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An attorney for the state's
Department of Corrections,
James Peeler Smith, admitted
last Thursday that the new
restrictive regulations being
written to govern inmate
organizations is being done
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David Drummond, vice
chairman of the Forsyth
Board of County Commissioners,
said that the board would
hear employee grievances in
what he called an "unofficial
board meeting" held expressly
to let employees "speak
their piece," on the pension
plan they have now and what
they want.
The meeting was scheduled
for 5:30 Oct. 21st, in the large
courtroom of the old courthouse
on the second floor at
Fourth and Main Street.
Drummond said he was sure
that the petition being
circulated by disgruntled
county workers angered that
the county opted not to join
the state retirement plan
would be read then.
Thp iwtitinn charoed that
the county plan did not allow
county workers the option of
not participating in the county
retirement plan on social
security plan if they chose not
to. It said that this
represented a form of taxation
without representation.
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by Rudy Anderson
Staff Writer
Asa Spaulding, Jr., the
Republican nominee for Secretary
of State, in a press
conference Thursday at the
Hilton Inn, promised to
"revive the office", he says
has been heretofore inactive.
Spaudling a Durham businessman,
and the first black to
ever win a statewide major
party nomination in the south,
since the Reconstruction era,
said that an alarmingly high
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precisely to limit the effectiveness
of the N.C. Prisoners
Labor Union.
Smith was present at a
forum sponsored by the
Asheville Chapter of the
League of Women Voters on
prison conditions, particularly
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Police reported that a
second suspect has been
apprehended in the brutal
armed robbery case of Henry
Mack Grier in the Happy Hill
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Asa SpankUng
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number of people do not know
what the Secretary of State
does. . He attributed the
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focusing on the fearfully
over-crowded situations that
exist in most the state's 77
prison units. Dr. Richard
Urbanik, Director of Programs
for the Department of
Corrections and a panel
participant, was asked- why
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Garden section of Winston-Salem.
During the robbery, Grier
was shot twice in the neck and
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public's lack of knowledge
about the office to incumbent
opponent Thad Eure.
He noted that Eure had
been in office for 40 years and
that he was 76 vears old. He
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said, "the thrust of my
campaign will be to bring new
vitality new leadership, and
new initiatives, to the office."
He said he doubted the state
could expect much vitality
from Eure if he were elected.
Spaulding is 42.$
Spaulding said he was for
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IDAY OCTOBER 23, 1976
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Prisoners Unioi
outside organizations, such as
the Yokes fellows,, and
Jaycees, were having such a
hard time getting across to
prisoners now.
Smith, however, responded,
stating that, "The courts had
forced us to admit this inmate
KKK Leade
To Halt Salt
by Rudy Anderson
Staff Writer
Joe Grady, a KKK
Grand Dragon, sought at a
meeting of the Forsyth County
Board of Commissioner's
Monday night to have
"fortified" wines removed
from the shelves of commercial
stores because 41 it is the
main reason we are getting
more winos on the streets of
Winston-Salem."
He said wines like Mad Dog
2020, Thunderbird, and Roma
Rocket, and all other wines
with 20% alcohol in them were
all he had ever seen winos
drinking.
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Grier Case
paralyzed from the neck down.
He is reported to be making a
slow recovery.
The suspect is described as
Jerry Leonard Morrison, 21, of
1502 Fitch Street. His
alledged accomplice, Winfred
Veotis Reid, was picked up
earlier and held under $22,000
dollar bond.
Police reports indicate that
Morrison was picked up on"
October 7th at 1103 Free
Street. Police had been
looking for him since the
robbery on August 16th.
Morrison was charged with
robbery with firearms and
with intent to kill. He was
placed in the county jail under
$20,000 bond. He was
scheduled to appear in
Forsyth District Court on
October 29th.
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labor union." The union had
been "a disruptive influence
which gives individual inmates
power" and "results in the
inmates taking over the
prisons," Peeler Smith went
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He proposed to the board to
make the sale of these wines
illegal in the county. He said,
"These wines as you know
geiitlemen are made or
fortified with distilled products."
Dr. Julian Keith,
chairman of the board, said
that he was not aware of that
fact but appreciated the
information. Dr. Grady conti- .
nued saying, "If you take
these wines off the shelves
and stock them with dinner
wines, the wine will either
stop drinking and seek help or
move to another county to get
the stuff."
He said he knew that a lot of
people in the room were
wondering why a Grand
Dragon the 44Invisible Nation"
would be standing before the
board speaking up for winos.
He explained he was doing it
because no one else would
speak up for these people who
are treated "worst than dirt."
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The board questioned '
whether or not Mr. Grady's
recommendations would solve
the problem, citing the fact
that a halt in the sale of
fortified wines might result in
the establishment of boot-leg
operations. One board member
asked Mr. Grady, "what's
to prevent a wino from
drinking three or four bottles
of dinner wine to get the same
affect."
Grady countered saying, "A
wino won't drink these kinds
of wine." The board took his
recommendation under advisement
and thanked him for
his interest in the matter.