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tA IL BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) Disclosure of a Southern Company Services internal memo has raised new questions about state Sen. Joe Fine's involvement with a coal firm that holds a five-yMr contract with Alabama Power the Birmingham Post-Herald has reported. i The newspaper said a Feb. 24, 1977, memo prepared by a Southern Company fuel serv-, ices officer indicates fine was Involved in a contract discussion by telephone of Feb.

16, -1977, several weeks after be said he sold his interest in Real Coal Co. The memo was signed by Robert Schleusner, who was in Alabama Power Co. President Joseph Farley's office at the time of the alleged telephone conversation. Fine, who is in a runoff for the Democratic nomination for attorney general, has denied any financial involvement with the power company. The memo was brought out, the Post-Herald said, in a news conference by attorney general candidate Bill Stephens on Sept.

1. U.S. Senate candidate Donald Stewart said in an Anniston press conference Friday that his opponent, Mrs. Mary on Allen, "should" either come to Alabama and debate the issues or stay in Washington and represent the state. As of now she is doing neither," Stewart said Mrs.

Allen did not participate in Senate debates and votes on the Highway Trust Fund bill, Aug. 21, "and Alabama lost a lot of money as a result of Senate action on that He said the Senate-passed bill altered the highway grant formula to the disadvantage of the state. The Anniston state senator said Mrs. Allen has failed to vote 25 percent of the time since she has served in the Senate by appointment of Gov. George C.

Wallace. Stewart said the "major issue of this campaign" has become "who will the next senator represent?" He said he would represent a "broad cross-section of the people, but who would Mrs. Allen represent?" Stewart noted that Alabama Power Co. attorneys and "the largest loan company in the world" have "poured thousands into Mrs. Allen's campaign.

Stewart, who trailed Mrs. Allen in the Sept 5 primary, said his campaign had picked up "important support from some of Ted Taylor's leading organizers in Autauga, Butler and Montgomery counties." Taylor ran third in the first primary. The Senate candidate again regretted Mrs. Allen's decision to "wash clothes" instead of debate him on public television Sunday. Stewart said both he and Mrs.

Allen have accepted alternative arrangements for separate half-hour programs on public TV Wednesday evening at and 7 p.m. romnanv naa nounc eise io aa wiin iteai either as a negotiator or an attorney. ruie cununemeu mursoav. i uun may have taken place." He said he might power company. Alabama Power spokesman Steve Bradley said that in searching for Reed, Fine was referred to Farley's office, where Reed was visiting on totally unrelated business.

Wiley: Mrs. Allen okay after all Pipeline witness object of plot? 16gauge sawed off shotgun, which was allegedly to be used to kill the government witness. A federal grand jury in Atlanta returned the Indictments Wednesday against the four men, charging that they paid expense money to a James Eugene McEachern, with the promise of 93,000 more if the witness was killed. The indictment said others also may be named. to testimony in the elder Dan Wiley, president of the Mobile County Commission, who was defeated in his race for the U.S.

Senate seat of the late Jim Allen in the Sept. 5 primary, has endorsed Sea. Maryon Allen for the seat. Wiley, who ran fourth in the first primary, attacked Mrs. Allen repeatedly in speeches and newspaper ads as a liberal in disguise and "not what she seems." Wiley on three separate days placed ads in all Alabama daily newspaper using selected quotations Morn an article about Mrs.

Allen in The Washington Post In one newspaper ad, Wiley said the black Alabama Democratic Conference endorsed both Mrs. Allen and state Sen. Donald Stewart, because the two "were both so liberal the ADC couldn't choose between them." Wiley had sought the ADC endorsement himself. Wiley said Thursday he still stands behind those ads, but views Mrs. Allen as a more conservative candidate than Stewart, her runoff opponent Repeating statements he made during the primary campaign, Wiley said Stewart has the voters who "don't know who Stewart is or what be stands for." During the primary campaign, Wiley referred to Stewart as "Mr.

Liberal," and "the most liberal member of the state Senate." He never explained the bases for the references. TALLAPOOSA, Ga. (AP) Three men have been arrested on charges of conspiring to kill a government witness in connection with the Tallapoosa pipeline trial in 1977, authorities reported. Agents of the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in Rome, said Sammie Maurice Cole, 45, was arrested Thursday at his home. Olyn Thomas Godwin, 45, turned himself in to authorities Thursday -night and Danny Chandler, 23, turned himself in to agents today in Rome, authorities said.

