Asheville Citizen-Times from Asheville, North Carolina • Page 9

THE ASHEVILLE CITIZEN and THE ASHEVILLE TIMES Page 9 Sept. 6, 1980 Protest Planned rr rf I 1 Mb. i i "1 Highland Sale Gets Hearing Campaign Train Ends Its Trek After 428 Miles E.frr-- rrvm -n 31 Icderal antitrust suit to slop the Highland sale. Congressman Lamar Gudger ol Asheville forwarded information about the Highland sale to the Federal Trade Commission and congressional committees for possible investigation. Elizabeth li.

Hiiulskopf. deputy assistant director ol the bureau ol competition, replied in an Aug. 27 letter that the bureau will will stay in touch with the attorney general's office but "it is unlikely that we will lake independent action at this Gudger aide Pete Gilpen said Fridny that the congressional committees have not replied to Gudger's inquiries. Gudger has not taken sides in the controversy. The antitrust suit will not come to trial until the WNCHSA procedure has run its course.

-Stall Photo By Ewort Boll Officials Sworn In In Clay After Two Elections, Winners Take Office By JAY HENSLEY Staff Writer HAYESVILLE A man in the crowd 'yelled Glory" when the oath of office was administered to the sheriff, then everybody joined in the cheering and laughing. It was a big day Friday for Clay Coun-; ty Sheriff Hartsell Moore and the other eight Republican officials here. 1 They were sworn in at the entrance to the Clay County Courthouse. "After 27 months and two elections, we are finally going to get sworn in," Commissioner Wayne G. West said before the ceremony started.

1 "I know it's breaking somebody's heart in Clay County to see us get this, but we've got it," West said. It was the end of a long battle between Republicans and Democrats here, punc-l -1 tuated on both sides by charges of vote-buying. I Moore, who led a fight to block a state- ordered re-run of the 1978 elections all the Way to the United States Supreme Court, r. said Friday he had been confident of the I outcome all along. Moore defeated Democrat Ermal Cheeks 1,985 to 1,672 in the re-run race for -1 sheriff Aug.

2. He had come out ahead of Cheeks in the 1976 balloting, but the State Hoard of Elections held a hearing into vote-buying charges and would not certify those results. Clerk of Court Ralph Allison, who said he had received the oath of office day from 0. W. Hooper Graham Coun-ty clerk of court, administered the oaths here Friday.

Moore was sworn in first, followed by Ruby Lediord, register of deeds, and the crowd on the courthouse lawn applauded and cheered for each of them. Allison administered the oath jointly y. to West, Howard Wimpey, and Max Payne, the commissioners. School board members Hoby Garrett, Robert L. Anderson and Clarence Swanson were the last to be given the oath, and I the crowd applauded wildly.

"It's been a long time, but it's all right now." a woman said. Moore and the other officials mingled for awhile around the punch bowl and I cookies the Clay County Republican Women's Club provided on a table under the trees on the lawn. The sheriff said he has already started his campaign for the next election in 1981, and plans to go into every precinct in the county. By BILLY PRITCHARD Staff Writer Nine-year-old Carrie Hendon. daughter of the Republican congressional candidate from the Uth District, cried Friday when her father's campaign wagon train stopped in Asheville.

"I don't want to leave the train," Carrie moaned, although she had fallen off the lead wagon during the first week of the month-long trek through the mountainous, 17-county district and fractured an arm. But her father, William M. "Billy" Hendon, 35, of Asheville, who gave up his executive job and his business suit to seek the congressional seat, appeared ready for his first night in a real bed since the wagon train left Andrews on Aug. 9. Hendon's wife, Robbie, and other daughter, Jeanie, 7, also accompanied him at several points along the trip.

