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PAGE 5 Ex-Klansman held in '63 bombing of black girls BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (UPI) Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Chambliss was convicted with two other men for illegal possession of dynamite. But the convictions were overturned on appeal. Sources close to the investigation said a second person was charged in connection with a racially motivated bombing, but Baxley refused to say if the 1963 blast was involved. The Atlanta Constitution said in today's editions an indictment was returned against attorney J.

B. Stoner of Marietta, in the 1958 bombing of another black church. the Bethel Baptist Church, in Birmingham. No one was hurt in that blast. Stoner, contacted at his home, told the Constitution he was innocent and would fight extradition to Alabama.

The newspaper said he accused Baxley of "misusing the court system getting indictments on something when he knows the statute of limitations has run out." For relatives of the teen-aged victims of the Sixteenth Street church bombing, the indictment ended a long wait. different things." Baxley, however, said he would not have sought the indictment if he wasn't sure of the case. "Mostly what I think about is how old those little girls would have been if this terrible thing had not happened 14 years ago," Baxley said. At least 20 persons were injured in the blast, which occurred as about 200 persons attended Sunday morning services at the church. The dead included Miss Wesley, Carol Robertson and Addie Mae Collins, all 14, and Denise McNair, 11, the daughter of state Rep.

Chris McNair of Birmingham. Alabama Attorney General William J. Baxley says the arrest of a former Ku Klux Klansman in the 1963 church bombing that killed four teenage black girls is "just a start" toward prosecution of the case. Robert Chambliss, 73, Monday became the first person indicted by the Jefferson County Grand Jury in the 14year-old case that was reopened by Baxley last February. "It's just a start." Baxley said after Chambliss' arrest.

"We've got a long way to go toward getting there." Shortly after the bombing of the 'I feel mighty proud that some steps have been made to bring somebody to court," said Claude A. Wesley, father of Cynthia Wesley, who was 14 when she died in the Sept. 15, 1963 blast. "Some progress has been made, but of course no one has been convicted," he said. "I've waited this long.

I'll wait some more. Jefferson County Sheriff Mel Bailey said he hoped he had sufficient evidence in the case, but added "What you give a grand jury when you are not hampered by rules of evidence and in court are two kr 1 ROBERT CHAAABLIS Charged in 1963 Birmingham church bombing that took the lives of four young black girls. UPI. MUNCIE EVENING PRESS, TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 27, 1977 Carter blames 'interests' for energy defeats Pentagon backing Panama treaties WASHINGTON (UPI) Sen.

Edward Kennedy, proposed essentially the Carter plan as an amendment to a deregulation plan. The way Kennedy introduced it allowed no amendments. The Senate turned it aside Monday, 53-39, but that action in effect wiped out the deregulation substitutes and left as the major items of pending business the deregulation plan, and the Carter plan itself, in a form that could be amended. If that sounds confusing, consider this: The Senate took 19 roll call votes Monday. They included something that carried 91 to 1 and was called "Byrd motion to table motion to reconsider motion to table Ford amendment." By WILLIAM E.

CLAYTON WASHINGTON (UPI) With the Senate bogged down on President Carter's natural gas plan and the Senate Finance Committee chipping away at his energy taxes, Carter is blaming "special interests." But Sen. Robert Dole, laughed, "Yeah, such special interests as industry, labor, the environmental groups, and most of the Senate," in talking to a reporter during the Senate's filibustering night session Monday night. The latest in a series of disappointments for Carter came Monday when the Finance Committee tentatively turned down a key part of his tax program a tax on crude oil designed to force conservation by raising the price of energy. The finance committee's defeat of Carter's crude oil tax could still be reversed when members consider plans for an energy development corporation that would involve some form of tax increase. Despite a Senate vote Monday to limit debate on natural gas pricing, scores of amendments and dozens of rollcall votes were piled up in new delaying tactics by opponents of gas deregulation.

Carter's Senate foes hoped to pressure Carter to compromise: Ease controls on gas prices much more than he proposed. The President replied with his own brand of pressure a personal appeal to the public in which he blamed. "special interests" for his troubles. "There comes a time when we must ask how much is enough?" Carter said in a special appearance in the White House press room. "The special interests are trying to block enactment of the entire energy program." He had said Saturday that he would veto gas price deregulation.

On its filibuster-slowed course Monday night, the Senate performed a procedural curiosity: It rejected one form of Carter's natural gas plan in such a way as to leave the original form intact and pending before the Senate. It happened this way: Carter's plan was the main bill before the Senate. But along the complicated route of amendments. and your full support." Brown testified before the House panel because the House will play a role in passing implementing legislation for the treaties. The treaties will turn over the canal to Panama by the year 2000 if approved by two-thirds of the Senate and a plebicisite in Panama.

Brown was outlining the U.S. military view which he expected to emphasize also to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The Pentagon's considerations includea these national security factors: The treaties accord the United States "a preferred position" if it wishes its warships to transit the canal rapidly. -The treaties provide for the long-term efficient operation of the waterway through a phased turnover of canal operations to the Panamanians by 2000. Before the end of the century, the United States will carry the major role in defending the canal.

After 2000, the United States will have an unimpaired "unilateral right" to intervene militarily to defend the canal and protect its neutrality. Secretary of Defense Harold Brown says the Pentagon has four key military reasons for "wholeheartedly and fully" supporting the Panama Canal treaties. Brown was testifying today in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee which is holding three weeks of hearings into the controversial pacts. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, the first major administration witness, told the panel Monday he opposed a national referendum by the American people to approve the canal treaties. In answer to a question from Sen.

Robert Griffin, Vance said the Constitution requires the Senate not the American people to ratify international treaties. "It seems to me the Senate is the appropriate body to review the treaties," he said. Meanwhile, Brown told the House International Relations Committee Monday: "I am pleased state that the Department of Defense wholeheartedly and fully supports these treaties, and to explain why they deserve our ring us your loan payment book, House insists On 6-day mail WASHINGTON (UPI) By a huge margin, the House of Representatives wants the Postal Service to continue Saturday mail deliveries. The House voted, 377-9, Monday to tell the service not to cut out Saturday deliveries. But the measure, which was sent to the Senate, was in the form of a "sense of Congress'' resolution which lacks the force of law.

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