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Enterprise zonoo lioli Auburn's defense, running gamo shut out Mississippi State Crash tills 5 on Lexington PAGE 1 Americans alleged spy PAGE 3A poor Gi'oa PAGE1C PAGE 8A I far 1 TIE ALABAMA Copyright 1989 The Uveitis Co. 25CntS Monday, October 30, 1989 Montgomery 101 st Year No. 216 ADDIE MAE COLLINS DENISE MCNAIR CAROLE ROBERTSON CYNTHIA WESLEY Died: Birmingham, Sept. 15, 1963 fit Hi?" County seeks new waste site i ft' Hi fO o- Tho four girls worokillod In tho basement of tht Sixteenth Street Boptltt Church when a bomb exploded lust before the Sunday morning worship service was to bogln. --pi By Brian Ponder Journal Dynamite blast in Birmingham rattled nation EDITOR'S NOTE: On Sunday, the Civil Rights Memorial at the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery will be dedicated.

Cut in a stone slab are the names of 40 of those who died in the struggle for civil rights in the 1950s and 1960s. Some of the names are familiar. Most are not. This week The Alabama Journal will run profiles of the victims i I- nMiJiiiflil i --fi i II- 5i i 1 REAL HEROES Church plaque honoring, from left, McNair, Wesley, Collins, Robertson The Montgomery County Commission today cast aside the latest proposed site for a waste-disposal transfer station after about 35 south Montgomery County residents showed up to oppose the location. "They believe in keeping their land and their homes in as clean and environmentally safe conditions as possible," said Delores Boyd, a Montgomery attorney who spoke on behalf of residents from the communities of Ada and Ramer who opposed the proposed site.

Also today, the county commission voted 3-2 to increase the salaries of Montgomery County deputy district attorneys by as much as 53 percent. Ms. Boyd handed the commission a petition with 180 signatures asking that commissioners vote against a waste-disposal transfer station site just off Alabama Highway 94 roughly halfway between Ramer and Ada. She told the commissioners that area residents were concerned the transfer station would be a health hazard. The county commission plans to close the county's one landfill Wednesday, but will place dump-sters for household wastes at the landfill on Ramer.

Grady Road in south Montgomery County. The commission had hoped to keep the county landfill open until a transfer station, which would house waste temporarily before it would be carted away by a private firm, could be constructed. The commission has been unable to find a site acceptable to nearby residents. "My main objection (to the site), more or less, is from the cosmetic point of view," I.L. Bell, a Ramer resident, told the commission.

"That area is the focal point of the community," Mr. Bell said. He said the proposed site is close to a local church. The commissioners voted 4-0 to abandon the proposed site and look elsewhere for an alternative site. "Finding a place for this transfer station is going to be very crucial for Montgomery County," said District 4 Commissioner John Knight Jr, who encouraged other commissioners to consider placing the transfer station at the county landfill.

I "Anywhere else you go, you're going to run into the same opposition you have here," Mr. Knight said. and the ones they left behind. Profiles continue on Page 5A. The sermon scheduled for that morning in Birmingham was titled "The Love That Forgives." But a dynamite blast that rocked the calm of just another I Second in a series Ms.

Collins Riley recalled that she was about to wash her hands in the lounge when the bomb wentJfT She looked toward the other girls, toward her older sister. "I called out her name, but she didn't answer," she said. That's all she can remember about the explosion. Ms. Collins Riley spent two months in the hospital and is blind in her right eye because of the blast The funerals for the girls were attended by several thousand mourners.

Approximately 800 black and white ministers joined together at one of the services. President John F. Kennedy sent a message to the country when he expressed "a deep sense of outrage and grief over the bombing. He also sent FBI bomb experts to Birmingham to investigate. But it wouldn't be until 1977 that a small measure of justice was meted out for the girls' deaths.

A 73-year-old member of the Ku Klux Klan was charged with first-degree murder, found guilty and sent to prison. The four iirls were sprucing up in the basement ladies' lounge when the bomb went off just before the worship Gertrude Wesley still remembers that day in September 1963 when her adopted daughter was killed. "I heard all that noise and ran out the front door," said Mrs. Wesley, who was at home that Sunday morning. "I was a long way from the church, but you could hear it." Mrs.

Wesley drove to the church because she knew Cynthia was there. She couldn't get near the building, though, because of the debris and large crowd. So she drove to a nearby hospital where she hoped to find Cynthia. "Carole's mother came out, and she told me Carole was gone. She looked at me funny." That's when she knew Cynthia was dead as well.

Cynthia had just entered the 10th grade. She played in her church band and sang in a youth choir. Sarah Collins Riley also was in the church basement that day, but she survived. She was 11 Sunday at the Sixteenth Street Baptish Church left many worshippers wondering if such a love would ever be possible again. As many as 15 sticks of dynamite went off in the church basement.

Windows were shattered. Glass was strewn over a piano, organ and pews. A plaque commemorating the of the church in 1873 was broken. And Denise McNair, 11, Addie Mae Collins, 14, Cynthia Wesley, 14, and Carole Robertson, 14 Written by Jordan Gruener WW when her sister Addie Mae was killed. vWi' District 5 Commissioner Lynn Gowan abstained null HUUVUUIVU were killed.