On its last leg, the four wagons in the train, all drawn by mules, came into Asheville from the north, narrowly missing a collision with a passing car on U.S. 19-23, came up Broadway under the Crosstown Expressway, where it picked up a police escort, turned left on Woodfin Street, right onto College Street, circled the courthouse plaza and square and stopped beside the Asheville Police Department, met by a small but enthusiastic welcoming committee. Hendon said the train traveled 428 miles, including occasions when the wagons and mules had to be loaded aboard trailers and trucks and carried over treacherous mountain grades, and went through every county in the district, except Graham, which Hendon said he regretted, having gone that far and missed only one county. Hendon, too, had mixed feelings about ending the campaign wagon train. He said he had met a lot of good and generous people, many of whom invited members of the train to camp in their pastures, fed them and took them into their homes.

Friendship Destination Now Berlin Congressional candidate Billy Hendon brought his month-long, 17-county wagon train to a conclusion Friday when the four mule-drawn wagons pulled up in front of the Buncombe County Courthouse. Hendon was accompanied in the lead wagon by his wife and two daughters. Bv RALPH V. ELLIS Staff Writer A public hearing on the proposed sale of Highland Hospital will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday, Sept.

25. in the lecture hall of the Mountain Area Health Education Center. The hearing will be conducted by the staff of the Western North Carolina Health Systems Agency. Comments Irom the hearing will be forwarded to the WNCHSA project review committee and the WNCHSA governing board. Those bodies will make recommendations on whether Psychiatric Institutes of America should be granted a certificate of need to purchase Highland.

The decision to grant or deny the certificate of need, which amounts to a state license, will be announced by the certificate of need office of the state department of human resources. Duke University's plans to sell Highland are opposed by a citizens group called Friends of Highland Hospital and two former Highland stall psychiatrists, Drs. Thomas A. Smith and Hal G. Gillespie.

They are against PlA's financial policies and said they will speak out at the public hearing. P1A, through subordinate corporations Highland Psychiatric Associates and Highland Hcalty Associates wants to buy Highland from Duke lor approximately $5,725,000. If the sale is approved. PIA would jointly own and operate Highland with seven Highland stall psychiatrists led by Dr. Jack Bonner 111, medical director.

A public hearing on the Appalachian Hall sale was held Aug. 25 in Asheville The WNCHSA project review committee will discuss the Appalachian Hall sale at a 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 17. meeting at the Calcteria in the Asheville Mall.

The Highland sale will not be discussed Sept. 17. according to Gil Pilkinglon a health facilities planner lor WNCHSA. The Highland sale will be considered by the project review committee at 7 p.m. Oct.

15 and by the governing board at 7 :30 p.m. Oct. 22. Both meetings will be in the SAW Cafeteria. PIA is a Washington.

D.C.-based corporation which owns a chain of profit-making mental hospitals. WNCHSA is a Icdcral-slate-local government agency which monitors health care programs and expenditures in a 26-counly region. In a related development, a stall member of the bureau ol competition ol the Federal Trade Commission said the bureau will monitor the Highland Hospital controversy through the state attorney general's oflice, which has filed a Water System Town Meeting Topic Ashevillc's Friendship Force International exchange program has joined hands with Atlanta's program to lake participants to West Berlin, rather than to Canada. Leslie Anderson, public relations chairman ol the local exchange program, said Friday the change in destination means some people will nut be able to go. The trip lo West Berlin will cost almost twice as much, she said.

Instead of the original $.1:10. the cost is $600 lo each participant, she said. This is the lirst year Asheville has participated in the exchange program. The trip to Gaspe Peninsula, Canada, has been canceled or poslncil until next year because not enough people could he recruited lor the trip in Canada. Asheville and the Gaspe Peninsula had been expected to recruit 119 each, a planeload Anderson said lltglit directors will meet Sunday to decide whether to continue the program next year and whether to cancel the Canada trip or postpone it until next year.

