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...Bud Spires, son of Arthur ("Big Boy") Spires, was located in a project called Magnolia Heights, near a cotton hamlet named Flora. White had spoken to Spires on the telephone earlier, and Spires had agreed to ride over to Jack Owens' place and make a little music, asking only that White "bring a lift- up." To that end, bourbon had been laid in, and now as Bud Spires gets into the car, he mentions that he "wouldn't mind a little something to get my nerves on the ready." So Spires settled his nerves, and so did White...
...when you step on its tail: "Ain't got no clothes, baby gal,/ Can't go nowhere." Spires said they get together about once a month, and they never "need no training up," so accustomed are they to one another's rhythms. "Say it loud and draw a crowd!" Bud Spires hollered as Jack Owens wailed, "You're tryin' to quit me now,/ But you don't know how." It began raining, and fat drops played the roof while the two friends played on: "Give me yoh money, baby gal,/ Let me use it for myself." Whiskey pints circled round...
Walking into a typically sleazy roadside bar, Billy struts up to the counter, asks for a Bud, downs it, and hands the bar maid $2.00. "That's for the beer," he says, flourishing a dollar bill," and that's for the beer...
...hard-drinking hobo, fortified wines like Thunderbird and Night Train are the beverages of choice. On Jan. 1, the city of Portland, Oregon, with firm backing from Mayor Bud Clark, banned the sale of the firewater in the Skid Road area downtown. Trouble is, the street people began migrating to tonier uptown neighborhoods to buy their favorite drinks, unnerving well- heeled shoppers and merchants...
...Penny Harrington, turmoil is not unusual. She had been in office only a month when a city budget crisis forced her to fire 16 police officers and leave 60 vacancies unfilled, outraging the force. Ordered by Mayor Bud Clark to give priority to cutting Portland's high burglary rate, which topped the nation's three years running, Harrington created a juvenile division that worked to prevent truancy, thus reducing daytime burglaries. But to pay for it she eliminated the vice and drug division, giving its duties to already overworked detectives and precinct officers. Critics charged that this...