The Morning News from Wilmington, Delaware • Page 25

Ufa i tu rn ft mw yvrv t- The News-Journal papers Wilmington, Del. Thursday, March 6, 1 986 Weather, B2 Lotteries, B2 Obituaries, B7 Business, B10 DIMM! SECTION ewide paramedic service is studied Most paramedic units would field station wagons or similar vehicles. "This isn't a competing service. It would be dual response," Nabb said. Paramedics are trained in advanced life support techniques, and are permitted to administer drugs and intravenous fluids under a doctor's direction.

Most ambulance services in Kent and Sussex counties deliver more basic care, although both counties can now call on helicopter-borne Delaware State Police See PARAMEDICS B6 By JEFF MONTGOMERY Dover Bureau reporter DOVER A state panel is weighing a plan for a statewide paramedic network that would operate in tandem with the more basic services already offered by Delaware ambulance groups. The new service to be provided to patients without charge would cost about $4 million yearly by the end of its four-year phase-in, according Charles Nabb, director of the state's Office of Emergency Medical Services. A Delaware Emergency Medical Ser grams under a contract with the state, Nabb said. But the city and county would have to accommodate state program standards, decisions about base locations and plans for coverage areas. "There have been preliminary conversations about it, but it's really in its infant stages," said New Castle County Executive Rita Justice.

"I told them we'd be receptive to talking about it and discussing it. The final outcome would be be contingent on the arrangements and whether or not it would be beneficial to the people of New Castle County." Nabb said Sussex County would require four state paramedic units, and Kent two more, for statewide coverage. The first crews would be assigned to Sussex. Eventually, the network would require a staff of 44, including paramedics and administrative support, in addition to the city and county staffs. Under the proposal, local services and independently stationed and dispatched state paramedics would answer calls for serious injuries or illnesses.

vices Advisory Council committee, composed of emergency department directors from hospitals statewide, already has endorsed the idea, Nabb said. The full council could consider the plan and forward it to the governor and General Assembly as early as next month. "We're identifying ways of funding the program that would not require tax money," Nabb said, pointing out that the phase-in could start as early as July 1. New Castle County and the city of Dover, which already maintain paramedic services, would be asked to continue their pro Draft rules on solid waste called worthless lllfl lp 'mmmmmmm ment. But the attorney general's office also has suggested that permits already granted may not be legal.

A hearing about Harvey Harvey's permit amendment was postponed until the rules question is settled. The firm has appealed that postponement decision to the Environmental Appeals Board. Erhart said John E. Wilson III, secretary of the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, is leaving it up to the attorney general's office to defend the delay in Harvey Harvey's request. The transfer station rules have gone through several drafts over two years, said division officials who noted that the subject has been pushed to the side in part by preoccupation with hazardous wastes.

Erhart said the proposed rules "appear to be a carefully designed facade" of regulation covering "a dangerous activity." The real deficiency is that the rules package lacks enforcement measures, he said. For instance, the rules should authorize state inspectors to check the trash to make sure it contains nothing illegal. His laundry list of improvements also included requirements for: Full-time state inspectors, stationed at each site with salaries paid by each station's operator. A fire control plan. An operating manual.

Registration of haulers using the stations. Regular reports from each station, telling the state how much garbage is moving through the station, what's in it and where it's coming from. Stall photo by Pat Crowe By NANCY KESLER Dover Bureau reporter Solid waste regulations proposed by the state to govern trash transfer stations "are virtually worthless," a Department of Justice spokesman said Wednesday night. Deputy Attorney General William Erhart strongly criticized the draft rules at a state Division of Air and Waste Management hearing. Jacob Kreshtool, head of the Delaware Citizens for Clean Air, and several people who have objected to a Newport transfer station operated by Harvey Harvey shared Erhart's displeasure with the rules.

The proposed rules set standards for operating trash transfer stations where collected garbage is reorganized and compacted before being taken for disposal to prevent air and water pollution, rodent problems and other environmental hazards. The rules would require operators to submit detailed construction plans and comprehensive written plans for operating their stations safely. Such transfer stations are located in all three counties. Problems with state regulations of many types of solid waste including the transfer stations were spotlighted last month. The attorney general's office at that time told the division it couldn't amend a trash transfer station permit for Harvey Harvey because there were no rules for how a permit application should be made or whether it should be given.

The division issues permits based on its broad authority, granted by state law, to protect the environ Repair work that may rekindle neighborhood spirit is under way at 29th Street and Northeast Boulevard. Overpass repair is a symbol of hope and Colonial School District officials are planning to reopen Martin Luther King Elementary School. "I think it's great," said Gale Gladney, director of Eastlawn Area Human Services. "They're finally doing something to help generate some interest in this part of the city." Work on the overpass to be done mostly on weekends is expected to take about three weeks, city engineers said. The deck will be removed, repaired and replaced.

Traffic on the boulevard during weekends See OVERPASS B8 and an elementary school. The overpass was built in 1973, but fell into disrepair after the school, the shopping center and other businesses closed. People said the bridge signified the collapse of the community and the lack of interest city officials had in that part of Wilmington. Now the bridge is becoming a symbol of revitalization for the area. Over the weekend, half of the deck of the bridge was removed in the first part of a $20,000 refurbishing job.

In addition, two new businesses are opening along the highway, By ROY H. CAMPBELL Staff reporter The overpass at 29th Street and Northeast Boulevard is considered by some to be the bridge that school children built. In 1971 scores of youngsters spilled across the highway, halting rush-hour traffic for four hours. They were led by a contingent including William "Hicks" Anderson, director of Project Act. The children and their parents staged the protest to have a pedestrian walkway built over the highway, which linked two important parts of the community: a shopping center the region Handicapped tots' mothers plead for more nurses said Margo Pollak, director of the mental retardation division, under which the early intervention program falls.

