North Carolina Now; North Carolina Now Episode from 10/07/1994

The Tonight a university at a crossroads. Happy Friday to you everyone. I'm Audrey Kate speculate Mary Lou is on assignment she'll return on Monday. Tonight our newsmaker is Catherine Frye. She's the producer of a documentary that's airing tonight at 10:30.

It's called John and Andy and it's all about two Charlotte police officers who were killed in the line of duty last year. We'll hear more about that from her. And Maria Lundberg will preview a documentary on the 200 anniversary of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. But first more and more people are going to North Carolina's coast either to visit or to live the coast has a lot to offer. Sun Sea good seafood and beautiful scenery. India catches final report on the year of the coast tonight. Tell us how we as individuals can help preserve the natural beauty and cultural heritage of our coasts to be a passing permute island in Onslow County community is one of the sites in the North Carolina coastal reserve a pristine place preserved in its natural state for research and for getting in touch with what I was once like. Amoeba Island is an excellent example of citizen involvement in preserving our coastal resources. This unspoiled island never would have been acquired by the public had not interested citizens in the area demanded it. I'm Richard Hatch

on both the Hatteras yacht nitwit. We are touring the coast to evaluate 20 years of coastal management the state's coastal area Management Act was passed in 1974 and this is the year of the cult. Most of the successes in coastal management have involved citizen participation like here at other sites in the coastal reserve basin bar on your welding done in the regular cost reserve but both were acquired because citizens demanded it. The best laid plans we have seen of balancing coastal resources point count is West citizens today and in the play any citizen involvement is vital to effective coastal management. Just about everyone in the village of Boko got involved in drawing up its land use plan out and balance was the leader so I think there was that interest in participation that you might say perhaps in a New England village everybody was interested in it because with 700 acres basically in the village everybody sort of reacts to every change

racially or emotionally or otherwise. So people I guess see things and react to things on a daily basis. The result was a plan that the village supports early land use plans a New Hanover County did not have much citizen participation or support. I got my start in politics through the land use plan and 975 and I have seen a great deal of difference depending on who's in office as to how the citizen participation is both accomplished and second how it is used. State Representative Karen Toby was a former New Hanover County commissioner. I think there was plenty of citizen participation in the latest land use plan. I think that some of those who were in an office chose not to listen to me. And as a result they've come up with a plan that the citizens probably don't wholly embrace and which over time will probably have to be changed.

Concerns citizens have also shown they can put a stop to unpopular developments when Atlantic Beach proposed to spray it sewage on open farms near the South River in Carteret County. Massive citizen opposition at a hearing made officials take a second look. And quite a few people turned out as I indicated close to fifteen hundred. And it made a difference. Dr. Don intially a former member of the Environmental Management Commission presided at the hearing on the Atlantic Beach sewage proposal. At that meeting which I and a colleague of mine presided over I could sense the change in the status. If I may call it that of this is Asian because of people involved man in many ways the preservation of our coastal heritage is up to you and me. Here's how we all can help. Stay away are informed about coastal issues. Choose a way to get involved. You can join in citizen enforcement of existing programs you can attend rulemaking hearings and you can

write your legislators to ask their positions on issues you support. Finally as a BOTA you can hold decision makers accountable when election time comes. Everyone we've talked with says citizen involvement is the key to preserving our coastal resources. The recommendations of the coastal Futures Commission are important but they may not be acted upon unless that assumes the mandate. As we wind up the series of reports on the coast. I'd like to recognize the head of a company for its support of the year of the coast. We have travel from Elizabeth City to Wilmington and back to both on the net with the first yacht built by the High Point company captain on our cruise has been rocky and the mate Jamie Jones both of both. I'm Richard Hatch. Thanks for watching our reports on coastal management and please get involved in protecting our coastal resources. How

