The Selma Times-Journal from Selma, Alabama • 1

25 Cents 14 Pages in 1 Section, Plus Supplement Vol. 157, No. 253 Selina, Alabama, Friday, March 22, 1985 Pilgrimage Pay plan survives First of thousands expected today By JEAN MARTIN Country Crafts will be open today and Saturday from 9 am. tin 5 p.m. Located in file Grist YMCA, corner Broad Street and Furniaa Avenue, it features Black Belt crafts, handmade gift items and a snack bar.

Admission is $1 for adults. Children under 18 are admitted free. The Antiques Show and Tea Room are in the Convention (8ee PILGRIMAGE, Page 14) Eleven buses are making their way into file city today, their loads the first of several thousand visitors expected for the three-day MIWUesHSfM Lj -u I nil), 1151 uiiagc muui vpaicu av 9 a. its. Smile attracting and keeping good teachers in Alabamas classrooms.

After the vote, Browder said the incentive pay plan had made it over several hurdles. He said he was ready for the next round, which is coming up in the Senate. The proposal, which could cost Alabama taxpayers as much as $1.4 billion over five years, is aimed at establishing a fjve-step pay ladder for teachers with those at the top rung making about $40,000 a year. Teachers would move up the pay ladder based on their experience level and evaluations developed by a 35-member committee. The plan, which would be implemented in two phases, calls for tenured school teachers to get a 15 percent pay raise and non-tenured teachers 5 percent in 1985-86, plus increases in their health benefits.

The first two years of the (dan would create a two-step ladder and would cost taxpayers about $327 million with most going to salaries. Evaluations would begin in 1987, (See PLAN, Page 14) MONTGOMERY (AP) A rewritten version oi Gov. George C. Wallaces $1-4 billion incentive pay plan for teachers survived a grueling fight in the Alabama House and the sponsor says he ready for the next round. That round will come in the Senate, where strong opposition to the plan is anticipated.

The House passed the career-ladder proposal Thursday night on a 68-34 hours of debate in called it a career could result in tax boosts because of the high cost. A coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats took turns at the microphone attempting to rewrite the plan, which they said would do little to education. like getting a pair of new shorts when you havent taken a bath, said Rep. Chris McNair, D-Birmingham, one of two blacks who voted against the measure. But the sponsor of the bill, Rep.

Has Browder, D-JacksonvUJe, and ither supporters said it was aimed at TK1 ill ttu auvu ui im mwc nm mv vuv Smitherman Building headquarters where brochures, tickets and a hot cup of coffee will be dispensed by costumed Pilgrimage hostesses. Thai, on to the tour of historic houses. Open Friday and Saturday mornings from 9 till lpjn. are: The Gary-Stewart House, 609 TremontSt. Henderson House, 007 Union St.

Open Friday and Saturday afternoons from 1 till 5 p.m. are: The Bloch-James House, 618 Dallas Ave. Miss Minnie Sues Cottage, 622 McLeod Ave. Smith-Delp House, 627 Church St. All these houses are open Sunday afternoon from 1 till 6 p.m.

Open all tour hours except noon till 1 p.m. Friday and Saturday are: St. Pauls Episcopal Church, 210 Lauderdale. Baker-Crump House, 700 Alabama Ave. On Friday evening from 7 till are: The Walker-Plant House, 725 Dallas Ave.

Sturdivant Hall, 713 Mabry for its traditional Candlelight Tour. John Tyler Morgan House, 719 Tremont for the Selma Art Guilds Glaze Exhibit. The regular art exhibit and sale will be 10 a.m. till 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 1 till 6 pun.

Sunday. There is no admission fee for the regular exhibit. Porno issue not worth it Inside today lawsuit last week after an investigation of several weeks which was prompted by complaints from local Mings, Louise Wood clean Riggs office Investigation set for killings Health better By JACKIE WALBURN Ttmes-Jounial Writer of the 80 Drive-In The-day the drive-in is being use it wasnt worth the economic consideration, said Paul A. Engler Jr. of Birmingham, who built the drive-in in 1967.

He said the theater was being closed voluntarily, in light of a civil suit which would have been costly to respond to. Engler added that the drive-in was making a little money, enough to support the six employees. The only reason weve kept it open so far is for die employees, said Engler, whose family has been in the theater business for more than 70 years. Meanwhile, a hearing set for 1:30 p.m. today on a civil lawsuit which sought to close the theater on grounds that it was showing pornography, will still be held despite the dosing of the drive-in.

