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Candidate Continued from page IB were from out of state and woe using the local people as offloaders. "I think that Brunswick County and the district came out of all this with a good name because in the entire time we indicted and tried these cases the local juries convicted every single drug trafficker," he said. "We never once lost a drug trafficking case to a Brunswick County jury and the people here demonstrated their support for Cleaning up the problem." Easley pointed out that he intro duced many new programs as dis trict attorney. He had grand juries investigate drug trafficking cases and he set up a program for rape and child abuse victims. He said that while the investigative grand jury has been largely adopted at the state level the victim’s advocate program has not mainly because of lack of funds, a situation which he hopes to change if elected. Easley said a child abuse victim trust fund could be established with the help of private donations be cause many people would be willing to contribute to such a fund. Another method of funding, he said, could be to have a tax refund checkoff, where a taxpayer could contribute part of his tax refund to support child abuse programs. "Another way would be making the offender pay by adding a small amount to the probation fees, for those lucky enough to get proba tion," he said. "Make them pay something into the fund to help the victims they created." Easley said that the issue he has .emphasized most on the campaign trail is crime. Among the specific issues Easley said he is stressing are raising the caps on prison populations and the building of low-cost, low-tech prisons. "We’ve spent too much on the wrong type of prisons,” he said. "Prisons should be a place to penal ize criminals, not the taxpayers." Easley said he also favors truth-in sentencing, the concept that a prisoner’s term not differ greatly from his actual sentence. "As a prosecutor, I’m getting tired of this trickery where the victims are lied to and the people are lied to," he said. "I’ve seen people get six-year sentences and serve ten days.” Easley said that he is also talking a lot about weapons in schools and that he has developed several pro grams to address the problem, like setting up an anonymous hotline so that school children could call in and report their classmates carrying weapons to school, and making schools a weapon-free zone by rais ing penalties for the crime. Easley said he is also in favor of more sharing of confidential in formation with school officials about which of their students are on juvenile probation, and for making expulsion laws tougher. Easley said he believes in a multi disciplinary approach to solving the drug problem which includes jailing the traffickers and the dealers, treat- i ‘He's been a Raleigh bureaucrat for eight years. I’ve been in the front lines down here in the battle against crime and I know what tools we need and what they’re not providing.’ ing the users, and educating the chil dren. "We can’t solve the problem with press conferences and tough talk," he said. "We have too many politicians who talk like John Wayne and perform like Barney Fife." Easley said he supports the death penalty firstly because he considers it to be a necessary form of punish ment and, secondly, because the people of North Carolina over whelmingly support it. Easley said that he is strongly pro choice when it comes to abortion. "It’s a decision that ought to be made between a woman and her doctor and her family and not be tween a woman and the attorney general," he said. "I just believe it is a difficult and personal decision that ought not be made by the govern ment." Easley has campaigned strongly for the system of secret parole hear ings to be abolished and for the pro ceedings to be held in the open. ”1 want the secret parole system done away with,” he said. "I’ve seen too many criminals whom I’ve sent to jail, their sentences being reduced in secret and the people are not told why.” Easley said that the rationale given for having a secret parole system is the safety of the parole officers. He said this doesn’t make any sense to tiim because prosecutors have al ways had to make their case and jurors have always had to make their decisions in public. Easley said the issue of malprac tice reform would have to be tackled as a part of the health care issue in stead of by itself. "I think what we’re going to see is the whole health care issue bring :verybody to the table to negotiate ways to get health care costs down," tie said. "We’ve got to get it all in one package and make