Tallahassee Democrat from Tallahassee, Florida • 7

(2J Section two octal Local news Comics Sports Classified Tuesday, November 29, 1977 1 1 McCarthy: Carter years are '50s revisited "I don't think he understands Con is also a bit compulsive. When he resigned from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee shortly after his 1968 ing the nation energy and employment It is the president's method he dislikes. "With jobs, with the cities, Carter deals with controlling the symptons and postpones the crucial decisions." Carter also came in for criticism for his handling of former CIA director Richard Helms after Helms lied to a congressional committee. McCarthy said members of the Justice Department should have gone after Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, who gave Helms his orders. Since they did not do that, he said, they should have fully prosecuted Helms.

House. His crusade nearly 10 years gone, McCarthy has taken to the speaking circuit. His high water mark was the 1968 campaign, which ended in bitter defeat. He has run for the presidency twice since, both times half-heartedly. Now the 61-year-old former senator from Minnesota spends his time writing books, making speeches and commenting on "the institutions of government." Most of the talks are to college audiences, and Monday night it was Florida State University's turn.

In the years since the 1968 campaign, McCarthy has become known for subtle, quiet wit Ask him about the greatest changes in his life since his run at the presidency and he replies, "I have the same interests as I had when I was in the Senate. But it (the Senate) wasn't a bad address." He recalled his last visit to Tallahassee sometime in 1973. "They were calling it 'the streaking capital' or something like that, because they said it started here," he said. While his commitment to ending the war in Vietnam was an obvious demonstration of deep conviction, he By SETH EFFRON IXnMcrat staff writer The specter of the Eisenhower years hangs heavily over the Carter administration, former senator Eugene McCarthy said Monday. "They were eight years when the country drifted, and then we had the trouble of the '60s," said McCarthy.

"I don't see that same kind of trouble in the '80s, but there will be problems in the economic field." The children's crusader arrived in Tallahassee with a tattered handkerchief, a bottle of cough medicine and high criticism of the Carter White gress," said McCarthy. "The energy policy is a good example. He started with a panic. He called it the 'moral equivalant of "We have a problem, but not a crisis. The people were not going to believe it, and Congress won't." He says Carter needs to take a more orderly approach.

"Moving Congress is not like herding hogs," he said. "A more orderly approach might have given Carter his energy policy sooner." But McCarthy agrees Carter has pointed to the two crucial issues fac defeat, for example, criticism was strong from supporters who felt betrayed. "I probably should not have done it," he said. "I've had so much trouble explaining it. But it (his work on the committee) didn't amount to anything anyway." In his weekly newspaper column and in public appearances, McCarthy has consistently criticized Carter.

He says Carter's inability to work with Congress has been a great failing. 'Amazing Grace' Spooner, below, at 105 is center's oldest resident. While, at left, Priscilla Hall contemplates the peaceful banks of the Suwannee River. 'V J4--4 vr Tney ray a ft S' By JACK HARPER Democrat area editor DOWLING PARK They pray a lot at the Advent Christian Home on a lazy bend of the Suwannee River 18 miles south of Live Oak. Every day at meals, on prayer meeting nights at the chapel, and especially on Thanksgiving and Christmas, the residents, from seven to 105, thank God for what they've got.

It goes something like this: "I was hungry and you fed me homemade hotdog rolls: I was thirsty, and you offered me a river of clean water. "I was a stranger, and you built me a house; naked, and you bought me a striped shirt. "I was sick, and you sat with me through the darkness." The praying seems to work for people like Mrs. Grace Spooner, 105, and Tonio McCorkle, 7. It also works for Pomeroy Carter, executive director since 1961 who has to balance the budget.

The home, founded in 1913 by the late Dr. Burr A. L. Bixler, minister of the Advent Christian Church of Live Oak, had a $2 million budget last year. "Of course, we pray a lot here," said Carter.

