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v' -V mt a 1 1 I Friday November 8 1985 Style2 Barfjatn iltorninjj 3HTtraUr Woman Describes Day Her Daughter Disappeared Paul Anthony Teague was ar- MMIV1I SMUU WM M- against them and said they are being given because of their agreeing to testify in this case Aldridge told her mother before the second call was disconnected The attempt to tap the second call failed but the brief conversation was recorded The day after the second call Tuesday July 3 Tammy Sue Al- disappearance and death Mrs Aldridge next heard from her daughter the next day a Sunday about 9 pm when she telephoned Mrs Aldridge testified that her daughter told her all right" But she said tell her mother where she was 'Tm all right Tell Freddie I love him" she said Freddie Leitch was Ms Al-drige's boyfriend phone went dead like someone made her hang Mrs Aldridge testified After that call the investiga- By JACK HOLMES Herald staff writer GRAHAM been more than six years since the last time Mrs Shelby Aldridge saw her 20-year-old daughter Tammy Sue alive Thursday she related the events of Saturday June SO 1979 and the next three days that ended with Miss body being found about 4 am on a highway across Alamance County from her home Mrs Aldridge was the first witness in the trial of Paul Anthony Teague 23 on charges of kidnaping rape and murder of Tammy Sue Aldridge The state began presenting evidence Thursday morning in the trial in Alamance Superior Court following three days con-' sumed selecting a jury to hear the case Mrs Aldridge said her daughter was at home on break from her studies at Central Piedmont tors put a tap and a recorder on theAldri phone in hopes that she would call again She did on Monday about 10 pm -I 'Again she said' she was all right but couldn't tell her mother where she was Mrs Aldridge testified said she was being treated love you Tell daddy I love i- him I love all of Tammy No one spoke to the family ex-: cept Tammy Aldridge when the two calls were received and there was never any mention of ransom It was a little over six years later before there was an arrest in the case The defense lawyers said they i had received immunity from fi eral authorities The state denied they have been given immunity Teague has no criminal record the defense told the jury in winding up its opening statement and is no physical evidence whatsoever connecting Paul Teague to this Rewards totaling $11000 have been offered for an arrest and conviction in the case but no one has made any claim for it to date Qualls testified Qualls will be recalled to the stand later in the trial by the state and the defense reserved its cross-examination of him until then Nine witnesses took the stand Thursday All but Mrs Aldridge and a former department dispatcher were department or SBI invesigators in the case Company Is Fined In Cave-In Herald Raleigh bureau RALEIGH A Raleigh com-' pany has been assessed penalties totaling $5530 by the state De-it of Labor in connection partment i I Butner Officers Have Varied Duties In A Unique Town SJ ridge was found lying partially in the road on NX! 54 about 2H miles south of Graham A passing motorist saw what he thought was a body and went to nearby motel and called the department An investigation revealed she died from strangulation and had been raped Her hair was wet and she was wearing the jogging shorts and top she left home wearing But the shorts were on nwnwiy OMUHe VSI backwards and the top was inside out Her legs were bound togeth er Officers MV Hobgood JV home for about 900 mentally -handicapped residents the Whitaker School which runs a Willie program for mentally- handicapped children the CA Dillon School under the NC Division of Youth Services Urn- stead Correctional Center which -keeps youthful first offenders a federal correctional Institute for adults and an Alcoholic Reha- bilitation Center The state owns about 15000 acres in the town of Butner in-eluding the land on which the -brand new Butner public safety office sits Alligood reports to the NC Department of Crime Control and Public Safety which pays the salaries of all 38 of the officers plus five telecommuni- cators and a secretary Alligood supervises both police and fire with Kornegay and Bla- lock providing expertise in each area The officers moved last year from a barrack that had been with an August cave-in near Re- search Triangle Park in which a Selnut man was killed Morris Rowland Utility Inc' was cited by the department for three violations of regulations Assistant Labor Commissioner Charles Jeffress said Thursday is a serious willful viola- tion for not sloping the sides of the trench or not otherwise shor- ing up the Jeffress said As part of the violation the com- pany was cited for not moving excavated material at least two feet from the trench and not 1- providing a means of escape The department assessed a 35040 penalty for the violation Jeffress said the department Technical College in Charlotte that Saturday Mrs Aldridge said her daughter told her she was going to borrow her bicycle and take a ride on roads and lanes near their home in the rural Deep Creek Church community where she often jogged Mrs Aldridge and her husband Jimmy learned later she get the bike because the tires were flat and she went jogging instead By 4 pm her daughter returned and Mrs Aldridge became worried She called around the neigh-- borhood asking if anyone had seen her along the route