks against the supposed front-runner in the campaign, former Gov. Albert Brewer.

BAXLEY ATTACKED Brewer on his record, charging the former governor had tried to spend the state into bankruptcy as he left office in 1970 in a fit of anger at George Wallace, who would follow him, and who had just beaten him in a bitter campaign Baxley, a powerful force on television, blasted Brewer repeatedly on 30-minute broadcasts and from the campaign stump. His supporters expected him to finish first when the dust settled on Sept. 5, or, at worst, second to Brewer. Preoccupied with his attacks on Brewer, Baxley either ignored or said nice things about his other He told the Alabama Bar Association in (See Baxley, Page 6A) AUTOPSY EXPERTS planned today to endorse the Warren Commission's conclusion that the bullet which killed President John F. Kennedy came from the back, according to a knowledgeable source.

Details page 9C. ANWAR SADAT and Menachem Begin are at Camp David, talking face-to-face for the first time since Christmas, but PresidenlTafler Is lealinf Iheirwords at the Mideast summit in secrecy. Details page 2A. A MYSTERIOUS bomber In Speedway, "has got to be caught," says a friend of one of two persons injured in the eighth explosion to rock this central Indiana community in six days. But police have no motive and no suspects.

Details page 9C. WOMEN WHO STOP Using the pill less than a month before conception have babies with slightly more minor defects, but no babies face "large risks of malformation" from oral contraceptives, conclude Harvard researchers in the largest study of its kind. Details page 6A. James aided by southern part of state and acting lessons at Jacksonville State University, where she has performed in several of the school's stage productions. "She could get up and pick out a tune on the piano when she was old enough to climb up on the stool," Mrs.

Prickett said. She said Teresa would have finished college already had she not taken so many music and acting courses at the university. She is a senior at JSU this year. The 5-foot-3, 105-pound brunette described herself as a soprano, but during her talent competition her voice range traveled several octaves, not even straining slightly on the highest notes. She wore a light pink gown with a carnation in her hair.

Easily the crowd favorite judging by the applause after her performance, Miss Cheatham turned to the audience and blew them a kiss with both hands, reminiscent of Dinah She said she wants to be "more than just a professional performer, but an artist," which she defined as a person who works everyday to become just as perfect in their craft as (See Teresa, Page 6A) From Staff, Wire Reports ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. A "modern Southern belle" as she calls herself, Teresa Cheatham of Wellington, Miss Alabama, said she had "tears of happiness" in her eyes as she walked down the runway to the cheers of more than 7,000 people. The 20-year-old farmer's daughter won the talent competition Wednesday night at Convention Hall here in the first of three preliminary shows before the nationally televised show on Saturday. Sue Erickson, Miss Minnesota, an 18-year-old college student who wants to become a nurse, won the preliminary swimsuit competition. The Wellington native won the evening's talent competition with a powerful but graceful operatic rendition of "And This Is My Beloved" from Kismet.

"I'm glad she won. A thing like that you never expect said Mrs. Anne Prlckett, Teresa's grawnother, from the family's Wellington home this morning. Miss Cheatham has expressed a desire to appear in stage musicals and has taken voice "International THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT doesn't want former President Nixon to visit Australia and neither do most of the newspapers, but the cattlemen have rushed him an invitation to speak to their annual convention. Details page 2A.

U.S. BUSINESSMAN Francis J. Crawford of Mobile is convicted of buying rubles on the Soviet black market and given a five-year suspended jail sentence by a Soviet judge. Crawford is free to leave the U.S.S.R. Details Page 6A.

"Sports reflect discontent Returns IT'S ANNISTON AGAINST Emma Sansom Friday night and Anniston needs a win to stay alive in area competition. For a preview of the game, see Page 1C. JACKSONVILLE "STATE University is ready to play Saturday night, says coach Jim Fuller. Sports Editor Wayne Hester looks at the game on Page 1C. THE NEW YORK Yankees open a four-game series against the Boston Red Sox tonight in Boston and the outcome could 1 BY THOMAS NOLAND and RANDY HENDERSON Star Staff Writers Fob James swept a wide swath of rural south Alabama counties to help him place first in Tuesday's Democratic gubernatorial primary, while Bill Baxley gained the second slot with strong showings In urban pockets throughout the state.

