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Birmingham Post-Herald from Birmingham, Alabama • 32

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Birmingham Post-Herald, Saturday, September 29, 1979 Evicted, Black says; to picket Don Black, candidate for mayor and Ku Klux Klan grand dragon. yesterday said Holiday Inn 20th Place will no longer allow him to use a suite he had rented for a campaign headquarters. "Apparently the hotel is encountering some intimidation," Black said in an afternoon news conference. He later said he had been told the hotel management received three bomb threats in one day just before he was asked to move out. Black said he and other members of the Alabama Knights of the Ku Klux Klan plan to picket the Holiday Inn 20th Place at noon today in protest of the campaign headquarters' eviction.

I'm simply fed up with this type of harassment. this type of discrimination against us." said Black. "I believe I have the right to run for office just like anyone else and should be allowed to use the facilities of public businesses like anyone else. "So we are not going to be intimidated any longer. I talked to an attorney and he we have a strong legal case against the hotel.

We will picket in front of the hotel this weekend and subsequent weekends." Black said the hotel manager, Joseph Haas, had tried to find quarters for the campaign effort but had been unable to do SO. The hotel manager released the following statement: "It has always been the policy of Holiday Inn that our primary concern is the comfort and well-being of our guests. Consistent with this policy. we have declined two prior reugests by candidates for mayor to establish campaign headquarters in this hotel. "Mr.

Don Black may stay as a guest of Holiday Inn provided there will be no campaign for mayor headquarters or any of its related activities. It is the management's interest to provide proper, quiet and secure conditions for our resident guests and we will do everything possible to maintain the conditions." Haas said. Haas said the hotel had received the three threats, but said they were not bomb threats. He said Black was given a suite on the understanding the room would be used as office space, not as campaign headquarters. "The purpose was poorly, stated by him.

He did not say the purpose." Haas said. Told Black plans to protest his eviction by parading with signs. Haas said, "That's tine. That's his prerogative. That will not be a picket.

He will not be allowed to picket. Hotel guests will not be prevented from entering the hotel." Yelling, charges anger 3 customers Two friends and I had lunch at Steve Leontis' Smokehouse on Eighth Avenue North today. One woman ordered a hamburger and dessert, oue was not feeling well and ordered only a cup of coffee and I ordered a baked potato and a glass of tea. When the second woman asked for: refill, she was ignored at first, but later the waitress said she was not allowed to serve refills. At that same moment, the man behind the cash register yelled, "No, no, no! You are not allowed a refill.

This is not a. coffee shop." The first woman was charged regular price for her meal but the man at the cash register practically threw the change at her. The second woman was $1.06 for a cup of coffee and I was charged $1 for the glass of tea plus the regular price of 65 cents for the potato. Tasked if the price was a mistake and he said. "If I had seen this order before it was made up, you would not have been served at all." The second woman asked if coffee was now $1 a cup and he said, "We don't allow people just to take up space here" and added there were people waiting to be serv.

Action Line ed and he did not want us to come back again. The restaurant was fairly crowded but there was not a long line of customers waiting. The monetary issue is negligible, but we have been humiliated and embarrassed. V.M., I.S. and K.A., Birmingham.

In response to your letter, Steve Leontis said. "We will post a minimum charge on the menu because of this incident and it will not be $1. I am going to raise it to $1.50." He said the restaurant has had an unwritten minimum charge for some time. "We have a minimum charge that we don't publish." He said if the restaurant was filled with people spending such small amounts, "we would not be in business much longer. You have to order a meal.

We do not consider dessert and coffee or coffee and a baked potato a meal." He said the incident would not have happened had your waitress not been new and unfamiliar with the rules. He claimed he spoke loudly because "I was busy. I could not get away from the cash register. Anything I say is heard, whether it is good or bad," but said he didn't think he could be heard all over the restaurant. He said he will now put the policy on the menu so "there will be no misunderstanding." His restaurant has other rules, he added.

such as not selling beer unless a person orders a meal. If vou have a problem, write Action Line. Birmingham Post-Herald. P.O. Box 2553.

Birmingham 35202. Give your name. address and telephone number. Outline the problem as fully as possible and send copies of pertinent documents. The copies will not be returned.

