Officials Say Center for Juveniles Needed
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LIBRARY DRAWER D Ut^aii^t. iaUONK MEMaJKl/U. IMMI IAL Mid- rpe^ te (G^orgcfotun ®imeo Edition ESTABLISHED 1797 1 Vear In County $8.00 1 Year In State $900 Georgetown, S.C. 29440 Thursday, August 7, 1975 15' Per Copy Vol. 179 No. 71 1 Year Out of State $10.00 Officials Say Center For Juveniles Needed By CHRIS WESTON It s a tragedy when someone is placed in jail. And it is even more tragic when that someone Town Clock Getting Help is not but 12-years-old. That is why several persons in Some 21 individual "We're real happy with the The town Clock has long Georgetown County who deal families from Georgetown response we've gotten from been the symbol of the with juvenile criminal offenders County have donated $250 to these people," said Dennis community and was the first would like to see the creation of help pay for the repair of the Lawson, director of the Rice some type of juvenile detention Town Clock. Museum where the Town structure in Georgetown center. Clock is located. "However, County to be listed in the A system for dealing with The cost of the repair is we're lacking business and National Register of Historic juvenile criminal offenders was $6,000, but one individual has corporation support. Places. The clock has a prime community concern promised to pay half of that Hopefully some of the worked only on occasion that eventually led to the total if the community can businesses around town will during the past several creation of the Georgetown come up with the other half. be willing to give us a hand." years. County Family Court in 1974. However, a facility for the detention of juvenile offenders contact Family Court and are although they were "very, very Hazzard IV said a detention is still not a reality. directed to do so." few." center for juvenile offenders is Under the present system of Sheriff Woodrow Carter said Carter went on to say that, "definitely needed" but he sees COMMUNITY EYESORE—This solid waste operation, all juveniles arrested most of the juveniles who are "As sheriff of this county and funding as a problem. and cribs seen here were also dumped at another are turned over to Family Court brought to the jail "are usually through my experience, I can "We don't presently have a disposal site on Pennyroyal Road off of U.S. 17 is site at Brick Chimney Road. That site was closed or taken to the county jail. released to their parents after say that a center for the separate facility for juveniles. I apparently another in the county which has been several weeks ago because of constant abuse by the Mike McDonald, assistant they post bond." Carter added detention of juveniles is greatly would like to see one but I think misused by citizens who think they can dump any community. chief of police, said "we don't there were some juveniles who needed." its going to take a concerted article they wish at the sites. Items similar to sofas take them to the jail until we were detained at the jail Family Court Judge John P. CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 Calls Flooding Drug Unit Ex-Georgetonian Someone opens the door at when the office had 544 "walk- Mrs. Sharon Wood, GADAC a detoxification center for the Georgetown Alcohol and Drug ins." The office also handled 625 director, in her quarterly region, are critical, she said. Abuse Commission (GADAC) telephone calls in the same report. The report covers the 'Battled' Peru on Church Street and walks in to period. She noted in the report activities of the commission receive information or help Though these figures include continued progress in the from April through June, a time By ETHLYN MISSROON employing new material in about drug abuse on an average persons who came in more than GADAC programs as well as which Mrs. Wood termed "a Former Georgetonian, making paper. of once an hour. once, they indicate the business continued growth in community transition period." Carlton (Whitey) Gibson, now The method uses the stringy That average is based on the activity at the office and show support. However, she also Following the resignation of consulting engineer with Rust by-product (called bagasse), activity at the GADAC office that the GADAC services are cited unfulfilled needs in the Carl W. Smith as director in Engineering Company of the residual of sugarcane after over the past three months being used by the public, said area. Some, such as the need for April, client activity had Portland, Ore. and the juice has been extracted. temporarily slacked off. She Birmingham, Ala. is beginning This coarse fiber becomes pulp noted that at one period under to believe that his career is from which paper is made. Smith's leadership, for beset with violence. Rust Engineering Company is fl PRT Asks Construction example, the