The Gastonia Gazette from Gastonia, North Carolina • Page 18

SECTION FOUNDED 1880 THE GASTONIA GAZETTE IT, 1971 In emergency, the student reacts By AUGUSTA BEI.X, coming toward you, when slid- Forlunalely no. As realistic as darkened class 1 00 were using Reporler denly from out between those the whole thing seemed it was to good advantage Gaston You re driving down a plea- parked cars a small chftd on a just a simulated emergency sit- Schools' new $14,000 Drivocator. sant, uncrowded residential, tricycle darts into the street. nation experienced this week street with several cars parked What next a screech of by Ashbrook High School driver THIS IS A modern multi. along we right side.

brakes? ediicallon students. media leaching tool which in- You watching another car Another traffic fatality? Some of them sitting in the picture films of driving situations. Clover jailbreak ends in capture Two York men sow out bars CLOVER, S. C. Two prisoners in the Clover jail sawed their way to a short-lived freedom early this morning.

Less than three hours after they made their escape from the city jail they were back in police custody and on their way to the prison in Columbia. The two escapees, identified as James Rayburn, 25, of Hock 'Hill, and William Quinn, 25, of York, are thought to have used a hacksaw blade to saw the J5ars out oE their cell. The two men escaped about 5:30 a.m. this morning, according to Police Chief L. C.

Hopper. They were first missed at about 7 a.m., and were spotted- along Highway 49 about 9 a.m. by a York County Deputy Sheriff. Hopper said they trial to hide the woods as the deputy passed, but were spotted as they Ihe wooded area. Other county cars were called in, and the men were quickly apprehended, according to Hopper.

Hopper said the two men were originally prisoners at the County jail in, York, S. C. but were causing such a dis- Jurbance that they were brought to Clover Wednesday night. The jailer in York said tiiat Ray-burn and Quinn would "knock on the walls at night and not let the other prisoners sleep." According to Hopper, the men used a hacksaw blade to out two of the bars in the ceiling of the cell. "They crawled out, slid along "the top of the cell and dropped to the floor," Hopper said.

'Then they used one of the bars 'they had cut to pry open the 1 door to the outside and escape." Hopper said it is not known how they got the hacksaw blade, since neither men had had visitors since they were brought to Clover Wednesday. 1 One offjccr said that one possibility is that the men had the blade when they were brought ''T 3i thafc 0 didn't brought to Clover by officers from the York County jail. BURN, BABY BURN Students at Hunter Huss High School gather around the bonfire and yock it up at a Thursday night pep rally in anticipation of the scheduled football game with Ashbrook High School tonight. 78 new teachers may not get raise on 1st check Those 18 new Gaslon Counly school leachers hired since the Aug. 15 wage-price freeze are still not going to gel the five increase unless the increase approved by the General Assembly until a ruling came from Washington.

But Each student has at his desk an individual res ponder unit wired to a console that allows eludes sound and color motion the teacher to see immediately what each students answer is to each problem, plus the percentage of correct answers for the whole class. It's all very fast-moving, just as in-real-life driv.ing, and students have to be attentive every second. If they're not watching carefully and punching their respon- dcr buttons for Ihe multiple choice answers that appear on the screen, it's immediately apparent to the instructor at the console. Both Maynard Bridges and John Kinlaw, Ashbrook dirver education teachers, arc enthusiastic about the new system. And the kids seem to like it, loo.

After the lights came on at Ihe end of the class. Bridges laughed and said, "They have to be attentive every minute. There can't be any of the snoozing lhat sometimes goes on in the back of the room when there's just a teacher standing up'at the front of the room talking." THE DRiVOCATOR is just pail of the big changeover that has taken place this fall in the school system's whole driver education program headed by Harry Huss. In the past, the n-credit course has been given in the summers. It is required by law in North Carolina for anyone under 18 years of age to get a driver's license.

This fall for the first time, driver education is being given in the county's eight high schools during the school'day at study hall hours. "It's a real improvement. For one thing, in the summer we never knew how many students to expect or when to expect them because of vacations and summer jobs," Bridges said. The driver course includes 30 hours of instruction, half with the Drivoeator and the other with a text plus the North Carolina driving manual. Once (his is completed, then the students are scheduled for six hours of actual behind-lhe-whcel driving practice on (he highway.