The Post-Herald will answer via Action Line as soon as possible. We do not answer queries by mail. Because of staff and time limitations, telephone complaints will not be accepted. 30 freed from crowded Montgomery jail Associated Press MONTGOMERY A federal judge's order for the release of 30 inmates from the crowded cellblocks of the Montgomery County Jail was carried out yesterday. But U.S.

District Judge Robert Varner apparently was unaware that the 30 were Deaths funerals Robert Lee Hennig Memorial service for Robert Lee Hennig of Birmingham, who died Monday. will be at 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 7, at Unitarian Church. He was a native of Brownsville, Texas, and a member of the Unitarian Church.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Mary Erwin Hennig. and a Lynn Hennig, both of Birmingham. The family requests memorials be made to the Chick Hennig memorial fund at the Unitarian Church of Birmingham. Dewey D.

Upchurch Sr. Funeral for Dewey D. Upchurch 81. of 300 Westview Road. Gardendale, who died Thursday, will be at 3 p.m.

today at Johns-Ridout's Southside, with burial in Jefferson Memorial Gardens East. He was a retired agent with Southern United Insurance a member of Mount Vernon Methodist Church and a veteran of World War I. Survivors include two sons, Dewey D. Upchurch Birmingham, and John C. Upchurch, Atlanta; and four sisters, Mrs.

Myrtle Clements and Mrs. Flossie Phillips, both of Birmingham, Mrs. Dora Reeves. Trussville, and Mrs. Gussie Yeates, Gadsden.

Frank Johnson Nerryman Graveside service for Frank Johnson Nerryman, 88, of 4941 Montevallo Road, who died yesterday, will be at 11 Monday at Westview Cemetery, Atlanta, Patterson Funeral Home directing. He was a native of St. Louis and a member of the First Presbyterian Church in Atlanta. Survivors include a daughter. Mrs.

John Munsford, Birmingham; and two sisters, Mrs. Virginia Comstack, Greensboro, N.C., and Mrs. Florence Patterson, Melbourne, Fla. Lewis Peyton Chapman Sr. Funeral for Lewis Peyton Chapman 68.

of Eutaw, who died Thursday, will be at 10 a.m. today at Eutaw Methodist Church, with burial in Union Chapel Cemetery. Stabler Funeral Home. Aliceville. directing.

He was a long -time resident of Eutaw and worked for Liberty National Life Insurance Co. Survivors include his wife. Mrs. Minnie Ball Chapman; a son, Dr. Lewis Chapman Montgomery; and a sister.

Miss Frances Anne Chapman, Tuscaloosa. Johnnie W. Thomas Funeral for Johnnie W. Thomas, 61, of Bessemer, who died Thursday, will be at 2 p.m. today at Brown Service West Chapel, with burial in Watts U'nion Cemetery.

Survivors include his wite, Mrs. Anadel Thomas; four daughters. Mrs. Faye Snow, Alliance, Mrs. Ruby Stone, Dora, Mrs.

Rosemary Hicks and Mrs. Pat Hammond, both of Oak Grove: two sisters, Mrs. Lillie Mae Ray and Mrs. Annie House, both of Peterson, and five brothers, R.C., William and Otis Thomas, all of Porter, James Thomas, Abernant, and Joe. Thomas, Dora, BUILDING, and INDUSTRIAL SHEARS SHARPENED And all edged tools mail orders promptly filled.

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And they're really beautiful! 270 Center Street, 328-1644 Pelham Ind. Park, 663-4400 Supply Co. Inc. COMMERCIAL REVIEW 45 ton subsidiary, V.P.and of field Castings had system for the Diamond Coal erects Lee Wieschaus, dent, states bined capability fabricating and stallation offers advantages. The ple is to limit bility to one "The combination efficient heavy equipment and enced supervisors your assurance quality work," chaus continued.

Leo Wallace the list of expertise. 35 year's steel fabrication, tion and related ment experience. Vice President general manager. lace is also the Irondale AAA ALABAMA'S 1st Av. GRAND Pre hydraulic crane is shown at Black 1 DiaDiamond Alloy Castings in ClanGeneral Manager Leo C.

