Summerton Officer Dies in I-95 Wreck
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IN SPORTS: Gators’ Parrish signs with Erskine to play baseball B1 NATION Baby hippo educates public A6 TUESDAY, JULY 3, 2018 | Serving South Carolina since October 15, 1894 75 cents Summerton officer dies in I-95 wreck Tractor-trailer struck stopped vehicle in road on Lake Marion bridge Monday BY SHARRON HALEY victim as Carl Wiggins, 63, of South Carolina Highway cle. The driver of the tractor- busy north-south thorough- Special to The Sumter Item Holly Hill. Patrol Lt. Bob Beres said trailer was not injured, and fare was at a standstill for “The driver who was en- Wiggins’ Chevrolet Blazer no charges are pending, he more than three hours Mon- NORTH SANTEE — A part- trapped died on impact,” was stopped in the south- said. day morning as emergency time police officer with the Mock said Monday afternoon. bound right lane of Interstate “The accident is under in- personnel responded to the Town of Summerton was “The driver was wearing a 95 near mile marker 100, vestigation by the South Caro- wreck. killed in an early Monday seat belt.” which is near the crest of the lina Multi-Disciplinary Acci- Summerton Police Chief morning wreck. Mock said an autopsy will bridge as it crosses Lake dent Investigation Team Ray Perdue, who is out of Clarendon County Coroner not be held but that toxicolo- Marion. Beres said a tractor- (MAIT),” Beres said. Bucky Mock identified the gy results are pending. trailer struck Wiggins’ vehi- Southbound traffic on the SEE WIGGINS, PAGE A8 Business Freedom and fireworks leaders not City, county put on July 4 celebration show at Dillon Park surprised by mill denial Committee members SUMTER COUNTY GOVERNMENT in school district group speak out after vote BY BRUCE MILLS [email protected] Local business leaders who serve on the advisory finance committee of Sumter School District Board of Trustees say they weren’t surprised last week when Sumter County Council voted down the dis- MELANIE SMITH / THE SUMTER ITEM trict’s millage request and think the district still has work to do to show it is being a good financial steward. Ben Griffith, Greg Thomp- son and Bobby Anderson made their comments after a monthly committee meeting Wednesday, the day after coun- cil’s 5-2 vote to deny a 5.48-mill increase request and then a separate, lower mill increase motion made by a council SEE LEADERS, PAGE A8 SUMTER COUNTY GOVERNMENT ‘Deepfake’ videos are latest tech concern WASHINGTON (AP) — Hey, did my congressman really say that? Is that really Presi- MELANIE SMITH / THE SUMTER ITEM MELANIE SMITH / THE SUMTER ITEM dent Donald Trump on that video, or am I being duped? New technology on the in- ternet lets anyone make videos of real people appearing to say things they’ve never said. Re- publicans and Democrats pre- dict this high-tech way of put- ting words in someone’s mouth will become the latest weapon in disinformation wars against the United States and other Western democra- cies. We’re not talking about lip- syncing videos. This technolo- gy uses facial mapping and ar- MELANIE SMITH / THE SUMTER ITEM SUMTER COUNTY GOVERNMENT tificial intelligence to produce videos that appear so genuine Fireworks blasted off at Dillon Park on Saturday night to kick off early July 4 celebrations in Sumter County. Families and friends gathered it’s hard to spot the phonies. at the park to see the show, which could also be viewed at nearby lots and areas. Sumter County Recreation and Parks Director Phil Par- nell said he didn’t know the exact quantity of fireworks that were set off. “But, it’s a bunch of them, I will tell you that,” Parnell said. The SEE DEEPFAKE, PAGE A8 event was sponsored by the City of Sumter and Sumter County, and costs associated with the fireworks are about $20,000, Parnell said. VISIT US ONLINE AT DEATHS, B4 WEATHER, A10 INSIDE John Kenneth Foisey Ida Mack STORMS POSSIBLE 2 SECTIONS, 16 PAGES the .com VOL. 123, NO. 182 Donald L. Bowen William Richard Stanton A storm possible this Samuel Rush Holladay Claudia Gathers afternoon; partly cloudy Classifieds B6 Sports B1 Gwendolyn Anna Daily Robert Washington and humid tonight Comics A7 Television B5 Pamala Singleton Millhouse Shirley Matthews Moore HIGH 94, LOW 73 Hugh Edward Wilson Henry Byrd Opinion A9 A2 | TUESDAY, JULY 3, 2018 THE SUMTER ITEM Call: (803) 774-1226 | E-mail: [email protected] THIS MONTH IN S.C. HISTORY Sumter branch of Waffle House fails DHEC inspection BY KAYLA ROBINS tion of grease, carbon and [email protected] debris, the wall under the service counter/dish ma- A Sumter branch of a chine area being damaged chain diner received a fail- and the floor area in the ing food grade after