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Page MB The Annlt too Star, Sunday, Jan. 17, IMS Gov. Hunt probes legality of flying Confederate flag 3uQ3 1 lilt it the Democratic presidential ticket in Alabama because he missed the filing deadline by 15 minutes, a party official said. Ralph Forbes of New Orleans, tried to pay the $2,000 qualifying fee for former Klan leader David Duke of Louisiana, but he arrived at the state Democratic Party headquarters at 5:15 p.m. Friday.

The deadline was 5 p.m., said AI LaPierre, the party's executive director. LaPierre said that earlier in the day, he told a woman to stop trying to collect petition signatures for Duke's candidacy from people entering party headquarters "It was really bugging people," LaPierre said, especially since those being solicited for signatures "were filing as delegates for other candidates." Those paying the $2,000 qualifying fee and presenting the signatures of at least 500 registered voters were Illinois Sen. Paul Simon, Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Tennessee Sen.

Albert Gore Missouri Rep. Richard Gephardt, former Arizona Gov. Bruce Babbitt, former Colorado Sen. Gary Hart, and Lyndon LaRouche, whose Democratic credentials have come under challenge in recent years. The Republican Party completed its qualifying for the primary on Thursday with six candidates paying the $2,000 fee and presenting the 500 registered voters.

They were Vice President George Bush, Kansas Sen. Robert Dole, New York Rep. Jack Kemp, former TV evangelist Pat Robertson, former Delaware Gov. Pete du Pont and former Secretary of State Alexander Halg. BIRMINGHAM (AP) Aides to Gov.

Guy Hunt have found no law requiring that the Confederate battle flag be flown atop the state Capitol, and they are unsure if any laws would prevent a black state representative from tearing it down. State Rep. Thomas Reed, D-Tuskegee, has vowed to rip the flag from the Capitol dome on the first day of the legislative session Feb. 2 if it is not taken down first. The battle flag flies with the U.S and state banners atop the domed Capitol, where Jefferson Davis was sworn is as president of the Confederacy in 1861.

"I BELIEVE it is an insult to fly the Confederate battle flag on the same staff with the most cherished flag in the free world, the flag of the United States of America, and the respective flag of the state of Alabama," said Reed, state president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Gov. Guy Hunt has refused to remove the flag, saying the Legislature should decide the issue. But he has had his staff researching the legal questions involved. "We have researched and found there is nothing on the books, so to speak, concerning the flying of the Confederate flag," Terry Abbott, the governor's press secretary, said.

State records show the flag flew above the Capitol for a period in 1935 when it was designated a historical monument. The flag was returned to the dome in 1961 to celebrate the centennial of the Confederacy, and it has flown there since. ABBOTT SAID the Hunt administration is unclear what laws might affect Reed if he scales a ladder on the dome to remove the flag. "There are laws that it could fall under," Abbott said. "Then again, he could have some immunity.

Legislators are granted certain immunities during legislative sessions." Abbott said the governor's office mmm mra Calendar Alabama brlofs probably would not be involved in prosecution if the flag were removed illegally. But, he added, "Ultimately, we may be asked for an opinion on what should be done." Lee Miller, general counsel for the state Department of Finance, said he is concerned about the liability of anyone going into the Capitol since it is closed for renovations. The former Capitol building superintendent, Norman Anderson, said the renovations might give Reed more access to the flag than he usually would have. Two normally locked hatches are open during the day to give painters access to the dome, said Anderson, who is now building superintendent at the neighboring Statehouse. REED, 54, said he plans to go through with his protest, despite several death threats and the fact that the flag is more than 100 feet above the ground.

"It's definite, if I'm alive and the good Lord's willing. We in civil rights take these as we have taken them in the past. You get yourself a certain frame of mind," Reed said. State Rep. Alvin Holmes, D-Montgomery, has said he plans to follow Reed up the dome to take down the flag.

Several whites who belong to historical groups rallied around the flag Thursday during a news conference on the Capitol steps. John Napier III, past commander of the Sons of Confederate Veterans in Montgomery, said Reed and Holmes are ignoring the history of Montgomery and the Capitol. "You don't rewrite history the way the Soviets do," he said. Napier said the flag has become "a convenient political rallying cry for some politicians." Ex-Klan leader misses qualifying deadline BIRMINGHAM AP) A former Ku Klux Klan leader was turned away in his attempt to qualify for MAHOGANY Social and Savings Club meets at 4 p.m. at the home of Darlene Emory.

NAACP meets at 6 p.m. at Smith Tabernacle CME Church, 400 S. Christine Anniston. MONDAY LOW IMPACT Aerobics begins at 8 a.m. at Golden Springs Community Center.

Fee is $18 per month or $2 per day. For Information call 236-8221. WELLBORN Athletic Association meets at p.m. in the school library. AEROBICS will be taught 9-10 a.m., at 12:05 p.m.

and p.m. at the Oxford Civic Center. Fee is $15 per month. JAZZERCISE classes will be taught Monday, Wednesday at Friday at 9 a.m. at Lenlock Community Center.

Child care available. For information call 820-5891. SUPPORT GROUP for parents of teen-agers meets at 7 p.m. at Quin-tard Towers. AA AND Al-Anon will have a closed meeting at 8 p.m.

at Regional Medical Center and at Fort McClellan, Building 274. AA WILL have a closed meeting at 7:30 p.m. at 708 Hughes Piem-dont. DRAWING and Sketching classes will be taught 6-7 p.m. at Oxford Civic Center.

