Suspect Shot in Sub Shop Holdup Wailes Shines at Inaugural Bash

Suspect shot in sub shop holdup By Tonja Castaneda being robbed, and the call er with a handgun. He was then shot Both suspects were charged with Post S taff Writer answered 'yes,' and the line went by another officer. The man con four counts of first degree robbery, A robbery suspect was shot by dead." tinued to nee before he was con possession of a deadly weopon police Tuesday evening after of front.cd by two additional officers during the commission of a felony, ficers raced to a Main Street When police arrived on th e and surrendered, police reported. and assauiL sandwich shop following a call al scene, at approximately 6:30 p.m., Hogan said th e man left th e lerting them of an armed robbery in they observed one man, later iden sandwich shop with an undet.cr Terrance was trasported to Chris progress. tified as Terrance L. Wimbs, 23, of mi ned amount of money. tiana Hospital for emergency treat "We received a 911 call report Bear, exit the sub shop a11d nee to ment, where he underwent surgery ing a man had a gun in the store," the rear of th e building. The offi cers located another Tuesday night, Hogan said. As of said Police Chief William Hogan. During a confrontation, the suspect, Corey Wimbs, 18, al so of Wednesday morning, he was listed "The dispatcher asked if they were suspect struck an officer in the head Bear, waiting in a vehicle. in serious condition. See wedding planning guide inside! Greater Newark Since Published every Friday January 29, 1993 35~ Post Photo/E . Fine Jeff Smith is Aetna chief, once again Hodgson's Joe Leary battles with Newark's Tony Dimaio in Saturday's wrestling match at Hewark High. Article, 1B. By E. Fine Staff Reporter Inside Jeff Smith's ties to Newark's Aetna Hose, Hook and Ladder Co. CARS OF THE FUTURE were drawn by the crea go back to his grandfather, Millard tive third-graders at W. Park Place Elementary 6A Ritchie, a fuefighter during the School for a competition in connection with Chrys Thirties and Forties. His father, City Councilman Al ler and the 1993 Detroit International Auto Show. len Smith, and two uncles fought The class won $450 for their efforts. frres side by side while he was going to school, playing ball and working NEWARKER BARBARA PHILLIPS entered her in Delaware's frrst McDonald's, 6A which still stands on Main Street in daughter in a contest at a local supermarket and Newark. she was the lucky winner. Mother and daughter Being named fire chief of the will leave for a free weekend in Boston on company in December for the sec Friday. ond time gave him the chance to look back on some of the people and places that made up the small town CHICKEN, EVERYONE'S FAVORITE HEALTHY Newark once was. MEAT can be prepared in so many ways that we SA Smith, 38, a chemical technician shall never tire of it. Jeff Smith, The Frugal Gour for Thiokol in Elkton, spent most of met, gives us a few recipes to add to the list. his childhood living in the George Read Village and on East Park Place. His mother was born in a THE WILMINGTON BLUE ROCKS, De.laware's room above what is now Klondi.lce upcoming minor league baseball team, already 18 Kate's. When grandfather Ritchie has its own booster club designed to support the wasn~t buzy with the frre company, ·players and their families, and also to show them he was opening the first Acme Supermarkets in town. Smith's association with Newark's volunteer fire department spans decades. around the area and make them feel at home. Thirty years ago, most of what is runs that sometimes hit the roof of have to die of old age before a new static; the company may take in 25 now taken up by developments was the Central Middle School. member could be considered, Smith new members each year but is lucky FORMER NEWARK HIGH SCHOOL BASKET farmland. When Smith was a kid, He also watched a centerfielder said. to retain about four or five beyond BALL GREAT, Kim Burke, is now dazzling them 38 Brookside, Windy Hills and Not named Johnny Beebe chase fly balls The idea of women in the com two years. at Niagara University in upstate New York. In fact, tingham Green were the only deve in work boots and what seemed like pany back then was taboo, he said. Smith graduated from Newark lopments outside the city limits. 