GADAC's Violence, that is, whenever he designing new machinery to telephone was kept ringing visits a certain country...Peru, utilize this formerly waste "nearly 100 per cent of the to be exact, where he travelled substance into a usuable time." for his company in connection product. Mrs. Wood set as one of her with a project now underway When the Georgetown native Of Huntington Bridges goals "to capitalize on the for the Peruvian government. was there, civil police struck for momentum of GADAC and Whitey, as his Georgetown better wages and working The U.S. Coast Guard Seventh The bridges would range from interpretive signs explaining programs generated" under friends call him, has made conditions; military police were District in Miami, Fla. is 50 to 190 feet in length. most of the wildlife, such as Smith's leadership. three trips to Peru and during called in to quell their efforts. currently receiving comments A spokesman for the crabs and oysters, that can be "We have effectively moved the first trip, he got into a Latin- Students from the universities on a request from the S.C. Department said the bridges seen. The boardwalk will be through this period and client American Governmental came out in heated Department of Parks, would be "boardwalks" that constructed at the height of the activity has resumed at a high convention complete with a demonstrations to support Recreation and Tourism for the will allow visitors to walk 800 to marsh grass so visitors will level," she said in her report. student demonstration milling demands of the civilian police. construction of three marsh 900 feet out over the marsh appear to be walking through One program that was about his hotel. The confrontations grew bridges at Huntington Beach without disturbing the present the marsh. created under Smith's The second time, he flew out increasingly violent, involving State Park. Protests or wildlife or interfering with the directorship is the Alcohol of Peru just hours before the gunfire, lootings and burnings, comments will be accepted until navigation of boats. A crabbing dock will also be Safety Action Program place was hit by a devastating especially in downtown shop Sept. 1. If the Coast Guard and the constructed if the project is (ASAP). Miss Patricia Clark earthquake and on the last trip, areas. Army Corps of Engineers approved. Funding will come was hired as ASAP courtwork- things really tore loose. It was into this internal The construction of the approves the application, the from the Department and the coordinator in May. THE GIBSONS-The Carlton (Whitey) Gibsons Whitey was working out of Peruvian melee that Gibson and bridges would be done in Department of Parks, Federal Board of Recreation. ASAP is now conducting its are former Georgetonians; she's the former Miss Lima, Peru in assisting the several associates from the conjunction with* the Recreation and Tourism The Department of Parks, third Alcohol Traffic Safety Betty Lee Hall and their children are Cliff, 16, Peruvian government in firm were catapulted by development of a nature expects the project to be Recreation and Tourism has in School and other programs are (standing) and Carl, 13. expanding a paper mill which is CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 interpretation trail through completed by next summer. excess of $35,000 to spend on the planned in the development of some of the park's marshes. The boardwalks will also have project. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Ants Plague County Residents By ETHLYN MISSROON Fire ants are beginning to pose painful and perhaps dangerous problems to Georgetown County homeowners, proprietors of recreation areas, farmers and visitors to the state who only wander into infested areas. A growing number of county residents who have been attacked by only one or a cluster of the vicious red insects are treated for the painful aftermaths of such bites, according to medical sources. These ants, bearing out the traditional industry credited to the smaller species of these insects, with added venom distribution via their stings are known as "imported fire ants", because they are not native to this country. Hubert Hardee, Georgetown County's Clemson University Extension Leader, said that fire ants, originating from Argentina, appeared in South Carolina in 1952. They were recognized in the Oceda secUon on Highway 17-A and on Santee River five or six years ago. Since then, the Georgetown County Office of Department of Agriculture has received many complaints from people who have suffered the TRYING IT OUT-Bob Zack, Georgetown County entomologist, applies ant infestations. Mirex bait around the base of an imported fire ant hill on the Georgetown Last year, Hardee said, a BENEATH THE SURFACE-Hubert Hardee, shot through tunnels and passageways by which the Airport grounds.