3 C. A -04 9 Li- A 10 and a $2,500 fine on each of the cocaine convictions and to 12 months in jail and a $1,000 fine on the accommodation. One of the 10-year sentences was suspended under the condition Jamison be placed on 10 years probation upon release from prison. A 31-year-old Rocky Mount woman who also was arrested as a result of the undercover investigation was placed on probation Thursday. Rebecca Ann Altice of Pendleton Street pleaded guilty in October to possession of cocaine with intent to distribute.
Judge Davis sentenced her to two years in prison and fined her $100, but he suspended all of the prison sentence. The judge placed Altice on three years probation and ordered her to perform 500 hours of community service. Altice said she has been employed full time at a local furniture factory for seven years. She said she stopped using drugs in September and sought counseling for her drug problem. "I'm sorry for what I did.
I'll keep my (counseling) appointments and try to stay clean" if given another chance, she told the judge. Altice's probation officer said Altice is about the only person arrested as a result of the drug operation who 10 Franklin News Post, Rocky Mount, Dec. 9, 11 years imposed (Continued from Page 1) has regular employment, has voluntarily sought help and "has some good qualities." Altice was arrested after police received a report of two people selling drugs out of a van on Pendleton Street. The driver of the van, James Walter Willis, 61, of Roanoke was sentenced to years in prison on a conviction of selling cocaine. Altice said she and Willis were dating at the time they were arrested.
Another man arrested as part.of the drug probe, Ricky Long, received a 12-month jail sentence and a $2,000 fine earlier in the week. Six months of the sentence was suspended and Long was placed on three years probation. Long, 31, of Windy Lane Apartments in Rocky Mount pleaded guilty in October to two counts of selling marijuana to an undercover agent in April and May. Long told the judge he has "straightened out his life" and gotten married since he was arrested. "I think I can do better if you give me a chance.
I'd like to be a good citizen," he said. When asked why he had a positive urine screen for marijuana a month after he was arrested if he has straightened out his life, Long said, "I'm not perfect. I have fallbacks like everyone else." By MELINDA WILLIAMS David Furrow, Wade Caldwell's attorney, said his client received the higher sentence despite the fact "he had less of a part" in the operation. Furrow was referring to ABC agents' testimony that they observed Kenneth Caldwell stirring the peach brandy mixture, but they never actually observed Wade Caldwell working i in the site. The agents said they couldn't tell what Wade Caldwell was doing other than walking back and forth between the still and pumice barrels.
Furrow asked for a reduction in sentence that would be equal with Kenneth Caldwell's sentence, but the judge did not reduce the sentence. By MELINDA WILLIAMS Judge Davis told Caldwell he might consider a reduction in the sentence at a later date if Caldwell has no problems in jail. helping the men. "That's what a stillhand does too," the judge said. Judge Davis withheld a decision in the case until the background report is completed.
ABC Special Agent Jimmy Beheler said Law and the other men were arrested after 66 gallons of moonshine had been moved from a pickup truck to a van. He said 248 gallons remained in the pickup truck after agents moved in. Beheler said Law arrived in the van. He said Dudley came in the truck. By MELINDA WILLIAMS shouldn't get the same sentence as the person who is operating the still.
Dillon said her client was only Members of the Ferrum College Jazz Combo who will Back row, from left: Joe Mueller, Thurlowe Scudder perform in concert Thursday, Dec. 12 at Grousbeck (music director), Heath Lewis, Chad Lawson and Music Center are, front row, from left: Tracy Flynn, Mark Mitchell. Kathryn Letsinger, Kim Lafontain and Angie Ferrum Jazz Combo to appear in concert FERRUM The Ferrum College Jazz Combo will be in concert Thursday, Dec. 12 at 8 p.m. in the Sigmon Recital Hall of Grousbeck Music Center on the Ferrum College campus.
