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ffr n hersheii, n UJ i r-n n i l , BBj aeUBBBl II Volume 72 Number 31 """'"""""'"'' """l SaaaaaaaaaaaUSiaaasSa AugUSt 16, 1973 r liYt i ' DORLAND-BELL REUNION HELD SUNDAY AT HOT SPRINGS - Pictured in front of the Dorland Memorial Presbyterian Church are many of the former students of Dorland-Bell School who at tended the Alumni Association reunion last Sunday. Following morning worship service and com munion, a bountiful picnic dinner was enjoyed on the Rothschild Flees Hendersonville Unit By BUXY PRITCHARD ( Itlien Staff Writer HF.NDKKSONVII.I.K Before he left the prison unit here more than a week ago, N C Department of Corrections officials said Charles "Rocky" Rothschild was a "model prisoner " and an officer in the prison's Jaycees chapter Rothschild, serving a life term for a 1955 first degree burglary in Hot Springs, made a quiet and what appears to be a well-planned escape from the Henderson County prison unit Saturday afternoon, Aug 4. by leaving with a young man posing as his son Sgt John I- Shields of the pnson unit said Monday that Rothschdd was transferred to the Henderson unit from a state unit in McDowell County about three months ago He had been released to the North Carolina prison system in 1968 after being parolled from the Georgia system, where h was serving a life term for murder Shields said Rothschild was a model prisoner at the Henderson unit, where he wrote poetry, read a lot of books and was external vice president of the Four Seasons Jaycees, the Jaycee prison chapter. Shields said Rothschild left me prison urui inai daiuraay afternoon with Michael Justice, a young carpenter and member of the Hen derson Jaycees who had served as Rothschild's "sponsor" on several other occasions prior to Aug 4 Rothschild, an honor grade prisoner at the minimum security unit, was on volun tary leave to see his son, who he said he hadn't seen in 11 yean. Justice picked up Rothschild and took him to the Honey Bear Restaurant at Naples, a small Henderson County community where Justice lived in a garage apartment behind his parents' Shields said Justice .had takes Rothschild out of the prison as a sponsor on a' number of other occasions and taken hirn to the Naples community to help him build a One the day of the escape, Justice said Rothschild made a ssjmber of telephone calls ??XF?2EFX Mate rr3?$r: r i ' VV ..... 1 from a pay phone at the Honey Bear Restaurant and that eventually a young, blond haired man arrived in a taxi The young man stepped out of the cab and embraced Rothschild Both men wept and acted like they hadn't seen each other in a long time. Justice recalled Shields quoted Justice as saying Rothschild introduced the young man as his son and said they they were going back to the Holiday Inn to swun with his son and play with his grandchildren Shields said an investigation revealed that the unidentified young man had first called the ta xi from Johnny's Restaurant several miles away from the Honey Bear Employes at Johnny 's said the young man returned later with an older man ( Rothschild ) in a taxi, came inside and dressed in a hurry and then left in a green 1969 Camaro which had been parked at the restaurant Meanwhile, Rothschild's real son had arrived at the Holiday Inn from Kentucky and called the prison unit to see where his father was He was told he had left with Justice and was on his way to the motel The son said he had seen no one Shields said Rothschild's real son has short brown hair and is of medium height and build He said the young man posing as the escaped prisoner's son had shoulder length blond hair and was tall and slim. Rothschild was still at large late Monday Charles P "Rocky'' Rothschild, a former policeman whose dramatic confession to a Georgia murder in 19&8 saved a twice convicted housepainter from execution, has escaped from prison officials said Rothschild, 49, who was serving a life sentence for a life sentence for first-degree burglary after being paroled five years ago from a life term in Georgia, had gotten out of the Hendersonville prison unit Aug. I to meet his son. : Camp Supt J. E. Baine described Rothschild as "a -model prisoner" and said the " inmate and man from the