
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, May 23, 1990                   TAG: 9005230333
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PEOPLE

Roy Neill Acuff Jr., grandson of country musician Roy Acuff, admitted he began using drugs in the third grade at his sentencing on a cocaine conspiracy charge.

"This drinking and drugging has ruined my life," he told the court in Nashville Monday. "I'm sorry I got involved in it."

U.S. District Judge Thomas A. Higgins on Monday sentenced Acuff to 63 months in prison to be followed by four years of probation.

Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary says the folk group's sing-along "Puff the Magic Dragon" has two meanings, and neither is about drugs as once rumored.

"It's ostensibly a song about the moment of loss of innocence. When that moment occurs, it is sad indeed," the singer told 300 Augsburg College graduates in Minnesota . "But it's about something else. It is about the loss of our ideals."

Dorothy LeBlond, President Bush's daughter, has resigned from the Maine Office of Tourism, effective Friday, and apparently plans to move to Washington with her two children.

LeBlond, 30, has been the coordinator of meetings and conferences for the tourism office in Portland for 15 months.

She was given a send-off last week at the annual Tourism Unity Dinner, a gathering of state tourism officials. Gov. John R. McKernan gave her a dozen red roses.

LeBlond and her husband, William LeBlond, lived in Cape Elizabeth until they separated last August after an eight-year marriage. Dorothy LeBlond filed for divorce in January.

by CNB