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Page A2-The Chronicle, Thursday, October 27, 1983 yourself in one word:\ book: “Roots” by Alex, Someone You Should Meet. Someone You Should Meet ... Name: Greg DeShannon Job Title: Radio Personality Hometown: North Wilkesboro Hobbies: All sports Describe “Honest Favorite Haley \ Favorite Movie: “Star Wars,” alt' three releases Persons admire most: Grandmother,! Beula Redmon, and the late Dr. Mar- \ tin Luther King Jr. Career Goal: “To become a network] studio announcer.” (photo by James Parker) If you are single, at least 18 years old, doing something positive in the community or employed and interested in appearing in this] column, or if you know someone that meets] the criteria, please send your name and] daytime telephone number to: Someone You Should Meet, Winston-Salem Chronicle, i P, O. Box 3J54, Winston-Salem, 27102. Crime Prevention NEWS DIGEST National, state and local news briefs compiled by John Slade King Holiday Passes Final Test, Becomes Law WASHINGTON -- Dr. Martin Luther King’s birth day is now a national holiday despite firm opposition from North Carolina Republican Sen. Jesse Helms and 21 other senators. The Senate voted 78-22 la.st week to make King’s birth day the nation’s 10th national holiday, beginning in 1986. The third Monday in January has been set aside as the day to honor the slain civil rights leader. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., told the Senate that King “deserves the place which this legislation gives him beside Washington and Columbus. In a very real sense, he was the second father of our country, the se cond founder of a new world that is not only a place, a piece of geography, but a noble set of ideals.’’ President Reagan, who had initially objected to the cost of another federal holiday, promised to sign the bill into law if passed by the Senate. The House passed the bill 338-90 Aug. 2. King was born Jan. 15, 1929. Trustee Wants More Details On A&T Finances GREENSBORO -- A North Carolina A&T State University trustee charged recently that university ad ministrators are ducking questions from trustees concern ing A&T’s financial status. Trustee Carson Bain said that he and two other trustees got few answers about the school’s finances when they recently met with A&T’s chancellor, Dr. Edward B. Fort, and Charles C. McIntyre, vice chancellor for fiscal af fairs. Bain said the trustees became concerned after a former director of accounting at the university, Robert Kelley, told the Greensboro Daily News and The Greensboro Record that A&T is as much as $4 million in debt and hasn’t paid its bills since May. “Fort kept saying these problems date back to 1970,” Bain said. “He’s been here two years. He can’t keep us ing that excuse.” i But Betty Cone, another trustee present at the meetingj said she feels Fort answered the questions as forthrightly as he could until the 1983 audit of A&T’s books is made public later this month. Fort said he has taken four steps to get the university’s books in order and keep them that way: a computerized accounting system to be initiated by 1984; an accounting manual that gives employees guidelines for documenting expenditures and income; a manual that outlines pro cedures on applying for grants and how the money must be handled, and a personnel reorganization to include a comptroller, a business manager, a systems analyst and a new director of accounting. Local Drop-Out Rate Third Lowest In State WINSTON-SALEM - The city-county school system had a high school dropout rate of 4.2 percent last school year, said school officials last week. The rate was the third lowest in the state. Last year, the local rate was 5 percent, said a spokesman for the school system. He attributed several special programs for high school students as accounting for the low rate. The optional education program for students who have Fire Prevention Ensuring A Horribly Safe Halloween By THOMAS FT YNN Syndicated Columnist It’s Halloween time once again. Time for witches and ghosts and goblins and spooks. Time to speak of the unspeakable, to make jokes about disfigurement and horrible death and eternal perdition. But let’s have our macabre fun without inviting real tragedy in the form of ravening fire. Here’s how to have a safe Halloween and enjoy the holiday’s horrors from a safe distance: Rule number one is a simple one: Don’t use candles in a jack-o-lantern! Whether carried by a trick-or-treater or set on a window ledge, the candle-lit pumpkin is an in vitation to disaster. For a lighting effect more ghoulishly delightful than even a flickering candle, light a stationary jack-o-lantern with flashing red and yellow Christmas lights instead. Break out a string of the middle-sized C7‘/2 Christmas lights, install red and yellow individually flashing twinkle lamps and you’ll have a jack-o-lantern that’s both safer and scarier. Now, for the little ones. Make sure your trick-or- treaters wear flame-retardant costumes. Most commer cial costumes sold today are flame retardant; if you make your own, better fabric shops can sell you both flame- retardant fabric and chemical powders for fireproofing other garments. Children should also be equipped with flashlights (not candles) and reflective strips on their costumes for added visibility. In most areas, Halloween is one of the first Witness Helps Apprehend Robbers The following “Crime Box Score” is designed to keep you abreast of criminal activity in your community dur ing the past week and to help you protect your family and property from crime. Bank Robbery •2300 block, Patterson Avenue The suspect handed a teller a note saying he had. a weapon and to give him money. After, getting yan unknown amount of money, the suspect.fled on foot., A witness who followed the suspect said the suspect lafer joined a second individual. The witness reported the direction in which the suspects were traveling to the police, who arrested both of them a short time later and charged them with bank robbery. The money was recovered. Armed Robbery •600 block. Mulberry Street Two black males wearing Halloween masks came into an office and requested information on how to rent an apartment. As the secretary was getting an application, one suspect pulled a knife, demanded the secretary to get all of the money out of the office’s safe and tied her up in the bathroom. The first suspect then forced the secretary to perform oral sex on him. Both suspects were reported to be 5-8, 150 to 175 pounds, and in their mid-20s. The first suspect had the letter “R” on his belt buckle. •1600 block, Derry Street The complainant was sitting in her car in a parking lot when the suspect approached her, holding something covered with a cloth, which the complainant thought was a gun. The suspect took the complainant’s money and ran. Strong-Armed Robbery •1500 block, East 24th Street A witness called the police after observing the complai nant being assaulted’and robbed. The complainant was foupd uncojiscious on the sidewalk, and was treated at a .lOCEil hospital and released. The complainant reported thafhe was grabbed from behind and assaulted, then rob, bed of his money. He described the suspects as several black males. Storebreaking • 1100 block, Thurmond Avenue Assorted food items and several cartons of cigarettes were taken from a grocery store. •2200 block, Patterson Avenue Nothing was taken. •900 block. Northwest Boulevard An officer caught one suspect coming out of the front door carrying merchandise. The suspect was charged witk storebreaking and larceny. ; Housebreaking - • 100 block. West 28th Street Please see page A3 trouble in regular high schools, a vocational program at the school system’s Career Center and remedial programs helped to make the difference, said the spokesman. The dropout rate indicates what percentage of students begin their ninth year and do not finish their senior year. The legal age to drop out of school is 16. The Chapel Hill schools, with a dropout rate of 2.7 percent, ranked lowest in the state, followed by the Chowan County schools, with a rate of 3.7 percent. UNEMPLOYED? 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It’s possible to inject poisons or drugs into a commercial candy through the wrapper with a syringe and leave only the tiniest marks on the wrapper. A final precaution: With the popularity of science fic tion, more and more trick-or-treaters affect costumes that include light sabers, ray guns and other weapons. Counsel children against entering any store or commer cial establishment while masked and carrying anything that resembles a weapon. A tall child, especially in a con vincing home-made costume, could conceivably motivate a robbery-shy storekeeper to shoot first and ask questions later. This column is brought to you weekly as a public ser vice of the Chronicle and the Winston-Salem Fire Depart ment. Corvette Hatchback Coupe MONTE CARLO MALIBU See me personally for special deals on these models ... CAVALIER CITATION CHEVETTE CAMARO CELEBRITY JOHN LOVELL
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