community accompanying ' nun went to a restaurant before going on to a mote! where the son was expected. church lawn followed by the business session Sunday afternoon. Saturday night many of the group at tended Vesper Services at Glory Ridge near Walnut and then enjoyed a gicnic dinner at the Old Mill Wheel on Laurel River. The Rev. and Mrs. George A. Moore were host and hostess. Baine said a man drove up, identified himself as Rothschild's son, Ricky, and the pair left. Sometime later the real Ricky Rothschild appeared. There was no information Monday on Rothschild's where-abouts, but a bulletin on him was being circulated to law enforcement agencies across the nation Rothschild, once a policeman at Cairo, IU . was in pnson at Columbia, S C , July 4, 1958, when he signed a statement saying he killed a 60-year-old merchant at his home in Jefferson, Ga., June 19, 1956. He was given a life term a month later The confession spared the life of James Fulton Foster of Greer, S C , who was ap pealing his second convicbon for the murder of the mer chant, Charles H Drake Sr Foster's execution was scheduled within weeks of Rothschild's confession After a third trial which resulted in a directed acquittal, a happy Foster told newsmen, "I still say I'm not guilty " Rothschild's testimony implicated A. D Allen Jr of Winder, Ga , as his ac complice in the slaying. Allen received a life term. South Carolina, which was holding Rothschild on a burglary conviction at the time, released him to Georgia. North Carolina officials said Rothschild was transferred from Georgia to its system Dec 23, 1968. Supt. J. E. Baine of the Henderson unit, who first told a reporter inquiring about the escape, "I've had clamps put on us on giving this in formation out," later described Rothschild's getaway. He said the inmate had not seen his son for 11 years and arranged to meet him in Hendersonville. The superintendent said the younger Rothschild came from Paducah, Ky., and when he .found out bis father had : fled was surprised and upset Baine added the son said he could not understand why his ' Either had escaped. . Rothschild was convicted la ' 19E1 of first-degree burglary at the home of a mountain . merchant, Carson Lawson, at , Shutin six years previously Iwson had died of a heart attack while being robbed. Rothschild pleaded guilty to the burglary, and the sentence of mandatory life he received was the sixth he had been fiven in a four year span for felonies During his trail at Marshall Rothschild was cheerful and relaxed, seeming to be anything but a man on trial for his life He spent part of his Ume in court writing poetry In an interview shortly after confessing to the Georgia crime, he said he turned to crime after being fired from the Cairo force because he arrested a politician's son i decided if I couldn't beat 'em I'd join em," he said Bitterness Marks Region B Controversy By STL ART REASONER Times Staff Writer At the special called meeUng between state of ficials and the Region B Planning and Development Commission last week, things seemed to go from bad to worse Much of what happened in that meeting in Skyland Village Hall was implicit when Mayor Charles Campbell of Brevard, Region B chairman, called the meeting to order at 2 10 p m , implicit in the at titudes and expectations of some participants. Campbell began by reading a prepared statement, which covered, among other things, the problem of obtaining Lead Regional Organization Status from the state. At one point the statement referred to Secretary of Administration William Bondurant and his assistant, Tom Earnhardt, both at the meeting: "Mr. Bondurant, did you bring a letter from the governor granting LRO designation to Region B with you How about interim designation. . "Since you did not, have you anything to say? . ( "Mr.. Earnhardt, art you prepared to offer a public apology to every member of Sus commission at Bui time? - "Since you are not, have yoa anything to say", - , . This statement was typed LJr(CJL Lonsiaering Jbocai Sites For Electric Generating Plants Carolina Power & I.iht Co is planning to begin on-site investigaaon of an area along Sandymush and Turkey creeks in Buncombe and Madison counties as the possible location