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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1981
Another young black is found dead in Atlanta
United Press International
ATLANTA — Authorities tried
1 lesday to pinpoint the cause of
d ath of the latest young Atlanta
black whose partially clad body
jins found “stuck in the weeds” of
the Chattahoochee River — the
rlcent dumping ground for the
kjller or killers of 26 youths.
| Jimmy Ray Payne, the fifth to
be found in the suburban river,
v&s identified by Public Safety
(limmissioner Lee P. Brown late
Monday, five hours after a couple
__ Jjhing from the bank spotted his
/ body.
1 Fourteen of the victims have
“ died from some form of asphyxia-
* V",» •' tion A ruling on the cause of
Payne s death was expected later
in the day.
Brown estimated Payne, who
disappeared last Wednesday, had
been in the water about five days.
He said Payne’s case would be
assigned to the metropolitan task
force on murdered and missing
children because it “is being in
vestigated as a homicide” and is
similar to previous killings.
Payne was the fourth consecu
tive adult victim of the killer or
killers, who previously had attack
ed youths 16 and under. Two of
the three previous adult victims,
both 21, were retarded, and the
last one, 23, was described as
slowwitted. But there was no indi
cation Payne had any such afflic
tion.
In addition to the 26 young
blacks found slain, another child,
10-year-old Darron Glass, is offi
cially listed as missing. Glass
vanished last September.
Meanwhile, police said a 15-
year-old black youth missing since
early Monday was located and
taken to an Atlanta juvenile deten
tion center. Hardly had this case
been resolved, however, than a
20-year-old black man was re
ported missing.
Spokeswoman Marion Lee said
the 20-year-old, Herman Pittman,
was last seen Monday when he left
his southeast Atlanta home to go to
a store. Pittman, who was re
ported missing by his mother, is
5-foot-6 and 140 pounds.
The 15-year-old youth who was
found was Calvin Brown. His case
was handled by the Missing Per
sons’ Bureau and was never
turned over to the special police
task force.
Commissioner Brown said
while Payne had been missing
since Wednesday, his case was not
initially assigned to the task force
because authorities still were in
vestigating reports Payne had
since been seen in other parts of
the city.
“If we had assigned the case to
the task force, there would have
been no more that we could have
done about trying to find him
alive,” Brown said.
Brown would not say how
Payne’s body was clothed, but Jes
se Grimes, 13, who was one of the
first on the scene, said the corpse
was clad in either “red underwear
or trunks.”
“I saw him stuck in the weeds,”
said Grimes. “At first I thought it
was an inner tube.”
With the exception of the last
victim, who was entirely nude, all
of the more recent bodies have
been stripped to underwear. All of
the victims in the string of un
solved crimes that began in July,
1979, have been poor blacks and
all but two were males.
It took more than an hour to
recover the body because rescue
units had difficulty getting boats
through the dense brush and
woods around the river west of
Atlanta.
Payne lived with his sister and
stepfather on Magnolia Street, ab
out a block from the home of Pat
rick Baltazar, the 19th victim.
His sister said he left home for a
coin shop to sell some old coins
and later had an appointment for a
job interview as a concrete work
er. He failed to appear for the in
terview.
Meanwhile, the 25th victim,
Michael Cameron McIntosh, 23,
was buried Monday. About 100
mourners attended the services.
The body of McIntosh, who
never was reported missing, was
pulled from the Chattahoochee
April 20. He had been asphyxi
ated, the same general cause of
death listed for 13 other victims.
howdown vote predicted on budget
I
United Press International
WASHINGTON — With Republicans cautious but in-
easingly confident of victory, a key House Democrat
fuesday predicted a showdown vote on President Reagan’s
1982 budget could come next Tuesday.
House Rules Committee Chairman Richard Bolling said
fhe final vote could come one week after Reagan’s address
io a joint session of Congress Tuesday tonight to apply
nore pressure to wavering lawmakers to support the sharp
! pending cuts.
Reagan’s speech is part of an intense and effective
ampaign to corral conservative Democrats, who must join
he Republicans to create a majority in the House.
While reluctant to claim victory, Republicans were
ilearly optimistic. “It’s close, but we think we ll win,” said
Treasury Secretary Donald Regan.
The possibility of Democrats defecting to Reagan
irompted House Speaker Thomas “Tip” O’Neill to suggest
Monday the president’s plan could win, but the Mas-
achusetts Democrat said Tuesday he was not conceding
? lefeat.