I AI11.U. ITT 1 (Please see COUNTY Page 4A) Emergency phone line puts fate of historic building on hold tmmmmmmmmmmmammmmmmmmmmmmmmmm And if city officials are unable to find a solution try." known about the possible solutions. By Brian Ponder after a Tuesday meeting with South Central Bell Landmarks officials could be faced with only two Landmarks officials had hoped to have the house Landmarks officials could be faced with only two moved from its former location at 203 S. Hull St. to the corner of Randolph and North Hull streets in Old Alabama Town.

The locally designated historic building faced demolition late last year after being sold by Old Southern Life Insurance Co. to the Retirement Systems of Alabama, which planned to level the house to make way for a parking deck. But the Landmarks Foundation took on the task of relocating the house. The house eventually will be handed over to the Alabama State Council on the Arts and Humanities and will serve as the Alabama Center for Traditional Culture. The house will be both renovated and restored before being returned to its original Italianate Telephone Company engineers, the house might have to stay at its temporary location for up to eight weeks or longer, Mr.

Adkins said Friday. The 911 service to the police department could be maintained if the line was moved, but calls to the fire department would be delayed, which would hamper the department's ability to respond quickly to emergency calls, Mr. Adkins said last week. City officials have been studying possible solutions to the technological roadblock with the help of South Central Bell engineers for more than a week, but have not been able to come up with a way to effectively reroute the 911 calls, Mr. Adkins said.

"We just can't come up with anything else," he said. "We've talked to engineers all over the coun- alternatives both expensive, Mr. Adkins said. The historic house could be moved from its temporary resting spot on the corner of Jefferson and Bainbridge streets to Madison Avenue before being taken west past City Hall and returning eastward on Columbus Street, Mr. Adkins said.

But this route would entail temporarily moving a large number of telephone, power and cable lines and would be expensive, he said. Also, the city could install a new 911 line, which would take up to eight weeks and would cost between $40,000 and $70,000. James Loeb, chairman of Landmarks board of directors refused comment on the fate of the historic building Friday. Mary Ann Neeley, Landmarks director, said this morning she could not comment until more was Journal ttaAwiltw The fate of a historic downtown building remains on hold today as city officials continue efforts to dismantle a technological hurdle that has prevented the structure from completing its move to a new location. The Ware-Farley-Hood House, an approximate 140-year-old Italinnate structure, had been moved to within four blocks of its destination by the Landmarks Foundation, a city preservation organization, on Oct.

21, before its short trek had to be brought to a halt. The house could not be moved safely underneath city communication lines, which contain a line that helps handle emergency 911 calls to the Montgomery Police and Fire Departments, said Ronnie Adkins, a Montgomery telecommunications manager. 1 All aboard Amtrak's 'Gulf Breeze' takes 49 passengers to Birmingham Ann Landers. 6A Bridge Classified Comlci- coaches, a sleeping car and a food service car tnw Allocated Pmi Crlptoqulp 7A Crossword 7A Death HHHMIIHIIItllMNIIi Rain likely Tuesday Tuesday will be mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain with highs in the mid-70s. Tonight's lows will be in the 50s.

Highs will be near 75. More weather on Page 2A. InMfQoocy foonv Humono MoflfQOfflty Inwrgvney maternity mvle Jockton "We've turned City Hall into the unofficial Amtrak ticket office," said Atmore Mayor Harold Shell. The town built a roofed platform alongside the tracks to accommodate passengers, he said. Other places where stops will be made also built platforms.

In Atmore, a crowd estimated at 1,500 turned out for the train's arrival Friday, a turnout larger than Birmingham, Montgomery and Mobile combined. Roundtrip from Birmingham to Mobile is $60. The last passenger train service between Alabama's two largest cities was provided by the "Pan American," which was discontinued on April 30, 1971. Editorials 14A Horoscope 7A Movies Sports 8A-13A Television a Pick of the Pack 9A Weather map 2A on the first run. Friday, Amtrak conducted an inaugural run for several hundred local officials along the 280-mile route.

It was a festive ride, the first passenger train service between Mobile and Birmingham in 18 years. That trip featured Dixieland music, fried chicken, ham, catfish and drinks. In small communities, people stood near the crossing as the train sounded its mournful horn. Many waved as the train hurried by at a top speed of 75 mph. There were celebrations along the way, with the biggest turnouts in Atmore, Greenville and Evergreen.

Bands played, children cheered and held balloons and politicians made brief speeches. MOBILE The "Gulf Breeze" rolled out or Mobile with 39 passengers, then added 10 more riders before reaching Birmingham on the first day ofthe new Amtrak service. Amtrak spokeswoman Pat Duricka said a total of 49 passengers traveled to Birmingham Sunday on the inaugural run of the train, which departed Mobile and made stops in Atmore, Evergreen, Greenville and Montgomery. On the return to Mobile, 45 passengers were aboard, she said. "We really expect service to build," Ms.

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