She said Asheville participants who wish to pay the change in cost may go to West Berlin through the Atlanta exchange program. siderations. The situation will be examined Sunday in detail in a series of articles by Citizen-Times Staff Writers Barbara Blake and Mike Boyd. The Town Meeting in First Baptist Church will provide a follow-up to the Sunday articles, allowing responses from the public. The Town Meeting will be telecast by WLOS-TV from 8 p.m.

lor at least one hour. Radio Station WWNC will broadcast the entire meeting, from 8 p.m. to 10 m. The event also will be broadcast by WI.OS-FM. The meeting will be open to the public.

water system that has kept the city and county governments apart for so long. A panel of newspaper editors and television commentators also will be present. The panel will introduce questions of its own and relay questions from the general public. The controversy about the future of the water system has been described by some observers as one of the most difficult problems to confront local government here in many years. The controversy is a complex one, one that has many aspects and con Water for Asheville and Buncombe County, now and in the future, will be the topic of a special Town Meeting to be held at 8 p.m.

Tuesday in the First Baptist Church. The meeting, sponsored by The Asheville Citizen-Times, Radio Station WWNC and WLOS broadcasting, will give the public an opportunity to gather information about the water problem. Public officials representing the city of Asheville and Buncombe County will be present at the meeting. They will explain various aspects of the dispute over the Pediatricians Examine Children's Problems Gardens Require Maintenance He said people have come from as far away as Ijs Angeles. Key West and Vermont.

Morgan actually operated on the television program. Although other doctors perform the surgery, some patients seem to trust him more because they saw him acually operate, he said. Morgan was to participate in a roundtablc discussion today. Other participants in the meeting include Dr. Samuel L.

Katz of Durham, Dr. Henry L. Mueller of Chicago, Dr. L.H.S. Van Mierop ol Gainesville, Fla Dr.

Charles U. Yoder ol Asheville, Dr. Thomas McCutchcn Jr. of Fayelteville, Dr. John II.

Killian ol Asheville. Dr. Thomas E. Sumner of Winston-Salem. Dr.

Frederick E. Rector Jr. of Asheville. and Dr. Ted Marr ol Charlotte.

He said pediatricians are interested in more funding for perinatal care (before and after birth money for cripple children; and legislation which would require auto restraint for small children. "Pediatricians have characteristically been more interested in being better caretakers of children than necessarily making things better for ourselves," said Williams. He said the physicians arc also discussing how to manage offices better, how to handle paperwork and collecting from Medicare. Fletcher L. Raiford, a pediatrician in Hender-sonville for 30 years, is the program chairman for this year's meeting.

Raiford said in an interview Friday that chicken-pox is still one of the most common of childhood dis eases. No vaccine has been developed lor chicken pox, he said. "It is so innocuous in childhood that we don't get very excited about it," he said, adding, "11 could be serious to adults. It could make them sick as the dickens." He said he advises young parents to get around children with the illness so they will "get it and get it over with." Dr. William W.

Morgan Jr. of Asheville spoke to the group Friday about surgical treatment of funnel chest or lumed-in breastbone, which occurs in about one out of 500 births. Morgan said since he appeared on the DC-TV physicians' special "Lileline two years ago. he has had 150 people come to him from all over the United States for operations for funnel chest. By SONDRA J.

HARRIS Staff Writer Snakebites, chest surgery and legislation which would require young children to wear seatbelts are topics at an annual meeting of pediatricians in Asheville this weekend. The North Carolina Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the North Carolina Pediatric Society are being hosted by the Mountain Pediatric Society for the first time in Asheville. About 160 pediatricians from across the state are meeting in business and scientific sessions and round-table discussions at the Grove Park Inn. The group will determine priorities to ask of the N.C. General Assembly, said Dr.

David R. Williams of Thomasville, chapter chairman. Volunteers arc lo assist with the maintenance of the University Ilotanical Gardens, according to Dr. Robert T. Kemp, publicity co-chairman.

A special work day will be held Saturday from 8 30 a.m. to noon, he said. Hegular work days arc Tuesdays and Wednesday ol each week, weather permitting Kemp said tools will be provided and volunteers may select the time which Best suits them The fellowship Is good and the work is light, heallhlui and outdoors, Kemp stressed. Unprecedented Woodsman, Spare That Knee! Bill Moore WWNC No. 1 2 Years In Row Asheville Radio Station WWNC for the second year in a row has been rated the No.