Appearing with them on alto saxophone will be Jerome Johnson, and on jazz violin, Martin Scudder. Johnson is a math teacher at Franklin County High School who has played saxophone since elementary school. During his years at the College of William and Mary he was lead saxophonist for both the marching band and the Jazz Stage Band. On Sundays he plays in the church orchestra at the Blue Ridge Gospel Tabernacle in Rocky Mount. Scudder, who has also played since his elementary school days, has performed in a variety of settings, including concert work with the Berea College Orchestra in Berea, Ky.
and two recent events in New York City with singer Eddie 1. Grey. The evening's concert will include a number of standard jazz tunes such as "Misty" and "Fly Me to the The combo will also be playing Sonny Rollins' "Doxy." Other selections will highlight Neal Hefte's "Lil Darlin" along with some original songs by Martin 4 Scudder. The combo is under the direction of Thurlowe Scudder, who is on the music faculty at Ferrum College VINTON MOOSE LODGE Lodge Hall 2127 Washington East Vinton, VA MONDAY BINGO Public Invited 5 Games EARLY BIRD PROGRAM 6:45 pm 17 Games REGULAR PROGRAM 7:20 pm OVER $3000 GIVEAWAY TWO $500 JACKPOTS Play Complete Reg. Program for as little as $15.00 including jackpots winner take eN.
Proceeds to Civic Affairs Free co*kes Coffee Supervisors favor law (Continued from Page 1) dinance because election of a new board has just been completed. He said the ordinance should be adopted early in a supervisor's term instead of near election time. "It would become too much of an emotional and political issue then," he said. Rocky Mount District Supervisor Gus Forry said he would support a local ordinance banning transporting loaded rifles and shotguns in vehicles. "I used to be a hunter and, as such, a law like this wouldn't bother me." Forry said the local option on such a law is the state's way of "passing the buck." "They don't want to take the heat, so they pass it on down," he said.
Although he said he would favor a local ordinance, Forry said a statewide law would be more effective. Blue Ridge District Supervisor Ronnie Woods said no one should carry a loaded rifle or shotgun in a vehicle and that he would probably support a local ordinance banning loaded guns in vehicle. "It might make the public more aware and promote safety," said Woods, "but I question how effective it would be because I'm not sure how you could enforce it." Blackwater District Supervisor Wayne Angell said he would not favor local governments adopting ordinances to ban loaded guns in vehicles "because it would be too piecemeal." "I certainly think no one should ever carry a loaded shotgun or rifle in a vehicle it's careless and dangerous. But this should be a statewide law. What's in effect on one side of the mountain should be in effect on the other side too." Angell pointed out that hunters travel from one county to another while hunting.
"Because of this, I question how much good the legislation would do if it's not addressed statewide," he said. Union Hall District Supervisor Mike Brooks said recent accidents caused by loaded firearms in vehicles concern him, but that laws banning loaded rifles and shotguns in vehicle should be enacted statewide to be most effective. "I don't think anyone should carry a loaded rifle or shotgun in a vehicle," said Brooks, "and I wouldn't oppose a local ordinance to this effect if it was proposed locally." But Brooks said the local option of banning loaded firearms in vehicles is the state's way of skirting the issue. Schools awarded grants (Continued from Page 1) school system could get all the money at one time for a large project, or in increments. He is serving as project director.
The grant money is a portion of the 1992 federal Chapter 2 program reserved for state Department of Education use. Decker explained that Franklin County gets annual money through the Chapter 2 program to carry out various school projects. The Chapter 2 allotments are based on ADM (average daily membership students at school) and the percentage of low income students served. Decker explained that Franklin County has 18 or 19 percent in that category now. The percentages are derived from the number of students qualifying and receiving free school lunches.
Proposals for the grants were required to focus on characteristics of effective schools, documented by previous research. The Department of Education listed school improvement strategies: to improve Guilty pleas entered "The state mandates constantly what local governments can and can't do," said Brooks, "But then when something like this comes up their answer is to let us make the decision not them." Snow Creek District Supervisor Gordon Washburn could not be reached for comment. Lt. Martin of the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries said he would prefer a statewide law rather than a local option law so the ordinance would be the same in all jurisdictions. Three supervisors-elect who will take office in January also were asked their views about carrying loaded firearms in vehicles.
Hubert Quinn, who defeated Woods for the Blue Ridge District board seat in the November election, said he would support a law at either the local or at the state level. "I think it should be done at the county level and I think it would be a good ordinance. No one has any. business carrying a loaded gun in a vehicle anywhere, anytime," Quinn said. Page Matherly, who defeated Washburn for the Snow Creek District board seat, said he does not support people carrying loaded guns in vehicles, but that he would have to look closely at a local ordinance because making a final decision on whether to vote for a local ordinance banning loaded guns in vehicles.