With 317 students in live classes at Ashbrook, lhat involves many hours, even with two students per car during a driving period. Bridges and Kinlaw operate two cars in the mornings, with an extra teacher and car for the afternoon classes. "We set up the driving schedules according.to age, so that we take the older students first and they won't be delayed in getting their driver's license just as soon as they are 16," Bridges explained: SO MANY WANT to lake driver education at Ashbrook that several of the classes are over 40 and there are only 40 respon- dcrs with Drivoeator system. They still take part, however, in Ihe filmed exercises and use answer sheets which are quickly checked. Each high school will get to keep the Drivoeator for three weeks, which means lhat there has to be a little doubling up with 18 color film lessons.

Tne first of these, "The Challenge of Traffic," concentrates on dri- TURNING ON THE SOUND Maynard Bridges, right, driver education teacher, is standing behind the console-of the Drivoeator in one of the-Ashbrook High School classes he conducts with John Kinlaw, left. The small black squares on the left side of console panel are individual indicators of each student's response on each question. The wires on the floor lead from the console to each student's responder. Hauled off in company's truck Bandits get Lincoln safe LINCOLtxTON Thieves broke into a grading company here "last night and stole th company safe, then stole one of the firm's trucks to haul it away. According to Lincolnlon Police Capt.

Tom Burgin, McGinnis Brothers Grading and Tire Co. was entered by thieves who did a "pretty clean job" in getting away with the safe and truck. Burgin estimated that about $1,000 in checks and cash was in the safe. "ftfost of that was in checks," he said. "They apparently broke into the building with the intention of hauling away the safe and cracking it somewhere else," Eurgin said.

"That way they have more time to work on the safe." "Burgin said the building was entered through a back window. The safe was then pushed across the floor the building to the company's truck that was parked inside the locked building. "The safe weighed between 300-400 pounds, so there was probably two or more people involved," Burgin said. "It would have taken at least two people to move the sate the way they did." Burgin said the safe was lifted onto the back of the truck, then the truck, which had the keys inside, was driven away. Burgin said the truck was a yellow truck with the firm's name stenciled on the side.

The break-in was reported to the Lincolnton police department at 6 a.m. this morning. Neither the truck nor the safe has been located. Man accused of cab heist Woman's- Hundreds of students were on hand to take part in the cheering and singing. Both teams are undefeated.

Ashbrook High School also held a bonfire pep rally Thursday night, attended by hundreds of spirited students. faces robbery rap in S. C. bond is A Ml. Holly man, already charged with robbery and assault, has been accused of an- olher robbery and assault of a taxi driver.

Rural Police Del. Lt. Bert checks go out Monday. Superintendent William H. Brown said, this morning, "I UIUWII 001U, Hopper said that the hacksaw rcad jn me news used in the breakout and one of the sawed off cell bars were not found.

Hopper said lhat both men 'will ba held in the state prison in Columbia until their trial, "which will be during the session 'of court beginning in York on Sept. 27. According to the York jailer. papers that the governor said lo go ahead with the increase regardless of employment dale. But the telegram 1 received yesterday from State Superintendent Craig Phillips did not freeze." Raybu'riTfaces two charges of There had been confusion car- burglary.

Quinn broke probation licr in the week when a state and is charged with education department official sion of an unlawful weapon. advised schools not to Include Father convicted of knife assault A Belmonl falhcr has been found guilly in District Court of assaulting his daughter with a knife. Ernest Graham was charged wilh threatening lo cut the child's throat with a pocket 1 knife. A longtime friend and bor testified lhat he saw Graham holding the child with the knife against her throat. joe Lan, who said tin lived next door to said he to reason with ham but Graham swung the at him.

"Everytime we 1 got close to the porch, he'd tell us to get back," tail said. A Belmont police' officer lesti- that he was called to the 'house following a domestic when he approached the porch he saw Graham with his left arm around the child's neck. He said Graham held a knife and said "you damn pigs don't come any closer. You've got no busi-, ness here." Hinson said Graham then threw the knife into the yard. Graham testified in his own defense and said he djd not have a knife at the child's throat.

He said he had some trouble with an uncle earlier and "just got my knife." Graham kept saying he told (he olher people to call the child "but she wouldn't leave me." Chief District Court Judgo Lewis Bulwinklo ordered a pie- sentencing invcsliealion by the probation department and a so- Storm lash dumps rain over Gaston Rain splattered across Gaslon County today as the backlash of tropical storm Edith moved across the state. Weather bureau officials said rain will become heavy at times, marked by scattered Ihunderstorms today and tonight. However, the bureau said most of Ihe heavy rain will be concentrated in the mountains with 'light rain in the fool- hills." As Ihe night wears on the chance of rain diminishes. The chance of rain drops to 40 per cent on Saturday. Temperatures, meantime, will slay on the cool side with a high of 78 expected today and Saturday.

