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PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY TAX SALE LISTING INSIDE The Pri nce Ge orge’s Pos t A C ommuniTy newsPAPer for PrinCe GeorGe ’s CounTy Since 1932 Vol. 80, No. 17 April 26 — May 2, 2012 Prince George’s County, Maryland Newspaper of Record Phone: 301-627-0900 25 cents Maryland Schools in the Path of the Purple Line By TIM EBNER pick-ups and walkers coming to Capital News Service school each day," Swift said. "We hope the Purple Line will ease traf - COLLEGE PARK - Proposed fic, but safety is obviously a concern construction on the Purple Line will too." not begin for at least another three Sligo Creek shares a school build - years, but some local school leaders ing and parking lot with Silver are concerned as state and county Spring International Middle School. planners work to finalize a route. The Purple Line and a proposed rail Under the current plan, the 16- station, which is currently under mile light rail line will impact four review, would be built on the south - middle and elementary schools in ern end of the campus. Prince George's and Montgomery Construction would reconfigure County. car and bus parking for the schools While the Purple Line is welcome and build a new traffic entrance news to many drivers who commute intersecting with the rail line. "We have heard the concerns of along the heavily congested east- PHOTO COURTESY BY WERTHMEDIA, FLICKR west corridor daily, parents and prin - safety," said Maryland Transit There was a huge turnout for the Trayvon Martin Protest Student Rally at the Criminal Justice Building in cipals worry about student safety and Administration Purple Line project Sanford. school property space. manager Mike Madden. "The station Sligo Creek Elementary School in-front of the Silver Spring principal Diantha Swift said the International is still under study, and Maryland Photo Campaign Focuses on Purple Line may help reduce traffic in the end we will work to address but will likely affect school cross - concerns by building safe cross - ings, traffic flow and parking. Trayvon Martin Hoodie Controversy "Logistically, we have 19 school buses, numerous car drop-offs and See SCHOOLS, Page A 3 By MARIKO HEWER Geraldo Rivera, a Fox news com - shoot, I grabbed my two daughters, Capital News Service mentator, later suggested Martin's hood - Kamiah and Maliah, and took them to ie was "as much responsible for Trayvon the studio with me," McLaughlin, a pro - COLLEGE PARK - In the days fol - Martin's death" as the neighborhood gram specialist for the federal govern - lowing the initial publicity surrounding watch captain. ment, said. Cardin Pushes for Transportation the shooting of Trayvon Martin, people His comment inspired thousands of "I wanted my children to be a part (of found various ways to express their people across the nation to wear hoodies this) because this will be a historical Bill to Gain Metro Funding grief, outrage and fear. during protests and marches in a show of event and I also want them to know that One Bowie resident turned to her cre - solidarity with Martin's family. this could have happened to any of us," By MADELINE MARSHALL eral funding partnership," said ative outlet: photography. A special prosecutor charged McLaughlin said. Capital News Service Cardin, who took a tour of WMATA's Eunique Jones Gibson, owner of Zimmerman with second-degree murder Many of Jones Gibson's subjects training facility. Eunique Jones Photography, said she in Martin's death Wednesday. His attor - stressed the connection they felt to ney said he will plead not guilty. Martin when they donned the hoodie. HYATTSVILLE - Metro's fund - WMATA would use the $1.5 bil - was driving home March 21 when she When she got home on March 21, "I felt like I was a part of the move - ing for safety improvements could be lion disbursed over 10 years to make decided to photograph people in hooded Jones Gibson got on Facebook and ment, and this is something I can tell my in jeopardy without passage of the improvements recommended by the sweatshirts like the one Martin wore the advertised a free photo shoot from 8 children and grandchildren about," said federal transportation bill stranded in National Transportation Safety Board night he was killed. p.m. to 10 p.m. at her studio in Lanham Evelyn Lewis, a statistician. "I was the House of Representatives, said after the Red Line crash between the "This was my way to contribute to that evening. thankful to be a part of (Jones Gibson's) Sen. Ben Cardin. Takoma and Fort Totten stations in doing something and trying to refute the With less than two hours' notice, 40 campaign, and to be a part of the greater Cardin, along with Washington June 2009 that killed nine people and stereotype that everyone in a hoodie," is people showed up. Justice for Trayvon Martin Movement. I Metropolitan