] However, O’Neill said he would have been a “liar” if he
had said that Reagan had not made inroads with his person-
to-person campaign among Democrats.
The full House is to begin debate on the budget resolu
tion Thursday and Bolling, D-Mo., said Tuesday it could
take until next Tuesday to complete work on the spending
blueprint.
Bolling commented as the rules committee began dis
cussion of possible amendments to be offered during the
budget debate.
The Senate Budget Committee scheduled an afternoon
meeting to finish ironing out the differences among Repub
lican members that led to rejection of the Reagan budget
earlier this month.
GOP rebels on the Senate budget panel — who joined
Democrats in voting against Reagan’s budget because of
the size of the deficit — are now expected to approve it.
Bolling said prolonging the House debate over the
Democratic alternative to the Reagan budget “could
change things marginally. ” A marginal difference could be
crucial because a handful of Democrats could give Reagan
his way.
Democratic leaders appeared to have been galvanized
into action by O’Neill’s glum assessment, and House
Democratic leader Jim Wright said Tuesday the fight is not
lost. “We don’t throw in towels around here,” he said.
O’Neill questioned whether Democrats could stop
Reagan and told reporters an administration media blitz in
conservative Southern Democratic districts “has had a
tremendous impact” on swinging Democrats who will de
termine the outcome of the budget fight.
But Rep. James Jones, D-Okla., unwilling to concede
defeat before the bill even reaches the House floor, later
said O’Neill had an “erroneous perception of how some
members are leaning.”
Jones said a formal count of Democratic votes had not
been made and added, “My informal count still shows the
vote will be very close.”
Reps. Delbert Latta, R-Ohio, and Phil Gramm, D-
Texas, will propose the more conservative Reagan budget,
slightly modified with additional spending cuts, when the
House begins work on the measure.
It still does not show how the federal budget will be
balanced on schedule, which three conservative Republi
cans wanted before supporting Reagan. But it gives them a
way out of an embarrassing snag and clears the way for
Senate action late this week or early next week.
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KKK leader claims jailed
lansman not being fed
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[MANCHESTER, Tenn. — A
Tennessee Ku Klux Klan leader
felaims authorities are refusing to
;eed jailed Imperial Wizard Bill
Wilkinson and warns this could
jring “open rebellion” by Klan
feinforcements called in from
across the country.
However, authorities denied
Wilkinson was being mistreated.
Stanley King, a Nashville busi-
aessman and grand titan of the
Tennessee KKK, said Wilkinson
has not been fed since he was
ampagnolo arrested Sunday for parading
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without a permit.
“It has come to the point of
open rebellion,” King said. “I
mean all the troops we got from
California and Connecticut. They
have refused him food for more
than 24 hours.
“If a bloodbath should occur, it
would be the fault of the police.”
However, Coffee County Sher
iff Bobby McCullough said, “He’s
told you a lie.”
McCullough said that Wilkin
son may be refusing food since
outside food is not allowed in and
Interferon could be
cancer combatant
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WASHINGTON — The gov-
imment has begun a program to
letermine the cancer-fighting
ipabilities of interferon, an anti-
dral agent produced by the body
md recently by laboratories.
Health and Human Services
iecretary Richard Schweiker
mounced the program Monday
land said it would be headed by the
[National Cancer Institute, one of
several facilities now doing inter
feron research.
Schweiker said the Reagan
administration “will support and
contribute to the efforts surround
ing interferon. It will allow for a
cohesive approach and more
accountability in this highly visi
ble area of research.”
Interferon is produced by the
body in very minute quantities as
part of its natural immunity sys
tem. Recently, laboratories began
producing the agent in a number
of ways, including methods using
gene-splicing technology.
that that may be what he’s talking
about.
“I don’t care if he eats or not,”
he said. “He’s treated just like any
other prisoner.
Wilkinson of Denham Springs,
La., was arrested Saturday and
again Sunday. However following
his Sunday arrest he refused to
post $250 bond.
Wilkinson, who was sharing a
cell with three other people, faced
a hearing Tuesday before City
Judge John Rollins. The maximum
sentence for the misdemeanor is
$50.
King said Klansmen from
across the country would descend
on the small middle Tennessee |
town for a rally on Saturday.
King said McCullough and
Manchester Police Chief H.G.
Walker were denying the Klan the
right of freedom of expression.
Wilkinson was arrested Satur
day for handing out Klan literature
and for soliciting contributions at
City Hall. He was released on his
own recognizance. The next day,
he and 21 followers were arrested
during a march on city hall for pa
rading without a permit.
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