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RALEIGH (AP - The morning after an SBI agent raided a Raleigh poker gamewhere a senior deputy attorney general was playing, SBI agents wore told to layoff penny-ante ' gambling, the News and Observer of Raleigh reported today The gambling raid two years ago at a house where Deputy Attorney GeneralGREENSBORO lt;AP) — Greensboro police say they are unsure whether Dr Thomas Wade Lamb of Chapel Hill was pushed or fell to his death through a sixth floor hotel window.Lamb, 44. went through a hallway window at 2 50 a m Thursday after struggling with a Hilton Inn employe Police said the employe told them he was- * a.1—. — A —. — a. . — * * dt— _ _ _^ i —^ __.___* _ _ mAndrew A Vanore wasplaying did not result in any charges There were cards and chips and a ledger, but no cash [j|l plfBut The News and Observer said former SBI agent Johnny L. Gaskins, now a Campbell College law student, told the paper thct on the morning after the raid a new policy was announced.it came down...that we weren t to participate in gambling investigations without the specific approval of the attorney general or. supervisor. GaskinsAttorney General Rufus Edmisten said Gaskins was mistaken. He told the News and Observer that he had ordered the policy change weeks earlier because the bureau's manpower was toothin for use on penny-ante gambling because that’s what local sheriffs are for.But former SBI Director Charles J. Dunn who supposedly received Edm is ten’s order, said he hadn't been aware of any policy change be tore Gaskins' raidI think I would remember something like that, Dunn saidPLASTI-UNER* DENTURE REUNER• tifHtl and tight#*$ ctamfv rt*• You can eat anything• Money back guaranty*MANN
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High Point Enterprise
High Point, North Carolina, US
Fri, Aug 26, 1977
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