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1 i A 4 Columbus Ledger Enquirer Columbus Ga Monday August 15 1988 TROY ROBBERIES Cameras in stores can help ANESTHESIA ASSOCIATES COLUMBUS PA mericas avorite Store PlACg SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER Cocaine Problem 3 Minute Test Results S600 Service Charge How to get 327 3500 Dr James Mosley DC This entire examination it REE how we do business So call us today CALL for your REE appointment before NEXT SATURDAY! Columbus: 2017 Auburn Ave 563 8000 atone ana me nour is iate wnen the store is quiet and no one is around there is comfort to be about it they say And so they live for the smile of a friendly 13 Numb ingers 14 Hip Pain 15 Tight Muscles 16 Aching eet 9 Numb Hands 10 Bursitis 1 1 Pain down Legs 12 Muscle Spasms By Skip Connett Staff Writer 3200 Macon Road Columbus Georgia Thursday riday 10 am 6 pm WC DUDNEY Medteal Director The Medical Center Chemical Dependency Unit 710CENTER STREET COLUMBUS GA or those less dedicated the best defense may be the most often heard response: out of my hands when my time comes it will come 5600 Milgen Road Columbus Georgia Tuesday Wednesday 10 am 6 pm Commercial Credit A personal approach A positive attitude Two years ago surveil lance cameras stalled stores The cameras paid for by state and local gov ernment have helped catch robbers but the num ber of robberies continues to climb according to Colum bus police catching more but there certainly are not less said Maj Rob ert McCain More than 50 businesses were robbed during the first half of this year compared to 70 in all of last year Robberies of individuals have jumped even higher from 239 last year to 152 for the first half of this year installation ot tne cam eras cost $25000 and was paid by a stale grant and matching local funds The city has since received two similar grants and installed additional cameras he added The decision followed two brutal robbery slayings here and reports that the cam eras had curtailed crime in othercities Although year to year fig ures were not available McCain said the cameras resulted in the arrest of five people in the past four months clearing a total of nine robberies been a tremen dous success clearance is way said Columbus Councilor Bobby Peters who pushed for cameras Cameras at the Spectrum Store on Manchester Ex pressway led to the arrest of three men allegedly in volved in the shooting of Spectrum clerk Benjamin Siegfried McCain said they have the cameras we have had McCain said While most local conven ience stores now have cam eras few require two clerks to work the night shift ollowing the lead of other cities Peters also proposed an ordinance in 1985 requir ing two person shifts at night It was defeated with some councilors arguing it would infringe on private enterprise Want money owed you? SEMINAR Collecting Delinquent Accounts August 16 18 Tues Thurs 7 9:30 pm North (New) Building Columbus Tech 928 45th St or more information call: Continued rom Page A 1 hour before being laid off With no experience working in a store she now makes $350 an hour which must support her family until her husband finds a job it happened 1 was so scared I just wanted to walk out the doors leave and she said it happens again I work in a store In contrast to Mrs McKinnie Mrs Hovatter is a short talk ative woman who emigrated from Germany in 1956 and has spent the last 17 years working in convenience stores Being robbed is nothing new to her will make it three says the fiesty no non sense woman can I say maybe crazy Morning ceremony for 13th Street viaduct A ribbon cutting ceremony will be held this morning to formally dedicate the recently widened 13th Street viaduct near down town Columbus Georgia Commissioner of Transportation Hal Rives for mer commissioner Tom More land Mayor James Jemigan Columbus councilors and mem bers of delegation to the General Assembly are ex pected to attend the 10:30 am ceremony Those who wish to attend should approach the via duct from the east (10th Avenue) end and will be able to park on the viaduct said rank Griffin transportation coordi were in in 50 Columbus As one clerk put it: you work in these places a sitting target You Of more than a dozen female clerks interviewed all but two believed they face a greater dan ger of being robbed than men All but one wife Madge who manages the arr Road Majik Market said two clerks should work nights One of the more outspoken is a clerk with more than 15 experience and who twice has had a gun stuck in her face know I have to work I have she said on condition she was not identified I feel women have to work at night more subject to being treated the wrong way they protect themselves as Althonoh qhp nnharmpd her first holdup left her shaken for several months She was afraid to leave the counter and frequently called police Some nights she chained the door after a customer left Norma Utley who quit her job Wednesday as manager at the Majik Market on Talbotton Road says it was not tear but better did I tell she tells a visitor after a break in the post midnight rush It like this for about an hour They sure love their So begins another uneventful ninht Mn charinwv fionrac Ini tering outside no strange charac ter sending chills up the spine