The Island Packet from Hilton Head Island, South Carolina • 1

34 pages 3 sections WEDNESDAY JUNE 23 1993 HILTON HEAD ISLAND SOUTH CAROLINA 23 cents pthing is aggravating as calmness ISLAND PACKET Classified ads Comics Editorials Lowcountry ood Obituaries Stocks Oscar Wilae TVmovies tc II Some clearing oJj Royal welcome Partly cloudy today high in hHR Chicago fans turn out to celebrate ill the upper 80s Mild tonight Bulls' third straight NBA title tc orecast 2 A Story bS ugitive suspected in bank heist Earned spot on list By VICTOR LONG Picket staH writer A gourmet cook and fitness buff on the Top Ten ugitive list is a prime suspect in holdup of a Hilton Head Island bank The BI said Tuesday that the robbery of the NationsBank branch at Pineland Mill Shops points to Patrick Michael Mitchell 50 A two fime prison escapee he is wanted in a string of 10 bank robberies dating back to 1980 not saying he did the robbery but based on his previous activity and modus operand! we con sider him a suspect agent Den nis March said Tuesday method includes moving into an area and studying a bank for weeks or months before robbing it usually after a delivery of cash by ar mored car March said An armored car just the Hilton Head bank before noon Mon day when a man walked in wearing a Halloween mask camouflage gloves and carrying a pistol March said The disguise which included a blond wig also fit method the agent added March said Mitchell will commit a robbery about every six months March said a comparison of unsolved bank robberies throughout the Unit ed States and the description of the suspect in robbery led BI officials to suspect Mitchell March say how much was taken from the bank The BI believes Mitchell lived on or near Hilton Head for one to three months before the robbery Mitchell has been featured on the TV shows Most and A native of Ottawa Ontario Mitchell also is wanted in Canada where he is a prison escapee and for mer fugitive He was convicted in Ottawa of an April 1974 armed robbery that in volved a $700000 gold shipment He escaped in 1979 from the Glocester Penitentiary Canada where he was serving a 30 year sentence In 1983 Mitchell was convicted of robbing banks in San Diego Calif and Hot Springs Ark and of a Phoe nix Ariz department store He es caped from the Arizona State Prison at lorence in May 1986 and has been on the run since He is under indictment for the De cember 1987 armed robbery of a bank in Gainesville la His accom plice in the robbery is serving a 25 year prison sentence Wearing Ronald Reagan masks and surgical rubber gloves the rob bers broke through a glass front door (See ROBBERY back page) Patrick Michael Mitchell i JM "4R 'T1' tHBPII imHL MMlik My jaaflM irAiMMMyWMiMiu Jack Aiderman of Union Camp Corp points out company properties Tuesday on a map of southern Beaufort County during a presentation to the development committee Looking on are Tom Brechko left and John Vann Union Camp unveils plans for property By NORMA VAN AMBERG Packet staff writer As much as 30 percent of Union Camp 56000 acres of Low country land could become residential A Union Camp official for the first time Tuesday provided details about how the vast Jasper and Beaufort County holdings will be used in years to come long range land use plan calls for gradual and orderly absorp tion of carefully planned growth over 40 to 50 Union Camp official Jack Aiderman told members of Southern Beaufort Subcommittee of the Beaufort County Planning Board Nearly 40 percent of the combined 31000 eres in Beaufort County and 26000 acres in Jasper County is ex pected to remain as forest for the long term Aiderman said during a subcommittee meeting at Carswell of Carolina on William Hilton Parkway About 30 percent 16800 acres is targeted for residential and planned unit development he said About 24 percent will remain as wet lands and open space including golf (See LAND back page) tax break is rejected By RANK HELIN Special to The Packet BEAUORT An attorney for the Del Webb Corp sur prised members of the Beau fort County Council inance Committee Tuesday when he showed up to ask for a tax break for the Arizona develop ment company The committee rejected Del request after spirited debate between council mem bers who wanted to signal in terest in the potential project and those who said the concession would be premature approach some thing like this piecemeal folks See TAX back page At a glance dial 684 4397 (NEWS) on a touch tone telephone then enter a four digit code to gain access to a specific category Big dreams GUANTOU China on a wooded hill overlooking their small fishing town Lin Shou