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THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY VohKmM.No.1t U?PS48Mlt Hwltord, Etrqui?n?ra Cnwfy# W.C., Thursday, MAR, 11, \H2 20 CENTS Police arrest man in knifing A Hertford nil ittecM a woman with a knife Wednesday of last weak following a domeatie argument. Hertford Police report The woman, Shirley Cooper of 2M King Street, waa treated and released from Chowan Hospital after Buffering cuts above her left eye. on her left cheek, neck and upper chest. Police arrested Johnnie Lee Bishop, 37, of Route 1. Hertford, forcibly restraining him after he allegedly attempted to resist Hertford Police Capt. Robert Morris. He waa charged with aaaault with a. deadly weapoo inflicting serious bodily injury and resisting arrest. Police believe Bishop attacked Cooper at the residence of Beasie Fere bee at 109 King Street. According to police. Bishop attacked her 'with a pocket knife at about 3 p.m. that day after an argument broke out between the two. ?' Morris arrested Bishop at the scene of the crime. The suspect waa released on |7S0 bond. Police also arrested three Hertford men after a fight in the alley behind the Pin ball Palace on Church Street last February 24. Zachery Derryll Madre, II, of Route 3. Hertford, and Mark Allen Lane IS of Route 3. Hertford were charged with a aimple affray, and Charles Eddie Wharton, 24, of Route 3 Hertford was charged with aaaault and battery. Police believe an argument bet ween Madre and the other two men in the amuaement center led to the fight in the alley at about ? p.m. According to police, the other two men accuaed Madre of being a police informant. All three were released on their own recognizance. Holiday Is. tinman comnuts suicide Mrs. Barbara Ann Ashley Everett, 29, of M Tranquility Lane. Holiday Island, was found at her home Saturday between 5-5:15 p.m. after ^ she allegedly shot herself in the head * with a. 22 callbur pistol. Perquimans County Sheriff Julian Broughton found Everett after receiving a call of suspicious ac tivities. Everett died enroute to ? Chowan Hospital. Broughton said an investigation is continuing. ' A native of Norfolk, Virginia, Everett had resided in Holiday Island I for the past seven years. She was the widow of the late Harry Warner Everett, Sr. Surviving her are her father, Horace P. Ashley, Jr. and step mother, Mrs. Joyce Ann Ashley of Norfolk; a stepson, Harry W. Everett. Sr. of Chesapeake; a half sister, Miss Shirley Ann Ashley of Norfolk; a brother. Horace Clifton Ashley of Norfolk; her paternal grandmother. > Mrs. Nina W. Ashley of Norfolk; and ? her maternal grandmother. Mrs. Nannie Holdzskom of Norfolk. ' , A graveside service will be held on Thursday at 1 p.m. at the Rosewood Memorial Park in Virginia Beach. Graham Funeral Home of South ., Norfolk is in charge. Fighting a mysterious, deadly ailment ^ t. ' ?" * William Kempingcr SIDS stumps physicians By SUSAN HAUUS Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is a killer of infanU that strikes like ? thief in the night, leaving no apparent cause for the death of its young victim. Although SIDS has been around since Biblieal times and has been called overlaying, crib death, and cot death, scientists still have been unsuccessful in finding its cause. There are no warning signs of SIDS. making it impossible to predict or prevent the kilter of 8,000-10,000 infants in the U.S. per year. The typical SIDS victim fea perfectly healthy baby between one and ail months of fcge who is put to bed as usual, then found dead at a later time. The autopsy reveals no cause of death, and another loss of life is credited to the unexplainable syndrome. What is known about SIDS is that It is not hereditary or contagious nor Is it caused by suffocation, aspiration or regurgitation. It attacks males more often than females. Macks more often than whites. It has alao been determined thai the parents' ages, feeding technique*, child's position in the family, nutrition, prenatal care, care of the child, education or marital status of the parents have no bearing on SIDS. Death appears to be very sud den, and because (he children do not cry, doctors feel that there is no pain. There are several theories of SIDS' cause presently being studied. Hopefully these theories will lead to the prevention of the syndrome. The moat promising of the new hypotheses is that SIDS is caused which Is prwaat in normal infants, hot is more prominent hi SIDS children. When it is determined that a child has respiratory problems