for a nuclear electric generating pLant Darrell Menscer, CP&I. vice president, said the company also is asking the Federal Power Commission for a permit to study a site about 3 5 miles west of Marshall in Madison County as the possible location for a pum-ped-storage hydroelectric generating plant The twositesare completely Independent and are being considered for development to begin supplying power in the Principals, Teachers Named For County Schools With the exception of KSKA Title I personnel, which will be confirmed later, the following principals and teachers have been announced by Superintendent R I. Kd wards : HOT SPRINGS J Bruce Phillips, principal High School: Hattie B. Rice, Troy S. Harrison, Alexander Farkas, Larry J Phillips (middle grades), Earnest Harold Baker (trade and industries), Charles R. Tolley (part time Hot Springs and I-aurel vocation.) Elementary- 'L Robert Gunter, Isabel! Maynard, Fred Haynie, Dorothy L. Chandler, Lois C. Moore, Vera Sumerel, Selma Wallin, Shirley Jean Franklin, Elizabeth Wright MARS HILL Fred I. Dickerson, prin cipal High School Gene Hall, Thomas D. McCurry, Linda B McCurry, Roy V Ammons, James D. Wallin, Janet Hall, Hazel B Suttles. Eileen A Wood, Doyle Millard Am mons, Ronnie I,. Wallin, Viviene D Diercks, Linda Gardner, Lucille P Sprinkle middle grades), R J Denny, vocational agri i, Irene M Metcalf iVoc. Home Ec l, Bruce H Sprinkle, l voc T4d), Jacob A Sams (voc part time Mars Hill and Marshall i Elementary I,arry Dean Wyatt, Peggy A Thomas, and duplicated before the meeting began As it hap pened. Earnhardt, who last week had revealed that an investigation was being conducted into certain management practices at Region B. did apologize to anyone "who felt you were in any way impugned " The inability of Region B to work out a contract with the overlapping Metropolitan Planning Board is one of the reasons the state has given for witholding LRO status William A V Cecil MPB chairman, was invited to make a statement early in the meeting Cecil recalled that MPB had signed one contract, adequate from its point of view, that was canceled when some Region B members objected. He then asked that a statement by the MBP at torney be allowed as pertinent to his own, but Campbell proceded with his statement When Cecil reiterated his request, Campbell interrupted gruffly, "he will be recognised." ' Cecil later asked for an apology for a passage in Campbell's statement that : had MPB cooperating villi -: "and scheming conniving participants" to a political plot to keep Regka B (rota V i becoming LRO. f C t in sides at the meeting " admitted that politics have ' mid - 1980s or later, Menscer said He emphasized that CP&L is actively investigating potential plant sites in other parts of its service area Investigation of the prospective nuclear plant site is expected to require about one year. It involves ap proxunately 1700 acres The size of the plant would not be determined until the study is completed. The site under consideration for the pumped-storage plant is about 1500 acres. After a permit is obtained, the study may require up to three years. If the site proves suitable for development, Menscer said it is being considered for a plant with generating capacity of up Zora R Pegg, Gladys P Amnions, Ruby English, Nina B Ledford, Ruby Carter Wallin, Lena B. Ray, Elizabeth A. Norville, Tommy Ann P Blackwell, Billie Jean Haynie, Betty P. Ballard, Eva E. Mcintosh, Sadie E. Wallin, Janice H. Pressley, Wanda B. Edmonds, Judy Wallin, Patsy Hoyle, Susan Kiser. EBBS CHAPEL Lewis W. Ammons, Jr , principal. Marsha Boyd, Brenda Maxley Condra, Carolyn W. Ponder, Cecil Rex Sprinkle (iniddK) grdrsj4 BEECH GLEN J. H Ray, principal Agnes W Metcalf, Eulala H Boone, Edith L. Radford, Kenneth Radford LAUREL Vernon J Ponder, principal High School: Frances R Zimmerman, Louie A Zim merman, Peggy P Cutshaw, Bobby Dean Franklin, James J Shelton i middle grades I, Blackwell l-amar Lunsford (Voc. Agri ), Charles 1. Tolley (part time I-aurel and Hot Springs Voc. ) Elementary Helen W Sheltoa Ruth T I-anders, June Plemmons, Rena W Shelton, Harvey Franklin, Glenrus W Ray, Neple N Adams. Shirley R Metcalf, l,ena M Thomas, Oleta R Shelton WALNLT Auburn K Wayatt. prin cipal