Hurd Hired as City Policeman The Mt. Vernon City Coun-

cil met in special session Tues-day night and,.in.short order, dispensed with the one item of business. l

The council voted 4-1 to hire Charles Hurd . as policeman to replace Tyree Gray, Jr., who had-resigned earlier following some' dissension among police officers and with city council members. *

Mr. Gray had indicated that he would accept his job back if the council so desired and Ernie Tolle, councilman and Gray's brother-in-law, suggested rehir-ing'Gray. But, Councilman Tom Welch made a motion to hire Hurd and Bob Jasper seconded

the motion with the remaining two council members present, Roger McClure and Co'nard Par-rett. voting,yes. . .. .

Mr. Hurd, 30. is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Pete Hurd of Mt. Vernon and resides with his wife in Mt. Vernon.

Hurd has recently been taW ing electrical vocational train-ing.

Last week, the council hired James E. Durham, 23, of Wildie as a policeman.

Durham is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lamey Durham and Is married to the former Joy Par-sons. He has been attending Sue Bennett College in London.

Kim Vorbeck

ijmww Mt. Vernon, Kentucky 40456 Volumn 91- Number 52 Thursday August 28,1980

Local Citizens VoicQpears Concerning

Possible Toxic Waste Disposal Plant

Wayne Stewart, right, was presented with the annual Everette.C. Brown Memorial Award at Monday night's meeting of the Rockcastle Im-provement Council. The presentation was made by Clyde Llnville, chairman of this year's selection committee. Mr. Stewart was recognized for his

Judgem^!?+« by Court

contribution to the improvem...... _J«dskcastle County. In addition to being a member of the board of the Improvement Council, Mr. Stewart Is also a director of the Rockcastle County Hospital and a board member of Kentucky Highlands Investment Corp.

Linda Allen of Route 2; Livingston has been awarded $204,550 ior damages -in .the death of her husband and son who were killed in a car acci-dent on the-Red Hill Road May '3, 1979.

Mrs. Allen filed suit against Henry Eugene Maupi.i for ne-gligence in the use. operation and control of a motor vehicle" while pursuing. In a hostile manner, Ella Maupin and caus-ing the vehicle Ms. Maupin was< operating to collide with the vehicle owned and operated by Benny Allen.

Janice Burnett of Route 2. Mt. Olivet was awarded $100. 500 in compensatory damages suffered from an accident in which the car she was operating was struck in the rear by a tractor-trailer truck operated by David McFarland for the Newman and Pemberton Truck-ing Firm.

The accident occurred June 30. i!>78 eight miles north «>f Mt Vernon on Interstate-75 in a section of dense patches of fog-»

$1,950 was awarded Marv' A Mentirig of Mt. Vernon pay able by the Kentucky Window Company for defective instulla . tion and quality of an awning purchased by her. on July 12. 1978.

Mary McClure, Mt Verrtoh City ClPrk, would like to inform water customers of a change in the format of their water bills

The different looking bills are designed to be used in the city's new computer billing ma chine which they recently pur chased

Mrs. McClure requests thai customers return the bottom portion of the bill and keep the top for their personal records

Enrollment Down ' )\tvor»fing to enrollmenf . .

cords for Rockcastle County Schools for the past-three years, enrollment is . dropping off slight lv

This year, total enrollment fni the county numbers 3,190

.compared to 3.271 last year and tin- 1979 total was down com-pared to the fall. 1978 number.

Rockcastle County High School was the only school in the county showing an increase in students This year the total is 977 as compared to 957 in 1979. Brodhead dropped from 656 to 599; Roundstone from 425 to 412; • Livingston from 356 to 350; Mt. Vernon from 831 to ffl3 and Blue Springs from 46 to 39.

Superintendent Charles Parsons said that two teachers who were paid under the Mini-mum Foundation Program and, retired, were not replaced but two were added to the Title I program *

Child Development Center By; Nancy Mulllns

The 16 students presently enrolled at the Early Child Development Center are priv-ileged for several hours a day to be in a stimulating environment where the child'a progress and best interests is the only reason for existing.

The children are bused to ..the Center at the old Maple Grove School Building at Or-lando by driver Joe Sparks with CETA worker aid Mary Ann Bussell on Ijpard to supervise the pre-schoolers. The bus routes include trips to Sand Hill, 'Sand Springs and Brod-head. Only one bus makes the two trips to and from the school.

Once at the Center, stu-dents are welcomed by CETA aide, Connie Childress and head teacher, Emily Pensol and begin the morning with a nutritious breakfast followed by a day of learning about the world a-round them.

Basically, the objective is to better prepare pre-schoolers in the area of self-concept, so-cialization and comjnunlcaUon.. The daily activities a r t iTetffgTi-ed to develop small and large muscles, sensory perception and creativity.

The children, who are be-tween the ages of three and five, axe not taught the three R's, but rather, are taught the "pre R'»" that is they learn to recognize letters and numbers with a

multitude of visual aids, kits and teaching tools.