cock- commissary having an ac- roaches and dirty utensils cumulation of dirt. were repeatedly found in the A follow-up inspection kitchen. should be completed by July The Waffle House, 1041 9, according to the report. Broad St., in front of Sumter This Waffle House has Mall received a 93 percent been inspected three other on its most recent inspection times this year, receiving an from the South Carolina De- A on June 5 and June 14 partment of Health and En- and a B on June 22. vironmental Control on Priority foundation viola- June 29, but the overall PHOTO FROM THE COLLECTIONS OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. tions marked on June 5, score was downgraded "due which was a routine inspec- In 1916, raging floods destroyed the Catawba Dam. The new Catawba Dam, above, was built in 1925 and to failure to correct priority tion that ended up with a resulted in Lake Wylie. foundation violations," numerical score of 88, in- which is listed on the report cluded the utensils drawer as "controlling pests." and its contents and the ice July 1916 — 2 back-to-back "Numerous roaches were machine being dirty, the observed underneath the ready-to-eat refrigerated service counter/dish ma- foods not having a date chine area," the DHEC re- mark, having cockroaches port states, and the violation under the service counter/ hurricanes hit the Carolinas was not corrected. dish machine and an em- Scores are based on a 100- ployee with "painted artifi- BY THE SOUTH CAROLINA point scale and are assigned cial fingernails" who was HISTORICAL SOCIETY lina.” As it moved to the plans were laid to construct a letter grade that is posted "observed handling exposed northwest, the storm weak- a railroad from Charlotte to at each facility based on the food without the use of The hurricane season of ened to a tropical storm, but Augusta. The railroad would calculated numerical score gloves." 1916 was a particularly busy the rainfall was record- cross the Catawba River at and the establishment's past During the June 14 follow- one that slammed South Car- breaking. According to the Nation Ford, and a trestle scores and any repeated up, priority foundation vio- olina from the coast to the Fort Mill Herald, the area ex- was built for that purpose. major violations, called pri- lations included having a upcountry. In early July, a perienced three days of rain The torrential flood of 1916 ority foundation violations. dirty utensil drawer and storm landed in Mississippi that caused the Catawba wrecked the iron tracks of A "C" grade is considered contents and ice machine and swept the entire South, River to crest at 47 feet above the rail line and destroyed failing. There may be times and ready-to-eat foods not bringing a week of rain all flood level. Bridges and tele- the bridge. However, the when the posted letter marked. The numerical the way up to the Blue Ridge graph lines across the Ca- original stone pillars re- grade differs from the nu- score was 92. Mountains. It finally moved tawba and French Broad riv- mained and were used to re- merical score of the most On another follow-up on out on July 11, but just five ers were severely damaged build the trestle. recent inspection, according June 22, the utensil drawer days later a storm hit Bulls or destroyed. Completed just 12 years to DHEC. and its contents were still Bay, slightly north of Despite the destruction, before the Great Flood, the Routine inspections are dirty, the ready-to-eat foods Charleston. As it moved part of an interesting land- Catawba Dam provided unannounced and generally were still not date marked, northwest, heavy rains flood- mark on the Catawba River much-needed electricity to range from one to four and there were again "nu- ed the Catawba and Broad managed to survive. Accord- the surrounding area. In times a year, and follow-up merous cockroaches" under rivers. These storms gave ing to the National Register 1916, the raging waters inspections are conducted the service counter/dish birth to what became known of Historic Places, Nation wrecked the dam and power within 10 days of a routine machine area. After this re- in North Carolina and South Ford was a natural ford that plant and destroyed the re- inspection that requires fur- port, which garnered a nu- Carolina as “The Great provided safe crossing for gion’s crops, farmland and ther verification. merical value of 90, the Flood of 1916.” Native Americans and, in livestock. Over the next nine Other violations that overall inspection was Alfred J. Henry, a re- Colonial times, it was the years, several new dams brought the numerical downgraded to a B for not searcher for the U.S. Weather main route for settlers head- were erected on the river.