The suit still has to be ruled on, said Deputy District Attorney Ed Greene. The DAs office filed the tivil A committee of the Selma 1 rial Association spearheaded the campaign to close the drive-in which began several weeks ago showing nothing but x-rated movies. Engler said the 80 Drive-In was the last operating theater of the many his family used to own. Drive-ins are passe aU over the United States, he said. He said the drive-in switched from part-time, family-type movies and late night adult movies to aU adult-only movies, because the x-rated were the only things that sold.

My daddy told me a long time ago, if they want ice cream with mustard on it, you better give it to them, cause they are the customers. Engler said. He said the 80 Drive-In had a gross monetary product of about $100,000 for the Dallas County area. Rev. Gary Fagan, who is chairman fo the ministers committee, said this (see ISSUE, Page 14) shootings came on the 25th anniversary of a similar police volley of gunfire in Sharpeville that left 69 protesters dead.

Police said the homes of nine black policemen in Uitenhages townships were damaged by gasoline tombs during the night, but that no one was injured. Blade police and township council members, often viewed by Macks as collaborators with the government, have been targets of increasing attacks. The demonstrators were bound for Kwanobuhle, Uitenhages other Mack township, to attend a vigil for three people killed in a dash with police 10 days ago. Le Grange said they were led by a man dressed in Mack carrying a brick. JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) Under fire at hone and abroad, the white-minority government appointed a judicial commission today to urgently investigate the police killings of 18 black protesters who were marching to attend a funeral.

Opponents of the white-minority government voiced outrage over the shooting deaths. I am deeply shocked by this tragedy. It would appear that police fired indiscriminately into an unarmed crowd, said Helen Suzman, veteran member of the white Progressive Federal Party. But Law and Order Minister Louis le Grange said the 3,000 to 4,000 Macks in Uitenhages Langa township knew they were marching illegally Thurs day toward a white area, and had pelted police with rocks and gasoline bombs before officers opened fire. Still, he said President P.W.

Botha had approved the formation of a judicial commission to investigate all the circumstances of the police shootings and to report urgently to the government. Police spokesman Lt Henry Beck said in the capital Pretoria that one more body was discovered, raising the death toll to 18, and that 23 of 29 wounded were in hospitals. Beck said 12 of those killed were men, three women and three children. It was the bloodiest single incident in a year of racial unrest in South Africa that has left 244 dead in protests against white-minority rule. The Reagan favors Mideast meeting provoked and deliberate attack Israeli forces.

Reagan opened Ms third news con ference of the year by warning tha U.S.-Soviet arms talks could hi doomed if the House fails to follow fin Senates lead in voting to releaai funds to produce 21 mere Ml WASHINGTON (AP) President Reagan says he would favor a meeting between UJS. negotiators and a delegation of Jordanians and Palestinians to promote Middle East peace, but not if the Palestine liberation Organization was represented Reagan also said he would not permit American diplomat! to play a direct rote in tafia between Arabs and AU sst there is an element in South Africa that do not want a peaceful settlement of this who wants a violent settlement, who want trouble in the streets, and that is whats going on. There are conflicting reports from South Africa as to whether the demonstrators, who were marching to protest earlier deadly cUahes with police, were carrying sticks, stones and gasoline bombs as officials said or whether the police attacked without provocation. Reagan also declined to crittdie Israeli troops who find on a CBS News crew in southern Lebanon, saying, Im quite sura this was not a deliberate killing. He called the incident a tragedy but said, "These things can happen" in a war in which one side wears no military uniforms.

state and Israel. However, Reagan disputed suggestions that he was pursuing a policy of disengagement from Mideast diplomacy, noting that another U.S. envoy would visit the region in several weeks. Reagan said U.S. diplomats would not deal with the PLO because they still refuse to agree or admit that Israel has a right to exist as a nation.

Theres a large Palestinian com- munity and Im sure that there are people that do not conaider themselves represented by the PLO, the president said. Reagan was more upbeat about the possibility of a summit meeting with the Soviet Unions new leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, sayii, 1 think we did this. He said the prospects for a summit should be good. The president added he wasnt discouraged by the new leaders failure to accept his invitation to attend a summit in the United States. The man has only been in office for a few days, and I have some idea of what is confronting him now, Reaaan told renorters.

The president defended South African police who shot into a crowd of demonstrators Thursday, killing 17 people, and Israeli forces that fired on and killed a Lebanese camera crew working for CBS News in Lebanon. Reagan was asked if he was considering changing Ms policy of using diplomacy to oppose the white South African governments segregationist rule in the wake of the shootings. He said to suggest that all the violence was coming from the police side was to ignore the fact that there was rioting going on. He said some of the police involved were black and that Tlieyve got to understand we are not getting into the direct negotiations, the president said Thursday night during a nationally televised news conference. Thats none of our in file House, theres little of success at Geneva.

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