
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, October 30, 1995                   TAG: 9510300110
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: ASHLAND                                LENGTH: Short

KKK FLIERS DISTRIBUTED AT RANDOLPH-MACON

Students at Randolph-Macon College awoke Sunday morning to find fliers bearing the telephone number of a Ku Klux Klan hot line tacked to utility poles, on windshields and blowing around campus.

Ashland police arrested two men about 11:40 p.m. Saturday. One was charged with posting bills on utility poles in violation of a local ordinance, a misdemeanor, and the other faces a misdemeanor concealed-weapons charge.

The identities of the men were not immediately available.

Lt. William Martin said he saw a man get out of a car and tack one of the fliers to a utility pole. Martin said that when he pulled the men over, he found documents featuring a KKK letterhead in their car.

A Sandston phone number on the flier is for an answering machine with a rambling, 31/2-minute message from ``the Confederate Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.''

The man's voice asks callers if they are tired of a series of issues he labeled ``anti-white, anti-Christian and anti-American,'' then gave an address for the organization. The message also urged callers to ``fight back'' and do their ``duty'' by voting.

The appearance of the fliers came not long after the private school and some members of its student body of about 1,100 clashed over the display of a Confederate flag bearing the ``Stars and Bars.''

by CNB