been involved in the past history of Region B's relations with the state No guilt or innocence can be assigned to a simple truth about Wed nesday's meeting: some Region B officials saw themselves surrounded by enemies LD Hyde, Region B executive director, receives a 586 per month salary sup plement whose propriety is being questioned by Bon durant and Earnhardt. Two former employes were questioned by Earnhardt at the meeting, and implied that Hyde's management techniques were not entirely proper. Hyde at one point asked Earnhardt if he enjoyed his work. Earnhardt said he did. Hyde asked Bill Rosen- borough, one of the former employes, if his work had been satisfactory: "L.D.." he said, "I don't think I did a tackle's worth of work all the time I was here, and I think that applies to you, too." Later, Hyde sounded a frequent theme when be asked Earnhardt: "Is it your normal custom to bansact the business of ttas job tha t yoa enjoy through the papers?'' . , '- - - .'- Some of the amt affecting ' statements at the 'meeting came from members from small municipalities. Who - t"..tv. i.. '.i,;,'.v . to two million kilowatts. The pumped-storage method of generating elec tricity requires two reser voirs, one at a considerably higher elevation than the other. Water released from the upper reservoir would be used to generate electricity at times of peak usage. Water would be pumped back to the upper reservoir during low demand periods with power generated in s tea in-elec trie plants. Menscer said the area being considered for the upper reservoir, which would require about 250 acres, is along the Sugarcamp Branch of Big Pine Creek The lower reservoir of 800 acres would be Juanita Boone, Robert D Banks, Reva Plemmons, Owen Bullman, Tressalee Ramsey, Lucille Burnette, Lena Jean Norton, Helen Adams, Margaret Guthrie, Latrelle Robinson (middle grades ). SPRING CREEK Jewell J. Church, principal High School: Larry Plemmons, Elsberry Wyatt, Don Fowler, Garland Woody (voc. agri.) Elementary: Howard R Trimble, Martha F. Kirk pa trick, Doyle G Cutshall, :the! KrkpatricV, . Fr?c Ramsey, Karren Dillingham. MARSHALL Clive M. Whitt, principal High School: James E., Boone, Mary C. Sprinkle, Patricia H Waldrop, Mrs Two Killed, Three Injured In Wreck Near Walnut Monday A Madison County man was killed instantly and a Burn sville woman was dead on arrival at Memorial Mission pleaded their need for the organization and urged a workable settlement William Powell of Mars Hill, Norman Austin of Woodf in, Bill Hickey of Black Mountain. Edith Osborne of Rosman. Zeno Ponder of Marshall, in a prepared statement, recounted what he called a activities series of behind-the-scenes directed against Hyde by Sen Charles Taylor of Brevard, who has ignored all recent invitations to attend meetings of the commission, according to Campbell. The meeting ended up lasting nearly 12 hours, most of it taken up by an m hour recess while the executive committee composed answers Stockpiling Of North Carolina fanners are being urged to place their orders for lime as early as possible because of aa ex pected shortage of rail cars lac-r this year.. "If we don't stockpile some kmc to late summer and early ; faO, I don't think we will get enough kmc to meet our needs," said Dr. Jack Baird, . extasrioa agronomist at North Carolina state University. . And the way to get vendors It stockpile lime is for far-. men to start placing orders," BaM adde4. - . - -:' ? on Pawpaw Creek at an elevation about 1200 feet below the upper reservoir. A powerhouse would be adjacent to it, with tunnels or penstocks connecting the two reservoirs Menscer said pumped storage reservoirs have limited value for recreational activities because of sharp fluctuations in water level that occur in normal plant operation. The nuclear plant concept being considered would in volve construction of a dam on Sandymush Creek to form an approximately 600-acre reservoir from which water would be drawn for plant operations. The plant would be in Buncombe County with part Charles Tolkey, Larry D. West, F. N . Willett, Dorothy B. Stupe, Roy Reeves, Frieda A Ponder, Carol Whitt Lucille Bullman, Johnnie Fisher. Elementary: Mafra B. Clark, Judy Payne, Anna B. White, Billie