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| ^ gamecoL, # South CaroHna't Best College Newtpaper t (y Volume LXX. No. "72 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. April 3, 19B1 Solicitc From Staff Reports Fifth Solicitor James C. Anders said yesterday he will seek the death penalty against a 20-year-old man accused of killing a USC education professor last i mnHfk IllVftlUI. Donald Ray Perry of 1520 Crossland Road has been hospitalized since March 9, when he was judged too ill to stand for a bond hearing in connection with the shooting death of Mary J. Heimberger. Perry should be released from S.C. State Hospital Tuesday or Wednesday, Anders said, and a preliminary hearing should be held within the next two weeks. The case should be ready for trial by early June, Former I n nuibeb n By Stephen Rkldell Editor As a nurse in George Washington Univei intensive care unit, Debbie Augsbach serve all walks of life. But Tuesday, the USC College of Nursing g a special patient-President Ronald Reagan. Augsbach said that when she went to worl ning, she expected a typical day in the intei But when a gunman's bullet hit Reagan and io me nospiiai ior treatment, that changed < said. 4'WHEN THEY brought him in, it created a Augsbach said. "I work days and was about but they asked all the nurses to stay bees rearrange all the patients in the unit." Augsbach said a nurse asked her if she was overtime. "I told her, sure,'" theSuffrin, N.\ "I anticipated that I would continue wo patient 1 had before the president came in. nurse told me I was going to have the presidei stomach was going to drop to my knees," she i Augsbach has been working in the hospital': unit for about 13 months. "I'm not sure why serve as the president's nurse," she said. "T1 nurses on duty at the time who had more senic "They said I was personable, but not too pu what they wanted," she said. "I was supposed to start taking care o! Monday night, but they kept him in the recov* than usual," Augsbach said. "I spent the who Tuesday. He was transferred out that night,": AUGSBACH SAID she treated Reagan as i any other patient who had the same physical the president, but he is a human being too," sY Alternative Rep. Ernest Nunnery >r seeks Anders said. ANDERS SAID the solicitor's office contacted Robert Nance, Perry's courtappointed attorney, yesterday afternoon and told him the death penalty would be sought. But Nance said there is some confusion nUiit tu? J 1-! auvui urc ?uiiv;iiui 9 IRX18IUI1. "I've gotten information that they wouldn't seek the death penalty, and then that they would," Nance said. "I don't think I should say anything else, because the man (Perry) is still in the State Hospital." Heimberger, a 44-year-old elementary education professor, was found partially J SC stud onald Re 'When the head nui SaS3tS solng to have t, J , J thought my stoma* [raduate served , drop to my knees. k Monday mor- j isive care unit. * he was brought everything, she Reagan didn't eat regular Augsbach. "His meals came u sure whether the food came fn big commotion',' but it sure didn't look like a vera : to go off duty, "All I was really concerned a men UfA ko/] oIIauia^ />r*f inkn mnn iu4jv ?tv unu 11/ ani/tttvi iu cai miai wao wn liic t The 1979 USC graduate said willing to work president's nurse. "White Hoi r., native said. room at all times, but they die rking with the care of the president while he When the head said. it, I thought my Augsbach said Reagan's sec said. his hospital stay. The presid s intensive care Augsbach said she did not recoj I was chosen to to meet the president's family,' lere were other ritythanme. DURING HER time spent \ ishy. And that's said she was most impressed 1 for others wounded in the sY f the president Hilton Hotel. ?ry room longer "He wasn't concerned about I le day with him the others. You could tell that i she said. deep down. It showed me that I pedestal," she said. sue vvuuiu ucai nu^duaui dciiu iwtigcfil nc\ problem. "He's throughout the ordeal. "He jok le said. all the time. That helped me rel to CHE prop I By Teresa K. Wee Now* Editor A state representative taking steps to a on Higher Education will propose an a supervisory board next week to a Ho committee. Rep. Ernest Nunnery, D-Chester, inti caning tor immediate elimination of the c not initially propose any alternative ide - I iiniversities and colleges. The lawmal B establishment of a joint legislative co II education. , The legislative committee outlined by t j be comprised of the House Ways and Mea House Finance Committee chairman, cha Senate education committees, designates Senate and two or three gubernatorial app :;$m NIJNNKRY snid hp hplipvps sn/'h a 1 better represent interests of all instituti Mi? legislator's major criticism of the commi isn't capable of understanding individual ||t^ referred to the commission as a ' 'superflu "At this point in time, the commissior (lltl people are questioning what the member "The commission just is not listene< Kgl regulating. "This system is just obviously not worl Carolina is a legislative state, and in k< legislative state, the legislature should 1 over state schools." death p clothed in woods near U.S. Highway 321 and 1-20, dead from a single gunshot wound in the chest. Perry was arrested two days later at his home in connection with the shooting. WHEN HE appeared before Circuit Judge John Grimball at the bond hearing, Perry needed the aid of deputies to stand because he was shaking. He was taken to Richland Memorial Hospital and the hearing was postponed. He was later sent to the State Hospital for evaluation. In addition to the murder charge, Perry is accused of kidnapping, armed robbery agan rse told me / was WMWmSk be president, / ch was going to Debbie Augsbach ^lis hospital food, according to p on a silver platter. I'm not <3 >m downstairs or the outside, ge hospital food. bout was making sure he was ray," she said. she spent eight hours as the use nurses were outside the In't have the training to take was in intensive care," she urity was stepped up during lent did have visitors, but gnize most of them. "I did get 'she said. vith the president, Augsbach h?v Rpn0an'<! ffpnuinp cnnfprn looting outside Washington's Augsbach s himself, he was worried about she'll never fc it wasn't put on, it came from but had to m; le was human and not up on a sorry to see hii taking care of rer lost his sense of humor The preside] :ed and hit me with one-liners was witty anc ax," she said. know him. It's >osed H ibolish the state Commission lternative to that statewide p VW^&rt use Ways and Means sub- ^ ^ roduced a bill in February | . ommission. However, he did | as for panels to guide state | i ter is now suggesting the | '1 / mmittee to oversee higher I he 1972 USC graduate would ns Committee chairman, the iirman of both the House and from both the House and the legislative committee could u ; r ; ons of higher learning. The ; ^ ssion has been that the panel mto schools' needs. He has often i has gotten to a state where s are doing," Nunnery said. jfflffl",. ; i to bv the agencies it's king," Nunnery said. "South jeping with the policies of a lave this supervisory power penalty and first degree criminal sexual assault. Doctors at the State Hospital will determine if Perry is sane and capable of assisting his attorney during trial. tt?l il * neimuerger, an oniy cmia, is survived by her father, Charles J. Heimberger. She was born Feb. 9, 1937 in Erie, Pa., and received a doctorate in elementary education from the University 01 Pittsburgh, where she specialized in reading and language arts. Heimberger was an associate professor at the University of New York at Brockport before becoming an assistant professor at USC in the fall of 1978. .y yyy.-. Debbie Augsbach aid nursing the president was an experience >rget. "I wanted to ask him for his autograph, aintain my professionalism. In a way, I was m transferred out of the unit. 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