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mo C2 Daily Press, Friday, Jan. 13, 1989 PfN council Ks trial recycling program Curbside recycling program About 1,500 homes will be on Newport News test route for curbside recycling scheduled to begin in March. Map shows the subdivisions and streets to be included. and on whether council members continue to express concerns. 'Maroney said the chosen neighborhoods are ideal because they contain precisely the number of homes the city wants to examine, The council agreed last fall to pursue curbside recycling to help reduce the amount of trash dumped in the city's landfill.

Following the four-month test, the city will spend a year analyzing the results and then planning and budgeting for a citywide effort" In other business, the council informally agreed to prohibit oyster brokering on the city-owned pier on Deep Creek Road something that has been discussed for more than a year. That way the city won't be competing with landowner Helen Nachman, who has agreed to lease part of her property across Deep Creek for oyster brokering. i Billy Moore, president of the Working Watermen's Association of Virginia, said he agreed with the plan, adding that brokers who usually use the city pier would simply move to Nach-man's property. "We should not just go to the areas that have been yelling the loudest about this," Councilman Donald N. Patten said.

"You might get a false positive reading." "You have left out a whole section of the city," Council-woman Flora D. Crittenden said. She added that it is important to promote recycling even in areas where residents may not be interested now. In addition to measuring participation, the experiment also will measure how much a recycling program costs, how much manpower is needed and how good the markets are, for selling recyclable goods. "All I am saying is it would behoove us to be sure we have conducted this pilot program efficiently and that it gives us meaningful results," Patten said.

But council members said they were eager for the program to start and asked that it be placed on the Jan. 24 agenda for formal approval. Afterward, City Manager Edgar E. Maroney said the city would likely stick with the chosen routes at first, but may change them later based on how well the pilot program is going pj I I Test pick-ups routes. xVV.

Police: Robberies rise in January said. "We've had 15 robberies "We would like to be your arms and legs In television. Our mission Is to spread your message to the marketplace." Dwight L. Green Py MARK DAVIDSON I Staff Writer NEWPORT NEWS The City Council cautiously gave its blessing Thursday to an expert-I rtiental trash-recycling program after expressing strong concerns about the neighborhoods to be I tested. 1 City officials told council members that 1,500 homes would participate from four neighborhoods two in Den bigh and two in midtown.

No residents south of Maxwell Lane are on the test routes. One reason for the four-; month test program, scheduled to begin in March, is to deter-i mine how willing residents are I to separate their recyclable cans, bottles and newspapers and place them on the curb for "collection. Assistant City Manager Randy Hildebrandt said the se-; lected residents will make a good sample because they are vry interested in recycling as opposed to other trash-disposal methods. He based that assumption on past outcry from those over a plan to build a trash incinerator nearby. several council members questioned whether that is a 1 wise method of testing.

Station Continued from Cl 13); two local-origin commercial stations (UHF Channels 27 and 33) and a local, non-profit affiliate of the Public Broadcasting System (UHF Channel 15). Through financial worries and snags with the Federal Communications Commission, WJCB has taken six years to get this close to going on the air. A prominent supporter of Democrats, Bishop Green credits three Republicans Virginia Sen. John Warner, former Sen. Paul Trible and 1st District Rep.

Herbert H. Bate-man with helping the station clear up licensing problems with the FCC. Larry Hart, press secretary for Bateman, said the congressman sent a letter to the FCC that helped get the station's li- Spencer Continued from Cl thrown in the car like Art. He said yes. So I signed." With Jones following in her car, Livermore was driven to the Hampton Police Department.

He was placed in a cage in the lockup area, where a sheriff's deputy took off the handcuffs. He also took Livermore's valuables, as well as his tie and, belt, just in case he was despondent over being busted as a trespasser. But Livermore wasn't despondent. i "I was scared to death," he said. "I didn't know what was going to happen." There was no reason he should, Except for a speeding ticket, Livermore had never been on the wrong side of the law.

"I explained to the sheriff that the chief magistrate was a friend of mine," he said. "I asked if he would call him, He said he couldn't until I was booked. He was going off to type up the arrest warrant when the magistrate on duty told him to Wait. "She asked me if I was aware that by signing a summons I was not admitting guilt, that I was only guaranteeing that I would appear in court to face the charge. January and December might be good times for clerks like Clark to call in sick, say police in Hampton and Newport News.