"We work and play hard too." Begun with a handful of children and a few retired ministers, the home has grown into a modern medical center, a state certified nursing home, apartment complexes and two senior citizens satellite communities. University of Florida Medical School students intern in geriatrics at the medical center. The Florida Legislature last year gave it $106,000 in its Community Care for the Aged program to find alternatives to institutionalization. The home's staff consists of 114 fulltime and 43 parttime employees with a payroll of $857,700 annually. There are 31 children in the home and 274 residents over 60.

"It's human ecology in a rural setting," said As medicaid does not pay the whole bill, the center susidized their care from gifts at a cost of $130,678. "We're serving more, subsidizing more and needing more," said Carter. "That's why we pray a lot here." There are no orphans at the home anymore. Modern medicine has progressed so that seldom do children lose their natural parents. "It's unfortunate," said Carter, "but by the time we get the children their homes are so broken they hardly ever go back." The children attend Live Oak schools.

Three of them Debbie Hart, Eddie Phillips, and Mitch Baker graduated last June from Suwannee High School. Students from the home are big in 4-H Club activities. The home raises its own beef and pork on the 800 acre farm. The acres owned by the home are too sandy for profitable row crop farming, but wild plums and blackverries for jelly and pies grow in the hedgerows along the pasture. The children live in cottages with house parents.

They can be accepted at the age of six and remain through their schooling or, as Carter put it, "as long as they need it. It is their home." Interrelationship between the children and retirees is carefully controlled. They get together for community events and some recreation, but they don't live together. "The oldsters love to see the children come, but they love to see them go too," Carter said. They got together for the Thanksgiving Services at the chapel and the big turkey dinner.

But by mid-afternoon, the children were frol-licking along the river or playing ball. The retirees were enjoying more peaceful pursuits. They also got together when Grace Spooner, called "Amazing Grace" by other retirees, celebrated her 105th birthday last July. Carter, 42, who succeeded his father in the job and holds a masters degree in social work from Florida State Unversity. "It's a grandparent kind of thing," he said.

"The young and the old help make like worthwhile for each other." Only 100 of the 274 elderly residents are in the medical center. There are 93 in Dowling House, a high-rise apartment complex, 43 in nearby Terrace Apartments, 39 in the mobile home Park of the Pines and nine in their own landlease homes. It's astonishing to approach the modern community through the isolated Suwannee County back country on roads that a few years ago were not paved. The center has gained national recognition. A movie on it is to be shown nationally on the Public Broadcasting System.

Even Colonel Harland Sanders, of Kentucky Chicken fame, is a generous supporter. Although nondenominational, 141 of the residents are Advent Christians, a midstream Protestant denomination that split from the Baptists more than 100 years ago over the doctrine of the Second Coming of Christ. There are 51 Baptists among the children and elders, two Catholics, one Jew, and 14 with no affiliation. The rest are split among Methodists, Presbyterians, and Episcopalians. Many elderly people are discovering the community and moving there to build their own private homes.

They take out memberships at the center for its recreational and medical facilities. Eventually, they will leave their homes and move in. Last year the center earned $1.6 million of its $1.8 million operating budget from private and medicaid patients. Gift income came to $223,621. Expenditures on land, buildings and equipment pushed the budget to $2 million.

Sit' if William Koan with home playmate is one of activities at home fehort takes Man robs Flagship Bank of $1,000 By SETH EFFRON and MICHAEL WHITELEY Democrat staff writers Police are searching today for a bank robber who held up the Flagship Bank at 216 W. College Ave. Monday and made off with about $1,000. Bank president George Carefoot said the robber made off with slightly more than $1,000. "Money" was the only word on a yellow bank deposit slip the robber handed to 20-year-old teller around 3:20 p.m., according to investigators.

The teller stared back at the robber, apparently caught off guard by the demand. "I want 50s, 100s and 20s," she later quoted him as saying. Again a stare. The robber reportedly reached into his pocket, waved his gray and green finely-checkered coat as if he had a gun, and added "If you don't believe me She handed over the cash and the man fled. FBI agents said the teller went to report the robbery to bank officials and did not see how he escaped the downtown area.