Area Transit Authority injured 80. up to no good, Jones Gibson said. "I Jones Gibson gave each of her mod - also thought about how much life this officials, on Tuesday urged the "We cannot make these imple - know that pictures are relatable, and I els the same dark-gray, hooded sweat - young man still had to live." House to pass the transportation bill mentations without our relationship felt like the best way to get that message shirt and asked them to sign in with their Designer Christina Thomas also that would bring funding to Metro to with Congress," said Dave Kubicek, across, that it could be anybody, was pic - name, occupation and email address. thought about Martin during the shoot. replace cars, buses, modernize facili - deputy general manager of opera - torially." Some participants, like Krystle "I don't think people really realize ties and improve safety. tions. George Zimmerman, a neighborhood McLaughlin, brought their children to "I know they're taking steps to put watch captain, shot and killed Martin, an the photo shoot. the public safety first, but it'd be a lot unarmed African American teenager, in "When I learned about the photo easier if they had the predicable fed - See METRO, Page A 8 February. See HOODIE, Page A 3 Move Over Satchel Paige, Hello Jehosie Heard Maryland Metal Scrap By AARON CARTER comes along in 50 years," legendary Law Has Gaping Holes Capital News Service sports writer Red Smith is quoted by the Baseball Almanac as having written. By SARAH HOGUE ring to the number of copper Black Pioneers in Md. Sports In 1954, when the Browns landed in Capital News Service thefts in Maryland. "But I do Baltimore and became the Orioles, that think it has been very effective ANNAPOLIS - April 15 marks the 65th arm could have been attached to the fran - WASHINGTON - They've in solving a number of copper anniversary of Jackie Robinson integrat - chise's first black player. Instead, the robbed graves and construction theft crimes." ing Major League Baseball by taking the Orioles let Paige walk, paving the way for sites, churches and schools. In February, six men were field as a Brooklyn Dodger in 1947. Jehosie Heard. They've taken statues from arrested for the theft of about Sunday, every major leaguer will honor "It's an interesting story," said Mid- bases and ordinary pipes right $31,500 worth of copper wire Robinson by wearing his No. 42 jersey. Atlantic Sports Network contributor and out of the walls -- but even a belonging to Verizon in Aspen Throughout Maryland history, black Washington Examiner columnist Phil new law designed to curb these Hill, the most recent in a long athletes have shattered other significant Wood. "Because the first African- scrap metal thieves seems to string of copper thefts in racial barriers, some during Robinson's American for the Orioles should have barely slow them down. Maryland. The suspects were era, some still struggling today. From the been Satchel Paige." Brian Sclar, the president of caught in the act, using a buck - first black Baltimore Orioles player, to Wood explained that Paige had been the metal recycling business et truck to take more than the first black winner of the Preakness, an All-Star with the Browns in 1953 and Frederick Reliable, has his 1,800 feet of copper wire from we look at a few Maryland firsts. We also when the franchise moved to Baltimore in workers follow the law -- telephone poles. talk with a current black jockey who 1954, Paige could have become the viewing and recording full Copper theft -- striking dreams of one day riding in the CAPITAL NEWS SERVICE Orioles' first black player. identification of sellers and many utilities and other busi - Preakness. The Orioles let Satchel Paige go, Except, Wood said, some in the orga - photographing all the scrap nesses -- has been common in paving the way for Jehosie Heard. nization believed Paige to be, in Wood's they're selling -- but said it Maryland since sharp price ANNAPOLIS - In 1953, before the St. words, "too high profile." doesn't seem to have put a dent increases took the price of cop - Louis Browns crossed the mighty Famer Satchel Paige, a pitcher for the in the problem. Mississippi River headed for Baltimore, ages. "I don't think it has been a their roster contained future Hall of "Like Joe Louis, only one arm like this See PIONEERS, Page A 3 huge deterrent," he said, refer - See METAL, Page A 5 INSIDE Failed Holidays Gas Prices First U.S. Bank of China Movie Review Earth Talk German-Americans and Irish- Millions of American families are The Maryland Department of From a movie buff's perspective, Dear EarthTalk: Americans will go another year feeling the burden of ever increas - Business and Economic "The Cabin in the Woods" repre - How is it that dams actually hurt without official recognition from ing gas prices.

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