Both cities have averaged a robbery a day or more since Dec. 1. Those aren't unusual figures, and February probably won't be much better if past years are any indication. January, traditionally, is a high robbery month, said Detective Capt. Ray E.

Bingman of Hampton, which had 30 robberies in December and one bank and 11 other robbery vie-; tims in January, as of Wednesday. "In January and February 1987, we had 52 (robberies) those two months," he said. The number dropped to 48 the same two months of 1988, Bingman sion that serves both bodies," he said. "I think they're well represented." The Planning Commission should research the proposal to see how it would affect the county, he added. In other business, the town council accepted a Virginia ceptives after a citizens advisory group voted to delete them.

Jebbie Crowe, who heads the team overseeing Newport News' program, said that once sex-education classes began in the fall of 1987, the controversy ended. "You can tell parents wanted it because only 10 or 12 out of 3,000 sixth-and seventh-graders opted she said. The legislators also talked about delaying another state mandate: the hiring of elementary guidance counselors. "Some localities are saying they can't afford it, but neither can our students afford to wait any longer," Superintendent Davis said. 1 The education board learned Thursday that 44 percent of the required number of elementary guidance counselors, or 462.5 -positions, have been hired.

so far" this year, he said. Convenience stores, motels, restaurants and gas stations have been the more popular targets in the Hampton crimes, Bingman said. Four banks have been robbed in Newport News, compared to one in Hampton, during the same period. Newport News police investigated 46 robberies in December. The targets Included 18 businesses, four of them banks, Sgt.

Art Nolan In the first 11 days of January, Newport News had 13 holdups, Nolan said. Five were at businesses and one was at a bank. The. rest involved purse snatchings and muggings of people on the street, Council for the Arts grant of $3,000 to continue and expand the Art in the Parks program this summer. The program calls for eight musical events, three art displays and tours of the historic throughout the summer, Classen said.

Statewide, another 602 must be added to division payrolls by September to meet the mandate. On the Peninsula, only 18 of the required 81.5 positions have been filled. Another 63.5 slots must be filled by the the fall. Sen.1 Stanley C. Walker, D-Norfolk, spearheaded the i legislative effort three years ago to require elementary guidance counselors.

State educators agreed that the program could reach troubled students at an earlier age and that prevention was less costly than remedia- tion. there ever was a time to speed up this program, it's now when dropouts and other teen problems are worrying everyone," Walker told the board Thursday. "I hope the program survives this scrutiny without losing its pace." By DAVID CHERNICKY Staff Writer It was a Christmas Eve that Colleen Clark will never forget. Clark, assistant manager at a Chevron Food Mart in Hampton, was behind the counter three weeks ago when a man entered the store. "He came around the counter and shoved me, knocking me down," Clark said.

When she glanced up from the floor, she saw the man reach into the safe and pull out a bank As he left, the man swung the bag at her, hitting her in the head. Though not injured, Clark said the incident "shook me up a whole lot." The same store was robbed 10 days later, but Clark had called in sick that day. Urbanna Continued from Cl ing of the county Board of Supervisors Tuesday. 1 "It has been my opinion all along that this is a joint commis Education Continued from Cl Education and Health Committee, but he predicted it would pass if it did get to the floor. Several delegates said they also might introduce a bill to delay sex-education classes.

Likewise, Ed Wilbourn of the Citizens Alert Team said little will probably be accomplished in Richmond this session "because the deck is stacked against us," but the groups want to "hit the ballot box this fall." Virginians will elect a new governor and all 100 state delegates in November. Wilbourn claims that local committees charged with developing sex-education programs have been both deaf and unfair. His group is suing Prince William school officials because they allegedly added back controversial lessons on homosexuality, masturbation and contra Frankie Abourjilie, vice-president for public affairs, expressed the network's support. "We welcome any voice that speaks out for the gospel of Jesus Christ," she said. "We look forward to knowing more about them." Oscar H.

Blayton, head of the local chapter of the NAACP, took the announcement in stride. "I can't say anything profound about it," he said, describ- ing his organization as secular rather than religious in its inter- ests. "But I do wish them $250 more than he should've had to spend. "First, you have to go to court to prove you're not guilty, then you have to pay to have your record cleaned," he said. "I think that's a crime." In the end, Livermore never even got his day in court.