Lawmen and bank officials said said there were no shots fired and no one was hurt. While no suspect has been identified, police have released a description of the robber. He is white, in his late 20s or early 30s, has curly blond hair and, at the time of the robbery, was wearing a gray plaid jacket and a blue turtle neck sweater, according to the description given to the investigators. He was about 5 feet 7 inches tall, medium build and parted his hair on the left side during the robbery. It was later reported that the robber fled from the bank on foot.

No suspects have been apprehended. Carefoot said the teller "responded right with the procedures she's been taught. "Give the man as little money as you can, don't jeopardize your own well being or the well being of others in the bank." Carefoot said it was the first time the Flagship American Bank on College Avenue had been robbed. Last May, the Flagship Peoples Bank on Thomasville Road was robbed. No one has been arrested in that case either.

The College Avenue bank closed its business offices after the robbery and conducted all business through the drive-in teller windows. The bank re-opened today. FBI agents and local lawmen had exhausted most of their leads by Monday night. Sketch of robbery suspect was still loose early today Mailbox vandals charged PERRY -Warrants have been issued for the arrest of six Taylor County men on charges of damaging and stealing rural mailboxes. Taylor County Sheriff Von Shiddon said the 29 counts of criminal mischief and petit larceny resulted from an intensive investigation of mailbox vandalism which occurred from March through early August.

Approximately 50 mail boxes, more than 100 road information signs, a telephone booth, and several store windows were damaged during the period, according to reports filed with county law enforcement agencies. Those charged are Jimmy Brantley, 18, Jody Hingson, 18, Randy Walker, 18, Dennis Ivester, 19, Rodney Walker, 19, and Carrie Miller, 18. The young men will be arraigned December 10, according to court records. The misdemeanor charges are to be heard in county court. Garbage still a problem QUINCY -The Gadsden County garbage problem is anything but buried here.

County commissioners have had second thoughts on the wisdom of buyting 20 acres of property for a landfill. The plan to buy land from R. II. Strickland was proposed by Commissioner Earl Lodge Then the purchase option was skuttled by commissioners who questioned the land's an acre pricetag, Campus rapist gets long prison sentence A rapist whose face his coed victims said they would never forget has been sentenced to 25 years in prison. A would-be rapist a Rung Fu expert who later tangled with Leon County jailers last May has been sentenced to five years in prison, but will spend at least three years of that time on probation.

Those were the sentences handed down by two local circuit judges Monday, closing cases on at least three separate attacks on Tallahassee women committed in the past year. Gregory Paul, the 25-year-old Florida University student convicted of rape and attempted rape in dormitories at FAMU and Florida State University last April and May, was given concurrent 25 and 10-year sentences by Judge Charles Miner. days in jail for attacking Leon County jailers following his arrest. According to testimony during his trial, Burt followed the woman from the Howard Johnson's restaurant on Apa-lachee Parkway around 3:30 a.m. May 8.

He attacked her as she struggled to unlock her apartment door. Neighbors apparently frightened Burt, who abandoned his car and fled. In a comical series of events that followed, Burt showed up at the Leon County jail to claim his car, was fingerprinted and photographed and then released. Later, the victim identified his Leon County Sheriff's Department photograph, and Burt was arrested in Bartow. In attacks that terrorized coeds on both campus, Paul was convicted of twice raping a 19-year-old DeGraff Hall coed on May 14 as she crossed a dormitory hall from her room to the restroom.

More than a month earlier, Paul had attacked a FAMU student early one morning as she returned from a shower in McGuinn Hall, jurors decided after 2 Vz hours of deliberation last month. Paul was arrested May 20 when his FSU victim spotted him at a fraternity show staged on the FAMU campus. She told deputies she heard Paul speak during the show and recognized his voice. She later identified him in court. Jimmy Francois Burt, 21, was sentenced to five years in prison for the attempted rape in May of a Las Palmas apartments resident.

The sentence includes an extra 60.