beautiful. Well that wraps up our series on the year of the coast a lot of people helped with the series including eco flight of Chapel Hill which enabled us to get those nice aerials. And of course the North Carolina coastal Federation and the coastal management division in Raleigh. Now you can also help preserve the beauty of our coast. For more information on how to get involved just send a self-addressed stamped envelope to North Carolina now post office box 1 4 9 0 0 RTP NC 2 7 7 0 9 4 9 0. Now Maria Lundberg has a preview for us of the documentary crossroads on the Hill which you and CTV will air tomorrow night. Crossroads was produced last spring to celebrate the bicentennial of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The problem with that freedom of expression at the

university during its long history. We stopped by the editing room to find filmmaker Gary Hawkins as he was putting the final touches on the program crossroads on the Hill is one history of the university it's not the history is not everything a comprehensive history. But we've chosen the the theme of free inquiry and we found certain events in the university's history that reinforce that theme for us to go with that example of you know anywhere you live as a track Okami is the first to get right we chose to focus on the speaker ban controversy of the 1960s and that was a time when known communists were forbidden from speaking on campus and that that law was challenged and ultimately defeated. We also focused on the poor bill of the

20s which was our version of the Scopes trial. We narrowly avoided coming to Dayton Tennessee of a nation and these are the two main. Looking at the question what university. It's either going to be a place where open and free university hundreds of photographs and pictures many even

100. I'm in shock at the university when I very much whether I take some adjusting. The steward provides very sorrowfully. There is not one in college that is not complaining generally stinks and has maggots in it. John had a 1795. My favorite part of the show are the home movies that were sent in by the university. This one was sent in by Roger Keene is just one of many and we could have done the show without these. These movies came in. Here's a great shot coming up on his knees begging for a day. Some things never change. This is 1940. Could have been any time. It's wonderful to be able to just look at something that

actually happened. The crossroads on the Hill has already divided audiences at a premiere screening in Charlotte and the MIT museum and at another special showing a few days later at the Friday center in Chapel Hill at the I hope you will mark your centerpiece or your calendar for the broadcast of crossroads on the hill and you can see crossroads on the Hill tomorrow evening at 9 p.m. and again on Sunday at 6pm. It's a thought provoking documentary which received great critical acclaim when it first aired here on USC TV last spring. Now in just a moment John basin will review the day's news from around the state. And later in the program I'll have a conversation with Catherine Frye the producer of a documentary about two slain Charlotte police officers. Stay right

there. Will. Good evening I'm John Bass and Michel Louis is off tonight. You could be getting a tax cut next year Governor Jim Hunt plans to propose tax relief policies to the General Assembly in 1995. But first he will get a thorough analysis of the state's tax structure and revenue forecasts. One of the nation's largest accounting firms has been hired to conduct a statewide tax audit next month KMP GP tomorrow. The firm which conducted the State Government's government performance although it's known as G PAC will now analyze how the state's

taxes affect businesses working families and children. The accounting firm will prepare a report for the governor assessing the North Carolina's tax strengths and weaknesses and will also make recommendations for change has asked the auditors to determine how the tax structure can boost the state's competitiveness and how it can reward working families and families with children. The North Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles is preparing for tougher federal auto emission standards that go into effect next year and nine of our urban counties. The stricter standards will apply in Gaston Durham orange Mecklenburg Guilford for site Union and Waite county's individual inspection stations testing car emissions will be hooked up to the state's computer system. That way the DMV can keep track of all emissions inspections to determine the pass fail rate. Failing vehicles will have four months to get into compliance with the Federal Clean Air Act. There's a chance that low level radioactive waste may soon have to be stored in some residential neighborhoods in eight southeastern states. University research departments commercial facilities health care providers and nuclear power plants

are faced with the dilemma of finding temporary storage for the waste they produce. Until a new storage site is opened in North Carolina in 1997 that new regional site proposed for Wake County has been tied up with licensing delays. Southeast compact Commission vice chairman Jim Setser says the best solution seems to be to allow the 400 facilities in eight states that produce the radioactive waste to store it on site. However some may be in residential areas so safety will be a prime concern. The sites would handle their own waste from the time an existing landfill in Barnwell South Carolina closes at the end of 1995 until the Wake County facility opens in 1997. The Federal Aviation Administration has withdrawn its approval for a construction of a 170 foot 4 foot water tower near the Piedmont triad International Airport. FAA officials say they're willing to consider paying Greensborough costs to stop construction while the towers impact on air traffic safety is studied. The FAA may also pay the cost of relocating the water tower if that should be necessary. Air traffic controllers at true Piedmont triad are worried that the tower could create a blind spot in their