A low of 65 is fore- case for tonight. Gaston Schools were told by Raleigh to go ahead with their paychecks already prepared, in- ver s' economic and social res eluding Ihe raise. Then ycstcr- ponsibiliiies. day Gov. Bob Scott got a ruling on the question and told all schools to include the raise.

Gaston County Schools checks- include the increase for all of the approximately 2,200 personnel. This includes about 1,400 teachers. Those 158 new teachers who signed contracts before Aug. 15 will get the raise, but Ihe 18 who signed afterward will not gel it in the Monday paycheck, receiving it in the next one. Superintendent Brown said, however, thai if a written clarification on this point arrives before Monday these 18 checks can be rewritten to include the raise "in 15 minutes." At Ashbrook the students saw two, "Driving Emergencies" and "Defensive Driving." The first considered such sit- tuations as what to do if your car catches fire (car owners should cony a small fire extinguisher, but short of that try dirt or sand from the side of the road!) Cherryville High School with 132 driver education students will get the Drivocator system next week, followed by Mt.

llully High School with 174 students. Huss High, with 290 enrolled, is next on the schedule. Dales for the remaining high schools are yet to be worked out. Bessemer City High School has 135 signed up (or driver education; Stanley High School, 93; South Point, 225; and Norlh Gaston, 140. Death fear gives man heart attack The room was dark.

The night was still. Clyde Davis was lying in his bed listening lo the voices of people who were talking. "I THOUGHT I was dead," Davis said. "I was in my casket and could hear the people talking as they passed by." It frightened Davis so badly that he bad a heart attack. An ambulance was summoned to take him to Charlotte to a hospital.

Davis, 33, went back to the hospital where he had open heart surgery a short lime earlier. He was at home recovering when he had the second attack. GEORGE MATTHEWS, member of the Gaston Life Saving Crew, said thai Davis was frightened when he woke up and found his room in total darkness. A car had hit a polo and knocked off the electricity. There were people on the street Balking.

Davis could hear voices from his bedroom. The life savers took Davis to Charlotte in their ambulance. Davis resides at 60S Main Dallas. Homeslcy said today Charles Slade, 30, lias been charged by Columbia, S. police wilh Ihe Sunday armed robbery and assault on William David Gentry, an employee of Baker Cab Co.

of Gastonia. Homsley said Gentry reported to Columbia police that he picked up Slade in Gastonia and drove him to Columbia. Genlry told the officers Slade gave him $40 when they arrived at (lie destination. Gentry said Slade then gave him another $10 and told him the additional money was for waiting while he went into a Columbia nightclub. Gentry reported (hat when Slade and two other men returned from the club, Ihey pulled him from Ihe cab and beat him.

The taxi driver said Elade held a knife to his throat and took $50. But Slade did not cut him. Slade is accused of cutting taxi driver Doc Smith, a driver for a Lowell cab company. Slade and Edwin O'Neill, 19, of Columbia, arc being held under $10,000 bond in the robbery and assault charges. The two men also face charges resulting from an assault on an elderly Charlotte man last boosted A Gaslonia woman already free under $1,000 bond for tha alleged murder of her husband, waived a preliminary hearing In District Court today and had bond upped to $5,000.

Chief District Court Judge Lewis Bulwinkle, who set bond at $1,000 for Mrs. Merle Wiggins Dominy, of Ihe Beverly Hills Mobile Home Park, in a midnight hearing on the night of the shooting, bound the attractive middle-aged woman over to Superior Court pending action by Ihe Gaston County grand jury. Sirs. Dominy is accused of killing her husband, Gordon R. Dominy, of 2206 Pineview Lane on Aug.

25 when Dominy came to her trailer to bring their 14- year-old daughter home. Rural police, who found Dominy dead of a single .22 caliber gunshot wound in the back, said Mrs. Dominy had called Rural Police earlier that night to say that her husband had been drinking and lo reportedly say is he tried to enter the trailer when he returned, she would shoot him. Pll. L.

