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IK I I 1 I I iT 4 I i i It I i 1 1 1 B2 Greensboro News Record Wed July 10 1985 Eden man indicted again in execution wl Ima WENTWORTH A Rocking ham County grand jury returned a second indictment against an Eden man Tuesday in the gangland style execution of Clarence Wayne Tilley a witness in a drug and gun smug 'gling case in Wise County Va The grand jury indicted Bobby Ray Brown on charges of conspiring Linley Vernon Tate Sr 45 and Richard Lee Hopper 20 to commit first degree murder Dis trict Attorney Philip Allen said The grand jury indicted Brown 1 Monday on charges of first degree murder in the Aug 4 1981 shotgun slaying of Tilley 35 Tilley died after a gunman in a passing car fired several shotgun "blasts at him as he stood in his front yard at 838 Grand Oaks Drive He j': was hit in the chest and upper body The assailant fled Tilley had been questioned by'authorities in a federal investigationir into the suspected smuggling ring operating out of the coal fields of Wise County He had not appeared before a federal grand jury in Roa noke Va that was looking into the ring Last week Tate and Earl Verio 1 tPilkenton 55 of Wise County were tried on charges of conspiring tosmuggle cocaine and marijuana into southwestern Virginia from South America That case ended in a mistrial A second trial is scheduled July 17 in (Roanoke Va 2 held on cocaine charges Two Greensboro women were ar rested early Tuesday on charges of "trafficking cocaine after police stopped a car and seized about $25000 worth of cocaine according to the office Maxine McLendon McCormickand Mary Ann Wiggins both of Greensboro were in the Guilford County Jail in lieu of $100000 bondteach Both were charged with onecount of felony trafficking of co caine Wiggins also was charged with one count of felony possession()of cocaine jf Greensboro police made the ar rests at about 4 am Police found between 200 and 400 grams of co caine in the car Authorities said the suspects were preparing to sell the cocaine to another party A trial has been set for July 17 Man robbed at knife point A Greensboro man reported Sun day that he was robbed of $137 and' attacked with a butcher knife by an assailant who entered his home while he slept Clarence Cheek 60 of 600 Benbow Road told police he was asleep in a living room chair by his open front door when he was awak ened about 6:30 am by a man standing over him with a butcher knife said Lt BW Ward The man told Cheek he was going to kill him victim grabbed the knife and they started Ward said the struggle he saw another suspect standing outside the door After the struggle Cheek forced the suspect out the Cheek was treated at Richard son Hospital for cuts on his hands and was released Sunday Cheek told police the assailant 1 must have taken the money from him while he still was sleeping Ward said Cheek told police he knew one of the assailants by a nickname The case still is under investigation Ward said Seven Dwarfs now three WINSTON SALEM orsyth County sheriffs deputies are look ing for a 3 foot 200 pound and four of her seven associates The is a cement statue of Snow White and the associates are four of the Seven Dwarfs identified by Irene Golding as Grumpy Sleepy Dopey and Bash ful had to paint those rascals so I feel very close to Golding said The family discovered the four i statues gone while they were pre paring to leave for church last Sun day The remaining three dwarfs Sneezy Happy and Doc have i been resting on the front lawn in an i ticipation of a reunion with their family somebody wants a set of their I own just as soon give up the three because we want to see them all Golding said is just a family and when some of them are gone they are torn According to a report the set of eight statues is valued at $600 Snow White and her dwarfs have been with the Goldings for three years I painted them and bathed them I grew closer to Gold ingsaid became my rom Staff andWire Reports How parents rale Greensboro elementary schools Excellent Good Math 235 430 Reading 271 416 Language arts 264 416 Science 180 398 Social studies 178 399 Health education 173 376 Physical education 1 68 310 Music 143 280 Art 145 297 Computer Education 148 241 Guidance and counseling 203 313 Media (library services) 284 397 Support services (speech and language psychological etc)" 158 255 Exceptional children programs (learning disabled educable mentally handicapped) 129 177 Academically gifted 128 215 School meals 173 294 Drug and alcohol abuse education prevention 151 235 Needs Adequate Improvement Poor Know 243 68 08 15 224 68 09 12 231 64 10 14 294 76 11 40 301 67 10 44 319 69 08 55 293 132 39 56 288 145 52 92 295 ''145 48 70 227 160 46 177 246 74 22 143 227 38 06 48 212 61 14 299 146 53 16 478 169 59 16 414 308 121 53 230 88 21 275 Source: Greensboro Public Schools Survey: Parents very pleased with Greensboro elementaries By BRIAN SHAW Staff Writer The total program in Greensbor elementary schools is or according to a wide ranging school system survey of opinions released Tues day Sixty percent of the parents sur veyed or 3134 of the 5205 re sponses said the schools were doing a very good or excellent job Another 276 percent considered the total education program to be ade quate Six percent said the program needs improvement 6 percent