Time is set aside each day for activity at the art table where the teacher, Emily Pen-sol, never seems,to run out of creative ideas, t h e art work display includes paintings using straws and paint to create color-

f u l patterns and "inch-worms" made from cotton balls dipped into colored flour paste solu-tions and placed in formation on

-a cookie sheet and baked. Eyes and feelers are glued oft later.

Music is a very important aspect of child development and the children who go here are certainly not lacking in that area. Musical instruments for a rhythm band and sing-a-long and listening records are pro-vided and new songs are learned almost daily.

The "Peabody Corner" is a language communications cen-ter that the students make a supervised visit to dally. They are encouraged to express them-selves verbally and are stimu-lated by the resource material available here including pup-yet. , a magic wamd, pictures, records and lots of touchables.

At the "book nook", child-ren are read at least four books daily. Other activities Include pledging to the ing the "weather girl and boy" as they discuss the day's wea-ther and the seasons. They learn the days of the week and

About 50 local citizens, con-cerned abo.ut rumors of a waste disposal plant of some type possibly locating in the county, attended the Rockcastle County Improvement Council meeting Monday night.

The meeting, usually held at the PCA building, was moved to the Bank of Mt. Vernon's meeting room to accomodate the visitors. Kim Vorbeck from the regional London office of the Ky. Dept. for Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, Division of Hazardous Mater-ials and Waste ..MnnsLsemeut, attended the meeting and ad-dressed the concerns yoiced by the public.

The fears centered around a three or four-week-old rumor that a location, on Highway 150 between Brodhead and Mt. Ver-non, formerly the site of Rock-castle Steel, had been leased for use as a disposal plant for waste materials or chemicals from places unknown. Rumors varied as to what exact method would tie used in disposing of the waste", whethei - or lahd fill or both.

Ms. Vorbeck however as-sured the group that no applica-tions had. beep submitted by anyone concerning the site. On further question, Ms. Vorbeck

said that recent, more stringent laws and regulations governing wastf disposal sites have been ihstituted and that stiff fines and jail sentences are meted out for non-compliance. ^

The party desiring to dis-pose legally-of any industrial or toxic waste muSt first shbmit a preliminary application to the Environmental Protection A-gency (EPA). If a preliminary appfication is granted, an ela-borate engineering plan must pass strict guidelines before approval is granted. She inter-jected. at this point, that so far no pb>^ '".reftB&fevei been approved jn the Slate of Kentucky. She also said that Kentucky's waste disposal pro-gram had been applauded na-

tionwide as a model program for other states. The last stage in legally obtaining permission to operate a chemical waste disposal or recycling plant is to hold a local public hearing to air opposition from the public. If the opposition is deemed justi-fiable by state officials, the permit would be withheld.

Ms. Vorbeck stated that the concern shown by local citizens made less likely the possibility of an illegal site developing on the property. She also stated that the regional office of the Division of Hazardous Mate-rials and Waste Management will investigate, the site and report fully by the end of the week.

New Plant Plans to Locate Here

directors of the council authori-ty to act on.their behalf with regard to obtaining needed loans to buy a site and build a facility to lease to the new company. During the regular buliness

meeting of the Rockcastle Im- „ n provement Council Monday UOgS HaCe NeW Threat night, it was anfiounid —-. i 'vfcfc new plastics manufacturing D 0 g owners recently-were company would likely be join- m a d e aware 'of a new disease, ing the one plant already in existence at the county's indus-trial park.

The company will employ 19 'persons initially and later, hopefully within a year, "em-

increase to -15. The 'council voted to give

which, if left untreated In an animal, can cause death.

The disease is called Canine Parvo Virus and some authori-ties-believe it is a mutation of-the virus" Commonly known as distemper \nftich causes death In

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months of the year. Twice daily they brush their teeth and dur-ing the day learn other good health and cleanliness habits.

Good table manners are encouraged at the second hot meal of the day provided at lunch time. Sometime during the day a snack is also provided and in the afternoon the child-ren lie down for a nap.

The walls at the center are filled with colorful bulletin board and other displays. The children can explore other areas of the school including the home living center which is equiped with such things as, dishes, tables, stoves, rocking chairs, and dolls. Children are also encouraged to visit the indoor sandbox and the nature table.

The center is open from 8:30 -4:00 Monday through Friday and is licensed by.the Depart-ment for Human Resources. The funds for the Child Develop-ment come from federal, state and local levels through the Cumberland River CCC. The fee' for private paying students is |30.00 per week. Other eligi-bility and fees are determined by th«rBt*rtatf-df -Sdci*k--.-vices. Any parent with children three, four, or five years of age who is interested in enrolling a child in the program, may get

Kathy Bullen at the Bureau of Social Services 258-4416 or by calling the center at 250-4129.

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K * MM Shown in this photo are students and workara at the Child Development Center ait Maple Grora. Standing intback are, from left:

substitute aide; Mary Ann BoaieU, CKTA aide and Emily Pensol, head teacher.

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