March I. 2006
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Thieves Up Ante on
Car Prowling
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from Metro
ful,” said acting-Sergeant David
Golliday, who spearheaded the
public aw areness m issions.
“The big part of this mission is
to help people help themselves,
thereby reducing the crime
rate.”
Rosanne Lee. an ONI crime
prevention coordinator and
part o f the public awareness
effort, said that even though
c a r p ro w l n u m b e rs have
dropped, it is still prevalent
and public aw areness m is­
sions should continue.
“People tend to get com ­
fortable and think it’s not
going to happen to them, in
their neighborhood,” she said.
“So w e’re trying to ge, the
word out as much as possible
for people to be more respon­
sible. It’s amazing what we
see left in cars.”
Fighting car prowls is an
ongoing project with all the
Police Bureau precincts, and
this is reflected in the num ­
bers. In Portland overall, there
was a 16 percent drop in re­
ported car prowls, from 14,219
reported cases in 2004 to
11,958 in 2005, with all five
precincts reporting decreases.
S o u th e a s t
p r e c in c t’s
method of having prevention
teams walking the streets and
neighborhoods was simple, yet
very effective. “One part of
com m unity policing is coming
up with alternatives to solving
crim es, and getting the com ­
m u n ity
in v o lv e d ,” said
Golliday. “This is one good
way to do it, and it’s obviously
working w ell.”
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Negro League
owner honored
(AP) — Effa Manley became the
first woman elected to the baseball
Hall of Fame when the former New­
ark Eagles executive was among 17
people from the Negro Leagues and
pre-Negro Leagues chosen Mon­
day by a special committee.
This y e a r's Hall class — 18,
including form er reliever Bruce
Sutter — is by far the biggest in
history. The previous record was
11 in 1946.
Manley co-owned the New Jer­
sey-based Eagles with her hus­
band, Abe. and ran the business
end o f the team for more than a
decade. The Eagles won the Ne­ Effa Manley, who co-owned the Newark Eagles of the Negro
gro Leagues W orld Series in 1946 National League, looks over a scrapbook with one of her former
— one y e a r b e fo re J a c k ie players, Don Newcombe. at her home in Los Angeles in this
Robinson broke the m ajor league Aug. 7, 1973 file photo.
O’Neil Says ‘Don’t Shed Any Tears’
94-year-old
passed over
in Hall vote
(A P )-In KansasCity, Mo., men
and women dabbed at their eyes.
People hugged quietly and ducked
into little private spaces to speak in
hushed tones.
Seventeen people from the Ne­
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Leagues eras were voted into the
National Baseball Hall of Fame, but
not Buck O ’Neil.
“God’s been good to me,” the
94-year-old said after results of
M onday's special election were
announced. “You can see that,
can’t you? It didn't happen. They
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“Don’t shed any tears ’cause
I ’ m not going to the Hall of Fame.”
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Buck O'Neil listening to Bob Kendrick, director of marketing for
the museum. (AP photo)
“You think about this,” he said.
“Here 1 am, the grandson of a slave.
And here the whole world was ex­
cited about whether I was going
into the Hall of Fame or not. W e’ve
come a long ways. Before, we never
even thought about anything like
that. America, you’ve really grown
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the 39 on the ballot considered by
a 12-person committee.
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two Negro League batting titles,
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m anager with the Kansas City
Monarchs and become the first
bhtvk coach in the major leagues.
’""’TMost im portantly, everyone
thought, were the contributions
he’s made traveling the country
keeping the legacy of black base­
ball alive.
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inspiration behind Kansas City’s
Negro Leagues Museum. In the
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“She was very knowledgeable,
a very handsome w om an," said
Hall o f Famer Monte Irvin, who
played for the Eagles while the
M anleys owned the team, as did
Don N ewcombe and Larry D oby.
“She did a lot for the Newark
community. She was just a well-
rounded influential person,” Irvin
said. “She tried to organize the
owners to build their own parks and
have a balanced schedule and to
really improve the lot of the Negro
League players.”
Manley was white, but married a
black man and passed as a black
woman, said Larry Lester, a base­
ball author and member of the vot-
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m oney as p o ssib le fo r these
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