Word: sylacauga
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...Laramie, Wyo. and left to die because he was gay. Then there was James Byrd Jr. of Jasper, Texas, a man who was tied to a pick-up truck and dragged to his death because he was black. And now there is Billy Jack Gaither, a man from Sylacauga, Ala. who was clubbed to death with an ax handle and thrown onto a pyre of burning tires because...
...this year, the Justice Department has recorded 44 Klan-related incidents, compared with eight in all of 1978. They included cross burnings, beatings and firebombings. A Klansman was convicted of whipping a white woman from Sylacauga, Ala., who he thought was dating a black man. In Birmingham, Klansmen were convicted of shooting at the houses of two black civil rights leaders...
Textile manufacturers, who only a short time ago had substantial idle capacity, are going full tilt. Says Donald Comer Jr., of Avondale Mills in Sylacauga, Ala.: "We are using our machines 24 hours a day in three shifts." The auto industry is also racing flat out, but its dealers' stockpiles are nonetheless dwindling. Car makers like to keep about a 60-day supply of cars in transit or on dealers' lots. Now the supply covers sales for only 48 days...
...young 'un in Sylacauga, Ala., which is just down the road a piece from Gantts Quarry, Jim Nabors was a regular cutup. He used to play tricks with his voice by hollering down drain pipes and talking through knotholes...
...folks back in Sylacauga don't much cotton to that kind of talk, including Mavis Pearl. "I get tickled at her sometimes," says Nabors. "She has more money to spend than she ever had in her life, and you know what she does with it? Puts it in the bank in my name-just in case...