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Chronicle Profile
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By AUDREY L. WILLIAMS
Chronicle Staff "Writer
If you happen to be waiting at the bus stop
on Fourth and Liberty streets and a little lady
grabs you by the arm, asks if you're registered
to vote and your answer is 44No," be forewarned
that you're going with her -- whether you
like it or not. *
Grace Knox is the lariv u/hr?
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right, not privilege, entitles everyone to a vote
in local, statewide and national elections.
"I go up to that bus line," she says, "and I
say 'Hello how are you? I'm Grace Knox. Are
you registered to vote?' And if they say "No,"
I'll say 'Come on with me, honey, and get
yourself registered. You're too pretty or handsome
not to be.'"
And the Jesse Jackson Campaign headquarters
on Fourth Street is her destination.
Every since the Voting Rights Act was passed,
Knox has not only been a registered voter
but an active in politics. Her political work
began in 1952 when she went to work for Emerson
Radio Co. in East Orange, N.J.
"I got my first education in politics when I
joined the union," says Knox. "You learn a
whole lot more from people than you do from
books. One man can write a book and that's
just his opinion."
For 28 years, as a resident of East Orange,
Knox worked actively there in politics and was
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The Executive Board ,of the Winston-Salen
Branch NAACP will meet at Mount Pleasant Baptis
Church at 795 Northwest Crawford Place at 4 p.m
Each member is urged to please be present and 01
time. Following the executive session, there will be
general public meeting.
TUESDAY, APRIL 17
There will be a Senior Citizens Extravaganza at th
Agricultural Extension Office at 1450 Fairchild Driv
beginning at 10 a.m. There will be panel discussion
on social security, Medicare, Medicaid, housin
alternatives, food and nutrition. For more informs
tion call the Extension Office at 767-8213.
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The Forsyth County Public Library at 660 W
Fifth St. will sponsor Pre-school Storytime at 11:3
a.m. in the storyroom for 3- to 5-year-olds. Today1
story is "Me and My Friends." For more informs
tion call 727-2214.
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS
All previous students, friends, teachers, matron:
etc. of Memorial Industrial School are asked t
rtlpacp rnntart th#? fnllnwino nf?rcnn? Anril 14
Betty Grace Dillard at 969-6077 or Verdell Hayes i
767-2526.
The Young Adult Missionary Department of En
mandel Baptist Church will sponsor a trip t
Williamsburg Pottery in Light Foot, Va., April 21
The bus will leave at 6 a.m. and return late the sarr
night. The fare is $26. For more information aboi
the trip, contact the church at 788-7023 and lea>
your name and number.
Ardmore Transportation Ministry neec
volunteers to help transport the elderly and hai
dicapped who live in the Ardmore area. For more ii
formation, call 722-5686.
The Health Department is looking for people t
conduct interviews during the month of April. Inte
views will evaluate hours and policy. Intereste
volunteers shuuld contact Genie bteaw at '/
.723-7474. ------ ?
The Forsyth County Literacy Association nee<
volunteers to teach reading. All necessary trainir
will be provided. For more information contact Ar
Gehlen at 727-2680.
The Voluntary Action Center has the followir
volunteer opportunities available:
- The Voluntary Action Center is looking f<
volunteers to join its "Volunteer Power** secretari
pool. Volunteers will help fill temporary assignmen
in non-profit organizations throughout the yea
Anyone interested may call Marcia Barker
724-7474.
- Crisis Control needs volunteers to work as cloth
closet workers helping organize, arrange ai
distribute donated clothing. Interested persons m
contact Mike Bradshaw at 722-0425.
? Anyone interested in leading an older men's disci
sion group may contact Susan Parks at 724-7598.
- The Nature Science Center is in need of volunte<
to help with education, museum tours, the musei
shop and the reception area. Contact Mebane Ham
at 767-6730.
~ The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation needs someone
do light typing eight weeks for about eight hours ea
week. Call Susan Parks at 724-7598.
d voters beware;
recognized in 1969 as Woman of the Year. Her
picture, she boasts, hung in the Bamberger
Department Store gallery.
From 1968-1975, she served on the county
committee under the city's Board of Chosen
Freeholders (similar to city council or Board of
Aldermen).
Because of Knox's concern for the city's
youth, over 50 neighborhood block associations
were organized through her guidance. She
also held .the office of vice-president of the
Democratic Association, was a member the
"I'm interested in politics and I don't
listen to that ol' mess about your vote
doesn't count. Mine does. "
- Grace Knox
Model Cities Election Board and was a health
aide for the Urban Rodent and Insect Control
Project Committee of Essex County, N.J.
"I'm interested in politics,** says Knox, "and
I don't listen to that ol' mess about your vote ?
doesn't count. Mine does."
Knox won't reveal her age and when asked
ffow old she is, she says, "That's none of your
business and those that, know me know that
(her age). Those that don't, too bad."
Born in Mecklenburg County and reared by
an aunt outside of the Charlotte city limits,
Knox decided to move to the state's largest city
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Miss Vestal ^3^is
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0 On Saturday, March 24,
Catherine Marie Vestal was
crowned the 1984 Little
Miss Winston-Salem. I
The pageant was spon- H4
1_ sored by the Winston-Salem
? Jaycettes and proceeds BCSt S&
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HI/HI me |;a^cam win
le benefit Amos Cottage and
Jt Rainbow House.
/c Vestal, 6, is the daughter V? ^
of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph y1.
Vestal of Walnut Cove and \-S
's is a student at Latham
1" Elementary School. Q
v First runner-up was
Allison Whitney Perkins,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. r|Al|7|
? Jack Perkins of Winston- ,
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d April Dawn Holcomb, m A
Itoufthtei of Mi. and Mm. ^Pfrikr whiten
Oean_JHoicomb of Yad&ifc^
ville, was second runner-up. Yoshino
is Third place went to Kwanzan
l8 Kristen Faye Childress, Weeping c
m daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Flowering cr<
Lance Childress of p . , f
Winston-Salem, and the IT ^ ,! H
ig fourth-place winner was Magnolias:
Kristina Carlisle Blazer, _ Southern I
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. CrePc M^rtl<
James Blazer of Winston- CL ^ Jt
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also studied the personal
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traditionally exhibited by
Marines. I
Navy Airman Odell R.
Tillery, son of Odell
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Road and Elizabeth G.
Jones, both of Winston- ^
Salem, has reported for du- VjQlCI
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USS Nimitz, homeported in
Norfolk, Va.
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when she became an adult.
"For a country girl like me. Charlotte was
too big and too fast," she says.
She later moved to Winston-Salem because it
was smaller and she had a few friends here, she
says. After 14 years of living in Winston, Knox
joined the bandwagon with other Southern
blacks and headed north for a piece of the
American pie.
"When all those good government jobs came
through," she says, "I went to New Jersey
because black people were given better opportunities
there.
"But you know," Knox says, "East Orange
used to be almost as bad for blacks as it was
here in Winston-Salem."
To help alleviate some of the problems blacks
faced in East Orange, Knox says she worked
diligently in the mid-1950s to unseat a
Republican mayor who had served there for 41
years. She later worked to elect William S.
Hart, East Orange's first black mayor.
Letters addressed to Grace Knox from congressmen,
state legislators and residents thanking
her for her community involvement aren't
hard to find among letters she has kept over the
years. She says she prefers to show people what
she has done rather than tell about her involvements.
In 1976, Knox moved back Winston-Salem,
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