new Doppler radar system. The controllers were unaware of the water tower until one of them noticed it being built about a week ago. The FAA had mistakenly granted approval to build the water tower one and a half miles from the airport having believed it was to be located some 60 miles from its actual site. Delegates from 20 states converged on Raleigh today to participate in the seventh annual conference to abolish corporal punishment in schools. The group advocates positive discipline such as denying children privileges or asking them to perform a task instead of spanking them. Jahnu block of the North Carolina Child Advocacy Institute says 27 states have outlawed spanking in schools. North Carolina allows individual school districts to set their own policies although most districts have banned spanking. Today skies were partly cloudy over much of North Carolina but a few areas did get some sunshine. Highs were in the upper 60s and low 70s. Tonight a few clouds will linger in the Asheville area but the rest of the state will have

clear skies. Lows will be mostly in the 40s with a few low 50s possible around Charlotte and Wilmington. Tomorrow it'll be sunny everywhere but in the Asheville area there it'll be partly cloudy. Highs will be in the 70s statewide. North Carolinas global transport could be getting a boost from the U.S. Department of Defense. The Defense Department agency which buys and distributes supplies for the armed forces is studying the potential of making use of the air cargo facility the state is planning to build near Kinston. Major General George Babbitt deputy director of the Defense Logistics Agency says the government wants to reduce military stockpiles and turn to a system where manufacturers deliver directly to military units. That plan fits with the concept of the global trance Park which is to have a cargo airport ringed about manufacturing and distribution facilities. Support from the Defense Department could be a major boost for the trans Park Authority which is seeking federal help in building a new runway. The proposed Defense Department project may also help draw other tenants to the

trans park. The grapes are growing in interest among tobacco farmers who are worried about the future of their crop. North Carolina wine growers association spokesperson Brant Peters says he's getting calls from tobacco farmers who want to diversify before Prohibition our state had a thriving wind industry based on the native Scuppernong grape. The Association hopes to rebuild the wine industry not only with grapes but with plums rhubarb and dandelion wines. North Carolina once led the nation in wine production. Now there are only two prominent wineries left in the state Biltmore winery in Asheville and Westin vineyards in Lewisville. The stock market staged a rally in the final session of the week the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose nearly 22 points to close at thirty seven ninety seven point forty three gainers lead decliners by 43 about two hundred eighty five million shares were traded. The Standard Poor's 500 index was up nearly three points and the Nasdaq composite index gained nearly six points. And now for some stocks of North Carolina interest in.

Tonight at 10:30 us the TV will proudly present a moving documentary. John and Andy. The program recounts the lives and violent deaths of John Burnett and

Andy nobles two young Charlotte police officers who were killed in the line of duty last October. Filmmaker Kathryn Frye joins me now to talk about these two men and her moving film tributes to them. Thanks so much for being here Catherine. It is a wonderful film I've seen it many times and each time it just brings me to tears. And before we talk more about it let's give our viewers a chance to see the beginning of this film is where to look could be anybody's too. They really were kids they were in their 20s and they were kids do anything. They were talented attractive bright who could do anything they want to do. And ennobles they work right together. One of those perhaps both of them would have been a chief of police if you had done something else or whatever. And yet they had decided what they wanted was a policeman. They really wanted to

make a difference. They really wanted to make a difference out there. This is something that really is the theme throughout this entire film. Now they were killed on October 5th when it went you decide to do this documentary. Well actually I was driving back from here at the ANC Center for Public Television having completed one film Andriy with you and I kept hearing about children of mothers and those children that would die in urban cities and about two weeks later John and Andy were killed in Charlotte on October 5th. And at that time it just seemed like a thing maybe I could do with a story I could tell. But these were the only Charlotte policeman who'd ever been killed in the line of duty what made them so notable. Why. Now other policemen have been killed in Charlotte. I think what made this really kind of galvanized our whole city was the fact that there were two policemen killed. They were both young and that there were community police officers they worked in a really special

