McCain guard busted
By Ed Miller
For the second time in leu than
three months, an employee at Mc
Cain Prison Hospital was arrested
for possession of marijuana with
intent to sell.
A Pembroke resident, Virgil
Owen Lowry, was arrested after he
was found with the controlled
substance on prison property,
Hoke County Sheriff Dave Barr
ington said.
Lowry was arrested on
December 8, Barrington said.
According to a McCain
spokesman, Lowry, 29, has been
recommended for termination.
Lowry never intended to sell the
marijuana to prison inmates, a
statement in a report by Hoke
Detective Jimmy Riley said.
According to the report, Lowry
had the pot in his pants pocket by
mistake when he arrived at work
the morning of the December 8.
Lowry hid the illegal substance
in a bathroom of the prison but
was arrested after he retrieved it,
said Barrington.
Lowry has already been tried for
the offense, according to records
in the Hoke County Clerk of
Superior Court's office.
Lowry's charge was down grad
ed to maintaining a vehicle for
keeping a controlled substance, ac
cording to court records.
Assistant District Attorney Jean
Powell could not be reached for
comment as to why the charge was
reduced. _
Lowry was placed on unsuper
vised probation for one year and
fined Si 00 . records say.
The first prison worker, John
Henry Love, was arrested on
September 28.
Love, a Raeford resident, was
searched and arrested after two
bags of marijuana were found in
his possession.
Love had allegedly hidden the
bags of pot in the collar of his
jacket, reports say.
. . . Hoke wells clear
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before more healthy consumers of
the water, Rundgren said.
"It is something to be avoided,"
he said.
According to Rundgren, there
are some highly poisonous
chemicals in petroleum distillates
such as gasoline.
Ethylene dibromide (EDB) is an
additive to gasoline that can make
people very ill or cause skin rashes,
said Rundgren.
Benzene, another gasoline ad
ditive, had been known to cause
leukemia in workers, according to
the release.
"Even slight contamination of
drinking water can make it unfit
for human consumption," says the
release.
Other poisonous components of
gasoline may include toluene and
tetraethyl lead.
Even a small amount of gasoline
can. cause a major problem, accor
ding to the release.
A leak as small as one-half drop
per second amounts to 1 .2 gallons
per day.
One gallon of gasoline can con
taminate a million gallons of
groundwater, and one gallon per
day leaking into groundwater is
enough to contaminate the water
supply of 50, 000 people, according
to the release.
Person living near gas stations,
who get their drinking water from
wells should be aware of any
strange odors in their water, Run
dgren said.
Even years after a station has
closed and the underground
storage tanks are empty, there may
be problems, he said.
According to Rundgren, it may
take a petroleum product years to
migrate from a leaky tank to 100
yards away.
People who suspect their water
may be contaminated are asked to
contact the Hoke County Health
Department for assistance in water
analysis.
Because the analyzation process
is expensive, persons who have no
real reason to have their water
tested are asked to go to private
laboratories, said Rundgren.
Owners of tanks that may be
leaking may also contact the
Health Department for advice on
testing methods.
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Need still critical for foster homes
By Ed MUkr
There are currently only 1 1
families licensed in Hoke County
to be foster homes, and a recent
push by the Department of Social
Services (DSS) to get more involv
ed with the program has met with
little response.
Of the 11 families presently in
Hoke, almost all the spaces for
homeless children are full, said
DSS spokesperson Susan Moss.
A meeting held just after the
release of some publicity on foster
homes was attended by only one
couple who wished to volunteer.
A second meeting, held shortly
thereafter, Wis attended by one
person and the couple from the
First meeting did not come back,
Moss said.
When asked why there was so
little public interest, Moss replied:
"I don't know."
There is the possibility that the
recruitment push could have come
too close to the holidays, she said.
An avenue that is being discuss
ed for getting more families involv
ed is the mailing of personal letters
to persons around the county
known to be interested in the pro
gram.
There is also a plan under way to
advertise again and hold more
meetings, said Moss.
To date, there have been a few
inquiries about the program and
information packets were sent to
all those people but little response
has arisen from that also, said
Moss.
Families from all races in the
county are needed for the pro
gram, said Moss.
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and one Indian home in Hoke
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Theye are no openings in the
white or Indian homes and the
black homes are almost full, she
said.
Two white children in Hoke
County have had to be sent out of
the county for housing because of
the shortage, said Moss.
One Indian child has had to be
sent to Brunswick County because
no local housing was available, she
said.
No local foster housing puts a
burden on local taxpayers through
DSS because that department must
go pick up children, from wherever
they are, and bring them back to
Hoke for visits with natural
parents or relatives, said Moss.
The Department of Social Ser
vices must then take them back to
their foster homes at visit's end.
According to Moss, there will be
another attempt to get people in
Hoke County interested after the
beginning of the new year.
DSS is planning the start up of a
foster parent organization if in
terest can be aroused, said Moss.
Hopefully, if the organization
gets started, more interest can be
spurred from the community.
Chambers re-enlists
Tech. Sgt. Ronald C. Chambers,
son of Curtis and Lillie M.
Chambers of McCain, has re
enlisted in the U.S. Air Force at
McGuire Air Force Base, New
Jersey, after 15 years of military
service.
Chambers is an aircraft
maintenance technician with the
438th Organizational Maintenance
Squadron.
His wife, Evelyn, is the daughter
of Maria Mercado of 95-06
Jamaica Ave., Woodhaven, New
York.
He is a 1969 graduate of Berkley
High School, Aberdeen.
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