and is a likely SIDS victim, the child may be hooked np to ? monitor when he sleeps. This monitor signals when the child haa stopped breathing, so that the parent can wake Mai up which automatically stimulates his breathing. (QmOmmdmpvl) NC 2000 holds public hearing The public meeting of the Perquimans County NC 2000 attracted only It persona, but if one goes by the quality, rather than the quantity of participation the meeting could be considered a successful start (Or Govorner Janes Hunts' program to invite citiaeos to suggest plana for the twenty-first century. The meeting was abort on the very citizens the govorner wants to In clude, but present were several community leaders who by their positions add some clout to the county's meeting. Among the people there were state representative Charlei Evans, County School Superintendent Pat HarreB. County Democratic Party Chairman Estelle FeKon, County Commtlilo? r W.W. White, former tows councilman Erie Haste, and county NC MM committee co chairman R.S. lfonds. The other co chairman, Hertford Mayor Bill Cox, was una We to attend because of a last minute engagMM% ' The program for this meeting was largely background information on what is to be expected to this county and the atate by the year MM. (OMih?dmpwS) Woodville boy struggles with sudden infant death syndrome By SUSAN HABBIS Watching Willi* m Kempinger it like watching other young children at play until you realise that William is 40 months old. Small for his age, William has only learned to walk and talk within the past eight months. If you listen you can hear his labored breathing aa he plays. The son of Frank and Paulette Kempinger. William weighed 2 pounds 1 ounce at his premature birth on November IS. 1978. The Kempingers took their young son home on January 24. but within six dayf had to return William to the hospital where he stayed until February 16 Mrs. Kempinger noticed as soon as she brought William home that his breathing was abnormal, and that he had a very feeble cry. That was the beginning of the rollercoaster ride for the Kem pingers that still has not ended. In October 1M0 William had his first real crisis. Although the pediatricians at Albemarle Hospital stayed by his bed all night long, they were at a loss to find William's problem. Within 41 hours of his admission to the hospital, William was in full respiratory distress. After being transferred to Kings Daughters, William turned blue, his heart failed and his liver was enlarged. Again, the doctors could not pinpoint his problem. Mrs. Kempinger knew it had something to do with his breathing, but she could not convince the doctors of her theory . ^ . Ik desperation, she taped William's breathing and played it for the doctors at Kings Daughters oa a subsequent visit, who then realized he did not breathe like a normal child. William was transferred by air ambulance to the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, one of only two SIDS institutes in the country. In Baltimore, doctors who have studied apaea in children examiaed William. He was labeled a potential SIDS victim. Adding to William'i problems are mild cerebral palsy and being developmental^ delayed. William's trachea (breathing passageway) is two sizes too small ' for him. In an effort to clear the passageway, he has had his adenoids removed three times in the past fifteen months. Scar tissue grows extremely fast in the back of William's throat since his surgery, further blocking his already narrow airway. Because he cannot get enough oxygen through his airway, William has a build up of carbon dioxide in his bloodstream when he sleeps. When the level gets high enough, he becomes listless and fussy. William has spent several nights in a sleep lab where he is "totally wired" according to his mother, and all his functions are monitored. The findings of these tests are that William, for reasons the doctors cannot explain, wakes himself up before he gets to the point where his breathing has stopped long enough to cause death. Because he wakes himself up so often, he doesn't grow when he sleeps like normal children. Doctors discovered through ad ditional tests that William has in fact stopped growing many times. "Basically what he needs is time to grow," William's mother said. "I feel very fortunate" to still have William, she added. "This is the first time we've had real hope." That hope is thanks to the doc tors tn the SIDS institute who believed Mrs. Kempinger when she said there was something wrong with William's