Fee is $15 per month. AEROBICS class for the YMCA will be taught Monday, Wednesday and Friday p.m. Fee is $30 for non-members and $20 for members. For Information call 238-9622. HARTWELL Lodge 101 600 Main Oxford, will have a business meeting and work at 7 p.m.

Light refreshments served. ANNISTON AREA Management Association meets at 5:30 p.m. at Jacksonville State University's Theron Montgomery building. Dr. Harold McGee will speak.

HIRAM Masonic Lodge 42 meets at 7 p.m. in Jacksonville. OVEREATERS Anonymous meets at 5:30 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church, 14th and Noble streets, Anniston. CALHOUN County Civil Service Board meets at 7 p.m.

at 18 W. 11th Anniston. ANNISTON Masonic Lodge 443 meets at 7 p.m. A member will give bit Master Mason lesson. CALHOUfy Court 12 Order of the Amaranth will have a covered dish, supper al 6:30 p.m.

at the Masonic hall in Alexandria. A meeting will follow at 7:30 p.m. REGULAR 2-LITGR Fo Po)o)F Former sheriff pays back over $5,000 MONTGOMERY (AP) Former Lawrence County Sheriff Daniel W. Ligon has repaid more than $5,000 that state Examiners of Public Accounts say was improperly spent from official funds. In a report Friday, examiners said Ligon and a former clerk, Diane A.

Terry, have refused to repay another $11,371.50 from "unauthorized checks being prepared, cashed and used for purposes other than proper expenditures of the sheriff's office." Examiners took exception to, but did not require repayment $16,857 in expenditures from prisoner work release funds and in receipts of U.S. Department of Agriculture commodities. The commodities received by Ligon cut his expenses in feeding prisoners, which increased his profit "since he receives personally all food and service allowances," examiners said. "Commodities are intended for non-profit organizations," they said. Florida's Wallace backers turn to GOP PENSACOLA, Fla.

Theron Broxton hasn't voted for a presidential candidate since former Gov. George Wallace last ran for the office 12 years ago. "I haven't found any candidate I can vote for," the Pensacola retiree said in a recent interview. "They're all too liberal for me." That includes President Reagan, usually accorded hero status by most conservatives. Other old Wallace campaign activists in Florida, however, say they shifted their allegiance to Reagan and probably will vote Republican again in 1988.

The numbers bear out the transformation of Wallacites into Re-aganites in Florida. Reagan swept the state in 1980 and 1984, rolling up impressive margins in Wallace's old Panhandle stronghold where, the Alabamlan once boasted, he never lost an election. Norman Bie, a Largo, lawyer who had been co-manager of Wallace's Florida campaign in 1976, joined Wallace in campaigning for Carter in the general election. "That was the worst thing we ever did," Bie said. "He was the worst president we ever had." Four years later, Bie switched parties and voted for Reagan because of what he called "total disgust for the Democratic Party." Another former Wallace state chairman, Bill France Sr.

of Day-tona Beach, said he had been a friend of Reagan before he became president and supported his presidential campaigns. But the owner of the Alabama International Motor Speedway said he hasn't taken an active role in politics since the Wallace years. Snake bites About 8,000 persons suffer bites from venomous snakes In the United States each year, but only 10 to 15 die. LIMIT 3 PBR FAMILY, PLBASB TODAY SMITH Tabernacle CME Church, 400 S. Christine Anniston, will observe its annual trustee day at 10:55 a.m.

BYNUM Church of God, behind the Bynum Post Office, will have revival through Friday at 7 nightly. Evangelist Linda Kinard will speak. CENTRAL Presbyerian Church of Anniston will host a fellowship luncheon after morning worship, The church's youth choir will sing. ROCK OF AGES Baptist Church, 2701 Moore Anniston, will have revival services Sunday at 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.

and Monday-Friday at 7 nightly. John Hankins will speak. Nursery provided. NEW HAVEN Missionary Baptist Church, 2420 Noble Anniston, will observe its annual fellowship day at 3 p.m. The Rev.

P.Q. English will speak. BILL SNOW wiU speak at 10:45 a.m. at Edgewood Congregational Methodist Church, 20 Railroad Blue Mountain. PROVIDENCE Baptist Church wiU have a singing at 2 p.m.

The Harvest Gleaners will sing. FIRST Baptist Church choirs of Birmingham (Kingston) will sing in a benefit musical in observance of Martin Luther King birthday at 6 p.m. at the Seventeenth Street Baptist Church of Anniston. FAIRVIEW Free Will Baptist Church, 803 N. Ledbetter Anniston, will have a singing at 2 p.m.

The Roundtree Family will sing. FIRST United Methodist Church of Jacksonville will celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King at 6:30 p.m. Rita Anthony, Haven and Rising Star United Methodist Church choirs will be the special guests. BAILEY G.

McClellan Chapter 2447 of the United Daughters of the Confederacy meets at 2 p.m. at the Anniston-Calhoun County Public Library. Faye Robertson will be the hostess and Mildred Laney will be the program leader. CAT Come and Travel Club meets at 3 p.m. at 1104 W.

15th Anniston. MISSIONARY Zone Two of the Anniston district meets at 3 p.m. at New Hope CME Church. Henrietta Walker will preside. COBB HIGH School Class of 1969 will have a.

reunion planning committee meeting, at 5 p.m. at the home of Alphonzo Bradford, 2511 Paul Anniston. Bring addresses and phone numbers of former classmates. WOMEN OF the Moose Chapter 1539 meets at 1:30 p.m. GAVG OO ON THRGG! 00' (3D Tiling 9.