she usu- ally took when jogging No one had ana Mrs Aldridge telephoned the Alamance County Department about 5 pm to report her missing A search with a bloodhound ended after the dog tracked to a 1 spot on Hie dirt portion of nearby stopped Barnwell Road and just i according to testimony from LL Daniel Qualls who has led the in-- vestigation into Ms Alligood But changing hats from police- man to fireman is only one factor that makes law enforce- ment different from other towns Officers also carry out some duties that would stretch the imaginations of ordinary city-run of their duties: They receive an average of two calls per day reporting missing patients from several of the local institutions The institutions are required to call the telecommunications -officer if a patient is not where Just in case the department Is equipped with maps and grids and an advanced radio communication system A helicopter is even available to assist in searches Fortunately officers conducted an all-out search for a patient since June 1984 That one took more than 48 hours Butner also has the only 1000-yard firing range in this headquarters -v' Thieves New equipment has already been ordered and is due by Fed- eral Express at noon today But will take about a week to be wired properly Myers said Among the items taken was a Harris console a Diplomat con sole two micro track arms and tape drives Myers said he received about calls from other radio stations during the day Thursday offer- A-iTe 1 to Tend equipment The stolen items were insured added He said the items were prob-10 ably stolen by professional thieves who take orders and then steal them knew what they were he said was not a vandalism They took everything needed to run a radio station the exception of the he said Sheriff Ernest Dixon said late Thursday there are no suspects the robbery rested on Jul9rt his apartment in San Jose At the time Tammy Aldridge disappeared Teague was living in Alamance County in a house at the site of an old girl scout camp off NC 54 with his half-brother JD Pickering according to investigators who testified Thursday However in opening stated ments Thursday morning Prosecutor Steve Balog said none of the physical evidence In the state's case connects Teague to the disappearance and death of Tammy Aldridge Balog said two state witnesses will testify the defendant told them he committed the crimes against Ms Aldridge Craig Thompson one of lawyers said cast of characters who will testify for the state are pimps prostitutes and drug users" The state told the jury the wit nesses they say will implicate Teague have drug charges 1 (MH pMm kv HnM Mural Ramsey check fire truck part of the original military camp (Camp Butner) built in 1942 The brand new building has five times as much space They spend about 10 percent of their time answering calls to private citizens who make their home in Butner About three years ago the General Assembly required private citizens to pay 20 cents on the 3100 valuation for police and fire service which makes up about 10 percent of the budget The public safety officers also keep track of 12 industries and 80 at last including the 600-acre Dutch Village shopping center near Inter- 1 state 85 They are proud their community is growing and with that growth their duties become even more diversified ever-changing just about Alligood said Roman said too early to tell about the survival of the hand although at this point our survival rate is about 85 or 90 Ruth was in satisfactory condition at the hospital Thursday night The surgeons used a microscope and tiny instruments to reattatch the hand Koman said that Ruth should start wiggling his fingers in two days but that it would take months for him to get feeling back in them Detective Sgt Furman sir Mason said thelnvestigation is continuing into the fight but no filed charges have been! Of Triple Slaying Grimes of Corinth and Garland Thomas Williams of Apex The bodies of the three men were found at bar on Feb 12 All three men suffered 22-caliber gunshot wounds to the head and 38-caliber gunshot wounds to the chest By MARY BETH STARR Herald staff writer BUTNER The officers ar- rived just in time to extinguish the fire in a trash can on a ward in John Umstead Hospital The hospital houses about 800 mentally ill patients and the officers were relieved it was a -small fire that could be easily extinguished Leaving the hospital they received a call on their car radio Moments later the officers were on their way to the Central Caro-lina Bank to answer an armed robbery call Public safety officers wear two hats In Butner which is home to All seven state-run institutions AL officers are certified in both police and fire investigation As they make their police rounds officers carry fire gear in their trunks The trash can fire and robbery call happened within minutes of each other se several years ago said Public Safety Director Ron CapL Cadi Harris leaves new $20000 Worth Radio Taken By ROXBORO WRXO and WKRX radio stations began broadcasting eight minutes late on Thursday morning after about 920000 worth of equip ment was stolen overnight Harry Myers program director for the station said it took about an hour to get a remote van set up and some borrowed equip- AM and ment in place Both the FM radio stations broadcast the same things on Thursday That rinf made for interesting woiking conditions with two production people and the radio news staff all working out of the