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ie LEWIS = reporicdly invited Heath and Harfis to Akron last July after Heath and Harris got mined up in a firht and knifing scrape in Stone Mountain, Ga., national head- quarters for James Venable’s National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Heath was identified by’ _. Venable as former Grand Dragon of the Jltinois Nation- al Knights and Harris as Wis- consin Grand Dragon. Vena- ble also said he had banished boih men from the Kian “for life’' after the Stone Mountain - altercation, BANISHED or not, Heath and Harris were active in the Akron-area Klan alter arriy- ing here under Lewis’ prote ive wing last July. They helped spearhead membership “campaién that tripled the Klan's size to about 130 in the Akron area over the Summer and Fall. Following a Beacon Journal story on their activities, however, the Klansmen near- ly halted their membership drive and “were not very ac- tive,” according to local po- lice. Heath later left Akron when he failed to find a steady job, but still maintains close ties here with Lewis and Crites.