program they were kind of like pioneers in our city. And that's a program where police officers get to know the people in the neighborhoods and these two young men did know those people in the neighborhoods and they were real special place officers in the neighborhood really responded to them and been to their deaths as well and and I understand that it was because John in India were so involved in the community. Their murder was solved. To me things very quickly that they actually played a role in having their murder solved. Well and in some ways I think that's true. You just saw Sergeant Don Hager who was on that first clip the sergeant with the big mustache he was their sergeant in one of the things he does say in the film that in some ways because they were friends with so many of the people the neighborhoods those people came forth and tried to help the police officers find the killer. And in fact we have a clip that we should show that sort of brings it all together to show just how the community policing program works

and how it helped. So let's let's see that before we came into the police. The residents all the people on the street didn't talk to police. It was that communication gap. They didn't know how to talk to the police if they were seen talking to police they was they will get labeled by their friends as a snatch or you know or is anything just they just taboo. We've has raised be very bold and and point drug dealers out to us literally and point point drug houses out to it in many in many ways they contributed to solving their own murders because they had developed such a reporter or with people in the community that people came forward and gave information in ways that were not going to be expected. The

nobles Burnette playground another tribute to John and they and the community really did respond to to these to him in and to what happened to them. Was it hard to get the principals involved in this to talk to you about what happened. The film No I don't think it really was. The film is told only through their stories through the stories of the people that raised them. The mothers and stepfathers and fathers and through the police police officers own stories. I worked for the city of Charlotte as I did with the Center for Public Television and we kind of. Use that relationship to convince the police officers that this was a story that maybe we could tell. Well it was really important for me to let them tell their own story that it not have a narrator and that people hear what all this meant to them. And we also hear from John in there that you have some extraordinary footage of them how is that possible. That was just

just luck in a way John and Andy both tell their own story. The second piece that you saw was toward the end of the program earlier in the program we have some footage that was taken not long after they were shot. That's really very real very dramatic and it shows you the really difficult part of being a police officer and what it meant all that time around there killing. We were just lucky that two of the TV stations in Charlotte let us use their archives. And by going back we pieced together the story. Well we're lucky that you were able to pull it together and it is a wonderful film and we encourage you to watch tonight at 10:30. Thank you so much Catherine for your hard work and for being here this evening. Thank you. We want to hear from you. Simply call our viewer comment line at 9 1 9 5 4 9 7 8 0 8. Or write us at P.O. Box 1 4 9 0 0 RTP NC 2 7 7 0 9. You can fax a message to 9 1 9 5 4 9

7 0 4 3. Or try our Internet address at aol dot com. And if you'd like to have a say in coastal issues we'll send you ideas on getting involved and on how to get more information from the coastal Federation. Just send a self-addressed stamped envelope to that same North Carolina now address. I do hope you will watch Dion and it tonight at 10:30 here on USA TV. It's quite a moving film. And don't forget at 8:30 tonight on North Carolina people host Bill Friday will have as his guest Dr. tensely ya borrow the interim vice chancellor for academic affairs at East Carolina University. Now more great programming tomorrow night at 9:00. Be sure to catch cat crossroads on the Hill. Now that's a program we previewed for you earlier and following that at 10:30 p.m. In see people host Bill Friday will take us on a walking tour of the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Another program Sunday night at

10:30 following Masterpiece Theater. A beautiful film million DUNCAN It was written and directed by a student over at you and say Chapel Hill His name is Luke Barrow. And this film is a moving story of two senior citizens who find love through their love of flowers. It's a very nice film. Now Monday North Carolina now will explore issues affecting women's health and will also air a profile of North Carolina's legendary folk singer Doc Watson he's a favorite of mine and it's a very nice piece and he is a very talented man. But that's Monday but all weekend we've got great programs for you here on you and CTV So just stick with us OK. Until been IMO educates Bailey. Mary Lou will be back on Monday.