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By Ruthell Howard
Staff Writer
For Avis" Smith and her
family, there are too many
nnpsfinnc
Smith was indicted and
arrested on a manslaughter
charge for the death of her
75-year-old father, Grover
r) Smith, but she says she
doesn't understand why
and is baffled by events
leading up to her arrest.
Police first came to her
home at 1938 N. Trade St.,
saying there was a reported
stabbing and wanting to investigate.
"I told them there hadn't
been a stabbing and one
Worried:
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Allen Miller is worried.
When the sand in the stre
dark, the tadpoles and minn
Miller noticed the water fo
suspected foul play.
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clear," Miller says, "but rec
used to have plenty birds, eve
population has decreased."
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in the stream, but Miller says
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want to see justice. "
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had a search warrant and
had received word of
another stabbing. Though
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Avis Smith's cousin
her father lying on his bed
in fecal waste, one called an
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of the water, and mailed it
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product was being dumped
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Smith, 34, says her father
often had bowel movements
and she hadn't had a chance
to clean him before the officers
came. *
She says she bathed and
dressed her father and j
hronght him downstairs for
the ambulance. , ? r
"The ambulance, man
came and checked tys! blood
pressure and saj.d/he didn't
see any reason why he
should go tp the hospital,"
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sue ?a>a./3ne aaaea mat tne
attendants asked her father
if he Wanted to go and he
said rio.
SVie says one officer
wfarned her that if another
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to keep the children away,
litfield Acres in East Winston
le may be dumping chemical
\cions to the Division of EnWater
Quality section of the
Agency, Miller took a sample
iAi for testing.
wajter revealed that a foreign
iniro the water, Miller says.
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is/concerned nothing will be
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Mrs. Sarah Ephraim, at the left, sits with her <
manslaughter in the death of her 75-year-oK
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the fish can't live," Miller say*, "it could be destructiv
to wild animal lite and could be a health hazard to th
community because it leaves a lot of fungus and th
fungus could probably give off germs.
"Before the hazard gets any greater, we would like t<
put a check to it. We'd like to see the matter cleared u
because this dumping could lead to greater dumping o
chemicals that could be detrimental to the community.'
James C. Watson, a representative from the EPA1
water quality section, says Miller's sample was inadc
quate to determine if chemical waste is being poured int
the stream because he kept the water sample unpreserve
for too long.
"Personally I have not seen the stream," Watson say?
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By Ruthell Howard -.
Staff Writer
The number of applicants
for the superintendent's
post of the WinstonSalem/Forsyth
County
School System has been
narrowed to seven, among
them a local black man.
In an executive session
meeting Friday evening, the
school board's screening
?committee met and reviewed
applications from 60 i
candidates and eliminated
all but five. I
"Our concern is still a leg
to the fact that there isn 'i
committee and there sho
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NAACl
During a school board
meeting Monday night, the
five fiDftlfsts were discussed
for approval and two more
names were^ added _to the
list.
One?of?the finalists,
Palmer G. Friende, is
the system and the only
black candidate. Others
finalists with North
Carolina ties are Jerome H.
Melton, North Carolina's
deputy state superintendent,
and Raymond L. Sarbaugh
Jr., former associate
superintendent for the local
school system.
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d father. Mrs. Ephraim sc
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and usually does not go out
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p residents.
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appears to be to be dumpin]
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wash or even somebody's dr
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eath of her father says
was not the cause and
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handled the situation.
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Black
alist
The other finalists are
superintendent of the
Euclid, Ohio, school
system; James Fox,
superintendent of the
Sarasota, Fla., school
system; Zane E. Eargle,
superintendent of the
Gastonia-Gaston County
school system, and Norman
Mullins, associate
superintendent for educational
development \n~
Greenville, S.C.
The local NAACP expressed
opposition in June
itimate one that points
f someone black on the
uld be."
ie Rev. Michael Curry
5 Education Chairman
to the scrcenitit6 process
because there were no
bpteks on the committee.
The Rev. Michael Curry,
NAACP education chair
man, says the organization
had?a?"real" concern,
because blacks comorise an
proximately 35 percent of
the school system.
4 4Our concern is still a
legitimate one," Curry
says, "that points to the
fact that there isn't someone
black on the com-"
mittee and there . should
be."
But Curry says the fact
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into the community to take
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