With 92.5 percent of the vote counted this morning, James appears to have won 38 of Alabama's 67 counties all but four of them south of Calhoun, which went to Sid 'McDonald. Baxley won fewer counties 12 but among them Were Jefferson and Mobile, the two most populous in the state, along with Tuscaloosa and Houston, each of which has a major urban center. James and Brewer meet in a runoff Sept. 26 to determine the- Democratic challenger to Republican nominee Guy Hunt of Cullman. Hunt defeated Republicans Bert Hayes and Julian Elgin easily Tuesday.

WITH HIS fresh face, his easygoing campaign style and his attention to the back roads and branchheads of the state, James was well ahead in such counties as Lee (his home county), Choctaw, Clarke, Monroe and Escambia. 1 The rural support also was responsible for his few, victories in north Alabama counties. Lamar, Marion, Lawrence and Limestone voted James, while their more urban neighbors went for McDonald (Madison and Etowah) or Albert Brewer (Lauderdale) or Baxley (Colbert). And even In the counties he didn't James generally placed a strong second or at third. i In HoustonCounty, for instance, which is (See James, Page IA) determine the division winner.

See story on Page 1C. "People want something different than what we Looking ahead to the Sept. 26 runoff against Incumbent commission chairman Roscoe Simmons of Anniston, Boozer says he is "going to try to dramatize more effectively what the county faces in the next four years," aitettprt that will include the use of television commercials. In the wake of the primary, what stood out in the commission chairman's race was the By ART JESTER Star Staff Writer Jack D. Boozer, the Jacksonville druggist who led Tuesday's primary for Calhoun County Commission chairman, says the county's "political climate and discontent" make this a ripe political year for challengers to incumbent officeholders.

Though he cites such familiar Issues as the state Investigation of the county road department and what he calls the "obvious deterioration of county services," Boozer saysJie think a more recent issue Weathe HOT AND DRY weather with plenty of sunshine through Friday, and likely through the weekend. Details Page 7A. areas.1 BOOZER LED the field of four commission candidates With 7,850 votes, or 38.8 percent. Simmons, a 20-year commission veteran who is seeking his third term as chairmanr earned a spot in the runoff by finishing second with 5,003 votes, or 24.7 percent. Back of him were Fred Williams of Anniston with 3.849 votes, or 19 percent, and Ben Hollingsworth of Weaver with 3,530 votes, or 17.4 percent.

A comparison of this year's vote totals with those from 1974 give an initial indication of the strides Boozer made In four years. In the 1974 primary, which had a two-man field, Simmons led with 10,734 voter, or 56.1 percent. Boozer trailed with 1,230 votes, or 43.4 percent. yi' SIMMONS CARRIED 36 boxes, JrWer (See Retarns, Mrf r- Analysis I property reappraisal had an Impact on the lcommisslon chairman's race. "Also inside Ask Us IB Classified ads 4-7D Comics Dear Abby George Smith Jeane Dixon 1-5B Movies People In the 7B Sports J-7C Television JC breadth of Boozer's support, an acbivement more notable when compared with hit-unsuccessful campaign against Simmons in 1974.

Based on complete but unofficial returns TQesday, Boozer carried all of the boxes in Jacksonville, Piedmont and Oxford, carried a plurality of boxes in Anniston and had big -Increases of voting strength in the rural "Tax reappraisal let tne stage tor massive discontent on the part of most residents of the Boozer says. people were opposed to massive tax increase." But Boozer lays issues were not the overriding factors In Tuesday's results. "BASICALLY, It was a personality thing in the commissioner's race," Boozer says. Pm to" McNontBy null, 34 ptti in four iKtlons.