same small room using one turntable Mirars expected by late Thursday to have the two stations operating separately after a new piece of rauipment that by the thieves is hooked taken up Myers said they took every-' would be iperath tion ana called the robbery it 10 1 ing he with in section of the country and cers from the Navy National Guard and other police and sher-' departments come fromv near ana far to use it A specially trained range offi-' cer at the Butner Public Safety Department coordinates use of the range and other ranges so people are not firing at each other Officers in Butner use the range two weeks of the year for their own training For safety reasons use of the 4500 acres near the ranges is limited during hunting season Speaking of hunting season telecommunicators in the Butner public safety office are specially trained to check and tag deer that are killed nearby Hunters who are required to check in big game they km only bring the deer when they locate a wildlife officer on the game lands but telecommunicators still check 20 or 25 deer a season Alligood said 4 -o Officers also make from 25 to 30 trips per month to NC Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill to transport patients to John Um stead Hospital Officers are espe-th the cially trained to work with patients but they still have vary- ing experiences with the patients -1 on the 40-mile trip John Blalock fire chief for the public safety office is re-sponsible for three to five fire drills per day in the institutions He also coordinates extensive training programs teaching supervisors how to use fire extinguishers or deal with a fire in a Public safety officers take their responsibilities seriously said Police Chief LE Kornegay A regular hospital has a life has ard of 300 to 400 patients he said That means if a disaster were to occur that many patients could die The number of people at the Butner institutions including staff is 20 times larger and many of the residents are not physically able to walk away from a disas i disaster scene Kornegay said Besides John Umstead Hospi- tal Butner Also is home to Mur-' doch Center which provides a Where To Call -To offer a news tip a news 1 Item or a story idea please call the Durham Morning Her-ad news desks: In Durham 682-8181 In Chapel Hill 967-6581 In Research Triangle Parti 544-4541 In Raleigh 834-2850 Elsewhere In North Carolina 1-800-672-0061 Man Convicted And RALEIGH (AP) An Orange County man was found guilty of three counts of first-degree murder Thursday while a Durham County woman was found innocent of killing three men at a tavern near Ai rn near Apex A Wake Superior County jury returned the verdicts against also assessed a 3490 penalty against the company for a "seri- violation for failure to in-' struct each employee about safety prodecutes No penalty was assessed for a violation of having no one on the site with first aid training Jeffress said the penalties -were large but not the maxi- mum The maximum penalty for WfcOOO a willful violation is 9x0000 Thomas Alfred Sprouse 27 was killed Aug 4 when one side of a 15-foot deep trench in which he was working on Chin Page Road collapsed Sprouse was helping install a sewer line Another worker suffered a broken ankle in the cave-in according to the Labor Department death was one of four across the state in less than six weeks attributed to cave-ins the department said Ground Broken At Eton College For Arts Center ELON COLLEGE Elon lege officially began construction of a 37 million fine arts center on the campus near Burlington oundbreaki: Thursday with a groi ceremony -J Fred Young president of Elon said as the dirt was turned is an historic occa ing sion in the life of Eton den will The fine-arts center whic be the size of a football field is expected to be completed in 1987 It will have a 600-seat auditorium a 125-seat recital hall two -art galleries 24 music studio- -practice rooms a large rehearsal room and faculty offices The real work of construction is slated to begin next Thursday Elon officials said the planning for the fine arts center actually began a decade ago Money to pay for it have been raised in two sweeping fundraising PRIDE I from 1976 to 1979 and PRIDE II which ended in May when a goal of 385 million was reached Young said building will not belong to Elon College aione It will belong to everyone who is excited by ideas It will espe- whe helped to make it possible-donors friends faculty parents and alumni" He said it will be a fitting lo-1 cale for the 60 to 70 cultural and intellectual events offered at Elon annually and other events Alamance County has been una- ble to accomodate- Doctors Reattach Hand Man Lost During Fight WINSTON-SALEM (AP) Baptist Hospital surgeons Thursday reattached a Winston-Salem hand that had been cut off in a fight Wednesday night and said the chances of success were high The left hand of William Ruth 20 was cut off at the wrist with a machete during an argu- ment said Officer SL Eaton of the Winston-Salem Police Department Ruth was taken to Baptist Hos-Jital where Dr Andrew pital Koman i the orthopedics man Gray School of Medicine reattatched the hand were able to replant i an associate professor in i section of Bow- Woman Acquitted Alton Garner Green 45 of Ef- land and Debra Ann Blanken- -ship 30 after deliberating since Monday Green and Ms Blankenship were charged with murder in the ting deaf shooting deaths of Charlie Ray Johnson of Apex Jimmy Ray.