`speechless' Brings One Word To Mind: Cute

At Least 4,200 Fans A Game Is Team's Goal 
A National Consultant Outlines The Economics Of Putting A Team In The 
Projected Arena

By BILL PEACE; Times Leader Staff Writer
 Friday, December 16, 1994 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Page: 4A 





WILKES-BARRE -- About 60 people gathered at Bethel AME Church on Thursday
night, bowed their heads and listened to the Rev. Gloria Watson lead the
prayer. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Watson, minister of Mt. Zion Baptist Church, asked them to pray for the
community. Pray for the uplifting of people's spirits. And most of all, pray
for white supremacist Jack Grimes. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; "I asked her to say those prayers. I couldn't do it myself -- I had too
much inner turmoil. He's (Grimes) trying to create a race war," said the Rev.
Kenneth Burnett. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Just hours before, Aryan Loyalist Party Leader Jack Grimes had defended
racist posters placed by his group on telephone poles throughout the city
earlier this week. The posters target blacks, interracial couples and
homosexuals. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 "The only American people are the white Americans," Grimes told reporter
Pete Yaksick of WBRE-TV, Channel 28, Thursday afternoon in a televised
interview in Wilkes-Barre. "White people built this country and white people
made this country great. Now that it's turning into a multi-racial melting
pot, it has become an internationalist sewer." &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Grimes said his Aryan organization numbers about 45 people locally and
admitted that his organization produced one of the two white supremacist
posters circulating throughout the city. He appeared on television wearing a
Hitler-type mustache and an armband with a five-pointed star. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Grimes, who is based in New York City and said he visits the area
occasionally, also said he has conducted research with David Duke -- known
nationally for his public involvement in the Ku Klux Klan and politics. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 He told the television reporter that about 10 percent of African-Americans
are "productive," yet the remaining 90 percent are "very bad." &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Vera Cornish, who has lived in the area for 14 years, said Grimes'
organization advocates death and it shouldn't be tolerated. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 "This community has to take this organization seriously. We are as much a
part of this community as anyone else who resides here," said Cornish, one of
several community members at the South Franklin Street church Thursday night. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 The Rev. George McMillan, the minist

Racist Posters Bring Prayers At Church 
Meeting Is A Response To An Outbreak Of Racist 
Fliers In Wilkes-barre And The Appearance Of An 
`aryan Loyalist' 
Proponent

Racist Posters Bring Prayers At Church Meeting Is A Response To An Outbreak Of Racist Fliers In Wilkes-barre And The Appearance Of An `aryan Loyalist' Proponent