breathing. These doctors had the technology and training to put all the results together from the tests William had endured during his short life to come up with some answers. The treatment for William's problems are difficult to devise because, as Mrs. Kempinger said, "the wrong treatment for him could be his death." William is hooked up to a monitor when he sleeps that signals his parents when he is in respiratory trouble. William has been in and out of the SIDS institute since November, and just this week doctors requested that he check in for another eight weeks. The doctors are very concerned about William psychologically because he has spent so much of his life in a hospital away from his ffcmlly. Mrs. Kempinger said, "He's not the same baby I took in (to the hospital)." William's illness has taken1 its toll on his family. No one would listen to Mrs. Kempinger when she first noticed William's problems, which frustrated her, but also made her angry. "I did go to Baltimore very, very angry," she said. "It was the last hope, but I'm not angry any more." "The whole experience has been very, very difficult," Mrs. Kem pinger said, adding, "You keep going, you keep fighting, and you don't give up." Although they've only been in Woodville about a year, Mrs. Kempinger said the people here have been wonderful. "People have been just really, really in credible," she said. "Thank you just doesn't seem to cover it all," she said of the things people have done for them. "You can't do it alone," she admitted. The Hertford BPW is sponsoring a bake, craft, and yard sale on April 10 to raise money to help with William's tremendous medical biHs. The bake and craft sale will be on the courthouse green, and the yard sale will be on Grubb Street beside the Municipal Building. Anyone wishing to donate baked goods, crafts, or other items is encouraged to call 428-7737. Cash donations may be mailed to Route 4, Box 20, Hertford. You wouldn't be able to resist helping out if this adorable blonde haired tyke had given you the big kiss he gave me when I left him . I have to agree with William's mother: "He's just a regular kid." State mwmlitlw Charles Irani talks with dUsens tad local officials at the NC 1000 public hearing at the cooatjr Cheese distribution was a cinch The infamous cheese giveaway began and ended in Perquimans County without' a hitch, to the delight and surprise of county Social Servicea Director Paul Gregory said be had had I ?i*htmsre? about distributing the ' . I cheese, which the Department of ? I Agriculture it giving to states and counties to be passed out to food Lv v " ' v J in toe nnr line* in especially for atiockof cheese." " The Social Servlcea Department had done all the paperwork in adeaiee. Gregory said. The to distribute the food stamp family. ratherSaa "iion a flrtt-come, first-serve bad* that has caused doable elsewhere. The department mailed oat for the cheese to Town council paves Gaston Drive An additional 1,075 feet of Ganon Drive will be paved within the next few months if funda permit, the town council decided at ita regular meeting Monday night. Thirteen Gaston Drive residents attended the meeting and requested that the town extend the pavement to the driveway of the last houae on the "We've been taking about this ? long Ume." said Douglas Umphlett. Umphiett cited aeveral reasons for paving the street, among them the holes caused by Inclement weather and the dust problem that effects the "I know It's a problem." Coun cilman Jessie Harris said. "I think the board ought to try if possible to get . ? that (the paving) done this spring," he added. Of the coat of the project, Mayor and City Manager BUI Cox reported that paving a 1,075 foot Stretch with a 10 foot wide, IV* inch deep hard sur face would coat "in the neighborhood of H, 400." "I think we can handle it," Cox further stated Gaither Builders will have begun its work on the picnic shelter /parking lot complex In Missing MU1 Park by 1 p.m. on Wednesday. March 10 or will be considers* In default, according to City Manager Cox Ha added that he expects Gaither to comply with contract terms. Councilman John Biers told council that he had been approached by several citlsena asking that the through the town at high ratet of speed. Mayor Cox volunteered to look into the matter. This week Perqtdmani Union teacher Parthenia Hill if honored by the Jayceei. Turn to page inree Weather Partly clondy through Saturday, highs In the Mi and lorn in the IDs. ft 4
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