Just an unsteady flow ot regular customers many of whom she greets by name Were her store in a high risk area however she says she work nights And if who has handled labor cases A) bank vice president may teach a course in banking The post campus is part of a Troy State network on or near military bases in the United: States Europe and Asia Another Troy State branch recently was opened at Guantanomo Bay Cuba 5 Dizziness 6 Sore Elbows 7 Neck Pain 1 8 Indegestion WE CHOLESTEROL TESTING NO ASTING REQUIRED More than 50 percent of Americans have 'i iiifi blood cholesterol levels high enough to be at risk for heart disease? and don't know it Coronary Heart Disease is the number one cause of death in the United States out num bering deaths from cancer and accicents combined is pleased to announce the association of John Williams MD in the practice of anesthesiology and pain management Appointments by referral only 324 7146 If you want money today and payments you can afford tomorrow call Commercial Credit work to find the terms that suit you best take your application over the phone And give you an answer last tiSually within 24 hours A personal approach A positive attitude The Office forchemical dependency and psychiatry MOSLEY Chiropractic Clinic 2020 7th Avenue fl 71 BRINGTHIS COUPON Columbus GA UtU 1 with you pay that made her switch to mill work Nonetheless sne oeneves females in general are more prone to holdups a man is in here regardless of his size they have a tendency to think she says Often however it is male not female clerks who are afraid to work niehts she said As a rule new employees at Majik Market and Spectrum are required to work nights They get paid the same as day clerks starting out at $350 an hour Two clerks on her staff Mrs Utley there is something to be feared says refuse to work alone at working at this store she tries night Others however women not to think about it I did as well as men request the night be a paranoid she shift because it fits their life says style Other clerks have adopted the Rather than gender the bottom same defense Like the odd hours line Ems says is personality and low pay risk comes with Studies by 7 11 Southland Corp territory no sense worrying based on interviews witn con victed robbers have found that regardless of sex clerks who customer the playful banter with come across as meek humble or regular patrons that gives these unfriendly are choice targets stores the feel of a small town grocery or cdie love the work I know crazy but I Mrs Hovatter says something funny something Mr Hovatter working at his side puts it more bluntly: know when quit this job? When they start shoveling Shaw freshmen begin band practice today Shaw High percussion color guard and freshmen band members begin practice today ull band camp will be held Aug 22 Sept 2 A meeting for freshmen and new band parents will be held in the band room at 7:30 pm today and a full band meeting will be held Aug 22 at 7:30 pm On Aug 27 from 2 7 there will be a band and covered dish picnic at the amily Life Center on Milgen Road or more informa tion call band director Tim Zabel at 548 4051 or 576 5739 Continued rom Page A 3 man of the Harris County School Board One of three colleges that offer classes on post Georgia State University and Columbus College are the others Troy State very student says Dennis ritz ort director of education services office has responsibility for institutions on military instal lations in Georgia Alabama and lorida Troy State has more students than the other two college pro grams on post Its ort Benning campus is organized to be vir tually separate from the parent college said ritz strictly for soldiers and have to depend on the main campus to provide certain he said And TSU ort Benning has molded itself to the military Because soldiers move fre quently for example they can enroll temoorarily even if their transcripts or other school docu 1 1 1 ixU mems naven 1 caugiu up wiui them Traditionally college is climb the hill to my Stansel says force people to stand around (during registra tion) waiting for their names to be called Then they dictate what they Troy State he contends has realized that consumers have be come more sophisticated about education: making choices their parents never had The universities failed to recog nize this population is not depen dent on them but the universities are dependent on the students Now we must vary our menu to meet the needs of the popula tion part of the rationale behind the choice of teachers There strings of degrees behind names Stansel says Often moonlighting A labor law teacher is a lawyer nation Get Your REE I Sunday 15 minutes before mid night the beer lovers start pull ing up to the Majik Market on Warm Springs Road They are an impatient lot thirsty and tired but the young woman behind the counter just six months out of the Army is a stickler: The law says no beer until midnight dirt on my face unu me taw must oe upneiu Rules one learns are impera tive in this business Break one and you could get fined or fired Break one at the wrong time in front of the wrong person and you And even when working nnnlzl nzi lzillri4 alnna and tho hnnr ic lata whan tvuiu gut nmuu Bunny Cooke 24 affable yet protected by a veneer of street wise