All three are from Tallapoosa. Bond was set at 150,000 apiece. A fourth man charged in the conspiracy, Dorman Wilson Chandler, 45, the father of Danny Chandler, presently is being held In the Fulton County jail on a bond revocation charge, authorities said. He is there awaiting appeal of his conviction in the pipeline case. In addition to the conspiracy charges, the Chandlers and Godwin also were charged with obstruction of justice.

The Chandlers and Cole were charged with possession of a Vuuiiutvi wwin hvw wag wn, i i n. apparently had a change of heart and turned the information over to federal officials about the alleged conspiracy to kill Millard Doyle Mann, who was toe primary witness in lha Taltanoncs nlnallna trial in 1077 Mann Heflin attacks Flowers record was not harmed. In that trial, 22 persons were convicted of conspiracy, theft from interstate pipelines and interstate transportation of stolen property. Twelve other persons, including Danny Chandler, were acquitted. U.S.

Senate candidate Howell Heflin said in Scottsboro Friday that his runoff opponent, U.S. Rep. Walter Flowers, voted against an amendment "which provided for a balanced federal budget within five years." Heflin said he referred to a vote in the House March 3, 1978. On that date, according to Congressional Quarterly, Flowers did vote against an amendment to the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment bill which would have made a goal of the bill. Flowers was the only Alabama congressman to vote against the amendment Rep.

John Buchanan did not vote on the issue. However, Congressional Quarterly reports that Flowers, along with the entire Alabama delegation, did then vote for another amendment which also emphasized the importance of reducing federal deficits, but provided that balanced budget policies be consistent with full employment policies. Both amendments sel a balanced budget as a "goal" of the bill, not a legal requirement. JACKSONVILLE Members of the Northeast Alabama Rose Chapter will stage its first accredited show Sunday at Martin Hall on the campus of Jacksonville State University. Rose show balanced budget within five years a major Mr.

and Mrs. Henry Hunt and Dr. R. V. Barnett, aU of Birmingham, will judge the entries five sections with plQnneQ Sunday various classes each.

"The show will be open tothe public from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Competition is open to all amateur rose growers regardless of residence or club membership, according to Lamar Bennett of the chapter. All entries must have been grown in a private outdoor garden by the exhibitor. Judge Johnson denies early release of Mitchell Mitchell's attorneys also claimed he was penalized for appealing the decision of the national commissioners because the full commission failed to give Mm four months and By DAVID PACE Associated Press Writer "MONTGOMERY, Ala.

(AP) U. S. District Judge Frank M. Johnson rejecting former Attorney General John N. Mitchell's claim of "bias and vindicUveness" by the U.S.

Parole Commission, refused Friday to order Mitchell's early release from prison. Johnson denied aU three challenges by Mitchell of the commission's decision not to parole him until next Jan. 19, and refused to grant the former attorney general a hearing on his Regional parole commissioners recommended July in Atlanta either that Mitchell be paroled last Aug. 19 or that his case be considered by the national commissioners as an "original jurisdiction" case. The national commissioners on July 20 changed the classification of Mitchell's offense freramederate'' to "high" severity and ordered him released on parole Jan.

19. Mitchell appealed the decision to the full ctanmission, but they denied the appeal, after deleting as a reason for the Jan. 19 parole date Mitchell's extended time on medical fur lough. Mitchell then filed suit in federal court here, claiming the commission did not properly credit him with his medical furlough time, penalized him for appealing the decision of the regional commissioners, and denied him due process because one of the commissioners was biased against him. Mitchell's attorneys argued that the Bureau of Prisons has "a long standing policy" to include time spend on medical furlough as time served.

By not granting Mitchell credit for his five-month medical furlough, the attorneys charged that the commission "denied him equal protection under the law." But Johnson said there is no evidence of such a policy by the Bureau of Prisons, and even if there were, it would not be applicable in this case because the full commission deleted as a reason for its decision Mitchell's time spent on medical furlough. Johnson said the commission chairman explained in a letter to the court clarifying its decision that "full credit was given to the five-months on medical furlough as time served." i wre any metucai creuii granted mm by the national commisioncrs. Johnson, however, said that claim "has absolutely no substance," ruling that "In modifying the medical credit allegedly awarded petitioner by the national commissioners, the full commission merely exercised the discretion granted it by regulation." Mitchell also claimed that the commission was biased against him because the husband of one of the commissioners was forced to retire from his job in the Justice Department while Mitchell was attorney general. But Johnson said the forced retirement of Benjamin Parker, husband of Commissioner Dorothy Parker, was the work of an assistant attorney general who says that "he did not consult with the attorney general." Even if Parker was biased against Mitchell, Johnson said the former attorney general would not be entited to early release, only to a new bearing before the commission..