H. Dixon, assigned to the police desk, took the telephone call. According to a report of the telephone Dixon, the caller sale her husband returned her daughter to Ihe trailer and did County jail is an unlikely Attica By BILL McKEITHAN Gazelle Staff Reporter Could the Gaston County jail be turned into another Attica, the site of recent rebellion among prisoners which ended in the tragic deaths of 42 persons? units with the stale Dcpl. of Corrections to serve (heir terms. "This makes their attitudes different from prisoners who feel they have nothing (o lose," Slaton said.

He noted that all of the inmates at At- we're There arc possibilities on both tjca, N. we're convicted sides of the question. The evi- while most prisoners in dcnce points to the fact that the county jail arc awaiting there could he a riot in the county building but the chances of it getting out of hand are Wrench assault brings 2 years An unemployed textile employee was found guilty in District Court of assaulting another man with a steel wrench. CAPTAIN J. W.

Slalon of the inmates. Slaton said a normal Glenn Ragfln, of 607 S. Hamp- Sheriff's who heads the day sees about 80 or 90 prison- a a sa i "our situation is ers in the lockup. different bccatise we have prls-. Gaston County hss not been oners walling for trial arid not without prisoner problems.

Individual cells where more than four persons are kept is another reason i nm a should not be able to stage any massive takeover, Slalon said. small. trial on lesser charges. The county jail will house about 120 inmates Including the area where public drunks are kept plus a section for female They blocked a loilcl drain and flooded a small area but were brought under control by local authorities. UNDER THE present setup, only about 15 prisoners are presently kept in the large lockup.

Most of the prisoners now HOWEVER, if one group of inmates were able to gain control of the large area and were able lo open the doors In the other cells and turn the prisoners loose, Ihere could be the same problems as at Attica. Siaton said he did not believe Thursday. They arc being held nct she would in the Gaslon Counly Jail, not shoot njm Homesley said. Detcclive Lt. Floyd Brandon and Sgt.

Bill Hovis said when Ihey arrived at the trailer they found D'miny's body lying in Ihe yard about 14 feet from Ihe front door. Dominy had been shol in Ihe back, officers said. Police complained thai they did not have Ihe opportunity lo go through the usual routine of arrest, including booking, and that Mrs. Dominy was met at Ihe courthouse by her attorney and Bulwinkle who held the midnight hearing and allowed Mrs. Dominy to go free.

ton Gasfonia, was eon victcd of assault with a deadly weapon and sentenced lo two years In prison. liagan gave notice of appeal to Superior Court. Rsgan was accused of assaulting Hobart Crisp, of 2809 West view wilh the hard-core convicts who have al ready been sentenced." Slalon pointed out about two- of inmates attempted to over- thirds of the local Inmates will lake Ihe jail and stage a riot, be either turned free or put on detained in the large room'are awaiting Irial. At the time of Ihe near riot most of the prisoners were awaiting retrials or had been brought to Gaston County lo testify in other trials. Jailers dp not carry firearms into the area where prisoners are kept.

All law enforcement 'officers who enter the jail area check their weapons and unload guna before entering tie fail About two years ago a serious incident occurred when a group area. Most inmates, except trustees arc kept in lockcd-ln areas The prisoners were confined which would lend lo reduce Ihe Iho local prisoners were at- fccled by the outbreaks in New York. He said ho thought inmates at larger or long-term prisons such as Raleigh's Central Prison would tend to be more affected than local prisoners. "What would they have to gain their freedom in a legal manner as long as (hey are still in jail. After they are sentenced is when (heir altitude may change," he poinlcd out.

HOWEVER, about two months ago a young Negro made an unsuccessful bid for freedom when he broke away from the bailiff in the courtroom and ran. He was recaptured about an hour later. Several other escapes have also failed. These came from Thursday wilh store breaking prisoners being transferred arid larceny following a break-in from one correctional institution to the local jail. For the most part, the local I aren't happy with being behind but they Man is accused of tire thefts A.

Ranlo man was charged seem to be to take their chances wilh Ihe courls and not in Mecklenburg County. Mecklenburg Counly Sheriff's Dcpt. made the charges against Gary German of Lowell Hd. Hural Police detectives said loday German wts released under $500 bond on the charges. "wjuabble.

Sgt. Cecil Hinson said cial service worker. L-shapcd wrench. He pleaded probation when they go on trial. In a large room and Jailed In chances of a riot or attempted gain?" Slaton asked.

"They be- since any revolt In the county He is accused of Inking 17 tiros not guilty. The rest will be sonl to other their efforts lo create a rlol. rlol. Hove they have a chance to jail. from a service station..