everybody come o a consensus," he said. "I think hat’s a key to it." Easley said he is confident he will ae able to get all his measures massed by the state legislature, espe :ially with the help of Rep. David tedwine and Sen. R. C. Soles from his district. Council will hold open house The Brunswick County Literacy Council will host an open house No vember 8 to celebrate its tenth anniversary. Between 2 and 4 p.m. the literacy council office at Supply will be open to members of the community. A brief program by students and tutors will be presented at 2:30 p.m. Susan Usher Eggert, a founding member, will give a brief history of the organization which was founded in 1982 to provide fiee tutoring to non readers in the county. The literacy council trains volunteer tutors and matches them with students. It is supported entirely by donations from the community. Refreshments will be served. For more information, persons should contact the literacy council office at 754-READ. The Robin's Nest Park Avenue at Leonard Street Southport, 457-6087 ALL CHILDREN! Stop for Treats on Halloween * Saturday, October 31, 6:00-8:00 p.m. under the carport. Thursday, November 12 Pampered Chef will be on hand from 7:30-9:30 p.m. all parents invited to this kitchen product & cooking show feat. "Cara" direct from Chicago Mr. and Mrs. Rifton Gail Evans of Ash have announced the engage ment and forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Rhonda Gail, to Joseph Wendell Benton of Ash, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph LeRoy Benton of Ash. Friends, relatives and students of the couple are invited to the wedding planned for 6 p.m. November 28 at Myrtle Head Bap tist Church in Ash. Miss Evans is a 1987 graduate of West Brunswick High School and a 1991 graduate of North Carolina State University. Her fiance is a 1987 graduate of West Brunswick High and a 1992 graduate of the University of South Carolina/Coastal Carolina Col lege. Both are employed by Brunswick County schools as a seventh grade teachers at South Brunswick Middle School. Microwave, other prizes offered in cookie contest With the holiday season just weeks away, it’s time to get out the family’s favorite Christmas cookie recipes and start gathering the necessary ingredients. If you have a recipe everyone just raves about, consider entering it in The Slate Pori Pilot’s second annual cookie contest. You may win a mi crowave oven from Lowe’s of Southport or one of three other top prizes: a $40 baker’s gift basket from Sabra’s Gifts, $30 worth of Echo bakeware from Rose’s or a Cookbook from Little Professor Bode Store. Any variety of cookie can be en tered, but only one entry per person will be accepted. All recipes should be typed or printed legibly. Recipe blanks are available at The State Port Pilot. When submitting your recipe, make sure all measurements .are spelled out, not abbreviated. Be sure to include your name, ad dress and phone number on the entry. All entries must be received at The State Port Pilot office by 3 p.m. Friday, November 6. A panel of independent judges will review the recipes and select ten .semi-finalists. Those ten people will ,be contacted on Tuesday, November 10. They will be invited to bake their cookies and bring one dozen for judging at 9 a.m. Friday, No vember 13, at the Brunswick County Cooperative Extension Service of fice near Bolivia. The judges will consider each semifinalist’s recipe based on ap pearance, taste, texture and quality. The decision of the judges is final. A story and photograph of the winners, along with all recipe entries, will be featured in The State Port Pilot's Holiday Gift Guide to be published on November 24. More information about the cookie contest can be obtained by calling 457-4568. FIREWOOD (Oak) $60.00 for 1/2 cord $10 OFF with this coupon Call 253-5744 L J USDA Choice Beef 'Boneless"! Chuck Prices in this ad I good Oct. 28 thru 1 Nov. 3, 1992. Roast iStergLe t tuce ▼-** Country Pride Breast ' Filets & Tenders Gwaltney Big 8 All Meat Jumbo Franks "YounChoice" Red Delicious Apples/Eastern Red Rome Apples/Juicy Bose _Pears 2 Liter - Diet Coke, Caffeine Free Diet Coke, Sprite, Diet Sprite Coke Classic $ 105 Chance Of A Life Timet Get these Richard Petty racing cards while you can! Hundreds of Holograms still to be found! During the Harvest Moon Festival, let Food Lion 81 La Choy help you with your Chinese cooking! October Is National Apple Month! “Hk Ragu Spaghetti^ * Sauce « 4 Pack Del Monte Puddina } ' All \ Flavors i Cups All Flavors 4 Pack Del Monte Fruit Cups K, : HP i^yvc Carnation . Evaporated^
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