The Nation - News from Sept. 1, 1986

A bomb threat failed to disrupt the second day of the convention of the Invisible Empire of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan at East Windsor, Conn., and the white supremacist group picked Jim Ferrands of Shelton, Conn., as its new imperial wizard. Three dozen klansmen met at a 100-acre tobacco farm, whose owner, Edwin Thrall, offered it as a gift to the klan. Thrall said the klan would have to pay $30,000 in back taxes on the property, which klan leaders said would be “no problem.” The convention began a day earlier with five arrests and a cross burning.