Asheville Citizen-Times from Asheville, North Carolina • Page 15

1 AhvaCifan.Tlm Sunday. Jun16.1W1 11A Aoheville Man Arrested In Stabbing TT Bush la ixovernor savs Virgini Police Briefs Wants To Turn Back Clock Aa Asheville man was airested by city police Saturday morning on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to BUI inflicting injury in the June stabbing or a Spruce Pine man. Leroy Daniels, 27, of 17 Robin-dale Ave, is accused of stabbing Glen Dale McCurry of Spruce Fine repeatedly in the head and back about I pm last Saturday in the parking lot of the Tunnel Road mart as McCurry tried to enter the store to buy his daughter a bicycle, an arrest warrant states. McCurry was in good condition at Memorial Mission Hospital Saturday night, a hospital spokesman said. McCurry, who underwent surgery to repair the wounds, has bees in the hospital since he was stabbed.

Daniels was arrested alter Patrolman SA Caddy spotted a Back Regal that matched the description of the one in which the man who subbed McCurry fled the scene. Daniels matched the description of McCurry's assailant and was brought in for questioning, Caddy stated in a police report Detective Kevin West questioned Daniels for about two hours before charging him with the crime. Daniels was released from the Buncombe County Jail a short time later on a $10,000 unsecured bond, the warrant states. McCurry was not available for man stabbed McCurry twice more in the head then left in a Brock Regal. Lori McCurry said.

Septuagenarian Robbed A pursesnatcher robbed a 70-year-old Marion woman at the Memorial Mission Hospital parking garage about noon Saturday, according to an Asheville police report Margaret E. McFadden of Marion told police she parked on the second floor of the parking garage and was heading for the elevator when she was passed by a young man. The man said good morning and as he walked past he grabbed her pocket-book containing $400 and ran toward the stairs, the report states. A screaming McFadden chased the man to the stairs, but lost him there. Hospital security chased him through the woods and lost the purse-snatcher on McDowell Street, the report shows.

Wanted for common law robbery is a black man in his late teens. He has a stovepipe hair-style shaved on the sides and tan of topi He was last seen wearing a white coat and blue jeans. Anyone with information on the crime is asked to can the Asheville Police Department at 259-5870, detectives at 259-5910 or Asheville Buncombe Crime Stoppers at 258-1000. From Staff Reports comment Saturday, but his wife Lori Ann McCurry said from her bus-band's hospital room that she had no reaction to Daniels' arrest since they had not been told that anyone was charged in the attack. She said she did not want to comment until police sources confirmed the arrest Daniels also could not be reached for comment late Saturday.

He apparently gave police an incorrect telephone number, according to the woman who answered the number Daniels gave as his own. McCurry was seriously injured in the June 8 incident when he got into an argument with a man who accused him Of shouting racial epithets. McCurry has maintained he had never seen the man before and did nothing to rouse his anger, police reports As McCurry tried walking away, the man pushed his car door into McCurry. The man got out of his car and the two started fighting. The man pulled a knife and stabbed McCurry repeatedly.

He threatened Lori McCurry when she tried to help her husband, the report shows. When crowds of customers from mart rushed to help McCurry, the ernor, said be represented a first, but that more blacks would follow him into high office. "Yes, on the horizon, we see that day, and it's not that distant on the horizon, when North Carolina will answer the call; when substance and qualifications of the candidate will overcome the most cynical and distorted of opposition claims and commercials," Wilder akL The governor made no reference to bis present political feud with Virginia Sen. Chuck Robb. if Robb has admitted that he went to a hotel room with a former Miss Virginia while serving as governed, but has denied that he had sex with her.

Roob recently admitted destroying an apparently illegal tape recording of a Wilder phone conversation in which the governor reportedly gloated that Robb's political career was in Both Robb and Wilder have indicated an interest in national pontics, but some Democrats worry that the feud has damaged their chances. Wilder said Washington could learn from Virginia's example of fiscal management The state responded to a projected $12 billion shortfall next year by cutting back spending and avoiding a tax increase. Wilder said federal officials could do much the same in handling the federal deficit Tht AmoommI Ptm RALEIGH Virginia Gov. Doug Wilder Saturday accused President Bush of playing politics with the issues of crvffl rights and gun control "He is continuing to make the plea that the Civil Rights Bill is a quota bill," Wilder told about 400 people at a luncheon sponsored by the Legislative Black Caucus. "Now he knows better than that" Bush and congressional Democrats have squabbled for months over the bifl, which is aimed at nullifying some recent Supreme Court rulings on job discrimination.

Bush has said the biO will lead to quotas for minority hiring. Blacks, Wilder said, remember "the backs of the movie theatres and the buses to which we were assigned like diseased animals." "Our nation has come too far in the last three decades to acquiesce to those who want to turn back the clocks in 19927 he said. He also criticized Bush for threatening to veto the Brady Bin, which would require a seven-day waiting period before a handgun could be purchased. Wilder said Democrats next year "can hold George Bush accountable for his callous willingness to play politics with piece of legislation that is lit-; erally a matter of life-and-death for thousands of Americans each year." Wilder, the first black ever to be elected gov Fori Bragg Deputy Commander Retires Sunny Sides Sap Moisture From N.C Crops The Associated Prase ween or iwv with no rain, and it's going to start hurting." Soils have reached drought conditions in Halifax as they have over much of the eastern half of the state. "There certainly is a drought mainly an agricultural drought that has taken hold of much of North Carolina," said Glenn Austin, a hydrologist with the National Weather Service at Raleigh-Durham International official, deputy commander of the Army post and the corps, in June 1988.

His replacement is Maj. Get Ed Scholes, who has been chief of staff of Fort Bragg and 18th Airborne Corps and assistant commander of the 82nd Airborne Division. The Associated Press RALEIGH A dry spell has left corn and other crops in eastern and central North Carolina thirsting for rain at a critical point in the growing season. "We need some rain now, but I don't think we've suffered yet" said R. Doug Phillips, an agent with the Halifax County Cooperative Extension Service.

"Another won the $1.5 million Commander in Chief Award as the best Army installation in the world. "He's done more than any of us win ever be able to chronicle and thank him for," said Lt Gen. Gary E. Luck, commander of the post and the 18th Airborne Corps. Luck presented Roosma the Legion of Merit for' his role as the "stabilizing force for the installation" during the Persian Gulf War and the Distinguished Service Medal for his 33-year Army career.

Roosma said he plans to move' to Fairfax Station, Va. He became Fort Bragg's No. 2 FORT BRAGG Maj. Gen. William A.

Roosma, who has been Fort Bragg's deputy commander since 1988, has retired. Roosma was in charge of the post during the Panama invasion and the Persian Gulf War. "I wanted to transition out of the Army without any portals to go through," Roosma, 56, said Friday in an emotional farewell address at a ceremony at the main post flagpole. Roosma was post commander this spring during judging for the Army Communities of Excellence competition in which Fort Bragg -to Oo.ta 1 N. SPRUCE, it.

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