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Winston-Salem police captured
two men, who only a few
minutes earlier robbed an
ABC store at Jetway Shopping
Center on New Walkertown
Road Saturday night. One of
the suspects was also charged
in another robbery earlier that
afternoon.
James Albert Scales, 33, of
1860 Kentucky Avenue was
charged in the robbery of
Model Pharmacy at' 1225 E.
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National
NAACP
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Complaint
by Rudy Anderson
Staff Writer
The national office of the
NAACP rejected last week a
complaint by a faction of the
local NAACP relating tc
M?m;MQfinnc fnr officers.
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according to local president
Rev. J.T. McMillan.
Because of the decision, th<
meeting in which the nev
officers will be elected ha:
been changed. The origina
time had been set for Sunday
Dec. 19th. The new time wa
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the ABC store. Saturday nigh
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Douglas. She said she and tl
pharmacist, David Thoma
employee Tyrone Davis, and
customer were inside wh(
three men walked in. One w
reportedly carrying a sawe
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by Rudy Anderson
Staff Writer
Police of the Team II
police area, have become
very familiar with an East
Winston woman of 1508 E. *
17th Street. The reason
they know her so well is
because she has called for
them 27 times this year,
two years.
Her name is Ms. Viola
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;ed children. The stockings, made by
stuffed by employees of Wachovia
will be distributed by the Christmas
ating the project at Wachovia were
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Saturday Dec. 25, 1976
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Johnson, age 67 or 69, no
one really knows because
she gives two different
birthdates. The police who
do know her will concur
that no person should have
to live like she does.
Lt. J.A. Landon said that
his department has done
everything it can to help
her. "The woman is not
really able to take care of
herself," he said. "She
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Patricia Harris
*lacks Get 1
Howard N. Lee, the firs
black to become mayor o
Chapel Hill, became the firs
black to be appointed to
cabinet post in North Carotin
government. Lee's appoint
ment was announced Thurs
day, December 16 b
Governor-elect James Hunt
Also appointed to cabine
positions were Joseph Grim
sley, to be Secretary of th
N.C. Department of Admin
stration and Dr. Sarah 1
Morrow as Secretary of th
N.C. Department of Huma
School Bo
To Dismis
) by Rudy Anderson
Staff Writer
In a 5-3 vote Tuesday nig!
the City-County School boa
voted to uphold the recoi
mendation of school superi
tendant Dr. James A. Adai
to fire Judith Kurtz.
Mrs. Kurtz, a third gra
teacher at Hall-Woodwa
Elementary School, had be
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shouldn't be in an
environment like that." ?
Landon was referring to
the dilapidated hull Ms.
Johnson has called home
for the last five years. #
? Dilapidated is a kincLword- ?
to describe what this
woman lives in.
Soot covers everything in
the house., Debris is piled
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?f Hunt promised black voters,
t as did all major candidates in
a the democratic gubernatorial
a primary, to include at least
one black in a cabinet level
- position. Lee, an unsuccessful
y candidate for the democratic
lieutenant governor nomina-t
tion, had been widely
i- discussed as Secretary of the
e Department of Human Rei
sources, one of the largest
departments in State Governe
ment.
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>ard Votes
>s Kurtz
accused of slapping at least
three of her students on Nov.
22nd.
it, After 11 hours of testimony
rd and deliberation and as many
m- votes before a decision was
in- finally reached, the board
ns ruled that she had used
unreasonable force in her
de handling of some disciplinary
ird problems in her class.
*n See School Board, Page 2