The mothers came ready to change that. Fay Rust and Joanne Cox told the committee of their experiences as mothers of infants born prematurely. They brought petitions signed by 1,500 people statewide and a poster reading: "Premies, Too Small, Too Soon." Rust is a member of Parents for the Support of Premature and Handicapped Children of Sussex County; Cox is president of Premies of Northern Delaware Inc. "Early intervention determined that my son had water on his brain, and he was placed into a special education program," Cox said. "The nurse who is really responsible for that was the only support my family had." See CHILDREN B3 Social Services' proposed $264 million budget for fiscal 1987.

Budgets proposed by the department and the governor don't include funding for more developmental nurse specialists. The nurses help families with their disabled infants and toddlers under the early intervention program. "We have not provided for the positions in this budget, but it is in our long-range plans," By LORRAINE KIDD Staff reporter Five mothers of handicapped toddlers petitioned the Joint Finance Committee on Wednesday to hire more trained nurses for the state's early childhood intervention program. The committee wrapped up two days of hearings on the Department of Health and Missing coin dealer surrenders to police HUD office change? The federal Department of Housing and Urban Development has proposed closing its Wilmington office at 800 Delaware Ave. as a cost-cutting measure.

Delaware operations would be handled at HUD's Philadelphia office. Written comments will be accepted until March 26 by Assistant Administrator Judith L. Tardy, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, D.C., 20410. The Wilmington office handled 736 applications for Federal Housing Administration single-family home loans in the past fiscal year, compared with 13,594 at the Philadelphia office.

WHYY given OK SEAFORD The Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday signed approval for the license of WDPB-TV (Channel 64) to be awarded to WHYY-TV (Channel 12), pending agreement between the Delaware Citizens Committee (licensee for Channel 64) and WHYY. Earlier this month, WHYY assumed operation of the Seaford station. A financial crisis forced WDPB to cease operating in mid-December. About 50,000 Sussex County and southern Kent County households now receive WHYY on Channel 64. Suspect enters plea Vincent L.

Perry 51, of West Chester, pleaded not guilty Wednesday in Superior Court to charges of first-degree murder, conspiracy and weapon possession in the death of a federal drug informant, whose body was found last May behind the Christiana Mall. Perry, a meat merchant, and two other Pennsylvania men are charged with killing Christopher Walker, 22, of Linwood, Pa. The trial is scheduled for mid-June. I If If it i I IT i -J? -i-mitram aiwrrn VSimuH Paramedic unit lacked equipment Obituar for Mr. Barone, B7 By SERGIO BUSTOS Staff reporter New Castle County officials are investigating why a paramedic unit lacked necessary equipment when it was called to aid a heart attack victim Tuesday afternoon.

The county-run paramedic unit arrived in front of the General Motors Corp. plant on Boxwood Road at 2:07 p.m. to help James J. Barone of Cleland Heights. Barone, 67, who was accompanied by his wife, had suffered a heart attack while driving his car.

While en route to the scene, the unit discovered that a defibrillator was missing. They immediately called for a backup unit to supply them with the device, which is routinely used as a last resort to revive heart attack victims through electric shock charges to the chest, said Shaul Gladstone, director of the county's Department of Public Safety. The backup unit arrived at 2:13 p.m., Gladstone said. After administering the standard emergency procedures, the unit used the defibrillator at 2:22 p.m. in See PARAMEDIC B5 Officials seized Jaquett's business records, and the federal Internal Revenue Service clamped a lock on the place for non-payment of about $10,000 in employee witholding money, according to Robert B.

Bran-deberry, official liquidator of the business. Brandeberry sold the building to' Wilmington developer Richard-E. Stat last month for $87,000, after satisfying the federal tax lien. Last year, consumer affairs investigator Gail Skeen said Jaquett had allegedly "accepted and taken orders for gold coins, and money on deposit for those coins, and failed to deliver them to customers." She also said Jaquett allegedly sold a coin collection for a customer, but that the owner never was paid. Stoner added that police suspect Jaquett of issuing an invalid $1,300 check for jewelry, and of taking about $4,000 from a customer for South African gold Krugerrands, but never delivering the coins.

Deputy state Attorney General' Christopher Curtin said in October, "We're talking about $45,000 in alleged stolen money, stamps and gold coins. By PHIL MILFORD Staff reporter Wilmington police say fugitive philatelist Hance Jaquett wanted on an assortment of theft charges and sought for more than seven months, turned himself in Wednesday. The 68-year-old Penns Grove, N.J., resident, who owned the now-defunct Delaware Stamp Coin Co. at 810 N. Orange walked into the New Castle County Sheriff's office about 10 a.m.

and surrendered, police said. Jaquett did not offer any explanation of where he's been since his disappearance July 22. Detective Sgt. Ronald G. Stoner said Jaquett was released Wednesday afternoon on $7,000 unsecured bail.

Stoner said Jaquett was charged in previously filed warrants with 11 counts of felony theft, one count of misdemeanor theft and two counts of issuing a bad check. The charges relate to allegedly absconding with customers' money or stamp and coin collections. Jaquett operated the Orange Street coin shop for almost 20 years. Last July 22, the state Division of Consumer Affairs and Wilmington police raided the building as part of a theft investigation. Staff photo by Chuck McGowerv I lance Jacquett Sr.

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