10 pounds of keys jangling from his The old days also included a fifth High School in 1972, joining the she was named Rookie of the Week in the Metro Robscott, Scotlfield and Pike waste. of whiskey in the chief's office for company five years later for the ex Atlantic Athletic Conference for her performance Creek were just twinkles in the eyes "You could hear him running for frrefighters coming off a particu citement. But the years have helped on the court last week. of developers and there were few in miles," Smith said. He said Beebe, a larly tough experience, perhaps in him appreciate the challenge of put dustrial parks. retired custodian from the old New volving death. ting out a frre. Smith's frrst memories of riding ark Special School District, is still But times have changed. "The Besides fues, the company also around on fire trucks was with his one of his fire company's most ac whiskey has now been replaced by a gets calls for accidents, like oil father during the company's annual tive members though he is in his computer, a fax machine and a spare RELIGION 7A spills and burning tank cars. "That's NEWS 1·10A fundraisers. sixties. can of coffee," Smith said. The something you can't jump into," POLICE 2A EVENTS lA Smith also remembers watching What is now Smith's office in company also includes five women. Smith said, adding these situations COli II UNITY SA ARTS 10A his dad play in fast-pitch softball Station Nine on Academy Street Fires also have changed. Because must be thought through, the diffe OPINION 8A SPORTS 1-38 leagues. These differed greatly from was formerly a dispatcher's apart buildings are now constructed with rent strategies each given careful ment. Old-time fuefighters look UFESTYLE 8A CLASSIFIED& 4-88 the slow-pitch style played in recre more plastic and laminates that gen consideration. ation leagues throughout the county back on those days as the era of erate poisonous gases, firefighters where pitchers are limited to throw "iron men and wooden ships." rely on a breathing apparatus that He acknowledged City Fire ing loping 12-foot arcs, he said. Fire trucks back then had open resembles a scuba tank. Marshal Ken Farrall and the presi He watched a couple of fuefigh cabs and membership in the com The c ity 's traffic problems also dent of the company, Jim Wood, for Metts: Brader problem ters named Ronnie Bramble and pany was limited to between 60 and have made it harder for firefighters the training they passed on to the best handled by school Dickie Pyle slam 380-foot home- 70 men. Someone almost would to get to frres. And membership is firefighters of his generation. By E. Fine boy. Staff &porter Moreover, school officials by law Wailes shines at Inaugural bash can 't arbitrarily yank the boy from School offlcials asked Newark the class anymore than they could and Wilmington parents to leave the remove the girls had the situation said McCarty, "that 20,000 people attended." solution to an incident involving been reversed, Metts said. Newarker signs Wailes said the most exciting part was when three six-year-old pupils at Brader Michael Maguire, the mothers' Jackson came over and they "sang" together. Elementary School to administra attorney, said the district's code of for Michael Jackson Wailes said she saw Bill, Hillary and Chelsea tors, teachers and counselors there. conduct permits school officials to Clinton and the Gore family. "They were sitting The m'others of two first grade remove the boy from the class, even By Tonja Castaneda in the front row, but I didn't get a chance to meet girls picketed the Newark area if it's only for a shon time. Post Staff Writer th em," she said. primary school on Jan. 19 for what Because the "racial ovenones" With more glitz and glamour imaginable to " This may sound funny," said Wailes, " but I they saw as the school's indiffer involved with the situation could most of us, Newark resident Alexandria Janie was more nervous about messing up then having ence to a male classmate's alleged compromise the objectivity of Wailes made her national television debut Jan. 19 the President watching me," she said. offensive touching of their daught school officials, they have agreed to on CBS. Although Wailes did not get a chance to meet ers, which they said violated the dis pay independent counselors for psy At an inaugural celebration called An other famous stars, she did see Bill Cosby, trict's code of conduct. chological evaluations for the two American Reunion, with Bill Clinton and Ute first Richard Dreyfuss, Maculay Culkin, Barbara The mothers organized the pro girls, Maguire said. family watching from the front row, Wailes inter Strcisand, Chevy Chase, Goldie Hawn, James test after the school's principal re Though the two mothers stood preted with sign language as Michael Jackson Earl Jones and Michael Bolton.

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