said the program was poor and 56 per cent said they know how to rate the total program 'Approximately 10800 parents of students in kindergarten through sixth grade received the 66 question eight page question naire A total of 5453 responses to the survey were returned Dan Watkins a research special ist and school psychologist called the return very good response The survey developed at the re quest of Assistant Superintendent Mel Swann offered the parents the opportunity to express their views on six different categories school climate subject areaprogram learning teachers communications and principals A three question addendum ex clusively for use also was included The addendum asked questions about what the parents liked best about the schools what they would change in the schools and what areas should receive more or less emphasis School board Chairwoman Sarah Beale said the survey shows the schools are the needs of our children set higher standards for our children and they are meeting Beale said creates a situ ation in which parents have confi dence in the Barbara Teichman the spokeswoman who helped design the questionnaire said the survey was just one criterion to measure scholastic success for students and individual schools need to look at this the school test results and parental communication to get the total pic of how well the schools are ed ucating the students she said Teachers fared especially well in the survey Over 90 percent of the respondents said the teachers in their school showed respect and concern for their child The survey Beale said is exceptional vote of confidence for the Greensboro teachers They have workedso hard It just goes to show that it all goes back to teachers and instructional Swann said the information will be used by principals and teachers in assessing they can do to make theirs a better Assistant Superintendent Julius ulmore said the senior leadership team is discussing a similar survey of parents with students in secondary schools for the coming school year Man charged in 1979 murder By JIM BRADY Alamance Bureau GRAHAM A San Jose Calif man has been charged in the kidnap rape and murder six years ago of Tammy Sue Aldridge a 20 ear old Burlington woman who disappeared while jogging and was found stran gled days later Alamance County deputies and State Bureau of Investigation agents along with California author ities arrested Paul Anthony Teague 23 at his San Jose apartment at midnight PST Monday Sheriff John Stockard announced Tuesday Teague who was in the Santa Clara County jail pending extradi tion moved to North Carolina one year before the 1979 murder and moved back to California a year af ter police said He lived with a half brother two to three miles from where body was found dumped on a country highway two miles east of Graham Stockard would not disclose evi dence that led Alamance investiga tors to pursue Teague who was 17 at the time of death He also declined to say whether police were seeking other suspects He said the killing has been under ac tive investigation since 1979 hate to elaborate on how many hours went into this Stockard said Jimmy Ray Aldridge the father said he was relieved to hear of an arrest after years of waiting and said he was grateful for the work of the deputies and the SBI just hope this is the he said accuse nobody until proven Sheriffs Lt Daniel Qualls said Teague knew the victim but Qualls would not explain further Sheriffs investigators flew to Cal ifornia P2 years ago and inter viewed Teague who was unemployed Stockard said He would not explain why investigators waited this long to make an arrest and he would not say how long Teague had been a suspect Stockard said Teague was named in sealed indictments that a grand jury returned July 1 Tammy Aldridge dissappeared June 30 1979 while jogging alone in the Hopedale area north of Burling ton She had been attending Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte but returned to her par home on weekends her father said Aldridge called her parents twice after she disappeared police said At the end of the first call July 1 she said she had to end the conver sation because going to hang In a call the next day she told her parents going to hang In both calls Aldridge told her parents she was well and would be home soon giving no other details She never mentioned ransom and no one else spoke from her end of the line Efforts to trace her second call failed Alamance county residents fol lowed the tense episode and were horrified July 3 after a motorist found body clothed in shorts and a blouse dumped in the middle of NC 54 As police investi gated telephone poles and bill boards were plastered with posters bearing picture and an $11000 reward $5000 from the state and $6000 from area residents for information leading to the arrest of her killer Stockard did not say whether he expected anyone to get the award The sheriff and the SBI once be fore announced that they had a sus pect in the killing However no charges were filed after they inves tigated possible links between Ald death and a 1982 attack on a Sandy Ridge woman SBI agent Tom Childry and Sher iffs investigator Victor Alan Cates remained in San Jose Tuesday awaiting further developments Stockard said Motor club gives vacation cost estimates CHARLOTTE (AP) A family of two adults