When it came time to let the judge decide who was right and wrong, the arresting officer passed. When I asked him why he didn't show, the policeman referred me to his supervisor, who told me, "The officer has been disciplined for not showing up in court. Mr. Livermore parked near a big sign that says, 'Ridg-way Park closes at sunset. Reopens at 7 a.m.

No trespassing.1 Violators will be prosecuted. Police patrolled. "It also says right on the summons that signing is not an ad-' mission of guilt. We felt like it was a good arrest." Technically, maybe, But I wouldn't include it in any com-: munity relations seminars. Neither would Jones.

"I kept thinking someone would fix this, because it wasn't right," she said. "But no one did. It was a comedy of errors." It was also a learning experience. "If we need a place to park these days," Jones said, "we go in the den." cense application back on track. Bishop Green has endorsed Democratic candidates from his pulpit.

Dwight Green was part of the Newport News delegation to the 1988 Democratic National Convention and he has worked for Democratic candidates such as Del. Henry Maxwell and state Sen. Robert Scott, both of Newport News. Response to the announcement of the station's opening was varied. At the Christian Broadcasting Network headquarters in Chesapeake, home of WYAH-Channel 27, officials were caught by surprise.

"I said, "She said, 'Now that you know, will you sign the "I said, 'I would've signed it in the park if I'd been told." Livermore signed, got his belongings back and left. He returned a couple of hours later. By then he was angry. He had never been in trouble with the law, and here he had been run through the legal wringer like a low-life. He filed a complaint against the police officer.

The department investigated. The captain in charge of internal affairs told Livermore the officer might have used poor judgment but didn't violate Livermore's rights or the law. "Everyone we dealt with was polite and nice," Jones said, "but that didn't help' our situation." Livermore and Jones decided to fight the trespassing charge in court. They now knew that there was a no-trespassing sign in the park but figured they had made an honest mistake. Besides, neither wanted a criminal record.

"I'm a licensed securities dealer," Livermore explained. "I don't need to be convicted of anything, even a Class 3 misdemeanor." The lawyer he hired cost $250. That's not a lot, but it's Covering Hampton Roads for over 15 years i mmMimmSmaimMaGmmmm If we don't have BUILD IT" READY TO FINISH (or completely fininhed) 50541-1223 CITY OF HAMPTON REFUSE COLLECTION SCHEDULE There will be no Refuse or Bulk Trash Collection in the City of Hampton on Monday, January 16, 1989. Collections scheduled for Monday will be collected on the next regular collection, day. Regular collections the SO FREE LOTTERY TICKETS you'll receive upon completion payment of each re-roofing job.

One per household Applies to re-roofing only Winter rates in effect THOMAS ROOFING 898-3022 ALL WOOD Entertainment $QQQ Center hiOV Well-Built Wood Furniture 2927 Geo. Washington Hwy. Phone 867-9158 will resume on Tuesday, January 1 7, 1 989. Landfill on North Park Lane and Big Bethel Road will remain open. I 3 oJj a a THE COLLEGE OF CONTINUING EDUCATION nn Inl 628 12-01 OS PUBLIC NOTICE The Board of Review of Real Estate Assessments, City of Hampton, will be held at 2:00 p.m.

24 Jonuary 1989 in Council Chambers, City Hall, for the purpose of hearing complaints of inequalities on the following propertiesi 89-7 620 Childs Herbert G. I Jeanette W. Perry 89-815 Kingslee Lane, Louit M. A Becky R. Hall 89-9 132 Braddock Road, Donald H.

Hayes 89-10 91 Marina Road, Peter W. A Rota I. McGuld Above property owners will be notified by the Board Secretary. URoyf Moore, III Chairman HAPPY BIRTHDAY JANUARY 1 3 TO DR. ALBERT E.

MILLAR, JR. ENGLISH PROFESSOR CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT COLLEGE FROM ALL OF HIS STUDENTS Will offer its third certificate program in Travel Agency Training beginning on February 2 1 1 989 through April 27, 1 989 from p.m. at Hampton University. This program has been restructured and updated, An orientation ond interviews will be held on January 19, 1989 in Room 106, Wigwam Building, Hampton University from Course will include Geography, Ticketing, Marketing, Management and Sales, All courses will be taught by academically qualified instructors and Certified Travel Counselors (CTC's). For additional information call or write to: The College of Continuing Education i'' i Hampton University Hampton, VA 23668 "fl (804)727-3773 illtartMfitalh.