J. Redmon, Winnifred R. West, Sandra E. Briggs, Viola M. Ramsey, Helen T. Ledford, Elotse Ward, Othella R. Brigman, Donna S. Rice, Jessie B. Worley, Viola B. Ramsey, J. C. Wallin, Bobby Cooper, Christie Wallin, Doris Wyatt. Kathryn Z. Boone (middle prade?, .lack C Cole, Voc, Agri.), Laura P. Gosnell (Voc. Home Ec), John D. Ray (Voc. T4J ), James E. Allen (Voc Dist. Ed.), Jacob A. Sams (Voc. part time Marshall and Mars HlU. ) Huspital in AshevlUe following a head-on collision between two automobiles about 6:15 p m Monday on U S 25-70 to 13 written questions sub mitted at its request by Bondurant At one point in the recess, Campbell claimed a whole new list of questions had been submitted. Earnhardt said only the grammar had been revised Iater, after reading the answers, Bondurant said he thought some elements of the bst he had submitted were missing An observer found the at mosphere brought to mind two people who thought they were try ing to talk to each other and slowly discovering not only that the distance between them was increasing, but that they were both deaf . Lime Is Advised The NCSU specialist said he understood that more rail cars are available now maa will be when baavy- movement of grain and fertiliser begins to thafaS. . - .. : , "A large corn and soybean" Is antkipaktd, which that u rail car shortage could be even greater tha a it was tost year. .' "And, of course, we are heavily dependent aa the railroad industry tor our Erne, because most of our snrrlies art to Tennessee, South Carolina and Virginia,'' Eaird continued. of the reservoir extending into Madison. The plant would be designed to use cooling towers to dissipate waste heat. Water temperature in the reservoir would not be affected by the plant's operation. A group of CP&L represen tatives under the leadership of James Baldwin is contacting landowners whose property could be involved in either project to talk with them about the company's plans and answer questions. On-site investigations for nuclear plants include geological studies to deter mine that the site is stable enough to support the plant; seismic studies to determine the presence of a ny faults in or near the potential plant site; studies to determine foun dation soil conditions; studies of the movement, availability and quality of water; and studies of meteorological conditions. Environmental studies will be made to identify the various species of plant and animal life within the area and to evaluate the effect of a power plant, Menscer said. Environmental evaluations will be conducted in ac cordance with regulations of the Atomic Energy Com mission and the En vironmental Protection Agency. Explaining CPitL's com mitment to nuclear power, Menscer said that lower fuel costs more than offset higher capital costs, producing energy at lower costs than other power sources for customers. He emphasized the CP&L builds nuctear plants because they are en vironmentally compatible and safe, and they permit the conservation of fuels such as coal, oil and gas. four and a half miles north of Marshall near Walnut, the State Highway Patrol reported. A Charlotte mother and her two young children were seriously injured in the mishap. Trooper C D. Jenkins identified the dead as Geraldine Blank Balien, 32, of Rt 3 Burns ville and Charles Wayne Goforth, 39, of RL I Marshall. They were together in a 1967 Ford, headed north on the highway, with Goforth driving, the trooper said. The Goforth car collided with a 1971 Cadillac operated by Mrs. Sally Nash Cook, M, ef Charlotte, formerly of Madison County, southbound on the highway. Mrs. Cook, Thomas Roy Cook, 2, and Kay Lynn Cook, t, were admitted to Memorial Mission Hospital The Investigation Is ceav timing, Jenkins said. FUNERAL THURSDAY Funeral services ' for Goforth wul be held Thursday . afternoon at l:3t o'clock at HopeweQ Baptist Church with the Rev. Joseph Godwto af. fldattng. Burial will be to tha Goforth Family Cemetery. Friends will serve as palsjearerai , v Surviving art tore daughters. Misses Patricia Ana and Mary Lee, both of Greeneville, Term.; Ms mother, Mrs. I" Vrt C -"rth. of lUrs-Vl I. . J; brothers, f 'a C. ' " Route 4, ' "r$. ; Ftn.k, of I 2, shea. CifTth - a r -' V C f e jt : i ! k. 2 C. two