and two children vaca tioning by car this summer will spend approximately $143 per day for meals and lodging plus $21 for 300 miles of daily travel the AAA Carolina Motor Club says The motor club estimates that the average family will spend $76 for Harrelson rom meals $67 for lodging and $7 per 100 miles for gas oil and other driv ing expenses with the car averag ing 23 miles a gallon The $67 for lodging is based on the average rate charged by accom odations listed in the AAA Carolina Motor Club tour books In addition to food lodging and driving costs a family should bud get for amusements admission costs to places of interest recrea tion and shopping the motor club says A reserve fund for emergen cies also should be included particu larly if the family does not carry credit cards the club says son said welcome the method of selection chosen by the General As sembly I know of no person bet ter qualified than a senior resident Superior Court judge to evaluate qualifications and trial ability When asked why a Democrat dominated legislature take action sooner Harrelson said not' going to make any further com State Sen Bob Shaw Guilford blasted Harrelson during debate over the bill has been at the public trough lengthwise for eight years run around all over this state to get' the legislature to put this amendment in to help him keep his Shaw a former state and county Republican party chairman said the bill is because of one person in North Carolina who is the public defender (in Guilford Harrelson acknowledged five months ago that his job and lucra tive retirement benefits were in jeopardy with a Republican as gov ernor Harrelson began actively lob bying for a change in the appointment process speaking to legislators and other public defend ers The Public Defenders Association has not taken a public position on the issue and has never put the proposal to a vote Glass rom B1 how the glass breaks Regulation glass will break in little squares or stay in tact within the frame while non regulation glass will break into long shards Anderson said state and local gov ernments also have adopted regula tions for most glass doors But Jack Wade chief of Greens building inspection depart ment said the city does not normally regulate the installation of storm doors covered by state stan dards since 1977 are not required for storm glass Wade said been exempt There are no permits required for homes and the exemptions are for anything $5000 or under The code require ments are in the book but no one really looks at them unless part of a building State regulations require the use of wired tempered or lamenated glass in doors Plate or sheet glass can be used with a steel bar if the glass is at least 316 of an inch thick can go to any number of places to buy a glass storm Wade said "You need a per mit and you can put it up yourself The door may have been there for 20 years or for 10 but code require ments are not Davidson voters reject bid to repeal sales tax By CHARLES HERNDON Wish Point Bureau LEXINGTON Davidson Coun ty voters apparently fearing higher1 property taxes if the local option sales tax were eliminated rejected proposals to repeal the lu cent sales taxes Tuesday The 15920 voters representing a higher than predicted 289 percent of the 55000 voters dashed the efforts of a of anti tax activists Tax opponents led by Barney Hill of Thomasville had forced the issue into a referendum in 1983 after garnering more than 8000 names on a petition in favor of a tax repeal With all 44 precincts reporting the sales tax repeal lost 13590 to 1984 nearly 7 1 according to unofficial tallies Similar figures re sulted in the vote on the half cent tax with the repeal losing 13321 to 2232 nearly 6 1 The vote also may have scuttled tax repeal efforts being considered in several North Carolina counties including Guilford Randolph and orsyth The Davidson referendum was the first of its kind in the state would say and managers will be sleeping a little better said Davidson County Manager Doug lick who was faced with possibly higher property taxes to offset more than $55 million the county would have lost if the sales taxes had been repealed know (manager) will thought it would be a rela tively close said Don Mona han campaign manager for the Committee for air Taxation which has poured thousands of dollars and a high profile campaign into the ef fort to retain the tax we feel elated I feel like a duck in water In the weeks before the balloting the campaign centered on voter turnout Unofficial voter surveys supported pro tax contentions that a higher turnout would benefit their position Davidson County elections officials had predicted a 20 percent turnout for the vote which they said was typical for single issue off year referendums in this largely rural politically conservative coun ty of 113000 Both issues on the ballot were essentially the same Voters were asked whether to repeal the coun local option 1 cent sales tax as well as a similar half cent sales tax Both taxes combined bring in an estimated $7 million for Davidson County and its three largest munici palities Opposition to the taxes was weak Schools rQm B1 Hunsucker said the administra tion's with a 10 percent sala ry increase for child nutrition while the programs are losing money He said parents would balk at an increase in lunch