and Dong Yuanzheng stared at the sea sharing a 1 cigarette and a dream 1 2 really want to go said 21 year old Lin wearing a shirt emblazoned with the American eagle and across the chest Story 1 1 A Get the Scoop Scoop is The Island Packet's 24 hour news and information service It offers free access to Information bn a variety of subiects Including national and international news and weather sports stocks health horo scopes and entertaln ment To use Scoop (ek £: 52ya 686 NEWS National news 2040 i International news 2045 uALx ormer first lady Pat Nixon dies of lung cancer at 81 By HARRY ROSENTHAL Associated Press writer WASHINGTON or 53 years she was the loyal and uncomplaining partner in Richard triumphs and tribulations And for nearly two decades as Nixon himself noted would have to share my Pat Nixon died of lung cancer at the New Jersey home Tues day Her husband and daughters were at her side The 81 year old former first lady had suffered two strokes and nu merous lung infec tions since resignation from the White House in 1974 but she bounced back each time A heavy smoker at one Pat Nixon time she was diagnosed earlier this I Ofeif' year as having lung cancer Her death came a day after the Nixons observed their wedding anni versary at their four story town house in Park Ridge NJ President Clinton telephoned Nixon to express his sympathy and calls and telegrams flooded the Nixon office in Woodcliff Lake NJ They came from such diverse people as Ted Williams the baseball Hall of amer and a Nixon friend Pat Bu chanan the conservative columnist Roger Williams the pianist Mike Gminsky a professional basketball player for the Charlotte Hornets and prominent Democrat Pamela Harriman Mrs Nixon will be buried Saturday in California where she and Nixon met During turbulent rise in politics through the dark years of Watergate and the pain of forced resignation Pat Nixon was at her husband's side never showing in public how much it hurt resignation was harder on her than me because she thought it was a mistake to Nixon said later Julie and Tricia she thought we should fight to the In his diary about that time Nixon made this entry: at home and abroad she has always conducted herself with masterful poise and dig nity But God how she could have gone through what she does I simply Organ outcry Procurement prices vary wildly for no clear reason By BRENDA COLEMAN Associated Press writer CHICAGO The price of procuring organs for trans plants varies wildly for no clear reason said a research er who found that charges to obtain kidneys ranged from $682 to $87629 each in 1988 you have that kind of variation it leads you to ask said Roger Evans the Mayo Clinic researcher and author of a report in issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association idea here is very simply are the charges? Are they reasonable? Why is there such varia tion? How can we control that variation? And by doing so can we make transplantation more cost Evans said Tuesday in a telephone interview He analyzed 287 percent of all US transplants in 1988 the latest year for which prices for all organs were available from procurement agencies In many cases the price on a hospital bill was much greater than what an organ procurement agency charged Evans said Some transplant hospitals marked up procurement costs by 200 percent before billing patients said Evans head of health sciences research at the Mayo Clinic in (See ORGANS back page) MM jr if 9 The Associated Press Cease fire shootout: Bosnian Croat children take advantage of a cease fire Tuesday to shoot at imaginary enemy aircraft with toy guns in Busovaca near Vitez Busovaca is surrounded by Bosnian Muslim forces Muslim leaders agreed Tuesday to attend talks on a Serb Croat proposal to divide the country into three ethnic zones Story 2 A Board members want students to come first By CAROLYN GRANT Packet staff writer Beaufort County school board members want to cut $700000 from administration expenses to meet a County Council requirement to roll back a proposed 1993 94 budget But a majority of board members say they want to avoid cutting pro grams for students want to see cuts as far away' from children as said board member Beth McDermott of Beaufort The school proposed bud get has been rejected twice by the County Council which suggested most recently that a proposed 11 mill tax increase be cut to 93 mills a $700000 reduction from the proposed $524 million budget personnel and non said St Helena resident and board member William Young adding ad ministration and operations areas are where he would begin to look for (See SCHOOLS back page).