1 station in the nation by Arbltron, a survey agency, it has been announced According to the rating lirm which has offices in New York, Chicago. Dallas, Atlanta, San Francisco and Los Angeles. It Is unprecedented (or a station to win the honor two years in a row. Arlntron said that its surveys showed that the Asheville station has 39 2 percent of the listening audience In its coverage area That figure is more than two percentage points above its nearest competitor for the No. I honor -Station WJI1C In liloornington, III.

WWNC. owned by Multimedia. has received congratulatory messages from radio stations, advertising and other agencies over a wide section of the nation. Sheldon Summerlln, executive vice president and general manager ol WWNC, said that "It is truly a great honor. When you consider that there are 8,000 radio stations in the nation, you sec the tremendous odds against this happening two years in a row." The survey was made during April and May, he said.

"I am tremendously happy for my stall. They are superb. Last year was the first year that a country music station had won the No. 1 rating. As a result we got a lot ol good attention from Nashville folks.

This is happening again." swing. The hammer hit the wedge whopperjawed and the wedge started ricocheting around like flak in a fuselage. It caromed off the basement wall, angled down from the overhead, bounced off a porch support and came to a full stop against my left knee. I dropped the hammer, sat down, grabbed my knee and voiced my honest and heartfelt opinion about the situation. Again came the voice from above: "Furthermore my grandfather could cut a whole lot of wood without ever once using language like that!" Manfully I refrained from telling her that I knew a place where I wished her grandfather would go.

A little later Bill and I ran into another of the snags that await unwary woodcutters. We walloped a wedge so far into one knotty hunk of wood we couldn't free it. So we drove the other wedge in the opposite" direction It, too, went in so far we couldn't free it. But the wood obstinately refused to split. Then we drove an ax head into the chunk.

Still no split, but both wedges and the ax head were immobilized. So were we. Bill and I were discussing this stymie with some heat (It was a very hot day) when we once more heard the voice from above. "My grandfather would use dynamite!" Not having any dynamite, we used another method to free the wedges and then slunk away. Clearly Sharon's grandfather had won the day.

But we will return. Unfortunately, we must. Big Bill and I went out to split some firewood the other day. It was the first time either of us had tried It. We did not enjoy beginners' luck.

Neither of us is an outdoors type. Big Bill can fieldstrlp and reassemble a motorcycle engine before you can say "Harley Davidson." But he gets a little uneasy when he's out of sight of blacktop pavement. I am a dedicated follower of the Phillip Luther School of Woodsmanship. The motto of the school is: "I'll go as far into the woods as Holiday Inn will go." I am with that sentiment every step of the way. But not one step further.

The wood we were to split was the property of Nurse Sharon, located in her yard. An oak tree had been felled and the trunk cut into segments. All we had to do was to split the segment into fireplace-sized hunks. Sharon showed us where the wood was and remarked that her grandfather, back in Louisiana, had told her many years ago that a man ought to be able to split any fort of wood with a hammer and just two wedges. Then, optimistically, she went to bed.

She had worked the night before at the hospital, helping to keep bodies and souls together, and she was tired, I carefully tapped one of the wedges into the top of one piece of tree trunk. Then I stopped back, reared up and took a full swing. The hammer head missed the wedge by a clear two Inches. The wedge sort of sagged and fell over on its side. I made a sotto voce comment and tried again.

This time I hit the wedge but I hit it with the hammer handle, not the hammer head. There was another, not so sotto, comment. Finally, pulling and grunting, twisting and sweating, we got one slab of wood free from the main chunk. But It was hard, hard work. "I'll bet Sharon's grandfather looked like Man Mountain Dean," I said softly to Bill.

And out of a window located Just over our heads came the rebuttal, "He didn't look like anything of the sort. He was five feet, two inches tall and weighed 110 pounds with his shoes on." Later I set up the wedge and took another mighty.