Lois English, who defeated Brooks for the Union Hall District board seat, said of a law banning guns in vehicles: idea is certainly good, but it should be a statewide law. That way, everyone would know about it." She said that unless a state law is adopted, hunters who travel from county to county likely would not know where the law is or is not in effect. She said the state law requiring hunters to wear blaze orange is a good example because everyone knows bright orange is required, but if the law was a local option, it would be confusing to hunters to know what areas of the state had the law and what areas didn't have the law. If the board of supervisors adopts an ordinance. making it unlawful to carry loaded shotguns or rifles in vehicles, the ordinance apparently would apply to the Rocky Mount town limits too, according to Franklin County Commonwealth's Attorney Cliff Hapgood and County Attorney Jim Jefferson.
Hapgood and Jefferson said the state law allows only: counties and cities to adopt the ordinance. And since Rocky Mount, a town, is part of Franklin County, a county ordinance would apply there too, they said. Liquor terms upheld (Continued from Page 1) following a raid on an illegal moonshine operation at Glade Hill. The operation consisted of one 800-gallon blackpot still, more than 30 plastic barrels of peach pumice and 48 gallons of peach bottled brandy. Kenneth Caldwell's attorney, David Melesco, asked the judge to place his client on probation because Caldwell has two children to care for.
He asked Caldwell if he had been tempted into getting involved in moonshining by the money it can bring. "When you ain't got no other choice, you gotta do something," Caldwell said. Melesco said Caldwell is a good person, "but he's limited in his abilities." Sentence cut studied (Continued from Page 1) in October as they transferred more than 300 gallons of moonshine from a pickup truck to a van. Dillon said her client did not own the moonshine. She said he was merely helping move the liquor from one vehicle to the other.
"He doesn't think it's right for him to get the same sentence as the other men because he didn't own the liquor. And I have to say I agree," she said. Circuit Court Judge B.A. Davis III asked Dillon if a man who is at an illegal distillery, stirring mash 1 parent involvement and participation, improve curriculum and focus the entire school on student: achievement. The five grants are to be used to train teachers in the aspects of effective schools.
The success of the grants: will be evaluated on increased student performance. and achievement. Decker said Franklin County's grant will be used to: upgrade teachers' skills and to enhance the planning: process. He said parents are to be more involved although, "'We are doing annual planning involving parents." He said the school system uses the philosophy that "all children can learn. When students are found who aren't learning, we try to aim our efforts at those populations of children." He said some of the grant money will be used to buy.
math teaching materials and other supplies to help. achieve the goal of upgrading teacher skills. Decker invited anyone desiring more information to call him at the school administration building, 483-5138. By LINDA 4, The break-ins occurred only weeks after Aud was (Continued from Page 1) acquitted of a charge of Franklin County Sheriff's Department Investigator with the April 1 robbery of Jim Crooke said Aud and 21-year-old Blake Ogle of Grassy Hill. In that case, Moneta were charged with taking more than $30,000 was insufficient to prove worth of items from the three storage units.
Items his company was going to taken included mounted elk antlers, a $20,000 comic Aud will be sentenced book collection, snow ski equipment, cameras and completed. money, he said. Ogle is scheduled to Some of the items have been recovered, Crooke said. Monday, Dec. 16.
By armed robbery in connection Mountainview Grocery near Judge Davis ruled evidence Aud was aware a juvenile in commit the robbery. after a background report is be tried on similar charges MELINDA WILLIAMS SUBSCRIBE TO THE FRANKLIN NEWS- POST and is in charge of the music department's instrumental program. The jazz concert is free to students and the general public. For more information contact the Ferrum College Fine Arts Division at (703) 365-4358. Drive -Through NATIVITY Sunday, December 15, 1991 6:00 10:00 P.M.
As a free service to the public Gogginsville United Methodist Church invite you and your family to relive the Christmas Story through live scenes and music. NORTH Boones Mill Gogginsville 3 Weather Date: Callaway 641 1 Monday, 642 Dec. 16, 1991. P.M. Rocky US Mount 640 A ATTENTION STUDENTS PUT YOUR TEACHER IN A LINCOLN WITH A $100.00 To Spend! Nominate your teacher as Franklin Teacher of the Month.
If you are a student in Franklin County, here is your chance to help recognize a special teacher. Write in one paragraph (100 words or less) what teacher you would like to nominate and why. Please include your grade and school. (Students in second grade and under may ask parents to help.) Send Your Nominations To: Franklin Teacher of the Month 779. W.
Franklin Street Rocky Mount, VA 24151 Entries must be received by December 12th.