toughness knows this Just found as she knows that her strict never working obedience to the rules as evi Mrs McKinnie says Lord denced by the Spectrum shoot is right at my u6 uaiaiitcca iiuuimg The customer first to challenge Mrs Cooke is a short jean clad middle aged man with iron grey hair bloodshot eyes and a loose tongue he taunts a few want to pay my she asks looking over her shoul der at the clock on the wall The customer follows Mrs Cooke back to the coolers and like a gentleman helps her pull out the mop handles barring the doors to the beer ULL SPINAL EXAMINATION NO OBLIGATION NOTHING TO PAY You may have one of these 16 DANGER SIGNALS PINCHED NERVES: 1 Low Back Pain 2 Headaches 3 Shoulder Pain 4 Arthritis IND OUT NOW whether careful professional chiropractic care can relieve your aches and pains This examination normally costs $3000 or more It will include an orthopedic test a neurological test a blood pressure test a spinal alignment check an examination for restricted or excess motion in the spine a muscle strengthness test and a private consultation with the doctor to discuss the results REE By Mike HaskeyLedger Enquirer Norma Utley helps Tim Carelock of Columbus with some pa perwork at the Majik Market store at 1100 Talbotton Road $3100 today forOamonth Do You Know What Your Cholesterol Level Is? IND OUT AT Crime in convenience stores Hardly a week passes that one uoesn i itdu ui num ciuum Some say risky business Other say a business as safe as it is thriving but has gotten a bad rap Many in the industry such as Mike Enis vice president of oper ations for Spectrum Stores Inc which has 33 stores in Georgia and Alabama say the perception of convenience stores has become distorted first question people ask me is you have a lot of In fact we have a lot We just get more publicity If you look at it (the statistics) banks are robbed more The recent armed robbery at the Manchester Expressway store was the first shooting at a Spectrum store in the 23 years of business he said adding that only one other store in Columbus has been robbed in the past 18 months James Rowell supervisor of eight Majik Market stores in Columbus agrees that the risks are overrated is no more danger working here than anywhere else If you think safe in bed just ask the little old ladies Carlton Gary Law officers and those who work behind the counter how ever have different opinions of the business says a high ranking veteran of the Columbus Police Department who asked not to be named would rather my kids work as police officers than work in a convenience store and I want my kids working as police Only since 1986 has the depart ment kept track of armed rob beries for businesses alone Two years ago 95 business were robbed in Columbus The number dropped to 70 in 1987 But for the first half of this year 51 businesses have been robbed Po lice estimate that as many as 80 to 90 percent of these business are convenience stores adding that most robberies take place at night If convenience stores head the list of businesses robbed says Ed Lambert vice president and counsel for Mumford Corp which owns Majik Market because their numbers are great and operating hours long In other words convenience stores are as convenient for robbers as they are for customers Controversy over how to make convenience stores more safe often revolves around two ques tions: Are women more prone to being robbed than men and are two clerks working at night more of a deterrent that one? According to Enis studies done by the industry have found that the answer to both questions isno Nevertheless communities in several states particularly lor ida have passed ordinances re quiring surveillance cameras or two clerks to work night shifts In Columbus AW Herndon ood Store on Brown Avenue a store that has had more than its share of robberies including two in the same day has had two clerks working round the clock for several years A male clerk hired specifically for security is part of the night shift team says store manager Susan Deloach Stores that have two clerks are tjie exception nowever in iou Columbus City Council consid nnrl on nrrlinonro romiirina turn C1UU C4 VI UU1UUVV clerk shifts but it was de I feated I What does deter robberies Enis says is a well lighted facil ity with good visibility from the road and keeping less than $50 in 9 the register he said I Another deterrent is high secu rity ive cameras monitoring the Spectrum on the Manchester Expressway enabled police to have mug shots of I assailants the streets in less than 24 he said Yet the number of robberies of convenient stores has not dropped police say Even the Herndon ood Store which in stalled bulletproof windows self locking doors and other security devices after a clerk was dragged into a back room and raped last year still gets hit now and then Qi I 4 1 few LX i nrnnt I Md by both I Call today have an answer within 24 hot rs Amount Terms Monthly Payment $2500 36 month 7 596 $3100 $10262 as $4000 48month $13241 1 $5XXX) $16551 Other loan amounts and terms available Applications taken by phone or in person Payments based on a 23 1 3 Annual Percentage Rate (APR) (or $2500 24 90 APR for S3 100 24 90 APR for $4000 24 90 APR for $5000 Credit insurance also available Call today (or details '1.