prices Prices have been raised twice in the last three years Austin said closing the cafeterias for all grades would create a logis tics problem for the schools None of the schools has a cafeteria large enough to feed all the students in two lunch periods he said and schedules would have to be adjust ed would affect the curriculum nearly everywhere with even home precinct voting against repeal by an almost 4 1 margin Several precincts went as high as 15 1 in favor of the tax The vote disappointed anti tax advocates who had wanted repeal because they believed county resi dents were overtaxed and disagreed with the concept of a county rom his home in Thomas ville where he stayed Tuesday night to wait for returns Hill saidhe was confounded by the vote tal lies he said of the tallies correspond with our canvassing at He said he was puzzled why there more difference between vote totals on the two distinct taxes and why vote totals were so uniform in rural as well as urban precincts Hill has not ruled out another stab at repeal but he admitted the process of collecting signatures and scheduling another referendum was arduous The election process said elec tions supervisor Ruth Huneycutt will cost the county about $35000 She said she was impressed with the turnout seems pleased with Davidson she said She said she know why turnout was higher than she had expected Results from the voting will be made official 11 am Thursday after all the votes are canvassed and veri fied she said Both sides had worried in the last weeks that holding the referendum near the July 4 holiday would catch many voters out of town lick said showing would affect other areas of the state does not provide any fuel fo anti government or anti tax movements I he said were pleasantly sur Observers of the referendum said voters had reacted to the almost guaranteed hike in property taxes should the sales tax be repealed The fiscal 1985 1986 budget was delayed until after the referen dum so last minute changes could be made if the tax revenue were lost lick had in June warned that property taxes would rise by about 8 cents per $100 of valuation this summer to replace lost tax money if the referendum passed lick said the Board of Commissioners would meet Thurs day afternoon to approve the pro posed budget and to consider a proposal to add a new annex on to the jail which is to be an nounced this morning with a non curnculum he said Placing lunch period restrictions on the ninth and tenth grade will7 not change class schedules The board also heard a report from Assistant Superintendent Ju lius ulmore on academic require ments for athletic and extracurricular activities ulmore said a 16 member task force composed of teachers coach es parents athletic directors and administrators will begin studying the issue next month The task force will present its recommendations to the committee in December Lawyer found innocent in drunk driving charge DURHAM (AP) A Charlotte lawyer was found innocent of drunk en driving last week although he registered 17 on a Breathalyzer test and records show that level greater than the readings at which some people have been convicted in Durham Durham County District Court Judge William Pearson III said he acquitted Alexander Copeland because despite the Breathalyzer reading there was no evidence that Copeland was driving erratically Copeland was arrested eb 8 as he was driving away from a Durham motel lounge Evidence indicated that he was stopped for a routine license check and asked to take a Breathalyzer test after an officer smelled alcohol According to testi mony when the officer asked Cope land if he was under the influence the attorney laughed and said Pearson said that he found Cope land innocent because no one in cluding the arresting officer saw Copeland driving as if he was im paired Police report rash of tire slashings By JULIE GILBERTO Staff Writer Greensboro police are investigat ing a rash of tire slashings that oc curred Sunday and Monday nights Six Smith Homes residents re ported their tires had been cut on Monday according to Lt BW Ward Cars parked at 1208 1300 and 1302 Orchard St 1805 Allen St the intersection of Allen and Craig streets were found sitting on flat tires Two others parked at 3121 High Point Road and 404 Tipperary Drive also were vandalized Sunday night those two are related we Ward said At least four other slashings were reported Tuesday morning Police had reports of tires being cut some time Monday night at 205 Park Avenue 608 ifth Ave and 712 Cypress St Other reports could have been taken by patrol officers called to the scene said officer Jim Henriksen taking a block and going down and getting all the he said two tires are fac ing the street they hit The two areas that have been hit are on the opposite sides of the downtown about two miles apart Ward said is absolutely no way of saying the ones on Charter and Park are related to the ones at Smith Ward said Sgt Archie Helms said ap parently happened between 2 clock and 5:30 when the first one was found At the wee hours of the night not going to be too many people out to see anything The only thing one can hope for is that one of them will talk and tell on the Because most of the tires were cut near the rims they probably will have to be replaced Helms said TIME TEMPERATURE 1 I Phone 373 TIMeJ 1.