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...LEROY VOGEL...
...year before he was arrested for the nightrider slaying of Mrs. Viola Liuzzo near Selma last March, Alabama Klansman Collie Leroy Wilkins was riding around with a sawed-off shotgun in his car. Stopped by the cops in Hueytown, near Birmingham, Wilkins pleaded guilty to violating a 1934 federal law designed to curb gangsters, which requires registration of such weapons. After a not-too-inquiring probation officer reported that he had a blameless character and Birmingham Federal Judge Clarence Allgood himself decided that Collie's mother "is a real good woman...
...already-familiar story told in damning detail by Gary Thomas Rowe, an FBI informant planted in the Ku Klux Klan, who testified that he rode with the killers when they gunned down Mrs. Liuzzo. Despite his first-hand testimony, juries in two state trials had failed to convict Collie LeRoy Wilkins, 22, on murder charges. The significant difference in federal court last week was that Wilkins and two fellow Klansmen, Eugene Thomas, 42, and William Orville Eaton, 41, were prosecuted under an 1870 federal statute that makes it a crime to conspire to deprive a citizen of his constitutional rights...
Such airpark sites are particularly attractive to manufacturers of light, high-value products (such as electronic components) that can be shipped by air, and to construction and research firms whose high-salaried officials must travel often. Many businessmen who locate in airparks pilot the planes themselves. Leroy Lott, a salesman for Bank Building & Equipment Corp., covers Texas and Oklahoma from Addison Airpark, says his Cessna's speed and convenience is about the equivalent of "another salesman working in my territory...
...Thus, though Slick Burns seemed assured of a six-year reign when he was elected to a special two-year term last year,* his chances for re-election now seem to be seriously in doubt. Last week a campaign was under way to draft former (1955-61) Governor LeRoy Collins, 56, for the Democratic nomination. A rigorous, statesmanlike administrator who man aged to minimize racial friction during his crucial six years in the Statehouse (including the two-year unexpired term of a Governor who died in office), Collins later headed the Federal Community Relations Service, which...