Wallace (1) erection (r) steadying the load as it Irondale Fabricating build and install a foundry. Irondale Fabricating has a mining Company. Fabricating Co. in the field already gone or on their way to freedom thanks to the actions of a state when he issued his mass-release mandate. Circuit Judge Randall Thomas took ters into his own hands by dissolving for 13 inmates and allowing them released "on their own recognizance." Mrs.

Edna Smales Benson Funeral for Mrs. Edna Smales Benson. 77, of 6528 Court K. who died Thursday, will be at 3:30 p.m. today at Elmwood Chapel, with burial in Elmwood.

She was a member of the West End Alliance Church. Survivors include her husband, John Benson. Norman Newton Fulmer Norman Newton Fulmer, 77, of Fultondale, died yesterday. Funeral will be at 3:30 p.m. today at Jefferson East Chapel, with burial in Jefferson his wife.

Mrs. Kathrine Fulmer: six Memorial Gardens. Survivors in include daughters, Mrs. John Cobb. Mrs.

Opal May. Mrs. Dorothy Chambers. all of Pell City, Mrs. J.W.

Heron. Graysville, Mrs. Sue Robertson, Birmingham, Miss Barbara Lawes. Fultondale: two brothers. Bill and Earl Fulmer.

both of California. and two sisters. Mrs. Ella Hester, Bessemer, and Mrs. Lessie Eagan.

Hainsville, Ga. William Lucian Roy Jr. Funeral for William Lucian Roy 70. of Flat Creek, who died Thursday, will be at 2 p.m. today at Bell Funeral Home, with burial in Valhalla Cemetery.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Helen Roy: a son, Wayne Roy, Forestdale; three daughters, Mrs. Barbara Crider. Columbia, S.C., Mrs. Carolyn Giambrone.

Forestdale, and Mrs. Mary Hagel, Gardendale: a brother. James Roy, Hueytown, and two sisters, Mrs. Grace Wildman, Maylene, and Mrs. Roslie Kennamer, Auburn.

Frank Thomason Funeral for Frank Thomason, 89, of Blountsville, who died Thursday, will be at 2 p.m. today at Center United Methodist Church, with burial in adjoining cemetery, Lemley's Funeral Home directing. Survivors include four sons, Jessie Thomason, Blountsville, Floyd Thomason, Oneonta. Lloyd Thomason, Springville, and Denton Thomason, Birmingham; four daughters. Mrs.

Lillie Chambers, Oneonta, Mrs. Lorene Hogeland. Blountsville, Mrs. Bessie Stevens, Pinson, Mrs. Evelyn Beasley, Onconta, and two brothers, Lewis Thomason, Cleveland, and Mancy Thomason, Oneonta.

Junior A. Blanset Funeral for Junior Arlet 61, of 1925 Carolina Avenue, Bessemer, who died Thursday, will be at 1:30 p.m. today at Brown Service, Bessemer, with burial in Hepzibah Cemetery. He was a self-employed painter. Survivors include his sons, Dewey, James and Billy Blanset, all of Bessemer, Steve Blanset, Birmingham, Ricky Blanset, Tuscaloosa, and Huey Blanset.

Houma, four daughters. Mrs. Linda Nelson and Mrs. Gloria Dailey, both of Bessemer. Mrs.

Kay Dailey, Greenpond, and Mrs. Brenda Furman, Birmingham; his mother. Mrs. Hettie Blanset. Bessemer: and a sister.

Mrs. Mabel Sanders. Bessemer. been rotated out of the jail "in the routine course of business." either through normal mat- bond procedures or when their scheduled bonds checkout time came due. to He said all 30 had been be held for "nonviolent" offenses "basically grand larcenies.

burglaries. property offenses and one marijuana case. He said one was awaiting sentencing and the other 29 were pre-trial detainees, none under "high Five nominated for judgeship Names of a district judge and four attorneys have been submitted as candidates for a recently created circuit judgeship. Judge Wallace Gibson, chairman of the Jefferson County Judicial Commission. said yesterday.

Deadline for nominations was yesterday noon. Nominees are: District Judge Wadell Zanaty who has been serving as acting judge of the new court which will handle domestic relations cases, and attorneys Harold Goings. James G. Stevens, Willie L. Williams, and Michael F.

Bolin. Gibson said the commission is scheduled to meet at 4 p.m. Wednesday to select the three nominees whose names will be submitted to Gov. Fob James. who will make the appointment.

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